October 8, 1908.]
Leung Kit paid him all but $200, and for this amount he gave an I.O.U. Therefore accused gave him a receipt for the whole amount.
Who was Mr. Groenwall ?—A gentlemaD staying at the Connaught Hotel.
What was his business?—He did any kind of business.
Did you give him $40 in consideration of his giving you a cheque for $1,000 which was returned to him?-No.
What was it for P-Private business. What was the nature of that business P- He was helping me in the office,
When he gave you the cheque you did not intend to put it in circulation F-No.
You told him so ?—Yes,
What did you do with the $1,834 you with
drew from the bank ?-Put it into contracts.
Did you consider you were entitled to ass Ko A Him's money for your own private business?
-Yes, I considered the money a loan.
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Did you consider this prospective con- tract with the Kowloon railway was connection with the business you carried on at No. 39-It was my own business, and nothing to do with the compradore unless he put up security.
Who paid Messrs. Almada and Smith for the compradore agreement ?-Up to the present it has not been paid.
Do they look to you for payment ?-The compradore and I pay half each.
Can you understand Chinese P-I know a few
words.
Mr. Dixon-I know a few words, and have been here only a few years.
Re-examined-Where are the papers in oon. nection with the sum of $5,000 referred to ?- With the British Consul in Canton.
Sit Leung Kit is claiming for $5,000 ?—Yes. That is for money that is not yet das?- That's so.
According to the agreement, that $5,000 was placed at your disposal P-Yes.
You have dealt with that money just as if it belonged to you ?—Yes.
Something has been said about a motor launch being sold for $95 P-Yes. It was a launch 85 feet long, decked fore and aft and contained 15 horse power, four cycle, two cylinder engines. The whole was valued at $2,000, I arranged with the solicitors selling the boat to postpone the sale. The sale was withdrawn, but the boat was sold a few days later without being advertised in the local
papers.
His Worship A cheque of yours put in was stated to be dishonoured; can you explain that Yea. I gave 8it Leung Kit $100 which I got from my brother, and asked him not to cash the cheque.
When you handed him the cheque it was good P-No, but I expected to put the money
in the bank.
How much did you intend to pay Bit Leang Kit P-$50.
Did he give you the other $50 back ? - No, he asked me to let it stand as the next month's interest.
After paying him the money did you again ask him for the cheque, and for a receipt -- He said he did not understand English, but would let me have them later.
Why did you start a second business ? Because these men came and asked me to start another office.
Have you any partners in the Eastern Com marcia Co. ?—No.
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What's the capital ?—Ibare a few thousand dollars of my own, and there was the compra- dore's security.
You lent Yeung $1,000; what security have you ?—I was told his people had money and he has a share in the compradorship,
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
CANTON.
[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT. ]
September 26th.
A CRUEL WOMAN.
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year-old girl who was crying in the street and The other day a policeman picked up a 13-
14. took her to No. 11 Police station where she told the Police officer the following most pitiful story:-
"I am
a servant girl in the service of Po. Cheang's wife has all along ill-treated Cheang Chik Bun residing at No. 8 Tai Shop me. She is an opium smoker and seldom sleeps in the night. My mistress is in the habit of smoking opium all through the night and I had to wait on her every night, I had contrive to match a few hours sleep in the day. to carry water and work in the day and
night she would use a hammer to strike my eyes Whenever my mistress caught me asleep in the
My left eye is blind through a blow received mistake she would tie me up and pour hot from her hands. Whenever I made a slight water over my back. In the beginning of the year she told me to go and fetch her a water pipe. Unfortunately it was hidden somewhere by the children. Afterwards she found it and this offence she punished me by cutting off my said that I had no eyes to look for things. For
burned my face and body with lighted joss sticks left eye brow with a foreign knife. She often
and paper dipped in kerosene oll. The soars on my face and body are marks caused by burning. A few days ago one of our neighbours told me that she had formerly beaten three servant girls to death. I got so frightened when I heard it that I ran away from the house."
On the following day Cheang Chik Sun summoned to the Police Station aud in his presence the girl repeated the statements. The Police offloor fined Cheang $30. Chang paid the fine and demanded the return of the servant girl. The Police officer refused to hand the girl back to Cheang but returned him the $30 and sent the girl to a obaritable institution.
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THE TEA INDUSTRY.
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encourage
The local authorities have received instruo tions from the Board of Agriculture; and Commerce at Peking to exhort the mer- chants and the people
tos industry in the Province.
Kwangtung The dispatch says that the importation of Indian and Japanese tea is daily increasing in Europe and Amerios while that of Chinese tea has been decreasing considerably. If the merchants and the people insist upon cultivating and manufacturing in the old fashioned way, the China tea trade will die out in the foreign markets before long. The despatch urges the people to adopt modern methods and requests the authorities to give the people every possible assistance and protection so that the tea trade may be re-established on its former prosperous footing.
