IMPORTS AND EXPORTS,
SUPERINTENDENTS REPORT.
BIG INCREASE IN TRADE.
LAST YEAR'S FIQUES OVER £200,000,000.
THE CHINA MAIL.
STABBING AFFRAY"
SEQUEL TOƐA GAMBLING QUARREL
Before Magistrate Orme, this morn- ing a Chinese was charged with having. with another man not in custody, caused gevous bodily harm to The report of the Superintendent of Imperts and Exports (Mr, N.L.Chinese on the first floor of No. 70, Smith) for the year, 1920 is as follows-
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LIQUORS CONSOLIDATION ORDINANCE.
Duties on European liquors,...........................
1990
: 1019. $241,544.70 $215,552,78 517,678.47 6,500 00 55.00
Duties on Chinese liquors, ........................... 530,928-49 Licensed warehouse fees, ..............
Licensed warehouse overtime fees,
6,729.16 599.50
NOT GUILTY.
FORGERY GHÄNGE DISPROVED.
SHAM LAI SANG ACQUITTED.
SCIENCE AND CRIME.
TRACKING CRIMINALS.
"Fact and fiction are never weary of
A verdict of not guilty was return curdling our blood by inventing new. ed this morning by the jury investi- and recondite methods of crime. Ife Rating the charge of forgery preferred hear it often argued that the advance
ist. Sham Lai Sang, managing partier of the Kowloon Stores. of sience has given the criminal vast The bearing of the case, which took powers. Just as the modern soldier place before the Acting Chief Justice can make war more devastating and (Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz), occupied
THURSDAY, APRIL 28 19.
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
COLD STORAGE
SAFEGUARD
it
Your Furs, Rugs, Carpets, Winter Clothes, &c., by storing them in our Cold Stores during the hot and
done on a previous occasion. This Hendrik van Germen Lehrs, manag, of Arts by Mr. C. Ainsworth Mitchell damp weather.
For particulars apply to the Secretary.
Third Street, on April 19 last.
The complainant deposed that of Staff Commander C. W. Beckwith, R.N., Harbour Master, acted as Superlatendent in addition to his other duties throughout the year. Mr the day in question, with the accused, H. A. Taylor, Monopoly Analyst, was on letve from January to a man named Chan Thim and two several days. Mr. F. Dyer Bal was more barble than ever it was of old, December 30, during which period Mr G. F. Labarti acted as Monopoly other men whom he did not know in charge of the Crown case and so the modern murderer and burglar Apalyst. Mr C. I. Roe was appointed Supervisor and Accountant be sat down
to gamble. He Mr. F. C. Jenkin appeared for the can far surpass the achievements of January 1. Chief Preventive Officer J. C. Wilden died on December 23 and lost heavily to all four men. He defence, was succeeded by Mr S. J. Clarke.
paid the two strangers in full, and It was alleged by the prosecution Thurtelf or Charles Fence, Nervous offered to settle part of his debt with that, following upon certain business people will be glad of the assurance The net revenue collected from duties and licensed warehouses during socused and Chan Thim, as he had relations between the prisoner and Mr. I just given to members of the Society
· 1920 was $779,795.85 as compared with $739,786.25 for 1915,
The general details are as follows-
time Chan Thim insisted that the ing director of the Holland Pacife that "every fresh practical applica- witness shonki, pay his debt ($14.50) Trading Company, Sham Lai Sangtion of scientific discovery has reduced in full. The witness said that he did though his solicitors, threatened to the chances of an evil doer escaping sot have so much on him at the time, proceed against Mr. Luhrs for the re-justice." As evidence, he pointed|| THE DAIRY FARM, IOE & COLD STORAGE Co., Ltd. and offered $10 first. Chan Thim very of certain monies which in out that the installation of a telegraph refined to accept the money and threw inded a sum of $5,000 alleged to have system on our railways in 1843 made it on the floor. The accused chippa deposit.
