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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MAY 27, 1912.
DAY BY DAY.
is to be one.
Valuable Dog Killed.
Mr. Gresson has had a valuable dog killed by a motor cor.
Hawking Without Licence:
Japanose for the Olympic Games. MISS MONTEITH.
Japan's representatives to the
Canton-Hankow· Line. The construction of the Canton:
UNTENDED GRAVES,
. Examples of Neglect in the Cemetery at Happy Valley.
NOTES AND
Satisfactory.
COMMENTY
The only way to have a friend Olympic Games, Messrs. Mishima FIRST CHARGE WITHDRAWN, and Kanakuri, left. Tokyo for Strange Action Alleged Against Sweden on May 10.
Hongkong Police.
Rocently we called attention in Some time ago an article in
this columne to the nuisance those columns drow attention to created by trucks, ladou with Harkow Line will be started Mirium Monteith again appeared the neglected state of the military fish, being shuntalon to the rail-
On Wednesday, the 22nd,
immediately by the Government, bofore. Mr. King at Shanghait was said that matters wore to/way terminus at Kowloon in clase
cemetery at Stanloy, and though and the Ministry of Communica Police Court--this time on the For hawking without a licence sions has the plan under discus- first charge preferred against her: be remedied in the immediate Proximity to the ferry pier, there 'a man was fined $3 at the Police | sion..
that of having obtainoti £50 from future, nothing, so far, has been in the hot, blazing sun with to remain for an indefinite period Court to-day.
$70,000.000 Towards the Loan Fritz Materna by means of falso done in the ground itself..
It has since boon found that
offects which it is battor to The Peking "Jih Pao" has it that protonces. Minister Hlaing is negotiating
Mr. S. 11. MoKoen, and Mr. C. there was no need to go so far, to is therefore extremely gratifying imagine, than to oxporionce. It' with the bankers about the first G. Kirk appeared for the Crown, find fit with the caro bostowed to learn that our suggestion, that advance of seventy million dol and Mr. E S. Moberly Boll de on the graves of our doad, for those trucks should be shunted lars to be absorbed by the big fended, says, the "N.-O. Daily striking examples maybe off higher up the line has been found in the Protestant Cemetery adopted. For which many tlinuke, Mr. McKean said that he was in the Happy Valloy. Thore The railway authorities have now Titanic and the Derby. It will be interesting, says the instructed by the noting Crown-are portions in tant action of tho Pall Mall," to see whether the Advocate that he did not wish to City's burying place which are given a lead to the Government in the matter of remedying Titanic disaster will have any
proceed with this charge. Ho veritable gardens, where honuti- grievances complained of. So
to inform the ful flowers, trees. heavy with foli effect on the market for the Derby requested him
now, perhaps, wo shall see that One of the most favoured hores Court that the reason for age, and neatly jurfed moundslittle untior of the kerb stone at
Dumping.
Eight dead bodies have been found in the opon by the police during the week end.
Oplum.
At the Police Court this morn ing, a man was fined $2 or in default five days for boing in un- lawful possession of opium.
A Small Fine.
For being in possession of thres macs of opium a man was fined $ or in the alternative five days at the Police Court this morning.
Oplum Dross,
at
A fine of $8, or in default tea day's, was imposed on a inan the Police Court to-day for
nine mace opiam dross. »
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BONGKONG, MONDAY, MAY 27, 1912.
CHINA'S GREAT NEED..
2
Oplum Prosecution.
of
A man who was found by the police with three mace, eight can dareene of opium in his posses- aion was fined $2.40 at the Police Court this morning.
Harbour Collision
piculs capacity has reported that The mastor of a junk of 100
his junk was collided with by the steam launch Wo Shing and damaged to the extent of $12.
Returned from Banishment. At the Polico Court this morn-
ing a man was sent to gaol for
one year on a charge of return- ing from banishment.
He had returned before and was sentenced to six months,
loan.
14
Looting in Harbin. •
News"
•
in the race is named White the delay had been that he make the "are" a thing of bo- the junction of Salisbury and Star. Blighter coincidoncos have communicatod, or attempted to nuty. But turning to the left as Tankow Roads attended to. It's been known to affect the od is. communicate with, the principal one enters the gate and keeping the one dread of the rickshawing witness for the Crown, who, as he on in that direction, quite a dif-public of Kowloon. A little matter, said on the first occasion, was not forent tale is told. The flower truly. But all the easier to romedy. in the north west of Ulingutai have prosont in Shanghai, and he had bordered paths are soon traversed The Dragon Bont Festival
We regret to notice that, in his looted Chinese shops, and the not been able to get into com- and then are found routes over Russian authorities, taking advan tage of this, have sent troops
Several hundred Mongoliane
protect Chinese populace.
to
The Russian Consul at Harbin has sent troops to Taoasnfa protect Russian stock farms.
