& which is based, on extradition pracodents seams unnecessary aud His Honour the Chief Justico who is now ongagod in the re- vision of the Ordinances, has ad- vised its ropoal:
The Council then adjourned till next Thursday,
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FORGERY. Lam Kam Fat was charged with forgery and also with uttering forged document before Mr. 'ustice Comportz.
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In court he stated that he was a friend of the master, but hul 10 permission to take the silk.
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14 yours. The children went out samo housó, enticed the child to go on the morning of the 29th into the street, by tolling hor that March to school, but did not her father was outside and want
Li Kwon, an unemployed actor, return, and after the tiffin hour od tosoo lor. The ild wentout, the schoolinistrose wrote a letter but as she did not so her father, Mr. F. A. Hozoland with tho was charged this morning bofore A QUESTION OF SECURITY, to the mother asking the reason. the child asked ware ho was. larceny of a roll of silk from a
The children would toll them She was told that to was further boarding-house master in Con-egnano with Ordinance No. 14 Prior to tlio opening of the Cri- that on the day in question, up the strost. The child was
It appears that naught Road. minal Sessions, their Lordships, aftor leaving school nt the handed over to the prisoner who the defendant went into the board- tion No 9 of tath January, 1911, the FINANCE COMMITTEE.,
| the Chief Justice, Sir Francis Pig- tiffa hour, they met. tho took her away to a no380, w'iere
when the muster was asleep and Public Business on WEDNESDAY, A coling of the Finoneo Can-gott, and Mr. Justice Gompertz, prisoner and another women, she had engaged a sterng placeing house early in the morning EXCHANGE BANKS will be DAISY" BUITIER is the the Council, the Colonial Secret-ation for a date.to ha fixed for two women induced the children found by the polico some three or which he took to, a pawn shop. singkong, 18th Mĺny, 1911. mittee was held immediately after sat in full court to hear an appli- who was not in eustody. The It was here thate child wah walked, off with the roll of silk,[24th instant, VICTORIA DAY.
the hearing of a motion in connecto go on board n stenruo- under four days afterwards. ary presiding.
tion with the case of Mr. Midwood the pretence that they wore going The jury returned a verdict of The following votos wore
Walter George Vaughan Robin- to a theatre and to sco a balloon guilty on both comits, and prisoner passed:-
A suncof $113.23 in aid of the sun and the Robinson Piano Co. ascent. Instead of taking the was sentenced to five years, im- His Worship-Two months' The motion that is to be heard children to a thoutro or to see uprisonmont, the sentences to run voto Elication, othor, charges, is one in which it is asked that balloon ascent, they took thom to concurrently. His Lordship said imprisonmout and six houra' | Bolilius Public School, English the order made by the Chief Konginoon, in Chinose territory, the crime was a very common que Aide, language study allowance Justice on April 28th, that and from there the children were in the colony, and many guilty (Chinose) to assistant nistross.
A sum of $1,88; in aid of the the plaintiff should not be re-afterwards brought back to long porsons wore not brought to
quired to give security for coste kong by their a minh. • The prison-| justice. ** sarvicos, widows' and orphans pension incurred in connection or, in her suitement before the with the commission to England magistrate, adivitial that she expenses.
to tako ovidence, might be varied. was on the steamier on which the It was also melted that the order, children went away, but said it vate Miscellaneons services, il-
which directed the plaint to was a coincidoneo. She saw the
Sir Henry Berkeley said the her wrists. execute a blank transfer to the children going on board when she fingistrar, of the shores held by was going on board. The prison offence with which the prison for trind at the June Criminal Theatre Royal. the plaintiff in the company, naer, waid the Attorney General, was er was charged WAS one ofSossions. security for the aum of $3,700, formerly in the employ of the forgery on a delivery order ALLEGED FRAUDULENT the amount of the socurity in- little girl's guardian, bụt left 1st presented
the Yuon On POSTOFFICE FROSECUTION, cluding the costs of the commuiis- your.
godown, and purporting to come An Wing was charged before sion, bo varied, and that the
Evidence was called, ul the from the Kwong Choong Loon Mr. Hazeland with laving unlaw
firm. By virtue of the orderfully infringed the exclusivo pre- plaint be ordered to furnish | security for the costs of the comis Lordship passed sentence of 205 bags of white rico. The man by transmitting 93 lottors other
jury returned a verdict of "guilty." prisoner obtained possession of vilege of the Postmaster General HENRY raission and that the amount. thereof be referred to the Regis hard labour.
five years' imprisonment with
was successful in gesting the rice wise than through the Genoral At the Magistracy this after- trar for his report. The motion
on the 17th April, and, with the sub-section 2 of Ordinance No. 6 noon before Mr. J. R. Wood was also that the pain CHARGE OF THEFT FAILS from the manager of the godown Post Office, contrary to section 6, Ngo Tz San, a bankrupt, was might be ordered tam Lung were charged with ho got the rino away without the also, with laving uninfully mul Chak Fuk, Hing Chan assistance of a number of coulies, of 1000, on or about the 11th inst.j cash socurity, or other belter larceny from a godown... brought up on sixteen chuiges of security, than the shares
theft being discovered. He was knowingly used to prepay a lotior |TO-NIGHT, frand. The first chargo was to in the defendant company ast
Prisoners pleaded not guilty. Mr. Alabaster informed the later.
arrester, however, a few days packet a $1 postage stamp which the effect that he had forged security for the defondant's
had been proviously used and from which the postal marke had certain writings purporting to be costs in the notion, including the jury that the threo prisoners were amount of the costs of the Cou charged with breaking and en-
been comoved, contrary to section the account of the Kwong Mu mission as fixed by the lagistrar.toring into a glow and stealing
34 of the same Ordinance. of Norfoo in the outpott debit was further asked that in the therefrom 32 boxes of tin plate.