been lodged with Mr. Luhrs by way possible the arrest af s murderer, and ed in," and the witness had a few denied Daving received any deposit, the use of wireless telegraphy between When Mr. Luhrs, who that one of the first famous cases of angry words with him. The quarrel asked the prisoner's solicitors for in- The revenue for 1920 was $4,317,970.90 as compared with $6,883,034.65 was not a serious one. The accused, formation he was shown a document hip and share was in the capture of for 1919. The Agure for 1918 was almost exactly double that for 1920. Chan Thim and the other two men purporting to be a receipt for that modem sciencs to the work of the Chippen Other contributions of adjourned to the front cubicle where sam signed by himself. It was sug- they talked in low tones for a while.gested by the Crown that the prisoner
Criminal Investigation Department pre-Witness remained in the sitting had forged, a receipt by trimming may be found, as we all know, in the Froom, and was stroking a pipe when down a blank contract form, bearing tracing of poisons, in distinguishing all four returned. Without warning, the signature of Mr. Lubes, which by microscopy between different the accused suddenly reid witness had been given to him for the purpose misteriala, and in identifying indivi from behind and pinned his arms to of negotiating forward sales.
duals. The process of development his side. Chan Thim then whipped that Mr. Lohrs in the course of busi-great detective in the stories is no For the defence it was contended is reflected in popular fiction. The out a knife and stabbed witness The working of the Importation and Exportation Ordinance of 191 several times. The witness fell to insisted upon the payment by the like M. Leong, a mere indefatigable ness negotiations with the prisoner longer Poe's pure logician, no longer, in its origin purely a war measure has been modified so as to cause the the floor whereupon the soused and tatter of a sus of $5.000 as a guar-sleath; he is kind of a giddy least possible inconvenience and delay to shippers and importers. The
Total..............$779,795.85 $739,785.25
OPIUM MONOPOLY,
The price of $14.50 par tael was maintained throughout the year,
The number of seizures of illicit opium shows a slight increase over 1919, as does also that of convictions obtained. The total amount of pared opłam seized was nearly three times as great as'in 1919.
TOBACCO ORDINANCE.
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The net revenue collected under the Tobacco Ordinance was $631,877,56 as compared with $618,905.55 for 1919, an increase of $12,97211. Tobacco duties remained the same.
TRADE STATISTES,
of the Empice.
resulta are consolidated in quarterly and annual trade returns which are of /Chan Thìm ran downstairs. Strugg❘antee of good faith. The deposit wES | harumfrodite," half a fellow of the undoubted valne to traders not only in this Colony but also in other parts/ling to his feet, witness gave chase in asked for in connection with certain Royal Society, half a policeman. Tet
spite of his injuries and followed his sales negotiated by the prisoner in The total trade (excluding Treasure) for 1920 amounted to assailants until he felt giddy and Macao and was nothing whatever to do £212.302,539 as compared with £194,594,642 for 1919. Of this Imports collapsed. A Chinese constable were valued at £103,963,602 (as against £90,651,708 for 1919), and Exporta at £108,369,937, (as against £113,912,934 for 1919).
"The Imports of Treasure for the year totalled £31,754,334, including £18,994,688 of gold and £12,658,538 of silver."""
The Exports of Treasure for the year were £45,292,645 including 331,955,844 of gold and £12,870,841 of silver.
The following items are perhaps of chief interest:-
Firecrackers ....
Imperts
£
Camphor........
Cement s
Chinese medicines, miscellaneous Coal...
Cigarettes ....
Cotton yarn
Fish and fishery products.
Fruits, dried
Gumy bags
Experts.
624,380 802,339 2.181,794 2,073,927 3,540,507 728,656⚫
1,765,174 12,600,842 10,373,588 677,394 2,586,923 2,739,250 1968,777 1,847918 541,691 1,167,451 1,038,255
919,453
638,386 651,014
929.201
3,504,193
Flour, wheat .**
Ginseng...
Hosiery Hides, cow
Italians, plain, black
Kerosene.
