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There will be a concert at the An entertainment will be given by Helena kay Instituto on Thursday, | the pupils of the Victoria Home, in January 23, at 5.30 p.m. Items by St. Androw's Church Hall, on Madame Bonenfant, Mrs. Bowes- Thursday, January 23, at 5 pm, in Smith, Major McNair, and Mr. R. aid of the building fund for All & Green. Tickets may be booked in advance. Please note, teas must be booked, telephone Matron C.2160.
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The ninth annual athletio sports Letters of administration of the of the Ellis Kadoorie School for Indians will be held on Friday, tate of Capt. H. A. Walker, re January 17, at the Indian Recrea tired master mariner, who died of tion Club Ground at 2 p.m. influenza at the French Hospital A. T. Hamilton has kindly consant- on December 9 last year, have beened present the prizes at 5 pm. granted to the widow, Irene Mable Walker, residing at 10, Carnarvon Building, Kowloon. Testator left estate in Hong Kong worth $3,000.
The police expert failed the author- ities badly, it is not unfair to say, inexcusably badly. He looked at Yesterday's weather report, fore-the suspect notes and guessed quite cast and remarks, issued by the wrongly that they were good, It Royal Observatory at 3.34 p.m., would be interesting to know if he were provided with a genuine $100 Chartered Bank note for purposes of comparison. Either he was not, or else he is a very ineffcient ex- pert His investigations do not appear to have been supervised, and on his pronouncement the suspect was released, with full opportun- ties before him, had he been so disposed, to warn the gang and make good his own escape, The exact circumstances of his second arrent are not very clear, but the
In the fourth of a series of articles on the trade position in impression given is that if bo had
Wong Fuk Tin, retired restaurant- the Far East, a correspondent. been a CARVALHO Yro he would have shaken off his purauer and made keeper, who died in his sixtieth of The Commercial (Manchester) himself scarce as quickly and com-year at 153, Tai Nam Street, Sham- points out that Malays is not pro- pletely as the murderer of Mr. LE shuipo, last September, left an ducing or exporting to one-half of HYSAN. Being, however, a mild and estate of $1,100 in Hong Kong. its capacity, and that it is slipping. spectable young man, he went Probate has been granted to Wong back as an importer of British quietly.' To the man's treat Wai Kam, merchant, of 12, Con- goods, particularly those of Lan- ment at the police-station reference caught Road West, who receives a cashire. The Chinese be describes. will be made later. To resume the share of the house rents collected by as virtually dominating the terri-
him for distribution among the tory. tale of the investigations, the same
They are, he says, members of testator's family. | plutocrats of the future," and as
BIRTH. BOWEY-At Croxdale Mill House, Durham, to Mr. and Mrs.
NORMAN BOWEY, A BOA.
MARRIAGES.
LOWICK-RONNFELDT-On December 5. at Brompton Parish Church, HENRY CAPELL LOWICK, of Hong Kos to VERA MIRES, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. RONNTELDT, of Penarth, Glam.
REID GREGORY-On December 3, at Bristal, ROBERT M. REID, elder son of Dr. and Mrs. B. J. Rzio, Ealing (late of Shanghai), to MILDRED GREGORY, daughter of the late Mr. ARTHUR GREGORY and Mr. GREGORY, Bristol.
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SOLE AGENTS : —
BIOM STEWART, K.B.E., D.L., J.P., aged 71.
past Yerra
The Chinats in Kalsyn.
