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BONGKONG, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1913.
COOLIE AND AGITATOR.
DAY BY DAY.
Do the duty that lies nearest thee; which thou knowest to be a duly! The second duty will already become clearer.
Latest Quotations. Messrs, Wright and Hornby in- forms us that Hongkong Cottons are quoted to-day at 7 buyers, and Langkata at 72 buyers.
Junk Damaged,
is reported to have been damaged to the extent of 100.
to
TRAMWAY BOYCOTT,
No Farther Disturbances
Reported.
European Appears on an
Oplum Charge;
28th, the defendant came to his A QUESTION of bail father's shop. That was a little alter nine. Ha was eating The defendant did not oranges. mix with the orowd, nor did he throw
"Do- any stones.
no part in
NOTES AND
COMMENTS.
Foolish Procedure.
British
tender
A man named John Baker was The incident related in yester charged before Mr. C. D. Mel day's issue, of how a The boycott of the tramways still continues, though there have feridant took
morning, by Revenue Officer Hongkong money as tram fare been no special now features the disturbance. The castable bourne, at the Police Court, this stubbornly refused to
arrested him inside the shop. Wilden, with giving falso parti- until a police inspector ordered of mark it. Last night many
By Mr. Wodehouse: No one anlars concerning three chests of him to do so, did not make exact people expected to see some ex-
ly pleasant reading. But it w755 citing developments but nothing elso ran into the shop. He saw
the constable chasing some people, opium, valued about $6,000. happened-perhaps on account of the uninviting weather, but The former was at one side of the Mr. Johnson, of Messrs. Dennys well to publish it if only to point duct cannot be excused on any As a result of a collision with more probably because the Chi- verandah and the people at the and Rowley, appeared to defend the moral that this sort of con His Worship-Any objection score. If Britishers will not the s.8. Kamsang a trading jank nese are beginning to realise other--about forty or fifty feet and applied for a remand.
to a remand?
loyally support a move in favour that the Police are amply pre-away. He saw the people who
Revenue Officer Wilden-No. of the exclusion from the colony pared to meet whatever difficul- were being chased run past the
shop.
His Worship: How long will of inferior alien coin, the case ties they might think of oreat-
Mr. Wodehouse-Why should
will be bad enough, Happily, ing. Here and there, along
Mr. Johnson-1 canuot say however, only here or there a one the route, were little, crowds but the constable suddenly cease his the case-last? these had no appearance of tak-chase and go into your shop? There are two charges and Isup-nots thus foolishly. For the most ing any interest, deeper than idle Because the men went past and
opiam; practically the same the fairness of the new order of ouriosity, in the mattor. Very defendant was standing at the pose they are about the same part English residents recognise You said at first he was inside thing. I plead not guilty. One things and accept it as a move in charge is that lie gavo falsa parti- the right direction. The few culars in an application to remove thors in whom a desire to show, it and in the other the opium was off, or, some equally unfortunate, said not to be where it ought to bo. taste, impels to resent it, cannot Will your Worship remand the be too strongly denounced.
Divine Service.
There will be a Special Service on Sunday next, in Shaukiwon Chapel, at 8 a.m., for the Roman Catholic troops stationed at
Lyomun
Human Hair Case. The case involving deals in human hair, which has occupied abont six days, was continued this morning before the Chief Justice. Mr. W. Rees. Davies, K.C.
The Rain
+
Though the rainfall registered for the 24 hours ended 10 a.m. to-day, was less than a quarter of an inch, it is the heaviest fall since September 25th.
Royal Colonial lostitute.
Mr. W.-Dickson, manager of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China has been closed a fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute.
Gost. Misstug.
An Indian has been arrested, the police report, in connect with the alleged theft of a gont from another Indian which was report ed missing-a-few days ago.
Charged with Murder- The two men charged with the murder of the Indian at the Kow- loon Eugingering works, were again romanded by Mr Hazoland, at the Police Court, this morning
Alleged Robbery.
It is reported by the police that four Indians, new arrivals in the Colony have been arrested on a charge of having boaten and robbed another Indian of twenty- Seven sovereigns.
few of the ears carried more than half a dozen Chiness passengers; some had only one or two, or even none.
Police Precautions,
This morning the same state
of
Tho
door.
the shop.'
Eating Oranges.
:
Mr. Lewis-No, he said he was at the door eating oranges
His Wo-hip According to the evidence of Sergeant Murphy others did go into the shop. 1 am satisfied as to that. Why did the constable go into the shop if the men went past?
case on bail?
His Worship-What bail do you want?
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What is Necessary,
The writor of a letter in our columns yesterday put his finger, on a serious weakness when be urged that the mere punishment;! of coolles was not sufficient at the The ringleaders present time.
things was observable: quiet streets, a few harmless idlers, and sparsely patrouised cars.
