The Hongkong Telegraph.
NEW SERIES No. 5403
SOONTENTS.
Births, Marriages and Deaths, Leading Artioles gimtad
Cabton-Kowloon Railway. Maritime Interests,
The Question of Fire Escapes, The China Merchants Company. Bittalo's Consular System. Scavengers and Health.
Telograms!
British Attacho's Visit.
Dakota Ashore."
Meetings
三職五十月正年三十三精光
commendable spitit of promptitude in securing Chinese, capital, for the undertaking whose completion from his view-poist cannot bot redound to the benefit of Hongkong'"and to the trade of his own country.”. Such was the prediction of his Excellency on the occasion
of his reception in Hangkang in November last en route, to Canion to take up his new appointment there. From our correspondent's information, Tastai Wen has made his first and principal objective the Colony of Bong kang, where he arrived yesterday with the ob ject of obtaining subscriptions to shares of the Railway Company which is to build the Chi ness section of the Cunton-Kowloon line, Seeing the eagerness with which the Chinese
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SATURDAY, MARCH
9, 1907
China Merchants' Steam Navigation Co., Ld flocked to Canton previous to the allot-case of fire for the persons dwelling or Sanitary Board.
Hongkong Hotel Meeting
National Bank of China, Ltd.'
Hongkong Fire Insurance Company, Lid.
China Fire Insurance Company, Ltd.
Legal Intelligence:-
The Macan Insurance Case,
The Mortgage Case.
Much Adjourned Claim.
Claim for Money Lent,
Polioa:
Card-sharpers in the Harbour. Broaching Cargo,
Alleged Kidnapping.
Gambling Raids.
An Impudent Coolie Well Served. Alleged Theft of Cigarettes.: Allaged Robbery at Kowloon. Ricksha Nuisance at Wanchai. Birds of a Feather.
A Coal Slip.
› Counterfeiter Convicted.
A Dangerous Character.
Correspondenes
The Parsee Telegram.
To There Hailing from Taunton. Craik Children Fund, Miscellaneous Artiolos and Reparts:-
Masonic Regalia Dance.
The Telemachus Cave,
Death of Mr. J. Mitchell,
Sale of the Apenrade.
Drowning Fatality in the Harbour. Chinaman's Fatal Fail"
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club.
Canton Day by Day
West River Noles.
Kulangsu (Amoy) Municipal Council.
Foochow Bachelors' Ball,
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就九月三 英港香
$13 FER ANNUM. SINGLE COFF, 25 CENTS.
We beg to inform you that we have received: the following telegram from Takyok "The Dakota went on shore at Nojimasaki, miles from Yokohama. Mailt, passengers and
crow saved."
CLAIM FOR MUNEY LENT
TO A PARHOI MERCHANT In Summary Jurisdiction at the Sapreme G. Wise, l'usca Judge, presiding, Lo Siu Tiog Court on the 7th inst., before his Honour Me, A. and Choy Quan Shau, carrying da business as bankers at Pakhoi, in the Empire of China,: - sued Chap Yuk Sang, of No. 78, Sheung Wan market, and Wong Pul Hing of No. 236, Des Voeux Road West, carrying on business: sa West, Victoria, and at Pakhol, fir the recovery Fuk Sang Cheung, at No. 235, Don Vœux,
money leat by plaintiffs to defendants on the of the sum of $833:34, being the amquat of 6th December, 1905, together with interest therean, and the costs of this action.
Mr. E. J. Grist, of Messrs. Wilkinson and Mr Otto Kong Sing representing the de fendants,
Evidence was heard.
