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DETAILS OF POULTRY AND "PRODUCE SECTIONS.
It is possible to say at this stage that the preparations for the forth coming Agricultural Show in New Territories are well under way. A general meeting of the Committee was held last Saturday afternoon at Lady Ho Tung's experimental farm at Sheungshui to complete plans for the erection of the matsheds, to reach decisions on schedule of articles for exhibits in cereals,' vegetables, poultry and eggs, etc. The Rev. E. R. Wells, .B.E. presided and was supported by Sir Robert and Lady Ho Tung. Several
AN OLD MAN'S TALE. FRENCHMAN "WANTED" BY
COCHIN GOVERNMENT.
GANG ROBBERS IN SINGAPORE.
HELD PRISONER FOR TWO
SEQUEL TO THEFT OF $39,000 WORTH OF JEWELS."
SINGAPORE, Sept. 1st. Five men who are alleged to have composed the gang which broke into
YEARS.
CLANSMEN ACCUSED OF. VILLAINY.
a house in Yio Chu Kang Road EXTRADITION PROCEEDINGS. on July 17th and stole $30,000 worth of jewellery were placed in the dock in the Second Police Court yesterday.
julie. Leung Ah Shuen, from his village at Mau Ying Fong in the San Wui District in July 1928.
Mr. H Somerset Fitzroy, the Assistant-Attorney-Genera!" was in charge of the case.
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DOCUMENTS ON THE WAY FROM SAIGON.
A Frenchman who was described ns" wanted by the Cochin French Government, at Saigon for the alleged uttering of forged docu ments" was before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon for the formal order of extradition.
Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy who was in charge of the case asked his Worship to grant a week's remand. They had received an application from the Governor Geners!: of Cochin-Chinn for the extradition of the defendant,
However, one
or two things were necessary be- fore H.E. the Governor of Hong Kong will give his formal ap proval. The application received.
An extradition case of a very unusual nature was heard by Mr. R. E. Lindsel, at the Central The evidence was to the effect Magistraty yesterday, and concern that, at 12.30 am. the occupant offer an application from the Canton the house, Mrs. Lee Bek, heard a Government for the handing over knocking at the back doar and her of a Chinese named Lo So Wai who grandnephew's voice asking to be is alleged to have kidnapped an admitted. The door was opened, aged Chinese, Leung Cho Yeun and when he entered the lady saw that he was accompanied by four others. All were armed with knives. and one had a pistol. Her relative went to her jewellery boxes, which were completely emptied of articles new Chinese members attended for
to the value of approximately Leung Cho Yeung, alias Leung the first time and Major H. B. I Dowbiggin, accompanied by Mr. 838,000, each robber, including her Ah Shuen, the old man who was relative, filling his pockets. She kidsapped appeared to be very and Mrs. F. Hasiam and Mr. James could not identify the second accus-weak, and shaky and although given Enllock, of the Dairy Farm, Poked as one of the rabbers. She was a chair in the witness box he held falam, were also present. The
locked in the hall, and when she firmly to a long bamboo stick for Committee feit especially gratified at the assistance that Major Dow-emerged on hearing the robbers support. The effort of ascending the order for the defendant to be!
leave she was told that a man- biggin, Mr. Bullock and Haslam have offered to the coming servant, had been dragged by them Show to be held in January th along the road and thrown in n and 8th, 1920.
Mr.
To Mr. Haslam, Manager of Mesars, Bruaner, Mond & Co. (China), Ltd, the organizers of the Show in 1027 owed an immense
debt of gratitude for the material support coming from his firm, and it is fortunate indeed to have Mr. Haslam maintaining the same keon, interest this year.
ditch
A Taxi Driver's Story.
A Chinese taxi driver stated that at 12.30 am. on the day in ques- tion four men hired his taxi at 300 Chiat Road to go to Bras Basah Road. He could identify three out
of four of those me..
would show that the defendant did on certain dates utter forged doen- menta at Saigon, but ap till the present the Police had not received any further documents or evidence of the crime committed. They had telegraphed to the Saigon Govern ment and expected the accessary information in a few days. time.
