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THE HILLSIDE MURDER.
INTERESTING SIDELIGHT ON CHINESE LIFF.
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The charge of murder preferred against three Chinese was heard at the Magistracy on April 14th before Mr. Kemp. It will be re- member.d that this was the murder in which two men and a boy were found done to death on the billside above Shatin in the New Territory. This was in December of 1906 and not until the present time have the police been in a position to bring a charge against any one. Mr. Bowley, Crown Solicitor, prosecuted, and Mr. Otto Kong Sing defended Wong Chan Kwai and Ts- Mau! Fat while Mr. S. Dixon from the office of Mr. R. A. Harding appeared for Wong Satu He. The names of the victims were Luk Sang, Wong cam Sau and Wong Ting Fat.
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Mr. Bowley in opening the case for the Crown, said that on the 6th December, 1906, the corpses of three Chinese, two meu and a boy, were found on the top of the hill betweeu Kowloon Peak and Sbatin. They were cuf about the heads and necks and num-rous deep! wounds apparently inflicted by a chopper or similar instrument were found on their bodies. Proceeding he stated that Luk Sang was the man against whom the crime was plotted. had been a steward on various steamers running! between Hongkong and America and at the last Minnesota." He fund was employed on the " this employment profitable and he had a house owloon city where his wife and mother lived. He had no children. In August 1906 having completed a second or third trip on the "Minnesota there was some change in the duties on the steamer and he decided to stay at! home for a time. During his residence ashore he seems to have taken up the study of geomancy or fung shui. He spent most of bis' time selecting grave sites and looking after the graves of his ancestors ile seemed anxious that his grandfather, who was buried in the cemetery at Kowloon, should have a more re. spectable resting place and he searched the hills for a suitable site. The second prisoner, who lived at Kowloon city, was also a and be naturally expected that Ink Sug
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LOCAL POETRY.
HONGKONG.
Fair Isle of Streams in Oriental Seas
Is it that languorous life of astern case Why are thy beauties all un ung? Like harp laid by, and long unstrung Wants tuning up to realize The glorious harmonies of thy skies, When nightly from thy hill-tops seen The Sun sinks down in saffron sheen
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Or is it that the grasping hope Of moiling manhood "making piles Leaves little time and less of scope To turn cur eyes, where Natur miles A welcome, to the man forgetting Our sordid r und of dollar-getting, From green hill sides and tumbling brooks (iod's curient accounts and ledger booka.-
Or do we à la sinologue, Search in Cathayan scripts of hyagone age To borrow from the manners then in vogue Some love-hints from a pre-Comʻucian Sage?- Blind to the beauty of the living hour, Whose diam and rain-drops of the passing shower, Canght on the branches from the skies Point sparkling similes for our dearest's eyes.
Or is it that we make “No Trumps " In atmosphere of sin ke and whisky Mids't captious men and female frumps Who bore us into declaration ri-ky?
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or out-of do rs, te birds are singing And from the verdure, fl swers are springing, Calling us to a simpler life
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A moral anodyne for our petty strife,-
Or do we affect the cult athleto At polo, cricket, golf or hockey
Or Spurn the ball with nimble feet Or ape the simian style of modern jockey, Until the setting of that emerald Vale, Wherein we romp and term it" Happy," Is seen but dimly, through a veil. 'Of training tracks or bunkers trappy.
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Or is it that our small affairs (An ancient plaint in lay Poratian) The narrow, carking, daily cares So that her e-og lar distaut gaze Are rendered worse, by servants Asian ?
Se not the isles in surier haze, Nor yet the shimmer on the sunlit Beas But mental reckoning makes to cut down
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Or is it only that wo fail To voice the lyric that we feel? Or is it that we fear the flail Of vulgar jest, or salir 's steel? Whate'er the cause, the fact remains, Unwilling mi-o or want of brains.--- Our Isle of running Streams-Hongkong- Though worthy-lacks a poet's song.--
SARDONICUS.
THE GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY LIMITED.
would make use of his services. When he heard that Luk Sang was not going to engage him he became very angry and called at the house and demauded money saying "You may select your grare without my assistance bat if you do
your head will drop off within! seven days. If that does not happen I will break my compass (the geoman cer's badge of office) or leave Kowloou." When Luk Sang went visiting on the hills he was accompanied by the other two, In his possession were a watch and chaio, a diamond ring, thirty Mexican dollars, and a revolver, When the three did not returu home Luk Sang's wife went to the first prisoner who informed her that luk Sang bad called there and gone on farther. He had come back and gouc a second time so she did not peed to worry. Subse- quently the bodies were discovered, but the polica could not trace the perpetrators. They decided to await the return of one Chan Yan who had been employed as a blacksmith in connection with the construction of a military road, When he returned a few weeks ago he was arrested. He confess d that the three pri-year ending 31st December 1967. soners culled al his place on the 28th November 1906 when they enjoyed an epium pipe. They decided they must have some money. On the 2nd December they turned up at bis place again and one said if they could meat Luk Sang they could easily get soms $100. They went out to look for him and came upon him on the hill. The first and second prisoners asked him where the grave was and when he turned round to point to the place the second prisoner hit him on the neck and knocked him down. They afterwards killed the second man when he came up and becoming frightened they also murdered the boy.
