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The cargo of raw silk shipped on: board the 8.8. Paul Locat" which left this part in January 12 was delivered at Lyon on the 19th instant.
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They February 26:-
Non-Kowloon Land and Building
CM Mouting. 9.15 pm A.D.0%, second and last performece of the "3 Episodes," Theatre Royal
Stockbrokers Settling Day. FRIDAY, February 27 —
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THE HONGKONG X. D. C'. PERFORMANCES.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1914
|JUBILEE ROAD MURDER.
AÇOUSED'S QUARRELS WITH
HIS BROTHER.
Widow's Startling Ividence.
STATUTE BARRED
OLAIMS
AN UNFORTUNATE" RULING.
Appearing for a "Chinmia defendant in s Summary Court, action this morning, Mr. Dixon submitted that the debt was statute barred: it was contract & three years ago, Mr. Gardiner, for the plaintiff pointed -out that thent had been a previous afd06-
action between the parties
The Tuine Judge ob-erved that un fortunately there was a ruling of the Court that oral premises to pay were good and
(To the Editor of the "China Matt '') Dear Sir,-Just a line to congratulaty you on the critique of the. A. “D, O. Triple
Before the Chief Justice Sir Wiuri Bill, which appeared in your last night's Rees Davies, and a jury the trist was One so seldom sees a candid continued at Criminal, Sessions this morn au criticism in the local press-lay iboning of Kan Chai, s middle aged man, on with a trowel" being apparently the motto a charge of fratricide, Prisoner ↳ of the critics-that to come, across your partner in an undertake?'s business fa moderate and thoroughly justified critique which several other members of of "The Open Dear" was positively to family have shares, and it is aged by freshing. Your appreciation of the rat the Crown that in order to gut his bro-
Mr. Gardiner said his Lordship had held and third portions of the Triple Bill and ther's share of the business prisoner shot intell goat criticism of the second part will him ba tho Jubilea Road last June. that way. The Balano Judge replied that be heartily endorsed by nine out of ten of Yesterday a fold who had been at work ho was hqund to do so by × judgment of with the two brothers at Tai Lan Wan the Full Court, though he hoped it would those prosent.
"STALLS,"
mortuary stated that ho saw Kun hai be amended. shook (Kan Hop and hide the revolver in | hota in the bank, Kan flai garo him
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Hongkong, Feb. 23.
CAN NOT THEY BE SUPPRESSED? (To the Editor of the "Cars MD.") Dene Sit-Shortly after the chiming of the longest hour that heralds in the
Yours, etc..
Assured
PEACEFUL Hongkong, Febrynzy 24, 1914. [We aro
that positively can be hoped for. It would be too much. nothing towards effective suppression
we as told, for the united efforts of half population, the Police Forey, and the Fire Brigade, even though they were assisted by the Boy Scouts and the few militant suffragettes we have in paiz
st-Ed.)
logal.
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$30 to keep quiet and as his request be of the greements provided for the Canton xl charged with murder but the to a certain amount, and that prisons wins to the country, but was arrested ut accumulation in the business of profis charge was subsequently withdrawn. should have contro "of the money." This The Crown Solicitor, Mr. J. Fl. Kerapeumulated money had to be divided.
Questioned by hie Dordship the wit
guilty,
arrival..
en chargs of the Victoria Mortuary, who
the ceased, described his injurios. One of the three bullets pass through the brain.