the roof the fugitives must make use of some objection to the constitution of the board | sides of us-to-day it is the chit-book which. antiquated ladder which itself is as inflam elected in Shanghai, holding, as one of those threatens us; anon it is the very necess. uable as the staircase. "In a rider to their present" put it, that the Northern share ary envelope; to-morrow it in the yesterday's with slight damage, yesterday evening, forty verdict the jury in question said: "We would holders were going behind the backs of the blotting-pad, and again it is a hundred and recommend that section 149 of the Public shareholders abroad. Cantonese members one things, which we daily eat, drink, wear Health and Buildings Ordinance of 1903, expressed the belief that the registration of and use. The menace is an unceasing one, with regard to fire escapes, be strictly en- the company could be quite as effectively and also an increasing ons, until it comes to forced." Now, it will be interesting to turn to secured through the instrumentality of the this, that if we are to place any credence on section 149, which the jury evidently believed present board of directors and officers of the these marvellous discoveries of the searchers would meet the question. The section company, contending that the latter were a after germs and bacilli, then there is but reads: "Every new building shall be pro more representative body, since they com- ΌΠΕ course. left open to us to revert vided, on every storey, the floor of which is prised both the official element as well as to the primitive conditions pievalling more than forty feet above the level of the members of the mercantile community, and, in the days of our antediluvian on- street, with such means of escape in the consequently, were moreintimately concerned cestors, and live "the simple file" of the with the interests and requirements of the hill and the forest, far from the madding ment of the shares in the Cauton-Hackow employed therein, as the Building Authority company. They further contended that the crowd of the city and the town. We must railway, and the large subscriptions obtained may reasonably require, The provisions of articles of association empowered the pre not eat this, we must not wear that, we must from all parts of China and the Chinese abroad, this section shall, after the expiry of three sent officials to effect the registration, and not touch the other, we are told by these there. is no reason to doubt that Taolai Wen's mission will be other than a enmplete years from the date of the commencement no necessity existed for the appointment wiseacre alarmists, until they would have us success. It has been credited to the people of this Ordinance, apply to existing build-of specially constituted and entirely in-go hungry and naked till we dic. That of Southern China that, as a race, they are pre-ings." No doubt those who framed the Or. dependent body, such as that proposed.germs are always with us we must admit and
cleverest of the commercial class of China. desire to enable those reaiding in tenements shortness of notice. that had been given that is no reason why we should go out of Grist, appeared for the plaintifs. eminently the shrewdest, the smartest and the dinance, were animated by the most laudable Distafaction was also expressed with the be prepared for, especially in the tropics, but With their business acumen and the knowledge to escape from a burning building even if the shareholders abroad regarding the intention our way to look for them in unexpected which they derive from the fact that the Colonial lower storeys forbade egress by the ordinary of the Shanghai shareholders to affect so places, and, finding them, blazon-octis Government is pushing forward with all haste, compatible with efficiency, the construction of passage. And the jury had the same end important a change in the constitution of covery to the world by way of the latest The section designed to link up the northern balf in view when they added their rider to the company. We are quite in sympathy scare. Here in this city we know, from the originating from Canton, it may be regarded the verdict. But a brief consideration. with the views expressed by the Cantonese very condition of the soil, and the drainage alment as a certainly, that native capitalists are of the section will show that it is prae- shareholders, particularly with regard to the system, or the want of it-that we are threa hund to look with considerable favour upon antically, useless as a precautionary mea last point. If the matter were left entirely tened dally, nightly, and hourly by these little enterprise which is certain to be remunerative sure. For instance, it only applies to in the hands of officials-although we do horrors, the germs of this or that, and every. to its promoters und shareholders.
those nominated in Shanghai-there could be management under a British engineer-in- chief, and vested as the Agreement is in the
no certainty that the tendency right not be hands of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank
gradually to subvert the mercantile interests ing Corporation and one of the leading British
of the concem to the interests of the official firms in Hongkong-Messrs, Jardine, Matheson
section which would be to the detriment & Co.--the undertaking possesses all the ele
of those most vitally concerned in the ments making for security, and the success
future of the company. While this point which its completion and subsequent operation
was not raised at the meeting on Mon- day the inference is obvious from the protest of the Cantonese In Shanghai and Hongkong against the nominations adopted in the North, In China the same practice should obtain in matters affecting trade and commerce as in England, and official interference is entirely to be depre- cated as being inimical to the best interests of those whose money is invested in the rosperity of the corporation. The result of tonese section of the shareholders in the company will be awaited with the utmost interest.
With
ALLEGED KIDNAPPING, "WAR ASKED TO NURSE IT."