The Magistrate accordingly made
next Monday. remanded in prison until 10 a.m.
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the witness box steps took a Int before he could muster strength to
Asked if he had anything to say, out of him and it was some time answer to his name. Throughout his evidence ne coughed deeply and the defendant told his Worship that be had been arrested "in is frail health was not to be won Singapore on this charge and as dered at alter he had slowly no evidence was given against him related his hardships during his he was discharged. The Magistrate play the latest Victor Records. two long years of captivity. The ignored this statement as irrelevant. and had one or two passages with the Cochin Government and repeat- the interpreter when he was askeded the order for remand. te repeat any sentence. Once the old man turned away and said im. patiently Ah! you are so dense.'
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THE SPIRIT WHO SWEARS.
Court Inspector Farquharson
Made To Walk Ten Miles! stated that 88,000 worth of jewel-
Witness said that he was es lery had just been recovered from year's old as the time he was kid- SIR R. GREGORY'S DOUBTS. a Penang pawnshop with tickets napped. He was in the habit of ex-found in the fifth accused's posses going to the village watch-tower to sleep at night and on July 6th, sion. He applied for a postpones at about 9 p.m. he approached ment in view of this development. the tower door with his oil lamp. Nothing of any value among the Arriving at the door the reflection stolen property had hitherto been of his lamp shone on a band of men whom he at once knew to be rebbers.
THE SCHEDULE. The schedule of articles for hibit in both English and Chinese is now ready, which is divided into the following sections:-
Fruit And Vegetables.
1 Green vegetables (Chinese).
2 Foreign vegetables..
Roots. :
4 Fruits and melons.
5 Rice
6 Other cereals, and legumes.'. 7 Sugar cane.
8 General exhibits.
The Poultry,
Thanks are due to Mr. James Bullock for drawing up plans whereby poultry and eggs are to be judged. It is proposed to have the following classes for poultry
1 Turkey cock.
? Turkey hen.
3 Goose or gander.
4 Drake,
5 Duck...
6 Chinese fowl-ben.
7 Chinese fowl-cock.
Pen of fowls other than Chi- nese (ie, cook and hen or two hens).
912 eggs for market purposes. The proposed standard for & dozen egge is as follows (the maximum marks to be awarded being given in brackets):-
Shape and size (12) uniformly oval, and large (weight 23oz). Colour (12) uniform over entire
shell for whole dozen. Condition of shell (12) clean and
upsmeared, no wrinkles. Appearance at candling (14) clean and transparent, small air space.
Quality of yolk (23) rich golden colour, should keep shape in saucer, no spots, but germinal dise. Quality of white (25) fresh, sweet, clear, viscous, glutinous. Two layers of different consistency. An egg must be broken for examination.
The following is standard for poultry.
(The maximum marks being shown in brackets, for shape first, and colour second):-
Symmetry (8) defects, leggY',
blocky, unbalanced. Weight, size (6) defects, over,
under, undeveloped.".. Condition (4) defects, slow, dull,
dirty, poor fat. Head (3 and colour) defects, fat, long, short, narrow, coarse Comb (6) defects, over or under points, uneven, wrinkled, twisted wrongslope, coarse, spike too high or low. Wattles (2), (4) defects, long, irregular, uneven, torn, coarse. Neck (3), (6) defects, long, short, too straight, bad hackle; Wings (4), (6) defects, high, low, large, small, broken, badly folded, feathers out Back (8), (6) defects, narrow,
drooping, deficient. Tail, (4), (6) defects, high, low, feathers out, broken sickles too short. Breast (5). (5) defects, narrow,
flat shallow. Body (3), (3) defects, narrow, too
low, tucked up, crooked keel. Legs and toes (3), (3) defects, long, short, too feathery knock-kneed, thin, crooked, injured (Continued on next Column);
hollow.
discovered,
His Worship allowed bail in $2,000.
Objection To Bail,
Court Inspector, Farquharson: Your Worship. I strongly object to bail. These men cetually took the police to the place where the jewel lery was sold.