4,285,827
1,251,963 1,355.175
with the business conducted through the Kowloon Stores. The money was paid over to Mr. Luhrs at the latter's office and he personally typed cut the receipt. The prisoner in giving evt. dence denied even having received way blank contract forms from Mr. Luhrs.
we find Sir Baal Thomson stating the official view of the matter in the blunt came to his assistance and applied
declaration that "they aim at train raw tobacco to his wounds to stop
ing the intelligence of the detective the flow of blood. The witness then
rather than try to make him into a fainted. When he came to,the
scientihoļinvestigator. This seems accused was produced and he identifi-
ankind to the men of science. The ed him as one of his assailanta,
real point is, however, that the dete The accused denied taking any
tive of fact requires a general educa- part in the assault and said that he was
This morning, in the course of his. tion, not a specialist's. "The greater | not gambling on the day in question that if they thought that the prisoner says Sir Basl, "depends on hard summing up, His Honour told the jury part of successful crime investigation," The quarrel was between Chat. Thim dishonestly filled up a blank form with work." In this field, at any rate, and the complainant. It did not a deceitful intention they might as well genius is still a capacity for taking concam him. The complainant was find har guilty on all counts. Briefy pains. The real detective has; we making matters had for him surveying the evidence the Judge said fear, a dailer Hife than Mr. Sherlock because he happened to be Chan that Mr. Jenkin had pointed out that Holmes and his eminent successors. Thim's friend, and Chan Thim could Ms. Luhrs, although he dischimed Murder, according to Sir Basil, is not not be found. "This is al I. have being prosecutor, had coached thehis serious business in life; there is to say, and I will repeat it even if I Crown counsel throughout the hear-
have to die for it. I am not afraiding of the case and had taken notes not enough of it." Compared with The Magistrate passed sentence of of the evidence. The demeanour of other great cities, London has little- six months hard labour and four Mr. Lofrs, in the witness box was; indeed, a minute fraction of the hours', stocks in lieu of the fit-day
MONSTER'S: FOOTPRINT.
according to counsel for the defence, output of Paris or Chicago, Sherlock most unsatisfactory: His-Honour re- Holmes, taking the cream of our marked that Mr. Lehrs was, after all, homicidal business, had to beguile a foreigner and 'might 'quite possibly his leisure with dengs and the violin, experience some difficulty in express and other deplorable habits. But ing himself. In this case the com- even in London, we-lean fut Bir plainant himself was, in a sense or Baal Thomson, only 60 per cent. of trial because if the prisoner's story known murders are followed by was true it disclosed that not only had arresta, so that the art of catching fe (Luhrs) committed perjury all down criminals- has not yet reached per The laying bare of an ancient forest the line bet bad also endeavoured fection. Yet we have no doubt of bed through coast erosion at Glyne practically to obtain a sum of $3,000 the truth of Mr. Ainsworth Artchell's Gap, Bexhill, has led to the discovery from the defendant by denying the
Leather, sole ...
Liquid fuel
Matches
Paperware .............
696,196 679,055 728,773 522,295
RELIC OF A PREHISTORIC
Peanuts ......
1,009,880
766,402
DRINK.
If
Peanuts cil
655,443
791.304
748,439,
Ratfens Rice, broken.
white
Sugar candy Sugi raw
Sugar refined
Shirtings, grey
Shirtings, white....
Silk, piece goods.
Tea
Tin slabs and inĝnts ................
Silk, raw
Tinplates
Tobacco, Native, prepared
Tobacco, raw
Vermicelli
Venetians, plain, black .....................e are
1,383,945- 996,697 -12378,083., 10.870,491 529,855 .10,211,773 4,496,448 1969,102 14,206,301 1,159.403
3,505942-1552021
-1,728,605 2,278,799
624,511 817,264 749,908 3,060,316- 3,856-625 746,041 628,570 595,598 684,437 707,336
REVENUS AND EXPENDITURE.
The net revenue, collected by this Department during the year was $5,729,644.41, a decrease of $2,434,656,33 as compared with 1919. The decrease in opium sales specified above accounts for all of this reduction.
