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members of the crew of which Siberian Mail.-Despatched per RN., H.M.S. Temur, Lieutenant you distinctly remember what tion in, the Colony of silver given us the giat? That is an belonging to the currency of 5:a. Cheran at midnight on Beetham R N.R., master of the was in it. You as you bave or nickel coins other than thou Saturday,
Empress of Russia"; A.E.W.
approximations, sir.
the. Colony and to prohibit the Remember you are on your, circulation in the Colony of all French Mail-Oloses per as. Wyburn Hodgins, master of the
Polynesien at 11 a.m. to Haiyang" and Charles Robert oath. I know I am on my oath, kinda of notes other than those of Baynon, master of the "Ken and I am speaking the truth. the Hongkong and Shanghai Will yon absolutely swear Banking Corporation, the Chae- Mr C. F. Mason, of Messrs there was bad language used in tered Bank of India, Australia and
· The charges against the defen-ear to it, sir. (putting up his of India, Ltd. dant were. That he did on the hand dramatically). 9th April, 1913, about 3 p.m. rend
the se. Laertes, to which the mas- communication ter's name was falsely attaobed, as signature that he did on the 13th April, 1913, about 7 a.m. leave the ship without the master's per- mission, the ship being on the point of sailing that the same day be returned on board at witness about 11 s.m, under the influence of liquor, used abusive, obscene and threatening language to the master and the mate of the ship
class shooting out of the question, nesisu, having travelled from and the team shot much below Home via the Siberian route. form. Only three weeks ago, in Telexraphic Communication ad insulting letter to the mats of recorded; yesterday half the team Protice, scores of 98 to 90 were
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fell below 90. Luck is always a with Canton and stations beyond factor in a contest of this kind,terrupted sites 1 p.m. yester- and the Hongkong men can con- sole themselves with the know-day, is again normal." ledge that they shot really well under adverse conditions.
A Bad Reverse. ́ ́.
Promenade Concert.
The Promenade Concert ad vertised in our columns last week and postponed on account of the bad weather on Saturday is to be held to-night at 9.15.
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Do you remember noticing the signature?—Yes.
How was it signed ?-With my signature.
"How?-With my signature; my
signature is Charles Mawn.
You say it was signed Charles Mawn; I put it to you it was sig- ned W. Mawa.-I will bring
Yes, you are very anxious to bring these witnesses.—Well, be cause you doubt me.
in a case like this? No, men of my cloth are clean mouthed,
There is bad language goes on? Yes, there is bad language in all spheres of life.
I regard you as making a mountain of a mole-bill, sm
not making & mountain. of a mole-bill.
D's you regard this as a very serious offence?-I regard it as
very serious offence,
a
Did you enter this in the log?~~ There is a log, if bis Honour will show it to you. “
Did you keep any spaolñc dates
The Liberals have come a nasty oropper at Newmarket, where the
I never said I did. Do you late Sir Charles Rose at con-
Mancheria Leaving on
and refused to obey the lawful know you are imputing forgery tinuously since 1003, save for a
Wednesday.
against my client ?—I am speak- The asiling of the Manchuria commands of the master; that
on various occasions whilst at ing the truth. a brief period from January to
Witness then referred. to December, 1910, when the Un has been postponed from one gen Mr. McGhee has shown his ionists claimed the constituency. o'clock to-morrow till the same incompetence as an officer in his April 13. He said that It is no ordinary reverse, that has same hour on Wednesday The failure to ascertain the ship's on that date the defendant went when he could not be depended been sustained, either. Frog vessel will not call at Kesiung position with even approximation ashore. They were sailing that upon to get the position of the being in the minority by 309 this trip. voles, the Unionists have now Fatal Motor Car Accident- The master of the ship said day and the pilot was ordered for ship?-On several ocasions.
