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ADPREME COURT.
Thursday, 18th July.
IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.
BEFORE THE CHhier Justice (Hon. Ma. KER DAVIES, K.O.)
THE ATTEMPTAD ASSASSINATION OF
HS THE GOVERNOR. Considerable interest was manifested in the appearance of Li Hồn Hung on the charge of attempted murder, to which he I plunded guilty. Crowds of Chinese gathered round the entrance to the Law Courts, cager to catch a glimpse of the
who had become notorious. In the Inrge Court the body was filled to its atinost, sume 500 at least being present. A number of Europeans, including many Tadies, also attended,
When the prisoner was brought into Court, he was charged on, two counts, the first with attempting to shoot Sir Henry May with a revolver with intent to kill and murder, and the second with attempting to de grievous bodily harm.
Prisontor pleaded guilty to both counts. His Lordship-You understand the charge to which you are pleading guilty, pleading guilty to shooting the flovernor
with intent to murder?
Prisoner-I understand it, my Lord. The Registrar-Have you anything to say why sentence should not be passed
upon you?
the same.
Hou. Mr. Alabaster, who conducted the ense for the Crown, anid-The two counts upon which the prisoner has pleaded guilty are alternative, I do not ask your Lordship to sentence the prisoner on moro than one.
The prisoner has pleaded
THE POKPULUM MURDER.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, JULY 19cm, 1912.
Fong Yuct, Lo Chun Tat, and Fong Theung were indicted on the charge of murdering a Chinese at 35, Pokfulum Road.
Prisoners pleaded not guilty, Hon. Mr. Alabaster, instructed by Mr. Hodg. son, Assistant Crown Solicitor, appeared for the Crown, and Mr. R. E. Belilios, instructed by Mr. Willson, appeared for the defondants.
The following jury was empanelled: Messrs. W. Stewart, A. 8. Ellis, A. A. Fife, W. E. Dubgen, E. J. Waterman, 13. R. McKenzie, and Alex. Nicol.
Mr. Alabaster outlined the case for the prosecution. He said that the deceased was in the top storey of the house at 35, Pokfulam Road, and there were alzo presont his brother, his brother's wife, and an amah. Some people forced their way into the room and demanded money from the deceased's brother. There was a struggle and the brother was bound and Ragged by the second prisoner and others. His wife was also bound and gagged. Some of the men went into the verandah, where the deceased was, and there wAN evidently a
severe. struggle, with the resuit that the deceased was wounded and went over the verandah, a distance of some forty feet, dying a few hours after- wards. If counsel succeeded in proving that the prisoners were there for a com mon purpose of carrying out an unlawful act and that the deceased as a result met his death it was not necessary for him
adjourned.
BEFORE MR. H. H. J. GOMPERTZ ((PURNE JUDAE.)
A STEALING A MONEY BOX.
COMPANY MEETING,
GANDE, PRICE & CO. The fifth ordinary annual meeting of shareholders of H. Prier & Co., Ltd., was hold at the Company's Offices, 12, Owen's Road, yesterday. Mr. Chan Kai Ming prosided, and there were presont-Mosers. A. Kumjahn, managing director, Lan Po Wing, director, J. J. Blake, Chan Ah Ying, M. A. Razack, Chui Mi Man and E. A. Williaus, and C. Bond (secretary).
also
The Secretary having wad the notice convening, the meeting,
The CHAIRMAN suid-The report and statement of account having been in your hands for some time, I propose to tako them as read. Your directors regret very much that the working for the past year
Navy, and last but not least the keen computition which has been in our way, I think we should heartily shake hands with ourselves and tender our sincoro Company, but also to the staff, for the thanks, not only to the directors of the able manner in which they have looked after our interesta during the past twelve
months.
The motion was carriod, The-CHAIRMAN proposed, and Mr. CHAN AH VINO Boconded, the re-election of Messra. Lowe Bingham and Matthews as auditors, at a remuneration to be here- after hised by the directors. The proposi- tion was carried.