An Indian, of the Disinfecting Station Kowloon, havi g taken the liberty of es smoors" of dawn I was, last prosente; and Mr. Eldon Potter, in grazing four posts in King Park;ght, sedly disturbed from my reveriestructed by Mr. G. K. Hall button. id bo kw that prisoner and da
watching the silent stars and enjoy defended prisoner, who 'plendid not ceased were not on good terms: he had. ing the pourofthews of the evening fedia
byrd them quarrolling on several occa The case for this Crown was proceeded its About the middle of Math Kan my verandah by raneous voies of many. The a riff of the Saigon Bank who giddy young nin. They, were festively with thin mening,
Top gambled at Maeno with some money Chau Kwai, a folio, said on June 15 which he had received on account of the was arrested in the Colony on a charge of and vocally inclined, and so must meet embezzling $100.000, has been sent back to have the accompaniment of that weirdest 1st year be curried some provisions to business, and on his retum the prisoner The expenses will be paid by the t t musical instruments the beattish the fly at Mint Davis wusking yis spoke to him and they had words about French Omulate,
bagpipes. Ted by the skirling bag-pipe dubilen Rad. Ile reached the barracks. Witness had a quarrelled with the player, they purailed, in the middle of fat 10.30 and on his way back so #prisoner, over 'business' matters. Mr. H. Fielding, Master st Årms ou
the servet, to somewhere very near the corps, with three sellers watching it. Dr. Nurul Macfarlane, merlicul offer On his way up the hill a feki whom he 11.m.Auction of Ladies', Goats and The development of Alaska is also that yesterday some person stole from the There they halted and unmelodiously met told him that somebody hnd been femdarted a post mértém examination of
board the Empress of Russia, repute pasibo of Sir Thomas Jackson's statue. Children's Bols And Shoes dealt with, as well as Vancouver, ship Inne brys scuttlings and two bass clanted palins or some sort of fetish killed down lusow and asked "Pil you Haghes And Hough's Sales Rooms. 12,39 pin Hongkong Hotel Co. Moet-which is described as "the future plates valued at $15.
droning Night was made hideous, and, so it? Winess aid in did not, 3 pint-Auction of Race Ponies outside etropolis of the British Empire.on
is my anguish, I cried to the gods either uner Edwardi Roberts, R.G.A., smit City Hall.
Mr. C. Hats Inspector of the Chintoreve me or instantly to annihilated analer gamer went down to the
The next witiwess eulled was fize widow Japan Telophaac Cui, reports that either the hilarious, budding financiers. Can beach below Mount Deris on June 1 of the deceased man, a woman from the baths. After his swing" he renined Sur. On district. Prisoner and her hus en Sanday or Monday runs person stole | nothing boɑdone, Sir, to suppress them? from a trench at We Hu Street 15 feat of
with some ithers and im their way back band had a difference of opinion regard they found the corpss of a Chitive who ing, the division of their is father's had apparently he shot. A report was property. She had heard them direns made to ti jelice, and he and mothering it and on one occasion, about the. giver reinsined by the body mail their middelet May last year, prisoner foughs the leccased and chased him into her P.C. Swain spoke to being told of the house. A lot of furniture was broken in finding of the bely by a sidier while he the sent as well as ineense pots, hotties. was on duty near St. Peter's Church, and etc., with which priser his her has-
a retroving it to the mentuary.
banil. She heard prisoner say he would George W. Avendi, armoure at the her husband. On May 24 prisoner Central Polleo Stution, was shown two wont to her house and asked for her bullets and said they corresponded with husband, and on being told that he was the calibre of those stal in the revalver. I not at homo prisoner said "He will have » "Inspectie" "Dypvand sud he went to to come to Hongkong to carry on the
message from. P.C. Swann, and found the eaise his death." Her husband came to bly about half a mile frota this eastern Hongkong on June 8. Shosa prisoner end of the road. There was a sign of after he was released and said to him"
struggle on the road. In devensel's
You have already caused my husband right hand was an open ambreia. Prio die. What about the money: how st ovenner, and his premises, 236, Hollywoner replied "Yes, I have killed your soner, was arrested at 6 lock the same you going to divide the property. Pri-' wool Road, were searched. A sum husband, and if you make trouble I will out $1,500 was found. Prisoner was do likewise with you." This was said in charged, but the proceedings were sub-the presence of an old woman who recom sequently withdraw, Priseter did not panici her from the country, report his brother's death on June, 15. Cross-examined by Mr Potter the Previous to his discharge prisoner was
widow said this disputes' were caused, by
coolie, who picked him out from twelve and property with her husband. Later". the funding of the revolver.
perty was divided, but the money. was In answer to Mr. Potter the Inspector never paid over; that was the use of said on the day of the murder defendant the dispute on May 24. She knew that was sent for by his brother and went to $90 was paid before the elders of the the police station with him, voluntarily, vilage on May 22. This gras only for A policeman did not fetch him. After the Beld certain questions had been asked prisoner he was detained.