2 p.m. Witness went ashore in The President ---Wehad better The postage on the weekly issue to any part of the world is $1.00 won the seat with 851..to apare. Yesterday (motor-oar driven they left Hongkong on either the the morning on the ship's business have specifio ossos,
More than that, comparing the along the Praya struck a Chinese first or the second day of April. and the defendant later went Witness :--I doubt whether I present figures with those of the boy, 15 years of age, and knocked Whilst lying at West Point, in
ashore.
can give you specific cases, but last election, it will be seen that him down. The boy sustained Hongkong Harbour witness no-
The President:-He didn't ask
my contention of the charge, the Unionists have increased severe injuries his head and ticed that the time ball had not for leave?-No one gave
your Honour, is "that" an their vote by 884 votes, while the died on the way to hospital. been attended to with regard to leave at all, sir.
officer under the influence of Liberal poll has declined by 388.
the reading of the chronometer. What time did you go ashore ? liquor is not capable of performing We have heard of many weak
Tuesday is the last night of It was the second officers' duty-Just after eight o'clock, your the duties of an officer, and my excuses to explain a defeat, but "Les Miserables" at the Victoria todo this. On the morning of the Honour. I returned to the ship chronometer-book I think will never a weaker one than that ad- Theatre.. Those who have not 3rd, about eight o'clock, he call before ten o'clock. I went to the prove there are days when noth vanced by the unsuccessful oan- SHERIDAN --On May 14, 1913, at 4 Ward Road, Shanghai, to didate at this election--that the yet seen this splendid productioned Mr. McGhee into his room and chart room to see if things were ing has been attended to in the
opinion was prevalent in the should not fail to saize this oppor- he told him to make sure to get in order for sailing. division that the Government's tunity. The booking is at Mon- the time ball, that day as he want
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HONGKONG; MONDAY, MAY 19, 1913,
THE JURY SYSTEM.
land proposals would lead to the ploughing up of the Newmarket Racecourse!
Sedition. In India.
trie's.
Les Miserables..
·
him
chart-room whatsover. Ma
I went to my cabin and McGhee
Mr. Masən :- This is mere- ed the readings. Witness went called out to me "what do you ly a charge of failing to Threw Opium in the Harbour.
on abore to transect his business
want in there." I told him to ascertain the ship's position, for being in possession of so they were sailing that day. He
go away and not make any more nos general incompetency. 10 taele of raw opium, a Chinese returned to the ship al out one or frouble for himself. He was very The President: Do you mean was fined $120, or in default six two o'clock in the afternoon and much under the influence of liquor, to say he was always under the weeks hard labour, by Mr Haze- he learned that Mr Melthee was The chief officer followed me out influence of liquor. land at the Police Court to-day, found in his bunk. Witness went of my room. I said to MoGhea Witness:--No Sir, not alway He was arrested on the Praya and to the chronometer and found go to your com. I put you off but on occasions.
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The sensation of the moment is the arrest, at Calantis, of nineteen "respectable" Bengalis on threw the stuff into the harbour. there had been no readings taken. duty. He refused and began Mr. Mason :—The only evid charge of conspiracy. We are
Paper on Slang ***
Mr. Mason I don't think 19 curce and
swees at the ence you have of Mr. Mother's not going to condemn these men
This evening the Rev. C. H. this affects the cherges on the mate. I went back to my incompetency is that book?-Yes. unheard; for aught we know to Hickling will read a paper on sheet. There are three specific cabin and left McGhee sitting in You have other evidence? the contrary, they may be literally" Slang" This is a subject in charges on the sheet for the de- the saloon.
Yes, which I have got. I maintain what Renter terms them: respect which residence in Hongkong fendaut to answer. This appears Witness went on to say that de- that a man ander the influence able. Ever since India became might fairly be considered an to be altogether outside the sub-fondant wanted drink but it was of liquor is not capable of per a British possession, ita in expart's qualification, so there ject matters in the charges. It forbidden him. Whenever wit-forming his duties as an officer. babitanta have, as a whole, re- ought to be plenty of discussion may have something to do with mess saw that too much drink was How long has he been sailing mained unhesitatingly loys to after the paper, says the Y.M.C.A. the third obargo, but that offence being taken on board be stopped with you Since the second of the English Crown; but, at the
is said to have taken place at sea. the sale of it for a time. Deshe January 1913. a bad same time, there. has always been a dissatisfied element. That this A Troublesome Quartermaster. One is for sanding an insulting fendant me to witness roomWhen did you first decide ha Jack McCormick, quartermaster letter, a second for leaving the and asked for liquor. Witness was incompetent; what date P-I element has been swelling in num- bera, strength and outspokenness of the B.8. Monteagle, was charged ship without permission and the told McGhee if he did not leave cannot give a date
Was it in Februsty ?--I cannot Recent, exchanges to hand show that quite a deal of speculation of late years, nobody may deny; befors, Mr. Melbourne, at the third that he proved incompetent his (witness) room he would be
compelled to put him out. Mc-give any date. On several co- is being manifested at Home in regard to the recommendations and this is all the harder Polios Court this morning with while at sea.
