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LOCAL AND GENERAL
WEDNESDAY
THE "TAL ON" PIRACY. THE "CHILDAR PIRACY.
CHARGES AGAINST MASTERS OF ***** LINTAN ** AND "ON" "LEEN
PRISONERS WANTED BY CANTON GOVERNMENTS
The transport Hardinge balled at noon to-day fat the North. Lieut. W. Enquiry opened into the conduct of John to prosents the nine prisoners aight men Buckinghan, RE, left on her for the round trip.
fnf Mowers Point, opposite the town. The river-bed along the line of the wall, which is exrved to a radius of 8000 ft. for k, distance of 8500 th, is fine sand and silt, from 8 it to 10. ft. thick, overs lying gravel. The all stands on a pittress base 330 ft wide. This Hooring was composed of 223 mat tresses, each measuring 125 ft. long.
It is reported today that someone by 75 ft to 80 ft, broad, and of a thickness of 3 ft They were conas night on Harleigh Road. Apparently had a shot at the Tiger about 10 o'clock structed of brushwood bundles, of
Mr. Stripes" was nut bagged. which no less than 5 millions were employed, together with 53,000. bundles of stakes. The brushwood Į tason there were notified one British case. of diphtheria ; two of entario (Chinese zonn
Before Mr. Wood this afternoon, she
Jones, master of the "Lintan, and Owen Hughes, insster of the sa. On Lae," who oro alaged to have unlaw fully neglected to rundes assistance to
int off Ki Au the .. Tai Ou" when pirated and
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INFORMATION;
The Crowa- Solicitor (Mr,® Hodgson) appeared before May Wood this morning The Fulics are offering a reward of 800 Information which will lead to the and one won extradition proceed arest of the parana or persons who mur toga. The sine prisoners were charged dared the Indian watchman at the Govern with piracy. This wasa requisition from - ment Civil Ecapital recently, by strangling the Canton Government for their surrender him. and xtradition to Chine, the piracy haring been committed within the jurisdiction of China,
Mr Wood: A requisition received for Last week in addition to se plague, prosecuted and Mr. Dixon, of Mears. the piracy of the "Childar on what date?
The Crown Solicitor, Mr. P. M. Hodgi
Wilkinson and Grist, deiended in both charges.
came from all parts of the province, fatal); and four. of smallpox (Chinese Opening the ergo for the proescution, prisoners together in Queen's Road Central
being supplied under contract by the Boorbay Bus Trading Corporation. The mattresses were constructed on a special slip out ou the bank of the river at Seilgy. They were designed to be as flexible as possible, and con- tained each from 20,000 to 22,000
alip was uncovered at low water,
three fatal)
A married women living at. No. 53 Chang Chon, has reported to the police person entered her house, by removing the tab on the morning of the 18th inst. soms luck off the front door, and sole clothing ba the value of $18 and wadiset valued at
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General Memorands.
SUNDAY, MAY 24:-
Empire Day,
-Excursion to Macao...
Tuesday, May 9 -
Queen Mary birthday (1887).
H.K Horticultural Society's Meeting. 3 p.m.-Crown Land Salo at P.W.D.
Wednesday May 273–
Non-Punk Tramwaya
Meeting.
The Derby at Eprom.
Churwday, May 28 -
Co. Lid's.
10 Kim-tar Ferry Co's. Meeting,
Local Stockbrokers' Setting Day.
FRIBAT, May 99:-
Dragon Boat Festival, Saturday, May 30 :—
Send Gymkhana Meeting. Monday, June 1 pat
Whit-Monday.
TUESDAY, June 9:-
Pape Puis X burn 18:35, Wyrday, June 3-
Big Georia's birthday (1865).
For some reason there is now an im- mense boom in gaudy-coloured parrots as matepicce uaments, says this Dally Dispatch." They seem to surve no useful purpose except purlape as flora-holders, and a terror to the eyesight even in the quiet West End.
