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THE HONGKONG • DAILY PRESS. BATURDAY, AUGUST 26TH, 1992
POSING AS A GOVERNMENT SERVANT.
YOUNG CHINESE SENT TO PRISON FOR FRAUD.
CRUELTY TO A FOWL. THE DIFFICULTY IN FIXING RESPONSIBILITY.
In connection with the remand case in
SWATOW RELIEF FUND.
The
LOCAL CONTRIBUTIONS REACH A HIGH FIGURE.
Cheng Ho, the young Chinese who is which Inspector Fred Fisher of the Fund for the relief of Switow, which none ! General Chamber of Caninerre alleged to have falsely represented the S.P.C.A. charged a market coolie with exceeds 50,000, will be closed at the end anke drastic increases in their charge obtaining certain sums of money from taken yesterday, by Mr. Hamilton pa fund was received, yesterday, from com-] Sanitary Department for the purpose of crucity to a fowl, farther evidence was of the mosth. A large accession to the hat the iden of considering how other well-to-do Chinese, was again brought to the question of responsibility for the panies associated with Mowers Butterfield before Mr. Hamilton "at the Magistrace alleged crucity. The Magisträte at the & Spire: viz., the China Navigation Co., |
las earned such general commendation
Deal companies catering for the public onvenience are fulfilling their obligations. night well be followed.
Take the Hongkong Tramway Co., Ltd., or example,"
yesterday afternoon.
previous hearing had expressed the Ltd.. $2,000; the Taikin Sugar Refining The defendant approached a number-of
opinion that the coalie did not appear to Co., Ltd.. $1,000 and the Taikoo Dock- residents in Caiae Road and Robinsose the man responsible for the offence. Road; pretending that he had been sent produced the master of the Kwong Cheung The Tung Wah Hospital and Chinese At "yesterday's hearing Inspector Fisher yards and Engineering Co., Ltd., $1,000, It is quite obvious that the gentlemen of money for the purpose of supplying and said that he only acted as a middle
poultry shop.
He denied responsibility and the Chiu Chau Eight Districts As- Chamber Fund has now passed. $100,000 who for some inscrutable reason have dustbin. The defendant took the moneyman between the rendor and the pur. ociation has collected a large sum of reen called upon to guide the destinies of and in exchange gave a receipt, stating chaser. The fowls came from abroad, money as well as many gifts in kind, this company in the capacity of Directors at the same time that the dabin would They were unloaded on the Prays nudi
by the Sanitary Bourd to receive a sm
be delivered later.
Four charges were preferred against
hiat
0
AMATEUR DRAMATIC PERFORM- ANCES.
of Hongkong has been drawn upon for theatrical performances, to be held from. All the Chinese amateur dramatic talent
Kaa Fong, in aid of the relief fund. These will be plays in Cantonese with August 6th to 30th at the New Theatre,
ry and no gong beating so they will
be
attractive to students of Chinese.
never make use of the conveyaners which
taken from there to the "lan" tumber along our frontal highway. It is
at No.! lso fairly well known that seldom, if
14, Ching 'Shing "Street" in the original. crates. The marke people came to the ser, do the officials of the Company ride!
Inspector John Grant prosceated and lan and, purchased the lowls the In them. There is no need to do so, appar ferred against the defendant and that was responsibility for the fowls until they said that another charge had been pre The proprietor of the lan" admitted intly for an all-considerate Directorate obtaining the sum of $50 hy false pres were sold to the market poople. After has provided two motor cars. If I um
tences from Pin Chan Kong of Yauamti.that the market people were responsible. mistaken. and the Directors and, bigher officials do make use of their own taum
Peter Young, of No. 9. Conduit Rozu,The fowls were transferred to lighter cars, is is difficult to imagine why the pre between two and three o'clock on August this case the fox is were purchased by the said the defendant came to his house crates supplied. by the market people. In sent state of affairs is allowed to exist. A ride in these days in the tanst-racks and 17th. He producer! a document which San Cheung Tai stall, Central Market.
HELP FROM THE STRAITS. top-deckers is a very dam(p)nable affair. looked very much like a census paper. Inspector Fisher pointed out that the
The Straits Pimes of August 18th gives The muriber of suits of clothes ensigned He handed one of these documents to the original rates for carrying the fowls account of a meeting at the Chines to a too early wash, the germs of cold withers who filled it up at his request, were quite satisfactory and that the fowls Chamber of Commere room, Singapore, at
cred, tempers destroyed and inconvénis
He then asked witness for 125. This was; wer well treated, "
which it was decided to raisë a refišť ence suffered, fr multitudinous.
handed over and the defendant instructed A salesbian, of the San Cheung Tai fund, and $28,000 was subscribed furth- should surely be within the compass of him to get a recript from the office responsibility for removing the fowls from
the witness to send one of his boss with firm, who purchased the fowls, denied with in mounts varying from 10,000 some competent person to devise a simple Defendant added, "when you are paying the man's evidence he prevaricated and and light structure, for the tops of cars rates this money will be deducted." Thej.
the an " to the market. Throughouti which would, "at lenst, be watertight.
