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Colonel Sealy stated in the House of Commons. that WRIGHT was charged with having
last month that out of the 5,361 Chimpse who, fraudulently misappropriated, the pro-according to the Chamber of Mines figures, secutors were not the Chines Government, remained on August 31, 2,164 mailed from but the Corporation which lent the money Darban on September 21, and a further slip- to the Chinese Government. The Managing ment of about 1,300 will take place on or about Director, H.-E. WE HAN, showed some December 9. The Secretary of State is not
aware that any delay las occurred in the ship- ment of Chinese on expiration of the contract. period,
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THE KING'S INTERVENTION IN POLITICS.
THE TYPHOON.
The impressions formed on Tuesday that the typhoon of that day was not of the severity unfortunately experienced in the Colony before were well founded. Subsequent inquiries showed that the wind never actually reached typhoon "force ity" greatest velovity was 75 miles -un- hour at eleven o'clock on Tuesday night- and with that fast before as it is not. surprising that the results are trifling in comparison with pregious visitations of the same nature. So far as can be ascertained no loss of life has taken place at least none has been reported, though the water police have LONDON, October 20th. baon informed that a cargo boat sad three Mr. Keir Hardie, a Socialist sampaus were driven ashore at Tsimshatsoi and wrooked The ruin, which usually accompanies menther of the House of Commonsa typhoon, was on this session remarkably speaking at Sunderland, said he hoped
KEIR HARDIE'S INDOLENCE.
sponsible for a number of yachts drawn up on
A King's slipway being lifted off the elipe
and tossed in various directions over the yard.
The Ponk tramway service was resumed yos terday morning at seven o'clock. The electric before ten o'clock, as the lines had to be cleared of debris. The Kowloon ferries 'started ruaning nt six o'nlock and the early launches took across the harbour many tired residenta who had been stranded. Almost a mindred Kowloonites were detained in the city; many Peak residents also spent the night below, but a large number of the inarried men braved the elements on Tues day afternoon and olimbed up, but had a very trying experience.
The telephone service has suffered consider
BEFORE
SUPREME COURT.
Wednesday, October 20th.
IN CRIMINAL, JURISDICTION.
HIS HONOUR MR. H.H. J, GOMPERTY
(ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE).
FIFTEEN YEARS IMPRISONMENT. The hearing of the charge preferred against T. Sheminsky, of carnally knowing a girl eight years of age, concluded yesterday,
After an hour's retirement the jury returned a verdict of guilty, and his Lordship sentoacod the accused to fifteen years" imprisonment with hard labour.
When the prisoner hoard the verdict ho collapsed, and had to be carried from the Court,
ALLEGED FORGERY,
Tom Pak alius Tam Shin Nam was noted
Prisoner pleaded not guilty, and the follow-
(foreman), C. Makebam, Tong Tze Sum, B.
K. Mehta, J. Cruickshank, J. E. Danelson
and E. A. G. May,
The Hon. Mr. W. Roes Davies, K.C., Attorney-General," instructed by Mr. H. L
tor, prosconted, and prisoner was andelended.
The Attorney-General informed the Court and jury that the prisonor, at the bar was in- dieted on charges of forging and uttaring two ↑ bills of exchange, one on the Dontsche Asiatische Bank for $1,265, and one on the Hongkong and Both bills were Shanghai Bank for $100.1 payable to the Chun Shan Wo firm of Cali- fornían morohants, of Des Voeux Road Central, On September 18 the managing partner of this frm received a letter aldressed to the assistant
A. S. WATSON & CO. reluctance to associate himself with the prosecution and we think it may be regarded as at least doubtful whether a prosecution
At the Magistracy yesterday before Mr. J. would have taken place had the decision rested entirely with the Chinese authorities, R. Wood, Chinese was charged with the The extremely plausible explanation which larceny of a piece of slik valued at $25 from No. 31, Jervois Street. His Worship convicted WRIGHT offered in the witness-box was one the defendent, and sentenced him to three which, it is not difficult to believe, would months' imprisonment with hard labour. Sub- have been accepted by the Chinese authorisequently, it was discovered that the prisoner ties, if he had been called upon for explana had returned from bonishment. He was charged tions of features in the accounts which with this offence, and the hearing was nd
journod until Saturday
heavy, there being 10.93 inches recorded in the seemed unsatisfactory and suspicions.
