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WAR CHARITIES COMMITTEE,
WEDNESDAY A
RACE COURSE TRAGEDY.
EIGHTEENTH, DAY OF ENQUIRY,
If the sheds warn carrying too great. load he would expect that to be disclosed. by the breaking of some of the uprights- The effect of the sheds being overloaded The inquiry into the circumstances would be the same as that of the attending the disaster at the Race
CORONER'S COURT.
DEATH OF A CHINESE GIRL CHILD. FURTHER DONATION BY HONG KONG GOVERNMENT.
Mr. A. Dyer Ball held an inquiry at We are informed by the. Hon. the Magistracy this morning to inquire Course on Feb. 36, was ressmed at the uprights breaking. Whatever way the In addition to the organ places at Colonial Secretary that with the into the circumstances attending the Magistracy this morning, by Mt. J. R. question was looked at the whole Mr. Denman Fuller's recital in St. John' ananimous approval of the Unofficial death of a Chinese girl aged one year. Wood (Coroner) and the Juer consist-structure must be taken as one. There Cathedral on Monday next at 5.30 p.m.Members of the Executive and Legisla= Dr. Macfarlane aid be made uning of Messrs. A. H. Barlow, W. C. Jackas no question in his mind as to that.
If there had been some,zinking down Mr. Muriel will kindly sing two solos. tive Councils and the nation of autopsy of the body and discovered a. and J. B. Wallace,
the Secretary of State for the Colonics,small bruise on the top of the bead- Mr.TL/Perkins, first Assistant enggested, the abody would undoubtedly A Reuter's telegram from Londen a further sum of $50,000 is being con- There was also haemorrhage over the Director of Public Works, recalled, said way before falling.
By the Crown Solicitor: Ha did not received to-day gives the total tonnage tributed by the Colony of Hongfront part of the brain. The case of be bad heard the matabeds for the Race of the five Dutch steamers taken over kong for the relief of the suffering death was haemorrhage of the brain Course were put up to remain for there think that the polen not being lat înto This could bave boen gaused by a fall. dayaand after that were to be taken down the groin mail any difference to Sister Agatha of the Italian Convent by the contractor, the material to ba bis the stability of the" shoda, Struts Bither bo lot into the at 44 High Street, West Foint, said she property. The rates in the Colony for should received the child from two women one similar sheds of a little better quality ground or lashed to something firm. of whom she believed was the child's were 88 for 100 feet. He would be It would have been useful for the Build mother. The child was in a dying prepared to pay #7 per 100 ft., 10 x 10 ing lospector to have had an architect's condition and there was swelling on for ground area covered for the Race plan. All he would then have had to Course ikeda He had made 1፦ Mr. J. 'R. Wood fined a coolis $10 † the left side of its baid.
do would be to see that plan carried out made un ar with the altercative of 14 days' im Sister Cyrilla said she took charge of proximate calculation of the area covered He did not think it possible to work prisonment for being in unlawful the infant after its admission into the by the marsheds which was 25,300 out the engineering strain of the struct possession of a quantity of iron roda. Convent. The child did not get better square feet Calculated : 8 per ure sa a complete structure. That being and died three days after its admission. 100 10 10 the cost would come to his firm would probably have refused The body was removed to the Public 1,784 and at 87, 81,561. He had to prepare a plan of such a structure
They certainty would not care about it.. Mortuary and from there was taken simply made a rough estimats. Away for burial.
28,151.
On the night of the 59th ultimo, the premises Lesare. Clark and Co., opticians, were broken into. Apparently the thief had been disturbed, for no- thing was stolen.
In addition to the cases of carebro- spinal fever, reported in another column, there were 5 cases of small pox (3 fatni) and 3 cases of enteric fever ( fatal) reported in the colony last week.
A Chinese residing at No. 9 Wyndham Street has reported to the Police that some time between the 22nd ultimo and the 2nd instant, some person MEETING of the War Charities BONOKONG, WADADAY, April 3, 1918. broke open a box in the cock lait and atule money sud jewelry to the value of 8494.50.