This is one thing, and the principal the P.W.D. the defendant told the bows not careful he would"convict him for boy was sent along with defendant. At the Mugistrate informed him, that if hel one at the moment. The other matters of that the receipt would be sent to Me, perjury. Early in his evidence he stated reasonable complaint, include the over Young on the following morning, Wit that he engaged the coolies to bring the crowding which is allowed to take placeness then accompanied the boy to the
It
to $20.
SPORT.
INTERPORT SWIMMING.
in spite of the Company's rule to the con- Public Works Department and it was lies were supplied by the Kwong 8th and 9th between Shanghai, Hangkong trary, which is never insisted upon, and learnt that nothing was known about the the inadequacy on many of the cars of supposed distribution of dustbins. 1st-class, accommodation.-Yours,
The Magistrale: Did this man tell yon that he was representative of the Sanitary Department ?
The witness: Yes, when he handed mg the paper he said he came from thi Sanitary Department,
fowls from the lan" to the market.
Cheung rm. He also denied thus the and Kobe. Later he denied this and said that the take place in Shanghai on September 7th, The Interport Swimming coutests will
fowls were received into the market in the crates were supplied by his arm. The
miginalerates in which they were received Mrom abroad,
RAINDROP.
Hongkong, 25th August, 1992.
KWANGTUNG REORGANIZA- TION BUREAU. THE NEED OF A DEFINITE POLICY.
You know perfectly well that the form it did not occur to me at the pectors of the Sanitary Board wear uni
time I took him for an official.
Li
100 yards, 20 yards, 440 yards, 980 yards, There are eleven events on the card;
team race, dive, long plunge throwing The proprietor of the Kwong Cheung stroke race and 100 yards breast-stroke the pole ball,,water polo, 100 yards buck- Firm was re-called and repeated is! cries were supplied by the San Cheang former statement that the coolies and the Tai firm.
At this stage Mr. Hamilton instructed Inspector Fisher that in future cases to prosecute the vendors and the purchasers of the birds.
The defendant in a statement said that Cheung Tai Firm and that he expected to be paid by the firm. he was taking the fowls to the San
·
race.
W. Sewell (captain) with W. Busschaert G, Jack D. Liang, D. Lyon, F. Souza, "D The Hongkong team will eihaist of G. (subaptain), J. Stewart, J. Johnstone, Noronha and G. Hall
The seam leave by the Jugkor on Sept. 1st,
Amateur Swimming Association has re- The honorary secretary of the Shanghai ceived a cable from Kobe advising that! that port was sending over a team-of
At the conclusion of every Internal cam- paign since the Revolution, plans to any questions to pat, said: Lknow your The defendant, when asked if he had reorganize the parts affected by the strife Worship has a very clear wind and that have been devived but seldom carried out, you are a very learned judge. When I says the L'hinrar Commercial Neves. The spoke to the witness I did not mention recent struggle has been protracted and anything about the Sanitary Department. "Kwangtung is now like a body covered The witness filled in a paper like that with saren." As the opposing parties only produced in Court and I explained that gas, said he hoped the master of the swimmers in response to Shanghai's in- considered their "resprotivé intézesta, no|1 wanted a "paper to enable me to set heed has been turned to the people's suffer, up in business as a dustbin maker. ingy. The idea of a Reorganization The witness denied that the defendant
areau, emanated from Chekiang. Un mentioned anything of the sort. douteilly, it has its uses if it is modelled
The servant boy who accompanied the.
follows:--
The Magistrate, in fining the defendant
purchasing firm would pay the fine. Hevitation, to arrive by the R.M.S. Empress the recalled the salesman of the Sap of Canada," As that vessel is expected to Cheung Tai firm and addressed him as reach Shanghai not before September 9th, the local association are sending word that the Kobe men should get to Shanghai by the 6th at latest, so as to be in good time for the interport contests against Hong- kong, which begin on that date and con- tinue on the next two days.
en blic-spirited lines and devoted to defendant to the Public Works Depart
I have to listen to evidence for about the objects for which it is expressly firm-west was next called but he was unable 12 hours each day. I have never heard Cheking has benefitted from the to give any satisfactory answers to there evidence than yours. You came up scheme the Provierial Constitution has Magistrate's questions and he was told to bere intending to mislead me as much as "been drafted and the province has nuto and down and another victim was call you could. You ought to pay that man's omy in strictly Provincial Affairs-as the ed. This was the complainant in the afth find In future cases you will be sum Tachuriate" has been abolished. The charge. He told the Magistrate that he thoned."
lived at sr. Jordan Road, Yaumaati. On
The defend
- LAWN- TENNIS.
