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Theft from Prince Waldemar.!!!
A Chinese was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment with hard labour, at the Magistracy, this morning, for stealing an iron shnokle from the Prince Waldo-
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An Ugly Fall.
Whilst alighting from a car near Murray Barracks yesterday: a Chinese fell and was so serious-
ly injured that he had to be re-
novo to the hospital.
The Dead Children.
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1912.
AFTERTHOUGHTS ON THE DISASTER.
described as
passenger.. The body of another child was found on the rooks near Pottinger Battery yesterday. Donth was due to fover.
Oplam Divan Raided. An opium divan in Wellingto Street was raided by the police last night and twenty seven men arrested. Pipos and opiumn in abundance was found.
Parents Warned...
Tho
A number of children appearod boforo Mr. Irving at the Magis- tracy this morning, charged with hawking in the streets. Magistrato in dismissing them cautioned the parents that if it oncurred again they would bo sevaroly dealt with."It is worso for three children to do the hawk- ing than to do it yourselves," he hdded.
Boy's Alleged' 'Theft.
Twelve Strokes.
At the Magistracy this morn- ing a boy aged twelve years was ordered to receive twelve strokes
Cricket.
A Tokyo Problem:
HONGKONG'S NEW CHIEF
A JUSTICE.
THE HON, MR. W. REES DAVIES, K.G. APPOINTED,
R. CROFTON. We desire to associate ourselves with the general congratulations to the new chief Justice whose appointment is a most popular
SKETCH OF HIS CAREER.
Mr. William Reos Davies wAS
LEAVING FOR HOME. NOTES AND
MR. AND MRS. TOOKER OFF
TO-DAY.
Public Official's Good Work
COMMENTS.
The New Chief Justice.
Mr. and Mrs. U. P. Tooker Tho appointment of the Hon. loare Hongkong to-day, on the Mr. W. Ross Davies, K.O., to the P. M. S. Einpress of Indin.
Many public officials come and Prior position on the judicial honch will corra na.no surprise go, leaving impressions good or moderato, "but achievement has to many in Hongkong, for the provod that Mr. H. P. Toukor, possibility of his succession to fato of the Public Works Depart Sir Francis. Piggott was mooted mont, was an acquisition to the
Colony and during the dark days in legal circles as soon as the of the plague a blessing to the retirement of the present Chief poople of Hongkong.
Justico came within reasonablo
Sketch of His Career proximity. If we may judge from Mr. Teoker arrived in Hong;gonoral conversation the promo- kong in 1890 and was employed tion of Mr. Rees Davios will provo
in the P.W.D. as an assistant en-'
gineer. At the time there was a most popular as ho, has at all good doni, of work going on Limos maintained the dignity through the devastating storme of
1899. On several occasions he both of his office and of the pro- rendered valueable assistanco in fession in which ho has so the grection of works which stand groally succeeded. A sketel of to-day acredit to the authorities his career appears in another and to the public generally. In
1804 lio wae appointed neting column and nothing more need Director of Public Works through be said here than to join in the the illness of the chief. This was general congratulations to Bir ho plague year and the fearlons-Rees Davies upon his deserved ness shown by Mr. Tooker in carrying out the onorous duties
Success,
which devolved upon him won A Tramcar Incident,
for him the osteom of the
A monber of the staff hands
people here and the acknow- ledgment of the Authorities us the following notes:-"Natur- at Home. At de conclusion of ally in a city of well over a quir. the plague the Imperial Govorner of a million souls there aro ment sont along a silvor inkstand,
Auitably inscribed, with a request any matters that require immo.; to tho Governor of the dinte rectifying but one of the Colony to present the saine to first should bo some sort of rend- Mr. Tooker as manifestation of justinent in the seating of public to appreciation of the Imperial
Govornmont. He also received conveyances. The remark is oC- A letter from the Secretary of casioned by tho. fact that the State tha, king him for his good writer saw a European lady forcad work.. Last year Mr. Tookarto stand in a first olase compart was appointoil second Assistant Director of Public Works.
ment on a tramour, the vehicle being filled with Chinose. There was only one other European in
Manifestations of Esteem. During the past week Mr. Tooker
A Common Occurrence.