it was not true that the King wasnty-four hours ending at 10 o'clock yesterday on charges of forgery.
morning. The tide, on Tuesday night was Hero, 80
This evering at the Leotare Hall adjoining far as the Court proceed-
highly capable Union Church, Kennedy Road, mader the intervening with regard to the Budget exceptionally high, so high that it was re-ing jurors were called-Messrs. C. E. Warion inga showed, WLE accountant with thirty-four years' experience.uspices of the Union Church Literary Club, proposals,
Mrs. A Bellamy Brown has kindly consented te
The King, he said, can be tolerated mostly in very responsible positions--a give a skotos of Mendelssohn's Life, which will record which any Corporation or Govern- be illustrated by voal and instrumental while he remains outside politics, but ment might have accepted as a guarantee selections. The evening should be pur-the moment he begins to interfere, trams in town were unable to resume running Derinys, Jr., from the office of the Crown Solici that the man selected to fill a position of the ticularly interesting one, and-the-mie the Crown will go into the melting
pot with the coronets of the Peers. highest trust and responsibility was worthy open to the public. Dr. Balilios will take the to enjoy the fullest confidence of his employ-
The circus will re-open at Kennedy town Yers. They, in fact, did place implicit trust in
DEATH OF A FAMOUS. to-night whan, after the enforce i spoll rosilonts his integrity and honour, for ke Wah entrusted
have had indoors, the management expet to sea
ITALIAN. with very large sums of milway money a well-filled tent. The typhoon did consider which he told the Court he bad banked, for able damage to Harmiston's tent, but the abrowd?
LONDON, October 20th. plausible reasons, in his own name, on his old Colonel is always prepared for emergencies,
The death is announced of Signor -own-initiative and without reference to any and to-night the tattered covering will be re
placed by a new one. The programme will Cesare Lombroso, Alienist-Professor one, and though two of the three accounts incinde the first amatour riding sontost. To of Psychiatry of the University of he had at the bank wore earmarked as ruil-morrow evening a grand-complimentary benefit Turin, and a prolific writer way accounts, they were under his sole con- will be tendered to genial Col. Bob Love, In trol. A man of his experience and occupying addition to a sparring exhibition, the Phillip the responsible position he did should have Sisters will appear, and the inimitable Colonel known bettor than to have used any part of will contribute comic songs. the money intended for railway purposes to Mr. F. W. Knocker, in a lecture at the Royal finance private business of his own uncon-Photographic Society's New Gallery in the nected with the railway, and even while we Malay States, said he knew a Chinese mine- uay credit him with having had no intention owner out there who became converted to of embezzling these funds, the fact that he Christianity and built a church. It was an act of penance for some wrong-doing, but his con- did actually use them for his own private selonos in the matter was very elastic, for when enterprises was a criminal breach of trust he found that the extension of his mining which undoubtedly exposed him to the charge operations made it necessary to take the land of fraudulent misappropriation of which heen which the church stood, he removed it bodily was convicted by an impartial jury, and for further away. This operation he repeated two or three times as his riches increased, oach time which he has been sentenced to two years to the visible detriment of the church structure. hard labour. He claimed that at the time Then he assured Mr. Kuooker that his growing of his arrest he was in a position to refund wealth was due to the building in the course. A. S. WATSON & CO.. the whole of the money he was charged with of its many removals having consecrated the
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having misappropriated, and he specified the finds and the property belonging to him. All that the presiding Judge in his charge to the Jury was able to say on this point was that no evidence had been addue. ed to prove that the prisoner had goi these ample means to pay the railway money back, If that consideration weighed greatly with the Judge, it is to be regretted that his Lordship did not invite the prisoner to substantiate the statement he had made by the production of evidence, the bulk of which apparently would have been ume diately available. The prisoner's defence certainly wont for to reduce the gravity of his offence, and while he was undoubtedly Orders for extra copies of DA PRESS guilty of what the law regards as fraudulent should be amt before 11 am, on day of publication. After that hour the supply is misappropriation, and therefore, liable to
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punishment, we think the Chinese critics who Telegraphic Address: Pamas.
