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Shanghai was recently in the throes of a discussion on the question of municipal ownership, the particular question under consideration being the retention of the electric lighting plant, equipment, betc.,
CHIMINAL "SESSIONS.
GANG_ROBBERY,
Ho Man and Ng Ngau were placed in the dock to undergo their trial before the Chief Justice (Mr. F. T. Piggott) on the charge of committing a, gang robbery at Shaushekwan, on the fath of March inst in, the house, of
1905.
THE OPIUM TRAFFIC.
ADVICE TO THE AUSTRALIAN COMMON- WEALTH.
BY THE CHINESR CITIZENS,
A CURSE TO WHITE AND VALLOWS."
STOP IN THE 'INPORTATION."
VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB“
REPONTS OF THE SUB-COMMITTEES,
The annual general nieeting of members of the Victoria ecreation Club will be held in St. Andrew's Hall, City Hall, on the 29th inst...
at 5 pm. The reports of the sub-committes
under the control of the Municipal Gotiñcil. | Wong Kiu, a enitle dealer. A large and representativa meeting of the have been issued, and from them wo gather the
The Houghang Celegraph of
HONGKONG, TURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1935.
BONDS OF EMFIRE,
The Attorney General (Sir it. S. Berkeley), instructed by Mr. G. Morrell of the Crown Solicitor's offer, prosecuted, and the prisoners were undefended.*
following information
leading Chinese merchants and citizens of the
BOAT-H USE SUB-COMMITTRES)" State was recently held at Sydney at the rooms of the Chinese Empire Reform League for the The sub-committee are glad to record that - purpose of taking the necessary steps to urge considerable interest was taken in rowing dur The following jury was empannelled :— Messrs. Kochler (foreman), W. Eric Craig, upon the Commonwealth Government the ing the last season and good antries were ac Guy Blood, John Arnold, Esade S. Perry, 51 desirability of prohibiting the importation of cordingly received both for the regular races at A Seth, and Frederick Rohrs. The Attorney- opium into the Commonwealth, and seeking the Annual Regatta and the scratch events, General said the facts of the case were, in legislation rendering it unlawful for anyone to One potable feature was the marked improves brief, that Wang Kiu was asleep in his house smoke opiam or permit or abel such smoking.ment in form, displayed by several rowing on the night of the rath of March last, when suddenly the date was broken, and complainant Mr. Yee Hing (Messrs. On Chong and Co., who members and it is hoped this, together with saw two men come in, and others standing control one-third of the opium trade in this the keenness, will be maintained outside. Wong Ki jumped up and seized a State) occupied the chair, and there were many spear to defend himself, when one of the sashers present who were more or less interested soners slabbed him in the thigh. The robbers then searched the house and stole 50 in money. in the opium traffic. Fa pair of shoek, and a pair of trousers and thin made off. The only difficulty in this case was the lack of diet testimony agai, st,prisurers, the complain at being unable to identify them, but he could say that the second prisoner went to the house in the same clothes with others and with menaces obtained money from him. The prisnner then said he was dissatisfied with the amount of money he then obtained and said he will retura with others. The men mota over were all marked.
The people of Shanghai, by an overwhelm ing majority, pronounced themselves in favour of municipal trading so far as the electric lighting of the city is concerned, but nothing was said as to the desirability of the Municipal Council controlling the proposed tramway system, and it is to be presumed that the tramway concession will Ai Hankow, on the soth June, to Mr. and be given to a private firm. So many opinions are held on this vital subject of municipal trading that all views are worthy of attention. Mr. Charles T. Yerkes, the great American tramway, magnate, is dis- tinctly adverse to municipal ownership. I an article which appears in a New York paper, Mr. Yerkes asserts that the municipal ownership of streut traction undertakings in London and elsewhere in Great Britain has proved a failure and is "ynonymous! with incompetence, extravagance and disas; ter." These are strong expressions, and it
Wang Kill corroborated this statement, and has to be borne in mind that they come added that the inen pressed him down by the from an expert, but an expert who has found door outside the house, and one of the robbers it to his advantage to form syndicates in- stood guard over him. The others went in and searched the house. He saw five men alio- numerable to carry on street traction ven-gether. Before the robbers went in he had in a variety of ways. To begin with, alltures.. He has made a fortune over the $82; and that was taken away from him that business and the question is where would night. The money was placed in the box bax broken and the money gone. They also took a pair of shoes and a pair of trousers. ernment Civil Hospital and detained there for On the 13th Match he was sent in the Gov- treatment till the 9th. April. He knew the second prison with the maces, four days before when he came with menaces, four days before, with three men, and demanded money.