R.O. Wilden:-$1.500.
A Prohibitive Ball." Captain Superintendant of Police,
Mr. Johnson: This is simply Mr. Badeley, told a "Telegraph' representative to-day that no far
Witness: Because perhaps be
a prohibitive bail. Defendent is ther violence was anticipated.
employed by Messre Palmer and
must be brought to book. In any "We have taken our precan-saw him eating an orange.
case, what does imprisonment for tions," he said, "and are prepared. Mr. Wodehouse: You suggest Turner and if he cannot put up for any possible emergency; but he was annoyed because dolen bail be loses his job and overy- a month, on even two months,
is very unlikely that there will dant was eating an orange?
Mr. Lewis No, the obvious thing else. The maximum pen-mean to these coolies? Many of best and are not too well fed. Gaol bo any now trouble. The people meaning is that he saw defen-alty, taken soparately is only them sleep on the pavement at R.O. Wilden-He is charged for them may mean more home the Police are ready for any-dant with something in his hand
Or which turned out to be an orange with three chests of opium and comforts than they know under, thing that may turn up. course the throwing from veran and he thought it was something we shall ask for the maximum ordinary circumstances. The dabs is a thing to be watched else. closely, for letection is so dili-
it
understand pretty will now that
Another witness said that tho eult and escape for the thrower dofondant was not chasol into fairly easy, as far as may of the the shop, he walked in calmly. From entering the shop until the houses concerned,"
The Tramways Company in form arreat he was never out of the us that no damage has been done shop. When arrested he was & to the cars; the falling off in foot or two inside the door.
By Mr. Wodehouse:-They their receipts is necessarily con siderable, but they do not regard had all been standing at the door. the boycott as anything particn-The constable ran into the shop. larly serious, nor do they expect He only saw the constable as he came into the shop. He did not that it can last much longer.
see him running aoross the road. "Five Races Must Combine,
penally,
men who must be caught are the His Worship-$1,500.
inon who would actually feel pun- Mr. Johnson:-The Proscutionment; and care should be are assuming they are going taken to see that they do feel it. to get the man fined $1,500. when it comes along.
His Worship--If they thought they could not prove he is guilty
they would not go on.
Mr. JohnsonWo enanot put up the amount..
Hie Worship:-Can you get any one to securo him?
Mr. Johnson-Surely a man
We have often leard old hands. in the East question the wisdom of entire abolition where opium is concerned, The Chinese, they argue, has been dependent on it for so many generations that he is less than normal without it.
Opium or Drlak ?
The Electric Tramway Conj.The constable was under: the who is a European employed by Without necessarily committing
verandah when witness first saw him....
Defendant's Good Character.'
a well-known firm here will not
be asked to put up the maximum bail; it is positively ridiculous. He is only earning a small salary Why should be go away?
pany has adopted a new law refusing to accept Dragon coins Recovery of Officer.
A boynott must be put up. The We are glad to sto to that Mr. five-racas must combine together. A Chinese night school master H. A. Jerome who is purser of the Those who take no notice of my spoke to defendant's good charac. 8.8. Siberin, is rapidly recovering word will be exploded to death ter and to the defendant being in from an attack of peritonitis that All brethren must look out avoid school from six natil nine o'clock more reason. at one time threatened seriously ing the bomb, thus becoming on the night in question." doring the ship's voyage from
ghosts.
Lottery Tickets.
The defendant assaulted the
a
All the More Reason R. O. Wilden: That is all the
purseves to this belief, we would suggest that opium is no more a national curse to the Chinese than drink is to the British; and to this we would add the time-worn argumemts that, while opium ruins the individual, drink,
His Worship-I do not see ruins the family; and that Mr. Lewis, for the defence, sub-how I can make it any less unless while the one makes a man. Menila to Hongkong. Dr. G. F. This is a translation of a notice witted that the defendant was not you give evidence. If you can somnolent boast, the other ent and dangerous one. Men who, Leach, the vessel's doctor, said which a youth, charged before the man who threw the stone. get anyone to secure him, that will is apt to render him a viol for venrs, have employed Chinese to-day that Mr. Jerome would C. D. Melbourne, at the Police Tho whole charge depended on do.
Mr. Johnson Will one by the thousand, profess to have. soon be on his feet again.
Court this morning, by Sergeant the evidence of the constable who Adlington, of West Point, with effected the arrest. His evidence of $1,000 do nesaulting the police, was reading was unreliable in parts and could His Worship Or $1,000 found that the coolie who takes when asked to move on by not therefore be accepted as cash. He is with Messrs Palmer opiam in small quantities is
acourate in the remainder, unless and Turner; they might guarantee batter worker than he who takes none; and, moreover, that peri it was corroborated. It could not his appearance. We only want a constable.
haps the grester number of opium- asers go to their graves at a good R. O. Wildet I ask your police on in the latter, she denied that some persons did bond from them. Indian, brogght him to the run into the shop though for
Bome reason or other his Worship to fix the full bail. ripe age without over having station. Defendant was fined $1. witness had thought fit to deny Perhaps Mr. Johnson will bail him taken the drug to excess,
The Choice" of Evils. The youth ebarged with posting The boy was a sladent at out himself.