General Committee, which the
British Community is invited to attend, .will be held at 5.30 pm. oc MONDAY.
8th April, 1918, in the Chamber of MUNICIPALISATION OR Commerce Room, City Hall. His! Excellency the Governor will preside.
BUSINZAS:-
PRIVATE ENTERPRISE.
1. To receive the report of the Among the matters discussed at
Executive Committee.
|
THE MAGISTRACY.
UNLAWFUL POSSESSION.
A charge o
possession against another Chinese related to a pair of gold earrings.
Mr. Bird, of Moara Palmer and He thought if bis frin had prepared u Turner, architects, examined by the plan they could have made a margia so Crown Solicitor, said that he had read as to make the structurs morally cer the reports of the inquiry in the news-tain of standing the strain required
papers.
Sergt. Ingham said the defendant Sanitary Inspector Hoylance said he was attempting to pawn something had the body of the child removed to yesterday, when witness asked him the Public Mortuary. what it was. Defendant said "nothing" |
He saw the sheds during He did not thick a cutting of the lash- The father of the child said the child the erection.. Ee bad seon the ing in the basement of shed No. 12 but afterwards said it was a pair of had been sick three or four days models in Court of Steds 8, 9 and 16. would have caused the collapse. The gold earrings which he said, was given previous to its being taken into a opinion of the sheds was, taking the lashings were at such a low level that it him by a woman,
the Convent On the 4th of February whole structure as one building, which
would not have affected the "whole Defendant protested his innocence last, witness took the baby to a gold- must be done when considering structure. and reiterated his former statement smith's shop to get it a pair of earrings the cause of the collapse, the three-
The inquiry is proceeding. The infant was placed on a cushioned
storeyed abeds in a row murt ba child was dangerously ill when it was the whole stranture. If those three- taken to the Italian Convent. He was
2. To add further members to the the annual ratepayers' meeting had arrived. As the remainder would fine of $10 with the alternative of quite satisfied that the Sisters had donetoreyed sheds stood by themselves and
General Committee.
3. To invite and discuss suggestions. The election of an Executive Com mittee by the General Committee will take place after the raceting
E. R. HALLIFAX, Hon. Secretary,
ALLEGED THEFT OF RICE.
all they could for his child.
The mother of the child, giving evidenco, said the child struck its head smith's in an endeavour to reach a clock. against the shop counter at the gold The child did not cry then.
WAR CHARITIES.
The Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax, Hon
were crowded with people without the support of the adjoining sheds or any
her arrangement in lieu of that, they Secratary, of the War Charitica Com
mitted; writes:-Ong pair of binoculars suggest an improvement in Shed 16, he from the Hon. Mr. P. Holyoak of would be unsafe. If he were naked to would say that it would be better to Reiss & Co., Hongkong, is now to be
in the two
At the meeting of the Sanitary Board that a woman gave him the ear-rings. yesterday Mr. Carpmael (Presidens) He, however, could not produce the chair; it slipped but did not fall. The regarded as a three-storeyed portion of stated that 2,000 doses of serum had been woman to substantiate his statement. erdered from Tokyo, of which 450 doses Mr. Wood imposed on defendant a Shanghai last week was a suggestion not be delivered for a long time, the fourteen days' hard labour. for the municipalization of the water order for the balance had been counter- works. It is not the first time themanded. Of the 1,000 doses ordered question has been discussed by rate payers meetings in Shanghai. Mr. PEARCE, the Chairman of the Council, recalled speech by the late Me. G. J. MORRISON in 1880, in opposing the granting of the conces sion to the Waterworks Company, in which he predicted that they would jalways look back with sorrow at the NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that when they granted the conces
War Charities Committee. Hongkong, April 3, 1918.
297
IN THE GOODR of EVELYN
EDWARD PORTER formerly of Shanghai in the Republic of China and late of Rock beare, Portmore Park, Weybridge, in the County of Surrey, England, deceased.