cynically referred to the case while it was Code: A.B.C. 5th Ed. Lieber.
eub judice, expressing, as Dr. MORRISON sabled to the Times, their undisguised satisfaction that A British railway On 20th inst, at the Government Civil Hospital, AUGUSTO CESAR BOTELHO, obiel clerk, Harbour accountant had been arrested on "Buch
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a charge, should note the fact that it was
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THE TSAR'S TOUR..
on
LONDON, October 20th. The Tsar has gone to Odessa, en route to Italy.
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His Majesty is accompanied by M. Isvolsky, Minister for Foreign- Affairs.
The Tsaritsa remains at Livadia.
A POLITICAL CONVERT.
has
LONDON, October 20th, Lieut-Carlyon Ballairs, M.P., joined the Unionist Party because of
OXFORD. LOCALS AND FEMALE EDUCATION.
able interruption, especially in the upper levels, manager which contained twoseconds of exchange and many houses have been doprived of their These were chopped with the firm's chop, and telephone communication Still, very little given to the assistant manager, who took them damage to property was done. In addition to the banks mentioned. Both banks refused to to the losses mentioned yesterday-the destruc. Lonour the bills, and subsequently the manager tion of the Star Ferry matshed, the Harbour went to the banks and was shown the two first Departament jetty, the Corinthian Yacht Club bills of exchange. On examination of these he jetty, the grand stand of the Hongkong would say that he found the firm's chop had Football Clab at the Happy Valley-there have been forged, and that the signature was in the to be added to the list the unroofing of Mount handwriting of the prisoner, who was the sox of Gough Police Station and a landslip at Conduit ho assistant manager. It appeared that the Road Kowloon enjoyed the same immanity, prisoner had formerly lived in the prosecutor's shop, and was well known to the manager.
There a considerable number of treas were uprooted or denuded of mest of their branches, but property as a whole was undamaged.
At Kowloontaal the paddy which was ripe for harvest has been practically destroyed owing to the large area under cultivation having been submerged. A report from the New Territory states that several of the railway matahoda in the neighbourhood of Tuipo have been blown away',
HARBOUR ITEMS.
who identified the handwriting on the bill. Furthermore, the assistant manager would say that the handwriting was that of his son. In both casos a forged chop had been used. A letter coolie would tell the jury that when he got to the shop the prisoner asked to eo some letters he was carrying, and took one from the bundle, anying that it was for him, and sent from a relative in America. This letter was received just before tho prisoner" pre- The most serious damago throughout the sented the two bills for payment. The faftur blow sovurred on the harbour and-along the would inform them that his son had no relative the Socialistic tendencies of the Bud-waterfront. At the Quarry Bay Shipyard the in America, and was in possession of, no money get. He has declared himself to be team launch Taikos Shing was badly battered except the pocket money with which He supplied on the slipway and sank. The Government him. Information was laid with the police, and dredger St. Enoch was blown across the bay the prisoner was arrested on Boptember 3rd at and washed ashore near the Suger Works.No. 9, Wanchal Road, where he was apparently. While the craft was drifting helplessly in the living with a woman. The police had much rough so, a Chinese joiner from the Taikoo difficulty to get into the house, and the woman Works courageously made himself fast to a line, did all she could to screen the prisoner and struck out boldly for the dredgor, which he prevent the police from arresting him. The Two the house large quantities of newly purchased boarded, and sncaseded in saving some forty secused was eventually caught on the roof. In coolies who wore aboard at the time. junks were washed high and dry on the beach articles and $700 in money were found. The at Stonerafters, these dust, beats sank off the woman was originally charged with receiving Police Station at Taamat, and two small cargo stolen money, but that charge had since, teen boats, which were lying east of the police pier at the same place, were badly damaged. The third engineer of the Huped, which vessel was lying in Kowloon Dooks, slipped and fell near the bilges, and dislocated his shoulder. When
The Attorney-General applied for the re- the gale had subsided somewhat, the doctor from the Chiye Maru bearded the dooked vesselstitution of the goods and money seized in the
house where the defendant was arrested, A coplie on and attended to the injured man.
