Intimation.
THE GREAT
POPULARITY
Watson's
E
VERY OLD LIQUEUR SCOTCH
WHISKY
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
while a miserable 170 is laid aside for orphans The total income and balance last year was $315777, out of which only some 7,000 wax, spent altogether in pensions, expenics of management, printing and other matters of detail.
up to the end of December last 797 shares of $20 each had been allotted and from that source $15,670 had been draw, and Bays. 275 remained to be paid up. Now the
Average person would expect that dividend of tea tion of $1,567, yet the amount set apart for per cent, would mean at least the distribu
MONDAY APRIL 6, 1908.
The Fog
INTERESTING RECORDS,
The Shatin Triple Murder.
SUSPECT CHARGED AND
REMANDED.
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF TUK TRAGEDY.
Telegram.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
SERVICE
THE JAPANESE BOYCOTT.
SPREAD OF THE AGITATION
[By curing the "Sheung Fo."],
Peking, 5th April.
Since our last report, which appeared ex HUKWANG PROVINCES FALL IN. Telegraph, two more men have bem arrested clusively in Saturday evening's Hongkong
to connection with the murder of the thins men, who were discovered terribly backed on the Kuo Yum mountain, a little to the west of the Shatin gap, on the and December, 1906, Mow Fat, a school master, and, it b. stated su la altfour men are in custody. They are: Tas
farmer, residing on the Kun Yum moustalu, elder of Kowloon City, Wong Chun Kwai, &
antar away from the scent of the tragedy; Wong Sam O. of Lycampor village, within the territory under his ad and Chan Yau, a stonecutter, living at Kozministration are greatly perturbed Toon City,
"At the Magistracy; today, the accused worn over the Talm Maru settlement argued before Mr. F. A. Hardand, and
In consequones they have dete charged with the murder of one Let Sang.
41
A telegram has been received here
Provinces stating that the people from the Viceroy of the lukwang
Mr. FBL Bowley (Grown Solicitor), of gaint Japanese goods.
GUN CHARGES AT LIGHTHOUSE; EXHAUSTED, A. S. WATSON & CO., Print Inder was left in the hands of the
Most, residents in the Colony will have had LIMITED
Government and there it will be jealously the dividend only comes to 8510 which is a fairly good conception of the fog retained, while it continues to expand with described as "interes un shares fully paiding the past fortnight. But it is at sea that that has been prevailing to these regions dur cach successive year. Assuming that theatro per cent. per annum." Fund were inverted at a modest five per would 'ak, how many of the shares are immeasurably increased by the settling in Then, we the dangers and difficulties of navigation are cent. per annum, the interest would amount fully paid up? Depreciation of fittings and dense banks of the fog which shats everything to $15,000 which would easily cover all office requisites accounts for $133.90, pre from view at the shortest distance. When it is expenses and leave a satisfactory balance in liminary expenses $544,84, share redemption stated that on Thursday and Friday lasi no less the pockets of the Government. So keen fund $443.51, reserve $500, etc., the balance at either end of Capsuimun a fali guess can be than fourteen liver steamers atore were lied up have the efforts of the Government been to of $80.31 being carried forward. The share made as to the atmospheric conditions prevail. sweep the Fund out of existence that it is holders number 316 so that a goodly pro- ing at sce. practically certain a further and more drastic portion of the Civil Servante in Hongkong Records kept at Waglan and Gap Rock attempt will be made it to distant date to are members of the enterprise but, lighthouses furnish accurate and interesting secure possession of the Fund and to swallow for further details, we would refer the data of the prevalence of fog during the present up the credit balance and the contributions.reader to the amazingly intricate docu- season. For the period from the 44th Masch It is a known fact that the Government are ment passed by the auditors. It is a