Ho pleaded not guilty. book of the Wo Sang Cheong meantime and until such further the Sia Lee Metal Stores of 9:
The godown was the property of DETAINING A CHIÊD.. E. Cornowall Lewis, eting Shing Keo firm for 1910 and also security be given, all for pro-Hillier Street and on the twenty-Mr. H. H. Gompertz with detain on 16th inst. ho received a co- Wong Tso was charged before (Postmaster General, doposed that
Plans Now Opou at MOUTRIE'S. the account of the said firm in the endings in the action be stayed.
i fourth of "last month a foki outport-debts-book-of-tho-We- Maloney. Bullock, KC,
inginchild 13 years.
|_munication_from_the_PAG,_at] Hongking. 17h: May, 1111 Cla flocked it up securely and loft Saug firm for 1909, with intent to appoared to make the application the premises at 5.30
Defondant pleaded not guilty. Canton forwarding him'a bundle defrand and that ho had falselymi bohalf of the defondant, while
Pan. About
Sir Hoary Berkeley, KC, of letters. On receiving the letter NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, and deceitfully attored the said Mr. G. G. Alabaster appeal form the owners received certain prosecuted on behalf of the he made inquiries which resulted
information which caused them Crown addressing the jury, he in the defendant being brought to IMPERIAL GERMAN necounts of the Kwong Mow with į the plaintiff. intent is defiand. There were Mr. Pollock said: I am formal-to haston to the place. Thore said that the child was stolen his office. Defendant was shown twolvo other charges of forgeryly moving in this matter, this be- they found the door opon, and at Canton. She was sent out the bundle of letters and was fold Defontant, was also charged with ing the date of the return of the the three prisoners and another by her parents to buy biscuits, that he had infringed the law by NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES, Inlsification of accounts and notion, and I simply ask your moving in plato. The prisonors an und was never reen again. the stamp referred to in the man, not in custody, wore rebut the child did not re-forwarding them. Whon shown failure to producs certum books lordships to fix a dato for the
TH HE Stenship relative to the bankruptcy pro hoaring of the motion, or to allow Bo the excuse that they were She was soon last in the posses charge, defendant said bo bought
a slate to be lived in Chambers. ngaged by another man to do sion of the defendant in Hong-itat the Post Office. It had been in DERTFLINGER,"
The Chief Justice: It would be it, and that they wore lawfully kong, who said the child was hisclothes and his clothes had been having arrived, Consignees of cargo are A plen of not guilty was ten- dored. Mr. W.EL Shouta ap-fixed in Chambers. I don't employed. However ha (Counsel) handed over to her by the mother washed, which accounted for its hereby informed that their & rods, with FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG poured for the prosecutionmol Me, know it is so pocossary but all would prove that it was one of This was denied by 10 mother, conitdion. Witness told him to Valuables, ara being landed and stored the exception of Opium, Treasure and Loo d'Almada for the defenco, those points of practico must be the three prisoners who actually
hired the truck on which the tin jury returned a verdict of guilty which he did.
After hearing the evidence the call at the Post Office next day; at their risk into the hazardous and/or THE Steamship Mr. Shenton, in opming put straight.
He was then exten hazardous Godowns of the the ease for the prostation,
Mr. Pollock replied that the plate was removed,
After hearing the evidenge the of live years' imprisonment.
and his Worship passed sentence arrested.
Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and said he would doal first with the code was very awkwardly drawn.]
Wa Shin Kwai, a registry Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, forgory cases and would prove that it said that the motion was re-jury retired and upon their re-
Laung Si was also charged with clerk, stated that on 16th inst. and West Point Godowns, whunco the forgeries wore actually in the cable in 14 days and as it did tart, gave a minimus verliet kidnapping. The case arose out about three o'clock defondant ddivory may be obtained.
of not guilly," handwriting of the defendant, not allow of any elastinity, they
No olajus will be admitted after the of the previous one, the same was taken before the P.M,G, Wit- The prisoners were lischarged evidence being called. The forgories ware of this mature. | had to come there that morning,
ness asked the defendant what Goods have left the Godowns, and all The dabis of the Wo Sang on lead Mr. Alabaster: Your Lordship A QUESTION OF RELA-
Prisoner was found guilty, and he was and ho replied that he goods remaining undelivered after the TIONSHIP.
sentenced to five years' imprison- was a letter carrier, The Post-4th of May, will be subject to rent..