the Pacific Ocean." Vancouver, it is pointed out, naturally receives a share! of the Panama Canal are under-to sideration, for ou it are focussed more strongly than on any other one spot on earth the combined influence of world trade and of an enormous exist-325.or a month for driving a motor or A Chinese chaffeur was to day fined
ing inland commeres. One thinks of elonging to the Exile Garage Company at Canada usually in terms of prairie in a reckless pace. Sergt. Adlings asid that dustry, but a forecast of Vancouver's pris ner was racing another cari in Da future growth must be entirely, Veous Rod and going a furious pace. distinct from the ensiderations which
Altracted by a small la 1 lying in the govern other Canadian cities. It is street a little Chinese boy, aged 3 yours, HOW a world port. Dr. Frankate it. Sympt was of poisoning appeared- Buffington Vraowur, BSc.Oxon, and it was afterwards akcertained that the THE KOWLOON MURDER.Ji Bo in respons to a telephone business, and when he gets there I will -PALC, FRGS, wlinse lectures at child had eaten rat poiso, He is at Oxford on the Economic Geography, Pesent in the Gerament Cival Hospitel.
Excursion to Macao,
1 Monday, March 9 p
3. num.- Auctions of Crown Lauda at
P.W.D.
Wensesday, March 4 :----
Inauguratio of President Woodrow
Wilson, 1013
Trk, March 7rd & Wen, March 4th - II.K. Hicultural Society's Flower Bad Vegetable Show at the Botanis
Gardens, WD, March 4th & Tuerя. March 5th --
and Victualling Sores by Meats. Hughes and Hough,
Theenday, March 5
of North-West Canada comfirmed his reputation as the leading expert on
PRISONER COMMITTED
FOR TRIAL
A mean theft of pigs is reported from n. 72 Tsz Mo. A Chinese married wo- Ko Han Chi was antrusted by bar to take alisa Chu Tar was completed this after Iman told the police that wan; usted The charge of murdar against Chu Lai four pigs, valued at 875, to the slaughter noou as far as the Lower Court was can house to give a friend of the woman's..
corned. The man and the pigs disappeared.
Lio is charged with the capital offence committed nine years ago near Kowloon City. In this evidence, the prisoner said he cama to live in Kowloon last year, and had he committed the murder he would not asked his have been
near the piner. He against him wore pure.
14 Auction of all and suplus Naval this subject, has aanlysed perhaps more closely than any other writer the factors which influence and in 11.30 HH. & Wharf & fact compel Vancouver's advance,
Godown Co. bleeting.
and has estimated the position which Saturday. Márch 14 ; -
Royal K. Yacht Club's Regatta. the city and port will hold in the!
Nina nutbreaks of bubonic plague were notified last week and six have terminated commerce of the world. The prin fatally. Thara was al-os corifisation
Chian Milait.
HONGKONG, TerNDAT, Feb. 24, 1914.
THE POWERS AND THE PACIFIC.
1.
cipal results of his analysie were given each of enterio, puerperal and; small por. The net refer to his witness. identified by the Mount Davis provision prisoner's refusal to divide the business
movements have
to
Sant
The total number of deaths from plaguely falme. He alleged that he had men. The witness was also present at on the wither admitted that the pro- sinco Jannary Ist last is. 71 out of 79 fight with two of the witceres last year
and they had trumped
that charge. Lup_tast outbreaks nolifled.
A witness called by prisoner said he had not known the prisoner previous year. He knew no hing about the murder. He had heard from his foki that prisoner had a quarrel with the witness Inst year.
Prisoner's wife was also called and corroborated the quarrel.
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Mr. Hazeland then forma ly committed prisoner to take his trial of the next
Basins.