"This is not the first case of
The Hon. Mr. William Rees od by a large majority. Througe Davies, K.C., has been appointed put his career in the House of A Chinese boy was charged chief Justice of Hongkong. The Commons, in which he frequently has hardly had a moment to call the car-n young girl. The rest
his own through the many invita before Mr. Irving, this morning forcenat of this appointment made took part in debate, he acted in tions he received from his wero strong, stalwart Chineno. with stealing $2 from the pocket exclusively in the "Tolograph conjunction with Mr. Lowis numerous frionds. Ho was pro-who lay back puffing their cigars of an old Chinese whilst he was of Wednesday. Inst, is fully borne Harcourt the presont Secretary Bented by the members of the with an air of complacency that making some purchssos at a shop door. Prisoner was discharged out by the following letter of State for the Colonies, Royal Hongkong Yacht Club with seems to be the sole appyright of a filver salver, and among tho the satisfied Easterner. It was Colonial Secretary's Once, as. Private Socrotary to the late dinner parties given in his honour Hongkong, 19th April, 1912. Sir William Harcourt, who from was one at Governmont House not merely the fact that the lady. Dear Sir,-You will be interest-1802 to 1895 was Chancellor of last night and one by the mom had to stand on a warm day that of the birch, by Mr. Irving, for ed to know that His Majesty the the Excliequer and succeeded Mr.bers of the stuff of the P.W.D. calls for remark but that she had
on Wednesday at the Hongkong stealing an ear-pick from a wo-King has approved the appoint-Gladstone as leader of the House Hotel. There were twenty-three perforce to stand because Chinese man, last night, on the Praya ment of Hon, William Rees Davies, of Commons, when Lord Rosebery members of the stuff prosent. The occupied the seats and did not East. Inspector D. Mollardy K.O., to be Chief Justice of Ilong became Prime Ministor. In 1898 Hon. Mr. W. Chatham, C.M.G., cars to relinquish them to a for- prosecuted.
Director of Public Works, pro-eign lady. kong on the retirement of Sir Mr. Reea Davies waeappointed, on sided. Mr A. Churchill bccupied The Chinese Recreation Club Francis T. Piggott, Kt., with effect the recommendation of Mr. Cham- the vice-chair. will play a friendly tounis match from 1st May next. Yours Inith-berlain, Attorney General of the The toast of the evening was
fully.
Balms Islands, where he enjoy the guest. It was proposed by the sort. It is becoming only too Out of the welter of cables dealing with the Titanic disaster with the Civil Service Cricket Club on the ground of the former emergo no facts which are really helpful in establishing the cause Club to-morrow commencing at
od a large private practice and the Chairman, and received with
Mr. common and an inetance rather acted for a time as Chief Justice.considerable enthusiasm. of the disaster. But the statement by a commitles of survivors on 3.30 p.m.
In 1902 he was promoted on Toukor suitably replied, and ex-worse recently came to my notice. A Black Anniversary. board the Carpathia is interesting if only because it is a temperate
the recommenriation of Mr. Lyttel- pressed his regret at severing his A lady, obviously unwell, was Thursday was tho' sixth anni- and well-considered account of what they saw. It is a moving storyversary of the great earthquake
ton, to be King's advocate in connection with his colleagues in standing in a car filled with Chi-
Island of great
the department, too; and the word-picture of the giant liner, standing black and in San Francisco, followed by
Cyprus, an
Presentation to Mrs. Tooker. neso, and she managed to scrow antiquarian interest which is enormous on the star-reflecting water, with every porthole blazing, fire, which caused a loss of one.
Mrs. Tooker was not forgotten, up enough courage to address a mainly subject to Turkish law,
the and her many friends with what Chinese in his own language and and the greedy and treacherous sea gnawing fiercely at her vitals, 1500 lives and property to the
and. where owing to value of sixty million sterling. is one that will not readily fade from the memory. One of the Bur-
she enjoyed great popularity, mixed population of Turks and vivora statos that the passengers knew before the end that the
From Russian advices it ap
Greeks justice is administered presented her with a pair of Zeiss anked him to let her have his seat. by mixed tribunals of Eng-glasses and a beautiful pendant,lie reply was decidedly in the accident. was serious; and it is a mattor for pride that they faced pears that complications have born in 1803 and in the eldest fish, Turkish and Greek Judges, studded with diamonds, purchased nogative and she had to stand
from Measre. Taloonor's, the fact bravely and went with a high courage to the graves of the arisen in connection with the
the whole way. While everyone appointment of a successor in son of the lato Sir William In 1907 he was appointed Attor
The presentation took place on sea-those graves which in Swinburne apostrophe to the son, are Tokyo to the late Archbishop Darios who was for many years ney-General of Hongkong and
Nicolai. It is stated that at the M. P. for Penibrokeshire and a shortly after his arrival ho con- Monday evening at "Magazine has a right to the seat for which prosent time the Russian Greek Justice of the Peace and Deputy ducted the prosecution of the Gap," the residence of Mrs. Scott he or she has paid the claims notorious criminal Adsetts, who Haraton, where a large party was of womenfolk to ordinary courtesy The accounts are divergent in respect that some affirm, whi'e Church in Japan is not at all in a Lieutenant for that County. He was condemned to death and entertained to ten. Mrs, Tooker should be upheld and in order to
strong position financially, and others deny, that there was pació and wild confusion on board, that the Holy Synod has not at its was Educated at Eton and executed for the murder of au expressed herself highly de- secure for English women the
Mr. and Mrs. Tooker pro tro
treatment they expect and obtain Only a minority, it would appear, claim that there was disorder, disposal extra funds which would Trinity Hall, Cambridge where unfortunate American woman lighted with the kind gifts. and probably both statements are reasonably correct No one pas enable it to support the mission he took the B. A. degree in 1885. oun of tho obief Hotels in-the
pose staying in British Colum at Home, some steps should be Colony.
