THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY JANUARY 10 1912
SIR ROBERT
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To-day's Paper. In addition to the tolograms on paga thero is to be found an interesting report of a divoren case in which the parties word residents in Shanghai. An in teresting revise appears on page 3, and it is proposed to publish our Wednesdaycach week on that pago someiling of sрosial interest to book-lovers. Page 8 is, 28, usual, devoted mainly to sport.
At the Magistracy this morning, a coolie was sentenced to fourteen days imprisonment with hard labour, for having in his possos sion two bags of rice on Tuesday afternoon, of which he could not give a satisfactory explanation to the police.
At the Magistracy, this morning, a sampan man named Chup Kun, whe charged with being in pos- prosecution was at the instance
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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1912.
THE NAVY.
STOP PRESS CANTON MISSIONARY
TEI
YOER BLAZE:
ROBBED.
Handbag and Money Stol n.
THE PASSING OF THE NOTES AND COMMENTS.
LAW COURTS,
The Chief Justice's Farewell,
Tur-Isklon-Patér telangod
The Tramway Fatality,
There were sono fac's in oon-
and it in 8
A missionary doctor from Oat-lo privileg of nidressing the notion with the unfortunato ton has been victimized by the Chief Justic, Sir Francis Piggott, fatality on the Peak Tramway on Colony's light-fingered, gentry for this last time in the venerable Shortly before noon, yostorday, the law courts, white mission is ac-
Sunday, which were not publishi missionary wont to the Pharmy couplished for all but a few days, od. Ono of thero, i Servks To The Telegraph.in Queen's Road to make somo
The caso was small one in point of importance, is that there Bombay, Dec. 10.7.40 am..which he was carrying on the chant of 32. Biniam Strand, snod was a thick fog at the time. The
purchases and left the handbag which Tak Shing-hong, a mor- Restor's New York corres-chunter for a while. In the mean Kwong Hing cheong, a firm of trams are equipped with a strong
} pondit reports in immense fire time, four Chinow of the coolic exporters of 16 Leo Yuen Street on Broadway
class entered the shop and said and I fok pang, a partner, for how-light, but the best light is The building, belonging to the that they wished to inuko, soins $2,800.40 for goods sold and of little service in af Equitable Life of the United nor purchases, such as tooth delivered.
a fog. We are States was gutted,
powder, etc. The men oronted a Mr. Potter, instructed by Mogers.
informed that the man, a Chinese,
lot of fuss about the matter, and Wilson al Crist, appeared who was on the look-out on the It cooupied a square, in the once they had got what they want-for the plaintiff, and explained to tram, to whom of course no blame centre of the financial district od onore attention was paid to His Lordship that, by his order of whichalso included the Harriman them. The missionary, having Dec.22, plaintiff had been allowed attaches, apparently became Rails August Bolmont's ter to pay for the purchases, but two defendants
beon supplict, turned to the coun- to proceed ex-parto against the frightened and has not been seen office, and several safe deposit inado tile discovery that the hond. Evidence of the Galo was giron, since Sunday. The European vaults which contained millions bag had gone. So had the men and judgment entered for the conductor was also very much of securities.
The handbag contained este and plaintiff with fimmediate. uxe-upset by the accident and had to trunk koye, papers, otc.
tion, Mr. Potter having explained
that the defendant was in prison, tako sick leave for a day. The being arrested as an ascunding unfortunate affair shows the
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The Government assessinmt
It appears that just prior to vi- on the building for taxation siting the Pharmacy, the mission- purposes was $12,000,000, ary called at Sincere's Store, debtor, which means a value of about whence, he says, he saw the men Before the court rose His Lord-ocessity of a rigid observance of follow him. They observed him ship said Mr. Potter, there is the by-law forbidding trespassing $36,000,000
pulling out a $5 bill from a roll only a small number here, but of banknotes, amounting in all to this is the last time we shall sit in
on the Tramway Company's land. $300, from his handbag, and this court, and it seems to me thereafter must have kept close we ought to take an affectionate "News" from Home,
farewell of the venerable build- ings. There have been many
The Home papers--or some of judgments delivered in this court; them at pay rato-aro apparently some good, some bad, some in-willing to swallow almost any lifferent in the opinions of the kind of a yarn which comes from various suitors. The judgments Chinn just now, Tho
"Daily
The building blazed like a furnace and the firo was seen of the Customs officials who cap-twenty miles away. ture prisoner endeavouring to ship the drug on the S.S. Empire. The prisoner was remanded.