At this stage the woman with whom the the same steamer fell down the hatchway and prisoner was said to have been living shouted injured his thigh.
out in the body of the Courty, and was called Those who remained on board vessels in the forward. She told his Lordship that the money
Another old l'ortugness resident of the Colony passed away early on Tuesday morning, at the Government Civil Hospital, in the person of Mr. Augusto Caesar Botelho, who for the long in favour of Tariff Reform. period of thirty-seven years has been in Government service as a clerk in the Harbour Office. He joined as fifth clerk in 1872 and reached the position of first clark in 1905. Mr. Botelho, who had been ailing for some time, was taken seriously ill in his office on Monday and was conveyed on an ambulance to the Hospital, here he rapidly sank and expired, as before stated, early on Tuesday morning. The newa of his death has been received with dorp regret not only by the Portuguese community but by the large circle of acquaintances which he has made during his tong connection with the Harbour Office. Deceased was buried in the Catholic Cemetery at Happy Valley yesterday afternoon, the staff of the Harbour Department and many friends following his remains to their
at resting place.
To Miss Wan Shuk Ching, of St. Stephon's Girls' College, belongs the honour of being the first Chinese girl student to pass the Oxford Seuior Examination, and, not satisfied with that, Miss Wan has succeeded further in passing with distinction. The Examination was held tu Hongkong in July last, the answers forward. ed to Oxford, and the results have just hean cabled.
STEAMER ASHORE ON THE
PARACELS. Yesterday Mr. Eitzen, the Norwegian Consal at Hongkong, received a telegram from the -captain of the Norwegian staniner Ragnar in forming him that the vessel was ashore on the Paracelo and that the officers and crew were starving. The telegram, which was despatched from Tanky in Tonkin stated that Captain Augensen and his wife, accompanied by one officer and two of the crew, had made their way in a small boat from Pattle Island to the Bay of Auhes. They had experienced great privations, erdr left on the steamer were also in dire straits A request was made for immediate assistance.
The captain also mentioned in his cable that one of the officers had died from typhoid,
withdrawn.
After hoaring the evidence, the jury returned. a verdict of guilty, and His Lordship sentenced the prisoner to three years' imprisonment with
bard labour.
seized belonged to her, as well as the other articles, which she bought with money received from a money loan association,
OXFORD LOCAL EXAMINATIONS.
News has just reached the Warden f St. Stephen's College that out of the 18 boys recommended by the College for the abore not clearly established at the trial that the Examinations all have passed, with the addition railway funds so. misappropriated would of one other who through prolonged absons have been permanently lost, had World not receive the College recommendation, Hongkong Office: 101, DES VEUX ROAD C been asked for an explanation" before steps of the above 19 no less than nine are in the LONDON OFFION: 131, FLEST STREET. EC to prosecute were taken. While the Senior Division, of whom eight are below the and, as the telegram indicated, the officer and damaged her jibboon and the fittings of her to allow the money to remain in Court, and the
Service.
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Press.
HONGKONG, OCTOBER 21ST 1909.
THE conviction of BUTLER WRIGHT ON
prisoner was properly convicted of mis-age necessary to allow them to hear the A.A. appropriation, yet, in view of the deductions degree, three of these being in the Senior and one in the Junior. Only those who are under which have been drawn by the Chinese 18 years of age in the Senior and under 16 in Pross, in order to establish the contention the Junior are eligible for distinction. Follow- that there is nothing to choose between ing are the results: foreign und Chinese control of the accounts, it seems desirable and necessary not only to
dishonesty or negligence of a servant. It is important that this aspect should not be overlooked when there is so much talk of the case being a blow to British prestige in China.
