ANOTHER PEAK BURGLARY.
Alleged Thief Caught Early this Morning.
THE HONGKONG" TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1912.
DEATH OF GENERAL
ANDERSON'S SON..
Paris Matin" Relates the Circumstances,
INCREASE IN TRAFFIC.
Philippine Shipping During Last. Fiscal Year.
To-day's Advertisement
NOTICE.
The 1912 report of the Collector The burglar, who mado an at- The Boulogne correspondent of of Customs shows that the number
The 10,000 UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS sold to tempt on Mr. E. A. M. Williams' the Paris "Matin" relates the of rossols that entered the Philip house in Barker, Road carly thin viroumstances attending the death pine Islands for foreign ports dur- the Western Union Telegraph Company, if placed side morning, did not come off so hap- of Mr. William Anderson, aged ing the past year was 949 with a by side, would extend a distance of 2 2/5th miles. It
tonnage of pily as he anticipated, and it is 17, the son of Major-General An total registered claimed by some that the Peak derson, at the station of Herdig- 1,985,093; and clearances to Would require 9 minutes for a street car running 18 burglar is now in safe custody, neul, uear. Boulogne, by the foreign ports numbered 903, with miles an hour to pass this line of UNDERWOODS. though we have been unable to express train from Calais to Bale, tonnage of 1,989,070. In 1911
If the ribbons on the machines were fastened end obtain any confirmation of the while he was attempting to orose similar entrances totalled 9948, with theory that the man captured is the lino. the one responsible for the recout nocturnal visits. At any rate it is certain that one man luas been onught in the Peak District.
At about a quarter past one
The deceased and his brother thie morning Mre, Williams heard
This, however, doos not a rattling among the utensils that were crossing the line to the are used for preparing the baby's departure, platform. and the measure the increase in traffic in food, but thought nothing of it brother succondo in crossing these islands of vessels engaged oxcept that it might be the noise safely, but Mr. William Anderson, in the foreign carrying trado. of mice. However, a littlo lator, in spite of the warning shouts of Many of the youssols included in the on looking towards the verandah, an official, had not noticed above figures call at two or more of tho Bx-ports during their visits in those she was surprised to seo outlin- the approach
Chinese policomou were soon coming up the path to
tonnage of 1,865,196, and clear- to end, they would reach 85 miles. His brother and aunt witnesssdances 884. representing a total
The 10,000 UNDERWOODS, if used in place of tho neoident. All three lad been tounage of 1,808,308. There is staying at Herdigneul, and in-therefore an apparent increase of bricks, would build an Office building 29 feet long, 20, tonded to catch a train for Pont 20 in the number of entrances and feet wide and 80 feet high. clearances, and of 231,268 in the de Briquos.
total tonnage.
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An Interesting. Philological
od against the sky the form of press, and was caught by the waters, for the purpose of lis a man: She immediately called locomotive and hurled for a dist-charging import or loading export!
cargo, and, when this foot is takon her husband, who quickly wont ance of 25 yards. after the visitor. The latter olimb- The wheel of the engine subse-into consideration, the entrances od over the balustrade of the quently passed over his right side from foreign ports and from other ontry-porta in the islands roach verandah and slid down to the and log.
the total of 1,202, or a tonnage of ground by means of a water
2,527,949 and clearances 4,283, spout and madooff. A few seconds
with a total tonnage of 2,131,308. lator two
In 1911 similar entrances num-. bored 1,241 and clearancos 1,232, the house with a man in theiri A boy ager 13 yours, who said with tonages of 2,347,479 and of Ceylon? custody. They wore admitted he was employed at St. John's 2,359,311 respectively. These and all detained while Mr. Wil-Cathedral to pull a punkah, was figures indicate increases of 100 in liams telephoned to the Contral charged before Mr. E. A. Irving entrances and clearance and Police Station. The lattor in!
at the Police Court, this morning, 359,527 in total tonnage. turn communicated with Mount with sustching a banglo from the Gough, from whence camo Sor- geant Grant, another Europend. officer and a Chinose detective. He was sentenced to forty-eight The man was taken in charge boura detention und twelve and removed.
strokes of the birch, to be ad- From the short space that
ministered under the superinten elapsod between the time the man roached the ground and his dence of the prison doctor.
reappearance with his captors, it
is thought that he must have ruu
Based on the latter set of fig arm of an infant few monthsures, the classification of vessels by nationality is shown in the following table:
Problem.