The CHAIRMAN-That is all the business,
gentlemen. I hope you will be luckier
next year.
PAT MEN'S TROUBLES.
THE HURSHBACK DELÆSION,
In his latest book Dr. Woods Hatchin
!
$
And so, having gone through this ex- perience myself, I am in a position to appreciate what any other man of my general build is going through as I see him bobbing by. And, besides, I know
Sot,
that riding a horso doesn't reduce a fat. men. It merely reduces the horse.
that fat
people are always getting
worst of it, and of all the ills that flesh is heir to, the worst in
on says that fat people are happier than other people. How does he know ? decline to accept his statements unchal- lenged, says Irwin B. Cobb.
Stomachs are the curse of our modern the flesh itself. History is studded with
When a man gets a instances of prominent persons who lost-- civilisation.
tummy "his troubles begin...
because they got lat. Doctor Johnson was a fat man and he suffered from It steals on one insidiously, like a thief wa in the night. You notice that you are
prickly hent, and from Boswell, and from the fact that he couldn't eat without spil- plumping out a tritle, and for the time
satisfaction in it.
Your shirts at you stripling Napolon altered the map of thin and spindly zantine landing. As ifti fel a sort of small personal in st of the gravy on his second spil better.
Europe and stood the nations on their But a day comes when you find your
heads. It was after he had grown fat dress suit is about three sizes too small. and pursy that he landed on St. Helena The buttons that should adorn the front and spent his last days on a barron rock, of the coat are now plainly visible from with his arms folded, posing for steel engravings. Felstaff was fat, and he lost. the favour of kings in the last act.
the rear.
You are lat! You are something for
was so uneatisfactory. In consequence of the Oxford Mission House in Calcutta, neople to laugh at. You are also expect | WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.
How true is the saying that nobody loves a fat mont When fat comes up to the front door love jumps out of the third-storey window. Yet the fattest are the truest, if you did not but know it, and the tenderest; and a man with a double chin rarely leads a double life. For one thing, it requires moving about.
ON SEEKING EMPLOYMENT.
THE MAN WHO CAN DO ANYTHING YOU LIKE The Epiphany, a paper publisheci by has the following dialogue which may beed to laugh. the troubles in China the Kritish Flert studied with advantage by a good wany was absent from our harbour during the people besides those who think that a shipping; our coast ports business was winter season and there was less foreigh degree qualifies to earn a living:
A.-Sir, I have been told that you are practically at a standstill.
a very kind gentleman, therefore I have come to you to ask you to help me to I shall be very glad to do what I these depressions, two firms closed their get employment. shutters, the result being that unpre-eau for you, provided you do not ask cedented sales of whiskies and wines have no to do anything anreasonable.
A.Will you give me a certificate! taken place in auction roume. Compeli-
B.Is that reasonable I have never tion has been becoming more acute and seen you before. in order to increase our sales we had to
more spend
money in newspaper advertisements. Our branches in Japan and Fermust have not realised the hopes
aware,
Added to
to prave that any one of the prisoners had cherished, and steps are being struck noy actual blow. Counsel detail taken to close them. The Canton and Prisoner--I have nothing to add to what I said at the Police Court. I ploadeninght red-handed as he was running
ed how the first prisoper was practically Kowloon branches have already been closed. Your directors, however, are away from the scene, as was also the pleased to say that, so far, the traile, this second, who ran into the arms of a de-year, up to the end of June, has improved tective. The third prisoner was arrested very mich, our local business has shown next day. He with the others was identi- an increase of about $18,500 over the sume fed by the people in the house." period of last year. Many of our con- Evidence was heard and the hearing stituents have responded to our appeal for advertising allowances. Since the beginning of this year, as you are already we acquired the business of Messrs. J. W. Gande & Co., of Shanghai, and we are glad to learn from our inanaging director that our Shanghai firm has been doing an increased business during the last few months. In the months of May and June last their túra- over was about 50 per cent. over the corresponding period of last year when the business was privately owned by
Messrs. J. W. Gande & Co.
