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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1912.
THE
"DAY BY DAY.
Life is bigger than all its ap purtenances.
Oplum.
A man was fined $2.50 at the Police Court this morning for} being in unlawful possession of opium.
King's Birthday Parade.
POLICE INSPECTOR AND SOLICITOR.
"TOO KEEN AND OVER ZEALOUS."
the inspootor prosecuting indulg. jed in some rather strong remarks.
Ho told you his master was at Mr. Melbourne: There is no NOTES AND 238 Queen's Road 7-No ho was rollection on your character, In- unable to give any number where spector Dymond. his master livod.
Defondant said he went on to the wharf to soo his mastor. He received the bundle from him. The officer untied the bundle in Queens Road Woat.
By Inspector Dyamond-He was not caught by the left wrist but
Mr. Kong Sing: Not a bit; I never intended it at all.
Mr. Melbourne:" $500 or three months.
Dofendant
COMMENTS
A Hint to the Sanitary Board.
For spitting in the Clyde Terraco Market, Singapore, a
THE MISSING EUROPEAN. Malabaros, named Kunjopari, has been fined $1. He said, he was ignorant of the law. When will: We learn that the young Euro- such a law come into forco in
2.
Storm In A Tea-cup.
At the Police Court, this morn- ing, during the hearing of a case in which a man was charged with by theright. He never let go once poan formerly employed in one Hongkong? We have soon- It is expected that about fifty being in possesion of lottery tickets he caught him. Yes, he let go once of the local shipping offices, who but we forbear; for our readers of the Volunteer Corps will muster with the intontion of selling the to untie the bundle (laughter). He has been missing since the 10th have on Monday for the King's Birth-same, counsel for the defence and lat go in the stairway where he inst., has not yet been trace: 1
Also Been!, And the day parade.
was arrested. The bundle was un- appears that he was in financial
mero aploasantness of what` fastened with one hand:
goes difficultios, and fears are enter: Colony, is but a bagatelle in on in this line, in the tained that he has taken his life comparison with the in some remote spot.
The police are still continuing diseases' being spread in every nay, the certainty of divers enquiries.
direction by means of the cheerful practice for which the gentleman from Malabar has been fined: When will our Polios and sanitary authorities move in this matter? The Moulting Season..
Gordon Boys' Home. Collections at Church of Eng- land parade services on Sunday will be on behalf of the Gordon Boys' Home.
man
Purther Exchangės.
their
POLICE ASSAULT CASE DISMISSED.
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A man named He Lee was the defendant, and InspectorDymond said that on the 24th inst. he saw
Mr. Otto Kong Sing aubmitted the defendant in Queen's Road that the charge must fail. This Rosumed Duty
West currying a bundle which, on man was charged under the New examination, turned out to contain Ordinance 4 of 1912. Defendant The Reverend C. Bone has re-lottery tickete. When he made a was found in possession of lottery sumed duty as officiating clergy-rusk for the defendant ho ran into tickets and it had to be proved to the Wesleyan troops a shop and was making for the that he had the same for the pur- atationed in the Command.
stairs. He caught him and, sus posos of sale. There was absol- Nuisance.
pecting the bundle contained lot.utely no ovidence brought by the At the Police Court, this morn- Parrot Stories are as, a rule, For committing a nuisauce Lytery tickets, he took him to the prosecution that the man hading, a Chinese was charged with among the things which we carrying exposed pig wash, a station. Before opening the bundle intended to sell them It devolved nasulting an Indian constablo. hesitate to admit to our columns. woman was fined $1 at the he asked the man what it contain upon him to show that he had no From the ovidonco of the police The following, however, which a Police Court this morning.
ed and he admitted that inside he intention to sell them, and almost it appeared that defendant was correspondent sends
us from No Licence,
had lottery tickets. About five any excuse, so long as it was in rea- in the employ of the. Sanitary Singapore, only relates to week ago. At the Police Court, this morn
son and was possible, would be Department as a coolie,
cockatoo-and it is not the to discharge him. He said the Melbourne came to this conola- old lady entered a taxidermist's sufficient reason for his Worship After hearing the evidence, Mr. cockatoo that says anything-An default five days for driving a rickshaw without
bundle was given him by some sion that there had boeu o mis-shop in a blaze of wrath, carrying a driver's licence.
one on the Macao Wharf. He take and gave the defendant the a dead cockatoo in a glass onse. mentioned his master's name and 'benefit of the doubt. told them where he was to be found. They (the police) uovor. took the pains to find him. That was the truth. It was a plain story, plainly told. He submittedl that Mr. Dymond had made a mistake; his memory had lapsed that Inspector Dymoud had in- There was no mistake to his mind vestigated the bundle at the time.