Mz. Potter questioned the Inspector as to the detention of Ho Pak Sau since
Desember 15 the date he was arrested.
in an address which he delivered at Vancouver, and are: The first pro blem of the British race is to adjust 4 itself to the idea of the New Pacific Captain F. L. Spencer, who has born Осели Simultaneously with the for three years in command of the battery birth and wowth Vancouver three, of the Malay States Guides and established and organised the existing rigle battery, grant world
has terminated his service with the Irea? been making hendway which regiment and went home on leave by the never have been, seen before and heius on 14th inst. never will be seen again. They are
Philip Foby, the four year old son of AMONG the excellent supplements of the kind that cm happen but once. Col Sergi Foby D.C.L.I., while playing which "The Times" has been issuing The first is the cutting of the Panama with a balnear the Queen's Stane Wharf, recently "The Pacific" number must Canal. The second is the awakening accidentally fell i to the harbour. be cla ed as one of the most im- of Asia The third is the peopling was rescued by a bostman in No. 295A portant, particularly to people in this of the prairies. All these are happen- junk and handed over to his father. The part of the world. "The Times" ing for the first time in the history of little did not appear t suffer from holds that a grave mistake has been the world; none of them can happen again in the history of the world.
Mr. F. C. Muzon, of Messrs. Moxon and kept in geol until now." What right tion me: if you want to die, questions made in the decision of the Britian There are no more hemispheres to arms was befare Mr. Wood to-day"whon a Taylor, returned yesterday from Home via news-He has no mea
bisect. There are
#
He
his immortion.
Another case of unlawful possession of
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Sir Henry and Lady Blake arrived in London last month from Ireland and are staying at Queen Anne's Mansions,
Chinese was charged with having on din Siberia.
It is nanounced in our advertising that all past and present members of Oxford and Cambridge Universities are
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Captain H. Greenfield, the Veterinary Officer of the China Command, who he bees on duty at Bangkong for some time returns to Tientsin by the Bain Ching"
to-morrow,
His Lordship anked at four, o'clock if there we any prospect of finishing the case this evening, and the Crown Soli citor replied that there was not. There were three more witnowwer for the Crown, In reply to Mr. Potter's questions theIt was decided to call these witnesses. witness said Ho Pak Sau was not locked this afternoon, the Court sitting after the up u go, and had not been in prison usual hour. since he was discharged from the Magis- tracy. He was allowed to go out when he wished,
The old woman who was said to have
overheard prisoner's threats to deccesed's widow was called, and bore out the
Mr. Potter: Where does he live widow's statement that prisoner threat-" the Police quarters.
He describes it in this way: "I was
-
have you to detain any man wy a wit
What authority have you?-It is a higʻown très will:-
Do you swear thas in fson of what he
ened her life. The words she heard were If you would like to live don's ques
Ine."
Cross-examined: Sho did not hear pri winter say “Yes, I killed your husband."*. She wise prosent during the whole of thes conversation.
Asergeant Interpreter produced i main, and be answered Yos.**
Belus ever been allowed to go outside a said On the morning of Juno 15 it statement made by priamor- bis arrest,
tho polien quarters or gaol cinco he came to Hongkong, by himself?—Yes, with the police.
Government that England shall not
* no more world be officially represented at the great majorities to awaken. There are no Pr mi es, at 119. Dos Voux Road West,
Mr. H. W. La-ker, of Messrs. Dascon, Para Pacific Exhibition, anil)
die Title and 350 rounds of ammunition Looker, Descon and Harston returned to points to mischief from this line of timent to populate and develop imposed a fine of $250.-Detective Sergt. Sixteen month.
mare imperial domains on this cun- without a permit: Mr. Wood this morning the Colony yesterday after an sbeence of aynt-I asked him if he wished to re aetkin being already at Work: stories These world movements are making Flo,d made the seizure. are appearing in the leading news Vancouver n world city. The world papers of New York and San can no longer reckon with the future Francisco which would never have of this city apart from the fature or been allowed to see the light a few this Ocenu. anths ago; necnsing England and Germany of having entered into n secret agreement to wage war against American commerce all over the worki. It is difficult, the paper con- tinues, imagine any chargo more likely to impair the friendly relations existing between this American and ourselves. Responsible people in England know that the imputation
NEWS OF THE DAY.