You will remember that on the 19th Dreamber last special resolutions were passed for the issue of 14,000 new shares, 4,000 of which were to he issued to Messrs. J. W. Gando & Co. at par, and 6,000 shares at 2 premium. The 1,000 shares to be issued to Messrs. J. W. Gande & Co. were for
guilty to the moat dastardly crime which I think it is possible to imagine. He Las pleaded guilty to shooting at Sir- Hanry May, who is now the Governor of this Colony, with intent to murder hin On the 4th July, Sir Henry May arrived in this Colony to take up the srims of government, and having inspect ed the goard of honour at Blake Pier he and Lady May and their daughters gut into chairs to proceed with the pro- cassion to the City Hall to receive an address of welcome from the community, Sir Henry May's chair was on the right and Lady May's chair was on the left.
On each sido there were four Indian constables: Behind these were other police, and the streets were lined with troops. The chairs had proccoded about fifty yards, when the prisoner, who had evidently been waiting for the purpose, ran out between the troops and between the second and third Indian constables, pot his hand and elbow on the chair
cupied by Sir Henry, and pointed point
blank at Sir. Henry May's head. "Had it not been for the prompt action of Indian constable in throwing up his ayn and of Sergeant Garrod in running forward and seizing his wrist, there would have been no doubt but that he
would have carried out his dreadful purpose. The shot, despite the divergence
and attempted to fire a second shot. Be
So Taut and Lai Tak Tsoi worr clarged with attempting to steal an iron cage containing $21 from a shop at Mongkok tani. Mr. Eldon Putter, instructed by Mr. J. H. Kemp, Crown Solicitor, pro-
krusited.
The following jury was empanelled: Messrs. W. C. Halley, foreman, C. A. Peel, W. B. Marshall, G. T. Lawson, E. D. Haskell, T. A, Mackintosh. and C. Harshop.
One prisoner who pleaded not guilty was acquitted bat the other was convicted and sentenced to one year's imprisonment
with hard labour.
A NEW BARRISTER.
was unable to get it at preacut. Mr.
A.-But I am a very poor man, and if you do not give me a certifieste, how ean get employment?
B.--You mean that you want me to testify to your character when I do not In other words, to tell a lie. No, you must ask know anything about you. me to do something more reasonable than that.
A.--Well, will you give me an employ break?
·II.-What can you du ?
too much
A fat man cannot wear the clothes he would like to, He cannot indulge his innocent desires in this direction without grieving his family and exciting the decisive laughter of the unthinking. It he puts on file a Hanging Garden of Babylon. And yet he has a figure just made ler showing off a fancy-flowered vest to the best effect.
say looks
Not for him the silken shirt with the bread stripes. Shirts with stripes that were meant to run vertically, but are caused to run horizontally by reasons over which the wearer has no control, remind others of the awning over a shop window, Nobody sympathisos with a fat man. The authorities recommend health ex- ercises; but who wants to greet the dewy
said:
PROSPECTS IN CHINA.
Sir Robert Laidlaw in the course of. his address to the shareholders of th above Company at their annual acting I mentioned last year that arrange- 'monts had been entered into under which new premises wore to be built for us in Hongkong. Satisfactory progress being made with this building, and it
IN
expected we shall be in possession early in January next. We shall then have the frent business premises in the Colony. fidently be noticipated. Shanghai, I am and a large increase in trade may con- glad to say, shows a satisfactory increas", both in trade and profits. Some of our competitors, I observe from their reports, complain that depression and falling off of trade have been occasioned by the Re- volution in China. I am glad to say that we have no cause for complaint on this score; our trade has not suffered in the slightest degree. We have made a large increase in turnover and a cores...
A-I can do anything you like, sir. B.--Can you really? You are the very man 1 want, I have long been in search of a man who could do anything I like.morn by laying flat on his back and lift-sponding increase in profits. The in- ing his feet liity timos What kind of ¦ dications are that western ideas of dress way is that to greet the dewy morn any are being more and more adopted by the how And bending over with the knees Chinese, and we are, of course, making stiff and touching the tips of the toss it our business to supply the demands of with the tips of the fingers that's no the people of the country as well as for- employment for a grown man with aeign residents. With regard to extensions family to support and a position to in China, you will all agree that it is maintain in society. Besides which, it sannot be done.