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1912.
IMPERIAL CRICKET.
Ball Estreated. A man out on bail in a surety of 850, failed to appear at the Police Court this morning, and in consequence the bail was #B treated.
Alleged Receivers." At the Police Court this mon- (foring two men and three women were remanded on charges of larceny and receiving stolen property.
A deal of interest, and not a little of importance, attaches to the triangular test matches which have commenced at Home. Such
Interport Cricket,
Inspector Dymond. It Mr. Kong Sing: I objcot. the case your Worship,
Mr. Melbourne: What is Įmatter?
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is in
the
Mr. Kong Sing: Will, five weeks ago-Ho is charged on a recent date. I think ho wants to hang, draw and quarter the man, Inspector Dymond: I was after him five weeks ago.
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MARINE COURT.
Boat People in Trouble.
"You can see for yourself, sir. You only stuffed my poor parrot in the summer, and here's This feathers tumbling out before
your eyes,
"
"Lor bless yo, m'm; that's the triumph of the art! We stuff'om Mr Kong Sing: Iobject to any
An Objection.
that gutural that they moults in Four Chinoso boatmen and two boatwomen' were charged at this
their propor season; was the think before this arrest, and any
Marine Court, this morning, bangacions reply. thing that occurred before is to- tally irrevelant. There can be no examine it. I meant to have my boats within 100 yards of low-mood those days, as is evident
Inspector Dymond:-I did not fore Commander U, W. Beckwith The Loga-Question.
with unlawfully mooring their Now China is in a very haughty: thing more in the case than what man. My momory is as good now water mark, in a prohibited place from the manner in which foreign It ia alated that there is a
the Inspeotor has said.
as ever it was. I do not see why likelihood of the Shanghai cricket Mr. Melbourne: Are you per- he should throw any such reflec-and during prohibited hours, on loune are bong rosented up and visiting Hongkong to play in the fectly certain this is the man you tion on my memory as he is doing. May 20.
down the land. It will be ob interport matches about Novem-saw with the bundle?
Mr. Koug Sing:-I think there Defendants pleaded not guilty, served from our Canton news and ber next,
Inspector Dymond: Yes. I saw has been a lapse of some kind. that the defendants had moored that a movement has now sprung P.C 100, Woodford, stated our tolegraphic columns to-day Hongkong-Sarawak Timber
him on a previous occasion. Will He has been too keon; over their craft between Douglas up having as its aim the cancel trade
your Worship take as evidenco zealous. The Resident of Rejang, Sara-what I saw on a previous oc- Inspector, Dymond:-I think Wharf and the P. & O. Wharf atlation of the recently-concluded wak, reports that the present con-casion?
3 a.m. without any pornit.
Loan Agreement with foreign dition of affairs in China is having Mr. Melbourne: I think it would
The defence was that they were financiers. The grounds are that bad effect on tlie timber trade be batter to stick to the present boy (meaning defondent) and engaged in transporting goods to the raising of funds from foreign Mr Koog Sing:-He is only a with Hongkong.
charge. : Unlawful Possession of Oplum
sources is a disgrace to China there is no reason why he should other places. Mr. Kong SingYou have be selling lottery tickets in the
They were each fined $5 or in and a sacrifice of her national sion of fifty cents worth of opium a description of this arrest. Where done. I think thore is a mistake.
For being in unlawful posegs- given us a somewhat graphic manner he is supposed to have default 14 days' hard labour. prestige." That responsible offi
The money was paid.
cials should hold this view in face man was fined $5, at the Police did you first see this defendant Inspector Dymond-I do not Leung Yau, wlio pleaded guilty of the safeguards contained in the Court, this morning. The alterna-jon this date f~On the previous think there is. I think it is unto a similar charge was ordered Agreement for respect of China's tive was ten days.
integrity is, to say the least of it, remarkable, and that the people should havour the raising of what' are termed "patriotio contribu lions," knowing the utter absenco
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Decoration Day.
not,'
AN OPIUM DIVAN.
Mr. Kong Sing should pass such necessary and uncalled for that to pay $3, and paid.
remarks as he has done in open Conrt in reference to my conduct Over zealous, in this case, without any check. Worship.
,'
eteaters, your Keeper who was Compensated of control of the funds subscrib-
Mr. Kong Sing: Not at all. Inspector. Dymond's Protest. Inspector Dymond:-Olı yrs. Mr. Kong Sing: That is not intended.
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by the Government.
occasion? An Ugly Offence.