Many people in the East, after a casual glance at the sundry "bargain" advertise. ments which continually appear in the home papers, must have experienced a longing to participate once again in the phenomenal "chances" offered by enterprising shop keepers in the old country. But until the present time they have been handicapped
The Hav, Young Wai req sited an assurance from those merchants present who were en gaged in the opium trade that they were ingres- able to abide by the request, to prohibit the traffic in opium, as he recognised that to some firms this meant an enormous sacrifice. All present gave the required assurance.
The various boats and oars have been over-
hauled from time to time during the period under review and are pow in good working condition. The new combined pair-our-and double-scalling boat Lily has proved herself a very satisfactory little craft and a useful aug- mentation to the Club fleet. A new light "four" has been nidered from Clasp ir, London; and as the Hongkong Host Club and Canton Rowing Club are both being supplied with 'olmilär boats by the same builder, future, inter club cicing will be put on a more interesting footing.
The cordial thanks of the club, are due to Mrs. Barnes-Lawrence for kindly presenting the prizes at the Annual Regatta,
BATH HOUSE 'SUB COMMITTRE, The bath-house has maintained its popularity
these bargains" had long passed away that fortune be if the municipalities had stairs. After the robbers left he found the South Wales his firm took Ɛo, but notwith-with the members, greater interest" than ever
before they had come to the knowledge of the resident abroad; and, again, there was always the fear that the exiled purchaser might be buying a pig in a poke. Neverthe less, the feeling that there are opportunities to be found in London establishments CELEBRATED which could not possibly exist abroad has
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kept their street traction undertakings within their own hands instead of banding them over to private individuals? The answer would seem to be--in the pockets of the ratepayers, Whether Mr. Yerkes is right or the Shanghai people will be seen when the remained strong. It is a common belief new tramway' is running. Meanwhile, ad. and me with much truth in it-that a sla-vanced radical opinion holds to the theory Bug in England is worth more than a dollar of municipal ownership.
in Hongkong, that its buying capacity is more than double that of the Mexican coin, but how to prove it was the question. It is usually a thankless task to appeal to friends in the old country to send out a specified anicle, and it was a dubious question whe ther strangers could be trusted. Some of the young lions on the Daily Mail re cognised that fact, and subscribers to the
A. S. WATSON & Co., Overseas Edition are to benefit under a new scheme whose terms and conditions are made clear in one of the recent
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It has been issues of that newspaper. decided to open a special. department for the sule purpose of making pur- chases in England on behalf of subscribers 132 to the Overseas Mail, and no fee or recom
pense will be charged. It will thus be possible for a subscriber living in the wilds of New Guinea or the back-blocks of China to order through this department a watch from his favourite firm of watch-makers or a box of pens from his favourite bookseller. The department, we are told, will be under the charge of an expert in the buying line, and judging from the preliminary announce.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL
SINCE Goon yesterday three more cases of plague have been recorded. There are now 170 on record for the year.