The Crown Solicitor: 15th March, 1914. Duct. Bergt. Brown arrested the mine the Crown Solleiter said the two defen-yetarday and read to them the warrants dante were on different ships and there produced. There was a separate warrant were really two charges, but he took it,
Prisoners were informed that the Chi thas his friend would have no object in respect of woh prisoner. to the cases being taken together,
Mr. Dixon edhe did not think banees Government of Canton had asked the could object as it would save so much Hongkong Government to hand the me, but the defences were entirely dif- prisoners over to the first named authority
Each said they would make a statement. forent, le
The Crown Solicitor salad his Worship
an early date- Ultimately the case was put down for hosting at 11 am tomorrow, to contiene Friday morning at 11 am. and it the afternoon if necessary.
to
REVIEWS.
The Studio Year Book.
The niveli isus of Tho Studio. Yeur i
SANITARY BOART,
NUISANCE AT HOWLOON OLD
FERRT
The fortnightly meeting of the. Sandg tary Board took place yesterday at this Beat Room, the President of the Depart ment, Mr. D.W. Tixtman prosiding. There were also present: The Hon. Mr. EA. Hewett, U.M.G., Coroned Irwing Dr. Fitzwilliams, Dr. Francia Clarks (Medics Offer of Resita, Dr. W. W "Pearso“ · „(Avistant Medical / Officer of Health), Moss PW. Goldring, Chan
a Ming, Ng Hoa and Me EW Hamilton (Scoretary)
Mr. Goldring asked the following que
tions.
*(i.) Is the Head of the Sanitary Depart ment, the Media Offloor of Health or the Assistant Medical Offices of Health aware the fact that the urinals at the olf Star Ferry Wharf at Trim Sha Tai have been, since the opening of he new Star Ferry Wharf, used by poolies'na a Intrine, and that these lad not been doen. ed out up to Sunday, 10th inst. 2.
(i) Wlice duty is itto attend to these?
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uses of that description were exceedingly Book of Decorative Art, a copy of which are both at home, in the Colony, and has just reached us from the publishers, in the East. It was quite natural that will sjpul to'nił who are interested in they should be rare. It was hardly con- the must recent developments in the meivible that a ship, that was able to’nu, doevraties and applied arts as exempli- tigren, red, and god, with occasional der bistance should refuse such net-fied in the work of the grading archi- bisek and purple, strugato for prominence ace to a ship wherein distress, and for toets, designers and craftwinien of Great in the iour scheme of their wings and that reason that case was undoubtedly Britain and the Continent of Europe! body feathers, and it is very doubtfulse of an imperiance and of a rather The volume is copiously illustrated with the Swiss Femily Robinsou ever new sous nature. If it was satisfactorily photographs and drawings and supple-
birds in the shadiess forests of the preto his Worship that the mastern mentary pintes in facsimile colours, alv.)
of those shipa did in fact refuse to re-reproduced exclusively for this work. tropic islands. But Mayfair and Hamp-der ussistance to the Tai On" under The coloured illustrations are very beauti strad take them for granted.
Had any report prior to May 12th, 1014, been reodved by the Head of the Sanitary Department, or the Medical Offer of Health, or tha Assistant Medcal. Otboer of Health in respect of these? What explaadion can be given for this nuisano to have existed" to long?
