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BONGKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 30, 1913,
THE SHANGHAI BRIBERY CASE.
The Ideal,"
DAY BY DAY,
A disloyal man is a despicable
Quito a shocking state of mat- ters was disclosed, in an inquest at Lambeth, upon an Insurance msn. patient. It shows that the Insur- anoe Aot does not work so sweetly as was promised. Just over a year ago, Mr. Lloyd George publicly explained how the Act would work, The insured person, he said, "goes to the doctor, who ex omizes him. Io (the doctor) may probably find the man has coma to him just in time, because
there will not be the same réluot-
ance to go to the doctor in time now that you can send the bill elsewhere, and he can give him something that just siopa a sorious illness. That is why the (Insur- ance) Bill will avert illness in hundreds of thousands of cases where it might have "developed into something really grave. Supposing the doctor fails to cure it the first time. He says to the patient: You had better go home and go to bed"". And The Real.
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The Mails. Canadian Mail-The Moutongle arrived this morning.
German Mail. The P. E. Frie drich arrived from Europe this morning..
Siberian Mail-Closes at 5
P. to-day per P. E. Friedrich. American Mail. The Prinz Sigismund is due to arrive this evening.
Siberian Mail.-The Achilles is due to arrive to-morrow.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. might be allowed for personal
The Optum Ordinance Fully.
· Explained,
consumption on board a steamer, which had already boon deali with in previous parts of the draft, was repealed. Generally
TRAINING NOTES,
Time Recorded This Morning,
The going was heavy this morn-
Times oorded
Mayfair (Johnstone-11' miles\
A meeting of the Legislative speaking, all the important seating, but a fair number of ponies Council was held this afternoon ions dealt with the greater con-tarned out. in the Council Chamber.
trol of the movement of opium, | were :— There were present, H. E, the over import, export and local Governor, Sir Francis Henry May, movements. In the new arrange- 44.2-5, 1.23, 2.00, 2.30, 3.14.1.5, K.OMG.
| monts, although the principles of 3 50.4:5, 4-24.15; 1.q 33.2-5..
Olario (1 mile), 30 2 5, 1-12, The Hon, the Officer Command- old ordinance were substantially ing the Troops, (Major General followed, various small but im- 1.48 3.5, 3.20.25; 1.4 31.4-5
portant alterations were made, C. A. Anderson.)
which enabled control to be The Hon. Colonial Secretary, properly inaintained.
Mr. A. M. Thomson.
The Hon. Attorney General, Mr. [J.A.S. Bucknill.
Teingtam Salts.. S. M. 9. Taiogtan sailed from | Mṛ. A.G,M. Fletcher. Hongkong this morning.
The Hon. Colonial Treasurer,
Foggy Weather.. Incoming vessels to-day report foggy weather on approaching Hongkong.
What happened in the case under notice was this. The patient want to his panel doctor just in time." He was given a powder which did no good, went again next day and was told to continue the medicine. The man died, and an able pathologist |-- offered the opinion at the inquest
German Mall. The German Mail of the 22nd January was delivered in London on February 19.
·Steerage Passengers By the Monteagle there arrived from Vancouver to-day 108 Chinese and three Indian steerage
passengers.
New Advertisments. Imperial Grill Room, opposite
Race Week.
that had be gone to hospital (as Victoria Theatre, Page 5. The he would probably have done but new restaurant at the Old Skating for the Insurance Act) his illness Rink, European and Chinese would have been properly disg-
dinners; Page 5. nosed and, in all probablity, a suc
An advertisement notifies that cessful operation would have been performed. No one can blame the Exchange Banks will be closed for the transaction of the doctor who failed properly to read aright the signs of illness, oxchange business on Monday, He was being worked to death. Tusadsy and Wednesday next at His surgery was besieged by 11:45 a.m.
Found Hanged. applicants for medical tickets and
The body of a man aged 40 the jury not only exonerated him but referred, in a rider, to "these been found hanging by the scandalous amount of overwork neck by a rope tied to the lamp imposed on him under the In wire on the ground floor of 18 surance Act." Mr. Lloyd Georgo's Tan Wo Street, in the Eastern picture was pretty, but it was far district. from true to life.