OTICE IS was by virtue of Section:sion and the time would come the 53 of Ordinance No. 2 of 1897 made a they would say to this Company: Omier limiting the time for Creditors
from Manila, they had received only 30, and the rest of the order bad been can celled. In due course 5,000 doses would arrive from America, but he was unable received 100 doses from Saigon, making at present to say when. They had in all, 1,000 doses already in the Colony, and 5,000 doses on order. The doses available at present were practically sufficient to meet all emergencier.
Memorial and Afiliated Hospitals begs The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice
to acknowledge with thanks the follɔw.
and others to send in their claims We made a mistake once, and, foring donations to the funds of the sgainst the above Estate to the 30th day (od naka, give us your Works and of April, 1918.
ΑΣ Creditors and others are accord-charge as what you like for them.'” claims to the Undersigned on or before Mr. PEARCE's comment on this w
ingly horrby required to send their
that date.
Dated the 2nd day of April, 191
that though they could hardly
associate themselves with this view
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, in its entirety, it is perhaps to some
Solicitors for the Executors,
Prince's Buildin,
Ice House Sweet,
Hongkong.
extent prophetic of the present. The question has arisen now as a result of a proposal by the Waterworks [Company to increase their share
capital, from £400,000 to £1,000,000 | by the issue of new bares. As TAVING RESUMED. charge of my considerations which seem to indicate
Business carried on under the Strle of Messrs. S. C. ISMAIL & CO., that the supply of water should be
NOTICE.
Hospitals:-
Shawan, Tomes & Co.,
J. M. Alves & Co..
(additional 'donation) ...350
25
Central Agency, Ltd.
25
S. I. David & Co., Ltd... 25 Deaton, Looker & Hazston. 25 Ganda, Price & Co. ...... 95 Gilman & Co.
Hannibal & Co.
25 25
Holland China Trading Co. 25
Johnson, Stokes & Mater. 25
J. D. Humphreys & Son... 25 Moraingaice Congreg. S.S. Edin.: £8 for cot in Nethersole Hospital. ... 52.75
In a paper on Japanese shipping| read before the members of the Japan.
A Chinese pleaded not guilty when charged before Mr. Wood this morning with the theft of a quantity of rice, the property of the Tong Seng Co.
defendant.
Mr. P. WGoldring appeared for the
"J
was the master of a junk which was Inspector Gordon said the defendant
engaged by the Tong Seng Co, to
convey a cargo of rice to a steamer, The rice was taken from the godown on the junk. The next morning it was the night of the 31st nitimo and left on
noticed that the position of bags of rica
and in the servants' quarters of the faak 433 Tha of loose rice was found. The jank-master was arrested and hir servants had disappeared. The curious feature of the theft was that thought the mumber of bags was correct, 800 lbs. of rice were found to be short,
accident.
"Mr. Dyer Ball said that no, blame was carry out the struts
storeyed, sheds, but this would entail added to the list of glasses received for to be attached to anyone and that the in three storeyed shed, carrying the forwarding to the Manager of the Lady child's death was brought about by struts some 60 or 70 feet back. He
{| Roberts' Fiekl Glass Fund. The total, Dow stands One stand telescopo, 21" haemorrhage of the brain caused by an would call the three-storeyed part of the sheds the less stable portion of the
hand telescopes, 66 binoculare;donations of $150. structure. He thought the cross-bracing in the rear and front wall of No. 16 would make the shed stronger. Ha. thought that the cross-bracing in the the front and back of the shed. The party will more important than that of parts actually put in were more impor
DEATH OF A SHIP'S OFFICER The inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Mr. Van der was resumed at the Magistracy this Putts, Chief Officer of the & Fair Eyck afternoon.
*
JAPAN AND THE EDUCATION OF CHINESE.
