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THE HONGKONG DAILY PERSS, MONDAY, AUGUST 30TH, 1926
PERSIA TO MACAO." *
OPIUM WORTH A MILLION RUPEES.
CHINESE MERCHANT, FACES SENSATIONAL CHARGE.
THE COLONY'S FINANCES.
STATEMENT FOR MONTH OF NAY.
SEVEN MILLIONS-SURPLUS
4.
The financial statement for the first five months of the year, published in the Government Gazette, shows that on May 31st, the balance in hand was $7,070,278, as against with 87,495,187 at the end of April.
When Chan Cho Chiu, a Chinese mer- chant of the Kwong Hing Loong ârm, was charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the Central Magistracy on Saturday, with aiding and abetting in the smuggling
The total revenue for the month of of opium, sensational allegations regard- May was $1,508,938, as against 81,910,478 ing a big smuggling deal in which opium for the same period of the previous year; being shipped from Persia to whilst the expenditure totalled §1,903,549, -Macao,-were-made-by-Senior-Revenues against $2.571,916 for the same. month. Officer Watt, who represented Mr. J. D. of the previous year.
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Lloyd, Superintendent of Imports and The total revenue for the first five Exports.
months of this year was 88,193,504, s
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The principal shrinkages in revenue licences and internal revenue, interest were under the heads of light dues,
and land sales. Under expenditure, there were decreases of a substantial nature in respect of the Treasury, Post Office, Public Works and Harbour Department.
Mr. Watt said that certain papers in-against 29,281,100 for the same period criminating the defendant had been found last year. The expenditure was $9,187,100, in his possession. They referred to 500 as against $10,831,854" for the same period odd chests of opium on board the Chinese in 1923, steamer Philadelphia. This was being shipped from Persia to China. The plans were, that juaks were to await the ship at Macno for taking it off. The vessel was not coming to Hongkong, and when last heard of, she was off Singapore. All the papers in connection with the steamer and receipts for" drafts sent to Bombay had been found in defendant's possession.
Mr. M. K. Lo, who defended, said that the charge had been cariously drafted. It might be understood that the smug- Eling took place in Persia, in China, or in between both.
GRAIN FOR FAR EAST.
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News has been received in Vancouver, B.C., says the China Express & Tele graph that large grain elevators are to ate huilt in the Far East. One is to be of
Mr. Lo asked for a reduction of the ball of $5,000 fixed by the Police. The Magistrate would have to £x the bail ten million rupees if the information the revenue officers was to be relied on.
His Worship intimated that he could not revise the bail.
built at Shanghai and the other at Yokohama or Kobe.
It is understood that final arrange ments are being made with Canadian contractors for the erection of a 1,000,000- Bushel plant at Shanghai, which ill be
The case was adjourned until Septemned and worked by one of the largest
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CHINESE WOMAN GAOLED.
STORY TO EXTRACT PITY.
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"How old is your youngest baby? naked Mr. J. H. B. Nihill at the Kow flomn-Slagistreezes Saturday of a Chinese woman charged with stealing rice from the. 8.s.. Kiungehow.
**** Two years,” replied the woman.
Arid is your husband still alive?" asked the Magistrate..
he
"No," said the woman gravely, lied seven years ago."
"Your Worship, how can her husband be dead seven years when she says she has a baby two years old?" blurted the
English firms. This elevator will supply more than a dozen flour mills in China.
Messrs. Miszui, & Co., who have ship- néd a 'large quantity of Canadian wheat to Japan this year, will build the pro- jected elevator in Japan. The demand for grain in China and Japan has grown considerably, and important develop ments are anticipated as soon as proper handling facilities are provided. At pre sent both sack and bulk grain is shipped to the Orient, but the unloading of bulk grain into lightera is a slow and costly process
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The Magistrate smiled.
The woman was found near the steamer in a sampan in which 157 lbs. of rice
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woman was sentenced to two months imprisonment.
The
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pipe have been laid which supplied seven burners in the cook-house. There was no meter.
Mr. H. C. Macnamara, represented the Gas Co., and Mr. J. Gordon Leask ap
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Peak Trams (old) Mr. James Hunter, Superintendent of the Fitting Department of the Gas Co. Singapore Tractions said that be supervised the fitting of the Ta........ premises in February,. 1922, the supply Amusementa being discontinued in January. He found
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the pipe (which was left cut after the Camenta (combined) service was cut in 1923) removed from the outside wall, and concealed in & footpath," from where is extended through the floor China Lights (combined) ing. At this junction, there were two minor connections of pipes which supplied the seven boilers. He denied the fact that his curployers had any knowledge of such installation. In cross-examination he calculated the boilers to have been used not less than six months.
Mr. Macnamaro submitted that the ac- cused had committed continuous larceny, He asked for a convictión.
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Mr. Leask said that accused was merely Lane Ozawfords........... the accountant of the business, and did Mackintoshs... not know what was actually being done sincere in the kitchen. He pleaded for leniency and suggested that a fine would meet the offence.
Accused was fined $600, or four months' hard-labour.
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