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On Sunday the police found THE CRIMINAL ASSIZES, the body of a Chinese hanging from a tree in Aberdoon.*
At Manila on Miroli 14 the thermometer registered 92.8 de grees at noon and stayed at the same heiglit until about 4 p.m..
Storm at Hankow.
Five Years for Assault.
sizes, to which only four cases had boon sont up for triol,
St. PATRICK'S DAY.
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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Secret Societies.
Sermon by Rev. Fr. False.
The salutary Sentences, passed This morning at the Courts of Justice, Mr. Justice Gompertz catod to St. Patrick, the patron tion with the secret society charges Yesterday was the day ded-upon the two prinol pola in conneo- opened the March Criminal As saint of Ireland, and in the four heard recently at the Magistracy, The Colony's Health,
corners of the world Irishmen will be gouerally held to have been At entirely justified. Hougkong is During the wook ended March The first case concerned Ng celebrated the occasion. 8 16, ten cases of plague were Hing, who was charged with Home, in Australia, Canada, and beginning to be looked upon by Amorioa banquets and procos the bettor class Chinese in the reported and mino deaths. Thirty-assault, with intent to rob.
sions were held in celebration-of-neighbouring--provinces...na aix cases of small-pox occurred
Prisoner pleaded guilty. and twenty-seven deaths.
The Hon. Mr. Rees-Davies, the occasion. Locally the great haven of refugo. It is recognised Attorney General, prosecuting day was not forgotten, and the that hero life and property are said that on Feb. 8 at about 7.20 Irishmen of the Colony toasted weil safeguarded; the, consider. A Shanghai telegram to the pan., prisoner and two other men the patron saint with the fervouring the conditions, there is ca Shat Po" roports that on unknown to the Crown engaged of their countrymon who meet much security for the ordinary Thursday a 'severe storm swept a woman who had a junk off annually at the Hotel Cocil, under law-abiding resident as in any At the Magistracy this morn
amiras inod $1 for over Hankow, many matsheds Yaumati, to row them to a cargo the Nationalist party. Shamrock kong should continue to deserve the presidency of the leader of part of the world. That Hong- ing, a
and houses collapsed, while a boat. When some distance from gambling in the strools.
good number of junks were cap the shore prisoner ssized the was conspicuous by its absence, the reputation it has won is clearly sized in the river. The casualities woman, put his hand over her but many sported green ribbons greatly to be desired, and the
and neok-ties, aro said to be many.
onus of enabling her to do so At St. Joseph's Church special reste largely in the hands of the Mr. W. Fred Tyler, Coast In-so, he would cut her and throw mass was celebrated by Bishop Magistrates. If the punishment her into the harbour. The woman Pozzoni, assisted by three priests, is always made to fit the time, it managed to scream, and prisoner and the Rev. Father Fales of will be possible, without the aid drawing a knife, cut her over the Manila, who is enjoying a rost of extraordinary measures, to load, inflicting six serious wounds. here after a serious operation on maintain peace and order in the The men then jumped overboard, the throat, preached a fine sermon community. but prisonor was caught subec- on the loyalty of Irish Catholica. quently.
Three bodies have beou found in the streets by the police. In one case death was due to small- рох.
For returning from banishment Chinese was sent to gaol for laix months with hard labour, at
the Magistracy, this morning,
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tracy, this morning, for having in his possession one hundred percussion caps without permis- sion.
month and told her not to cry out,, threatening that if she did
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1912.
CRIME AND KINGSHIP.
International Firemen's
Congress.
In all parts of the world, said Nature Fakers. He was sentenced to five yours Father Falso, one could find Mr. Roosevelt is, we beliovo, the imprisonment with hard labour Irishmen who had fought the author of the expressive if slangy Governor-General Forbes
strenuous fight for the liberty expression used to deuoto natur- Governor-General Forbes was and twelve strokes of the ent. to leave Manila on March 15 on
The Acoustics of the Court. of the Catholic Church, and alists whose natur 1 history was the transport Sheridan for Naga-Loung Sing, and Mak Cheung, Europe. Wherever they found that the writer of the following Chan Cheung, Lau You-shan, particularly so in the cities of unnatural. We do not suggest saki. At Nagasaki Mr. Forbes will leave the transport and wore charged with robbery with true Irishmen they found practi-little story in the "Japan Times," At the Royal Colonial Institute
violence and larceny from a house cal catholicity. The Irish man or is a naturo fakor; lo may possibly proceed to Shaughni. He goes, in Mongkokteni.