The Crown Solicitor suid be quite The regulation outat for picking f eks, understood that. With respect to the from 250 to 300 men being employed, and a piece of ripe with which he might defendants they were charged under the seven hours being cccupied for each conveniently leave verandah, was found Maritime Convention A 1911, ection mattress, though in the case of pn a Chinese who was arrested bie: this Merchant Shipping Acta, 1854 emergencies they were finished in fivemming by a nativà detentive in La FG17, etion 1 and the Mercimas Ship
St eat. hours. The mattress was towed to
He received a mouth hard labour ping Ordinance No. 10 1800. The charge gst the wax that they unlawfully hy. tr. Wood for being *·loque and the site by tugs. This done at slacks nd, Inspector McHardy prosecuted master of the Tai On" found at sea neglected to render saistauen to the tide, and only on one or two occasions were mattresses lost by getting out
in the Canton River off the island of Ki Au in danger of being lost, Huppily of control in currents, &c. When the mattress had been brought into position two pairs of 75-ton barges were brought up ou opposite sides, and stone was deposited on it from the middle outwards by coolies. As the mattress sank, the ropes were, o course, paid out, and when it had sunk far enough the barges were drawn over it, and the stone was de- posited as rapidly as possible. It
circumstances in which the Tai O required about 80 tons of stone, to
was placed on the right of the 27th of sink a mattress, but about 300 tons
April, and they had no reasonable excuse was always leposited in the opera-
to offer-and he thought the onus should tion, this amount being placed by
be upon them to prove that they did the hoes the Your Book will be found then, he thought the esso must be regard-"] of great valte, forming as it does a com from 120 to 150 men in 20 minutes,
nd as somewhat serious by the" grors. {prehensive review of the best work pro- The mattress, work was commenced Before Mr. Jantice Haveland and a jury The facts of the case were to some extent died during the last year in the several
The Presiden replying said that pre in February, 1910, and the work at the Criminasi Sessions this afternoon familiar to his Worship from other countries with, which include Great is to the tint, neither he scr proceeded so rapidly that the last
was continued the bearing of four charges sources but he would mention one or two Britual, France, Germany, Austria and Assistant Adical Officer were aware mattress was laid in July, 1911, time a partner in the Tai Fung firm of steamboat, passenger and cargo boat, and voted to domestic architecture and the
of embezzlement against fu Lai, at one incidents. The Tai On" was a river Hungary. An important section is de of the nuing existing Ho first be came aware oft on receiving the ques instead of the running on, according Hongkong. The prisoner in bis capacity she left Hongkong on the 27th of April other subjects dealt with inside interiortion standing in the member's name to the first programine, into 1913, of onging partner kopt the keys of the seven o'clock. The steamship On décoration, furniture, fregrates and man, and on the 1 the Medical Officer was The wall proper was built up on this fe, and it is alleged by the Crown that Lee" left a few minutes afterwards and telpieces, wad and eviling decoration.mnado sequaink with the condition of an two dates in 1909 he ab-tracted from it tho stenazahip ·Lintan left a little after stained glass, artificial lighting, toxtile affairs. Se log na the old Star Ferry foundation, of rough stone, with a
two sums, of 83,000 and $1,500 respective: that. The On Los" apparently passed fabric, rubroidery, earthenware and Wirt was uplit was the duty of the e of health district No. slope of a Jon the river side and 1tly on the pretext that he was repaying two the "Tai On," he thought, shortly be porcelain, we, which may be ordered 11 to shin the late regularly and after through the local bookseller's, in pub-the. Forry became feed it was no one's remained in sight all the way, at any rate ished at 5 (paper cover) and 7/8 duty to superintend. The Department the land of Hi A. until the "Tai Os "was pirated just off (cloth) or direct from the offices of The received no inflation of the nuisance.; Studio, 44, Leicester Square, London,
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AN OFFENSIVE TRADE,
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A Chinese shopkeeper, who said he had been in the Colony 10 years and did not know the law in regard to effensive trades,
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Kemp) is prosecuting; and prisoner is The Attorney-General (Hon. Mr. J. H. defended by Bir. F. C. Jenkin, instructed by Mr. Lo D Almanda é Castro,
The manager of the Kum Sang Bank give evidence regarding two loans to the prisoner's firm (now defunct).
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and the book is in every respect quite (v.) up to the high standard set by its pres develont Area guide to the artistic extruction, dveorátion and equipment of
Tossore Stk.