to
Alleged Gambling on the s-s, Kwong Tung. At the instanco of the captain
nunication with lin: A telegram which the passenger must be an zeal for reform, the now Governor- was sent to an address loft by him exception rather than the rule. General of Canton has prohibited. at which he proposed to be on a Weeds, those infallible signs the holding of the Dragon Boat cortain day, but notification bad of neglect, are oncroaching on Festival, which falls due this year office that the telegram was au- toness to what must ever be given is that tho Festival is been received from the tolograph the pathway, adding desola on June 19th. The chief reason delivered. He therefore asked scene of sainess. The graves founded on superstition. That leave of the Court to withdraw which are referred to date back
inay be true, but, like so many to the fifties and sixties though other festivala in China and else- the charge.
His Worship-You are instruct-dates are hard to decipher; for whore, of recent years it has been was charged at the Police Court, of the s.s. Kwong Tung, a manod to withdraw the first charge?nge, the storm of many years, and observed more as a pleasurable the cankerous growth of rotting occasion than as possessing any this morning with gambling on his vessel, yesterday. The magistrate said he could not. cquviot him for gambling becaus8 the name of the game wÊH
pot antioned. He would fine $5 for being on board without permission.
him
Snake in Shanghai Theatre.
Hongkong Police shy of giving Information.
Mr. Boil said there was one thing he would like to mention with reference to the other charge.
special significance of a supor stitious charactor. At Aberdeen (the Ilongkong one, wo menn) the boat race is one of the events of the year, and the excitement it
And
Mr. McKoon-Yes. His Worship--Then there is stone have completely obliterated nothing more to be said. many of the inscriptions.
Perhaps the most neglected spot is just below the part laid aside for those pf. youngor years gathered in by the Roaper. It is produces invariably draws a big just ono islot, as it wore, held in crowd of Cropean spectatora. The prisoner was arrested on the the loop of a path. It is practi- After all, if we wero to abolish first charge at Hongkong, and the cally bure of tombstones and every time-honoured custom which Great excitement was caused second charge was preferred would seem to have been put has its origin in superstition, life in the Apollo Theatre, Shanghai, against her hore. The Hongkong aside for the military dead. The would be a very common-pinco Her Majesty's Birthday, To-day is to birthday of Horn the night of May 20 when one police, it seemed, had not given mouldering hops, on which affair for most of us. The toad- Majesty Queen Mary, and in of the patrons discovered a large them all the information they little grass has struggled to get aancy of the age is too much in. honour of the occasion H.M.S. water snake, about five foot long might have done. They searched footing, half beaton down by the ho direction of blotting out old Tamar, the U. S.
and a couple of inches thick, the prisoner and handed over heavy rains, are marked by hond- and interesting customs. gunboat Wilmington and the Gorman twined about a water pipe in the certain things to the Shanghai stones bearing merely a number, the Chinese need to realise that gunboat Thing Tau dressed ship, lavatory. Elis alarmed cries soon police, but the Shanghai police did and these, in serried ranks, fact just at present.
brought a crowd to the scene, but not themsolvos sanroh. They Logother with the general dilapi: In the Fashion. the snake proved to be harmless, were therefore unable todation of the plot, form a lis Washermen's strikes appear to and was removed. Shanghai answer certain questions. Ile heartening contrast with the he the fashion of the hour. A Ran Mercury."
wished to have information from childron's cometry, bright with goou contemporary states that the Hongkong as to the state of her flowers and the shining whiteness whole of the dhobies in Kandaw.
when they word searched. of the marble headstones. papers It was very embarrassing to him, because the papers brought from of the vast cemetery cannot be the statement of the men, before galay, numbering some 3,000, It is conceivable that the whole have gone on strike. According to Hongkong were brought in an laid out in flowers, but the graves they can use the tanks for wash- the second, of which she had no mounds kept in shapo and turfed closure, they have to pay a tax, swer to the first charge and not might either be tended to, the ing, which are in a fenced-off en knowlege at the time. He would properly, or they should be all 'resumably one payment has would give him some assistance substituted for the present night Now, however, they are to pay like to know if the prosecution levelled and a smooth green lawn hitherto covered a day's washing.
The S S. Scang Bee The s.a. Seang Bee, which was seriously damaged in a collision recently, is now sen-worthy again and, on Sunday, made a trial Japanese Officer Charged with trip round the Island. The repairs
Misappropriation. According to the "Nagasaki were effected by the Hongkong Press," a lieutenant and a ser and Whampoa Dock Company.
The Absent Magistrate. geant of the Oita infantry regi- When the Police Court proceed-charge of misappropriating of
ment have been arrested on a ings commenced this morning. cial funds. The sum of Yen sheet and only one Magistrate cations cover a period of four there were 145 charges on the 30,000 is involved, and the defal sitting. The progress of the work was thereby considerably The commander of the regiment impeded. Mr. A. Irving was and the chief paymaster have the absent Magistrate.
tendered their resignations, evid- responsibility for the crime. ently assuming some degree of
Possession of Oplum.