The Bagnar, which is owned by Messrs. Wiel and Amundsen, of Friedrikshali. Nor
His Lordship said it might be a novel prô-
harbour had stories to ball of anxious moments and slight damage. The sailing ship Lynd- hurst, which was lying in the western part of the harbour, dragged her anchers and vollided with the 88. Hongkong Maru. The saller codure, but he thought the bart thing would be port bow, and also the boat deck and one Beza could sue the woman. He then asked the of the lifeboats on the steamer. The sleer the woman if she also claimed the jewellery.
The said she did, as she handed the prisoner ing gear of the Portuguese gunboat Patria, which was lying near Laichikok, was bros the money to buy it.
The boy to which the Government-
en
His Lordship I think the complaisant firm
Launch Stanley is moored broke adrift, but was had better, bring a civil notion in the Summary Senior Fang Han Sui; Loung Nai Tsun way, has a tonnage of 2,070 tons. She is egentually recovered. A strong gust of wind Court. That will be the best way to settle it The Attorney-General-Supposing your Miyasaki Maru was moored, and that vessel Lordship were to order that the property should supped the ring of the buoy to which the went adrift in the height of the storm, Tremain in Court, with leave to either party to analors were promptly run out, however, and apply the vessel held until the typhoon had passed.
Leang Nai Hang, Chan Ying Wing, Cheng I Kam, Cheng Yan-tin, See Chong Su, Wei Junior: Chan Tenn Nin, Ho Wing Kin, Lam Tang, Wei Wing Lock, Wei Wing Xast. Wong Shiu Tung de
Preliminary Lai Hau Young, Lai Hav
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS
kong on the 21st instant, at 8 .m.
The P.M. str. Asia is due to arrive at Hộng
The M.M. str. Armand Behur, with the
charge of misappropriation of railway funds is cortain to receive a great deal of attention lay stress on the prisoner's disclaimer of any Wing Hoa, Yip In Fong, from the Chinese Press, more especially intention to rob, but also on the fact because of the somewhat derid controversy that the case shows clearly enough the which took place six months ago regarding the eagerness of the British and Chinese Corporation to protect the Chinese Govern- termis on which a German syndicate lent toment from any possible loss through the Chin, Lo Kwan In, Lei Ying Chin. China the capital for the construction of the Tientain-Pukow line. British financers held that those terms did not incure the honest administration of the railway funds, and the Kowloon ternis were represented as being the only terms on which money could with absolute safety be lent. The moral which
The Great Northern Eteamship Company's will be drawn from the prosecution and
liner Minnesota, which was due at Manila Conviction of BUTLER WEIGHT will, of yesterday, had 3,500 tons of American cargo for course, be that it completely knocks the that port. Included in the cargo of the Min bottom out of the contention in favour of nesota are 410,000 feet of lumber, more than the superiority of the Kowloon terms as 40,000 sacks of flour and 3,000 cases of salmon. affording the only guarantee for the proper Two antire waiters from the Hangfalau, a adminstration of the loan funds. We do not Chinese restaurant, appeared, before Mr. J. R ourselves adopt the view that the prosecu Wood at the Magistracy yesterday on a charge evidence that the defendants, partook of too much sumelu, and then threw oups and
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manned by three officere and a crew of about 20.
On the circumstances being reported to Com modoro Lyon he endeavoured to get into Wirless communication with the Flora with a view to getting the cruiser to proceed to the assistance of the unfortunate people, hat as response was received, negotiations were sub sequently entered into for a steamer to go to the nexistance of the Bagnas this morning.
THE PRINCE OF WALES'S VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA.
he would take the application on Saturday.