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Evidence was called and the case adjourned.
ground of the
A "thunderbolt" fell in Japan on the parade Kumamoto Division while military exercises were in progress on March 30. One Cavalryn an, an Infantry private, and two horses were killed on the spot. An other private was injured.
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The report for presentation to the share. holders at the nineteenth ordinary general meeting to be held at the office of the General Managers Saturday 25th April, reads :—
Annexed we have the pleasure to lay before shareholders a statement of accounts for the
The net profit, after providing for deprecia- tion n Buildings and Machinery, Launches Lighters &c. and including the amount brought forward from the previous year, amounts to $406,078.16 which it is proposed to deal with as follows, riz:-
$1,000.00
To place to Reserve Fund To pay a final Dividend of 75 cents per
share on 4110,100 shares $300 000,00_ Add. Interim dividend of 50 cents on
200,000 shares
100,000.00 400,000.00 To carry forward to the credit of
next year's account
5,078.16 he Capital of the Comyany was increased by special Resolution in March last to $4,000,000
Consulting Committee.-The Hon. W. J. Gresson having left the Colony, the Hon. H. Keswick was invited to take his place on the Consulting Committee. In accordance with the Articles of Association, Sir Paul Chater, C.M.G., the Hon. H. Keswick and Dr. J. W. Noble retire, but being eligible offer themselves for re-election.
[April 18, 1908.
* Auditors.-The Accounts have been audited by Messrs. W. H. Potts and A. O' D. Gourdin, who are recommended for re election.
SHEWAN TOMES & CO. General Managers,
Hongkong, 10th April, 1908.
:
Statement of Accounts for the year 1907.
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT.
Interest
Auditor's fees
$ C. 50,321.82
600,00
Consulting committee's fees
Amount written off as depreciation Interim dividend
Balance
4.000,00 84,974.88
100,000.00
$306, 78.10 406,708,16
$545,071.86
Balance brought forward from 1906 Profit on sale of 935 New Shares Ext-hange
$520,548.93
Balance from working account - Sales-of cement Sales of bricks, pipes etci,
Capital:
3 C. 10,804.27 4,067.25 51.11
10,513.30′ 531,452.23
$515,974.86
BALANCE SHEET,
400,000 shares at $10 fully paid up Reserve fund
Sundry creditors Company's banker
Balange of
Requint
profit and loss
$ .C. 4,000,0 10,00 11,00 00 121,214.24
819,800.47
$100,078.16
Less interim dividend ......... 101,000.00 306,078.16
Green I-land, Macao.--
Buildings and machinery as
per last statement
Less depreciation
Since expended.
Cement, raw material, stores,
La
etq.. in stock valued at Hok Un, Hongkong
Since spogdek
D
1001891are feet valued at
Buildings and machinery Less depreciation
Sinco expended
426.9 10.00
25,000.00
$101,3-0,00
$4,761,09297 2 C.
55,830.08 457,130.9%
262,163.63
1.057,192.00 134,770.83
-1,231,963.33
072,07 1.83
41,37488
Cement, raw material, stores,
etq., if stock ralne at Deep Water Bay Works :- Land
Buildings and machinery..
Less depreciation,
Since expended
Bricks, pipes, etc., in stock
valued at
On consignment valued at
$631,700.-0
297,126.28 925,820,23
..... 956,951.47
3,500.00
178,400.00
10,730.00
107,670.00
24,135.96 191,825.90
Property at Shek Wai Tong (Canton Cement on consignment valued at... Office fumiture as
per last
statement
Less depreciation
101,933.48
2,242.24 104,175.72
· 42,300.00 42,412.50
400,00 50.00
350.00
395.139.45 2,811.12
Sundry debtors Value of premia on unexpired policies. Steam Launch, Steam Lighter, Lighter, Junk etc., as per last statement Less depreciation
Since exponded...
Cash on
hand
137 100.00
8.221,00
128,180.00
53,872.02 182,352.02
JUNK BAY MILL.
8,951.81
$1,761,092.87
As a result of Mr. Rennie's death and the difficult position in which the big concern at Juuk Bay is now placed milling operations have been temporarily suspended. The mill and stock have been taken over by the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and Čhina.
The inquiry into the circumstances of the death of Mr. A. H. Rennie will take place at the Magistracy on Tuesday afternoon.
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