wojnan who, followed the advico, be a man of veracity as unim on February 27, Archdeacon from Shanghai to Dalny, and at
La You-shon and Leung Shing and carried out the practices peachable as that of Mr. Roosevelt. Judd Barnett road a paper on llarbin Mr. and Mrs. Willard "Hongkong's Part in China's Re-Straight will join his party for pleaded guilty to the first charge, of their mothers, famous the Our contemporary reports that a prosided.
inn railway. Mr. Forbes plans to regard to a second charge arising faithfulness could not be insin-length and a frog of remarkable cord or depart far from the narsizo closed in a life-and-death rench New York the first wook in out of the affair. At the Magistracy, this morn-May. He will pay his respects to
The jury was composed of the row path of honesty and straight fight in a Tokyo: garden, For ing, a Chinese soldier was fined President Taft and Secretary following: Mosers. Hedley. G. forwardness. The Irish mother half an hour the Homoric con- $25 or one month's imprisonment Stimson and then visit hie Whito, W. Davison, A. R. F. was an example to the women test continued when the frog with hard labour, for having in mother in Massachusetts. Sub-Roven, W. Waterhouse, H. H. of the world; she was all that got the carp ander. Both com- this time his possession a revolver without sequently he will go to his ranoh Solomon. C. D. Sullivan, J. B. was good, the very embodiment of batouts were by the necessary permit.
Thomson.
virtue. He had met Irishmen-complotely exhausted. They were in Wyoming for a long hunting and fishing trip.
The Attorney Gonoral prose-big fine fellows who had fallen separated by the interested specta- At the Marine Court this morn-
cuted, and from his opening victims to the temptations of the tors and, in the nervous English ing, before Commandor C. W.
statomont, which was all but in world, but in practionlly every in- of the "Japan Times," "The carp Beckwith, two boat mastery were:
audible at the Prons bonch, it stancowhero they had experienced dived deep in the water, orest each fined $10 for incoring their
From a circular which has reach was gathered that on Feb. 21 in their childhood the beautiful fallen, but the donglity frog is boats within 100 yards of low ed Shanghai it is learnt that steps three mon entered a house in influences of Irish home life their now preserved as an honoured water mark in a prohibited place are being taken to hold the Portland Street, Mongkoktsui, last thoughts, ne they lay on their appauage of the family of Mr. and during prohibited hours. sixth International Firomon's leaving the fourth outside. They death bed, were for their dear old Kuroki, the owner of the garden." Congross in St. Petersburg in wont ap on to the second floor, mothers and their church. When May next. The dates fixed where there wore thiroo women. the word. Trish was used in At a meeting of the Senate of for the
Ultra Loyalty. congress are from The men by threatening them connection with Catholicism it the Belfast University on the May 25 to 28, and it is to be hold with knives obtained from thein was synonymous with loyalty, An incident that has been ex- 17th ultimo, the Vice-Chancellor under the suspices of the Imperial the key of a safe which was in Tho Trish race was n groat and viting some comment in the in the chair, Sir John Newell Russian Firemen's Association, the room, and after ransacking glorious one, and it beloved overy foreign papers published in Jordan, British Minister in the International Fire Service that got away with goods valued frisbman to lead a life which Japan, throws an interesting Poking, a graduate of the Un- Council, with the authority of the in all at $330.
would not tarnish the beautiful light upon the manner in which iversity, was elected Pre Chan-Russian Government and with
medieval ideas persist in a In the result each man was record of his kinamon. cellor in the room of the late Sir the consent of H. I.H. the Grand sentenced to five years' imprison At the Bijou Theatro the Sisters forward on the wave of mod- Pountry that has been borne for Robert Hart.
Duchess Marie Pavlovna. In con- ment with hard labour, and Price rendered Irish songs and erniem. A Japanese woman was junction with the congress an twelve strokes of the cat. danced Irish dances for which arrested at Yokohama on a charge. international fire prevention and
they were warmly applauded by of having given offence to the salvage service exhibition will
patriotic Hibernians, particularly Crown: Prince. The offence con- Navy, who were present in good railway track along which the numbers.
Crown Prince was expected to travel. It should be explained that the bridge is in reality the main Tokaido road beneath which the railway passeя. There are stone parapots of over 5 ft. 6 in, on either side. The Crown "rince, himself, it is believed, is much opposed to the great' in- convenience that is caused when-
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The Mexican Revolt, A Washington telogram to the "China Preks," dated March 12, says.-The greatest battle fought in America since the civil war is
a hundred Americans have been
Chihuahua,
The Speculative Spirit, It appears to be quite a common practice when a good
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The difficulties of the Pross
have been further enhanced in the smaller court at the Courts of Justice. As originally laid out the witness box came between the jury and the windows, with the result that the jury were unable to observe the facial expression
THE MESSIAH.
