Page
KAIPING COAL
FOR HOME, FACTORY, & POWER HOUSE
HOME. FACTORY
"AND"
BUNKERS
+
POWER
HOUSE, TUGS & LOCOS.
THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents, Hong Kong.
DAIRY FARM NEWS
JUST RECEIVED:
Highest Quality English Hams
10-14 lbs. Each
$1.00 per lb.
Cumberland Hams
12-16 lbs. Each
.90
Dairy Farm Hams
6-12 lbs. Bach.
.70
NOTHING FINER ON THE MAKKET.
THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO.,
ཟ1zt
LTD.
THE SUN NEVER SETS
ON
EXSHAWS BRANDY
THE FIRST CHOICE OF ALL
CONNOISSEURS
THE CONNOISSEUR COMES TO CALUBECKS.
SOLE AGENTS :
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.
[Incorporated under the Companies Ondlaseca al Hong Kong.) TEL. C. 75..
君子守身如玉
"The Superior man guards his body as if holding Jade"
Have the same care for your body as you would for your most precious possession. See that the food you taxe is pure, nourishing and easily digested;
Houck's, the original MALTED MILK, is a perfecr combination of cereals and fresh full cream milk. The use of HoRICK'S MALTED MILx will keep your body healthy and well, and give you 'vigour and energy for your daily task.
HORLICK'S MALTED MILK
IN 4 SIZES
AT ALL CHEMISTS & GROCERS
Representative-Mr. H. M. HODGES, PO. Box 8711, Shanghai.
Bayer Tablets c
Aspirin
There Are Many
Aspirin ciclicts on the trashet.") is the fate of good and ied medies to thad axsammas Sendletons. Solleres fram "Headache, Toothache, Rheumatom, Putne in
BAYER
BAYER
slczki take only the grambur Boys" "Palācis of Asşlı with the Bayer Croat.
The haut proof of their casciences is their
all are de gabe.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25th, 1928.
MONEY & MARKETS. DOCTOR'S DEATH
FIRE CRACKERS TRADE.
A LIMITED MARKET. For purposes of pxport trade firecrackers and fire-works do not meet with A big demand from aboard and the only times when any appreciable business is done is at the Christmas season and Chinese, New Year.
There are 96 factories in Canton. Macao and Hong Kong, of which 15 are in Canton, 10 in Macao and Their quly one in the Colony, Ictalled output amounts to 81,500,000 A year of which about 8078,000 is sent to America, 8800,000 to Britain
* SENTENCE.
GOLD COAST TRIAL WITH
OUT A JURY.
DRAMATIC PROTEST.
MYSTERY OF A SECOND BULLET.
KUMAST (West Africa). November 23rd. ---I think this is the first case of a European being found guilty of murder and sentenced to death in
or the British Empire and $3,000any British West African colony."
te Singapore and adjoining towna.
These words, by Judge McDowell.
CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE CINEMAS.
HULA **AT THE QUEEN'S.
"Hula." at the Queen's" to-day and to-morrow, presente Clars Bow. as Hula," a mischievous girl of Hawaii. On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, she falls madly in love with handsome young English engineer, Clive Brook, but finds out, that he is already married. The story moves. quickly through a series of incidents which give Hula the man of her heart.
At the 9.20.
will appear
The Parisian Revue performance. in a complete change of programme. "The Better 'Ole" At The World. Syd Chaplin is to be seen in "The Belter Ole at the World. TEC
A heavy blow was dealt to the marked the conclusion of the trial story is based upon Bruce Bairns-
Chinese fre-works makers, about a year ago owing to the report that Gre-crackers are dangerous and consequence crackers are not allow ed to be imported into America. Later this law was changed, only New York and several other ports keeping up this form of prohibition. The South China firecrackers have regained the American market, and are now doing about ng well as in the past.
Quotations for this commodity vary according to the place of ship ment but the present market price in the Colony is generally quoted at
6 per 10,000 crackers.
CHEAP MACHINERY WANTED.
WHY RICE IS SOLD
UNPOLISHED..
23
Changshu, rice producing centre about 110 north-east of Soochow, Kiangsu province, has a total of about 1,600,000 m, of arable land, including the part oc- cupied by graveyards and farm steads. This land is customarily classifed into rice fields nad cotton fields," the former having better irrigation facilities. ries felda, forming about 70 per cent. of the total, are sub-divided into upland and lowland Selda Officials, however, no such dis- tinction is recognized in the assÇSİ- ment of land tax.