September 27th.
OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS CENSCEED.
Upon receiving information that the officers and soldiers who were dispatched to various villages up-country to capture robbers and pirates have been robbing the villagers, and also that when bessiging houses where brigands had taken refuge, both officers and men very frequently fired into the houses indiscriminately, thus often killing many innocent villagers, His Excelleney the Viceroy has issued notification severely censuring the conduct of the officers and soldiers and warning them that they must in future obey the military regula. tions. Should such disgraceful things happen again he would cause them to be most severely punished as a warning to the military people generally.
CANTON-HANKOW BAILWAY,
That is the on y security you have P-Yes. Complainant, recalled, said he received one instalment of the $3,00 he paid to defendant from Young Chik San. He received the I mentioned in my correspondence of the money in the form of a cheque, but could not 10th instant that Deputy Leong Yung say what was on it as he was unable to read Wa had sent a report to the Board of Posts English. If he had known it was a false cheque and Communications at Poking socusing Sir he would not have paid over the $2,000 to Mr. Chan Tung Leong Shing of handling the Holmes.
Canton-Hankow Bailway Company's money indiscreetly.
After Bit Leung Kit had been further examined, the solicitors addressed the Court, Mr. Dixon concluding at 5.40 p.m.
His Worship reserved his decision until Saturday morning at 9,30 am,
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AFFAIR.
and one Civil Engineer of the Company. The petitioner elaten that the trunk liñe haa reached Ngan-Tuan-Âu. The distance from Wong Sha to Ngan-Tmn-Au village is only 101l of which 37 li was constructed by the American Development Company; therefore the present company has only constracted 64 Moreover the bridges and works of the
are only partially completed, A BUQUEL TO THR PAUL BRAU
Owing to frequent disagreement between the Chinese officials and the foreign Consula with board foreign vessels, resulting in serious in. regard to the arrest of pirates and robbers on ternational complications, H. E. the Viceroy of Canton has caused certain new regulations to be to the Wai-wa-pu for approval after consultation drawn up. These regulations have been onblød
with the Foreign Ministers.
It is now reported that Deputy Leong has petitioned the Board denouncing the President, two deputies (whose duty is to purchase land),
one Director of Works, one Director of Finance
NEW ISSUE OF PAPER MONEY,
subsidiary coin paper notes in the market next It is reported that the Bureau of Local Affairs here will place the following amount of provinsial
month vis.¦—
Que dollar subsidiary coin notes 1,000,000 Five
2,000,000 2,000,000
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19
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13
19
19
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Total 5,000,000
These notes were ordered from Japan some- shortly. time ago and they are expected to arrive here
NEW COPPER COIN 8.
Owing to great inconvenience being ex- petenced by the smaller traders and labourers of vations provinces through the disappearanos of the cash coins, the Board of Revenue has given instructions to the, Canton Mint to strike large quantities of half cent and two ossh coins ME the provinces mentioned in the despatch. soop as possible and to distribute them amongst
▲ PLEASANT SURPRISE.
that Kong Hung Yan informed the French In my previous correspondence I mentioned
attend to some important financial and property Consul that he had to proosed to Shanghai to
business. From inquiries made I learn that M Kong Hung Yan has come into a rather big fortune lately. Mr. Kong's father, who died some twenty years ago, was formerly a tea merchant in Shanghai. It appears that the oli man had purchased a large rice field some- where near Shanghai shortly before his death. The family, who were residing in Canton at the time, knew nothing about the transaction, and after old Kong's death the title deeds of the property must have been lost; at least_his family never obtained possession of them. The lessee of the field took advantage of Kong's death, kept silent and never paid rent to Kong's family, and had over since- treated the field as his own property. Recently the lessee had a dispate with his neighbour over ■ boundary question and be brought an action against him in the Shanghai Toatai's Court. At the trial of the case the Total discovered from the registry that the property was woned by the Kong family. Tostai soi, who is a personal friend of Mr. Kong Hung Yan, immediately ombled to him news of the discovery. It is said that the property is now worth over 900,000 tasis.
once Kong's hasty departure for Shanghai to take possession of the isad and cisim sil
artears of rent.
|CRUDE OPIUM DEALERS STOP TRADING. A few days ago I reported that a proclama- tin was issued by the local authorities, announ- oing that all orude opium dealers were required to take out licenses for selling orads ópíam from the ist day of the 9th щоба
appears that besides taking out licenses they have to report and register all males of crude oplam at the Bureau of Local Affairs where permita will be issued for each tranmotion. De the lat day of the 9th moon many crude
am dealers went to the Bureau to register their sales, and to obtain permits to deliver goods to purchasers. At the Bureau they were told that the permits were not ready and that they had better stop trading for sometime. I an informed that this was only an exouse made by the officials as the local authorities are wait- ing for instructions from the Central Govsen- ment to turn the opium business into a Govern-
ment monopoly.