to dato at Waglan 135 hours and 36 minutes of hard pushed to find the revenue to meet the most voluminous affair and on the face fog were registered, of which 2 hours have current and necessary expenditure of the of it seems one of those simple been continuous, pecessitating the firing of the Colony, and there is the ever-present fear sheets of figures which have been drawn upmasters approaching the viciolly of the light Wong Sau Sam and Wong Ting F. To this mined to jom the boycott movement gupe without intermission as warnings to ship. that the end of our financial difficulties for the benefit of the uninitiated, but it will house Two guns are fired every twelve indictment they pleaded not guilty. is far from being in sight yet. Indeed, take the average individual quite a considermisules with an interval of fifteen seconds beessts' Dennys and Dowley's office," appeared the probability is that we are only on able time to comprehend their significance, tween each. The frequency of the firing has the outer rim of the vortex and have that is to say if they have any significance naturally exbausted the supply of gunpowder still to experience the real peril of the whatever. The various items of expenditure at Waglas. The tender Stanley has accord financial swirl. Be that as it may, the Gov and income are set forth in such detail andingly made two trips to replenish the empty ernment look with a hungry eye on this ever with such precision even down to a watter magazines with a fresh supply of charges. expanding balance, and it is not beyond rea of $2 or 54 that the average scrutineer finds
At Gap Rock the official register recorded 117 son to believe that the Secretary of State himself in a perfect labyrinth of statistics. Hours and 2 minutes of fog during the same for the Colonies watches the Fund with a So as time is fleeting we leave it to those period. For 67 hours, from the 30th ult. to the wolfish glare. For that reason, it is to be more interested in the Co-operative Society continuous firing of gun signals, and thanks to present stage to obtain from the police the
2nd iast, the lightkeepers wein, busy with the
our readers. It is, of course, too early at the Chan clan, near the Lung Chun Bridge,'' PURE MALT WHISKY expected that another effort will be made to to elucidate the puzzle for themselves the efficiency of the service no maritime accinature of the evidence (bey have so far secured for the meeting, but in spite of the la secure the $318,000 and to administer the Evidently the venture is flourishing, however, den has so far been reported as a result of the against the accused. The officers concerned clemency of the weather the attendance wAS Torrential ralos fell before the hour appolet scheme through the ordinary official channel, and from the point of view of the promoters, fog. It appears that the supply of gunpowder at in the ca e ate naturally very scticent and have unexpectedly large. A conservative estimate without the distinction of sepatate identity, that is the main thing to be desired, although Gap Rock has also run low and it is expected refused absolutely to refer to the matter, but places the gathering at over a thousand women. Should that attempt be made, we may be what the small tradesman, who pays his that some one thousand fresh charges will from certain vague hints which were let fall What lent force to the effectiveness of the certain that it will be carried to a successful taxes and helps to maintain the Civil Service comes of this week.
bave to be shipped to the lighthouse to the during a conversation this morning, we take it meeting was the fact that the women present conclusion and that the Widows' and Orphans' thinks about it all we should not like to say. Fund as a Fund will become a thing of the
that the web is being drawn tighter and tighter, wera dressed in white as an emblem of months When the case comes up for trial next week, we ing, iscouses ware delivered, the tenor of past. In that event, while the Government
are given to understand that the fourth accused which pointed to the humiliation of Chine by are at their fell work they might find occa
-Chan Yau-who has made a statement to the the yielding to the Japanese domande in the sion to consider the grievances of bachelors
police, and through whom, it is' alleged | „Tainu Maru cats. Many in the large crowd and widowers in having compulsorily to Tite English mail of the 7th March was deli,
the others were a rested, wil tum King's wept and otherwise exhibited evidences of evidence.
emotion.
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retain the remainder, so that the bachelor
SO-CALLED "Exchequer Consolidation Bonds" have been created in fapan for the purpose of redeeming the Exchequer bands which were issued during the late war.
THE TREASURY BURGLARY,
THIRD MAN CAPTURED,
Yesterday, afternoon, the third man was ar rested in connection with the burglary at the office of the Colonial Treasury, which was
stolen.