DON'T FORGET.
Saturday, Sopt. 7. Hongkong Hotel Half Yearly meeting.
Tuesday, Sept. 10.
Special meeting Hongkong Chamber of Commoroc, 4 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 12. Allan Wilkie, Theatre Royal. Saturday, Hept. 14. Lawn Bowls championship, Tai
Can English be the language On this point, opinion is divided. While there says the "Ceylon Indepondent,' are large numbors who urge that koo.
Tuceday, Sop, 17, Lady May at Home, Mountain
Thursday, Sept. 19. Interport Swimming.
the Vernaculars should continue to be the Innguage of the country, leat the peoplo bo utterly dena-Lodge. tionalizat, there is an equally strong faction who, contend that Total Entrances and Clearance. the natural trend of things is in
No
Tone
Pore the adoption of the English lan- Nationality
of ton guage as the language of the 285,019 people; and that the total dis- British..... 1812 2,030,421 placement of the Vornaculars by Domustio 355
the language of the Government is only a matter of time. We are 623,976. 12. ourselves of this latter opinion.
Amorienn
right into the arms of the oflicers AN ABSENT PLAINTIFF. Forch
at the bottom of the pathway
Buiv
+
416,28-4
44,755
#90
201
779.102 16.3
124
115,235
32
129,113
2
Chinoo
1
2
5,521 925
,1
Total, F. Y, 1912,
|(2,575 5,050,417 Tot, FY 1911
2,475., 1,099,790
Friday, Sept. 20. Interport Swimming.
Saturday, Sept. 21. Varioty Entertainment, Palace Theatre.
Intorport Swimming,
General Mooting Douglas Steam-
It was only recently, in dis-ship Co. noon. enssing "the future of the
Wednesday, Sept. 26.
Vernaculars" that we, inclining Entries close for Gymkhana..
to the theory that English would Home day be the language of the country, expressed ourselves as follows: "Much prophetic insight is not necessary to recognise the From the foregoing statement fact that it is the latter ideal (ie. it will be observed that over 50 the suppression of the Vernaculars per cent, of the tonnnge in the by English) which will win in the foreign trade of the islands isend. In a country where the
from the house in Barkor Road, This morning, before Mr. Jus-Japanov but it is claimed by the tice Comportz in the Summary Norwegian...
Spanisin........... police that they tho Court, Sundar Singh, a watchman, Dutch man actually making his way of 15 Peak Road, aned Shair Khan, another watchioun, on the down the water pipo.
When the captive was searched 6.5. Shing Tai, to recover $62, he was found to havo Mr. Williatus' being the amount due for money card can and a silver photo lent and interest thoroon. frame in lis possession, together ith other onmil articles, but on making an inspretion of the bed- room and verandah it was found at all. that the man had already got other goods out there prepara- tory to examining them and inak. ing his selection.
Wo understand that the man will be brought up at the Police Court to-morrow morning.
FALSE TESTIMONY.
Man who Did not know it was Unlawful,
Mr. W. Crowthor Smith ap- peared for the defendant, while the plantiff put in no appearanco
Later, on Mr. Smith's applica- tion, the case was struck out.
THIEF CAUGHT.
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A non-suit with costs was on-under the British flag, while Government is carried on in lerod.
