meer since those days; wAnd if he is so very [, the old er Huable in China how comes it that he the ped
valuable)in". Hongkong? The jepraat
ng Because th
Governor
very respectable European, foreign sallors, etc., when they county"store" and may fairly be depended upon to suppress any inclination to, violence which is no un common inclination on the part of the Sikhs." We take it that the mover of the unliappy suggestion to deploy Sikh policemen on the streets of Colombo recognised and admitted his folly and, with an expression of the ut most contrition, withdrew his motion while the house passed on to the previous question. Otherwise, if the motion was pressed and " carried' and Sikhs are to be imported by the score into Ceylon, then we offer the inhabit ants of that Colony and more particularly the residents of Colombo our deepest sympathy and sincerest condolences.
THE AMERICAN COUNT IN;
'SHANGHAI,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY JANUARY 5 1907,
things has returned, and held up at every street | i. the middle of Queen's The very eyes of the police.
that in the course of fath he was challenged jen times by relays of clear marked lines of "were in no case exceeded. noying to be followed by a
fas been sent out by an pon the sympathy and the f the foreign population. It has, the notice of the lower classes on of the year people are it other limes to undo and, accordingly, the devi of educating a child in the "öndeful art of crying "poverty has been adopted by the unscrupulous rascals who are in waiting to see whether the appeal to the charitable is rewarded. "Those who have occasion to perambulate the principal thoroughfares at all hours can fully bear out the statement that a perfect epidemic of beggary has broken out and if one should be so foolish as to give the applicant a dole he is a marked person for
evermore. While there are cases in which indiscriminate charity may be pardoned, nothing can be said in favour of its practico in this Colony. There is an organised band at work, who have marked out their respective districts, and pursue their game with an energy and assiduity which, if directed into proper channels, would assuredly make for success, Ofcourse it is seldom the resident who encourages these parasites to prey on his good nature, for he knows by long experience that the slightest sign of weak ness on his part will lead the beggars to believe that he is their partron for ever No doubt one is inclined to give a trifle il only to get rid of the immediate nuisance at one's heels. It is the transient visitor who is really responsible for the creation of these pests, and especially the lavish merican with his generous benevolence. The Euro- pean is generally well informed regarding the modus operandi of beggar guilds, und has had practical evidence of their operations in the capitals of Europe. Those who have seen the brigands who line the quays of Genoa and Naples-and all travellers by the Norddeutscher Lloyd have had that oppor unity-know how difficult it is to escape the. demands of the sturdy rascals who, by every trick under the sun, seek to charm the nimble coin out of the visitor's pocket. But the American who has not journeyed beyond Manila is not accustomed to those sights. and is apt to be worked upon by the doleful sight of a miserable child pleading for a meal. There is no need for such generosity and no necessity why Hongkong should be- come a byeword abroad. The police should take the matter in hand and, leaving the gamblers, alone for a few days, turn their attention to this fester in the very centre of the city.
Readers will have noticed with impartial interest the curious tangle which occurred as the result of opening an Anterican Court at Shanghai the other day. The learned judge ruled that all attorneys who wished to practise lu his Court must first submit, to an examination on certain points of law, the examination to be set and decided by him. Nine American lawyers handed in their names as candidates for admission. to the bar-that is to say nine lawyers who have previously been "allowed to practise, by courtesy, in the Consular Courts of the Settlement, avowed their willingness to undergo another trial as to their com- petency of addressing the Court in the interests of trusting clients, who had never previously doubted their all-embrac ing knowledge of the ponderous tomes which are the feature of every legal establishment. Only eight appeared to sit under the learned judge when the ordeal began and their examination was conducted in private. It would be easy to picture the comedy which was enacted in that lethal chamber, for lethal it undoubtedly must have heen. Of the eight only two survived and they are both members of the same, firm. The six who were "plucked" cannot show their faces within the precincts of the American Court again, or at least, after their present engagements have been fulfilled. It should be remembered that those practising lawyers were not Bedglings who had foisted them- selves on the innocent people, Americans included, of Shanghai. They had not don There seemed to be little in the grim after. ned and doffed a gown to which they had oath of the Russo-Japanese war to arouse the manner of claim. They were men, who had siblities of the bystander, and authing con passed the usual examinations in law in America, who bore diplomas asserting that they were entitled to argue before the judges of the United States' courts, who were duly qualified to represent any member of the litigious section of any community to which crapped up is one of the must unexpected they might attach themselves, and who were places, the chief characters being no less per in fact and in law, lawyers. But that did sonages than General and Mrs. Stoesset, It not prevent the presumably learned judge seems that while Port Arthur was besieged, a from declaring them delusions and snares certain Mrs. Poudzky, the widow of a captain from a legal point of view. Now, it is quite of the same name, kept, no doubt as a stand by, possible, and we will take it for granted, that the most valuable of her possessions nad lavish. tw cows and a calf. These she treasured us the unfrocked gentlemen, who have beened more than housewifely care upon them. sent about their business, which is not law, Early and late she kept an eye on them, fed were lawyers in the sense of having passed then when she was hall-starved herself, neg- their examinations in their youth and had lected her children, if she had any, to nurse proved their fitnest by enabling many inno- the call, and ministered to its infant ailments cent people to be permitted to leave the with an assiduity which made even the mother Court "without a stain on their char-cow jealous. Hearing of these cows and the call," General Stoessel gave many, anxious actér," and to defeat the nefarious designs.
