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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1924.
日三十月一十子什
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MISTLETOE HINTS.
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MISSING LADY,
Chauffeur's Strange Experience.
SEARCH FOR SUN SUN.
SHEUNGSHUI POLICE BAFFLED.
The mysterious movements of a European lady are disclosed in a
Judge Commends Jury's Verdict,
The murder trial drama drew to its legal conclusion at the Criminal Sessions this morning and for the second time during the two months that Sir Henry Cowper Gollan has been in the Colony discharging the duties of the Chief Justiceship he donned the black cap and passed sentence of death.
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may come from other places but hands is still "in the nurseries," report made to the police by a "The prisoner heard the seb- the head of the dock stairway, ̧-
Christmas will soon be here and if you want to make sure of your Xmas kiss you should give a thought to your mistletoe.
For trade purposes Hongkong brought down, because Christmas looks to Tientsin every year for its is just a little too far off. What supply of mistletoe. Small lots did get into the flower-sellers' the quantity is insignificant und the quality disappointing.
As may be expected, it is to the stall-holders at the bottom of Flower Street that imported mistletoe finds its way. Now and again an itinerant hawker has been seen in town holding a branch or two up for sale but this cannot be considered a part of the business.
Our flower-sellers are not sufficiently versed in commerce to appoint agents up North. Nog, is there a Tientsin exporter suffi- ciently enterprising to ship down. lots on commission. Accordingly, it is left to the crews of shipa plying between Hongkong and Tientsin to prospect. When a steamer is due to arrive here a few days before Christmas, each man will bring one or two brunches down with him. No sooner is the ship secured to her buoy than the flower-sellers climb aboard to lag" in their Christmas. stocks. After considerable bar- guining the stall-holders return triumphant to Wyndham Street- triumphant because they have paid, on an average, about a dollar or two for the most beautiful branches for which they will get anything from ten to fifteen dollars in return.
Earlier in the week the s.s. "Kueichow" arried from Tientsin, but only a little mistletoe was
OPIUM CONFERENCE.
INDIAN DELEGATES' DEMANDS.
(Reuter's Service.)
"GENEVA, December 18.
At the final silling of the opium sub-committee to-day, the Indian delegation submitted a statement | for embodiment in the report. It is to the effect that if it is intended later to modify the conclusions of the sub-committee and recommend to conference the insenion of the American proposals unmodified in the convention, then the Indian delegation require the Insertion of an additional paragraph, in order to secure the administrative and con 'stitutional position in India.
All Rights Reserved.
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It is expected that with the arrival of the "Chipshing" on or about December 21. Hongkong will get its big shipment, Accord- ingly the best time to buy, from the point of view of range of choite, would be a few hours after the steamer ties up. As far as le known, there will be no other ship coming down from Tientsin before Christmas although the "Huichow" may get in on Boxing
·Day
driver of the Eagle Motor Garage, Kowloon. It ap from the report that the lady engaged a motor car at about 8 p.m. on Wednesday, and ordered the driver to proceed in the direction of Shoungehui. On approaching the railway station of that name, the driver was asked to stop as he wanted to look for a ma named Sun Sun. She walked alone
tonce and the particulars as to the method of death which are always read on such occasions with the same immobility of countenance with which during the course of yesterday and this morning he had heard the avid ence and the battle of legal wits both for and against his own be half Not a muscle of his face moved as the Chlef Justice fin- ished and. In obedience to the grasp of the warder, he walked to
TALENTED YOUNG DANCER POSES FOR CHARITY,
This charming photograph shows Miss Doris Bell, a talented young London, dancer, posing as "The Spirit of Hallowe'en in a Midnight Hallowe'en Ballet arranged by Mme. E. Baird in aid of The Greater London Fund of the Blind.. Miss Fay Compton took the part of "Venus," Mr. Ivor Novello that of "Paris" and Peter Dear that of "Cupid,'
CHAUFFEUR'S
10
ESCAPE,
CAR DIVES OVER
PRAYA WALL, `
AN AWKWARD SPOT.