Only I am afraid I shall not be able to pay you a high enough salary. If you can do anything I like, you ought to be Viceroy of India.
A.-Sir, I am afraid you are laughing at me..
R.Not at all. I am too delighteil to have met you. I suppose, for instance, you can do typewriting and shorthand!
A.-No, sir; I have not learnt either
these things.
of
B.That's a pity. But have you an accountant's certificate!
A. No, sir; 1 have Heter kept
But I could learn to do so. accounts.
BI-am afraid that won't suit me.
My business won't allow me to spend my time in teaching other people their business.
A.--Well, won't you give me something that I can do?
B-I am trying to discover what you can do, but so far your replies are only negative.
A-Sir, I am a B.A. of the Calcatta University,
piano." Can you do that?
plating."
B. Wanted, an expert in
Maybe you try dieting, which is con- trary to Nature. Nature intended that a fat man should eat heartily, else why should she endow him with the capacity and the accommodation t Of course, he might bant in the same way that a woman bants. You know how a woman
bants. She begins the day very resolute- ly, and if you are her husband you want to avoid irritating her or upeatting her, because hell hath no fury like a woman banting. For breakfast she takes a swallow of lukewarm water and half a biscuit. For luncheon she takes the other half of the biscuit and leaves off the water | For dinner she orders everything on the menu except the date and the name of the proprietor. She does this in order treatment. to give her strength to go on with the
Walking is sometimes recommended, and the example of the camel is pointed out, the canuel being a creature that can walk for days and days. But, as has been said by some thinking person, who in thunder wants to be a camel?
The subject of horseback riding is also electro-brought up frequently in this connection. It is one of the coramonest delusions
must be a qualified surgeon.
A-I never heard of electric-plating. among fat men that horseback riding B.--" Wanted a Sanitary Inspector--- | will make them sylphlike and willowy.
surgery
A--But I have no qualifications in
of his own experience:-
have several among my list of acquaint- ances who labour under this fallacy. None of them was ever a natural-borni horseback rider not one will be. I like to ga out of a bright morning and take a comfortable sent on a park bench-one is plenty roomy enough if nobody else is using it--and sit there
watch
apd
drairable to move with great caution, but when the country becomes settled under the new Government there will, ao doubt, be a number of promising openings for new branches in that country.
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Salary Wanted, a piano-timer. tures, ete, to he taken over by us at par,
Rs. 350 a month." Can you tine pianos? but we have actually issued to them 3, 195 A. No, sir; I have not learnt. At the Supreme Court yesterday, before shares only, as their stock, furniture; B. Wanted a young man to play the the Chief Justice (Hon. Mr. W. Rees fixtures, etc., passed on to us were worth Davies, KC.). Hon. Mr. Alabaster, the value of the shares issued to them
A.-I am afraid not. Attorney-General, moved the Court to at par. 2,595 shares at premium have admit and enrol to practise at the bar of the Court, Mr. F. C. J. Jenkins. Mr shares uuullotted. In view of there being been also taken up, leaving therefore 4,210 Jenkins, was known personally to Mr. Potter and to Mr. Reader Harris. His directors have decided that the unallotted no dividend for last year's working, your Lordship had power to dispense with shares be offered first to the present share some experience
Wanted a colliery manager, with
engineering." caused when it was fired, missed Sir certain formalities. Que was the preholders, old and now, and the balance A.-But I never learnt engineering, Fleury May's chair and lodged in thesentation of the certificate of call. Mr. (if any) to the public. Out of the 2,593 B.-Well, now you see that there are heaps of employment going abegging, canopy of Lady May's chair. The pri- Jenkins had brought out bis certificate of shares issued at $12 per share, your but for each one there is required not these friends of mine bouncing by, euch soner, struggled with Sergeant Garrod call, but it was in his luggage, and he managing director has taken 1,200 shares, person who can do anything you like
wearing on his face that set expression scen also on the faces of some men while (T Squares, Set Squares, Straight Edges.