Onthis date pleaseInQueen's At the Police Court, this morn-Road West ing, a Chinese was prosecuted by
Europeinlady-for-indecentn-long way past that.
Near the Mecao Wharf ?-No, a olaim for criokot may be questioned by those narrow people who exposure, lle was found guilty What were you doing there?- deplore the time and money and interest expended on sport, and and fined $25 or in the alterna- was on duty." who quote Mr. Kipling's "flamelled fool at the wicket and mud-tive one month's hard labour.
ed, is squally astounding. But, And you accidently saw this
what is more remarkable still in died oaf at the goal" as the last word on the subject. But there Our University Principal. chap I was looking for him
On enquiry we
learn that for some time.
that Republican leaders should, are wider aspects of aport than the poet of Empire was able to pack Sir Charles Elliot, principal of
Twenty-four men were charged after the Government has been into a olover but impertinent line conceived in a moment of national Hongkong University, is due in-ticular occasion ?--I expected to And you met him on this par-
before Mr. Melbourne, at the empowered to conclude the Agree Polies Court, this morning, with mont, seriously sot about raising onthusinem. Thouunolied fool and muddied onf" have many Jane. The first term at the Uni-
the Colony about the middle of meet him daily.
boing, concerned in an opium an agitation to cancel it just times played an important part in Britain's battles. The Duke of versity commences in September. you very carefully stalked him?thing in it; probably there was a
And when you did see him Mr. Melbourne:There is no Hoi was also charged with keep consistency and double-minded- divan at 10 Cross Street: Wong as it has been entered into. In- Wellington said something like this many years ago and he knew more about the subject than Mr. Kipling.
To-day is American Decoration I arrested him.
I did not intend him to get away. lapse of memory. There is nothing
ing the same.
ness such as this can only tond to else that he is commenting on.
Sergeant Gorrard said the man, lower China in the eyes of the What we are concerned with at the mimout, however, is the Wilmington visited the cemetery house in Queen's Road West? To say there was a lapse of mem- divan-keeper, and when the Or-leadors of Chinese aspirations are
Day, and the sailore from the You say you arrested him in n Imperial aspect of these test matches. However the chain may be at Happy Valley and placed Not in the house, on the stairway ory, your Worship!
Inspector Dymond: What! keeping the divan, was a former is persisted in, we fear the new Wong Hoi, who was charged with whole world, and if the agitation questioned, they have, immediately and implicitly, an Imperial wreaths upon the graves of And that is where you arrestod
dinance abolishing divans was riding for a very heavy fall. Mr. Melbourne. He said that published, he was compensated Superfluous Advertising, buried there. a deliberato nim that is not intended for them; but, aside from the Bavarian Folk Songs.
tents of the parcel and he stop that he would have to discontinue and Engineering" is much enter
A correspondent of "Shipping purely sporting aspect, they achiavela useful work in Empire-weld- At the concert of chamber
ped at that. It is only hi eng keeping a divan. Fle was now tained at the notion of a certain ing. At the moment, the possible outcome of these matches is music which is to be given in the
gestion. being discussed in every corner of the Empire: The eyes of Bri-City Hall soon a feature of the
Mr.Kong Sing.-Certainly your
keeping one secretly.
A man employed by the police vortised in a contemporary for a shipping company's having ad- tons everywhere are turned homeward; their thoughts rally home.rian Folkslieder, adapted by Sirhin?-On Fuspicion, through his
Worship, only my suggestion. programme will be two of Bava
gave evidence for the prosecu second mato, "Surely," he urges, And who shall say that an event which excites the Home country Edward Elgar. They will be ren-manner of turning round and is very uncalled for, your Wor- Sergeant gave him twenty cents happen in the port of Shanghai; Inspector Dymond-I think ittion. He stated that a police "this is a most strange thing to -and-the Dominions, which interests (wo are safe to chima) every dered by a phorus of twelve voices, trying to avoid meeting me. shup, Lihink it could be termed and he went into the house. He or is it a little joke owing to the ether male citizen of this great Empire, is not an evint of very Mr. Garrett's Success.
differently. nearly first-class importance? When men at Home, in Australia,
the twenty cents for which hoture? If not a joke, I would lamp and got one. He gave him docile and long suffering oren- asked the firat defendant for superabundance of this most in South Africa, in all Britain's possessions and dependencies over-
received a pot of opium. seas find common interest in one event, they are drawn closer to
The majority of the defendants local company or companies re- most humbly suggest that the each other. The bond of kinship is strengthened, whatever the
said they were looking for friends quest the Hongkong University outcome of the matches. That is the Imperial aspect of cricket
(laughter), It is an aspect which come deeline to recognise,' but it is acknow-
Inspector Dymond (heatedly).