bia along with friends for about taken." There is a good deal in senger can speak with authority of what took place outside the at its own expense. Moreover, He studied in the Chambors in
subscriptione during the last two
Mr. Roos Davies who was a four months. They will then the complaint made by the mem section of the ship immediately under his observation; and it may years are said to have fallen off the Temple of Mr. Willian
pointed a King's Counsel in 1908 proceed vin the Rockies to the be taken that in some part of the ship there has been momentary considerably. At one of the next Graham, then standing consel has already acted as Chief Justice East coast of the American con- ber of our staff, though it is only alarm, which excited passengers who witnessed it have perhaps sittings of the Synod the question for the "Times" newspaper and for a period of eight months dur-tinent and across the Atlantic, fair to the Chinese to say that we
of finding means for the continued
have seen Indies at Home-oftener. magnified a little. It takes a man with an unusually sane and well-existence of the mission in one of the most prominent junior ing the absence on leave of Sir Home.
The North of Ireland is where than twice--who have bean eími- balanced mind to grasp, fairly and securately, what is happening considered.
barristers on the Common Law Francia Piggott in 1900 and 1910,
and he then tried amongst other Mr. and Mrs. Tooker proposo around him in these moments of awful import. On the whole, then,
Side at that time, and he was important cases the record notion taking up their residence, and it larly treated. There are dis The Canadian Pacific Itailway called to the bar at the Inner of Li Chek Hung v. Li Shek Pang is the wish of all who know them courteous people everywhere. it is definitely established that the best traditions of British sec-
lias Jot contracts to the amount of manship have been maintained. Officers and men went to their $10,000,000 for the construction Temple in 1887. He joined the which occupied. the court no less that they will live long to enjoy doom gallantly and with magnificent spirit, and those officers who of d-new line from Toronto South Wales Circuit and for some than 54 daya in hearing and in the bracing breezes from Au-
which all the counsel in the Cotrim's fine coast." were saved, by reason of taking charge of the lifeboats, had practi through Eastern Ontario to years he was engaged as Council lony were concerned. He is a sally to be forced into them. Grief for brave men dead is aesuaged, Smith's Falle, where it will con- for the Treasury in important Justice of the Peace and Deputy "Near and Far"
Lieutonant for Pombrokeshire and
An exhibition of water-colours Mr. R. O. Andrews, As- in some degree, by admiration for their courge and devotion in and Montreal. The new line oriminal cases on that Oircuit.
in the latter capacity he attended "Near and Far," extending from sistant Curator of the Ameri- faos of death.
runs along the shore of Lake In 1892 on the retirement of last year the installation of H.R.II. England to Franco and Spain, can Museum of Natural History, It is clear now, as we hinted the other day might prove to be Ontario parallel to the Grand his father Mr. Rees Davies was The Prince of Wales at Carnarvon, and on to China and Japan, by T. arrived at Chongjin, North Hamk- the case, that implicit faith in the ship's alleged unsinkablenets Trunk and Canadian Northern returned to Parliament for his He is also a magistrate for Haver-Hodgeon Liddell, R.B.A., is boing yong-do, Chosen, on April 7. Hb prevented many passengers from taking advantage of the lifeboats. early in 1914, and will give the, native county of Pembroke by
held at Walker's Galleries, Now is accompanied by a JapanesƏ Bond-st. There are come ex- intor pruter and some Corosną. Mr. Sydney Buxton states that there was boat rccommodation for Canadian Pacifle a double track majority of eleven hundred votos 1,178; and only 750 have been saved. But boat accomodation for between Toronto and Montreal, aftor a stiffly contested election, A contury ago there were in all quisite pieces of colouring On the following day he and his 1,200 people is not nearly sufficient in a vossol certified to carry Shallow-draught Steamers. 8,500 soul. It means that, in the event of a ocllision of a
really It is understood, according to
his opponent being Sir Charles Europe only twenty-two cities amongst the near selection, party left for Mosan on a tiger with more than one' hundred whilst soones of Shanghai-kwau, hunt. It is expected that he perine nature, over 2,000 passengers are deliberately doomed to the "Naval and Military Record," Philipps, who on three previous thousand inhabitants.
Canton, and the Piece Goode will spend about two months in tđươh when the ship is full. The Board of Trade regulations on that the two shallow-draught occasions had unsuccessfully at-
Temple at Shanghai recall the hunting around Messa and M. his pant will be dealt with now, we may be suro. But it is a steamers Kingfisher and Rail tempted to wrest the seat from
Three Leipzig couples have life and colouring peculiar to the Paiktu, During his sojourn in the rate i Trim commentary on the Board of Trade's care for seamen that for service in China have been
undertaken to walk around the places. There is also a pretty peninuals Mr. Andrews intenda e It takes a loss of 1,500 lives to rouse it to the mood for taking action ordered from Meses, Yarrow & his father. In the general elec. globe, living only on fraif and view of a fishing place at Chu to collect fauna for the sum
· zenzi that will appeal to many, with which he is connectada, se for which many have called in vain for years.
Co., Bootstoun.
tion of 1895 he was again return" [nuts during the journey,
"Wrought without hand in a world without pain."
C. P. R. Contracts
nest with the main line to Oltowa
lines. The road in to be finished
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in
In Quest of Tiger.