-The charge of murder under exiradition parcecdi gs from Canton pait Sari Kwit, will be heard on Tu sḍay at 3,15 pm,
roquested to e mwanirate with Mr. P. W. Goldring with a view to forming a register in Hoogkong nod ultimately in Oxford and Chabridge Society ourbracing: Canton and the Const Ports. The Oxford and Cambridge diouer will be, beld this year as usual on's due to be notified later.
It is notified that an newtylene lighted buy showing an oceniting white light
Lieut. J. Benton, RG.A., who left Bed Coy, R.G.. for Home in 1919, was a brother of the Mr. J. Benton, murdered in Mexico, Sir John Benton, a consin, was staying with Lieat. Benton in Hoogkeng in 1911.
The case was adjourned till to-morrow At 10:80.
Hop and I did not walk with him. He was not"I' who intended to murder Kan
walked with his friend Ho Pak Bau I Flig Edship Why was the charge walled first; they walked behind. I do against Ho Paz. Sad withdrawn?
not know the murder business. I did Inspector Dymond: The Crown Sanot murder him and I am only on sus citor was prosecuting. So far as I know pleion. Kan Hop formerly told many it was that ho might give evidence in people that Ho Pak Say committed some this case.
robbery in Chinese territory. Perhape His Lordship said he supposed he might Ho Pak Sau murdered Kan Hop for also it that it was in consequence of this information that the subsequent charge revenge, was proferred against prisoner.
Inspector Dymond said he had nothing On piges 3 and 4 is reproduced an
to do with the rest of Ho Pak Bau, Among the passengers who arrived to- but he supposed this was so. interesting article from the Imden Daily three seconds, has been establ ahed Telegraph of Jan. 30th. of the reported mark the starboard side of the fairway and Mr G. B. Edwards and Mise and dence as to the distribution of the profits at the entrance to Pakhoi Anchorage today by the Kamo Maru ware Me Prisoner's younger brother, gave evi- ngotiation between Mesus. Kropp and between the fabing staked off the village of
Tilk. The "unlighted starboard buoy bas Master Edwards, who proceed later to of the family busincos. He stated that hcan discontinued. Tas new light should Niogpo. Mr. G. A. Stubbings and Mr. J. the brothers wore pald #5 wages out the most damaging of them is More Benjamin and Potts informable guide to shipping entering Brister were also on the bout returning to of the business.
Anchorage. the alleged desire on our part to as that they are to day in receipt of onblo
Mr. Potter in cross-examining this wit meeting will be held as Government Hause news referred him to certain family agron Saturday, February 28th firm 15 to * cultivate an emphatic and-American advicefortheir Shanghai Office intimating Mr. S. Rumpthurna at the Ear policy, in order to freeze the Ameri- that the Shanghai and Elongkew Whut poan TIMICA, last night gave a lecture,There was a pretty wedding on January ments which he (Counsel) had before p.., to explain the Aims and whicots of cans out of South Amerien. But it Company?ave declared a dividind of illustrated by lantern views, con New 21, Christ Church, Chelses, where Mr him, and this drew from the Crown Soli- the Hongkong Branch of the Ministerie is one thing to know that all such rite transfer booke ofore on March 9,
3, matting aside Tls.. 25,000 for repaire Zoland. The slides were supplied by Beginald Stair Douglas, of Barawak, stor an objection to questions being put
[ the New Zealand Tourist Bureau and desle: i younger son of the late Sir Vohn Douglas 1 upon döntumónta: which were not before 120 All members and asadolatos are inrited to. actuations are mistaken, and quite
with the wanders and beau is that attract 0.31 0., formerly Lisatenant Goversor the Cours
port and town life, rivers, lakes, moun to viste from all parte. The various aspects of Ceylon, and Indy Dunglés, of Rosetti Mr. Potter said he was thing gicism, the volcanic region, in Houser Chaises, married
is as groundless is the rumoured the Rasi Armament factory of Putilous reusons on which it is based
another to convince the people of The 25th Punjabis are proceeding America and the citizens of San from Kowloon o Ho Sheung Joung on GREAT REDUCTIONS IN Frane so tist this is the fact. The Thursday and Friday host for training in
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