to start in and prepare for emer=" The keeper was fined $250 or, gencies in the near future by Yes, but I think it is very uncall-in default, three mouths, and the training second mates who would lodged and appreciated by all who know sport--and human
ed for to pass remarke as regards remainder were finel 82 each or be quite happy and satisfied to being over-zealous, etcetera. in the alternative five days.
waive their legitimate rights, etc,,
worth. We do not say purpose, for that is to claim for the matchesAmerican Boldiers and sailors him ?--Yes: He was trying to in all probability you saw the con- by the Government and warned
nature.
the Senate of the University of We are pleased to learn that Cambridge has conferred the de- gres of Master of Arts on Mr. B. O. Garrett. Mr. Garrett is on leave at present. misier at Queen's College, and is
Organ_Recital.
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got up the 'stairs.
A Suspicious Manner, Now where did you really arrest him?-I have told you.
What right had you to arrest
Do you consider that sufficient man?-At any time and at all authority, for you, to arrest this times.
You do Considering he got away on s previous occasion.
any mistake you have made when Mr. Melbourne: He refers to yat any you did not open it until you got to the station, and that it only occurred such a very short time ago.
policeman is over-zenlous.
Mr. Melbourne:-I hope every
Street Accident.
etc:
Hint.
Did you stalk the man?-No; he never gave me the opportunity. You simply dragged him to Mr. Donman Faller, who gave the station?-Not dragged him; the last of his winter partea of I took him. organ recitals in St. John's Cathe- You did not know actually, It is dangerous to try and forecast the winner, but the Old dral last month, intende giving when in Queen's Road, that he Country seems to possess a fair chance of winning. Her colts of a one in the evening, after dinner, had lottery tickets? I had may Mr. Kong Sing:-Thore is few years ago, when she passed through a bad time, have become stand that the Latin anthem
in the near fiture. We under- suspicions,
nothing wrong inspector, in being mitted to the hospital through An old Chinese has been ad. strong playera with the test match temperament. The teain which written especially for the opening that you did not look into the
Do you mean to toll the Court over zealous.
"The Hongkong Univeralty did so well in Australia recently should again more than hold its of the University will be render bandle when you arrested him and they are your Worship.
Inspestor Dymond-I hope accident.
injuries he received in a street should certainly do something in return for the handsome donations own, and it should be strengthened by the inclusion of Charles Fryed on that occasion.
given it by the local companies, before you got to the station ?~~
Mr. Kong Sing:-I am com- Assault with a Knife. and of such a orioketing genius as Reginald Spooner. Australia Fifteen Years and Baalshment Ism on my oath. I never opened plimenting you.
A Chinese has been removed to hard and voll for them, enabling whose officera hayo worked se is relying largely upon untried players but the team has begun well woord of being in gaol for fifteen
A man who had the unenviable it until then.
Inspector Dimond: I do not wound in the groin inflicted by generosity toward the Univers the hospital suffering from a them to show their extreme by defeating South Afrios handsomely, and this should inspire years and ales of being banished, You never opened it Isn't it a ment on these points in open
Mr. Kong Sing (sarcastically) think its a sound policy to con another Chinese with a knife, ite roombers. Australia may well spring a surprise, but we hardly was charged at the Polos Court fact that you asked this man to Court.
sity. The writer might almost think so. The winner, however, matters less than the foot that, while awful posseuion of ladies. Did he tell you of the time that ton on you, Inspector Dymond. to the hospital suffering from a kong, of a labour-bureau for
Boy says he was Shot at this morning with being in un-open it 7-No
have gone one better by suggest?' Mr. Melbourne: It is no roffec-A Chinese boy has been taken ing the establishment, in Hong- the victor is in prove of being discovered, the eyes of all sportsmen jacket and a pair of trouers he was given there things by his Mr. Kong Sing I am com- bullet wound in the back which officers and men of the mercanti'e in the Empire will be focussed on that little island which to most which he said he had found, of them is Home. And that cannot but have the effect of drawing.
master 7He made that state plimenting him when I say he is he said he received in Chinese marine. We believe that there an The bench was not disposed to ment at the station.
territory through being alot at are times when there are enough socept the finding story and fined Did he tell you immediately Inspector Dymond -Lapse of by a gang of men in ambush, ten days.
thing in the matter.
over zealona.
,
closer in spirit the widely-scattered units which go to form a mighty him $5 with, the alternative of you arrosted him ?-No he did memory I don't think ro The, police here cannot do any works in the Colony to fill
Empire.
(laughter),
the vacancies likely to arise in Shanghal