The actual expenditure of this Department for the year was $502.114.66 as against $809,627 24 for 1919 showing a decrease of $307,512.58.
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MAD MULLAH.
DEID IT LAST”
of what is claimed to be the footprint existence of a receipt. Those were air thesis that the lot of the transgrenr of an iguanodon (a prehistoric monster cumstances which might. His Honour is steadily growing harder. Sir Basil in type closely representing a gigantic considered, tend to make Mr. Luhrs Thomson sadly admits that "there ward) Such creates lived he cager and nervous. The judge said is a large body of professional before England was separate from theat to his view the question as to criminals. But what state of Continent, and used to drink at the were distinct from the other business these enemies? In proportion to the whether or not the Macao transactions ecciety has ever contrived to suppress lagoons which marked the Weald of dealings did not bear very greatly population, it is sufficiently clear that Kent and Sussex, leaving imprints of upon the main issue unless of course there never were so few as now. Life their claws in the mud. The Rev. the jury found anything simister in the
The Mad Mullah is dead at last. J.C. Thompson, a local antiquary, has attitude of Mr. Lubes in regard to that
During the past few years his death obtained six casts from the rock, and phase of the case. these have been inspected by Professor
community. We may be morally noon of our popular superstitions, has been reported at least a-dozen The jury, after a retirement of about better than ournéestors, but we find Here is Smith Woodward, of the Geological twenty minutes, returned a verdict it more and more dangerous to break of Seturn who, with his wile Ops, this habit has been one of his main a survival from the worship times, but Mohammed bin Hassan had * habit of coming to be "again, and Section of the British Muserim, of not guilty, by a majority of-six to the law.
The iguanodon is the only known one, and the prisoner was accordingly reptile in the Wealden formation that discharged. could leave a three-toed footprint of
such a size.
Remains of this monster were found by Dr. Mantell in Tilgate Forest follows that ill-defined trough that and other parts of Sussex, but the exists as a sort of non-descript zone most perfect specimens are the skele between what was the Chinese Eme pire and the Russian autocracy. A tous found Lear Brussels in 1878 the empire and the autocracy are for which are preserved in the Brussels
Mesentm the ponce, at least, defunct, the forelock in staking out a belt to con Japanese may be taking time by the stitute their railroad right of way.
The Japanese, it is reported, con template the construction of a rail road from their occupied Manchuria.
As right of way it does bet cross or through Inner Monogolia, across the interfere with the existing Siberian desert of Gobi, into Chinese Turk Trans-Continental Railway, nor with catar across what was Russian Trans the forthcoming British Chine-Indian Caspiania, touching the Caspian sea Railway, which is certain some day, into Mesopotamia, terminating; at
to connect Shanghai andafalcutta by: Bagdad upon the Tigris...
At the Mesopotamian metropolis Way of the Yangtze-ing valley
ople Bazdid Railway, with its exter--
and Burma.....
BANK PROFITS.
M:P.'S ATTACK.
PROFITEERING IN MONEY.
PASSENGERS.
DEPARTURES.
Per 15. Shi-ya- Maru," yesterday
Arnold, Mr F. Allen Mr R. F. Re- and Mrs Aubet. Rev. and Mrs S. L. Ashby, MrE. F. Achard, Mr-sed Mrs L.
and property become more secure the bad luck.is, possibly, the most com- That walking under á ladder brings more complex the organisation of the
QUEEN
OF PASSION,
DEINK WATER'S “MARY
STUART' PLAY.
presided over agriculture and vegeta, assets, causing the natives of Somali- tion.
land to look upon him as a super- huma lender.
