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Jair 11, 1906)
A CANTON TRAGEDY,
OHINHOT LAW AND JUSTICE.
Our Canton Correspondent writes :---
A rather peculiar murder case came on for trizi before the Manobu sub-prefect the other day. This Court is established for the exclusive purpose of trying cases in which Manchus and Bangerman are involved, and the sub-prefect is always a Mancha official appointed by the Throne. A Masobu, surnamed Pak charged his son-in-law's. 'father, a wealthy Manobu named Ying Eze, with having murdered his (the prosecutor's) daughter by beating her to death. Ying Sze pleaded that deceased bad committed suicide.
In the afternoon of the 3rd instant the sub- prefect went to Ying Sze's house with two expert undertakers of the Nam Hoi Magistracy to examine the corpse in order to find out whether deceased died a natural death, com- mitted suicide, or
was murdered. After a lengthy examination both undertakers pro- nounced that they were unable to state whether death had resulted through violence or suicide. It appears that it had been common talk among the people of the neighbourhood that deceased had been constantly ill-treated by her husband and the father-in-law and one of Ying Sis's servants, spread the report that deceased was brutally murdered.
While the examination was proceeding inside the house a large crowd (over 1,000 men)
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preventing the profit and influence in thi connexion from A wing out of the country. You are to report hereafter to this Board the developement of this important line of trade and industry &c. ko."
Chang who besides ordering all other depart- On receipt of the above instructions Viceroy
requested me to notify all the colleges to obey ments to carry out those instructions has alsʊ the command; to devise means to use native cloth; to exhort the pople to promote the cotton industry in order that the profit sad influence in country, thus reviving the cottos trade; to this line of trade may not flow out of the
Provincial Treasurer, and not to disobey the watch the development of this industry and to collect all useful" information and report it to order &c., &c.
“A LEAK IN THE CHINESE TEAPOT.' H.E. Chang, Viceroy of the two Kwang to issue a proclamation of which the following provinces, bas directed the iterary Chancellor is a literal translation :-"I, Provincial Literary Chancellor, am directed by His Excellency Ching. Viceroy of the Liang Kwong, to issue this proclamation to inform the public that on the 2nd day of the 5th moon of the 34th year of Kwong Sui, His Excellency Chang received Commerc slating that on the 4 t day of the 4th a dispatch from the Board of Agriculture ard moon of Kwong Sui, Lau Sit Kwao, Director | of the Chamber of Commerce of the Hoi Moon District, in the Ken-Su Province, petitioned to trast that all officials, people and colleges will I have therefore issued this proclamation sud the Board of Agriculture and Commerce calling obey it. their attention to the following matter:-"The eslleges will tell the students to obey the order Moreover I hope the directors of the soil of the Tung toi distriot is most suitable for cultivation of cotton.
and use native cloth to make all their clothes The cotton produced in that region is long, soft and very flexible, and may proft and influence lost. This is my great so as to stimulate this industry and regain the be said to be the best cotton produced in China. desire. Do not disobey this urgent proclams- Barring American cotton, there is none which tion cotton scarcely surpasses it. The cotton plant in can come up to its mark in quality; even American Tung Boi as a tall stem and its leaves are large. It bears a rich and large flower. In investigating the various records on the subject of cotton we find that its original name was called "Kut Pui" (Indian name) and the plant was originally introduced into China from India. But now Indian cotton does not bear comparison in quality with that produced in Tang Hoi. Tung Hoi ootton rich, white, soft and flexible and
CANTON,
telegram from Toatai Chow, president of the Viceroy Chang received on the 7th instant a Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Shanghai, stating that a Cantonese merchant named Ip Yu Tia who failed in business up North is indebted to various Chinese banks in Shangbai to the extent of over 200,000 taels. Ip, after fled to Canton. Toatai Chow requests the Viceroy to seize all Ip's properties in Canton. His Excellency has given instructions to the Nam Hoi Magistrate to arrest Ip and distrain all his properties,
had collected outside to learn the result of the is far superior in every respect to Bombay paying a 20 per cent dividend to his creditors
examination. On hearing the unsatisfactory statement of the official undertakers the crowd became wild with rage. Many rushed into the house, and accused the undertakers of receiving bribes from the defendant, and demanded that other expert undertakers be at once sent for from the Pun Yu Magistracy to examine the body. Others who were outside pounced upon the sub-prefeot's petty officers, chair-coolies and his retinue of official followers and gave them a severe thrashing. The sub-prefect on hearing the wild shouts and disturbance made by the angry mob, pacified them by telephoning a request to the Pun Ya Magistrate to dispatch post-haste two of his expert undertakers, and at the same time he took the precaution to telephone for reinforcements from several police stations. Shortly afterwards the Pan Ya Magistrate replied that his official under- takers had all gone up country.