He was
5000 overpowered al though, as he said, he put up struggle. After having bound his banda, he was hoisted onto the back of defendant who was one of the six robbers. Witness cried out to the best of his ability but nobody a vague recollection of bearing came to his aid. However, he had rifies being, Bred. As soon as the band was well clear of the village he was made to walk and pulled along by a cord which was tied round his neck. After about ten miles when his strength gave out he was put in a chair and car- rid the rest of the journey-some twenty miles-to" a place called Cbak Ng where they arrived the Questioned as to the fugitive, the old man said that be was one of the The fourth accused applied for four men that walked ahead."
Mr. Demuth (for second accused): My client is in the unfortunate position that he cannot give evi- dence. But I will tell the court what his explanation is. He was asked to keep some things contain ed in a tin, and refused. Without his knowledge the tin was placed inext day at 2 p.m.
his premises.
bail.
Court Inspector Farquharson: They are asking for bail because they have the jewellery behind them. How is No, 2 a man out of work, to get bail, otherwise?
At Chak Ng he was imprisoned in a but with three other captives. His feet were fettered and he was unable to escape. The place was kept dark while a guard was always on duty outside.
The old man said that the guards were not the kidnapping gang but were fresh men employed for the job; none of them remained at the
Hi Worship: Tell the fourth ac cused I will consider his applica-place. tion for bail.
The fifth accused (the grand. nephew) asked for a return of the carh found in his possession.
Inspector to Judge: He certainly cannot have that,
The postponement, to Tuesday aftercoon, was taken at this stage.
Mr. Bullock has offered to put up a prize of $25 for the exhibitor gaining the most points in the Poultry Section.
Official Patronage.
Some months later be was given draft of a letter asking for 835,000 ransom which was composed and written by the fugitive with orders to copy same into letter form. This he did, and both the draft and letter were taken by the guard. He understood that it was to be posted to his family.
During his confinement occasional raids by troops, were made and in consequence of which be and the other captives were dragged of to the mountains. After the troops had given up the attack they were re-imprisoned in the hut. One of bis fellow captives died.
During the whole period of his captivity-some twenty-two months he only saw the defendant twice and this was within the first three months of his "imprisonment. On each occasion the agitive came to the hut to smoke opium and the witness said that he saw bin through a crack in the wall.
After the 22 months he was taken
Sir Richard Gregory, the editor of Nature, explained to a Daily Mail reporter the reasons why be does not regard as conclusive the proofs advanced by Dr. R. J. Tillyard of the survival of human personality after death.
In an article (which we quoted on Saturday) Dr. Tillyard, who is head of the Entomological Depart ment of the Australian Govern- ment, described experiments by means of which thumb prints of spirits were alleged to have been Sir Richard Gregory said: obtained.
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The roar and glamour of the American capital are vividly depict- ed in the Paramount picture," New York," at the Queen's to-day and
to-morrow. The great city, with its night clubs, police courts, and jostling side-valks, is the setting I say that it has never been for the love stup of a man of the established to the satisfaction of any scientific mind familiar with East Side, and a beautiful girl of the nature of sound and speech wealthy society.. A dramatic incident, that a spirit voice can be pro- is a murder trial based cu un duced entirely independently of
Estelle Taylor and Norman Trevor.
the medium or of some other astonishing series of circumstantial human being producing the incidents. Luther Reed, who direct- sound, consciously or not.. ed." The Ace of Cads," is respor
The assumption that a spirit sible for New York.", which has can mould ectoplasm into the shape of larynx or mouth cavity, a large cast headed by Ricardo by which ordinary speech is pro Cortez, Lois Wilson, Wm. Powell, duced by the passage of air through them, is one that phy. aicists are unable to accept with- out absolute proof. There is no sound without substance. In a vacuum sound is impossible.
When it has been proved that sound waves can have their actual original in a spirit, so produce what is called speech by direct voice of a spirit, the most important manifestation of spiri tua communication will have been established.
as to
The witness said he had had more Inck since bis return from America
The Magistrate: You were more fortunate in China than America! "A Quarrelsome Old Shylock."