4th lost. A somewhat curious case of alleged kidnap..
the guarantee of joint, British and Chinese buildings where the floor is 40 feet from not in any way impeach the character of one, more or less takes ordinary precautions ping was called before Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne,
cannot fail to secura for its nendra.
MARITIME INTEREST'S.
Recently, reference was made to the publica. tion of a document issued by the Director of Sicawei Observatory by which musters of ves. sels were informed of a scheme arranged for the transmission of meteorological warnings to light houses along the coast. It is now announced that with reference to the storm-signal repeating
the level of the street. In the case of the Loi Lane fire, the highest floor was less than 40 feet from the street, yet more than half The residents were caught in a death-trap. Besides, at a height of 20 feet from the ground the tenants might be in as great danger of their liv as they would be in a building tenes that height. So that the rider toe verdict, although added in all prvú faith and with the best of intentions, might appear to have done an injustice to those whose duty it was to see that the pro- visions of the Ordinance were carried out. Again, the section simply speaks about "means of escape" and gives no indication of what the Building Authority might "rea sonably require." It might be held that a what would be quite satisfactory so far as meet the requirements of children. In many respects the Ordinance as it stands is in- complete, ambiguous and crude. It will fore it can be considered an effective instru- have to be improved out of recognition be
ment, and one can only trust that the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance Commis- sioners, who are said to have practically con- cluded their work, have not overlooked this vital point which means so much to the community in general.
The Lapu Kung Mow Cotton Spinning and code, to come into use next May-about the rope was a sufficient means of escape, but concèrn and who are most affected by the no particular harm if that were as far as they or, only to find that, the latter, together with to introduce along the coast of China numerous adults were concerned would not always the vigorous action adopted by the. Can- thoroughness worthy of a better cause, and frantic slate, went off and reported the matter
Weaving Co., Ltd.,
China Navigation Co.'s S. S. Kian.
The Chitystem..
Chinese Engineering and Mining Co., Ltd. Extraordinary Deception at Shangbai. Mixed Court Affair,
The Anti-Opium Movement,
German Competition in the Far East.
The Late Mr. John Walter.
Revival of the Chinese Boycolt
Dock Strike at Nagasaki.
Foreign Companies and Japanese Law,
The Japan Sugar Tax Bill
Shipowners and Cargo:
Emigration to the United States,
A Workhouse for Singapore."
Chinesa Abduction Case.
The Middlemab."
The Alleged Cure for the Opium Habit.
Chinese la Manila.
American Consulates in the Orient. Sestile-Oriental Shipping,
Commercial.
Local and General.
BIRTHS.S
On February 7, 1907, at Wenchow, to Rev. and Mrs. A. H. SHARMAN, a daughter.
On February 24, 1907, at Wuchow, the wife
of HAROLD F. KINO, of a daughter.
On March 2, 1997, at Shanghai, the wife of Capt. JOHN MACARTHUR, of a son.
On the 3rd inst., at Government Civil Hospital, the wife of EDWARD JONES, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On March 2, 1907, at Shanghai, JOHN OLIVER, Second son of the late James Barnes Esq., of Felixstowe, Suffolk, ISABEL TAG. GART BAIN, second daughter of Mr. 1. B. Roach, of the Municipal Electicity Depart- ment, Shanghai.
On March 5th, 1907, at Canton Christian College, Canton, by the Rev. O. F. Wisner, D.D., CARL CLYDE RUTLEDGE, of Hongkong, to ANNA KETHRAH EDMUNDS, daughter of Mr. James R. Edmunds, of Baltimore, U‚§‚A. ·
DEATHS.
At Shanghai, on the 28th February, 1907, CASIMIRO PEReira Simoens, late of Amoy.
JOSEPH MITCHELL Lighthouse Keeper of Green Island Lighthouse, on the 4th inst.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Mrs. J. MITCHELL desires to return her heartfelt thanks to her friends for the many expressions of sympathy in her recent bereave
ment.
The Hongbang Celegraph
beginning of the typhoon season-it is proposed
THE CHINA MerchanTS
COMPANY.