Hongkong Jockey Club. An extraordinary general moot ing of the Hongkong Jockey Club was held at the Hongkong Club Annexo at 12.30 p.m. to-day, A large number of members wore
The steel floors wore buckled and the giant walls crumbled:
The president of the Sufe De- posit was rescued from the vaults in attempting to save anime books Hoe bolieyed to have been fatally injured.
present. The business transactor tre Persons were killed, was formal and of a purely privand fro engines blocked the
neighbourhood.
ato nature.
BANKS CLOSED. Durban, Jan. 10, 1.45 am2
on his tracks.
A report has been made to the Police, who are investigating.
BRITISH TROOPS IN CANTON,
Governor-General's Proclamation.
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on the whole have not been so
bad, but one thing is quito clear. Dispatch, which is issued by The traditions of the court, which the respectablo bonso of Hulton,
Hayo bye bon the best this build aotully nakes its readers to be ing have been bo, and in accordance with the lieve this: Our Canton correspondent|
“A grave dòmestio best English traditions of the disgrace has befallen the Manabu writes as follows under date Bar, I can only hope that the Dynasty. The mother of the Jun. 9:---
Benoh., Bar and Solicitors will.
The Governor-General Jas
SUPREME COURT.
The Tell-Tale Pig. Had the little pig which Chang Chot was endeavoring to steal from its owner Chu-ng, at Mong-Busness within the five zone the public of the arrival of new building and foster them in issued a proclamation informing carry on those traditions in the kok village, lust night, not pro has been suspended and includes foreign troops at the Shameen
thor now surroundings.... tested so vociferously, he might some of the most prominent and explaining that there troops have ovaded the police and not banks, Those are undamaged, been called upon to 50/10 six weeka in gaol with hard labour. como that the owner in going out However, so noisy did the pig bo-
of the hous to een what was the matter saw prisoner with it in a basket. She cauglit him, han led him over to the police, and at the Magistraay this morning, he was sentenced as stated.
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but lines of polico provent ap- proach to them.
are there solely for the purpose purties of foreigner: The Chainees of protecting the lives and pro- soldiers and goneral public aro ordered not to 'entertain any. ill
Lamb or Kid?
Terminological looseness char
the Prince Regent, her Imperial child-Emperor Pu Yi and wife of
Highness the Princess Lai, has oloped with an actor, Yung Shu-lu, (t
may be inentioned that actors and barbers rok with the lowest castes in Chinese society, so that the affair, oven in the
BUSINESE CONTINUES, Stok Exolange transfers have fooling towards the foreign troops. acterised a case heard by the midst of its political troubles, is- been apended, The Equitable rumours, the proclamation pro Gompertz this morning at the of the Imperial House of China. Persons circulating disquieting Puise Judge, Mr. Justice peculiarly painful to the members Life mnounces that it has dupli-ceeds, will be sovorely punished: Supreme Court, when the terms The lovers hd, it seems, boon
cates of all its records and its business will continue undisturb- ed-Teutor:
the
Arrival in Hongkong.
FIGHT AT KUMCHUK.
Twelve People Killed.
Quite a sonsational encounter was fought on the West River on Saturday, of which details have just come to hand...
gout, kid and lamb appeared to
have been used most indis- carrying ou a clandestine cor- criminately,
respondence for some time, and The action was brought by the actual fight of tho Princess Karm teen, a watolman in the is said to have been in part dus employ of the Asiatic Petroleum
Co., Shankiwan Road, who sued her impression that the end of. Charg Deen, a jomadar of police, the Manchu Dynasty was at hand, to recover $12, ile price of a gont She and Yung are staying at sold and delivered to the defen- Mukdon. Princess Lai is believed dant.
to hire orried off with hor diamonds and procious Fiones worthra large fortune," The sub- editor who could swallow that has a literary digestion which can assimilate any kind of fure without protest.
Offers of What?