"The Light Of Asia." "The Light of Asia" will be shown again to-day and to-mOTTOW at the World Theatre.. It tells the story of the life of Gautama Buddha, the king's son who gave up the pleasures "of a splendid court that mankind might be served. Colourful scenes of court life and a contest in a mighty arena where princes are gathered to compete for the hand of a beauti- ful princess are depicted with wealth of pageantry.
A Paris Fraud, Alias the Deacon," a blend of comedy, drama and pathos, is show
Asked if he had anything to say for himself the fugitive denied that he was connected with the robbersing at the Star today and to-
morrow. Jean Hersholt gives and declared that at the time of the performance of much delicacy and attack on the old man he was living restraint in the role of a seemingly in the Colony at No. 4, Lai On pious old man who is really a clever Lane, second floor. The witness card sharper. June Marlowe, and and accused him of the kidnapping Ralph Graves are the girl and boy because of a grudge which arose for whom the amiable old 'deacop from a quarrel between himself and encrifices so much. Much of the the old man. He proceeded to give charm of the picture, which was a description of the venerable adapted from a famous stage play. sufferer which painted him as a
is due to the able direction of binck hearted old shylock.
Edward Sloman; remembered for The complainant was well off and his work with. The Old Soak was a very hard money lender. and His People."! Whenever
payments fell into arrears he always foreclosed on the security which was generally rice fields.
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It is pleasing to mention also that H.E. the Officer Administering the Government (the Hon. Mr. W T. Southorn, C.M.G.), has present ed a prize to the Show. Major Dowbiggin in presenting at the Committee meeting previous on be- half of His Excellency a cheque for 823 stated that the prize is to be to the town of Chai Ho where be awarded according to the recom- was released. He did not report mendation of the Committer. It the matter there to the authorities
The old man was accused of has been proposed that this prize because he was "all broken up.
The witness said that he knew the having appropriated the Ancestral should be awarded to the district that has entered the greatest num defendant and that he was one of Funds, which were contributed to
He has lived in the by "oatport" relations the ex- The Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd., ber of exhibits, regardless of prizes the robbers. The Committee has addressed a village of Mau Ying Fong all his tent of $15 a year. This was gen- inform us that they are in receipt letter
to His Excellency Mr. life and does not work for his erally divided amongst the clansmen of a cablegram from their Head Southern, thanking him for the pre- living," said the old man.
at the end of each year. It appears Office, to the effect that, at the 67th General that the clansmen had asked the old Half-yearly Ordinary. sentation.
Unlucky In America! Impovement In Vegetable Orops. It was put to the witness that he man who was in charge of this Meeting of the shareholders held According to a report laid before had been aboard in his younger Ancestral Fund-for their abares. at the Head Office of the Bank st the Committes, there has been a days. The old man replied that They were refused on the grounds Yokohama on the 10th inst., a net great improvement in the quantity that was so. He spent ten years in that the term had not expired profit of Yen 16,281,811.38 includ- from last account was shewn. It of vegetables produced as compared America from whence he returned This was the cause of the complaint ing Yon 7,223,838.48 carried over In reply to this statement the old was resolved to pay a dividend of with last year in the New Ter some 30 years ago but penniless made against him by the old man. ritories and these vegetables pro- The old man was also questioned as
per cent. p2. (alkorbing duced under the supervision of the to his means and if he owned any man gave a somewhat vague ex- 10 Committee workers are sold in the property or money. Be evidently planation of the Fund and em- Yen 5,000,000) for the half year disliked this line of inquiry and phatically refuted everything that ended the 20th June, 1928, to add-
the fugitive bad said. He, admit to the reserve Fund Yea 3,000,000 markets of the Colony,
hesitated to reply... we don't want ted, however, that bo and the and to carry forward the sum of
The Magistrate::
Yen 8,281,811:38 to the next ac cale money hers. Don't be afraid
fugitive were clanssen.
The next meeting of the Com mittee will be held on Saturday,
Sheungahul
(Continued) Doneal Column
adjourned.