thoughts to their condition and
thuy even
·STOESSEUS NEW TRIAL.
nected with the surrender of Port Arthur and
the subsequent trial of Stassel appeared to be conducive to mirth. It was all the other way, for no matter which of the combatants one sup- ported there was no denying the steadfast garnestness of each. lumour lurks uncon. sciously everywhere, however, and this
of wily plaintiffs in civil suits who have copicinplated the expropriation of the desired to "best" their clients. Was it to bovine creatures. But fate willed otherwise, be expected that they could cram up all for the Japanese were pressing him an all sides the knowledge which they had perforce and it was only a question of time when Fort acquired in their youth at a moment's Arthur would be surrendered into the hands of the notice from the bench? How many people ney. The fateful day arrived when General Stonesel felt mumself obliged in the interests of in Hongkong to-day who have reached the humanity to give up his sword and admit the Age of 30 yeay will the tir hands on their superiority of the japanese investors, and Fort hearts and say that they are prepared here Arthur was no longer a Russian fortress. The and now to pass any of the examinations Japanese Advertiser, which has translated the which were as fleabiles in their youth ?-that story from Russian newspapers, states that is unless they are schoolmasters of some sort General Stoessel came forward in defence of or other. Even the lawyers of Hongkong his wife. From our contemporary's translation holding an extensive practice might well it, irould appear that the general laid the responsibility on the japan Government hesitata before they expressed their willing-hocause the cows had been taken prisoners ness to pass a test act by a judge wholly new and he begged the "Court to award his to the Colony. Yet Judge Wilftey declared wife 25 roubles from Mrs. Poudrsky as legal himself judge and jury over men familiar casts In the event of the Court not consent- with the legal requirements of Shanging to accept his statement he prayed that, hai,, and has, now withdrawn from them
before deciding the cast, some arrangement should be made for the examination of wit- their means of livelihood not only in the American Court but also in all the China and Japan, with the object of explain. nesses, a large number of whom lived in Consular Courts. Would the judge be ing the circumstances, very important in the prepared to undergo an examination as to case, that the cows were almost dead, and that his own knowledge of the law, the examiners their keep, owing to the dearness of everything being the men who have been "plucked"? at that time, amounted something like 500 Once a lawyer always a lawyer may be cited to about one thousand roubles, for which sum mables a month, and for the entire two months as a maxim, but it had always been under- he, koessel, at the request of his confidants Blood that once a man had passed this and wife, set up a counter-claim against the examinatipan in his youth before a duly con- ex-captainess. Mrs. Stoessel amplified her stituted Tribunal he could not be disbarred husband's testimony by declaring that the feed except for misconduct or some malpractices of the cows was not a 1,000 roubles but 1,5-0, No wonder there has been a rush of bud but she, having compassion for the position of ding lawyers from Manila to Shanghai, for the ex-captainers, voluntarily reduced the being fledglings they are likely to remember mount due and prayed that only one thousand the non-essentials which were probably the rock on which the "plucked" ones fell, The fact that the two passed men belong to and her cows, not omitting to mention the calf, the same firm means that one side or another in a sult must go unrepresented until another candidate for adinission to the bar of the American Court has satisfied the require meats of Mr. Willey, i
OUR BEGGAR POPULATION,
Bome months ago, in obedience to the numerous complaints of local residents, the police authorities made a series of ralds, on the beggars who infested the main streets of the Colony. They were such an unmitigated
roubles be awarded her! The unfortunate
part of the thing is that we do not learn how the trial ended, but the picture of the widow
and the commandant and this wife, who also had an eye on the two cows, etc., is surely the height of pure, usadalerated farce, Asa war to the level of opora bouffe, contemporary says it is reducing the tragedy of
ELBGRAMS
"HONGKONG" TELEGRAPH"
SERVICEN
AMERICAN BOYCOTT
REVIVED
LARGE MEETING AT CANTON,
CHINESE LABOURERS, FOR THE PANAMA
CANAL..