All broken, chafed, and damaged An aged woman uained Lamment, with hard labour.
master asked if he had a licance Goods are to be left in the Godowns, I was charged with harbouring a
and he replied that he had no where they will be exatained on the child by force, well knowing it te
Lai Shau was charged with money at all; also that he hand 23rd of May, at 9.30 a... have been foloniously stolen from forgery on two conats, and was nothing to do and took to carrying its guardian.
tried before the same jury. Helettors. Ho admitted that he had The samo jury were sworn as pleaded guilty on the second beon sonding letter packets to a in the previous cases,
charge and was sentenced to Canton hong. eighteen months! uprisonment.
WORLD'S NEWS.
ceedings.
CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
RETURNING". FROM BANISHMENT
That!
Prisoner was found not guilty on the first count, but was sen reuod to five years' imprisonment on the seconil.
.
FORGERY.
boon ontered in the booksin due will fix a date in chambers? course, and the forgery cansisted The Chief Justice: Yos, of the addition of an oxtra Chinese, charactor to the totals of curtain! of those debts, by which menus $10 become $100, and $100) become $1,000, dus increasing -the liabilities of the debtor firm. At the end of 1910 the ont-
Mr. Alabaster said the case was
The defondant made etale- port dobts borsk, showed debts!
a sort of kidnapping caso. The
ment in which he adherod to his The Criminal Sessions were woman was charged with delin duo to a certain firm, Sup
previous assertion that the stamp pose a dobt was incurred by the opened before His Lordship Siring a chill against the will of THE PLAQUE CONFERENCE. was a new stamp and that it had firm in 1985 the details of that Francis
Piggott this or her guardian, not with netually Tokio, 11th May.-Dr. Kitazato clothes when they were waslied.
become soiled by being among his debt-a description of gods, foring. Wong Chenk, alias Tsoi kidnappping the child. instance-would be entered in Tin, pleaded guilty to disobeying offence took place outside the In an interview he expressed deop morrow to allow of the stump returned to Tokio on Wednesday. The case was adjourned till to- the debts book, but in the debts on order of banishment on the colony. The child was brought book for 1906 there will both Ajil.
into the colony, and detained appreciation of the Chinese being examined by an expert. only
Mr. C. G. Alabaster, Acting Sho was 11 years old, and was the the delegates who attentoil the
vernment's cordial treatment olj a simple entry that the firm `owed so much money to such and Attorney-Conora), instructed by niece of a boatwoman, with whom such a firm; and so on from year Mr. F. B. Bowley, said that the she lived, her mother having tiod. Plague Conference at Mukden. NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, to year right down to 1910. The prisoner was charged with dis About the middle of April the le said the Conference was dofen laat was also charged with obeying a banishment order. child was asked by the prisoner precedented in the history IMPERIAL GERMAN failing to produce the required Cases of that sort were usually to go out to gre things, but instead
LINE 1 balance-shoots and the intport dealt with no the Magistracy of going to Canton sho was taken omplasized the importance debts books as well as with outer-the prisoner pleaded guilty. The to Hongkong. The prisoner stated ing fictitious losses and falsifica prisoner, however, pleaded that the child was given to hor by
guilty. He had done the same its mother Evidence was then called anthing porsistently; he thought vas afterwards ad-that was the sixth time he had
tion of the books.
the cise journed.
We are officially informed that Pakhoi has been declared an in- fected port., Plague is provalent there, but no definite information. has reached Hongkong as yet, as to the death rate, or the mumbor -of-onnen-reported:-
returned, and on each occasion # sentence of one year's imprison meat was passed." I'risoner had ú passion, said the Attorney General, for returning from banishment.
Prisoner said ho came back to get something.
His Lordship:-What is tho maximum penalty?
The little child was called, and was asked by the prisoner: Are you not the adopted daughter of my daughter's mother-in-law? (Laughter).
1
Witnoss-No. sentenced to three years' hard Prisoner was found guilty and
labour.
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arby inftrud that their Gods, with
the exospiza of Opium, Treasure and London, May 12-A cargo Valuable are boing landed and stond st their risk into tha hazardous and/or including 10,000 earcases of 83,000 cases of frozen meat,
'ul { extra linzardous Godowas of the Hong- las arrived at Liver-kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown pork, A COMMON CRIME. pool from Hunkow. During Company, Linated, Kowlom, and Before Mr. Justice Gompertz, a
the whole of the year 1910 only West Point Glowas, whenoc delivery Mr. Alabaster-A year, with or wor an
24,000 carcases arrived:
-may-bo-oblaiueil.. nemed So Sang was without hard labour. Mr. E. P. S. Hooper of the Prisoner was sentenced to ong harbouring,
charged with kidnapping and LATE SHIPPING NEWS. Goods hav Et the Godawns, and l Kobe Branch of the flongkong year's imprisonment with hard and Shanghai Banking Corpora- labour. tion is passing through Hongkong on his way to England on holi- day."
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‚ KIDNAPPING,
. Ng Yux was charged with kidnapping two little girls under the age of 14 years,
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