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To the Court: The men were all the height Sergeant Mackenzie, in charge of the Tai O of the man in the white jacket (first prisoner) station, testified that from information he re- ceived he went to the house of the prosecuter and found the man lying on his bed, bleeding from three wounds in the thigh, and had him sent to hospital. He found the spear: 200 or 300 yards away from the house,
Dr E. A. R. Laing testified to the man be. THE Hurlingham Club has eliminated pigcuning received into the hospital for treatment, suffering from three wounds in the thigh. The shooting froin its programmes.
spear produced would he a likely weapon to cause those wounds. The marks on Wong Kiu's thigh were the result of those wounds.
Evidence of the arrest was then given, Chi. nese constable No 65 stating that when he ar- rested the prisoner Ng Ngau, the latter said, "the old man, Wong Kiu stabbed me first," transpires that the injuries received by the and showed a patch: in his clothes where he German Empress when she fell downstairs, had mended the sent made at the time.
His Lordship said that statement was inad. recently were more serious than at first remissible, unless the constable warned the pri ported.
soner before allowing him to say anything, The constable said he did not warn him. The first prisoner said the trouble' arose out of an alleged theft by Wong Kiu from the second prisoner, and the falter wanted to go to Wong's to get some money to make up for the theft, and asked the first prisoner to go with him. He did not want to go at first, but afterwards he weal, and when he got to the house he saw Wong Kiu chasing two other men out of the house with the spear. The old man then tabbed him, the first prisoner, and another man snatched away the spear and stabbed Wong with it. The man who did the stabbing was one Cheung Kat. The first prisoner then went away with the second, and when they got to Tal O the first prisoner thrashed the second for assaulting the old man. The second prisoner then said that he would give evidence against the first prisoner and say that he
again.
THE communication received from a Parsee gentleman is of purely a personal character and not of sufficient public interest to warrant publication in these columns.
IT is reported that the Clyde Shipbuilding Yards have received instructions from the Ad. miralty to install turbine machinery in future battleships built for the Royal Navy.
THE sidewheel steamer Mubilis, belonging to Captain Luis Yangco, is ashore on the Bataan coast. Philippine Island, about five miles from Mariveles and will probably be a total loss.
The annual aquatic sports were held on the stb, 6th, and 7th September, the hearty support tendered by the public being much appreciated. The long distance championship of the Colony was won by Mr. J. Witchell, the 200 yards championship of the colony by Mr. C. J; Cooke, and the ion yards championship by Mr.Q. Huniphreys.
GYMNASIUM SUB-COMMITTER,
Mr. Yee Hing gave a detailed statement of the movement, which was initiated in Nel bourne. It was proposed to ask the Chinese in Melbourns to distribute petitions for signa ture throughout the Commmonwealth, and as soon as the Federal Parliament met to walt upon the Government and request that the necessary legislation be enacted without delay, CF every 500 cases of opium imported to New standing this they were of opinion that if the having been taken in this part of the club in
Chinese generally, to say nothing of the good traffic was stopped it would be better for the spite of his unfavourable situation. that would accrue to the European population, They all recognized what the prohibition of the vile stuff meant to the Chinese community, as for n considerable time after being deprived of opium the smoker and eater would be a burden upon them, and it was proposed to inaugurate a fund to provide medicines and comforts for
The best thanks of the club are due to Mrs. these derelicts-both Chinese and Europeans He had secured statistics showing the Barnes Lawrence, for kindly presenting tha enormous amount of opium that was imprizes at the close of the aquatic sports. parted, to say nothing of what was amuggled into New South Wales each year, the figures being as follows:-1898, 15,478 lb. 1899, 18,819b; 1920, 16,502h; 1971, 28,7171b.; 1902, 27,485lb and 1993, 18, alb. This was smoking opium There were only about 9,993 Chinese in New South Wales in 1901, and as they were steadily diminishing in number, it would readily be seen the great evil the traffic was working. The Chinese were blamed for this state of affairs by the Europeans, which was unjust, as history showed that in the first place England had forced the opium on China by treaties. The Chinese did not take the opium of their own free will, but were made the medium of distribution, and they had to bear the brunt of the evil results following. He moved a resolution to the effect; "That this meeting of Chinese merchants urge upon the Commonwealth Government the necessity of legislating to prohibit the further importation of opium to the Commonwealth, and also that it is desirable that it be made punishable to smoke opium or aid and abet in such smoking." Mr. John Hoe seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously,
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The commlite beg to report that this Department is equipped with a full ist of gymnastic appliances, quite ample for the pre- sent needs of the club, but they regret, to note. that members have practically made no use of them. In fact, the gymnasium has been used moto for getting, out of, shapinto, trainings three well atten-led smoking concerts having been held there on the 6th February, goth April, and 15th October. Probably more use will be made of this department when the club premises are removed to Hongkong;-this af
present could not recommend expenditure at any rate is the hope of the committee, who ne
all on this department..