If we look facts in the face we a boycott poster by Inspector school and the fact that he siten His Worship: I don't know must own that man, both civili ed
el a night school to try and get whether Mr. Johnson is instruct and uncivilised, has, Fenton and defended by fr.. Davidson, of Messrs. Hastings and Hastings, was remanded nation and to improve himself wonted. I cannot make it less than whole, become dependent on Steamer Reports....
Wednesday next in bail of 850, to prove that he was hardly a boy $1,000. If some one will secure some form of narcotic-whether alcohol, druge, tas, or tobacco;, à disturbance of this kind. He Mr. Johnson Cash or 89 and, further, that the sedativo, Incoming steamers report as by Mr. C. D. Melbourne, at the likely to be found connected with him it will do. follows: Glenfelloch, from Police Court, this morning.
which rains one race or one in-- submitted that the evidence curity? Singapore: from Anamba
Student Charged.
His WorshipA personal Islands to Gap Rock N. and N.E? The student, charged with stone placed before his Worship was gales and high seas; thence, to throwing, who was remanded, not such as would convict the band of $1000, and one surely for
$1000. port, frasli NE. wind with thick yesterday by Mr.
Hazeland, boy,
Mr. Wodehouse argued to the This was acoʻpled and the case drizzling rain. Pongton from again came before the Court 10
contrary and said that in nearly was remaindol until Wednesday Bangkok: Strong N.E. monsoon day. Linan, from Shanghai: Moderate
all cases they found in the evidnext. Mr. Lewis, of Messrs. Johnson,
once of Indians, that when it came monsoon, rough sea, overcant Stokes and Master defended.
to fixing time, to they were apt, to with slight rain.
Sergeant Murphy sail ho was Des Voeux Road West, near orr. It did not matter about the thie was the man that threw the
Wo have, before now, folt obliged to ask the question: Who owns Hongkong? and, in face of what is now happening in the
A man found in unlawful pos- Colony, there would seera to be some excuse for asking it again. session of lottery tickets and in- If present signs bo ang criterion, one is scarcely to blame for roply-fringing the exclusive privileges of ing that the ruling power is vested in a fow Canton agitators, through the Post Master General by carry- the medium of many coolios, a largo proportion of the latter not ing letters unstamped from Macne was charged with the respective being even British subjects. "It is easy to understand that the local offences before Mr.C.D. Melbourne, Chinese should be more difficult to keep in check since the revolution at the Police Court, this morning of last year, but what we do not understand is, why discipline has He was fined $100 and $32 with not been proportionately tightened. With firmness, in Clunese falleranties of two months and are more easily held in subjection than any race under the sun. At fourteen days. the present moment, on Southern rubber and tobacco patates and in the mines, one may see the thousand coolies being kept andor absolute control by three white men and perhaps half a dozen Pathan police. Yet here in Hongkong-our most powerfully garrisoned station in the Orient—a gang of oight hundred loafers can, in main thoroughfare and within half a mile of the Central police station, create what amounts to a riot, in which three European police are struck with bricks or stones.
a
The Governor of Macao.
*
ANOTHER COCAINE
HAUL.
dividual will leave another almost statheless, witness the fact that, the Dyak child or the Spanish woman will consume as much tobacco in a day as would poison many an Englishman. If we are to accept the gloomy truth that. Perhaps the most extraordinary and the least explicable side of
man must have a narcotio, we the matter is the fact that the officials who make the local by-laws,
would at least like to see him nge or belere whom offenders are tried, are, in most cases, men who have lived in the Est for some years and who, presumably, understand
A Chinese was remanded by that which to him is the least the diaposition of the Chinese. How comes it, then, that they have H.E. the Governor of Margo the junction of Wing Lok Street time. The question was whether
in connection with a charge of since the various anti-opium ordi not learnt that, to him, the yielding of one inch means tho cession of pays his formal visit to the at the time in question. He saw stone or not, and he contended Mr. Hazeland, at the Police Court harmful. It is well known that,
tho first Indian chuse somebody. that he was. a yard, or perhaps a furlong? Every mere lad who has been in the Colony this afternoon. A guard Thore were two or three in front
His Worship said the onus of boing in unlawful possession of nanoes, the Chinese, are largely East a few months knows this parfectly well; knows that kindness, of honour, consisting of 1 captain of him (the constable), and a
drinks, as it was predicted they leniency or generosity are to the Chinaman synonyms for weakness, 2 subalterns, and 100 rank and folly and fear. As we have urged before, our British punishments file, with regimental colour and man ran into a shop. The con proving the defendant guilty was 500 ounces of coonine, at Messrs. adopting the use of alcoholic are just laughing-matter to the man who has seen criminals slowly band, will be furnished by the 8th stable ran about ten fest into the on the prosecution and he thought Holt and Co's godown.