(vi)
Is it propoed to allow coolies to use these finals for this purpose? If not, wặt steps will be taken to prevent tema 2
What step any, have been taken. since May 12th, 1914, to abate the nuissace
Up to the time the Tai On" had reached the island of Ki At the "Li tan" had not passed her. She was some little way behind as the evidenco would show but
Wis have received from Mears. Kelly, of the men's story and the nob very far. When just and Walsh a copy of Manchurian Tusof the ladies pom were not sufficiently abreast of Ki Au and near the fish stakes
sora Sitk," by Mr. Norman Shaw. The accured and oblics. first began to sleep And they Did you the art of questions the Tai On" was pirated; pirated in work forme a complete treatise on there and ther to make use of it. The I have been asking them, didn't you f➡No; there was a great deal of commotion and aslo of the commodity, and in ita com peann"except fr those geing to and from very severe manner in the sense that methods of production, manufacture and out what wout of the way of Euro
Mr. Jenkin: You had tifs with t'e other witaases in the case, didn't you? Yes.
we did'nt talk about that,
Witness farther aid prisoner did not rose Firing of shots was going on on pilation the author has made use of many the wharf at te Kowloon wharf, and ha offer to repay the money. Had be done so bad the
"Tai On." His Worship anthorities on the subject, a list of which understood the the naisance was only loans long
Tai On."
the same course ?
The Crown Solicitor: Yes, your Wor-
Laws of Hongkong.
discovered by resident who took shelter
at the old what from a hoary rainstone
The Presidentegrated that such a cotidi Lice of thing should have a occurred bia they out not have their eyed every. where. They had only two district In spector in Irebon, and at the present time they had their hands quite fult. since been made secure and the district The doors, it windows referred to bad specter wuld be instructed to inspect
the place ocasionaly and see that they
AŞPARLOUS. PARSTION,
A writer, in the course of an able article in Engineering," says that the development of the trade of the port of Rangoon in recent years has been extremely satisfactory, but the
are fag period refused, though the would bear's more detailed account from is given in an appendix. The informa- was charged before Mr. Melbourne this prospects for the future were jeopar- or ing with axing No. 21 Chee Lung fence submitted that the story for the
Mr. Jenkin in his speech for the de-Captain Wetherall and the Engineer of tion is presented in an interesting man dised by the fact that the river, on lana for the purpose of combing and prosecution had been so elaborated that Mr. Wood: Were the three bowts taking should have a vida sale.
per, and at the low price of one doline which ita necess depended, was cleansing human hair.
i diserexited, and there was not leaving the tawn, and that sandbanks Mr. Tratman of the Sanitary Board said, the atom of terth in it. The witueuses were forming in the hitherto valuable premises and found the place barricaded. thing about the fancial state of the
he and Inspector Melwen went to the purposely said they did not know any.hip, up to that point at any rate. due to the fact They looked through
Continuing, the Crown Solicitor said We have received a copy of the "Laws that just above the town the river nothing. They knocked on the dour and knew it was in rotten Cadition, that engine and the chief officer were very issued in the form of a new and revised crack but could see firm, but be put it to the jury that they the captain of the Tai On" and the of Hongkie,” which bas just boon changes its direction at almost right there was a general stampede. On entering enters were empty and they all fitted hard put to it to defend the attack of edition by Mr. C. G. Alabaster. The angles, from a north-south course to the building they saw a quantity of homes away, avoiding their delits. At the time the pirate from the bridge of the "Tur work comprises the Ordinances from 1844 one east-west. The current, which The Saitary Board permitted no offensies cd the chief accountant had almady going on and, as was familiar to his Wor-bound volumes. In a third volume a
hair, which was being combed and cleansed of the alleged offence, the chief salesman Do." There was a great deal of firing to 1900 and consists of two handsomely we still cure. flows at from & to U knots, had trade between Kennedy Town And Cause zor. Every men jack of them had dis ship and to most of them, he thought he given Chronningen: Tablo and In- gradually eroded a channel for itself, *ng Bay. -