·A CHINESE DEBTON.
In the Hongkong Summary Jurisdiction Court to day, before his Honour Mr. Justice Wise, an action at the instance of Taze Tan Shung Tong alias Tsze Pung against Chan Shing Yu was called,
Mr. R. A. Harding appeared for the plaintiff'; the defendant was not present sor wai be re” presented.
quent nothing will be too big to handle and THE meeting of the P cific Cable Conference stabbed Wong Kiu, and then they fough their co-operation in the matter." He said that. loan of $1,548 which had been made to the
nothing too small. It is simply a question of accommodating subscribers. All they have
to do is to guess roughly what the article
Sir William Mulock, Postmaster General of is still uparranged, owing to the inability of Canada, to name a date when he will be ab'e
to attend.
THE Colonial Secretary has received a tele,
they want will cost, remit that amount to the department in question, and wait for the appearance of their goods. It may happen sam from the Consul General at Bangkok, went with the first prisoner to get
at Hongkong vessels arriving at Bang
entering.
VICE-GOVERNOR 1de, secretary of finance and justice, in the Philippines, has issued a state ment of the currency movements for the month' of May. It shows a decrease of P784,739-73 during the month in amount of currency in circulation in the islands. This is accounted) for, however, by the amount of exchange on New York that has been purchased.
and beat him, Hedid netacknowledge anything The second prisoner said the police arrested to the police. He only called out "save life, Wong Kiu stole goods valu-d at $6 or $7 from hin, and afterwards gave him $1.15 to make up, but that was not enough, and so 52 or $3 more from him, and Wong seized and he fought with the first prisoner because of it. He was not a robber. Bui if your Lordship says I am to be hanged, i shall be hanged, or if I am to be decapitated I shall be decapitated; or if I am to go to gaol, then i shall go to gaoli cannot help it. That is all
have to say.
His Lordship then briefly summoned up.' The Jury, after a very brief deliberation. returned an unanimous verdict of "guilty" against both prisoners.
The Attorney-General then mentioned to His Lordship that the second prisoner had been found guilty of a similar charge yesterday, sentence being deferred...
Mr. S. Wong moved-"that a deputation of Chinese merchants and citizens wait upon the Evangelic Council and General Booth, asking"
The plaintiff claimed:$1,coo, being part of a
sant with the evil that was being wrought by he did not think the clergy were fully cover defendant on 8th March, 1905 When asked opium, for, it they were, they would be found in re-pay the lean the defendant had promised lifting up their voices just as strong as they did, to do so, but had failed to keep that promise, against the gambling and drink evils. If opium with the result that this action was faken. The had never been introduced into China, the plaintiff waived $;48 of the total amount due Chairman would not have had a yellow face, bringing the claim down to $1,doo
Australia as far as he was concerned-for color was everything, we
The Rev, Young Wai, in seconding the mo
tion, said his position as a clergymen brought him face to face with some deplorable in- cidents traceable to the drug. He has often been asked the question why the Chinese did not do something to eradicate the evil, and he had painted out that they were powerless in the matter, loasmuch as Chinese were not al towed a voice in the government of the Cam monwealth. He hoped the crusade against the traffic would be successful, and if it was he was sure they would earn the everlasting gratis tude of their European friends.