Government for the purpose of assisting A representation, to the JapanSEC
House.
had been altered. A search was inade Mr Leo Longinotto appeared on tant than those loft out. He did not the education of the Chinese introduced behalf of the Crown and Mr. FX think there was any defect into the House of Hepresentatives ham
made for the ship's doctor.
the winter used in the abeds. In dis been unanimously passed in committee Mr. Bakker, chief engineer, said, in opinion, having regard to the fact that and therefore will no doubt pass the reply to Mr. Longinotto, that he was in Sheds 19 to 15 inclusive, had no struts charge of the medicine in the absence of behind, even though their party walla the doctor. On the day in question he was were cross-braced, and the fact that Orient and the mutual responsibility of accompanied by the ship'a doctor ashore struts were placed behind Sheds I to 8 China and Japan, to assist on the part. to see the deceased again. The ship's his matched structure was as well of Japan in promoting the education of doctor had anotherdoctor togowith them.
the people of China will pave the way
Mr. Wood remanded the case until Saturday, fixing bail at #350.
Its text is as follows-
The advance of civiliation in the
The deceased and the woman wars better constructed to resist a lateral thrust to a better understanding and help to A DASTARDLY ATTEMPT TO ROB but the doctor advised the deceased to from the direction of Shed No. 19 as strengthen the bond of neighbourly good
A EUROPEAN.
A RICKSHAW COOLIE SMARTLY
SENTENCED. '; .
to
resiat
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.
Dedees Jarsed by Mr. F. C. Jankli
C.B.E. D.S.P (R.).
go to the hospital; the latter refused. it was
a. thrust from relationship between the two countries. Both doctors were about to leave the front to back, in the centre of Such a measure is of urgent importance and the Government is advised promptly room when Captain Classen came into the row. In his opinion the sheds to take the necessary measures for that
very much the room. The ship's doctor remained, would have been
stronger purpose."- the Undersigned, bereby givo. notice undertaken by the community rather
A rickshaw coolie was charged before Deceased was laughing over the poison with struts in the rear but he would not that from this date all Cheques on Bankers, Contracts and other matters than by private enterprise, the Society recently, Mr. James Blair Mr. A. Dyer Bell this morning, with the he took. Soon after, the ship's docto say their omission was a soures of weak- in connection with the Business of the Chairman of the Municipal Council sub-manager of the Nippon Yusen theft of a gold ring and a pencil from loft" also The girl told witnessness. If he had been responsible for Firm will be SIGNED by me,
drew attention to the notable Keisha in London, said that in 21 years the person of Mr. A. Nicol, a draught that she had taken saine powder and passing the sheds, he might have insisted B. C. ISMAIL
201 change in the type of building had been contributed by the Japanese
over 144,000,000 yen (14,100,000). man at the Taikoo Sugar Refinery.
asked the doctor to prescribs for her.. open having the additional struts at the Hongkong, April 3, 1918.
Mr. Nicol" said that last night he By Mr. d'Almada:-Witness did not back. He would not say definitely erected in the Settlement within Government for the extension of steam engaged the rickshaw nest the Sailors' notice the smell of alcohol in the whether he would have insisted upon recent years, with the result that ship routes and the encouragement of Home, West Paint, to convey him to room. The doctor said it was sapirin this. It was very difficult for one to the municipal anthorities have to navigation, and over 15,000,000 yes Causeway Bay. The coolie first took and when witness said it was not, bear what one would have
done,dered as HE FIRST MKHANA ME deal with fires in constructions of (£1,500,000) for the encouragement of him to the Star Ferry pier but witness believed the docter then said it was especially in view of the fact that SATURDAY. the 6th great height, and the time is probably shipbuilding, while 182 vesels over 700 ordered him to contious or. When pat afternoon when the Captain came to see same manner for four or five years and
caffeine or something like it. That the sheds had been erected in the (a) The Charge of Admission will be 82.00 not far distant when it will be necess-tops gross, aggregating 837,000 tonegros, the No. 2 Police Station, the écolie the deceased the girl was walking about had stood the strain. That was a grest (8) Men warned for general petrol as Than Mewhers of the Hawazoseary to introduce a system of high had been constructed under the subsidy suddenly turned into Wood Streets the room and seemed to be all right, point in their favour. He did not think Import Supervisors (Wharves 1 to
laws. Last year, down to August, the dropped the shaft and cleverly snatched Boldiers and Sailor in uniform Free, pressure water supply, for which no Government had granted permission for the ring from witness' finger. He also The woman. told witness that.decensed he would have insisted upon additiona The Committes invite the Ladies of provision is runde in the Concession 116 ships representing 354,580 tons to passed his hand over "witness' breast was writhing on the ground, after be cross-bracing on the walls for the (Szo Yap) Wharf from 7 to 9p.co.