(6th March.)
semaphores, repeating to the passing naviga- tors the gule and, typhoon warnings. In the course of his latest circular the Director states that owing to the kindness of the 1. 'M. Cur toms, and with the liberal assistance of the Chi: nese and most of the foreign telegraph com panies, the signals sent by the Sicawei Observa- tory are transmitted to the principal ports. The neighbouring governments have taken the same step, Vindiumstok. Tsingiau nud Weihaiwe. This might, strictly speaking, an- swer the want of the ships sailing from the harbours. But when in the offing no informa- tion is obtainable, from the shore, except when passing in sight of Liukungtao Rad- Ġuizlaff, Moreover, a numerous and very interesting maritime population, víz, the junk, and fishing boat people, are helplessly abandoned to a few empirical prognostics, not without, value, but
The China Merchants' Steam Navigation practically inadequate to prevent human heca- tombs, which we have to deplore every year,
Company has long held a prominent position when the mighty typboons play havoc along
in the chipping world of China, and may the shores, it will probably be a long time fittingly be described as the Cunard Line before we have telegraphic connection with the
of China. Hitherto, the Company, al- most important signal places. To go ahead, though owned and controlled by Chinese the Observatory must needs rely upon the help shareholders in the North and South, in the of the commanding officers. But the deep Straits, and, in fact, wherever Chinese sub feeling of solidarity and mutual fraternity is sojects have settled, has not been registered well known and so proverbial among sailors,, that, after consultation with the Coast inspector, it was judged quite safe to make a start. The Inspector General has consequently granted the erection of 24 semaphores at the points Gamed in the code, to repeat the warnings, as explained there.
THE QUESTION OF BIRK ESCAPES.
(5th March.) As the result of a disastrous fire which, occurred the other day in the central district of Victoria-in which six persons were burned to death-a matter of supreme im portance to the native residents in the more crowded sections of the city was brought to On February 23, 1907, at Shanghai, SYDENight at the inquest which followed. The HAM MOUTRIE, aged 2 years. ↑
On February 27, 1907, at Shanghai, P. L. fire began in the lower floors while the in Swensen, late of H.B M.'s Post Office, Shang. habitants were asleep, with the result that hai, aged 23 years.
before assistance could be rendered, and the On February 27, 1927, of Shanghai, BRENAN residents brought to a realisation of their ATKINSON, aged 41.
danger, all escape by the ordinary staircase had been cut off and safety could only be attained by way of the roof. From the evidence adduced, the only means of gain ing the roof was by way of a bamboo ladder. the usual ricketty arrangement in no way designed to prove adequate in times of emergency. The usual panic occurred among the affrighted people, and before half of the tenants had been dragged to safety the Tadder took fire and six lives were lost. One of the jurymen suggested that under the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance certain provisions are included for the erection of fire escapes in tenement houses, and certain recommendations were made by the jury as the necessity for ensuring the enforcement of the Iow on this subject. To begin with, every body knows how absolutely absurd are the means of quick egress from buildings which are solely occupied by the poorer classes of Chinese. The staircases are ridi- culously narrow, almost perpendicular, and invariably dangerous in ordinary times when there is no occasion for the resident to make a hurried exit. Even in houses of modern construction no attempt has been made to depart from the custom of curtail ing the width of the passage-way. The whole aim and object of the builder seems to be to snatch every available inch of space from the staircase at the expense of any reasonable degree of convenience. The wood employed in the construction of these houses is of the commonest description, as dry as tinder and, therefore, ready to ignite on the slightes, 'pretence. If the staircase goes, there is only one refuge and that is the roof, but to reach
MAIL. SUPPLEMENT, ISSUED GRATIS TO SUBSCRIBERS.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1907.
CANZON-ROWLOUN RAILWAY,
(4th March.)