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Shameen, 31st December,
4 p.m.
A meeting was convened by the American Boycott Association at the Kwongohui Hospital yesterday.
There were over a thousand per- sons present.
ALLEGED ASSAULT BY INDIAN
SOLDIERS.
JUDGMENT RESERVED/
19th uit.
The much adjourned"case in which Mr. P. W. Goldring, sóličitor, summoned Alla Din and Mudi Khan, both of the 4th Company,.! "Izgth" Baluchis," for assault: alleged to have taken place at "Parkside," Kowloos, on 15th October inst, was continued this moming, at the Magistracy, before. Mr. F. A. Hazeland. Crom- summinses were taken out by the two Indian soldiers and served on bir. 1. W. Goldting and Mr. F. C. Barlow, alid for assault.
Mr. G. E. Morrell, of Messrs. Denny and Hawley (Crown Solicitors), represented the complainants in the first case, while Mr. H. ]. Grist, of Messrs. Wilkinson and Grim, ap-
peared to defend the Indians.
Mir. Morrell asked that the summonses against his clients be struck out on the ground that the soldiers were not here at the last hearing,
Mr. Grist is not that rather late?
Mr. Morrell made the application last week.
His Worship As I said at the last bearing there seemed to be a misunderstanding as to why the men were not here. Your application,
Mr. Morrell, is refused. ".
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“He was not too ill to walk?” "He was just able to walk,"
Au Tak Nam, of No. 133, Bonham Stran East | Herit› was sald, went; to Canton a few
Was not these isn' attitude one of self-days ago to collect some money. Altogether
defence ?*
"Certainly not.".
"Did you kick one of the Indians ?” (I did."
he collected $1,046.91, mostly in silver. When" he got ready yesterday afternoon to reign to Hongkong he placed the money in a bundle with his clothlog. When he got on board "the
"Have you been troubled by trespassers be- Hewan he placed the precious bundle on a fore?"
"Personally, no.
** Have you seen any trespassers before ? ** "Yes; one or two.".
What were the first words you addressed to the defendants when you first saw them?"
I think it was get out
His Worship: Don't you think it would bave been better to have waited and seen what the men were going to do?"
Mr. Barlow They were going towards the gate.
Mr. Morrell-That's my case, your Worship.
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shelf above him and presumably, went to sleep. On awaking, the ship was making for her berth..
•He got down what he thought was hin' buedļa and on opening it to replace certain articles) found that although the bundle was made to which had been in use during the voyage,
"resemble kis it was not. His bundle and the dollars bad disappeared. The substitute con- lained a quantity of rags and a large number of copper cash. It seems that somebody know of the shroff's mission to Canton and followed him about while in that city. They followed him aboard the Powan, and, They saw him collect the money. THE CROSS SUMMONS, T
moreover, particular notice was paid to the Mr. Grist, addressing the Court, said
bundle be was carrying. Without much delay that he admitted that the Indiafe" wore
the party or parties concerned basilly got That they had no right there fi thare.
together the material and made a bardie attitude of the defendants, said Mr. Grist, was admitted and an apology offered. The
"which closely resembled that of the shroff, the copper cash being placed in the bogus bundla purely self-defence. They were, attacked by Messrs. Goldring and Barlow and did nothing weight. This completed, the work of sub- so that the shroff would not mistake," the more than defend themselves against instituting the two bundles during the shroffs assault.