Scales, Inks, &o., ko) has pleaded guilty to the charge, and Jenkins would undertake to deposit it and he also took up 1,000 shares at 812 bat a person who can do one thing well.
when entertaining their relatives by In pleaded guilty at the Magistracy. He with the Registrar as soon as he was able per share of the 3,000 shares issued last Any one of these posts is open to you waltzing, and on the faces of most women
year at 8 premium. This fact shows, un condition that you acquire the re-
quisite knowledge and skill. See here marriage. I have one friend who is says he has nothing further to add to to reach it. what he said then. Counsel then read
gentlemen, the confidence which he has in what is said by Mark Twain--a shrewd addicted to this form of punishment in the Company, in which he is the largest American who writes out of the fullness a violent, not to say a malignant, form. the statement made by accused before the
shareholder. You may depend upon it
He uses for his purpose a tall and self- "Literature, like the ministry, medi-willed horse of the Tudor period--a horse Magistrale, which has already appeared
that everything that lies in the power of cine, the law, and all other occupations, with those high dormer effects and a slop in our columns.
your directors to make this Company at is cramped and hindered for want of men ing mansard. This horse must have been th. When people tell you the reverse, and dance business. Every time he hopes great success will be done with their best to do the work, not by want of work to trained, I think, in the knockabout ability But we are all human, and me they speak that which is not true. If music, or thinks he hears it, he stops and takes in the opening of branches have you desire to test this, you need only vamps with his feet. When he does this, huat up a first-class editor, reporter, my friend bends forward and clutches been dearly paid for by us; the greatest business manager, foreman of a shop, him mund the neck tightly. I think he sufferer being your managing director, mechanic, or artist in any branch of is trying to whisper in the horse's car who, as I have said, holds the bulk of our industry, and try to hire him. You will and beg him in Heaven's name to for BALLADE OF SIMPLER NAMES.
shares. From henceforth we will find that he is already hired. He is sober, bear. When that horse dies he will still (George and Mary are the most popular endeavour to confine our sphere of opera-industrious, capable and reliable and is have finger marks on his throat and the He cannot get a authorities will suspect foul play prob- always in demand. names, nowadays, and the vegne for high-tions in China. Our expenses are being day's holiday except by courtesy of his ably,
Once I tried it myself. I was induced ning names of three and four syllables reduced and will show an appreciable employer or his city, or the great general has passed away.)
public. But if you need idlers, shirkers, to scale the heights of a horse that was reduction from next year, when a great half-instructed, unambitious and comfort-built along the lines of the Adens Moun- reduction in our rental account will tako secking editors, reporters, lawyers, doctains, only more rugged and steeper near- The neighbours envy to compel
place, as your Chairman has bought a tars and mechanics, apply anywhere. ing the crest. From the ground he look- By vain attempts to glorify
property in Queen's Road, close to this There are millions to be Ind at the drop-ed to be not more than sixteen hands Their babes with names they scarce can place, which will be let to the Company ping of a handkerchief."
high; as soon as I was up on top of spell,
on the basis of 7 per cent, outlay. A.~Do you think, sir, that I am an him I discerned that it was not sixteen Like Ermyntrude and Asphodel;
Gentlemen, this Company has puid 43 por¦ idior or a shirker?
hands-it was sixteen miles. Before I They're getting humbler in their aims, cont. dividend during the first four years B. Not for one moment. What I say could make any move to descend to the
And choosing Mary, Joan, and Nell;
of its registration, and through unforeseen is, that there are two classes of qualities lower and less rarific altitudes he began This is the day of simpler names.
circumstances no dividend can be paid for required-the technical and the moral. In executing a few fancy stops and started the fifth year, a fact which your directors order to get your employment, you must travelling sidewice with a kind of a slant deeply deplore. By special resolutions have technical skill or knowledge in some ing bias movement that was extremely passed on the 19th December ingt year one subject. In order to industry, straight, abend. I clang there astraddle disconcerting, instead of proceeding
Proceeding, he said--It is evident that the prisoner refers to the Ordinance passed last your before Sir Henry May's
arrival.