Preparations For Good Friday.
In accordance with the usual
order to ensure the safety of the
For this occasion Mr. Dooman Prince, of course, they would bo
The regular recurrence of erimes such as the attempted assas- The death took place at the sination of the King of Italy inevitably cause, reflections upon the Shanghai General Hospital on
Feb. 11, of Mr. George Neeson ha organized, to be carried on THE COURTS OF JUSTICE those of His Majesty's Army and sisted in crossing a bridge over a dangers attendant upon kingship, or rather upon the leadership of a nation whether monarchical or republican. It must be remem-deceased, who was twenty-four will be comprised in this congress, of Messrs. Melchers & Co. The from May to June. Four sections bered that the assassin thrives equally well in countries where the years of age, came from the these hoing as follows:-(1) Firo hoad of the state is chosen by popular election as in lands where the Bremen office of the company prevention; (2) fire extinction; (3)| rulership is a hereditary prerogative. France and the United States about a year ago and soon bo-insurance organization against have experienced the loss of Presidents who have fallen beneath the came very popular among the firo; and (4)first aid in case of acci-
German community.
dents. After the congress it is pro hands of criminals, and sovereigns of countries where the power of
posed to organize a trip to Moscow. the Crown is strictly limited huvà not found immunity. The act of the would-be regicide in countries where popular government is dóniod, or barely tolerated, is understandable, though, of course, not justifiable. The "removal" of a Tear simply means the change
of mon giving evidence. To custom, soloctions from Handel's over he travels owing to the of the personality of the ruler, perhaps for the worse, and almost expected in Mexico between the
cities of Chihuahua and Torreon, The Hughes Comely Company remedy this defect the Puisno "Messiah" will be rendered in ultra-loyalty of the authorities. certainly an aftermath of storn repression the effects of which are when the advancing federals is still going great guns at the Judgo, Mr. Justice Gampertz, St. John's Cathedral on Good Fri-Were these precautions taken in folt most severely by the class from which the rogicide sprang. But meet the strongly entrenched re- Victoria Theatre. They had a transferred the jury to the other day at 9.15 p.m. it is scarcely to be wondered at that men smarting under real politibels. The state of Durango is and the fan was fast and furious, for the witness to stand in the Fuller has obtained a large chorus perfectly understandable and
packed house on Saturday night, eide of the court and arranged cul wrongs in conditions such as those that prevailed in Russia in seething with the revolution and "Fiddle Doo" was as fresh on a well facing both judge and jury. than in former years, there being justifiable, but this is not so. It the past, should brood until the murder of the sovereign seemed to beseiged in the city of Derango,
second visit us on the first, and
As a result of this change such a ready response to his in is held to be grossly improper them a righteous and commendable act, when a man of the refine Most of them are mining men. that is a good test of the merit counsel when addressing the jury vitation to local singers to assist, for a subject to be higher than a
has to turn his book to the Press that the choruses will be render- member of the Blood Hoyal, and - ment and genius of Algernon Charles Swinburne could persuade General Orozco is holding a piece.
with the result that the incon-ed by some 80 voices, among the idea is basically the same as himself that he was committing no moral wrong when he wrote a
venience caused by the bad whom are many of the colony's that which caused subjects in poem glorifying regicide.
acoustics is intensified by the principal amateura. Rohearsal Peking to be ordered to keep The existence of men of the Dalba 'type has to be accepted as
difficulty of catching a speech are already in full swing and the within doors when Royalty was the speaker's face being turned selections chosen from this noble traversing the streets. ikisi a one of the dangers that ralors and, their advisors must koop ever in company occupies the boards at mind. It is a danger that cannot be entirely obvinted. The dis- the theatres for Chinese to pur first round of, the tennis cham- would be to re-arrange entirely
work bid fair to be sung in aquaint survival, » The only satisfactory solution worthy manner. coveries of the chemist have placed weapons in the hands of the class tickets in advance, and pionship hield maually in conneo- the whole seating of the court. assassins with which murder can be swiftly and anddenly accom- the performance at enhanced Club is as follows:
olor them for sale,at the time of
Though allrecognise the beauty Origin of “Home Rulo.” tion with the Hongkong Cricket,
of this oratorio it is not generally | The phrase "Home Rule" plished. The huge growth of modern citios, besides other dangers, prices. These ticket vendors are
known in what a short space of which is in, everybody's mouth renders the task of the police of keeping under surveillance criminals guilty of hawking without a F. Bovington; H. A. Nisbet A. C. First round-R.D. Stewart v.