"the
easy-going methods continued. Well
they are already more numerous. might defending counsel kay in amazement to Detective-Sergeant Under the arrangement entered than the Malay, who is neither a KENNEDY: "On the advice of one into between the British and Chi- trader Dor a worker by instinct, whom you thought to be a criminal, nese Governments A number of and consequently will never have you waited a whole hour. Did it junior officers have arrived in the money to spend on cloth that. not occur to you that the man might England. Twelve cadets will join the Chinese will have as a class, we be making, time for his accomplice the Erebus at Devonport for train- must cater specially to their needs. to get away!"Not after he had ing with the special entry cadets Assigning reasons for the decline himself offered to take us to look of the Royal Navy on January 17.
in Malayan demand for British for T," was the officer's reply. Eight sub-licatenants will join the goods, not a difficult process, the But while a criminal might be will- Royal Naval College, Greenwich. writer of the article says "we have HIGHET.-On December 7, in Lon-ing to give an accomplice away to The programma approved for the failed to compete with Japan and don, FRANCES LEONORA, widow serve his own interest, he would endets is that they shall serve afloat the Continent in the lower and of DAVID JOHN HIGHEr, of Ayr, probably be nimble-witted enough for twelve months after completing medium classes of cotton and Scotland, and Federated Malay to exploit so accommodating a sug the year's course in the Erebus, and woollen goods. To the same com- States,
gestion. However, the perfunctory then go to Greenwich to study as petitors we are gradually ceding the MACKERILE SMITH.-On December 8, search of Tze's quarters yielded sub-lieutenants. In
better styles because we are not at Holmwood, GEORGE MACERILL nothing, and accused's own ex- several officers from China and offering for sale the right quality at SUITH, in his 85th year, late of planation that this part of his other countries have been given the right price. No concerted effort. Canton.
"confession" was a ruse to get in facilities for study in the ships and
is apparent to build up an intelli- RAMAGE,On December 3, at East- touch with a friend is nowhere con- establishments of the Royal Navy.
gence service whereby British manu- facturers are enabled to produce bourne, WILLIAM BLACK RAMAGE, tradicted. But in any case Tze had formerly of Java, aged 77. had ample time to remove a whole.
the required article at a competi- The Norwegian Klaveness Line is tive price. In the past we have re- commencing this month a new ser-hed almost entirely on friendly im- Sloane
in his cubicle. Theen are the facts as disclosed vice between American Pacific ports portere in Malaya to market our and Java and Sumatra. The route goods, and now they have been id Court. We all know the very followed will be:-Shanghai, Hong forced to turn their attention to human tendency for those concerned Kong, Singapore, Penang. Bela- in a mystery, big or small, to say wan, South Sumatra, Java, Macas become self-evident that our goods more lucrative directions. It has
and to add "if you knew the ins- steamers will sagely: There is a lot behind it,”
sar, and Balik Papan, whence cannot carry sufficient commission and-outs you wouldn't talk like America. The service on the North return direct to
to warrant the employment of the that," or to make some equally China route is to be provisionally sale and distribution. There is but necessary staff to supervise their impressive observations. We all combined with the Dutch East one course left open. Manufact- realise that sometimes there is sub- Indies service but it is intended to stance in such hints, and that police maintain the Dutch Indies service overhead costs, will have to make urers, without increasing their officers often miss by bad luck an with five new motor ships, namely, their own. selling arrangements. important capture; that many of the Pleasanville, Cornville, Rose The present system is obviously their plans are more complete and ville, Granville, and Leoville, cach wrong because it does not meet subtle than appears on the surface. af 9,000 tons dead weight. The new with modern requirements." In But it can also be said that the line refuses to join the Dutch East conclusion The Commercial corres- Hong Kong police are no more Indian Freight Conference, and pondent states that the Chinese in anxious than
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other body of sharp competition with the Java Malaya prefer British goods be men to hide their light under a Pacific line is to be expected.. bushel. When smart work is done
cause of their quality and general the facts, or a discreet partion of
appearance. When, however, they them, are disclosed and due credit of the Straits Settlements, who is what suits their customers, they Sir Hugh Clifford, late Governor can buy more cheaply elsewhere taken. If the investigations were really of a very different nature 63 years old, is to take up dying have no option but to do so, for from what they appear to have
with a view to qualifying as an they themselves are subject" to "keen been, an official explanation should from Stag-lane Aerodrome, Hendon,
owner-pilot. Sir Hugh went up competition. certainly be forthcoming; or on Middlesex, on December 6, in a De the other hand there can be no com
Havilland Gipsy Moth, piloted by and unjust conclusions. We can only judge on the facts as we know them.