The
money
л
of Dr. Benjamin Knowles. M.C., member of the Government medica! service, for the wilful murder of his wife, formerly Miss Madge Clifton, once prominent musje, hall and pantomime artist on the English stage. west
The sentence, must go for con- firmation before the Governor of the Gold Coast in council. The condemned man has also the right to petition the King, in which event his case would be considered by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London.
Crowded Court.
father's cartoons, and takes place on a sector of the British Front in France during the Great War. The regiment had marched into a little French village anticipating a good rest and a little fun. What hap-" pened when "Old Bil!" found him- self forced to play the role of a German soldier provides many amusing situations.
"Hot Water At The Star, Harold Lloyd, arrives at the Star to-day in one of his greatest comedy In the successes, Hot Water.' opening scenes he is seen running to a wedding to play best man to his friend. On the way he meets. Jobyna Ralston, and the wedding is forgotten. After they are mar ried, their life together is spoilt by mother and her two mischievous. the continual nagging of the girl's
brothers. Hot Water is as good Judge McDowel! read his prepar
as any of Lloyd's ather productions ed judgment, with its careful re-enjoyed by young and old alike.
and is certainly one that can be
No one except"officialls actually.. engaged in the case had attended the court during the bearing, but the little room with whitewashed walls-forty feet by twenty--wns crowded to-day with all responsible Europeans in the district and a score or so of native Africans.
view of all the evidence. It was obvious that he was auffering under the strain of great emotion because his legal duty entailed his finding a decision of Guilty of murder against a fellow-countryman in this outpost of the Empire.
Dr. Knowles was the most - affected white man in the court. He stond firm and straight between his police guard without a tremor, watching the judge and listening
with keen attention to every word of the judgment.
Farm lands at Changahu, as in
He was asked in the formal way Soochow and many other parts of China, are owned mostly by ab-if he had anything to say against sentee landlords. although the the passing of the sentence of death. tenancy right is firmly established He then spoke calmly to the judge by custom. The price of land in raising a protest against the law Changshu has advanced several of Ashanti which regulated the pro- times during the past two or three secution against him without beneft. decades, caused chiefly by the high of jury and, without the assistance price of rice. The tenancy right of counsel. He began to comment is" also transferable for a
on the evidence, asking, in parti- consideration. The annual rent cular why doubt was cast on his for cotton fields is a little, over a wife's dying statement wind dollar per mow and that of rice onerated him from blame Belds varies considerably accord which made it clear that her fatal ing to the fertility of the, laad, wound was caused by the revolver condition of crops and market going off accidentally in her own price of rice, the average rate band. being aan de vield of rice per mow in a normal year is about three piculs of unhusked rice or 2. piculs of husked rice, and that of cotton, about two" piculs of un- ginned raw cotton.
$10-12
The farmers dispose of their rice, usually in the unpolished state, to the local dealers, of which there are over 30, mostly in Chang shu city. These dealers generally perform the functions of commis sion agents between the farmer and the rice exporter by charging a commission of 10-15 cents per picul on the seller and 3-7 cents per picul on the buyer, although
ex-
Judge's Regret, The judge stated that he much re- gretted the absence of a jury, but intimated that the time for com- ment on the evidence had passed. He said that all the evidence as given in the court would be for warded to the Governor at Acera for hia decision with any comments which he the judge--might wish to make.
After that there came the terrible business of the sentence to be hanged by the neck until you be dead-with the court room frozen inte silence.
prosecution throughout the trial, It had been the allegation of the
the better financed ones often buy said the judge, that the case was
rice an their own account, especial
ly when the market price is low clearly one of deliberate murder.
The farmers carry the rice to the market in small boats.
That view, was taken by him after
On arriy-bearing the evidence of doctors and
ing at a rice hong, he usually sub- police concerning the statements: mits to the rice dealer a sample of made by Dr. Knowles after he was rice for inspection and appraise | first taken into custody in his ment. If the price bid by the bungalow. Dr. Knowles then said dealer is satisfactory to the farmer, that he had shot his wife following the bargain will be struck. The dealer, on concluding the tranine- tion, immediately sells the rice. to An exporter at the original price, making no profit except the com-
mission
quarrel that afternoon.
