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A SUICIDE FROM THE “NILE." THE HONGKONG ART CLUB.
SUGGESTIONS OF FOUL PLAT
DISPROVED.
[CONTRIBUTED.]
The Juve meeting of the Hongkong
as hostess. Taken altogether, the sketches
When the Chiun Mail steamer Wild Art Club was held at Tregunter Stansione reached Yokolna she was boarded by on Monday afternoon, with Miss Bowen the water.police" in extraordinary num. bery" for the purpose of investigating a report that a Japanese schoolboy had jumped overboard and was drowned while the ship was on a voyage from San Fran eisen in March.
on this secusion were a little below the usual standard.
The most votes for the set subject, viz., The boy, it appears, was being sent Trees, went to Mr. Cole for his picture hy his parents in Los Angeles to attend fun-lit sylvun gada seen through school in Japan. When the Wile arrived the spaces between some veteraps of the at Yokohama on March 93th, the captain forest. On the green sward were faries reported to the harbour police that the dancing, and under the shade of the trees boy had jumped overboard during the young girl held up a warning fuger voyage. His baggage was turned over to lest the fairies fade away. The grotesque the policy Recently, an
uncle of the holes of the trees give an old-world air boy chine to Tokuhama and reported to to the picture, and the red and bhis the police that he had received a letter | tinges between the trunks of the trees in from the boy's father, who wrote that the the woods beyond served as an indicatiña youth was sailing on the steamer ile of the silence and gloom prevailing there, The uncle, it seems, had heard nothing There were severa studies of trees by until then of the boy's disappearance Mr. Abbas, and aleo an oil puinting. from the ship.
Mrs. Brown showed a small tree picture done with a flowing brush giving a good blend of colours and a happy picture of
Toko showed a fine oil painting of a glass jar filled with pink cosmos.
A very fresh, clean looking little series of water-colours by Miss Bowen were well worth inspection, especially one of the Peak and another depicting a small junk with islands in the distance.
The police told the uncle what the ship's master had reported and allowed him to look through the youth'a baggage typical Peak hillside. There was, also, it was then that charge of foul play a very fine palm tree by Mr. Trumbitzky was made by the boy's uncle which caused Mr Bowes "watercolour painting of n Votes for the open subject favoured the water police to moet the steamer i Faltor vase filled with hydrangeas Airs more than usual' strength for an investi. gation. The usele said that according to the letter the boy left San Francisco with Y.1,200 in cash and a check for Y.500. This money was supposed to be in the boy's trunk, but axamin
mination dis closed that Y.1200 was missing. Part of the money the anele said, was for him and part for
the boy's schooling. Accord There were a number of stall pictures ing to
the,
Of these board the banese Press, foul play on bearing the name of Lovell,
was suspected.
the Puli, Honolulu, and Durban City, Although the reason for the boy's jump-Arrow Lakes, B.C. seemed to recall the ing overboard in Likely to remain a my-atmosphere and influence of the places. stery, that it was miside and not foul play Mr. Columbine sent some very good which caused his death is definitely estab. | black-and-white sketches in the Gladys lished. According to the captain of the Peto style; Mrs. Pittendrigh a nicely ship." at 5.30 o'clock on the morning of coloured view of one of the Penk valleys: March 15th the third mate of the vessel, Miss Kirkpatrick an amusing little car- who was on the bridge, saw the youth toon; and Mr. Trambitzky a fascinating appear at the railing and act as if he were Russian mosque. "going to jump overboard. The mate called to him and then ran through the wheetroom to the side of the ship where the boy was standing. He was still some distance from the lnd when he called again and ordered the boy to stop. The youth looked up at the ship's officer, bowed and leaped overboard. The mate at once gave the signal that a man was overboard, throw out a buoy, wheeled the steamer wound and had a life boat low- ered. The boy made no use of the buoy and the crew in the lifeboat could potters helped to make Miss Bowen's draw- find his body, which had sunk. The ship ing-room, with its glorious view across could do nothing but continue the voyage the harbour, a vory pleasant little place, and the matter was reported to the bar- bour police when the steamer arrived 10 days later at. Yokohama.
Possible explanations offered by these interested in the case are that the youth had misused the money entrusted to him and committed suicide rather than fácá the consequence, or that he was out of his right mind when he jumped over- board and had the money on his person..
Miss Bigukora was at the exhibition herself but was not showing any pictures: possibly she has been too busy with the students in the studio which she has started. Noticeable absentees from the meeting were Mrs. Macpherson. Mrs. Humphreys, Mr. Bion, and Col. Loring. We shall look forward to some good work from them at the next show.