Theft of Zinc. Chow Hoi ondeavoured yester- day afternoon, to get away with. "It was Disraeli who exclaimed bitterly "There never was a Chura bar, of zinc from the deck of the PASTOR C. T. RUSSELL, chill worth n———," referring to the then Duke of Marlborough, Manila steamer Churraca, but in Thai tho Churchille have been mon of brilliant ability the pages of doing so did nei lakainto account history show, but there has always been a hut. Mr. Winston the ship's cook, who captured the watchfulness and alacrity of Churchill, ex-Tory, joint discoverer with Mr. Lloyd George of the him before he had re ched the Pastor C. T. Russell, the wall
On Saturday afternoon lost a Dartmoor Shepherd, and one of the Vituperators-in-Chief of the wharf and turned him over to the known American preacher, who number of rice boats were pro- Mr. P. W. Goldring appeared Liber Party, has to win his spars-if the expression be forgiven in with the theft of the metal at the Hongkong, this morning, by the by a company of soldiers in defended.
watchman. Prisoner, charged is touring the world, arrived at coeding from Wuchow, guardal for the plaintiff and Mr. Grist relation to a marine chiefas First Lord of the Admiralty, and his Magistracy this morning, said s.s. Shinyo. Maru. He he just launches bound for Canton, when
Plaintiff said he sold a goat accession to that responsible portfolio was regarded by many with that he was only removing the completed a tour of England on arrival at Kumchuk the and a lamb to the defendant." open suspicion. The most prejudiced critic must admit that he has zinc so as to facilitate access to a where his addresses were listened launches put the soldiers off to mado a very promising start. That things were not "all right" at give any reason for secreting the
ladder. He could not, howevor, to by remarkably large audiences, replenish stores and purchase is for the price of a goat:
His Lordship: But the notion the Admiralty had been the burden of Admiral Lord Charlos Beres-metal under his clothing and was ments have appeared on the town the soldiers came across a the lamb and the goat had been For some time pant announce foad, During their tour of the Mr. Goldring supposed that ford's song for many years. Mr. Churchill's innovations suggest sent to gool for three months. walls of the town in connection number of fantan shops and took sold together and only the limb that Lord Charles had reason for the faith that was in bim, and Alleged Attempt to Rob a Skip.
with address he is to deliver immediate steps to anash them had been paid for. those who find in the Churchillian reforms a reflection upon the late Detective Sergeant Willis, of
on the With,
up, since by the order of the Later he asked plaintiff- First Lord, Mr. McKenna, scarcely draw an unwarrantable inference.
the Water Police,
From Chint Pastor Russell Governor-General such establish- What do you mean by a Insh?
A telegram in to-lay's issue Bome light is moreover thrown upon the recent mysterious suppresons Lo Mun, a fisherman, with
Magistracy, this morning, charged Africa.
at the journeys to India, Arabia and monta were locked upon as illegal. lis Lordship: I did not know bears out the suggestion, mido in sion by Lord Chatles Beresford of his volumo of naval revelations, being a suspected person loitering
Whilst carrying out this demo- there were any lambs in long-leador in yesterday's paper, that tition a company of Kumchuk koug. after advance copies wore in the hands of the reviewers,
in Victoria Harbour, at five oclock The bearing of counsel's argu-rovolutionary soldiers tok excep
the Republicans are not in a Plaintiff, asked to elucidate the position to face an advance With characteristic audacity, the word is employed in no cenon the morning of the 9th instment in the action brought by tion to their interference and mystery, said a she goit and a kid.
He asked for romand, as he Hongkong Tramway Co. was comers. Firing proceeded on agreed upon was his $24 and lick the sinews of war. It up- with intent to commit a felony.
Government against the commenced to fire on the new were originally sold and the pric my gra it hope of succo. thought it very probable that concluded yesterday afternoon, both sides, resulting in eight only $12 had been paid. he would be able to connect de- when the Chief Justice reserved people being killed-four revolu In cross axamination le ilen'ol
paars now tint they pro inaking fendant and others with a robbery
bis decision. E
tionary soldiers and four civilians, that the kid was only a day olderous offers in under to tempt. from a ship in port. The Police
The Canton mon eventually when it was sold. I had been the Manghts to clear out." If all, in this particular kind of robbery Observer," which, howover, we
We have received a letter from retreated, and two Chinese gun-born a week, wereat presenteeriously concerned
stories are true, they are unalile boats herring the firing arrived Mr. Grist, addressing the court which was very prevalent. Many cannot publish, as the writer has on the scene. The combatants, on behalf of the defenfant, said by the authorities. A remand address. We will, however, be it was considered inadvisable to spito because the defen fant hal to fight a bit shy of promises. suoh attempts had boon frustrated not observed the usual condition however, when the gunboats that $12 had been paid and the all they can offer are promiser was granted.
of enclosing his real name and arrived, wero so intermixed that action was merely brought out of And the Throne is fairly certain glad to publish the latter if the fire. The soldiers returned to the refused to recommend the plaint has done a fair amount in that writer will forward his name and
launches and the rice boats pro- tiff, when the latter applied for acknowledge the authorship.
eeeled to Canton under protection admission to the police forço,
way itself, and is not likely to A telegraphic summary, however full, must necessarily be less this morning, with stealing an
- Typhoon Warning.
of the gunboats.
