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THE HONGKONG DAILY PŘESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11TH, 1925
SHARE ALLOTMENTS.
LATE BISHOP CASSELS.
MESSRS, POWELL'S OBTAIN EXTEN. DEATH OF FAMOUS MISSIONARY
SION OF TIME FOR FILING,
As the Supreme Court Festerday be. Chief Justice (Sir Heary fore", the Gollan), Mr. T. Addis, applied on be half of Messrs. William Powell & Co. for an extension of time to file their
MORE BORDER · INCIDENTS.
VILLAGE ATTACKED BY 30 MEN AND CHILDREN KIDNAPPED..
UETECTIVE'S NARROW ESCAPE
Considerall activity is being shown on the harder of the New Territories by the Chiness. Hardly a day passes without sone, incident, such as the crossing of pickets into British territory, or the dis-allotments, ". "charge of firearms at European, Weibai- wei or Indian police and Chinese villagers on the British side, being reported.
Yesterday, twat reports reached the live.
Mr. Addis said that Company allotted shares on March 1st and May 1st, 1024, apd between February 1st and February 24th, 1995, more shares were allotted. Mr. H. Osborne Holt was then secretary, but he bad since left the Celoay. During the month of November of this year, after Mr. Holt's departure, it was dis- covered that returns of allotments had not been filled.
In one instance it was a cute of armed rabbers and kidnapping. The village of Heung Yuen, in the Sheung Shui district, was attacked by thirty men, armed with rifles and revolvers, about midnight on Wednesday. After entering several houses and intimidating the occupants cd. they eventually made off in the direction. of Chinese territory, after kidnapping! three young Chinese boys and stealing a Hallock, and money, jewellery and cloth- ing to the total value of $874. No shots were fired.
The other case concerned a Chinese detective. He was on duty at Sba Tau Kck on Wednesday morning and while he was sitting in a shop, a man passed the door and discharged a pistol at him. Fortunately, the shot did not take effect, but in the resulting scramble, the nasailant escaped into Chinese territory"
WEST POINT BLAZE,
LITTLE GIRL'S 'PERILOUS EXPERIENCE.
"
An extension of one week was grant-
·DISPUTE OVER SUGAR. - ALLEGED WRONGFUL ARREST OF
SALESMAN FOR THEFT.
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AND HIS WIFE.
ONE OF THE CAMBRIDGE
SEVEN."...
LOCAL SPORT.
HOCKEY.
SIM SHIELD" COMPETITION.
HOLDERS AGAIN DAFEÄTED.
The Hongkong Hockey Club (the hellers of the Sim Shield) who lost to the Army last week, vont down to the Navy by two goals to one in the second mated of the triangular series on the U.SRC. grunnd on Wednesday evening.
Referro-Capt. C. H. D. O'Callaghan, The Navy, were faster and showed better accuracy in passing and shooting. For some time in the first stages of the
morth afterward, just one calendar game, they kept up a vigorous attack,
and the ball never passed their half.
East August the Assistant Bishop in West China (Dr. Howard Mowll) and his wife, together with six missionaries were captured by brigands and for three weeks were in their hands. A letter has just been received from Bishop Mowll to say
The teams were as under :- that Bishop Cassels, the veteran Bishop of the Diocese, and his wife are dead man, A. F. F. Farquharson; E. F. Club-P. W. F. Mill D. H. Sher- Bishop Mowll writes on November 20th':
Stewart, E J. R. Mitchell (capt.), Rev. "I am sorry to inform you of the W. Martin; H. Owen Hughes, W. sudden death of Bishop Cassels on Woodwati, A. Dyer, Ball, B. D. Evans, Nevenber 7th from typhus, fullowed by Q. P. Lammers. that of Mrs. Cassels on November 15th, Navy:- Garwood; Lt. Wauchope, Both had been in their usual health Lt Emley Lt. Eing. Lt. Simpson until within a few days of the end and (capt.), Lt. Broome; Pay Sub-L. Wilson, had so appreciated all the manifesta-Lt. Sillitoe, B. M., Lt. Hill, L. Nichol tions of affection shown them on the | son, Lt. Fleet, thirtieth anniversary of the Bishop's Consecration, which fell on St. Luke's Day,
that it seemed almost incredible when we laid them to rest aide by side. on November
outside the West door of the Cathedral
In turn the Club attacked, only to be The Bishop has always been asso-driven back by the Navy's fine defenders. ciated with this Diocese, and having After twenty minutes play Hill scored been connected with it from the very for the Navy, and soon after Nicholson beginning, it seems quite impossible to added a second. The Club afterwards think of the work without him." Tang Tin Fook, a salcaman in the cm-
attacked and Owen Hughes scored. ploy of the Kui Hing Loong firm, a famous Cambridge seven. In 1984 The late Bishop Cassels was one of the peared before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the extraordinary interest was aroused by the Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon, announcement, that the Captain of the on a charge of stealing 16 bags of sugar,
Cambridge cricket. XI. and the stroke the property of the firm.
