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TWO FIRES.
NORTH AND WEST.
A BOMBAY SENSATION.
A reward of Rs. 5,000 is being offered in Bombay for information leading to the discovery of a Parsi A fire broke out at No. 25. Shapki youth named Pestonji Banapi, son of wan Road at 3.30 am, to-day. The an oil mill owner, who has been miss origin of the outbreak is not known.ing for several days. It was this The fire was discovered by one of the youth's custom each evening to Inmates of the house, who at once motor home with whatever cash was ave the alarm. The Fire Brigade available. On the day of his dis was early on the scene. Rames had taken such a strong bold appearance he left the mill with cash amounting to Rs.6,200. Investigations! that it was impossibh to sara the
which fouówea uis non-arrival result- house which was soon completely ed in the discovery of the car Kulted. The firemen turned their in the Mahomedan quarter. It con- attention to the neighbouring houses, i tained various materials which and succeeded in preventing the fames from spreading to them.
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A small chimney fire broke out in a house in Queen's Road, West, opposite the Koshing Theatre at 530 Last night. It was put out by the Inmates of the house. No serious damage was done.
Capt. Owen, late Master of the s.s. Hanyang" has resigned from the service of the Indo-China Naviga ∙tion Company and will enter into business for himself at Hongkong as 3 sworn measurer. Capt. Owen has been out in China for many years and is well known to the shipping fraternity.
Pestonji bad bem bringing home from the mill, but no money. Foul! play is suspected, because of the octy where the car was found. Stories are in circulation of cars having been intercepted in this neighbourhood and the occupants robbed after the fashion of some cinema films. The disappearance | of the youth, however, remains a mystery, and house to house search has failed to throw any light on it.
Two Chinese were this morning charged before Mr. R. O. Hutchison at the Magistracy with having destroy- ed some camphorwood trees on No. 6 Government Plantation. Aberdeen.
Mr.
The Hon. Mountstuart William defendants said that they cur a Elphinstone. director of the British few branches for firewood. They did North Borneo Company, arrived in Hongkong to-day froma Manila by the know it was unlawful. 25. "Hwa Pire." He recently made a tour of Borneo in company with Sir Joseph West Ridgeway and Sir Allen Perry, who were the guests of H. E. the Governor on their recent visit to Hongkong.
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Green. of the Forestry Department, who prosecuted said that it was im-! possible that the defendants did not; know, as only yesterday one of their fined for a simitar clarsmer was offence. They apparently did not The" defendants had hacked some twenty trees cach, between 6 and
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the destroyed trees. This thing was becoming very common, and must be stopped. The Magistrate imposed a fire of $15 or three weeks hard; labour in each case.
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