The President-You are quits Ghes said that if witness took casions I noticed, hie erratio which are likely to be made by the Departmental Committee which on England in that she has given refusing to pay legal 'rioksha fare, has been sitting for many months past to enquire into the working absolutely no direct cause for assaulting the police and die right. (To witness) you had better him for a quiet man he would behaviour.
find cut shortly that be was not. Were you satisfied with him of the jury system and to decide what amendments are necessary or anything of the kind. From the orderly conduct. Defendant was get to the 9th April.
Witness said that on April 9 McGhea ne-d insulting knguage whilst he was on board ?—No.. desirable. The question was touched upon in this column some day that our late Queen became fined $7 and ordered to pay 30 little time back, but as there are indications that the Committee is Empress of India, in 1857, native cents compensation to the rick- they were at Saigon, at the No1 to the chief officer and used Then why did you bring him buoy. He had been ashore in the abusive language to witness. MC to this offies and nake for morning 'to' transact very shortly to issue ita report, it is worth while to glance at some interests and prejudices have shaw coolie.
his Ghee refured to do what be his master's certificate to be given of the more important problems which will have to be taken into been considered to an extent that
business. He returned to the
was fold.
back to him. You said you found consideration by those who have the master in hand. This may be has surprised other nations, and
The new ground of the Y. M.ship between one and two o'clock MrMason When a man wishes him incompatent and unsatisfacs prefaced by the explanation that the present inquiry was the out- often the Indiana themselves. C. A. Tennis Club will be opened in the afternoon. About three to go ashore from your ship from tory yet you ask for biscertificatato by H. E. the Governor on Friday block, there was a knook at his whom does he ask leave? On be given back. He was behaving Come of numerous criticisms levelled against certain anomalies of the present system and in particular against the special juries.
the 23rd inst. at 4.45 p.m. No door and the chief officer answered sailing days the person sake himself fairly well and I brought Here we touch one of the most important aspects of the problem Britain bas been called upon to members of the tennis club hope there. The chief officer could ship.
Every native population that invitations will be issued but the when witness asked who was permission from the master of the the man here and asked Com
mander Basil Taylor" to give the members comprising the Committee of inquiry are said to differ rule has something of the obild that as many members of the hardly speak for rage and witness Is that the invariahla role?~ him his certificate back sooner.
-the retention or otherwise of the special jury; a point upon which The complaint has often been made at Home that it not infrequently/spirit about it; the spirit that is association as possible will be thought something had gone. It is not a standing rule."
Home Influence.
Y.M.C.A. Tennis Club.
to
the
J
Mazon aubmit, sira,.. there is nothing to answer A man should not
The Verdict.
On the Court, reassembling it
present Regular play on the
wrong with him. Witness asked Is it not the rule that the chief happens that special jurors are wanting in experience of mercantile ready to sea that certain mea-
dures which, fait, are incompre courts will commence on Satur him what he had in his hand, and officer anke the captain and the and commercial life, and it has also been observed that it is a
bensible, are pursued for its own day the 24th.
he produced a dote.*
second asks the chief officer 7 distinct anomaly that while comparatively well-to-do special jurors ltimate good, and that is always
Mr. Donkin Returns.
Mr. Mason Have you No, it is not the general rule bring charge of incom- potance against a man unless well, receive a guines a day for their services, common jurors should go on the alert to take advantage of Mr J.B. Donkin, who recently
lotter ?--No.