slumber was 'a matter of a few minutes. "Im- mediately the shroff discovered the trick he lost no time to calling for the police, who searched all suspected persons. They then ransacked every nook and corner of the ship and soon they ship they found a coolle busily engaged in rip. were rewarded. In a corner in the fore part of the
ping open a bundle. He was promptly seized, and the shroff gave a sigh of relief as he re cognised his bundle and was told that the con-
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After the leading speakers had addressed the meeting, the following resolutions were passed, viz. -
Mr. Grist then put Alla Din in the box. The Datlining the facts of the case briefly, Mr. (1) That the boycott of all goods Morrell stated that at nine o'clock on the morn-latter explained that on the morning in question
of American manufacture being of the 15th October, Mosars. Goldring and
they were on scouting duty. Witness knew "Barlow were passing through their garden on ing. Mudi Khan was twenty paces away, Parkside." He was in the garden that mora again made effective:---
their way to business. Half way in the gards walking on the grass. When the two defend (2) That the proprietors of all two ludian soldiers were seen. Each man
adle were five paces away, witness first saW Chinese newspapers be ra carried a rifle. The soldiers were asked what
them, and stepped aside, thinking (baş they were doing and told to get an his de quested to decline all adver- fendants began talking very excitedly, and then defendants were going to office. Defen- tisements relating to Amori- made a thrust at the complainants with their dants did not pass, but they kicked, wit- ness and he dropped in the bushes. ean goods.
When witness fell he said: "I am a Govern ment soldier. Why do you kick me?" but the second defendant (Mr. Goldring) kicked him again. At this stage Mudi Khan came up and seized hold of the first defendant. They then left the garden, witness saying that he would complain of the assault.
(3) That Chinese labourers be dissuaded from proceeding to work at the Panama Canal. (4) That a petition be submit- ted to is Excellency the Viceroy asking the Throne to open negotiations with the -American Government on the subject of the Chinese Exclu- sion Act.
(5) That placards be posted. throughout the country em- bodying the resolutions of the meeting.
SHANGHAI AMERICAN
COURT.
OPENING SESSIONS TO-DAY.
rifles. One man tackled Mr. Barlow, while the other turned his attentlun 10 Mr. Goldring, who was struck on the face. While Mr. Goldring was mopping the blood from his nose the soldier made an attempt to bring his gun down on his head. Mr. Goldring warded off the blow with his
more was heard until a letter was received from
left forearm, bruising it very badly. Nothing Col. Price complaining that his men had been assaulted. Mr. Goldring was not in the Col- ony at the time and no reply was sent to that letter. A lot of communications passed be- Tween the parties and as an apology from the regiment was refused the complainants decided to proceed with the case. He called Mr. Gold- ring to the stand.
Philip Wallace Goldring, sworn, said he was a solicitor practising in this Colony, and resided at "Parkside," Kowloon. Al about 9 am., op the 15th October he and hir. Barlow ware going through their garden towards the street gate. It is over 300 yards. ham the house to the gate. Witness was a little in advance of Mr. Barlow and on turning the corner at the (op witless saw the two defendants about so yards ahead.le then called Mr. Barlow's Attention to them. Witness and Mr. Barlow went after the men and caught them up. Witness called out to the soldiers asking hem what they were doing and told them to get out. The defendants turned round, mid something in their own language, and pushed
Cross-eximi ed by Mr. Morrell, witness
said he saw no enclosure around the grounds and did not know it was a garden. Witness entered the garden through a path. There was no gate. There was a hedge, however, around the garden, fifteen feet high. Witness jumped that to get into the garden |
Mudi Khan was the next witness called and he corroborated'the evidence of his comrade.
Major H. P. L. Parker, of the 129th Baluchis, said he knew the two defendants in this case, and the last two witnesses. Alla Did had been in the service for nineteen years and bore an excellent character. Mudi Khan had been in the regiment for six years and he also There had never ore a good character.
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been any complaints against the two men.
Promotion is very slow !" said Mr. Morrell. What do you mead? inquired Major Parker.
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* I mean that Alla Din has been so long in the service, possesses an excellent character,.. and is still a sepay:
Alla Din could not fulfil any other appoint Maior Parker was understood to reply that
ment.
