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No. 19,772
BROKERS WIN
MOXON AND TAYLOR v. BANK, CASE.
TSANG'S EVIDENCE
Judge "Enable To Accepi, Explanation."
HONGKONG, MONDA
ELECTION TIME.
KOWLOON WATER
-NOT AS NOTICEABLE AS BEFORE
FULL SERVICE TO BE.. RESUMED...
TO-DAY'S VOTING:
Although Hongkong is
THE ISLAND SUPPLY.
Opthal
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COFFIN MYSTERY. ROBBERY PLANNED?
TINLINING AND CORE OF RATTAN.
BUT NO CONTRABAND
A large and abnormally heavy
AN OPEN DOOR AT CHINA. BUILDING
DETECTIVES FIND..
Recently the scene of a big off which arrived on Saturday burglary and the hiding place for led local police officers to suspect loot, the China Building receives that contraband had been conceal special attention from Police de- the water authority that restriced with a human corpse,tectives at night time, pleas tions will be taken of as from to morrow.
The heavy rainfall has solved the throes of an election (for the the water problem so far as Kows vacancy on the Sanitary Board)loor residents are concerned and there does not seem to be much the "China Mail is informed by Judgment was given the morn outward excitement.n; ing for Moxon and Taylor, in the Polling is from 4 pm to 5:30 case in which they claim 297,600p.m. today, at the Supreme Court, The candidates are Dr. and interest for monex, lejp the M. Graca Ozorio and Dr. Ho Man Chuen Ba
The Chief Justice referred "remarkable change of front
H by
An old resident told a "China Mail" reporter about the car pro cessions and other forms of Taing Chun-son, manager, of the publicity when the late Mr. A. R defendant bank, in maintaining for Lowe sought. representation of the the first time in the witness box.unoffelal Justices of the Peace on the Legislative Council. The num- that the transaction in which he ber of electora was very small in. alleged G. P. and H. A. Lammert deed bas Mr. Lowe went about were the principals, was not one of things in a spirited manner, la loan but à sale and repurchase of 200 wharves for July settlement day.
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All that has been noticeable this time is the issue of addresses and the "party placards here and there.
It is to be hoped that the candi-
Tsang had persisted in this state- ment, continued the Chief Justice..dates! managers will pub on some-
There were two coffins on the In a systematic Inspection from feamer one large and the other floor to floor at 1 o'clock this mall--both of Chiness who had morning, the suspicions of a detec- while seeking their fortunes tive were aroused when he found verb They were an route for a door on the first floor open. The
Watchlow, for burial
premises a ban
Matters are not so favourable as regards, water stored in the
servoirs in Hongkong and for the next few days at any fate it not bo possible to resume, an restricted rider main service".
RENT OF FLAT.
JUDGMENT IN FAVOUR OF MR. BROOK.
$106.45 AWARDED.
although his attention was called thing later in the afternoon, whening in favour of Mr. J. Brock, of
to the course adopted by his coun-the weather may clear:
sell with respect to the nature, of this transaction, in spite of the atatement in hie (the witness's)
own declaration in which he refer-. Mr. Tsang had further stated red to the transaction as a loan that the indebtedness" of Messrs..
Judgment was given this morn
the Vacuum Oil Co., in respect of his claim for $100 rent from Mr. H. K. Lee, the flat in question being at Morrison Hill Road.
Mr. Justice Wood dealt with the.
the dress-making establishment or Mrs. Well
The larger coffin was opened for examination. First of all, there were two separate layers of rattan The place was kept under guard core. Then came a hermetically by the police until this morning sealed cover of tindining, just as in when Mrs. Welll looked over her a case of placegoods or other cargo. stock and found that nothing had When the tinlining was opened, the been stolen. A robbery was pos- corpse was found securely packed sibly averted by the fortunate Inside.
discovery made by the detectives Subsequent inquiries revealed in the course of their rounds. that all this special packing was merely to conform with re- gulations at the port of shipment... A good many Chinese there send their dead back to be buried with the ancestors. Inconvenience not to use any stronger term-bas been caused on shipboard by insecure packing" hence the necessity for laying down airtight coffins,
and in spite of a similar descrip. G. P. and H. A. Lammert was the point raised by the defendant a CANTON CUSTOMS...
tion appearing in a letter signed by him and acknowledging indebted
ness, to, G. P. and H. A. Lainmert.
to there having been no written contract. "In my view," said His Honour, "a contract for a month ty tenancy which contains no fur- ther definition of the term of ten- ancy does not require to be sup ported by a memorandum in writ ing.