Compradore's Security.
pht any grestor valus on other illuminating than the full text, but Mr. Churchill's main idea is alarm clock, a pair of shoes, three received by the American Con- The following telegram was
In the same court Eni Ys fong, Pople's promises than it placed sufficiently evident. In the event of war it is obvious that a Naval ailver watches and a chain valued aulate Congral from the Manila stands that the Shanghai German another trader, to recover $500 the Republicans is singularly liko The "China Gazette" under trader, tuod Leung Koou-sam, on its own. The latest move of War Biaff would be necessary, but as things are there is no me at 521-50, the property of Observatory at 1 sm to-day: Association held a meeting re- the defendant by plaintiff as asking the man in possession, to chinery by which it could be brought into existence, and were a Fr. Aguesss, of New Nazareth. Cyclone or typioin N.E. of Luzon cently to protest against the
which had been deposited with Naval War Staff to be suddenly created after the storm had broken He was found guilty and senten- its usefulness, at least for some time, would be negligible. Mr. ced to four months' imprisonment moving Nor.N.N.E
attitude of hostility toto Chinese security for his parformanes of leave what ho holds and trust the Churchill designs to have the machine running smoothly and in with hard labour.
Republican Party adopted from the duties of compradore. The man outside to share it once he perfect adjustment so that when the demand is made upon it it will On a second charge of several
the outset by the Ostasiatisol agreement between the two had gets in. The likeliest answer to be able immediately and satisfactorily to respond. Clearly also he theite over divore dates from been going on on the now wharf invariably adopted a misleading at hnd not refunded the deposit Almost certainly the astute Tuan
For some time past, work has Lloyd," which it was declared been terminated but the defend-int is "Como au wished to have it constructed of the best possible materials and to October to January from Now on the longkong, side of the attitude and "backed the wrong
take it," so provide that the parts will not be allowed to rust: Whether the Nazareth in theaggregateamount-Stur" Ferry Company. On in horse" in all thres recent wars scheme, which seems so admirable upon paper, will work out entising to $48, he was also found quiries being made this morning, of which China has been the plaintiff and the defendant failing fossion of weakno-e and will hold Mr. Lewis appeared for the will read the latest offer as a con- factorily in practice, remains to be seen, but it must be assumed, as guilty and sentenced to four wo were informed that the work scene. There is much indigna to attend the court had judgement what he has all the tighter for it. it has found favour with Service crition that, though no doubt sus months' hard labour, the sentences was to bats been completed last tion amonget local Gormans at given against him, ceptible of improvement, it marke an appreciable advance in our to run conourrently, Constable August. lis, however, expected the attitude of their mouthpiece Naval adminstration and justifies a doubt whether Lord Beacons Patterson was responsible for that it will be finished in a In the Shanghai press in the the ovidence gave judgment for for
His Lordship after bearing fur. Perhape Yuan will not be so very field's assertion may not have been a trils too sweeping.
the capture,
month's time
defendant with costa,
sorious sense, Mr. Churchill started his reforms at the fountain hand. Obviously, to carry out a policy of sweeping reform, it was essential to have Lords of the Adminlty who were not bound by tradition to old custom, and when all that was necessary was to set the hands of the clook a little forward Mr. Churchill was not the man to shrink from the responsibility: is action in this connection received commendation from political friend and political foo, sa it was immediately realized that this was a preliminary stop, neces sitated by a ́vigorens policy which was shortly to be put into oper- ation. Its first fruits are the changes announced in the memorane dum the substance of which has been telegraplied to us by Router's Agency.
The Theft at New Nazareth. Lau Pong-leung was charged on remand, at the Magistracy,
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Progress of Farry Wharf.
present arisie
money,
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to
pay onshi: downs that about.
either, If the ahould
adopt this view