that the money remitted is insufficient to stating that owing to the renewal. of plague' the spear and there was some stabbing and there would have been no need for a White cover the cost of the article ordered. In kok must complete nine full days before that case the department will, should the deficiency be trifling, send on the goods and leave it to the agents of the newspaper to collect the balance; but where there is a large margin between the cost of the article and the amount remitted then the subacri- ber will be required to increase his remit lance to the required amount before his order is fulfilled. In the words of the notice, the department is pre-
The second prisoner was then sentenced to pared to "book rooms in hotels and NORWAY has adopted the tricolor as its na-three years' hard labour, the other being sen- boarding-houses, select suitable apartments tional flag. Dr. Frithjof Nansen, the famous tenced to two years' hard labour.
Artic explorer, has been suggested as president; for travellers, or schools for the sons and of the council of state on account of the active daughters of subscribers; it will reserve
part he has played in achieving the blondless births on slups, or contract for advertise separation of the two countries. He has shown ment space in any newspaper. It will nego himsell very conservative all through the tiate patents, obtain legal advice, purchase negotiations and it is believed will make a stocks and shares, securities, debentures, most excellent president.
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WHISKIES AT
$12.00 Per Dozen.
DISTILLERS,
short, every transaction within reason will beIN his wildest dreams of vengeance against the gladly negotiated without any extra expendi- cigarette, Dr. Rass never went so far as some of the Legislatures of the United Sates are! ture on the part of subscribers for the ser
sumption of the insidious little cylinders. On now going in their efforts to prohibit the con-
April 18 the local officers throughout the State. of Indiana, acting under instructions from the police boards, began the enforcement of the anti-cigarette law. A large number of arrests were reported right away, the prisoners being, cigarettes, or having in their possession paper for making the same. In every case in which
GANG ROBBERY."
po and Ng, Nguu was then determined, the Deferred judgment in the case against Lai prisoners being sentenced to six months' hard labour each,
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EMBEZZLEMENTY
Targ Fuk, ex-cnrones's clerk and third clerk at the Magistracy, was then placed on trial charged with the embezzlement of the sum of $so on the 4th of April last
Sir Henry Berkeley, Attorney-General, in- structed by Mr. Marrell, of the Crown Solici-
Lor's office, prosecuted.
Mr. G. N. Ferrers, instructed by Mr. H. W. con, defended. Looker, of Messrs. Deacon Looker and Dea
Prisoner pleaded not guilty, and the follow- ing jury was empannelled: Messis, Nicolai (foreman), A. Moir, Schräeder, P. K. Knygett, W. F. Basford, A. Alves, and Hooper.
The facts of this case have been fully record
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Judgment for plaintiff with costs, It was stated that there were other actions for debt against the defendant,
MR. William O'Doherty, Nationalist member for North Donegal, was seized with a fit of apoplexy, while sitting in the House of Com mons. He was removed to the Westminster
Hospital, but died atmest jimmediately. Ms. O'Doherty had represented North Donegal, since 1900, He was born in Carndonagh, Co. Donegal, in 1868, and married in 1894 à daughter of William Mitchell, shipownes, He was educated at St. Columb's Collège, London- derry, and admitted as aanlicitor in 1893. In 189; he was elected as coroner for Innishowen,
qunted figures to show that the traffic from and was chairman of the Public Health Com
Mr. T. J. Law, in supporting the motion, as member of the London Corporation in 1896,
India to Great Britain was just as bad as inmittee, any other part of the world. From 1838 to 190 the enormous, total of 284,582 tone was imported, or an average ofhali a ton for every hour. He was pleased to see that the British people were waking up to the fact that the traffic was doing irreparable injury to humanity, ing meeting in Exeter-ball, London, calling for on December 9 last they held an overflow together Christians, under a deep sense of duty, to unite is a determined effort to bring our na tional connection with the oplum traffic to an end" The Earopean people of ustralia should likewise be up and doing, and he trusted the Chinese would receive every encouragement and assistance from their European friends, as both had a common cause to fight for, Japan
ed in these columns, and are very briefly as had very strict laws dealing with opium, and follows: Tang Fuk, a clerk at the Magistracy, would not allow it in under any consider
THE WEATHER.