To the primitive" mind a köder
Now, however, news, has been re- afforded the same facilities for the ceived in official circles in London that descent of a god, or the essence of after a miraculous excapo, when his
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a god, as it did for the descent of a krees were routed by seroplanes he man from a taymow. To-day some has died in Abyssinia. of the Eastern heathens place a lad-
Operations against this giant-leader Mr. John Drinkwater's new play der against their sacred fig trees or was 7ft. in height and a Hercules for of the dervishes in East Africa (be Mary Stuart was successfully pre-the accommodation of the god of strength) were first undertaken in G. Bersey, Mr Wm. Barr, Mrs J.G.sented before one of the most brilliant vegetation and fruitfulness their 1901, There was a second expedi Boell, Mr and Mrs A. Bereaison. Mrs first-tight sudiences seen in New York Saturn when at the beginning of the tion against him in 1902, and card H. Berners, Mrs.E. H. Barrows, Mr M. Biggs, Mrs JP Campos Mr J. D. for some time. In his latest work Mr.
Clougly. Mes W. Cary. My B. L. Dorbes, Drinkwater has fully sustamed the tiny season he comes down to bring in 1903. In ma of the folowing Miss H. Davis MrEL. Endys. Mr M. Preputation he established in this fertility to the earth. Af the anciénél Year his forces suffered a severo do. Eady, Mr G, Findley, L.-Cal and Mes R. B. Gotz, Mr and Mrs I. W. Gill, Mrs country as the author of "Abraham feasts of the Latins Saturn's humaneat, and in Mardi 1905 peace VAS
concluded. BB. Galley, Mr and Mrs K, Hamamoto, Lincoln."
representative of the god way sinually Mr and Mrs. Hamaki, Mrs P.D.
sacrificed; and though this custom Three years later, however, there Harrison, Mrund MEAW. Blyde Misa umple setting, mainly by went out of existence in Bome elf was further trouble, and several tatēr Hyde, Ms C. Bolt, Mr Asuggestion and wonderful dialogue, before the classic era it survived in expeditions were sent game him, Speaking at Liverpool to an endi- Hipsch Mi Fatehison, Mrs J. which most of the critice find even other parts of the empire, even in and it was not until last year that he It would link up with the Constantia- Of the three, natural trans-continence consisting largely of business ckers Hom Shen, Bor. Renold; superior to that of Abraham Lin Italy itself, down to the fourth cen was Anelly crushed, messa Mr and R. T. Telly, Mr-Y sion to the Persian gulf and alongental Asian routes east and west, the men and trade representatives. Comshi, Mrs A. Leimbach, Mrs. M. K. Lassen, coln," he portrays the love-life of the tury of the Christian era when it dis- During the Fighting seven of his the seacoast into India, and with the Northern or Siberian, the Southern order tot, M.P., said i Lehman, Kirs Linday, Ye beautiful "young Queen aganti a appeared, though for a long time some ions and seven chee relatives were line that is certain to be constracte Caja ludian, the middle, this Japanese is most depice to tie with this. Lichance, a background of poignant emotion, material representation of the god was killed, while among those captured across the Syrian desert to Palestine/Projected ons, the last furnishes, the knowledge of Bance to see not only Lachance, Mr and Ms H Clabook Mary Stuart is revealed as a woman Pandally destroyed at the feast which wɗte six of his sons, five Wives, "and Man. Luiz Messrs E J. McCarty. and Egypt
easiest natural way, although it the bank rate standing at 7 per cent, Maps, Mis E. Morrison Mr G for capable of one of the greatest loves took the place of the Saturnalia, from two sisters. The Japanese conception seems lies through the least populous and bursist the banks charging a prostris. Ear A Mayer, Hr-J. Nakayama, in history who did not find anyone the force of custom, though the cas The Mad Milk” widi his grandiose one, but it is no more go, largely arid lands. But time was, over and above that already mobile and Mr. Ostwalt. My worthy of such a passion or able to tom had lost its meaning to celebrants-on, consped into Abysshe tri
Oliver Dr. and Ms W. 8. Priest, Mine than Cecil Rhodes project of a Cape perhaps pre-historic, when great ant rate for trade accommodation...
of the feast.