"Do you call your regiment a well-behaved regiment?" asked Mr. Morrell,
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tents were intact,
This morning, the trickster, who said he was Wong Kom, a cook, was charged, at the in- stance of Inspector Smith, before Mr F. A. Hazeland, with larceny of the valuable bundle, The charge, was proved 'and the ingenious cook was sentenced to six weeks hard labour and five hours' stocks, and to be deported at the expiration of his term of imprisonment.
THE BLUPE THAT FAILED.
JOHN DOWNIE'S DEHAVIOUR.
3rd inst. John Downie, n' well-known character`in police court circles, whose mind, so it is al- serted, is a trife unhinged, had enough rese about him this morning when he tried to work a bluff on Mr. C, A. D. Melbourne,, which would not hold water. He was arraigned at the Police, Court on a charge of absenting himself from the House of Detention.
"Your Worship, this is the first time I have been up here!" said Dowale, when asked to give as near as he possibly could the number of convictions he possessed.
Inspector Smith, who is well acquainted with the defendant, denied that such was the police for about five years. To give the Court case. Downie, said he, has been known to the
an idea as to the number of his previous con- victions without turning to the records would be impossible. He knew, however, that defen- dant had been already convicted—many times. --for failing to return to the House of Delen- tion...
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AN ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE BENCH.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Shanghai, 2nd January, 2.03-p.m: The first session of the American Court which was established lately was opened to-day ander the pre-second defendant fasting at him with bis ride like to review the evidence, and visit the has been away from the flouse for three days. sidency of Judge Wilfley,
Ten cases which appeared on the register were submitted to the judge. hearing.
Lates were assigned for their
His Honour announced from the bench that the attorneys who had failed in the examination which was held for admission at the American Court would be disbarred, but would be allowed to continue to appear in the casos in which they were already interested.
THE BRITISH MINISTER 10 CHINA,
SIR JOHN JORDAN'S APPOINTMENT CONFIRMED.
[From Our Con \ orrespondent.]
Mr. Barlow. The latter, caught hold of the man, and kicked him. Witness being very ill, and wenk could not enter into the fray. He' was standing looking on, when the second
His Worship said that Major Parker was not defendant SiTuck him on the face. At this point Mr. Barlow and the other Indian closed.obliged to answer the question, and he did not. After both solicitors had addressed the Court. Witness was engaged in stopping the bleeding from his nose. The next thing he saw was the
at some length, his Worship said that he would raised. A blow was aimed at witness's head. He rounds, and reserved his judgment. stepped back, raised his arm, and was struck on the arm, bruising it so badly that sleep for three impossibility. of four nights was a matter of A Kowloon sickeha. coolie rushed in and
relieved the second defendant of his rifle. 'That done the men left, being followed by witness and Mr. Barlow. On the road witness
The-next-morning be left for Formosa.
met a native officer and got defendants' names.
"How long have you been living in, this
HIGHWAY ROBBERY,
ROBIEE SENT TO GAOL.
3rd inst. Mr. CA, D. Melbourne, at the Police Court, this afternoon, banded out his decision good and hard in a highway robbery cafe which came before him for trial. The case was that "Since 1st November, 1905,"
in which a rough-looking individual was "The garden of the house is a very large charged with holding up a farmer on the high
house?" asked Mr. Grist.
one?"
"About two acres,”
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"What enclosure has this garden ?” "A bamboo badge and barbed wire."
Aren't there some gaps?"
! No
Couldn't ons have made a mistake?".
roads of the New Territory and robbing him of eight dollars in cash. The particulars of the "hold up" were to the following, affect ;- Shortly before mid-day on the 2nd ultimo, an aged farmer while on his way to Chinwan, via Lai-chi-kok, was "held up" by four men and robbed of all he possessed-$5. The
*Dae couldn't mistake it for anything but a robbers, it appeared, sprang out from behind private garden,"
"Have there been trespassers before ?".
"Yes,"
"Chinese ?"
"No. Always Indian soldiers."
**And what did you do ?"
""urn them out."
"Did they always go ? "
"Yes. This is the first time that they re fused."
Have you complained to any officer of the regiment ?"
Shanghai, 4th January,
2.5 p.m.. Sir John Jordan, who has hitherto been acting as interim Minister to China, has now been confirmed in his appointment as His Brittanie of you had reported the matter to the European Majesty's Minister to China,
TRAGEDY IN THE NEW FERRITORY.