The representatives of the British and Chin- esa Corporation, who bave obtained the Agreement for the construction of the Chiness section of the Canton Kowloon Railway, ap pear to be losing no time to put into operation the terms of the Agreement. According to our Canton correspondent, Viceroy Chow Fu, on * the representation of the British concessionaires,
is in receipt of a despatch from the Ministry of Posts and Communicationsat Peking requesting the Viceroy to ascertain to what extent the Benthem Chinese are willing to subscribe, to the shares of the railway. It must be remem bered that, according to one of the published terms of the Agreement, work on the railroad in to be started within eight months [of the signing of the Agreement), falling which the Agreement is to be annulled. In giving Im mediate effort to instructions from Paking, HE: Chop/Fu is, therefore, biting
to
BRITAIN'S CONSULAR SYSTEM,
(7th March.)
Those who have had any experience of British consuls abroad are seldom enthu siastic in their favour, and for many reasons. In not a few cases the demands of what they conceive to be their social duties fail to harmonise, with their obligations. And far too frequently they leave the affairs of their office to subordinates who are either of alien birth or are dreaning of vistas which may be realised through the influence of friends. Fortunately, the era of petticoat government has passed-shall we say with the late dilettante government of Great Britain? There are men like Mr. Alexander Hosie, who was all that a consul should be, a striking type of the representative of the United Kingdom as a commercial agent in the Far East. His merits were tardily re- oblivion had it not been that a Liberal cognised and would probably have gone to Ministry came into power, and appointed one of the most active, keen-sighted and delving, pioneers of British prospects on this part of the globe, to be the commercial at to China. But with
"WHY REMAIN 'IN HONGKONG."
6th Inst. In Mr. F. A. Hazeland's court, this morning, Chief Detective Inspector "Hanson charged Lai Kam, a boarding house runner, of No. 21, Des Voeux Road Central, and Chan Leung,
coolie, residing in a matshed at Quarry Bay, with attempting to kidnap a youth, sixteen years of age, on the 4th instant. Although no evidence has been taken as yet, the particulars of the case, as given us, read with the second defendant in a washed as follows:Tseung Kwai, the youth, works has no guardian
at
North Point He
to avoid coming in contact with them, as at the Magistracy this morning, when one Li far as lies in one's power. Under all these cir-Yut. Kiu, residing at No. 5. Eira I ans;, was cumstances the result of a case which came charged with stealing a child eight months of before Mr Melbourne at the Magistracy age, from the custody of its grandmother, Hing this morning, cannot but be read with much Kam, on the 12th Feb. last. According to the dissatisfaction. That the law is in fault story for the prosecution. the accused went we have no doubt, and the Magistralen the day in question, to visit the family, to complainant's house, No. 7, Third Street, can only administer the law as he finds with whom she was on very good terms, it, But if it is so, why is it so? In the and there found the grandmother nursing case under consideration two coolies were the child, they sat down together and charged at the Police Court with turn conversed upon general matters, until, afer a ing over the heaps of garbage placed at while, the grandmother, saying that she had. West Point to the scavenger's junks to carry out something to look after in the kitchen, to sea, their sole object being to discover, if used the visitor to hold the child, at the possible, something worth their labour, and the room, leaving the accused nursing the same time haoding it over, and then left from which they could provide themselves chill. After a while the grandmother return with at least one day's keep. There might be ed to the room in which she had felt the visit. her charge, had disappeared; leaving no sign went, but they did not stop there. With a
'and o message. The grandmother, in a quite unusual in the Chinese of the lowest to Inspector Collett, who sent his myrmidons classes, they turned the hoops over to such out on the search, but nothing was seen afther purpose, that the refuse was scattered and of the kidnapper or of the kidnapped for three spread in all directions, causing the emission weeks. Yesterday afternoon, however, while. of noxious odours and gases, rendered passing along Pottinger Street, detective more noxious by the turning over, and sergeant 137 saw. Li Yut Kiu, with the attracting the germ-carrying flies to the spot. immediately arrested and taken to the Station, missing child in her arms. The women was The charge against the men was proved where she said he did not steal the child, sba and