H.K.C.C. d. L.R.C..
TENNIS TROPHIES STOLEN.
to the effect that shortly after tilin on Eridence whs given by Mrs. Remedios the previous day she had just come out. from the Sincers Store when the defend- her hand-purse, containing a $10 bill and Observation-Villas, Kowloon, has reported ant came up from behind and snatched tennis player and residing at No. 5, Major Lloyd, IM.S., the well-known
ivetent plece. She saw the defendant to the police, that between the hours of running away and at once gave chase. i am and 6am on the 21th inst., bis There was a big crowd about at the time. house was eatered by barglars and from plain clothes mea came out of a side cups, valued at 820, were stolen. A cigar Someone blew a police whistle and two a room on the ground floor two tennis street from the Praya, and seized the lighter salued at £4, a travelling clock, the defendant throw away the purse.. youth. When he was seized witness saw valued £10 and a pair of shoes worth $6
Corroborative evidence was given by
were also stolen. Mrs. Carmen Alves, a sister-in-law of the Ars Remedios. She also joined in the
Kwangtung Bureau should devote its August 19th the defendant visited his YOUNG SNATCHER CAUGHT, immediate attention to, firstly, the demobilisation of superfluous military: the building. He asked how many people MAGISTRATE ORDERS "THE CAT." house and said he had called to inspect secondly, suppression of the bandit le lived on the ground floor and first floor.
The following will represent the Indian ments; and, thirdly, compensation for The defendant filled in a paper and Hamilton, at the Magistracy, yesterday ground 10-day at 4.30 p.m.-A. A. Rum-
Recreation Club in sufferers from the recent disturbance. It ordered the witness to provide a dustbin morning, on a charge of having snatched jahn, A. H. Rumjahn, O. Ismail, 0. A young Chinese appeared before Mr. against the H.K.C.C. on the latter's a friendly match mast first accomplish these policies before for each floor. ambitious Provincial Self-Government they had never used dustbins previously. A hand-parse from Mrs. J. J. V. Remedios Rumjahn, S. A. Rujahn and H. D.
Witness explained that schemes are projected.
Unless this is All the refuse of the house, was generally the previous afternoon outside the Rumjahn. done soon. Kwangtung will have the thrown into the dusteart.
Singere Company's Store. reputation of being the hunting ground of ant then said "You will be fined for militarists and handits. To ensure the doing that. You will have to pay 850 for leaders' positions the civil population has two bins." Witness banded over the to submit to having their bodies carved | 850. - and, the breaking of their bones.", Lung The Magistrate: Do you mean to say Chai Kwong and Lu Yang Ting both that you paid him-8501-Fe claimed that, they ruled Kwangtung by
Did he tell you he came from the right of conquest. They were not Canton- Sanitary Board He said he was em
c and we naturally did not expect ployed in the Government Service. Sympathy from them. But our
The Magistrate (to defendant): It is Provincials aver that they obtained con-
quite clear that you got the money hy trol by blood and flesh and the reward
false pretencëя. they anticipate is the civil population's property. We can look forward to a re petition of the Lung and Lu regimes, when the only nabition of the officials was Personal enrichment and a complete dis regard of reorganization and progress.
The future of Kwangtung is in the hands of a few important men and her destiny will depend on their intentions; unless they renounce the corruptions usually con- meated with the men in power, nothing in the way of progress can be attained. The present worry is not whether the Bureau
fellow
The defendant repented his former story his intention to apply the bins later.! that he got the honey on loan. It was.
The Chinese proprietor of á provision
the first and last charges and decided the plain clothes men were detectives as and sundry goods store at Singapore,
The Magistrate convicted defendant on chase. The defendant must have known not to proceed, with the other three he threw away the bag immediately be- charges....
tore he was seized by them. Br. Inspector Grant said the man had a Chinese detective No. 109, who said he years prior to his Bling his petition he Evidence as to the arrest was given by last week admitted that during the three undergoing his examination in bankruptcy previous conviction.
saw the defendant take out the purse from had been living at the rate of $20,000 -- The Magistrate: This is a very sway.
under the flap of his coat and throw it serious business. You have got hold of some printed documents and you have let said the purse was taken by another man deserved to be locked up for extravagant The defendant denied the charge and Chief Justice told the bankrupt he year, whereupon his lordship the acting] number of people know that you were through a
who made good his escape by running representative of the Government. You This man threw the purse at his feet.
house in Wing Kut Street, living. On the bankrupt replying that Hamilton ordered the man to be
he was an inveterate chandu smoker, and
will be formed or not," but whether the aro sentencel to six months hard labour sent to gool for three months, with hard had three wives and, six children his officials who will be in supreme control or each charge, both charges to run con- labour and that he was to be given six lordship said: will actually follow the nolicies set forth currently..
strokes of the "cat"
bankrupt
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