Flis Lordship-Ask him whether be understands what is being said.
The interpreter having interpreted to prisoner,
Mr. Alabaster said that it was evident
that in doing this the prisoner and he knows what be is doing was actuated by no personal illwill towards the object of his attack, but in doing his terrible crime he was attempting to strike terror into the hearts of the Government of this Colony by this dastardly attempt on its chief representative. The Crown regards the case as an extremely serious one.
His Lordship-Li. Hon Hung, you have ploaded guilty to a moet dastardly crime, a crime which is regarded with abhor- rence, I am sure, by every one of your
and countrymen in Hongkong,
the
His Lordship said that as regards the certificate, it would need to be lodged with the Registrar, but as to the aidavit of identity he thought it was wholly un- necessary. He had much pleasure in ad- mitting Mr. Jenkins to practise at the bar of the Court, and he hoped that his
sojourn here would he most prosperous.
No inore do foolish parents try
And little boys no longer sigh
Beneath a name they dare not tell, A name that measures half an oll. Perey and Clarence hear their knell
of
the name of our Company was changed must have the moral qualities of industry, ridge pole, with my fingers twined motives which you put forward at the In Edward, Hoary, George, and James from the 1st January this year to Gande. I perseverance, bonesty and absolute trust his mane, trying to anticipate where
Police Court regarding the circumstances have no foundation whatever in fact, and they do not in the least palliate your crime. If you had succeeded in your attempt you would havo forfeited your life. It is my duty to insure that a man of your dangerous character should not again be at large in society. The sen- tence of the Court is that you be imprisoned for life with hard Tabour.
Prisoner-received the sentence calmly and was removed in custody without attering another word.
Past is the polysyllable- This is the day of simpler names,
Those appellations which belie
The children who in suburbs dwell (Amid surroundings all away, With Launcelot and Isabel, Or Marmaduke and Philomel, The fitting style of knights and dames) No longer bind them with their spell; This is the day of simpler names. And, since our Sovereigns impol
Attention to the ancient claims; Of George and Mary, none rebel;
This is the day of simpler names.
-T.P.
Price & Co., Ltd. With these romarks I propose that the directors report and statement of account for the year 1912 as, Iaid hefore you be adopted and passed.
There being no questions, The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report and accounts.
Mr. J. J. BLAKE in seconding said Considering the great abstacles which have been in the way of business during the past year, I am of the opinion, and I have no doubt the majority of share holdere will bear me out, that we are very fortunate the losses are not much more than what is placed before us on the balance sheet. When you come to take into consideration the revolutionary move ment, the absence of the ships of H.M.
worthiness. Very probably you have those in qualities, but employers will not believe he would be next. in order to be there to meet him if possible; and I resolved that you have them on your own were assertion, nor on mine either. You have that if Providence so willed it that I
prove your possession of them by your acts.
A-You will not then give me a lottér of recommendation!
to
B-Certainly not. If I did I should ruin my chance of ever being able to help anyone again. For employers would soon find out whether my letter were founded on real knowledge of the characters of those persons whom I recommenal; or on foolish good nature,
A.-What then am I to do?
B. Do as I tell you. Make yourself proficiert in some one branch of art or knowledge.
should get down from up there alive, I would never do so again.
At that moment, of all the places in the world that I could think of, there were just two where I least desired to bo-one was up on top of that horse, and the other was down under him. Buz it seemed to be choice of the two evils, and so I chose the lesser, and got under him. I did this by a simple expedient
that occurred to me at the moment. I foll off. I was trampled on considerably, and the earth proved to be harder than it looked when viewed from an approxi- mate height of nixteen miles up.
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