Up lo saw three arrests
Sing is retained for the defence Inspector on behalf of the prosecution. Mr. Quo Kong angley, of Tim-satul Police Station, and Detective Sergeant Wildeo, who made the polico authorities. captures, watched the case on behalf of the
particulars with regard to the tragedy before We are in a position to day to lay further,
That robbery was the motive for the Jastard..
TUE WOMEN'S MEETING. VIS
[From Our Own Cerrapondent.]
Canton, 6th April, 1908) The meeting convened by the leading Chin tion, was held is the ancestral temple of the ese ladies, in pursuance of the boycott agita
of
JAPANESE MINISTER'S REPRESENTATIONS
As it siandrat present, without being allowed Ir has come to light that provincial rioters la perpetrated on the 1st instant, in which valu..fy deed was the story which was in circulation - a voice in its management and without the Korea are making an appeal for the assassina.ables worth $170, belonging to the threff, ware
ia Police Court circles to-day. It was asserted Writing on the 24th ult, the Peking comes A. S. WATSON & CO., prospect of receiving back more than a tithetion of a pro-Japanese Korean Minister on bis
of the amount deducted from their salaries. way from Japan.
that a few weeks before the tragedy the first pondent of the M. C. D. Now says:Baron LIMHED,
It is perfectly true that on the retirement
been effected, acrased-Tie Mow Fat, the school master-Hayashi, Japanese Minister to, China, has in- The third man-U. Song, a native of Heung-asked one of the deceased, it is believed Wong formed the Walsupu that the Chinese Gover of the parties mentioned from the official
shan, who was arrested as he stepped off Ting Fat, the ex-steward of the Dakofi-to ment will be held responsible for all conse world they'receive back one-half of what
the Macao boat-Su Aesterday, by De accompany him for a walk on the Kun Yum quencos if the Cantonese carry out their threst they have contributed but the Government
tective Sergejat Terr.it, pantly confessed Ting Fat, who had just been "prid off ship, Shih al replies that the Viceroy at Canton has mountain. At that time, the story goes, Wong of boycotting Japanese goods. H. E Yusn to the crime. His statement made to the had a sum of money on him and a nickel been instructed to preserve peace and to dispense OUR most popular magistrate-Mr. F. A. connected with the gang he did not enter the watch, one of the Ansonia Clock Company' the Japanese boycott association, and to see
police was to the effect that, although he was Hazeland-leaves for the Homeland on Wed-building." He stood guard outside the Su make. Whether Wong Ting Fat could not that the Japanese Consulate is protected by nesday next, by the German mail, on a well-preme Court. "When they came down," he earned holiday. We wish Mr. Hazelaoda said, I asked them what they had got. They known; auffice it to say that he did not go the Chinese authorities if they do anything go, did not feel like going, or had not the Chinese troops, The agitators have been warn time to spare to go mountaineering, is noted that they will be a pleasant holiday.
arrested and punished by said some jewellery, and told me to run away. But a few days later on the 2nd December calculated to infere the good feeling between I left for Macao and came back yesterday,"
when he and two of his classmen started out the two ronutrier. In an official dispatch to to scour the hillside below Kun Yums in search the V carcy, at Canton, the Waiwapa polnis of any piece of twig that could be tuned into out that no useful purpple can be served by a suitable walking-sticks, the trio saw the last of boycott and strongly urges the provincials ip their people. They were met by four men, desist from their prosent purpose. near the Shatin gap, struck down, and backed to death. Then followed the arrest of the accused. In the house of the first accused- Tee Mow Fat-after his arrest, the police, it is
chain, which certain witnesses recognise as those word by Wong Ting Fat before is death, The accused were remanded in police cus-
BIRTH.