After the, laski Sopfail and to-Cairo route, to-day six-sevenths, transportation between China and the He congratulated the banks on the Keld, Mis E. 7. Beid, Min h. W. call-itlfortă, sta
fat time they were now enjoying, but Railer, Mrs Bocuson, Me and Mrs 3 Beid, L. Reese, Mrs B.' W.
In our own ers, as a foest held in was stated in the House of Cominous more or less, actually in operation, west, followed this route.
Darnley, Bothwell, and. Riccio, the south of Leily, it was customary that this little war, bad_5035 mnly or the Pan-American route through It is interesting to note, as well he did not tank it too much to say W. Sander Mi La Bamalong, Mr B. Around the scene of whose murder the to place the effigy of an old woman 50,000 in all, and that 4 esult Merico and Central America, down that along this line proceeded the that the present illicit and most im Berith, Miss I. Behneider, Bor. 1. Behur whole play is built, fall her. In the top of a hoder where it was of its successful ise £30,000 your through the Andean high valleys to armies of Genghis Khan to the proper profitering in money had about of stock into one of her hast speeches to Bothwell saved in two when, from its hollow would be cared by the Frore, ba
Mrs J.H. Taggart, Mr J. M. A. Tarson she says, Bink New Orleans and. El Paso with conquer of Persia and the Bagdad reached its limit
Thousands who had never before Me A Viterbo, Dr. and Mrs E. Eaton
Mrs H H. Taylor, Bev N. Tabellion
to her latent interior, a food of fruits and vege-reduction in the local inilitary require- La Paz, and Buenos Ayres, The Caliphate, and from what was lately
ave it in my brains tables tumbled town: the fadder-to-ments. **. Pan-American railway project is ob Russian Turkestan, Tamerlane, the asked assistance from the banks had Violette, Mr and Mrs Wm. Valentine But it will not be used. The wisdom the earth: This Agure had evidently its way, to be completed some fine descendant of Genght, proceeded to right to claim it to-day on fair trad Mim E.. Vlentine, Mles Ralentine, will fade away in my brain wither to taken the place of a representation day, perhaps a nearer one than we the conquest of India. It ing terms. Surely, then, this can W. Wely, Min C Herman, Ka little cold philosophy. I shall die of "Safira as being less heathen,
Master B. Valentina, WM, Vicaji, Japanese legend, believed by every e the time to extort 7 per cent and Wright, Rev. E. Weber Altears 3. F. And it will be betrayed because none was intended to represent Die. At live the ladder on one shoulder or The Mid Asian route the Japanese schoolloy, that the Mongol Napoleon, handsome profit on top for ordinary Benton, T. Horiuchi A. Kenahap, Mrs. It is my fortune de
this festival mischievous boys sod to the other. These survival would have in mind geographically; takes the most extensive conggeror in bis- trade accommodation 2
1. Kobayashiyenéra L. G. de Lims, 0. advantage of that central continental tory, really was. Lapanese adven
No one could complion of the sys Combos Of J. Pablety 0, 1, Wiam Harzis janisriprovided run about in the crowd alizing paper make Apcer probkale, macho, Del- depression which with some Inter. turer the rounded as the Mongols Pem of rationing money-but that did B-Perming, V. Faillie, M.-J.-Resurres, uplandia
• Clare Bowring is ladders to the staulders of objection- ginal buman merifice of: the Saturn-
able persons in signification that they mix took place at the top of a ladder. Schich mies describe så i stuachable pught to suffer the fate of the effigi io domé vnctions at least, and that -naturally a bad omen When we the victims was mlected by, affining r walk under a ladder we very nearly 1 minianre ladden in his Auxilder,
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ruptions, extends from, the Caspian into armies for the conusest of every apt warrant the banks charging an all-don, and Mrs. Fieds Santos Mis As the sites role ogtvæla oger
Pomáreilla, MrPM; Shagada, Me T."
to the gulf of Pechill. Politically thang Id sight, as the Corsican dia round mes of interest out of all pro- Sumuld, Mra - Karises Mi FASTT i skirts China and Siberia, and | The French.–Kinderpolis Journal, gortion to the service rendnetā.
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