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waith a Fokinese name!! Hung Ah- moi is charge.l with murder.
HOUSE,
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said that the necased came to Hong Kong from Singapore on August 25 On demand and went to live in the Yuen MeiCredits, boarding house, which is ran as a sort) of mess for the employees of a firm of forwarding agents of that name, and on for travelling tradera.
On Paris-
BOARDING HOUSE GUEST'S THROAT SLASHED
NO MOTIVE FOR CUME
At the Central Magistracy, yester-Bank, on demand... 1/10 13/16. day afternoon, Mr. A: W. G, HBank, 80 days' aight Grantham, Second Magistrate, opened Bank, 4 months' sight 1/11 the preliminary hearing of a case in Credits, #
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Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy, Assistant Documentary 4 months'
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On New York- On demand... Credits, 60 days' sight 4734
On Bembay
After an early meal on August 27 The accused suddenly mad ali attack on a man named Wu sai-ci, whe was standing near the dber. Accused slashed Wa's throat with something Wire and then went to his cubicle, where he On demand attempted to ut his own throat. His
wand was a superficial ow, however Wire ...
The alarm was raised by others in On demand
They the place and the Police care.
they
On Manila- W*X On demand..
picked up loodstained razor which, On demand
·would submit. was the weepon used. Wu. who already dead was take to the mortuary, waist accuse) was re moved to the Government Civil Hospi talwhere Dr. . H. Thomas stitched the wound in his throat. After a few days te was transferred to the jail.
On Shanghai- On demand
30 day's sight (private
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Mr. Fitzroysaid that he did not know On demand what was the motive for the alleged Gold Leaf, 100 fine yandler, adding "To me there does not, (per tael) seem to be any motive; and if there is Sovereigns (Bank's any, the Police have so far been un.
able to discover it."
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The case was adjourned until Wed-Silver (per oz.)................ 23 11/16
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OPIUM SMOKING
PRESS VIEWS ON SUPPRESSION IN MALAYA
The
POPPY CULTIVATION
Straits Times" thinks that
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THE CURIO TRADE
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it is not going too far to say that ROMANTIC TEA CLIPPER DAYS Humphreys' Estates Molaya is now within measurable
distance of the local suppression of
RECALLED
oplum smoking. The mutlook for CUTLER STREET WAREHOUSE!
the reforma has never been better than it is to-day sing the three
Reference has been made in "The main producing countries, China. Times" Trade Supplement to the Indie, and Persin, are will taking | wonderful display of Oriental car- steps to reduce poppy cultivation pets in the Cutler Street warehouse The writer considers that of the Port of London Authority.
is unlikely that the League com Another feature of the warehouse, mission wil} discover anything says that paper, which would in- during the tour of Mislava that is terest many readers is the exhibi- not already well known. The real-tion of antique curios from the Far
imporant part of their report East, in which there is an im-j will deal with the situation i portant London market. The trade China, particularly the stability of dates back to about 1859-61, when the Central Government; the ex-the captains of the China tea clip- tent to which it commands the cepers made a practice of bringing operation of the provincial author-from China and elsewhere small tes in its anti-opium policy, and articles for disposal. the measure of reliance which can
The term "Cutler Street ware-
be placed ca any undertaking per-house" can hardly convey to those manently and completely to sup who have not visited it an idea of wess poppy cultivation. In Malaya the magnitude of the group of the League Celegates will find buildings which are comprised in The whole covers a the remarkable situation of the the term. Chinese populatlan. theoretically ground area of five acres and has a at ang rata opposed the opium floor space of nearly 1,000,000 It lies between raffic, and the British element square feet. omplacently regarding it as a legi. Bishopsgate and Houndsditch, and timate son::ve of revenue which only those who were searching for fussy burybodies at Geneva unit, or who came across it by chance, would be aware of its existence, reasonably wish to take away.
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To visualize this particular form of commerce the mind may picture one of the Chinese cities, and notably Peking, Nanking, Chengtu, or Shanghai. Here are British and Chinese merchants. The mind The question remains of the in-needs to travel, for a moment, vast cerity of the ruling authorities of distances into the immerse interior China and of their ability to tran-and to picture Chinese dealers buy-according to value and suitability slate their ideals into practice. Asing from prieats in villages carios for selling. Each lot is given a to that, the thing has been done which have lain undisturbed in space distinguished by chalk num- before. In 1917 poppy cultivation temples, tombs, and other buildings
bers on long counters. Then was practically extinct throughout for centuries. Frequently the catalogues are prepared with cor- China.
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may imagine dealers successfully rose. famille verte, or blue or white Police. Accused was taken into as consigned direct to brokers and also old curios, which are essentially bidding at the auctions for the lots colouring, and dating from the tody and wought back to Hong Kong to merchant firms abroad, some of original The case was remanded for a week,
the-boaf, known of which are in brought from China, while much which have already attracted them. Chew to the Hien Tung periods, London.
modern beautiful work is produced, No goods are exhibited at the actual which means from 1122 BC. to 1861 A.D. Between these centuries there Japan. This includes carvings auctions. The custom is for a
are a dozen recognized periods in elephant ivory, walrus tusks, and cheque to be despatched to Bangkok, Sept. 18ally instruct a irm of brokers also from the tusks of mammoths brokers on the night of the auction which connoisseurs can identify.
The collections include antiqua His Majesty the King has given there is one important firm speci- which are found frozen in Siberiasometimes, in the case of an un- many hundred acres of suitable alising in the work to dispose of and date back to a prehistoric age, known buyer, a deposit of 20 per hand-painted silks. inlaid porcelain ground mar Singora to enable the curios. The merchants Instruct Besides these valuable pieces there cent may be asked for by the scrtens, modern Chinese cloisonne Siamese soldiers who served in the Port of London Authority into are cheaper articles which are broker at the close of the auction. of beautiful colours, fade flowered France to settle on the land with whose warehouses at the gocks the manufactured on the lines of mass Actually the purchase money may tree, carved red lacquer from their families. — Stigapore Free cases have been discharged from production in Japan and are freely be forwarded at any time within the Soochow glass bowls, and antique Owners of prompt, which lasts for one carpets and rugs from Samarkand. Presse
the Imers, to remove them to the marketed in London. Cutler Street warehouse, and to dis shops in seaside towns are large month from the date of the auction. Japan sends such things as Kantani The goods displayed in the ware- and Satsuma porcelain, bronze Sir Courtenay Warner, Lord-play them. On arrival by lorry at buyers of these goods,
house include antique Chinese figures, screens, glass bowls and, Lieutenant of Suffolk, will be this centre of the City they are
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porcelain vates, plates, jars, ridge occasionally, kimonos of brilliant Walthamsow's Charter Mayor text unpacked and are "lotted" by the
tiles, bowls and figures in famille buss. representatives of the merchants,
November
KING'S GIFT
Exhibition Before Auctions The merchant firms then gener-
and
distinctive are
To carry the transactions in all these goods the stage further, we
the