The wording in addition will be The second motor car to run somewhat as follows: "Right is into the harbour at the same spot expressly reserved by the Govern- within a few months occurred last ment and Provincial Governments night in Kennedy Town where of India to control, as heretofore, Queen's Road West enters the the production and distribution of
praya.
raw opfum within their territories Motor car No. 1511, owned by
in the direction of Lo Wu.
The wait proved so long that the patience of the driver had exhausted, and he made a report of the incident at Shengshui Police Station,
The lady has not been traced Bo far.
POSTPONED.
in accordance with the provisions Mr. Chan Wo-hing, of Stone NO NEW YEAR GYMEHANA, of The Hague Covention, pro: Nullah Lane, was entering the vided always no surplus shall be praya to proceed in an easterly available for export save under direction, but instead of taking conditions expressly provided in the turn it proceeded straight on the present arrangement."
AN ALLIED ISSUE.
EVACUATION OF COLOGNE RAISED.
"UP TO GERMANY,”
(Reuter's Service,}
unhurt.
DATE NOW FEBRUARY, 28.
over the sea wall and into the There will be no grukhana at harbour. The driver, who was the Happy Valley during the New only occupant at the time, was Year Holidays as at one time thrown into the water but escaped anticipated. There many The car lies in about causes, which haved to the fifteen feet of water, and arrange Saturday, February Chief of fixture being postpaped "until ments are now being made to have these is the fact that repairs and it hoisted to dry land again.
Improvements ara: Heing under taken in the public enclosure, preparatory to the annual meeting, According to; proient arrange, ments, however, the afterndon meeting-eltber extraag gymkhana: —will take place du Jebruary 28.
PLUCKY FOKI,
THIEF DESPITE. PEPPER
CATCHES
A DASTARDLY ATTACK,
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TELESCOPE STOLEN.
THEFT FROM PEAK /
SIGNAL STATION.
LONDON, December, 18. In a case which is now proceed. Questioned in the House of Ing at the Central Magistracy; a: Lords regarding the evacuation of Chinese named Lung Llog s Cologne, Marquess Curzon (Lord alleged to have entered a medicine President of the Council) pointed shop at No. 43, Bonham Strand out that it was an allied issue, not West, and bought two rhinoceri concerning Britain alone The and two reindeer borns, used for
The theft of a tolescape, valued Allies must be satisfied Germany medicinal purposes, total value is carrying out the military condi- of which amounted to $145 at $40, Is reported by MC Ward tiona of the Treaty.
Stating that he had no money of the Peak Signal Strifof: The with him, he asked that a foki be glass is said to have been stolene sent with the goods for the collecthout 11 am, yesterday, from a When the report of the allied tion of the money, They went to flower pot in which it was lying at military commission of control: No 586, Queen's Road West, the Bag station, NYE which the persistent obstruction of where on the landing of the second
German Obstruction.
"Germany had · delayed, - war" received, said Marquess Curzon,
Boory-which was very-dark,-the- foki had papper thrown into hisi -
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new company is reported the Allies would discuss whether yes and the horns were stoleur to have been organized in the first stage of evacuation could Despite the pain caused by the Chungking to entage in fish be carried out. Wa
pepper, the foki, gave chase and caught the thief who was then business in the Yangtza valley The company, is capitalised at
*boats and refrigerators,
MONSOON'S TOLL.
FURTHER REPORTS, TO-··
HAND OF DERELICTS,
HEAVY WEATHER CONTINUES.
Misfortune must have attended the enterprise of small native craft that have ventured any distance out to sea in the teeth of the strong monsoon at present prevailing on the China Const.
¡. Some have become,total wrecks, 'to be sighted by passing steamers
and reported as detellets, dangers to navigation..
At 15.30 p.m., yesterday, the "Kaga Mani" sighted a derelict Jankowith about 10 feet of mast above water in Lat 24 36 N., Long 11854 E.
Earlier in the day, the "Salawati" passed what was probably a Long 118.16 E derelict junk la Lst. 1817 N.,
Monsoon Now Heavier. Apparently the strength of the monsoon, has again increased and ships coming up from the South are having a bad time of it.