MERCHANTS INTERVIEW THE
COMMISSIONER.
EXAMINATION METHODS.
IL
BEGGAR NUISANCE
ACTION TAKEN BY THE POLICE:
TWO PROSECUTIONS.
A Chinese was charged at the Central Magistracy this morning. with bagging at lee House Street on Saturday..
Was
The methods employed by the subject of frequent discussion be tween him and Chan after the
man to enlist bathy described by Sergeant Hill, who July settlement day and he states
said defendant pointed to a hole. When pressed in cross-examina that before he signed the letter
in his pocket through which tion to explain these apparent dis acknowledging the Bank's in
was alleged all his money amount the · matter Was crepancies witness had asserted debtedness
It was put to that he was much troubled at the also raised then.
Equr representatives of Cantoning to twenty cents had slipped A search, however, brought time he made the declaration and him that if he claimed, to set off
His Honour pointed out that it(Chinese) merchants are reported out.. that as regards the letter acknow-the debt owing from G. P. and was not until the first day that have interviewed Col. Hayley to Hight twenty-five cents hidden ledging his indebtedness to G. PH. A. Lammert against the sum the tenancy agreed on began Bell, Commissioner of Customs, on in another pocket. It was stated and H. A. Lammert, it had not been mentioned in the letter it was very that the defendant wrote a letter the procedure adopted for examina that at this stage, a European lady approached the witness and in correctly explained to him and he remarkable that he should have claiming the right to repudiate tion of goods. had not had it translated.
signed a clear acknowledgment of his indebtedness to Lammerts and the contract if on inspection ne. The delegation is said to have formed him that she had been con "Getting Over Difficulty,"
not to have insisted on notice could find reason for complaint of Bought a change in the procedure tinually molested by the defendant
The of examination, whereby goods can for many days.
A fine of $5 was imposed. "Mr. Tanny is an experienced being taken in that document of the furniture provided.
ficialm: "seems to me," said His be placed in the Customs shed in
A Chinese with one leg was the business man and regret that IGP and H. A. Lammert's in Honour, to have been made larger quantities. am unable to accept the explana-debtedness.to the Bank.
be request is stated to have defendant in a case at Kowloon when it was stated that owing to tion given by him these matters, Tsang states that he refrained rather too late to be effective.
His Lordship also found for the been turned down
the man's disability, he had been said the Chief Justice, and later he from so doing because the pur- Fadded that he thought Mr. Tsang's pose of the meeting was only to plaintiff in respect of two days in
out of the poor box funds, but he assertion that the transaction wasch fickhowledgments that the March in which the flat had been
Provided with a hawking licence persisted in hegging on the streets. In the nature of a male and repur money was owing to. G. P. and occupied, the total amount chase and not a loan was an attempt H. A. Lammert from the defen- allowed being $106.45. to get ver a certain difficulty.dants and not from Tsang him- G. P. and H. A. Lammertowed self, also because Chan assured $38,000 to the defendant bank at him that when the amount owing the time that the transaction with from the defendants to Lammerts. which the action was concerned was due, the cross-debt would be was put through. The very serious taken into consideration. point arose if the transaction was
Confidence In Chan in the nature of a loan.why did not
Chan Wing-fook, and in this the defendant insist on applying $13,000 out of the $3,600 alleged he is supported by Mr. H. A to have been paid to them by G. P. Lammert (who knows Chinese and H. A. Lammert, to clearing off well) asserts that nothing" was the indebtedness of the latter to aid on October 6 about defen dants' cross debt or any set off Having regard to the inherent probabilities of the matter, said His Lordship, and to the doubt } G. F. and H. A. Lammert was due have already expressed as to the
theni.
With regard to the defendant's claim that their failure to insist on their right of repayment from
STEAMER. SEIZED.
CHARTERED BK. DIRECTORS.
The Magistrate made an example by sending defendant to prison for
Mr. Jasper Bertram Young of Messrs. Edward Boustead & Co., London, and Messrs. Boustead & Co., Ltd, Straits Settlements and seven days.. Federated 'Malay States, and Mr. Archibald Rose, CLE, of the British-American Tobacco Co.,.
WEST RIVER BOAT'S ALLEGED Ltd., have been elected Directors of the Chartered Bank in place of OPIUM:
| Mr: "T. Cuthbertson and Lord George Hamilton, who have re- sighed their seats on the Board in consequence of ill-health.
FIGHT AT BOCCA, TIGRIS.
Alleged to have been engaged the transport of opium, the Canton-Wuchow steamer Wa Hing has been seized by the
Chinese authorities.