His Lordship decided on this course, and said
The Captain of the French river steamer Charles Hardouin, which arrived in port from Canton yesterday, reported that the wreck of a
PRINCE HISUN IN HONGKONG, large jank was showing three cables south of
Yesterday the warships in the harbour were Pillar Point, four foot of the mast being above decorated in honour of His Imperial Highness the water line. There was also a large quantity. Prince Heun, who, with a party including Admiral of wreckage all the way from Tiger Island to Pillar Point, but the bulk of it was is the Cheo Fong, Chang and ten other attaches, is on Sab, Sir Chantung Ling Chong, Messrs,
vicinity of the Taishan Custome Station..
his way to Europe to make a study of navaj The report boned by the Observatory yester matters. The Prince and party were passengers
that the Pony: "I hope it is, trao typhoon-force-from the N. D. On Tuesday
Bloem
on the German mail steamer Luetzow, which did
ot enter the port on Tuesday but sought a
was so unpropitious yesterday that the official safe anchorage at Junk Bay, but the weather
landing was abandoned, na well as the luncheon. at Mountain Lodge arranged by H.E, the Governor in-honour of the distinguished visitors.
French Mail of the 25th ultimo, and mails from London of the 26th, ultimo, will leave Saigon correspondent sends to the Times the ONL the 21st inst, at 10 p.m., and will probably following extract from a private letter day mentions that Gap Rock reported full arrive here on the 24th instant p.m., and will written by an English settler in the leave for Shanghai and Japan on the afternoon Orange Rivor of Monday, the 25th fustant.
of Wales coming out early as 2 pm, the barometer reading 29.02 The Indo-China str. Feoksang Left Calentta next year to open the new United Parliament, and may be aspected here on or about the 3rd native population, which would not be the case for this port via the Straits on the 18th instant, and I trust he will be shown to the Beer and The typhoon is believed to have entered the
land west of Macao about midday yesterday,
A telegram from the Manila hrvatory to prox.
if he were simply taken to Kimberley, The cargo of Silk shipped on board the MM fontein, Johannesburg and Pretoris. If h the American Consulate-General Hongkong sta. Australien, which left this port on the 14th could motor through different parts of the correceived at 12.20 yesterday reported a typhoon ultimo was delivered in Lyons on the 18th inst, try it would, I believe, do some good! I only rear or over the Western Carolines. almost
The C.P.R. str. Empress of Japan arrived discovered yesterday, through one of my boys Shanghai at 3 am. on the 19th instant, and left that the general ides is that Botha is King of stationary.
10 p.m. same day for Nagasaki, where South Africa. I was showing him the King's
on the 21st inst
photograph, and when I saked who it was, he The C.P.R. str. Express bowls Yokohama at 1130 am on the 20th instant, and told him he was onie (our) King Bat
journey will be made via Biberia, and His where she is due to arrive at 5 p.m. on the 21st South Africa, and low It was true se ha Specialities for the Skin are the study of middle of January. In March he will resume and left again at 5 p.m. samo day for Kobe, he said that could not be. Botha was King of Charmant will enable you to do it Hur Highnem expects to reach Feking, about the
had lately been in the Transmad, where he had The Bank Line
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again at
lhe party willberabark of Genos and proceed direct to padon. Visite will then bo paid to Paris, Rome, Vienna, Borlin and St.
tion has weakened this contention; rather of disorderly behaviour. It appeared from the she is due to arrive at 6 China arrived said, Edward, your King. I corrooted him plexion, Mrs. Filon's, Creme Charmante, Knit Petersburg in the order named. The return
may the contrary be argued. It has struck ns, as doubtless it has struck many others
at one another. His Worship imposed a fine
the money of H.I.M. the EMPEROR OF CHINA' of $100 to keep the peace for six months.
How To Be Beautiful-Keep, your com.. Charmant and Special Skin Tonid and Poudre
as being rather singular that though it was of $3, and bound the defendants over in the sum instant. ina str. Nuveris sailed from Kobe heard it. I doubt very much if I convinced him " / iletima. A. Watson & Co. Ltd. Bole Agents is travels and visit Japan and America,
on the 17th inst