Do you know if Mr. McGhee founded. I submit there is no unpaid. On this latter point, however, it has to be remembered leniency which it regards as spoke highly of the Dairy Farm If you bring the charge you asked the chief officer if he could evidence. This case has been that the anomaly is not so great as it may seem, inasmuch as the weakness. As though this were this paper, has returned with Mrs must produce the letter
go ashore?I didn't hear him.
brought out of revenge. common juror is still earning his wage, even when called up for
No that is not neosmary; did
After other evidence had been service, whereas the absence of the special juror from his business not bad enough, elambaring hat- and Misa Donkin from Japan. The President. -- Where in the
un because I you make inquiries as to whether led, the Commission adjourned to ofte means a big inconvenience and even sometimes a dead looted of the white race is stirred, Interviewed in Japan, Mr. Donkin letter ? I tore it up
natives, said he saw in the Japanese pro- did not wish to use it. I have he did? The chief officer came to consider the decision, financially. On the other point the trouble is that the qualification first by "educated" for a special juror is based on a property qualification with the resultand, sasondly worse luokbygressive spirit, the surest guar never tried to do a man an injaty me and told me he said. here's y
aglione for and writers. Undoubtedly Australian food products. Mr. Let's bave the gist of it" Mr. The chief officer probably large joint-stock companies for instance is ineligible, inasmuch as Britia Government has Donkin leaves Hongkong on Wed-Pollard'; take in those "sitor rags didn't tell you his answór ? TK, wasannounced that the defendant:
is not personally rateable in respect of the premises occupied by been to blame for its cowardly needay for Singapore and thence to you. Can't you see it is chief oficer did tell me hit company. The consequence is that in London, where rents are fear to deal with edition-mongers to Jarapon fee shal th
going to rain and blow you, answer very high, the majority of special jurymen Bre drawn from shop-
Convicted for Receiving take in those regs", with my name How long have you been at sea, oper sad licensed victuallers, who in the poorer districts usually (more particularly those of its own
At the Police Court this morn-signed se master.
Captain ? About 24 years constitute the only large class possessing the necessary property race) as they desyrved. If we Appoint wosk men like Lord qualifications And it has well been pointed out that such persons
Could you tell who had written and what sort of langdige have can scarcely be said to have the expert knowledge the possesion of Gladstone to rule South Africa; ing, before Mr Hazeland, two
if, when a man like Sir Curzon sampan women were charged by it? I could tell at once when I you been focustomed to hear? which is the sole justification for the retention of special juries. Wylie is murdered, instead of Detective Sergeant Wills with saw the signature.
What steps the Committee will advies for reforming special punishing the British presa and the larceny of a rope cargo aling. What made you think that it the .5. Saxonia, was written by him? Because juries it will be interesting to see. One suggestion which has much platform agitators who caused his valued $10, from the
recommend it is that there should be small panels of specially death we content ourselves with while the vessal was lying along he did several erratic things and Bad experts chosen to alt as assessors with the Judge. A merely hanging one native, who side Kowloon wharf, The, de I thought it most probable that maria on there linked prevails on the Continent, and its adoption ought to have gone to a mad fendants story was that a man this was him too.
You mant for MetMcGhee ?---- not only ensure the presence of fully qualified men, but it house instead of to the gallows told them to take the sling ashore, Zoo largely tend to do away with the present langthy, un- if we allow those things, and a promising to pay 30 penta: The Yes, and I asked him did be write wire and extremely expensive method of calling expert" score like them, to happen, what first defendant was
• usušile, so far from enlightening, only befogs the are we doing but asking for for one month for red
the other
had been found guilty of serious misconduct on the ship at Saigon, insulting the mate and sending colourable letter, as though from
the Captain, to the mate intending
to
cause bad feeling. They
uck
distarb restening
found bim guilty of leaving his ship at Saigon withon Have you heard bad language sion, returning on bos used on ships before ?-Les
SALE and causing And I say words we regard as
easing bad not, usually spoken are rather
donco common terms on board ship goThere
offered on the third pharge, in Preferencs to ind ant to gaol it. 1 1: him what he meant I submit to you that a lot of Court adjudge
such * thing and bid language goes on on board have his certificate
Can't you ship and it is not mesiped except, as second mak
iving, and by.
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