time it was completed. A nate by at Home, is of recent origin. Ite of the Dalba type well-nigh impossible. It may be also that a licence, and that the practice is Storey, and blaj. F. Hunter v
|Handel on the manuscript state originator was the Rev. Joseph that he commenced it on Aug. Allen Gulbraith, a Fellow of growing tolerance of a freedom of thought that would have beon the Magistracy to-day, when Capt. R. D. Crawford.
an illegal one was manifested at
TI.M.S. Cambrian proceeded to- 22, 1741, and a statement at the Trinity College and Professor in. deemed highly dangerous in even the most progressive countries in three offenders were fined $3 oach in the first round enter the second,
The following who have byes day to Mirs Bay.
end gives the date of completion the University of Dublin, who the earlier portion of the nineteenth century, is responsible in some or, in the alternativo, seven days.' with the winners in the first: kong this morning.
H.M.S. Kent arrived at Hong-88 Sopt. 12 of the same year,,
used it for the first time-says Mr. Michael McDonagh in his part for these lamentable murders or attempted murders. Liberty
R. F. C. Master v. R. T. Stone; H.MS. Astrea is expected horo
"Parliament: Its Romance, &o,”! is a heady draught, and he who quaffs too freely is apt, if his head The investiture of the Hon. Mr. Capt. G. II. Addison v.. A. R. on Thursday,
UNIVERSITY BAZAAR. a meeting of the Irish is not strong, to achieve the age of mental intoxication when A. Howout with the Order of Butherland; E. A Fowler v. A. H.M.S. Moorhon arrived herei
Home Government. Associa Anarchy seems a bəntific vision. At this hour of the world's pro-and St. George, took place at the A. James W. Stephenson Jellie mission.
the Companionship of St. Michael E. Crook, L. Sanderock v. Capt. C. yesterday to pay off and rocom-
tion in Dublin in 1870. It gress to speak of the danger of allowing entire liberty of thought farewell At Home given at v.C. Willson, Col. L. Hamiltony.
Yesterday's receipts, at the aproad quickly, Leone Bait, at H.M.S. Hawko with relief crews University Bazaar amounted to the Home Itule Conference in^ would be to invite criticism, if not ridicule; yet it may be allowable Government House on Friday G: A. Cooke, A. P. H. Rouquete for Waterlich and River Gun- $3,000, and the officials state 1873, said: “Over a torn and dia to question whether the civilized world has been entirely wice to last. Mr. Hewett was escorted to v. E. R. Hallifax: Surgeon 4. R. boate arrivos this evening. that, up to the present a profit of traoted country was raised "dhgy remove the brakes upon progress with so much haste. All depends Chatham, C.M.G., and the Hon. H. H. Eggers v. C. El Green'; L. the dais by the Hon. Mr. W. Fisher v. Lt. E. C. Annaheim;
$20,000 is shown. "o-morrow banner on which were emblazon upon. whether the road being traversed leads upwards or down- Mr. A. Browne, C.M.G. His Ex-A. Breton v. Lt. N. J. Willson;
is the last day, and articles of ed the magic words, Honig Ruz. The death has occurred in New every description amounting in and wherever the legen wards. If upwards the brakes would be a useless and unnecessary rollenoy Sir Frederick Lugard. II. Hancock v. Oapt; Brierley; A. South Wales of Captain A. 8. value to many thousands of was seen the heart of tho penj encumbrance; if downwards the coach will ha in pori, in the al- after referring to Mr. Hewett's Joseland v. Lt. A. U. Collis Heathcote, King's Royal Rifles, dollars are to be sold at any moved to its words, and sence of the brakes, of going faster than the horses, overtaking and many and important public sor Browne: A. C. E. Elborough who won the Victoria Cross in price. Anyone with money to spell. It has now orushing them, and toppling itself to uttér rüja, » **..
vices, invested him with the de-y. O. H. Rose Lt. II. I. Cartor v. connection with the slege of spare should, certainly seize the accepted description of auton may coration of the order.
Lt. F. N. Altwood
Delbl
opportunity.
wg all the world
An Investiture.
MO The result of the draw for the
away.
NAVAL NEWS.