Scotland and Temperance.
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The Hon. Director of Publio Works, Mr. W. Chatham, O.M.G. The Hon. Registrar General, Mr E.R. Ballifax.
On the motion of the Hon. Attorney General, second by the Hon. Colonial Secretary, the Council then took the committee stage of the bill, during which several amendments were made.
The Bill was then read a third time and passed.
Greyleg (1 mile) 40 2-5, 117.3-5, 1 50; 1.g. 32 2-5.
Ben Wyvin (Johnstone, 14 mile 1. 1) 38, 1.11.3.5, 1.48, 2.24.3-5;* 2.57.3-5 1.q. 33.
Burglar (2 mile) 1.43.2-5; 1q. 31.3-5.-
· Mahratta Chief (1 mile) 35.1-5," 1-11 2-5, 1-45, 2-17.4-5; 1ge 32 4-5.
Head or Tail (1 mile) 38, 1.15, The Hon. Attorney General 1.50.1-5, 2:24.2-5; Lg. 34.1-5. The Hon. Captain Superintend- moved thesecond reading of thebill ent of Police, Mr. Mo.I. Messer, entitled "An Ordinance to amend The Hon. Sir Kai Ho Kai, K., the Magistrates Ordinance, 1800," M.B., C.M.G."
and, in doing so, said that the The Hon. Wei Yuk, O.M.Gobject of the bill was to bring to The Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett, gother, as far as was possible and convenient, all the powers-all OMG.
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Perpetual Motion" (Johnstone 1.3-4 miles) 43.3.5, 1.23.1-5, 2.0.4.5. 2.37.2-5; 3.15.1-5 3.62.2-5; 4.26, 15; Lg. 33.4-5.
Bruno (3-4 mile) 34.2.5, 1.08.3-5; 1.41; l.q. 323-5,
Capello (1 mile) 37, 1.11.1-5,
The Hon. Mr. Montague Erie.the ordinary powers-which 1.45.1-5, 2.17.25, 1.q. 32.1-5.
magistrate bad of whipping
The Hon. Mr. C.H. Ross. Mr. R.H. Crofton, Clerk the Councils.
Finance.
offender.
Bevington (mile) 37, 1.12, to an
Most of the 1.44.1-5. l.q. 32,1-5. powers, which hon. members saw Mali Haid-Tuto (1 mile) 38.1-5, referred to in the bill, were to 1.14.1.5, 1.50.2-5, 2.23.3-5, 1.q. some extent already held by the 33 1-6.
Bentrovato (Johnstone 3 4 mile) magistrates, and in addition to
Borneo Chiel (Johnstone 3-4 these powers, which had been 33.1.5, 1.08, 1.41.2.6 1.q.33.2.5. given in the bill, to magistrates, thoro was also the power, in many milo) 37, 1.13, 1.45; 1.q. 32. offences too numerous to mention,
The following recommenda tion by U.E.. the Governor, was referred to the Finance Committee on the motion of the Hon, Colonial Secretary, seconded by the Hon. Colonial Treasurer:
A sum of $2,000 in aid of the vote Botanical and Forestry De- partment, Other Charges, Garden in Royal Square.
Oath of Allegiance. Mr. A G. M. Fletcher took the oath of allegiance on assuming his seat on the Council as Hoo. Colonial Treasurer, and Mr. Mc I. Messer, as Hon. Capt. Superin- tendant of Pulice.
The jurors list for the year was laid on the table by the Hon. Colonial Secretary...
Fijian Chief (Johnstone-14
to whip male offenders under the miles) 41.2-5, 1-21, 1 57.4-5,~2. 35.1-5, 3.10.2-5, 3.41.3-5; 1g. age of 16 years.
31.
The Council went into com-
mittee on the bill and on comple tion of that stage, the bill was read a third time and passed.
EDUCATION IN
KOWLOON.
Making Provision for European
Boys.