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Hong Kong public generally and plaint if the public draws wrong Mr. E. Fulford. He gave written Locking Back 25 Years.
the police particularly were raised in the very unsatisfactory case
which concluded last week with the
instructions to the pilot of the
At the Central Police Station on
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things he would like to experience. Saturday morning a large number Tho magistrate, who heard the Mr. Fulford took the machine up of the police force assembled.
the reading-room for dismissal of charges of possessing case remarked that the person who to 7,500 feet-it was bitterly cold in
at that altitude and carried out purpose of making a presentation inflicted the injuries on accused'a and uttering six forged $100 notes, limbs and body was an expert in rolls, right and left spins, and after twenty-two years' service in the instructions, executing loops, to Inspector W. J. Ford, who, brought against a young Chinese a mild form of torture." No one spirala. "I have used aeroplanes the Hong Kong Police, was leaving faki. The findings and comments of becomes "an expert" without prac to get from place to place on my
tice, and the unfortunate presum official duties,"
that afternoon per the a. Melta the Magistrate were of such a tion is raised that the methods and now I am going to start to
Sir Hugh said, for the Old Country. Chief In- nature that the matter can hardly employed had already been perfect qualify for a pilot's ticket so that sentation, referred to the arrival spector Baker, in making the pre- be allowed to stand as at present.ed, and were not an improvisation.
may fly my own machine." Where and bow was this skill ob Owing to Some form of official action mast tained Most of us could inflict Clifford's health it will be necessary been close comrades. The Colony of Inspector Ford and himself in the state of Lady 1882, from which time they had be taken in the interest of police pain if we set about it, but to do for her to spend much of her time and public alike. The facts of the it scientifically is another matter. in the West of England. Sir Hugh at the present time, either in size, in those days was not what it is caso were simple. A representative schoulboy days, but to know that he will be able to leave London on
We all learned something in our said that with a machine of his own eafety, or health.
Police duties of the Shiu On Wing firm complain blows on the Abula are particularly
were there very arduous; crime was ed to the police that the defendant painful is not given to the average
& summer's evening and be in Devon tampant, and armed robberies were in time for dinner. man. Inevitably the public now had given six forged $100 notes in wonders about many confessions P. & O. Profit-Sharing.
of almost daily occurence. It was not uncommon for the police to have, settling an account for $3,100 odd, which prisoners have strenuously
to turn out, armed to the teeth, to on behalf of his firm. The young CANNON admitted the last October P. & O: Steam Navigation Company Eers, especially in Bonham Strand
but unavailingly repudiated Dr.
rob- At the annual meeting of the pursue marauding bands of was brought to the Central and November he used to get three Lord Inchcape said that under the district. But few houses were to police station, but an expert
be seen on the hillside in or four complaints daily by pris- profit sharing scheme established
thong. there MALAT called in by the police declared that oners of ill-treatment. Since the in 1924, they now had deposits from days, and was only one STATES, NETHERLANDS the notes were genuine and the public hearing of this case he had employees of over a million sterling, European resident at Kowloon. The INDIA, BORNEO, THE
not had one! It is quite impossible which they got 7 per cent in Colony was smaller, and there PHILIPPINES, ELC.
suspect was duly released. The not to draw an inference from this terest, so long as the P. & O. were no reclamations such as next day the Chartered Bank reject-most suggestive statement, and it is dividend was not less than 10 per can boast to-day. These improve- ments have gone far to facilitate ed the notes as undoubted forgeries, an inference which is decidedly dis- cent. The deposits were at call on
quieting.