On March 29, 1908, at the Hague, Holland, the wife of J. i. van Laet, of a son, WILLEM HENRI
is penalised because of his failure to marry, while the widower is penalised because he had no children to carry on the succession. [33 It is a most anomalous and unfair procedure and should be abolished simultaneously with the abolition of the Fund. We-had that the average monthly contributions amount- to pearly $3,000 and that the number of those who receive pensions is 37. The actual interest derived from the investment of the Fund last year was $17,000 and it is likely to be nearly double that amount this year. It is therefore quite obvious that the
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1928.
THE WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS'
FUND
MAJOR GENERAL R. G. Broadwood, C.B., Commanding His Majesty's Forces in South China, arrived in Shanghai on jest ult. for the will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. D. Landale annual inspection of the Volunteer Corps, and
for the next few days.
..
The accured was arraigned before Mr. F. A, Hazeland, in the Police Cout, this afternoon, and sentenced to six months' - hard labour and four hours' stocks.
The fourth and last man concured in the burglary is still in Macao, and every boat ar riving from that part. is watched..
Government are in a position to give heed cutting another man's pocket on board the 40THER FXTRADITION CASB reported, found in his box a nickel, watch and
A CHINAMAN who was caught in the act of to the grievance of the 213-bachelors and 13 Canton steamer Charles Hardouin, last night, .widowers who are mulcted in the same was seized by a Chinese detective before be amount or, at all events, st the same rate as w.s able to make "s haul." The accused the 386 married men who are on the list. It-U. Fotwas charged before Mr. F. A. would be a simple act of justice which we have not the slightest doubt would prove immensely popular especially with the poorly paid members of the police force.
ROAGRONG CIVIL SERVANTS'
Hareland, at the Police Court, to-day, and sentenced to six weeks hard labour and six hours' stocks. He was convicted for being in possession of a razor blade for an unlawful purpose. He could not be charged with the proper offence as the man whose pocket he had cut refused to prosecule because he had lost nothing.
WHERE IS THE REQUISITION? Wong Ning Sui, the alleged Chinese "des- perado," who was fourd not guilty on Mondaytody for a werk for trial. last week, by Mr. F. A, Hazeland, bⱭbaving, committed an armed robbery and four murders against him by the Chinese authorities has in the interior of Chinn-charge preferred been re-arrested.
At the Police Court, thi, morning, be made Another appearance tefore Mr. Hazeland, charged with having been concerned in an armed robbery, which was committed within the Jurisdiction of Chios in 1905.
.
Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, the Crown Solicitor, extradition, ask d for a further adjournment of who appeared to support the application for
the case.
Bailow and. Morrell, who appeared for the de M. G. E Morrell, of Messri, Goldring, fence, objected to say adjournments. ground that the prosecutios, hid had sufficient on the time to get their witnesses here.
Mr. Morrell called the Count's attention to the
ne months.
his departure for England on furlough. One fact that his client had cow been in gaol for of the faunches, whose master was not beforn of the Chinese community in the Legislative the Marine Court, carried the representatives
AN AMAR'S DISHONESTY.
OPENING COAL MINES.
[From Our Own Correspondent.}]}
Caston, 4th April, 1908, Certain gentlemen, who ate natives of the province of Shane, residing in Canton, yaster- day communicated with the members of the Canton Self-Government Association that they bad received information, from their nativa province to the effect that the privilege for the working of the coal miner in that province has THEFT FROM A WEALTHY CHINESE LADY, now been restored to the Chinese and that's-
themelves and subicriptions would be solicited. company would be floated to work the minas for the purpose, in the letter the Association pecuniary help. I was also added that the was earnestly approached to assist them with
and Canton war masily imported from Japart present the coal costsmed in both Hongkong writers of the letter felt regret to state that at
and tons of thousands of dolinis had been taken the two places, so the Chinese should help ans away by the Japanse for this commodity from
their own country with the view of securing, another in the development of the mines is
their interest from being lost to outsiders,
Teo leading
merchants of Hongkong, one
That the worries of a household are seldom palliated by a retinue of maid servants was exampled this moming, when a Chinese amah -that very embodiment of the virtues that make for the true test of faminine patience in the Magistrate on a charge of theft. Au Shum every Far Easter home-was haled before
was the fair delinquent, and stotil last week Laa Wong Sa, residing at Seymour Terrace was in the employ of a Chinese lady, Mrs.