General and Lady Kirkpatrick, Mrs. Ram. Mrs. Bird, Dr. Carvalho, Col Nicholson, Miss Edkins and other mem-
and one was not sorry for the time spent either with the pictures or the people,
a
YOUTH'S SCANDALOUS
CONDUCT.
A DOUBLE. CRIME.
A Chinese youth was charged before
THE RUSSIAN LIGHT OPERA Mr. G. N. Orme, yesterday, with buy-
CO.
ing taken a 17-year old' üninscried girl frium the legal custody of her mother, and with having stolen $100 from the girl's mother.
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"THE DOLLAR PRINCESS." The nasal tang was the only thing lacking in the performance last night Inspector Blackman, of No. 2*Police to assure the audience that this was the Station, said that the girl and her real thing straight from New York, other lived in Taihang, where the Instead, there was again a superb render. wennen kept a daigy farux
The defer- ing of another bgft opera (the Company dant was employed there as an assistant: has given a different piece at each per but was dismissed one time ago. Siner formance) and soloists and chorus alike, then, he had beg in the habit of "visit- covered themselves with distinction, ing the girl in the absence of her mother. Barely has such singing-been heard in On June 9th, after breaking open one of the Colony. It is robust and it is her boxes and stealing $100, he enticed gentle, sweet and pure, with all that the girl to go with H to the theatru. attention to light and shade which At the end of the performance, he took. denotes the fine artiste. The handicap her on board a Canton vessel, and they, of a strange language is lost in the went to Fatahan together. There "they succession of sweet sounds which follow" had a good time until all the money one" upon the other. As ou other occa was spent, when they returned to Hong- aions, the orchestra was no slight fuctor kong, og June gist. The defendant part- in the success achieved; the spirited ed with the girl at the Polo ground. conducting of the instrumentalists is after having persuaded her to return wonderful and interesting thing, It is home and steni several hundred dollars Personality written in capitals.
THE PROSCRIBED AUFUITES TRIALS AND DEATH SENTENCES.
from her mother for then to start busi- ness in the country. They arranged to mert in the evening on the Polo ground. The girl, however, told her mother all that had occurred, and they went to the defendant was not on the Pole ground in police station and made a report. The the evening. He was not seen again The Supreme Coprt at Peking has con until June 26th when the girl's mother cluded the trials of the Anlu Party who found him in hiding in Kowloon City, were proscribed by mandate last year. and gave him in charge." They went With the exception of Chu Shea, Wung before the N.C... who referred the case Chib-lung and. Liang, Hung-chih, all to the Police Court.
were sentenced to death. As sú Shu- After corroborative evidence had been tsong has escaped to Cheklung, the given by the girl and her mother, the Peking court bus telegraphed to the defendant made a statement. He dented Hangchow court ordering his arrest.
The Government intends shortly again enticed the girl away,
having stolen any money, or having He said it wae to ask the Japanese Legation to hand she who suggested. eloping to Fatshion. over the members of the Anfu Party who she paid all the expenses, and when she are seeking shelter in the military com- get tired of Fatahari, he brought her back pound of the Japanese Legution.
to: Hongkong.
LABOUR TROUBLES IN JAPAN, FIGHT BETWEEN WORKMEN AND
POLICE.
The Magistrate. in passing sentencs of 12 months' hard labour, remarked that that the defendant could count himself lucky that he had not committed the offence in Chinese territory or he would have been shot.
A fight took place between 2,000 employés of the Fujinagata Dockyard THE METHOD OF MOUNTING and the police nt Osaku, on June 10th.
The house of Mr. Suzuki, an import ant official of the dockyard, was attack ed by a mob, numbering 200, the win dows were broken, but the timely inter- reution of the police prevented further Gamage.
Clubs, swords, and stones were freely spectacle glasses is of the greatest used; and 50 casualties resulted, of importance, writes Dr.. 0. Hartridge," which 19 were among the police; an office F.R.C.S., Ophthalmic Surgeon and near-by was seriously, damaged.
Lecturer on Ophthalmic Surgery to the Westofinster Hospital, they must be accurately centred in frames that are light, strong and fit well, otherwise the good effect of the most carefully chosen correction may be entirely frustrated by afanity, position of the glasses, or even a fresh source of eye-strain may be intro duced The Hongkong Optical Co., successors to Clark & Co., Befract ngʻand Manufacturing Opticians, located in 53, Queen's Road Certral, have the equip ment and instrument, to adjust your spectacle to a nicely-Anvr. [562...
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