reasonable notice, but the de- the suppression of crime, as the.. and the correctness of their decision
We have already referred in these positors, over 1,200 in number, new and well-made roads furnish has not been questioped. A search columns to the need for
never seemed to want to withdraw casier methods of getting about.- for the accured was set on foot and machinery to protect both police their capital. It he were a de Hong Kong Daily Press, Jan. 18,
and prisoners. This case shows the positor he would not want to with 1003. he was apprehended, in somewhat urgent necessity for letting light arrangement, it cost the company
"draw his A simple profit-sharing Looking Back 50 Years. chance fashion, while at
tea into our police-stations. It is merchant's place of business. At the essential that our police should be ed at the last meeting, and he was many are the ceremonies perform £80,000 a year or so, as he mention. In building a house or temple, police-station, according to the above suspicion of faking evidence
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oficial version, he admitted buying and extorting confessions, but this sure the stockholders would noted by the Chinese to secure good six forged notes for $500, and offer can only be done by devising some grudge it. He had long wanted to luck. One of these customs, observ. ed to take a detective round to the form of impartial supervision. Im inaugurate something of the kind, ed on raising the lintel of the quarters of the man, named Tze, portant investigations cannot be and the idea came to him ono night principal doorway, may be describ from whom he purchased the for- left to junior officers and inexperi in the sleeping car on his way to ed. as just witnessed by us. On the geries. On being asked when Tze enced Chinese and Indians. If Scotland. He had worked it out top of the two doorposts are placed was likely to be in, the accused drastic reforms are not made, the there and then, and then sent it to strips of red cloth, to the corners man said in an hour's time. They reaction will be a refusal of juries his staff in London next morning, of which are attached a cash and waited that time, but on the call to convict, and a great encourage. They had no objection to raise, and a-sprig of the cypress or juniper
ment to being made, Mr. Tze was not at
when it came before the board it tree. When the lintel has been lawless and criminal had their unanimous approval. If raised and let down in its place, home. No further evidence was un-jelements, earthed, and this somewhat flimey
the stockholders approved of the therely securing the cloth and its. story was produced in Court by the
payment of a dividend of 12 per appendages, a slip of red paper solicitor acting on behalf of the
cent, for the past year the employees is attached to the lintel with the would get their interest of 7 per following inscription: Sheung cent on their deposits. He would un 'iu tai kat, (good luck at conclude by saying that no organi- tend the fixing of the door-bridge or lintal). The object of all this nation, so far as he knew, was better served, nor was there any is to reconcile the deity supposed where the relations between the to preside. over the door of the, various Boards, ngenta, brokers, house. A similar custom is observ- staff and employees, both ashore and rd on raising the ridge-pole, and afloat, were happier than in the P. should good luck leave the house, officers and men of his fleet at the accomplish which the tiles must be on the alert to trace these very
Battle of the Nile, they work to- taken off and re-laid. Tylor in his Mr. H. Ching, of the South China | gether. “Like a band of brothers," interesting work, Primitive Cul- dangerous offenders. Here was a case with a promising clue, but the Morning Post, who is now on leave and this he felt would continue to ture has a large number of exam- use made of it hardly suggests the in Australia, has been successfully be the case, not only while ho re-ples of similar castoms in various methods that bring daring and operated upon for ulceration of the Team Command, the Wi trose plačus Tong Long Daily Feet,
who might come after him. well-equipped criminals to book stomach.
Jan. 18, 1880:
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The investigations hardly add Three cases of small-pox and one a chapter to the annals of neat of typhoid were reported on Thes- and efficient detective work. The day. complaint made by the Shiu On
We are informed that No. 147, Wing firm raised a matter of great importance. Hong Kong and Can Kong Sau Yuen, has been awarded ton have long suffered from the Matriculation and not a Senior activities of note forgers, and the Local Certificate, as at first an-group. As Nelson said of the the red cloth must be changed, to police of both places are naturally nounced.