appeared into the country, Mr. Jonion could safely say that the Tai On was | dex ** to the Ordinances from 1844 to ns was natural, on the ontside of the Mr. Mellan tak a serious view of lui al pit the firm through the and the crew and the captain the engi valve to all interested in the Colony
continued, and the only man who stayed ultimately caught fro to and bamt oot 1912. The work should prove of great. bend. Rangoon is situated on thence, as which the defendatit pleaded Bankruptcy Court had not been called neer and the chief officer had to take
guilty, and jusposed the maximum fice of inside of the curve, so that the deep-30 ardering the defendant to refrain from The story of the witnesses was to abs to the water. While the captain, the water chanuel moved from close in cast og on busines in the premises in lute fabrication; it was imagination. The gier sad the chief officer were rigor I can only assume that he must have fost The Hon. Mr. Hewett remarked that it front of the town over to the fur side
MATRE de fres had gone to rack and ruin because y defending the bridge, proceeded his hand, but that does not excuse from was not advisable to issue the ratum, of the bed. At the same time, on
hid beets mismanaged and the memthe Crown Solicitor," they had the satis a very serious error. the uren in front of the town sand-
hers of it went away when they came to faction of seeing the " Lintan" coming ms its financial state, and they thought up from beland. You can conceive what haps a little different; although, unless be not done so it crested a panic,
The case of the On Lee was per reason for asking was to suggest that if Dr. Fitzwilliams said that his only banks were forming in the slacker
Dr. and Mrs. G. P. Jordan were pass of the man who herdled the money. The the captain and everyme ou board. The to give, he was also guilty of a serious tees a partous position,
they wouki ley the are at the door pleasant sight that must have been for the captain has some satisfactory, answer waters. Nor was this all. The deep-engers for home by the Chiyu Marus yester Case for the prosecution rested upon the officers fired a rockets of distress and errce because, although the "Lintas *** water channel as time went on cut day.
The Hon. Mr Howett: It only adver further and farther into the south
bure word of two men whom he called burnt blue lights and waved them to the was coming up behind, which no doubt absconding debtors. He commented on
"Linton. In fact, the " Lintan" was the captain of the On Lee kiew, ho bank at the bend, widening consider Clare Bitter, a younger daughter of Sir the fram, which alone could have proved his megaphone, but whether he used it and he knew that rockets were signs
The engagement in announced of Miss the complete absence of my books of so near that Captain Wetherell anked for ought to have known by those rocket able" the river bed at that point. Walter Hillier, K.C.M.G., of 24, Kensing the truth of the we not I cannot any. It must have boen of distress that something was wrong Opposite the town, however, was a ton Count Gardena, London, formerly of After a short retirement the jury re point offering greater resistance to Chim, and Mr. P. S. Thornton, resistant turned a verdict of nos guilty and prison stack upon them, to see Lintah and he ought to haw gone back to re
a rather painful night, in face of this was discharged.
A Marriage Broken OK. der saistaice, no calmly go, past them without taking the others were there. As they know there. The Zeit leams from Bucharrab that the
"inatter ·"how"), many slightest notice or formpting to render were, strong tiden about that position intended maizings of the Crown Prince of any assistance at all. We know what but it might be that half a dozen
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the action of the stream. This point manager of the Kailan Mining Adminis did not recede, with the result that tra ion, Tieats.n.
on the river striking it, on emerging from the boy it had cut above, the How was deflected diagonally across
The declmo in emigration from Eng-happened that the Ligten provodded ships could not be sbla to sarò the Captain J. S. Bosch, one of the most
and continge but the imm popular skippers in Bongkong and the in March, numbered
are higher than before.
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Dr. Fitrians asked if it was pro posed to repose a daily health retum.
The Present medied that the office had been very busy and several of the Intaff were ill. The return had therefore not been infund. He askal for the mem bors' opinion.
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