Last week, she cleared from Wuchow with cargo and passen
HONGKONG WEATHER,
YOUTH'S OFFENCE.
A GIRL ENTICED FROM *HER HOME"
POLICE COURT CASE,
A Chinese youth was charged before Mr. R. E Lindsell at the Central Magistracy this morning with kidnapping and harbouing a girl of 16:
During the 24 hours ended at 10 a.m. to-day, the Observatory only recorded 1.85 inches of rain. Mr. R. A. C. North, of the S.C.A., to the fact that the securities held reliability of Mr. Taang with re-
The total for the year is 14.36 outlined his case which was that the defendant, who was a motor by them on account, of the $13,000 gard to his evidence in another gers. When near Shinhing (one inches of rain. The total for the car driver, became acquainted debt had fallen in value, it had part of the case, I have no hesita- of the upper West River ports) year is 14.56 inches, against an
with the girl through her friends; only to be stated to he refuted, said tion in accepting the version of she was examined and, it is re-average of 7.89 inches.
gave her a ride in his master's car, If the defen- Mr. Chan as to what actually ported, raw opium was found in The weather forecast till noon and took her to a cubicle he occu- the Chief Justice.
the holds, among the cargo. to-morrow reads: dants had been repaid this amount occurred on that day. on June 6 they would presumably
Book Entries.
The "Wa Hing" was subse South coast of China. between pied in a house in the western dis- trict, where they lived together have handed over the securities "My attention has already been quently reported to be tied up Hongkong, and Lamecks and when found by the detectives. held by them in respect of it to called to the manner in which alongside the Canton preventive Hongkong to Gap Rock: E or For the defence, Mr. A. J.. Messrs. Lammert. In that case, entries in connection with the service pier.
wariable winds, moderate; over O'Donoghue submitted that the de- there would have been no sale and amount claimed were entered in Four of the smaller vessels in cast, occasional rain. WALES the securities would have depre- the books of plaintiffs," continued the Canton Navy are reported to South coast of China between fendant acted in an ignorant man-
girl's mother as compensation. clated no more in the hands of His Lordship. Counsel for defen- have seized a number of small Hongkong and Hainan S.D. ner and had since paid $100 to the
winds, moderate, : Lammerts than they did in the dants argued that these entries craft near Bocca Tigris.... hands of the defendants.
Formosa Channel: N.W. winde, The Magistrate ordered the money to be returned to the de- were more consistent with the It is not known from the re-
fendant and fined him $150, Mr. Jenkin's Allegation. ease put forward, on behalf of de-port whether the expedition was moderate.. His Lordship then turned to cer-fendants than that of the plain-sent against smugglers, or pirates. After, a fight lasting an hour or tain allegations made by the de-tiffs. fendants counsel. Mr. Jenkin had "Prima facie that might be so, the outlaws fed, leaving be claimed that this inexplicable so but there was evidence that bind a few casualties. Arms, change of front on the part of loans are entered in brokers' general merchandise, etc. were Teang was at least paralleled by books in that way. The fact that found in the boats left behind. one that occurred in the case of the the books showed sales of the plaintiffa, en pointed out shares in question and immediate that, in Mr. Rose's affidavit, and in repurchase at a higher rate and at a letter written by plaintifs solla figure not obtainable from pur- citors, G, P. and H. ALammert chasers in the open market. ap- had been referred to as agents pears to me, said His Lordship, to of the plaintiffs. In view of this bear out the contention of the fact, Mr. Jenkin, argued that the plaintiffs that the transaction was case as presented by the plaintiffs on and not a sale and repur in court was totally unexpected and chase." that if this change was not dirhonest it was at least open to the gravost suspicion
Judge's Disagreement
"I am unable to draw this
ference," add His Lordship
Taung's "Unreliability" hold," said His Lordship, that (the evidence of Mr. Chan is in all Taubatantial matters worthy of be inlet and I cannot rely on the evid
EX-CANTON GOVERNOR.
Mr..
Han-min, former who went to Governor of Cz Moscow after one of last yea conps, is reported to have arrived" at Vladivostok on March 26, on his return to Canton (vin Shang ha
ence of Mr. Tsang where is in A case of small-pox and two cases Chan Wing-fook (agent of G. Pouillet with that of Mr. Chan of
were notified du and Hyd Lammers, he went on The part of the evidence of the
*All the patients to saxy must have been present informer on which I can rely
the minds of a concerned as the pears to me to bear out the case
rincipal witness for the plaintife for the plainti
In the case and his account of the therefore transaction given in
w
and
ment is
inkubata
evidence: He
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