ILICE SERGeant shoots CHINESE
BOATMAN.
A
4th inst. News, though rather belated, reached us last Kerr, officer in charge of Ping Shan Police evening to the effect that Police Sergeant Station, New Territory, had shot and killed Chinese boutman while on a hunting expedition in the Territories on Christmas Day. The boatman and the sergeant, we are informed, went out hunting together. How the shooting will be explained at the Coroner's inquiry came about is at present unknown, but that which will be held sone time next week. had to be brought over to Hongkong for treat What is known, however, is that the boatman
ment and that one of his legs had to be am- putated. He died shortly afterwards.
CRICKET,
LEAGUE TABLE.
"Yes. To the native officers, "Don't you think it would have been better
officers?"
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No, I was told it would have been so good. I complained to the police."
Continuing, under cross-examination, Mr. Goldring said that his attitude towards the in dians was not one of assault. The Indians might not have understood what "Get out" was, but they could see what was meant. When defendants pushed their rifles out it was not for protection against a contemplated assault, Witness was far too ill to think of fighting.
His Worship-Why do you suggest that these men should be in your garden to fight?
Mr. Goldring-I don't know why they were there.
cut, your Worship. These men werd nut on Mr. Grist-The garden was used as a short
scouting duty.
Mr. Goldring-They did not appear to be in a hurry.
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the trespassing.
Mr. Grist-We have apologised already for
Mr. Goldring Yes.
The following in the League table up to ground. The Indian scired witness by the
'Club.
data:-
dIXTEEN men worn arrested shortly after eight o'clock on Sunday, the result of a gambling raid, executed by Detective Sergeant, Watt, on the Civil Service............ second floor of No. 47, Aberdeen Street, The Craigengower ........ men were, playing ngau.pai.- 'They were Hongkong Police.. arraigned before Mr. F. A. Haseland, on H.K.C.C. "A"
Kowloon Hoaday, at the Police Court the first two men being charged with running gambling Army Staff............ duliance that their clearance was appreciated charge was proved, and the two leaders fired
bouse, and the remainder with gambling, The R. G. Adammitanii. 4.
R.E. by everybody. For' some time this satis Syo each, while the remainder got off with Sal
3 pointama wiaj factory state of affairs continued, but now nach,
Matchee,
some trees and partly.blinding their man with a handful of line, sel upon him with Bamboo pales. When they had him overpowered he was searched and his money stolen. The rabbers then fed. Three of the thugs took to the hills, while one made hot-footled down the road This man the farmer chased into Kau Pai Kan village, where he was seized by a number of villagers and handed over to Ser geant Sim, of Sam-shui-po Police tation; here were no other arrests made. His Wor ship sentenced the prisoner to three months
berd labour and four hours' stocks,
BOY ILL-TREated and ROBBED, A most daring piece of robbery was com mitted in the Central district shortly after seven o'clock last evening when two robbers held up" a thirteen-year-old boy and robbed him of a sum of money, which belonged to his master. Two very curious things crown this hald up." The first is that although pepper or lime was thrown into the lad's eyes he did not cry out with pain, while the second is that although he held $50 in noles in his fist the robbers failed to notice it. At about seven o'clock last evening the lad, who is employed by a family in Hollywood Road, was sent out by his master to change a Stoo bill. Fifty dollars were to be changed into silver and the balance in notes of a small denomination.
On this last trip, says the police, Downie
The delinquent, who is scarcely over thiny years of age, is a reaman, and' is known to ba an abstainer, but apparently he has contracted that tired feeling" sa commonly known in. the East. he has been offernd some very good- jobs but has always found some way in whịch; to remain on these shares - About a month ago he was offered a post on board a homeward- bound ship... Downie promised he would be at. hand on the day the ship was scheduled to de- part. The ship, however, left without him, and when a search was made for the much-sought- alter individual he was found hidden behind some boulders on the hillside.
He was sentenced to one month's hard' labour.
A. FEROCIOUS DOG.
MISTRESS OBJECTS TO ITS BEING DESTROYED,"
4th inst.
Inspector Ritchie, of the Central Police Station, summoned Mrs. Esther Oliver, of the New Traveller's Hotel, for keeping a ferocious and uzmuzzled dog on the 20th uftime. The police said that the dog, a Northern chow, had bitten a boy and he had been in hospital for ten days. It had also, it was alleged, bitten Mr. P. D'Agostini on the 3rd of last month.