and Master, the 0360 was fixed it will the Europeans of this, carved to pieces, besten, barut or starved to death, or tied down to Rajputs: The Guard will be shop. He was no time" in the that they had failed to do so. He On the application of Mr. would. Should this practice ba- for hearing next Wednesday, bail Colony may have good reason to be eaten by ants or stung to death by flies. British officials know drawn up at Blake Pier, by 5.10 shop before he returned with the would therefore order the defen-Lewis, of Messrs. Johnson Stokes come general and we feel certain wish that ill had been left aloue, in $2,000 being allowed. all this fall well, and yet the lady-like punishments of which we have p.m. and a salute of 17 guns will defendant.
Englishmen have surely seen so often complained continue-six months for this offence, three for be fired from the Shore Battery as the opposite side of the
Miss Tang Ying-bsi, enough of the disastrous effects Misa Tang Ying-boi, the fore of spirits on negroes, Red Indians, most advocate for woman suller- and others to realise that if an age in Chins, some time ago opiam-smoking Chinese je bad, presented a petition to the Na- dranken one is ten times worse. ional Council, asking for the vote to be given to women. The
that, or one for the other for any or all of which the Canton His Excellency lands. panishment would be death, or something bordering on it.
น
Bijou Theatre
2.
dant to be discharged. “
By Mr. Lewis-He was
street from the constable, only roughly speaking, thirty feet from
on SPECIAL POLICE DUTY
Fifty Soldiers Sworn In to Day ! About 60 members of the Yor-
Japanese Coopers on Strike. One hundred and thirty sake
of Nishinomaly
We allow Chinese to turn us off our own pavements and out of In spite of counter-attractions the constable. Thore was a big shire Regiment were sworn in our own houses; can we be surprised if they follow this plan to a there was good house at the Bijon crowd of peopleon the both sides of for special police duty this after logical conclusion and seek to drive us out of the Colony altogether? Theatre last night, the most the road but the bigger crowd was We are asking for it. The poater recently issued, stating that the attractive items on an excellent on the side witness was on. There noon. Chinese would not be downtrodden," ludicrous though it ie, is at programme being a picture of was not very much excitement at Flying Bicycles. least some sort of index to a section-however small-of native quarry blasting, a funny little the time but there was just before M. Rettich, who recently made petition, however, was vetod opinion; opinion framed and fostered by noisy Republican agitatora sketch by Mr. Stephenson and the that. The reinforcements had "fight" on a motorless bicycle, by the members of the Council who ought never to have been allowed in the Colony. A fow severe Misses Connor and Porter: "My come along and they were mov- has achieved what over a hun. Thoroughly convinced of her case maker sentences, a few public floggings, a few ringleaders made an ex-Mother-in-Law", and Miss Dellie ing the people on Several dred inventors have tried in vain position and not easily dishearten- Mikage and Unzaki went ample of, and all would be well. But instead of following the wiser Connor's new song "By the Lyee persons ran to the door of the to do during the last few months, ed by repeated failures, Miss strike on the 20th inst, owing to course, we turn our goal into a home of rest for Cantonese ruffians mun." This has been composed shop, when the Indian rushed In fact, seronautical experts had Tang is now working for this their demands for an increase of
until such a time as prison life begins to wax irksome, to them, locally and Miss Connor'e render-after the man he was trying to declared it to be an impossible movement with redonbled energy. pay having been refused. in which case we occasionally allow them to leave before the ex- ing of it was particularly sym- capture. He could not say who feat. It is true that the machine In order to have the idea of wo wages range from 50 to 60
was only 4in.co off the ground, men's right to vote well instilled day their meals and too piration of their sentences; and, in order that there may always be pathetic and effective, fally merit- the
Boy's Evlilence. maintaining that height for a into the people's mind, she has provided by their resp plenty of tenants to fill the cells as they fall vacant, as well asing the prolonged "encore" which
Bays the tand making a strong bida to abundant disease spread about the city, we permit the lame and the it received, Miss Gladys Porter, school boy, attending the distance of just under 10ft, but now organized a Woman Suffrage Plovers. It is said the
obtain the increase asked fork blind, the leper and the criminal, to come here from Canton for a always bright and taking, wasalso same day school as the defendant, the aviator-cyclist obtained a $20 Daba
*Peking Daily ten-cent fare! Truly we are a wonderful people,
meup said that on the evening at the prize for the font, very successful with "Call me up.
tem