The following report is from Mr. F. G. Figg First Assistant of the Hongkong Observatory.
"On the 20th at 17,55 a. The barometer has risen over China and Formosa,
Yesterday afternoon the typhoon was contin ulog on its course towards NE, and approach- the Loachos istands: The Japanese re- turas are lacking this morning.
Conditions again favour the formation of a depression over the N. part of the China Sea.
Moderats to fresh NE, and E. winds are
who have left England in touch with the not dealers, but persons found smoking received Sgo as a fine which had been inficredation, and there was no reason why Australia expected to prevail in the Formosa Chapnel,
a
LOCALLY BLENDED vicus of the "Agency Department of
the Overseas Atail." The scheme is described as "the germ of a world-wide organisation," intended to foster trade within the Empire. Rather, it keeps the people mother-country, and if the idea is carried JAS. MCINTOSH & CO., out on anything like the scale proposed it
should assuredly effect that purpose. News. trial was held a fine was inflicted. The leader paper enterprise has few limits in these days, of an orchestra in Indianapolis, who was caught smoking a cigarette was fined 25 dollars, and and this latest scheme of converting a news he paid up. A well-known citizen of Anderson paper office into a sort of glorified bargain was ordered to pay 35 dollars for having cigar. store will undoubtedly come as a surprise to ette paper in his possession, but be appealed, the majority of people. Still there is every and proposed to test the constitutionality of trust was behind the appeal, and this was very novelty of the idea is calculated to
taken to mean that a thorough test of the appeal to the subscriber in his log cabin or
validity of the prohibitory measure would be palm matshed; and if it helps on the made. The State of Wisconsin has recently federation of the Empire a great object will adopted legislation of a similarly drastic char [33 have been achieved.
DUNDEE.
GREGOR & CO. prospect that it will prove a success; the the law. It was understood that the tobacco
SOLE AGENTS.
Hongkong, 20th Juns, 1905,
actor.
cui a prisoner, and instead of paying it over to could not take up the same stand. It was and along the northern shores of the China
the properly accredited person to receive the rightly considered a great sin to make a profit Sea.
SHIPPING AND MAILS.
ame is alleged to have put it in his own pocket by trading in the virtue of young girls, but it Forecast-Moderate to fresh E. winds; and used it himself. On the 4th of April a de- was a greater sin for a Government to make a squally, showery fendant was fined $50 by one of the Magistrales, profit out of the manhood of their citizens, agilate for the and a friend went to get the money, returning at He urged his countrymen
30 p.m. with the money, and as the shroff prohibition of the trace they be for had then gone the prisoner received the felt sure that the Chinese would be blessed for money, giving the usual receipt for the same, their efforts to bring about a nobler and purer and making the usual endorsements, but state of social conditions than at present nothing was known of this money until the exissed. 16th of May when the auditor discovered that Mesra, H. Fine Chong, Choy Hing, and it was missing. molbers also spoke, and the motion, un, being
Mr. T. A Hammer, chief clerk at the Magis pur, was carried unanimously gra recy, was called and produced the counterfoil Arrangements are being made to hold and connection with which the $50 fine was paid, halls of the city shartly, when the leading receipt books, and the depositions in the case anti-opium demonstration in one of the large on all of which was the prisoner's signature. politicians, clergymen, and citizens will be
asked to take part-Sydney Daily Telegraph, The case is proceeding day.
SAILS DUE German (Sachsen) 21st inat. American (Siberio) ajrd insti Indian (Kumsang) ayth inst (French (Tourane) 2516,jost,
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