car of the Cambridge boat were going out as missionaries. Soon they were joined by Aive others. Mr. Montaga Beauchamp (now Sir Montagu Beauchamp, Bart.) Also a well-known rowing man, Dr. D. E. Hoste, an officer in the Royal Artillery. Messrs. C. H. and A. T. Pothill Turner, hoth of them prominent Eton and Cam- bridge cricketers and W. W. Cassels. to represent the Kowloon Football Club The following teams have been selected All volunteered for China The late in the League matches tomorrow Bishop reached China in 1885 and for Reserves Hongkong Club Reserves, forty of China. Thirty years ago, on St. Luke's Rasmussen; Guest and Urquhart: Street, years spent himself in the service Club, ground, kick-off at 30 p.m.- Day, he was consecrated as first Bishop Brown and Pasco; Morris, Latham, Edward Talbot, ex-Bishop of Winchester, being consecrated at the same time. The serve: Vickers. same year the Bishop was married. That"B" ground, kick-off at 2.30 p.m.- Kowloon "B". Moslem "B," Navy this veteran Bishop and fits wife should Nicholls; White and spary; Elkins, Blisa dio within a week of one another and be buried on the same day outside the and Hedley; Duncan, Ross, Miles, Hast Cathedral Church of that vast and dis- and Mason. Reserve: Jordan.
** CARLISLE " DEFEAT SOUTH tant Diocese which they so long and
CHINA. faithfully served, has a peculiar pathos
D.
M. Gordon Leask prosecuted. and defendant was represented by Mr. McCallum. A plea of not guilty was entered.
this arrived it was their custem to hand over the bills of lading to one of their salesmen. In the case in question, the defendant received the bill of lading, and went to the ship to take delivery and see the goods stored in the godown. The oil was taken to the godown, hut
share of the game. A ding-dong tussie In the second-half the Club had their ensued, with Mills for the Club playing brilliantly in goal. There was no further scoring.
The Club have now lost two out of four matches.
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FOOTBALL.
K.F.C. TEAMS,
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Mr. Leask, in outlining the case, said that the complainants were a firm of com- mission agents. In May this year a con- signment of 16 bags of sugar and a quan Property and goods to the value of tity of oil arrived for them from Heibow about $35,000 were destroyed by a fire for sale on' commission. When carga like of the Diocese of West China: Bishop Caveille. Fitzgerald and Eastman. Re which broke out at West Point in the early hours of yesterday morning." It is stated that it originated by sparks from a chatfy setting tea leaves alight.
The fire broke out in the top storey of a block of houses in Des Vaux Road West, and quickly spread to the "adjoin. ing houses Nos. 207 and 911, and when the Brigade arrived their task was hope--
They played their hoses en the other buildings near and prevented the flames from sprending. The Brigade were on the scene all the morning, and did not get the olaze under control until after 1 p.m.
The three houses were gutted, and the ground floors of 205 and 218 were also damaged
It is believe, though it is not definitely kaown, that all the residents got out of the houses. A crippled old man was brought out on the back of his son, and
not the sugar.
and beauty.
BISHOP CASSELS' CAREER.
H.M.S. Carlisle bent South China in a friendly"
football match at Sookun-
LAWN BOWLS.