Silverton (Dalgarno- mile), 39.2-5, 1.11.2-5; Tq. 3).·
Bengairn (Johnston1 mile) 40, 1.17.2.6, 1.59,4-5; } 35,2-5. Second Thought (mile) 35.108; 1q. 33,
OPIUM
DIVANS. Are They Run by a Syndicate ✯
Left For Europe. Among the passengers who The House of Lords, we are in Bremen yesterday were Mr. and left by the German mail steamer formed by Renter, are again Mrs. Badeley, Major H. S. P.. discussing the Scottish Tem-simon, D. U. L. 1., and Mr. and the second reading of a bill European boys in Kowloon, as the in an opium, divan at 14 Wing perance Bill. Without entering Mrs. W. B. Atwater.
into the merits or demerits of the
Assault.
At the Police Court, this morn The Governmentis taking steps ing, Sergeant Gerrard charged The Attorney General moved to provide for the education of eleven men with being concerned entitled "An ordinance to amend following circular iseuod by the Fung Street. He believed these
Director of Education (Mr. Edivans were run by a spadicate. the Opium Ordinance, 1909."
Mr. F. A Hazeland said he Bill, we should like to know A Chinese who assaulted a
In doing so, the hon, member Irving) shows :-
Under the rulea of the believed that was so and men whether Scotland is seriously in
said: It is usual, Sir, when
Kowloon British School, boys were put up as keepers who were One of the most painful cases, where Europeans are concerned, need of a Temperance Bill at all, fellow-countryman, at the Naval
moving the second reading of a which has happened of late in this part of the world, is the con Scotland sets an example (whether fault one month and bound over, which underlie the bill which is withdrawn. As there is no suit sideration. The keeper" was In restrictions regarding drinking Yard. was fined $10 or in de bill to refer to the principles reaching the age of 13 must be willing to go to gaol for a con- viction, the other day, of a Shanghai detectivo inspector on a charge willingly or not is another matter) by Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the being placed before the Council. ablo school on the Kowloon side fined $250, or in delault two
Police Court, this morning. of taking bribes. It is a matter which touches British honour vory to her bigger sister, Englani,
In the case, Sir, in this bill its for them to, go to it is proposed months, and the ten smokers #I Scotsmen cannot enter à public.
Wedding,
provisions are really very much to start one experimentally, under each. The man's offence, in a word, was that he received bribes or husb-in the morning, and they are yesterday afternoon at the Union difficult to extract any principles will be found in a matshed just closely, and, at the same time, one brimful of material for reflection.house for instance, before eight Amarriage was solemnised matters of detail, and it is rather the charge of Mr. A.T, Hamilton. """Temporary accommodation
HEED NOT TAKEN, money to the extent of $500 from Chinese gambling-house pro turned out prompt at ten at night. Uhurch between Mr. E. E. Smith which one can discuss broadly above Kowloon School, and if the Persistent Oplum Divan sc prietors. No one living in the East needs to be told that "squeeze" Compared with London, Glasgow of Hongkong and Miss Halsey of However, so far as one may, one scheme meets support, it is pre-
Keepers, is quite a temperate city. Public- Washington, D. C. Mr. Carleton, can say that there aro two is as much in the air out here as malaria or small-pox; a moral houses in England are open dur- the fisting U. B. Consul, was main points in this rather lengthy posed to add to the Kowloon disease liable to attack, or, rather, to threaten, every man who comes ing part. of Sunday; in Scotland present
enactment. The first is the endea "The Syllabus of the proposed ing, Inspector. Dymond, daring in its way. According to the European code of ethics, bribe-taking they are not open at all, and Y.M.C.A. Minstrel Troup. vour to give greater control over is not only a grave offence against the laws of honour but a positively Sunday in Scots cities is a deadly The Y.MOA. Minstrel Troup all movements of raw opium; and School will be drawn up to meet the hearing of an opium divan that this was the seventh time immoral set. With the Asiatic it is hardly so-or was not, until affair to a stranger. Upon the will give a first class entertain the second is to increase the the requirements of the Oxford case, told Mr. F. A. Hazeland, whole, then, Scotland seems to be ment at the City Hall, on Friday, penalties in connection with offen-Local Examinations, or their that these premises in West Point, European customs became as wide-aprand in the Orient as they quite well hedged in by restrictive March 7th. Judging from the ces against the Opium Ordinance, equivalent.