what was the result? They were bound only took it because she was asked to nurse over in the sum of Sag cach to be of good and take care of it, and she was doing so! behaviour for three months. The result The case was remanded. would have been the same if they had been the means of flooding West Point, and, through that district, the whole Colony, with an epidemic of disease, Two days ago, a nightsoil coolie was fined $25 for dumping nightsoil at the back of houses on the Peak-a filthy and dangerous habil he was fined $ag, The fine is paid in the first instance by the contractor in whose service the coolie is, so what cares the coolie? He pays the fine eventasily by means of deductions from his pay, but so small are these, of necessity, that he does not feel in Hongkong, his widowed mother, whom, it is good reason that until the formation of the
law does not allow. the contractor to as a limited liability company, for the very
that he is being punished at all, for the stated, ha supports, residing in the interior, Of late, we are told, the coolie has been speak- Nung Kung Shangpu, or Ministry of Agri
thrash his offending servants. Possibly-in to the boy. af foreign lands and the even probably-the legislators, when they while The boy, however, refused at first to culture, Works and Commerce, there existed
fortunes that could be made there in a short no registration Jaws in China. Since the
dealt with these offences, considered that listen to any tall yarns but he was conquered formation of the Ministry. of Commerce,
the penalties provided were "quite exem. on Monday 1st. "Come on now," the coolla liowever, and the enactment of laws affecting
plary enough to meet the gravity of the case," is reported as saying. "Let us leave this the registration of companies, it has become the advent of the new forces which are at but be that as it may, the fact remains that country and go elsewhere where we can make practicable for corporations to he registered the head of the Empire it is quite possible our health, and even our lives, might be at the The boy thought of his mother, he thought more money. Why remain Hongkong?" on lines very similar to those obtaining with that the British consul will become a per-disposal, and at the sport of any ignorant of the large stim
of money As we recorded in a special telegram sonsge rather thin au appanage. Since Mr. coollu who chose to disobey the first laws be able
he would to send her when from Shanghai last week, a meeting of the Lloyd-George becare President of the Board of sanitation. Let the law be made really
he reach. shareholders in the China Merchants Steam of Trade, an effort has been made to infuse effective for dealing with these cases, and Navigation. Company was held with the new life into the consular corps and some of then, perhaps, we shall hear of the Chinese object of electing special representatives his proposed reforms are crisply enunciated. of the class we have mentioned taking, to of the company for the purpose of He predicates four proposals: (1) The tele-heart the English proverb with slight variaboard a river steamer, which touched at Macao registering it as a commercial concern graphing of important information so that it ions, let sleeping dogs (as well as garbage in the Ministry of Agriculture, Works does not reach this country hopelessly be heaps) lie." and Commerce. According to our in-lated. (2) The selection of future consuls formation, the promoters of that meeting from men who have passed through the In- had the object of registering the company intelligence Department of the Board of Trade, view some three months ago, and they pro (3) The numerical strengthening of the scr ceeded with great diligence to secure their vice. (4) A census of the production of the end, and at the same time to conform 10
industries of the country. There is much the articles of association, by obtaining the more behind this than meets the eye. It required majority to elect a board consisting means that the conscientious consul will of the following gentlemen: H.E. Shen, no longer be tied down to routine, hide- Kung pao, Taolai Shen Tun-ho, Taotai: bound formule. It means that the con- Chou Chinchen, Chairman of the Chinese sular butterfly will have to attend to Chamber of Commerce and Director of the his duties. It means that great effects Chinese Telegraph Company; Trotai Wong will flow from little causes and that the Sze-chan, Director of the Imperial Bank of admirable American service will not be China, and Tiotai Yu Ya-ching, compradore alone in informing home merchants of of the Netherlands Bank. Strictly speak trade possibilities. We have only to turn ing, while this board is not constituted to the consular reports which arrive from entirely of the official element, the character England regarding commerce in China. of its constitution did not entirely commend They are