HONGKONG GYMKHANA CLUB.
of th Season be held at
instant, commencing at 3.15 p.m.
JOCKEY CLUB or GYMESAYA CLUB.
Hongkong to be.persont,
hongkong, April 3, 1918,
SATURDAY
SEARCH SUPERFÍSORALUN MAG: The following revised duties are or
a result of changes; at the Whartes.
Men warned for No: 3 (Fisu Tak) Wharf will do the duty from 5.80 to 0.15 instead at 7 pm.
12) will not do this duty, but will
Instead do Export duty on No. 5
(c) Men on Import duty, first shifts will
also supervise outgoing Wachow ateamers (if any) leaving the Ping Chi, Hoi On, or Yuen Yuen Wharver. All concerned will alter their Warning Notices in accordance with abore and with Orders of April 2nd and 3rd.
SABLED PRACTICES. Friday, April 6th; Tuesday, April sch; Friday, April 12th Thursday, April lith; Tuesday, April 30th
290 Agreement of 1905. Then the pro-be constructed, and by September 35 pockets. Witness was a
took the powder. little drowsy
floors being on the some level, through blema of drainage and of sewage ships aggregating 154,727 tons grose at the time. He jumped out of the Dispensary, said he was a fully qualified the whole, be thought he would, have Mr. Stapleton, manager of Victoria out. In view of past experience on disposal are closely connected with had been launched. In 1896 Japan rickshaw and the driver ran away chetnist. PUBLIC AUCTION.
He remembered having hat of the supply of water and it is possessed 373 vessels of over 100 tons Witness was about to take the riekabaw supplied an have received in-
order for cantharadin passed that structure as it stood. He 001314 THE Undersized bublic Auction possible that important changes may Arps, representing 334,592 tons, and
to the Police Station when the defendant from the ship's surgeon of The .. considered, without doubt, that the 1914 (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED). ere long be necessary in this condec-17,413 vessels aggregating returned. Witness caught Bim and Faer Eyck. He supplied only 20 sheds were stronger than the 1916 tion. Again, Bettlement Extension 1647,105 tous, an increase of 550 per took him to No. 2 Police Station where grains of this article. The cantharadin sheria. He thought that the collapse
cent in 20 years. will involve a programs of con-
the man was dentchod: The ring was supplied in a small bottle similar could very probably have bean, that siderable expanalor of the water In their report on the local pare found on his person and the pencil in to the one produced.
after the first day's racing, some of system. To those who have lived market, Messrs. Polish walls and Kote Wood Street Witness said he was in
The inquiry is proceeding..
the important uprights of the sheds 19th in communities, like Hongkong for wall state that the market has shown s no way the worse for drink; he was example, where the water supply marked improvement in the yard snarket, only lying busily in the rickshaw.
and with a further increase of 35 to 13 Inspector Sità mid the pencil was |is undertaken by the community,
represented by the Government, it per bale, business has passed in 5,000 found in Wood Street, the scope of the
bales. The Yarn trade is passing through theft sounds strange that there should
the 8th April, 1918, at 12 Nooo,
at their Bales Rooms, No. 8,...
Bus Varx ROAD, Corner of
Tea Hussa Street,
Two SIAMESE CATS male and female
about 19 months old."
Termos :—as usual.
HUGHES & Ovan, Auctioneers.
Hongking, April 3. 1918.