Names of intending scholars had been raided. Notice had been licensing laws and has little need success of the rehearsals the people now the object of both these points should be sent to the Education sent to the Police by the Regis
of this Colony have the prospect is really to endeavour to carry
trar General about opium divans, Another Polar Tragedy?
Before wo have had time to tertainment giyen by local artistes. Rague Convention and other it is intended to open so the house then it was again used: of a treat unsurpassed by any on-out our obligations under the Department as early as possible, but the police no sooner pleared
as a place of asserably for opium smoking. Only Scholars of European or American parentage will be ad fined $250, or in default one The two keepers" wore each
month, and the smokers were fined $1 each
how are.
If the man whom he has detented in an act of crime have
for more.
it seems that we must brace
ALLEGED POSSESSION
·OF COCAINE,
School building next year.
school as soon as the matshed can be erealed.
mitted."
Famous Speakers and Singers Visit Hongkong.
At the Police Court, this morn
ATLANTIC STEAMSIHP
POOL:
When a European has been in the East for a certain length of time there is always the possibility of his acquiring a partially Asiatic outlook on matters of daily life. Forms of apeach, articles
agreements with regards to try- of diet, to some extent even methods of dress, characteristic of the recover from the shock caused by
REMARKABLE STORY. ing to control and, to some extent, Far East, gradually get a grip of him; and unless he can go Home news of the fate of the Scott party,
order the movements and importa at reasonably frequent intervals, there is considerable likelihood of ourselves up to hear a like story of his becoming Orientalised, not only in the minor details above told of the members of the Ger: boy acting as a substitute for his and to some extent prepared The police report that an office tion and exportation of raw, mentioned, but in more serious matters as well. Perhaps to no class, whether out here or at Home, is the temptation to take bribes greater man Arctic Expedition which has brother in the N. D. L. office, opium. Those, sir, really are the than to the police. The policeman may be a humble and unim noder Lieut. Schroder-Stanz. Yes that yesterday about eight o'clock one may call the principles THE CHRISTIAN UNION.
been exploring in Spitzbergen Connaught Road, has reported two points, and, perhaps, so far as portant person in a general way, but occasions arise all of a sudden terday's telegrama contained the in the evening, five Chinese on-which underlie the bill; and in when, at a given moment, he has the fate of such and such a dread news that the Norwegian tered the oflice and asked him order that I should explain to hon. criminal entirely in his own hands; when he is transformed Relief Expedition had had to for the keys of the safe. He was members the bill further,
Autwerp, Januiry 10—The from a not too well-paid minor official to a judge omnipotent. return in the last stages of ex-seized by one of them and they thought it perhaps advisable.
Atlantic steamship prol has been We have been informed that to the Neplure, by the Cant
practically dissolved, according money, he will certainly offer it in exchange for silence or for austion and that nothing further, took from his pocket thirty two with your permission, Sir, if I freedom, and where the bribe is large and the chance of dis it was feared, could be done to cents and took from the drawer a might very shortly refer to the under the auspices of the Ilong dian Pacific Company's drafgion covery small, every man who knows anything about human nature rescue the little party of Gorman Mauser pistol. An Indian con- sections in detail while moving kong Chistian Union, Mr. Fred, to inaugurate a new cervo, be can understand that the average policeman way be, if only for the explorere. The plan of the Ex-stable stationed near the office the second reading. It in B. Smith and Mr. Raymond Robtween Trieste nad Canals, and
pedition was to make for North states he heard nothing of the perhaps a little unusual to do so, bina. serretaries of branches of the Hamburg-American Lite moment, in a position of I no little temptation.