invariably belated extracts of the itself to those Cantonese shareholders who information supplied by the Chinese Im were present at the meeting, but as they perial Maritime Customs. When Mr. Lloyd- were in the minority the voice of the majority George realises his idea of making consuls prevailed. It was stated that those present representatives of the nation-take, for in represented some 22,816 shares, or over half stance, Mr. G. Liebert's description of the share capital of the concern, and the foreign methods in South China as an exam-· nominations submitted were adopted. This ple of what should be done then we shall procedure, not meeting with the concurrence hear no more cries about "Wake up Britain," of the Cantonese shareholders in the North, they promptly telegraphed to their com SCAVENGERS AND HEALTH. patriots in Hongkong and Canton, with the object of obtaining the support of the latter
(8th March.) in a joint protest against the board elected
Where'er ye throw the carrion, the ra by the Shanghai shareholders. In response ven's croak is heard," so said Macaulay. to that appeal, a meeting of shareholders was Had the great essayist even visited Hong- held in Hongkong on Monday, H.E. Cheong kong and, indeed, the Far East generally, Pat-taz, who presided, beingsupported by H.E. he might have had something to add, and Wu Ting-fang. The result of that meeting has absolved the raven from being the only car already been published. Three resolutions rion seeker. Nowadays, one picks up, the were passed. The first was to the effect that home papers in trepidation, for fear of local shareholders were entirely in favour of what the medical fraternity may have dis- the proposal that the concern should be re- covered an the latest menace to the health glstered as a limited liability company. The and life of the people. ~ Germs we have al- local shareholders, however, declared their ways with us, above us below us, and on all
TELEGRAMS.
ed "the land of gold Gelde," and finally decided to cross the erean,
o on Monday night they decided to shift. The lad was taken to the boarding-house runner's house where he' was kept until yesterday, when he was put on first before making any attempt to reach the "land of gold fields" While the lad and his two advisers were comfortably installed on board the host a defer tive happened along and thinking everything' wasn't all right with the party of three over there "called the boy aside and questioned him. After a few minutes". conversation the tec decided to take the trip to the Central Station. Here the bay told the whole story and his alleged kidnappers were BRITISH ATTACHE'S VISIT: held for trial. The case was brought up form-
ally this morning and adjourned, • BOUND FOR HONGKONG AND COAST. PORTS. {From Our Own Correspondent.]
· HONGKONG TELEGRAPIÍ "
· SERVICE,
Shanghai, 4th March, 2.40 p.m. Mr. Alexander Hosie, the British
Commercial Attache in China, leaves Shanghai for Hongkong to-night, with the object of spending about four weeks in visiting the Southern ports of the Chinese Empire,
"DAKOTA" ASHORE.
NEAR YOKOHAMA ENTRANCE,
FEARED TOTAL WRECK.
{From Our Olvn Correspondent.]
Shanghai, 4th March,
2.40 p.m. The steamship Dakota je badly nahore at the Cape King entrance to Yokohama.
It is feared she will become a total
wreek.
. We received the following from the local agents of the Great Northern B. 5. Co-
ALLEGED THEFT OF CIGARETTES,.
-OPENING OF THE CASE,
5th inst,
Evidence was adduced at the Police Court, this afternoon, before Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne, in the cars in which Charles Humphrey Kane,
shipping clerk, and Ho Kwai, tallyman, in the employ of the British-A moticza Tobacco Com pany, are being charged with the larceny of property of the company, and a shopkeeper tobacco and cigarrettes, valued at 52,635, the named Li Tai Chiu, and his assistant, Li Cheung, who are charged with receiving the goods, knowing them to have been stolen. Practically all the property has been recovered by the West Point police.
Mr. M. J. D. Stephens appeared for the pro secution on all charges. Mr H. J. Gardiner, of Mr. O. D. Thomson's. office, appeared for the first defendant. Mr. R. Harding appeared on behalf of the second defendant. Mr. P. W. Goldring, of Messrs. Goldring and Barlow, defended the two men for receiving the pro perty. Sergeant Gordon watched the "case on behalf of the police.
The case against the first two, defendants was taken first, as the police require the two men, who are charged with receiving the pro- perty, to give evidence against them, c
Sergeant Gordon, testified as to recovering part of the property. He said that on the 1st instant he was called to No. 410, Queen's Road West (ground floor). In this house he found ous full case of Pirates cigarettes and several. cases of Egyptian Delight tobacco... Ostjan this shop he arrested twg man "A hyne Journ