Some time after this event, there was. On news reaching Home of the death noo on Wednesday. a dispute in the Civil Court, involving of Bishop Cassels, the following account two of the partners of the firm. The of his career was published in a London books of the firm went into the hands of raper the Receiver, and were afterwards rega is made in the ranks of the
By the death of Bishop Casscis the first The final of the Kowloon Bowling turned to the managing partner, Chan In bridge Seven," that famous Hittle hand won on Wednesday by Mr. A. Gourlay, Cam Green Club's singles championship was Sung. The accountant of the firm search-which went out to China from this coun- who defeated Mr. A. Holland by 21 points ed the books, and the books of the try in 1893. Many will recall the great to 20 points.
meetings at both Oxford and Cambridge Holland was 3 shots up early in the godown, were also gone through. They and the final gatherings at the old Exeter game until the 19th head. At the 26th discovered that the sugar was nover Hall to bid farewell to the seven young the score read: Holland 20; Gourlay 17, received at the godown.
men: The Rev. W. W. Cassels, the old Gourlay laid his last wood and secured St. John's man who had been for nearly four counters, making the score in his three years the Lambeth
curate:
favour, 21-20. Studd, the captain of the Cambridge II; To-morrow afternoon the K.B.G. hold Eight in 1882; Mr. (now Sir) Montagu the bowls season. Stanley Smith, stroke of the Cambridge their annual At Home" to wind up!
The presentation of Bentebamp; the two Polhills, Arthur and
take place!
A Police investigation followed,, and the Wing Fat Hong firm was mentioned, it being stated that they had received the at the time it was thought that he was consignment of sugar. The managing the last to be saved from the Rames. But partner of the Kui Hing Loong firm Cecil, who had been in the Eton XI,and prizes won during the season will also
at daylight when the firemen began to investigate the ruins they discovered huddled in the corner of a balcony an eight-year-old girl. She was alive and the only hurt she sustained was that her ince was burnt on one side, where she had
GOLF AT KOWLOON.
DRAW FOR THE CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP.
searched the Wing Fat Hong books and other day; and D. E. Hoste, who had one of whom again left for China the found a receipt for the sugar, but the been an officer in the Royal Artillery. chop was not that of his own, frm.
At the most in two years we shall see you all
going home again," Was the The managing partner gave evidence when they were received in Shangha bearing this out, and said that one of his Yet for bar in this tout, and that the onger had aged to work for China. As a Bishop het is, announced that the first round in
years Bishop Cassels man
come into contact with a red hot brick.been delivered to the Wing Fat Hong.
was thirty years engaged in work for the Church Missionary Society. He was in must be completed by December 20th The girl, apparently, had been on the In reply to questions he said he had charged of the Church of England section There was 29 entries, and these have verandah white the fire was raging, and the defendant arrested, and together with of the China Inland Mission in West been drawn as follows:-
China.
All the others are either atill W. J. Carroll v."R. Johnson, F Lickley the foki the defendant and he went to engaged in that great land (they are D..
1. T. McGarry, R. Meldruma v. E. A. the Wing Fat Hong shop, and subse Hoste, Arthur Polhill, and Stanley Beaumont, J. O. McLaggan ..
W. McG.
quently defendant was released.
Smith) or are engaged in similar work Davies, C. Earse v. J. H. Gelling, T. E. elsewhere, like C. T. Studd in the Congo, Jones . A. C. S. Burford, W. J. Shenton Questioned by Mr. McCallum he ad Sir Montagu Beauchamp as Army Chap- A. Brooksbank, F. E. Lawrence 7. mitted receiving a solicitor's letter, claim of the Army Scripture Readers' Associa Remedios, A: W. da Roza . J. D. Thom lain during the war and now secretary W. Paterson, A. W. Brown . F. E. ing damages for wrongful arrest in re-tion, and Cecil Polhill here at home with son, V. C. Labram. A. W. Roberts, 83. spect of the defendant, to which he did hieheen's lives are a fitting reply to JH. Bottomley
schemes for อ Chinese Eton." J. Jordain v. B. Petheram, F. Oliver ́e, not reply. He admitted he later gave those who say Moody's influence" was evidence.on oath which was responsible for the arrest of defendant a second time.
the jets of water had been playing on her. She was removed to the Govern ment Civil Hospital.
Most of the 12 floors involved were
occupied by the Ewong On Chung firm of tea dealers, who were insured for $30,000. The proprietors of a grocery shop, where extensive damage was done, has reported that his goods were insured for $2,000.
LOCAL WILLS.
LEAVES 3127,000.
KOWLOON CITY MERCHANT
Mr. McCallum asked His Worship to make a note of this as it was more than likely that when this case was concluded there would be an action for malicious prosecution.
بوجه
evanescent.
Byes: E. A da Roza, F. X. Remedics and K. 8. Robertson."
SHANGHAI LADIES AT GOLF.
MRS. FOWLER WINS CHAMPION- SHIP FROM MRS. BAUMGARTNER.