East Land, the second largest affair.
but it is really the only way of the YMC.A. in the United States announcement of new line. With the sentence passed by the Court in this particular instance island of the Spitzbergen
explaining the bill thoroughly of America, are to deliver ad-of steamers between Hamburg we have nothing to do; the man was found guilty, and it was the Group, which is covered with
to members, and I think it is addresses in the City Hall, on the and Boston. An immediate rate judge's duty to inflict exemplary punishment. We may feel sorry a great ico cap. This island
visable that members should un- 2nd March. They are both war will be started, acording for him, inasmuch as his career is ruined; we may even go so far is, but little explored, and the
derstand exactly what they are speakers of great repute and to the periodical. The delegates as to suggest that to under-pay an official, on whose shoulders a Cermans had hoped to do Before Mr. C. D Melbourne, at passing. The first section is quite known throughout America as of all the Atlantic sleata good deal of responsibility is likely to rost, is to put a premium on good work there in the interests the Police Court, this afternoon, formal, and the second section being among the strongest and ship lines were to meet in Berlia corruption; but, beyond that, all we have to say is that no stone should of science and to gain valuable a Chinese was charged with being brings the operation bill into effect sanest of speakers to men. Jon January
anuary 28. The be left unturned by the British Government to stamp out every form experience. The Expedition left in unlawful possession of 75 on the let of March. That date
The possibility Along with these speakers who of the dissolution of the so-called of bribery among those Chinese who come under ita control. Some Tromso, on the Norwegian coast, ounces of cocaine.
is the date on which the present are proceeding to Australia, is the transatlantic few years ago a law was passed in England which made the giving last summor, in the scaling Mr. P. M. Hodgson, the Leist agreement of the opinm farmer famous National Association cated by steamship men in Now
pool was depre boxes, a criminal offence; and there can be no doubt that that law that, with the exception of the and Mr. G.K. Hall Bit of ed that hon, members would see religious music that have ever out that the existing agreemente of bribes, secret "commissions" and, in some cases, of Christmas sloop Herzog Ernst. We learn at Croma Solicitor, waited terminates Quartette, composed of male York, says the "Evenim
The Attorney General continu: voices, the finest exponents of of January 16 They pointe has done much to discourage corruption in general. If the close owner of the vessel, no-one on Messrs Brutton and Hett, de that the third section of the bill left America. The members of between the several companies observance of such a law be necessary in England, it is doubly so board had any experience of Polar tended t in Hongkong and the Straits, or in any of the British concessions in work. This was a most disquie China. No one knows better than Hongkong people the extent to ting feature and it is to be feared which "squeeze" enters into business life where dealings between that it is this fact which has led went to press. Britishers and Chinese are concerned. What the Chinese may to their undoing. If the future choose to do in their own territory, as concerns bribery, is no affair bears, out worst fears, the Charman of ours; but so long as they live and trade under the protection of nation will find no more sympat- the British flag, it is our Government's duty to see that they do not hotic friends in their grief than The stoomer Tamiya Mira carry on with impunity their time-disbonoured methods of doing Britishers, who have so recently arrived at from Hugkong, on business. Speaking so far as the Hongkong police are concerned, been planged in like sorrow them February, ed-fying the romains wo would strongly urge that their pay be increased to an extent that selves. Here, as on other point, of her com isler, Captain K. will enable them to live comfortably as well as to save; they may we find a common raceting Yund, who died on board and Ordinance 11, 1910, which related of historical studies, which it to at other offices the then have lens temptation to fall as their brother in Shanghai has fallen, ground,
was buried there,
to the amount of opium which be held in London during April was seriqualy ques
Post
The case was proceeding as we was dividedin anumber of alpha this Quartette have been singing still have a considerable time to
Captain's Death Between Hongkong and Singapore.
bercal sections, from a too, and
he proceeded to explain each of together for twenty years.
Continuing the Hon. Attorney the sections.
General said that by section (4)
To Represent India,
ran, and that it was scarely likely that there would be any disola tion of them before they had run their antural course. No word of
the penalties for offences were The Secretary of State has ap-any trouble among the members increased, as they had been nader pointed Sir William Lee Warner, of the pool has reac other paxis of the draft and 0.0.8L to represent India at York At the offices of by action five, section (4) of the next International Congress burg-American