His Worship What have you to say? You know a dog is only entitled to ons bite.. pensation? I do not wish to destroy the dog.
Defendant-Yes, Can't it be sctiled by com-
His Worship-You must compensate the boy.
Defendant-I do not wish to destroy the og Will it be sufficient to muzzle him?
His. Worship-Yes. The dog foes not look very ferocious.
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Defendant-A very good Looe dog. Inspector Ritchie said he had received.or ders to press this charge as he considered the dog to be dangerous. The deputy superinten dent of police thought the dog ought to be destroyed.
His Worship-Har it bitten anybody else?: Defendant-No, I have had it for four years, and this is the first trouble.
As Mr. D'Agostini, who also had to atiend hospital to get his leg dressed, did not ask for compensation, the Court, after severely lectur- ng the defendant, ordered her to give the boy $5 compensation "Don't come before mo again," concluded the Count,, “otherwise the dog will be destroyed."
FOST CARD EXHIBITION.
The boy got the bill changed in Queen's Road and proceeded to return bome, carrying $50 in. each hand. When be got to the junction of Graham and Cage Streets very quiet locality-two men attacked him. They threw -peppar in his eyes, knocked him on the ground, and stole the 550 in silver which he carried in his right hand, leaving the other Sga in the other hand untouched. This can be explained by saying that the robbers were either "OBJECTION BY THE BUILDING AUTHORITIEK at the game," as the police think they are, or that they were frightoned away on hoaring the footsteps of some person in the lane. The lad returned home, told his master of his ex- perience, and the matter was reported to aspector Warnock, who has the matter in
SUBSTITUTING BUNDLES.
Mr F. C. Barlow, solicitor, said he also re- sided at "Parkside." He said that when he pointed at the gate, and said saw the defendants in the garden witness go away" In English. They then started the bayonet exer- cise. (Laughter.) One made a thrust at witness, who jumped aside, seized hold of the man, turn ed him round in the direction of the gate, and told him to go. That had no effect. The men were preparedio club witness and Mr. Goldring. | hand. Witness seized hold of one of the men, who had made a dash at bim. Doth rolled on the
throat and held him back in the busher, Wit- ness here corroborated the first witness'E evidence in part. Continuing, he said there Was some more struggling between him and his man on the ground. Witness got up, and the party walked to the garden gate to report the matter to some officer.. They met an in- 14 dian officer on the road and reported the odd which he had stolen from him just before 14 aflair.
3Do you want us, to believe that Mr. Gold. |
ring, who is known to be one of the strongest men in the Colony, would stand by and do 7 nothing while the Indian wrestled with you?"
asknd Mr. Grist-
Points.
CLEVER TRICKSTER CAUGHT.
3rd lost. Just by sheer luck a shroff returning from Canton early this morning on board the Canton sicamer Powas parrowly missed losing $1,000
the steamer came alongside the wharf. The theft was a very clever one indeed and must have been well thought out, but the rogue did not have time to leave the ship before his game was known and the alarm given. The ship was searched and the thief, together with the booty, was arrested in the fore part of the ship "Mr. Goldring was ill and could do nothing?" The shroff, who has to thank his lucky star l'and 'the police for the retinen of his money, in
"I do," replied Mr. Barlow.
* 4th last.. F. Ribeiro, of the China Import and Export The Building Authorities summoned Mr. O, Banking Company, for erecting, on the oth December, last, a showcase at the east end of. Queen's Road Central, in Duddell Street, which encroached on Crown land.
Mr. Olto Kong Sing, who appeared for the defence, asked that the case be adjourned. He said that the postponement was required - in order to be able to pot in an application: to the P.W.D., saking for their permission-to-use this place for the purpose required. He ex- plained to the Court that only small show cases, containing postcards, were hung on the wall. He understood that for the last five or six years. these premises have been used in a similar capacly and he believed that the premises were privals properly, Formerly the premises wers used as a rattan shop and goods were exhibited from the window. Mr. Otto Kong Sing wanted to know if the premises die private property. If they were then it wa legal. If upt he would apply for permission to the proper authorities,
The case was remanded for one wee
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