Born at Oporto in 1828, Bishop Cassels as educated at Repton. He was one of when he was given a diccese in 1685 he the pioneer workers in West China, and had in his charge an area of 83,000 miles with a population of some 60 millions. Among all denominations he was wel- comed as a friend, and despite hardships Under very trying conditions the final A Chinese witness for the defence, and discouragements he never lost heart of the championship of the Shanghai Mr. Kwok Shau Chuen, of No. 17, called by the Magistrate before the pro- saw some remarkable changes. When he Kiangwan last week the finalists being During his residence in China the bishop Ladies Golf Club was contested at School Street, Tai Hang, who died on secution had completed their case, said went to the West of Chins as a young Mrs. H. E. Fowler and Mrs. E. 1. V. June 14th, 1825, lelt property to the value he had been a partner in the Kui Hing pioneer missionary it was to encounter Baumgartner. It was bitterly cold on of $4,000. Probate of the will has been Loong firm at the time of the alleged which frequently showed itself in riot and blowing rendered play at many of the much bitter opposition and prejudice the links, and the strong wind which was granted. Ho leaves the estate to be theft. He gave instructions to the defendisorder, but he lived to see this opposi boles very difficult. Notwithstanding this divided between his two sons, Kwok Shui dant to take the sugar to the Wing Fat Lion give place to a spirit of friendliness an intereding and exciting match ensued. Chues and Kwok Chiu Wan, merchants, Shep, as there was not a large enough years ago a cathedral to seat 1,500 people gre For these 16 holes Mrs. Fowler took on the part of the people. Some few The afternoon match went to the 16th green when Mrs. Fowler won by 4 and quantity for the Kui Hing Loong firm to was erected in the city of Pao-ning,
of the same address."
Cheung Kap, alias Cheung Lo Chik, diapose of it wholesale. He was also a bad been his headquarters for nearly nling Cheung Kun Hing, of Po Kong partner in the Chau Ki Law firm, which years, Churches have also been built 90, while Mrs. Baumgartner did them in
Chuk Yueo, Kowloon City, who died on July 20th, 1924, left property to the value of $127,000. Probate of the will has just heen granted.
FRENCH ADMIRAL ARRIVES.
The new Commander-in-Chief of the French Squadron in Far Eastern waters, Rear-Admiral Basito, arrived in Hong kong yesterday morning on board hia flagship, the cruiser Jules Michelet, 'from Saigon. The usual salutes were changed.
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a large number of cities in the diocese, and the bishop was able to ordain some twelve Chinese clergy. He had under his jurisdiction members of both the Church Missionary Society and the China Inland Mission and owing to the growth of the
received payment for the sugar, from the Wing Fat Hong, and the latter was given a receipt for the money..
Cross-examined, he admitted that the Kui Hing Loong firm did not get the work, the Archbishop of Canterbury some
three years ago appointed an assistant
MR. P. W. F. MILLS.
WELL-KNOWN HOCKEY PLAYER LEAVES FOR SHANGHAI,
· Mr. P. W. F..Mills, of Messra. Butter-
money, but he was a partner in both bishop to Bishop Cassels in the person of feld & Swire, who came to the Colony firms at the time and accepted the money the Right Rev. H. W. K. Mowl, D.D. two years ago, left by the as. Antenor on their behalf.
news of whose capture by brigands and
said he did not see how he could con-ed through handit-infested areas un Yong Hockey Club.
After further evidence, His Worship recently. Bishop Cassels repeatedly pass Mr Mills will be missed by the Hong- subsequent liberation was received quite yeterday to join the Shanghai Office of
the firm. vict the defendant of larceny, although ecathed, and though several
times ed on the Yangtaze-Kiang, ho escaped, sometimes with the loss property. He was a warm advoca
he had not heard the completion of the CABO for the prosecution.
so that he might confer with his client and also with Mr. McCallum,
Wreck
He had acted secretary to the Hockey Club, and ne a player he was consistontly good. The Club will have some difficulty to find his equal as a goalkeeper.
Mr. Leask asked for an adjournment coordination for the various missions,
ad acted as joint chairman with an "GRAV American Baptist missionary at an im- portant conference held in Chengtu with Bishop's daughters and two sons-in-law, this as its object in 1008. Three of the it may be added, are
(Continued at foot of neat Column.): China.
Later in the morning, the Admiral landed, and accompanied by the French His Worship adjourned the case until Comeni, M. Yves du Courthial, called Wednesday, fizing defendant's hair at anon H.E. the Governor..
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