At the Police Court this morning, bofore Mr. Melbourne, three Chinese were fined $15. 27 each for being in unlawful possession of opium. The alter- native to paying the fine was tliree weeks' imprisonment with hard labour.
years.
A SERIOUS CHARGE.
Alleged Indecent Assault on
It has been strikingly demonstrated within the past few weeks that in adjusting themselves to the now condition which have been ushered in by the Revolution, those who have a controlling influence in shaping administrative policy in South China are still, to a large exkat, groping in the darkness, knowing hot where their next step msy lend them. This, of course, is only what should be expected when one reflects on the absoluto inexperience of many of those into whose hands such a large measure of power has now fallen, and so long as thero is honesty of motive and an absence of blind prejudice, mistakes committed in the early days of the new regimo may well be overlooked. But in order that these conditions shall be fulfilled it is essential that right idem prevail in the boglaning, for, ones a start is made from the wrong basis, subso quent acts, whatever be the wishes of the responsible agents, must have a pernicious and unwholesome effect. And in this connection we are not so sure that Chiton, for instance, las as yet by any xins secured a correct appreciation of its new responsibilities or Street reports to the Police that woman from Gascoyne of what is required of the administrative authoritisa
she has been the victim of the There is the matter of the lack of funds which is seriously confidence trick. She gave a day. handicapping the Government-so much 50, indeed, that almost man her, purse containng $1.55 anything is possible in the near future. Ample money could; of that she was to have as security a
and
a gold ring believing GAMBLERS ON A ROOF. course, be procured from foreign sources, under conditions, too. bundle of bank notes. After the which would assume expenditure in the manner for which the loans depositor had left. she examined
At the Police Court, this morn- wen raised. Yet, despite the boast of Dr. Sun Yaleon, that opposi- the bundle and found they were ing, five men were charged with tionto foreign lonne is now only a remnant of an old idea," we worthless. No arrest has been gambling. They were found,
made.
guilty and fined $2 oach
They had beon gambling on a
office, should be an enlightened man, addressing the leading com-
A
The Confidence Trick.
Beginning this month there
promoted is Admiral Sir A. L
European, Child.
with regard to this.
property of Misa Monteith
His Woraliip:-I take it, all the
brought up.
mare of hideous11088,
for each visit, and as they miko One visitor to this section re-everal visits a day, this comes was marked "I have seen cooliea hard on them. Quite evidently.
buried better.".
the East is copying the habits and not always the best habits-- of the West, We are interested especially in the statement that the men have collected a fair sum with a view to petitioning the
Mr. BallBy no means, There are many things she left behind.
His Worship:-Cannot you have them sent up?
THEFT FROM THE "MONTEAGLE."
About 4 a.m. on the 20th inst,
Mr. McKean said the prosecu- D. S. Wills was aboard B.; Local Government This is going
tion had no knowledge of what was in Hongkong, but perhaps At the Police Court this morn-they might be able to assist if Mr.
little European girl, aged five a charge of indecently assaulting he wanted. ing a Chinese was reman led on Bell would let them know what
years, at the Gymkhana on Satur
a
about a hundred of them.
At the Police Court, this morn
Montangle which had just arrived; ahead with a vengeance. One and was busily searching the of these days we shall expect to ship for arms and ammunition, see chair coolies sending a de- when, on the lower deck, he saw putation to Government Houge. one of the ship's seamen, a Chin, Shirase Returns, " Property In Hongkong
eso in uniform, trying to pass
Lieutenant Shirase and six other His Worship-It seems to me him in a suspicious manner. Hemembere of the Japanese Polar ex- that if Miss Monteith wants all stripped and searched the sailor, pedition have arrived at Yoko- Hent. The Hongkong police hire ship's revolver which, from on-pedition has informed a press her property here she can hare it and found concealed in his belt a hams, and the leader of the ex-
no right to hold it.
quiries made, was found to be représentative that he is quite Mr. Ball-They are not holding stolen from the magazino on the nshamed to meet his country. bridge. Before Me C. A. D. mou seeing that he has failod His Worship Very well. It Melbourne this morning, he was to accomplish his cherished can be brought here,
charged with the off-moe.