The Police reinforcements had not arrived by. 9 p.m., and the Sub-prefect dared not leave the house unprotected, so in order to keep the minds of the mob occupied he called Ying She's son and questioned him. During the investiga. tion the son stated that his father did not beat deceased; and: had nothing to do with her death; but that deceased was strangled to death by his sister. Reinforcements of police having arrived, the Sub-prefect adjourned examination of the body and left with ample protection,
On the following day he came with two other undertakers of the Nam Hoi Magistracy who upon investigation stated that deceased had died through violence as there were two marks on the neck and several on her chest. The son was thereupon arrested and the case was tried in the Sub-prefect's Court on the 5th inst. Ying Sze's daughter was summoned to appear before the Court at the trial. She stated that she only beat deceased twice on the head with her fan, but that her mother (Ying Sze's wife) had beaten deceased to death. Ying Szo's wife was immediately summoned and when she appeared in Court she callously, admitted that she killed her daughter-in-law by: beating ber. The mother-in-law was sentenced to a short term of imprisonment.
cotton. Labour has a more important bearing on this matter than the quality of the seeds from which cotton is raised. Although the cotton produced in the districts of Tung King, Tang Heung, Hoi Moon and Sai Heang is of the best quality, yet in some places the cotton is found to be superior to that grown in other distriols; though raised by the same class of labourers, this may be on account of the difference in richness of the soil.
"The native cotton cloth manufactured in Tung Hoi has all along been consumed by the people of the Three Eastern Provinces. Over 100,000 bales are manufactured and disposed of annually. But in recent years foreign cloth and yarn have found their way into those markets in large quantities and the conse- quence is that the demand for native cloth bas diminished considerably. If the manufacture would r. vive. If military people, police men, of native cloth could be pushed the business students and all others use native cloth to make their uniforms and clothes, then the profit and benefit will not flow into foreign countries, and the cotton industry will be stimulated and revived. I therefore beg you to memorializə drawn up and forwarded to Viceroys and the Throne requesting that regulations may be Governors of all the Provinces requesting them to give instructions to all the Bureaux within their jurisdiction to use native cloth. Thus the districts where native clothes are
not only Taug Hoi will benefit by it, but all factured will share in the blessings &c. &o."
The Board of Agriculture, and Commerce after investigating the matter made following remarks :-
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A Military instructor of the reformed army surnamed Leong who was returning home with his family after a banquet at midnight on the 6th instant had a rather exciting time in Wah Ning Lane in the Walled C ty. His attendant, a soldier, was carrying a lantern bearing te large characters 64
Waiwapa. A trader coming from the opposite direction caught sight of those formidable letters, got so fright- ened that he did not know how to get out of the official's way, the street being very narrow, wet and slippery, and in endeavour. ing to avoid a collision, the unfortunate fellow missed his step and tumbled against the official's No. concubine. This roused the temper of ill-treated him. A policeman in the neighbour. the warrior who set upon the poor fellow and cod heard shouts of "save life," approached
the scene and took Leong and his victim to the Police Station, while the attendant escorted the
family home. The poor man's face was covered with bloɔd on arrival at the police station. The charge of the Station and Leong was asked to case was summarily dealt with by the officer iu pay 50 cents compensation to the injured man, and when he left, Leong was told that he could
But now the " go back.
Bully" was scared to death lest his vistim might take revenge, and be asked for an escort to see him safely homa The Police officer gave him two men to adoʊm- pany him. Ths Chinese papers are ridionling the military instructor's cowardice.
"We discovered
is inoreasing daily. It is one of the great leaka the importation of foreign yarn and cloth in our tea pot through which our money is dowing out. The cottou industry of our country in gradually dying out. Director of the Chamber of Commerce in calling The object of the our attention to this matter is to revive the native cotton cloth trades, so we feel justified in granting his request. Besides commanding all the officials to devise means to exhort the people to go in for reform and the adoption of modern methods in the mauufacture of cloth thus deepening the channel for making profits and thereby stimulating commeros and industry, we also communicate with Your Excellency (Chang), and request you to give instructions to all the military departments, bureaux, and colleges, to davise means to use native cloth and to exhort all connected with these departments and institutions to promote the cotton industry, Whạt has become of the revised: Penal Code ↑ "thus reviving the cotton and cloth trades and1is expected to come up for trial this week, die
oovered.
The case seems to have been a very mixed-up Affair. The mother-in-law took the respon ibility when she saw that the crime was dis- Any other member of the family would have suffered a severe sentence,death in the case of the sister, deportation in the case of the husband, but Chinese law allows extra- ordinary powers to the father and mother-in-law with regard. to their daughter-in-law, and they have been able to esospaserere paaishment.
Court at Shangbai by Mr. J. C. Douglas, of the An action has been filed in H.B.M.'s Supreme law firm of Home and Douglas, against Messrs. Wrightson aud H. A. J. Macray, as directors D. Landale, A. McLeod, E. C. Pearos, C. W. of the Shanghai Hongkow Wharf Companyi calling upon them to supply to the plaintiff as a shareholder in the Company certain-particulars regarding the Company's business. The writ, as filed is in the following terms:Plaintiff asks for an order by the Court that defendants do deliver to him particulars of all details speci- fically affecting property of the Shanghai-· Hoggkew Wharf Company, Limited, and more especially particulars of the agreement between the company and the present manager, Messrs, Jardine, Matheson and Company, Limited, and that the defendants do submit the said agree-. ment for inspection by the plaintiff. The oste
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