American vessels represent little English, a knowledge of this lan- more the 5 per cent. of the total guage is an essential equipment tonnage, and domastic
ap for every person who takes any proximately 8 par cont The serious interest in public affairs. combined tonnage of American Add to the fact that English is and domestic vessels is less thing the language of the ruling Power, the total for Japan and slightly the important consideration that moro than that for Germany. trade, medicine, law and all the At the Police Court, this morn In the value of imported and activities of civilized life are car- ing, a man was charged by las exported morchandise carried, the ried on in English, and it will be pector, Dymond with stealing a British flag also predominated; seen that the knowledge of thut pair of trousers from a house in although the ratio of this value language inust spread, whatever Dos Virux Road,
to the total value of foreign com-artificial barriors oro placod According to the ovidence, amorce is less than in fiscal year against it. It is only a question constable saw the man descend- 1911. The value carried in of time when the vernaculurs will ing the water spout of the house. Spaniel vessels has been consi-disappear altogether, and they are He caught the man, who had the derably reduced, while that carri-slowly disappearing without THE Russian Steamship trousera in his possession. ed by German and American struggle. The argument of a Inspector Dymond said that it vessels has increased, giving both correspondent that, despite the was on account of those men be of them a more important place dream of a certain missionary for the above ports on or about 9th teered to give evidence for the ng able to climb the water sponts than the Spanish, which in 1911, who lived and laboured among September,
that there wore so many bur- were second to British vessels them fifty years ago, the Kan-
For Freight of farther information, The combined values for dyans to-day are still a Sinhalese-apply to stealing the jacket, and, in doing glarios of late.
The prisoner was sent to gaol American and domestic vessels speaking people in their homes, so, made so many contradictory for three months and ordered to gives a figure larger than any is, we four, rather a weak one...... and obviously untruthful stato be detained in the stocka for four other, with the exception of
A Question of Class. ments that he arrested him on the
the British, and although the charge, to answer which he was
aame was true with regard to the
Among the higher classes of the now before the Court. Enquiries
carrying trade for the fiscal year Kandyan community, the nons had been made, and it was eli-
1011, the past year showe on in and daughters to-day: converso cited that the defendant had come down from Canton for tho
Inspector Dymond charged a meu, before Mr. E. A, Irving, with giving falas evidence is which had como liofore Mr. C. D. Melbourne, yesterday, churging a man gith stealing a lur-lined, jacket. The defendant volun-
man who
WAS convicted al
hours.
14
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special purpose of giving evid-appointed British Naval Attache
commerce.
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the Low-country Sinhalese too, pect to the total values of foreign prefer it to the Vernacular. Among The growth in importance off and the higher classes of the American shipping in the foreign Tamil community, the language THE Steamship commerce of the islands, although of the home to-day is English as appreciable, is at present slow, much as the Vernacular. And it
ence against the police in this at the Embassy in Tokio. onso. There was not the slightest doubt is his mind that the do- feudant was connected with the
theft of the jacket.
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Defendant said he was frosh It is reported from Kagoshima but with the continuance of the is only a matter of time for the having arrived from the above port, from Canton and when he was that the Government of Oshima policy now being followed, of habit to spread to the classes lower Consignees of ergo by her are hereby
at their rink into the hazardous evidenob for him he did so. He been investigating the coral reefs those American products which Employers of labour, among all extra hazardous Godowns of the Hong-freshing and palatable drink known. asked by the defendant to give in Kagoshima Prefecture have limiting exemption from duty of down. But why labour the point? in mod that all goods are being lando Tansan did not know that in saying what in the neighbourhood and bave are transported directly from the communities, furnish the strongest kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godowa
be did he was acting unlawfully; discovered a large reef in the United States in one bottom, and arganent in favour of the spread Company, Limited, whence, and/or neighbourhood of Tokunoshima, with the advantages that will of a knowledge of English. from the wharves, delivery may be ob
ho did not know the law.
A fine of $25, or in. de fault, ose month, was imposed.
WITHOUT PERMISSION:
At the Police Court, this morn ing two Chinese who were charged with entering the servants quar tors of the residence of Mr. Lopee, Seymour Terrace, without
ermission of the tenant
before Mr. E. A. Irving,
It is said that pink and red coral acorus upon the completion of the There is not a bungalow in Colom-tained.
of superior quality abounds, and prospects for, gathering it are most promising.
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To-day: Kwok Siu Lan v. Kan Yang Cho.
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where an appu, a cook or a horse. All broken, chafed, and damaged keeper can look to find employ-packages are to be left in the Godowas, ment unless he possesses a know where they will be examined on
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