Fahrmo of discovering the Mr. Bell-The primner's onse is
According to the ovidenco of South Polo, Towards this, he
it.
find the Governor-General of Onnton, who, holding such a high promotion for Admiral Winslos. roof and, according, to the ovid this: that these cheque books were the Polica, the magazine waa left] points out, even school children morial men' of the city on "the danger attending the issue of for-will be saveral changes in the ends of the police, there were in a sealed package, Sergt. Braw-onan on the return journey from hud contributed, and this appears siga loans and the duty of the pooplo in general to save the country Admirals' list, all occasioned by by the raising of patriotic loans." And from the reports of the the operation of the age clause, it was a very dangerous practice; by the Hongkong police. I want
ster said that, when banded to him. Vane uvor for cleaning purposes to hurt him. But surely account The magistrate remarked that they wore not. They were opened and he appropriated it.
must be made of the fact that gathering it is quite clear that his words fell on sympathetic ears. Thee days we are accustomed to hear a lot from the Chinese about Amongst the Vice Admirals to be 100 men on a roof might cause that information, and the prosecn- he been in the service? Three nal two-year programme had to Mr. Melbourne: How long has funda were so short that tho origi. "saying the country" a phrase which plainly presupposes sinister Winsloé, K.O.B., O.V.O...O.M.G. sult would probably be a great Thoy might put their witness in motives on the part of foreign Powers, especially when used, as it
the roof to give way, and the re- tion may be able to get it for me. years.
be curtailed to one year, so that invariably is, in connection with the loan question. The patient Station. Presumably, says the Commander-in-Chief on the Chine
What kind of a character has the attempt to reach the pole had and long-suffering attitude of the Powers during the days of the Shanghai Times," on advance
loss of life.
such a position that I can cross- he 7-Fairly good.
to be abandoned. It was not the Revolution is, howovor, sufficient answer to the unwarranted and.
examine next time.
I think in this case a fine will fault of Lieutenant Shirase that' constantly-repeated imputation. Such sentiments as these illus ment falling to this officer, the BORROWING; CHINESE would be the police officer at six weeks.
His Worship-The only witness moot the ends of Justice. $50 or funds were a bit short. As it is, trate the shallow-mindedness of many of the men who have recent
China command will then become
ho has now to raise Y20,000 to STYLE. ly been called to office in China, and the same tendency is apparent
vacant.
Hongkong who made the search.
pay the crew and party, and this in some of the suggestions put forward at the meeting to which we
Serious Accident.
he proposes to do by means of have referred; auch, for instance, as the proposal that everybody Surgeon Arthur R. Fisher, ing, two men were charged with of the first case necessarily. They bean informed by the Nippon Receiving & Pension.
lectures upon the scientific results should be required to contribute a dollar to the national exchequer RN, of H.M.S. Minotaur, who being in possession of dangerous were seized as property found.
of the expedition, and that those failing to do so should not be recognised as Chinese was proceeding with his ship to weapons. One was found with
Colombo there to be transferred a formidable-looking dagger, and out the property they wanted. era is far in excess of the total North Pole is without foundation, Mr. Bell The police pioked accommodation on all their steam take another expedition to the subjects.
The report that he will under The eyes of countless people of many nationalities are to-day to HMS: Spartiate, for England, the other with a specially prepar-The point I am on now is whether number of passengers and crew, Shirase added that as he is now watching China's new experiment, looking to see low the leaders of was directed to atop at Singapore ed pair of pincere. Republicanism will shape in face of a great national task. If Canton and proceed to Labuan to join
these documents were scaled or even when the passenger accom-receiving a pension from the Mr. Melbourne: What do you not. Iask you to bring the officer modation of their steamers is fill-Government at the rate of Y.20 may be taken as an index to the rest of the country, we are afraid H.M.8. Merlin, surveying ship. want the dagger for? It is not up. that the problem is not in the hands of the most capable and effl-Surgeon William O. Carson of the mine. I borrowed it,
ed to its utmost capacity. This, it per month, he will spend the rest dient men of the land. The absence of administativo brilliance, Merlin has unfortunately had a
His Worship-If you insist on says, is correcteo far as experience of his life in forming in Sendai,, Who from pieked it up having a witness from Hongkong goos, and each passenger knows A. Japan paper, anent thir, re- however, only more pointedly emphasises the need for men at any serious accident and is suffering (laughter). rate of undisputed probity and sound common-suse who are not from'a fractured skull, Surgeon swayed by foolish prejudices or short-sighted views It is in offi- Fisher will remain on duty in the Ton ploked it up when the other not a question to be discussed ly comforting statement in view probably better fitted for farming I suppose an endeavour will have into which beat ho goo1 in case marks very nastily: Mont people, Is that how you borrowed 1 to be made to get him, but it is of accident. That is an extreme we think, will agree that he is cial such as these that the success of Republicanism in China solaly Marlin until Surgeon Carson's man was away (laughter), 825 here now. Miriam Monteith is of recent happenings at sea, and depinde,
1. He relio, derives from England, OK, one monità esohya
discharged on the first charge, it deserves publicity,
were not seized for the purposon A Shanghai contemporary has
Mr. McKean said the papers N. YK Life-boat Accommodation
Tusen Kaisha that the lifeboat
than carrying on soientific
rearches in the Poldr regions,