Both the ss. "Haldis" and the “Wong Shek Kung," report "atong N.E. monsoon and rough seaa,”, and they each took over five days to make the passage from Saigon to Hongkong.
N. E gales are reported by the "Fordo "from Keeling.
COOLIE KIL
CRUSHED BY FALLING BOULDER,
The charge of which he was found guilty was the murder of his master, a tea-merchant, on September 30.
were
The addresses of the prosecut- ing Crown solicitor (Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg) and defending coun- sel (Mr. H. S. Fitzroy) short but the Chief Justice's sum- ming up occupied half an hour. The fury were absent for, a quar ter of an hour.
In the course of the summing up His Lordship said that the prisoner's reply to the question of the cook who returned "after the murder had been committed proved at-any-rate his complicity in the crime. When he said that his master had gone out he was perfectly aware that his corpse I was lying upstairs at that very moment. The prisoner had stated a few moments before in the box that he was frightened of the man whom he alleged com- mitted the murder and that-he. had been threatened with a dag- ger if he did not keep the secret. but there was no reason for his accompanying this man to the Bank against his will and taking charge of the money collected on the draft of the dead man.
"If his experience is at all similar to mine he would have a good deal of difficulty in avoiding the sight of policemen as he walked the street," said His Lord- ship, "and in any event, if he was going under compulsion; there were many other people who would have helped him to whom. he could have appealed." When the jury returned their verdict His Lordship said that it was the only one they could reasonably have come to on the evidence.
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The only point taken by Mr. H. S. Fitzroy in his address to the jury had been that the pri- soner, was an accessory after the fact. He described the murder as a brutal one.
BREACH OF AGREEMENT.
HUMPHREY, DENMAN & CO,
LOSE CASE."
ENEVER'S TRICK FAILS.
(Reuter's Servics.)
LONDON, December 18. The Lord Chief Justice (Lord Hewart) gave judgment for Str Charles Kavanagh in the King's Banch division to-day, in the action brought by Messra. Humphrey, Denman & Co., Ltd., which is in quidation, against Sir Charles Kavanagh claiming £1,750 85 10. pald calls on 2,000 shares in the
Company and damages for alleged
breach of agreement. The Com- pany alleged that Sir Charles had accepted £250 salary and £500 as expenses for a trip to China' to report on mines over which the Company held in option. "Company alleged that he had
failed in that doty.
The
1 Text of Judgment Judgment was for £250. balance of salary due to Sir Charles, and a declaration that he is not a share- holder in Humphrey, Denman and |Co., Judgment was entered with
costs for defondant, Sir Charles') Kavanagh.
Trick by Enever, Lord Howart held that the form of application for shares, signed by Sir Charles Kavanagh, had been obtained by Mr. Enever by a trick. Sir Charles, therefore, was not liable to pay the £1,750 now de- manded.
The Lord Chief Justice express- ed the opinion, that the Company! (Humphrey, Denman and Co.) had committed a breach of agreement In connection with Sir Charles entitled him to consider his con- Kavanagh's vialt to_China, which tract repudiated,
An accident occurred yesterday while some coolies were at work cutting earth: on a..hillside...' 'A' INote-Sir Charles Kavanagh boulder having been encountered" | asked, that his name he struck off in the course of the work, they the list of shareholders on the kapt on removing the earth around: ground that he had been fraudo" and underneath it. - The boulder tently misled by the statements suddenly dulodged itself from the of Mr. Enever, agent of the Com- bank, and rolling down the hill- side crushed a coolle to death: Another coolle received internal
the Government Civil Hospital. Pr
1^^ His Majesty's Government had 318, Wyndham St., 2nd Floor not the slightest desire to continue taken to the Police Station by ↑ 120,000, and weir build tching injuries and had to be removed to
the occupation,
constable..
pany
He denied that there hid. been any breach of agreement. In the course of his evidence, Sir Charles described his visit to China as “a fool's orrand.””]\
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