One point in the case had never been made clear Two bullets were found by the police in the bedroom of the bungalow where Madge Clifton lay wounded. There was Owing to the fact that a rice a bullet on the floor and another polishing machine is too expensive embedded in the back of the ward- yet it wastes too much time and robe-it had penetrated the front energy to polish rice with the panel. There was also a singed hole primitive foot-power mortar and in the mosquito netting of the bed. pestle outfit, Changahu farmers Apparently, however, only one shot find it more economical to sell rice was fired on the afternoon of, the unpolished. There are about ten tragedy. The evidence of the ger rice polishing mills at Changshu, rants was of hearing the report doing the work for the public with of one shot, while only one expend- modern machinery and charging ed cartridge case was in the re 15 cents per picul for polishing, volver. It was a suggestion of the
sifting and cleaning.
EXCHANGE RATES.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICK]
RUGBY, Dec. 23rd.
124.05
Paris Brussels Amsterdam Berlin
Copenhagen Vienna Helsingfors Liabon Bucharest Buenos Aires
Shanghai Yokohama New York. Geneva Milan. Stockholm
Osia Prague
Madrid
Athens
Rie
Bombay Hong Kong
34.87
12.08
20.36
18.18
34.463
1921
1094
B06
47.5/16 2/7 1/104 4.85 13/32
25,16
92.63
18.11
16.18
1631
29.73 375
1/83/84 2/0 28.5/10.
prosecution that the doctor fired a shot at his wife through the mos quito netting when she was in the room and he was on the bed.
Dr. Knowlea in the witness-box had declared that his wife had been hysterical on a number of occasions. On one occasion she had fired à re- volver at him through the netting of the bed. The idea. frighten him.
WILL
to
An independent witness had stated that he remembered bis atten- tion being drawn to the charred hole in the mosquito net on a day previous to the date when Mrs Knowles was shot; and of seeing a
bullet hole in the front panel of the
wardrobe.
There are certain facts which Beem inexplicable," said the judge, "particularly concerning the two bullets being found, and the bullet hole having been seen previously by a witness.
First Statements.
"I have, however, formed the irresistible Conclusion that damning statements at first made by the accused cannot be explained
away. He attempts to explain them away by saying that he did not want any suggestion of attempted suicide to be made against his wife, her he would take all blame. Now and because, he said, that he told
that he is free from the effects of drink and drugs Dr. Knowles states that he realised he acted foolishly in making those first statements.
It is my opinion that the dend woman was only anxious to exone- rate her husband, and that she did "not tell the truth in her statement She informed the to the police.. police and her husband that she was telling the truth when she made the statement to the effect that the re- volver went off accidentally when she was seated on a chair, owing to the weapon becoming entangled in her dress.
"I cannot accept the statement as trae, neither can I accept as true. the explanation now made by Dr. Knowles that when he made the damning statements against himself he was simply preparing to take the consequences from his wife. I find on all the evidence that the accused is guilty of murder."
A Reuter cable from Kumasi states that. Dr. Knowles has given notice of appeal against the sen- tence.
ORLD
th
THE STORY OF A SOUTH SEA SIREN !
Garamount
Picture
CLARA BOW
Candia The million Power IT" girl in a IN story of young hearts `adrift in Hawall
HULA
-9.20—ADDED ATTRACTION—9.20
THE PARISIAN REVUE
AT THE
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
QUEEN'S At 2.30, 5.10. 7.15 & 9.20.
The hilarious story of "Old Bill" and "Alf" amid the billets and bullets of war!
AT THE
WARNERBROS. prezená
Syd Chaplin OLD
BILL
"The BETTER OLE"
WORLD
WARNER BROS PRODUCTION
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW Orchestra 5.159.20, Interpreter 2.3047.15
A PERFECT RIOT OF FUN AND THRILES!
HAROLD
LLOYD
in
HEAVEN Hot Water
THURSDAY
THEATRE ROYAL CITY HALL.
Mr. CHARLES MACDONA Presents
The MACDONA PLAYERS
in a repertory of BERNARD. SHAW PLAYS
MONDAY, JAN. 7TH
24
Pygmalion.”
TUESDAY, JAN. STH,
"Man and Superman." WEDNESDAY, JAN. 9TH
**Candida.”
THURSDAY, JAN. 10TH
The Doctor's Dilemma."
FRIDAY and SATURDAY,
JANUARY 11TH and 12TH
"Mrs. Warren's Profession"
Booking Opens at MOUTRIE'S
the
on December 28th at 9 am.
THE
STAR
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
Continuous 2.80 to 11.15.
Bootmakers in England use "NUGGET on their own Boots
They know!
*Nugget TM will Double the
Life of your Boots
UNEQUALLED
FRACE
MARK TERER
BOOT POLISH;
FOR GLACEKID BOK CALF,
· PATENT.............. LEATHERS