(Continued on Page 2.7
183
be any question as to the desire
sheds were loaded. That would cause sainking at that portion of the shed
number of people, would be thrown on
* CLARIONKE CLASS. Tuesday, April 18th, Friday "April
PROMOTION,"
Ho
Hung
-Dr-176 Jai Wing 1a, 6JJA.
My Order.
got out of the perpendicular and caused some of the uprights to break when there saamos his former rank of Inspector P.C. 1 How Fang Warning Officer,
with seniority of this date. THE EPIDEMIC.
STERNUTI, A Joined on February 3 th lat.
Company The return for the week ended 30th a record period, which can be well Defendant in a long statement alleged March shows 110 cases and 73 deaths the collapse of any portion of the Cheay Kam, 100 Mok Kwan Hing
to that spot, by the shed sinking, and Yan Tak.
Amber 93 Hon Yan la
Blam 1st understood from the most abnormal that the complainant was drunk, and from cerebrospinal fever. All the structure would tend to bring the whole 178 Mpg. sbility of communal of grabip in incident that Indian yarn is re-shippod had refused to pay his fare. He
the preference to private on rahip of to Bombay from Shanghal while an emphatically demed having stolen either cases but one were Chinese, the excep down. Possibly some of
tion being a Japanese,
got loose aort caused the poles City's water supply. We have local Japanesh and foreign desers are the ring or the pencil.
to get out of the vertical and never heard any doube expressed in also exporting Japanese yarn to Bombay Inspector Sim said Mr. Nicol wat
The cerebrospinal fever epidemie that would possibly cause the breaking Hongkong
The tremendous rise in price of all perfectly sober when he came to the on the subject. The rate- payers meeting at Shanghai has
materials and labour in India has made Station. Apparently the defendat appears to be dying Gown. For the 48 of the uprights. If there is any a great scarcity of yarn in Bombay and believed Mr. Nicol to be drunk and hours of March 31st and April 1st there in the statement that lashings had directed the Council to appoint the supply is so short that the Bombay that probably accounted for the attempt were only 11 case. There were 10 been cut that would also cause committee to conulder and report Mills are compelled to all up their made.
deaths during those two days. "whether it is desirable, in the requirements from outside sources
Mr. Dyer Ball said it was a dastardly 11 am-Auction of Messrs. Punchard,
Lowther & Co.'s Contractors plant interests of the community, that a stated above. The most instant attempt and sentenced the defendant to at Matankok Saturday, Apt €
THE CALENDAR.
GENERAL MEMORANDI. FRIDAY, Apri
Ching Ming Festival
six months' bird inbourly
business and undertaking and circumstances have greatly strengthened (linds, buildings, plant and machinery | our market which has remalond very
a
SERVES THE WHOLE FAMILY,
fame of Chamberl Cough good
FOT
3.15 Gymkhans Meeting at the of the Waterworks Co. Ltd., should strong with an upward
bs acquired. It is only on the to extremely high rates
Facecoure
TODAY, April 8-
2.30 pm. Forláture Bale at Messes, financial sxpect of the question of
Hughes & Hough'
SATURDAY, April 33
Marathon Race.
exchange, Chinesa
purchase, we imagine, that any doub's
Operating freely but are such lots, saare
immediate requiramon
Remedy in world-wide
for the deep sestad cough
شده
PARENTS DUTY.
aprights to get out
| break-In his opini
beard that the sheda Fand forward, all the ; Issh
bearing indirect
OUR boy innlvays getting scratched or cat or bruised Eecause these wounds have sind all right is no sigu
Gote & bottle of have a tendancy Balm and se
to the irection they
ry injury is cared for immediately conget, nothing fter, and blood serves the poison ta too dangerous Cisenss'toʻrisv
the croup wall whooping cough of i children. A be fasmes, botti
Whole family, Porgande by all. Obernists wad Storkseport |
A.B.P. (R.) and Adjutant
IFULSORY FASTING.
London; in a TUGRULES abes/that," owing to the wing lood, no definite will broinmedi