of treating on gold-mounted hair presstel with The charge read out to the accused was that
eight pearls. This rare ornament was of a theatrical entertainment on the agh ult. slated value of about $80, Mrs. Lau atended
with jewellery, On ber return home a bath, Removing the hair-press she placed it from the theatre she proceeded to have
in a jacket which abe hung in the bathroom. The silk garment with the valuable hai-orna-would take up half of the absrce and advance ment had been forgotten and it was not until a
Since the news appears in the Government Gazette that a new official has been appoint ed on the directorate of the Widows and -Orphans' Fund, established for the benefit of the survivors of officers who have died in the service of the Government, it may not be deemed inopportune to refer once again to this Fund. As all readers are aware; the
CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY. constitution of the Fund teems with anoma- We have been favoured with a copy of lies-bachelors are taxed for the benefit of the third report and balance sheet of that WITH reference to the leading article entitled: the children they have no intention of egregious body described as the Hongkongd in Saturday's issue of the Hongkong Telt "A batch of harbour offenders" which appear getting. Widows have to tramp twenty or Civil Service Co-operative Society, Limited, graph, a compondent writer to explain that thirty miles in order to collect the paltry $5 which is a combine formed by members of the farewell demonstration made by the five or $15 which may annually be due to them. the Civil Service of the Colony to compete launches whose masters were charged with con- When Sir Matthew Nathan was Governor, against the legitimate traders in Hongkong, travening the rules by blowing their whistles strenuous efforts were made by the Govern. It has its own establishment, where groceries unnecessarily, took place on the departure of ment to reep the Fund into oblivion by are served out to members, who seek to the German mail and not the French steamer incorporating it with the General Revenue. harm the very people who contribute towards as stated in the editorial. It seems that the That is not to say the principle of the Fund their salarier by withholding their custom sunches bad been engaged by a number of the Ching, Ming holiday it was impossible to Mr Bowley contended that yesterday being would be abolished; the only difference We have not yet been able to fathom how representative Chinese, gentlemen who desired 20 any Chiusmas to leave the country untiland, like the rest of her sex, was bedecked "would be that instead of having an annual 'the Civil Servants managed in the first A.W. Bra■iv, bon voyage on the occasion of
to wish the Registrar-General, the Hoo. Mr,after the holiday balance sheet to produce the Government instance to overcome the difficulty set forth would simply show A gross amount in the Rules and Regulations of the Service, Amid all the intricacies of the revenue which declare that: returns. And it is little wonder that the lic Officers are prohibited from engaging All salaried Pub Government should seek to conceal the in trade or connecting themselves with any Council actual state of the Fund and absorb the commercial undertaking without leave from money into the Colonial Treasury, for the the Governor approved by the Secretary of outgoings are so infinitesimal as compared State." If such permission were applied for with the receipts that were the Fund to by the Civil Servants we do not remember be continued for any length of time hearing that His Excellency the Governor on its present basis" there is no doubt the had granted it, or that it had been approved revenue would swell to such a height that there could be an old age pension for every one in the Colony derived from the interest alons. In the time of Sir Matthew Nathan, when every manouvre conceivable was being performed and every scheme hatched with the object of amount at the credit of as compared with 86,531 for the first three dated 7th January, 1927, drawn by the defend:
the absorption "half". year the sales amounted to $22,426 to recover $10,000, on a bill of exchange ened out of the Fund, the amount the Fund stood at something like #so00,000 months of the but whether the latter ants upon the plaintiff, payable to the order of To-day that sum has increased to over means the first three months of 1967 or the Netherlands India Commercial Biak $318,000, so that it will be recognised at 1908 we cannot tell The profits are stated twenty-one difg after sight and accepted by once what a valuable nest egg this should
the plaintiff, payment whereof was made by be for the Goverment, and explains their
the plafotiff on the 8th February, 1907 to the Netherlands Indix Commercial Bank. The
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bold of it and to employ it than those orig
hat amount al
which my chent has been arrested. He has been lying in gaol for many months on the former charge, and now they come and give us no excuse a Chinese festival for
The Court-Bat ant on this charge
Mr. Monel-This is anther charge on
1
to get their witnesses here. not being able to proceed with the cut.
The Court The prosecution wants a remand
Ar the Supreme Court, this forenoon, Sir iber argument in the action brought by Lensg Francis Piggolt (Chief Justice) listened to fur- Sen Hoy, trading as the Chin Foorg Hoy Kes Arm, of 63, China Street, Singapore, against the Theong Wing firm, of 73; Bonham Birard, by the Secretary of State. Presumably, bankers, and Wong Loog Hin, of the same however, it had official sanction seeing address, the banker, the Wing Ton Suo firm, that Dr. Francis Clark is the chairman of 257, Des Voeux Road Central, meroon.
Any further adjournments,
faw
.1..
surnamed Fung and the other Chan, called ou the meribers of the Self-Government, Society yesterday and informed them of their proposal $100,000 in shares for the purpase of opening to hear a company with a capital of some certain coal mines, They stated that they
would undertake to solicit subscriptions for the other half. . This question will be discussed at the meeting to be held on the 8: instant,
ANOTHER MONSTER MERTING,
the amount required provided that the, League
days after that the lady realized her absent mindedness. It was then that she discovered the ton of the valued counterpart of her headgear, A reppri was promptly made to the police, and Detective-sergt. Watt proceeded to lavesti. The Self-Government Association has con requisition, your Worship. A day should be
Hr. Warrell-I don't believe they have the mahs led to his suspicions bring rivetted on 8th instant. A list containing all: the descrip guta. The sergeant's questionings of threevened another meeting to take place on the defendant abould be discharged. (object to accused had made. She was then "shadowed." completed and will be presented to th fixed for the bearing of this cast, or the one of them, because of an unguarded statement tions of Japanese goods and articles has bien Yesterday, the detective, was rewarded by bly at the meeting, that the people may have n
the usem Mr. Bowley said he expected his vinesses evidence being forthcoming, which led him to thorough knowledge of all those goods and elapsed since his Worship signified his inten of another amth in a house in Robinson Road, boycott them, easily without the least miscon Mr. Mirell stated, that twelve days had locate the missing hair-press in the possession articles that are imported from Japle, and to of the Board are nearly all well known address, merchant, and the Wing Cheong firm, ties of releasing the accused on the former who admitted that the valuable orament ception. The headquarters of the Society will, Civil Servants. From the report for the of 29 Des Vox Road West, merchants, and charge, and be thought that was sufficient time had been given her for sife-keeping. Cofron no doubt, be thronged with thousands of peo Li Lan Nam, of the same address, merchant, for the prosecution to get their affairsstraight-ted by her friend accused admitted the charge ple attending the muting who wish to know
enterpris beleg rewarded with three months and origin imported Inte before Mr. F. A. Hareland, this morning, her what are the products of imprisonment, without the anticipation of her "mai fan," as theas women term their wages at have agreed pot to cop the end of each monik,
of director, while the other members chants, and Lal Yu Kung, of the same
at $2,383 and the directors recommend dividend at therate of ten percent, per annu ida" "Turning to the accounts (we ard,
face to face willis system of bo
crxes on the min
CMistar, of Mennin, Johnson Biokas
The Court-But their witnesses about the witnesses for the prosecution, as he was doubt laf whether the prosecution and their requisi.
on papers ready, pape
The Court-1 loave in two day time, My Rowley thought, two days were not Suppose I adjour it till then ?! enough offÇA SERRA
Conc-Then I'll adjourn it fors week,
A COOL named Lau Shen who :
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