TELEGRAMS.
DUTCH GENERAL KILLED.
Fall from Aeroplane-In Java.
EUROPEANS GAGGED
AND BOUND.
Sequel to An Armed Robbery.
THE BO、GKONG TALEGRAPH," "WEDNJO,NA SEBRUARY 16, 1916.
The a quel to an armed robbery an China” New Year's Eve wi concluded at the Folies Court before Mr. J. R. Wood this morn-
when a Chinese was charged with possessing à revolver with- outs licence and also with having used it for an unlawful purpose.
(Reater's Service to The "Telegraph.")
London, Rebelved. Feb vary 16. Reuter's Correspondans Batīvis
that General Michielsen, who is commanding the troops in Java, was killed by a fall from an aeroplane in which he was a passenger. The pilot was severely injured. The sero plane was formerly an American the Government quarters at 3, hydroplane, which had been Mount Parish, Kennedy Road, rebuilt.
was broken into by six robbers who posed as being foreman. Two were armed with revoltars.
On February 2, the house of Mr. O'Connor, who is AN OVIPROCT in the PW.D., and who lives in
KING LEWANIKA DEAD, and the men gagged and bound
London, Received February 16. Lewanks, King of Barotseland, a steadfast ally of the British, is dead
"TOBY, H.P."
·Retiring from” ** Punch.**
Landam, Received February 16. Sir Henry Lucy ("Toby. M.P.")
also
Mr. O'Connor and his wil and then proceeded to rangok the house. They stole a watch and chain,
clothing and money and
stole some money from the "boy **. Some of the rubbers put on Mr. "O'Connor's clothes in the house, and eventually made good their escape. The matter was not re- ported to the Police until the 5th. and as it then seemed as if some of the men had been workmen in the P.W.D. by reason of the fact that they spoke a litle English, it was decided to search the quaters at Wanchai Depot and
SHARE MARKET-
QUOTATIONS.
Up to the Minute.
Banks -$820, sales. Canton Insurances.
$4171, buyers. Dougisses. $127,
sellers.
Steamboats-$192,
sellers, ex div. Indo-China (Combin
ed)-$185, Indo-Chinas (Deferred).
-$135
Sbells-977-, sellers. Obins Sagara-$158,
bayers.
Ural Caspians---35)-.
Kowloon Docks.~(Old)
$94, buyers.
Kowloon Docks—(Now)
$90), bayers. Hongkong Hotels.—
$112, buyers. Humphreys E-tates.—
$6.10
$151,
Tramways.-$6.20,
buyers. Waterboata buyers. Watsons. $61,
bayers.
SHOP-LIFTERS.
Theft of a Roll of Cloth-
McDonald that the accused was one of a party of three shop-lifters who visited a number of shops in Queen's Read Central, but they did not apparently get the desired
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Great Increase in Share Values.
The wealth of Standard Oil stockholders, expressed in the market value of those shares, har increased just about three times since the company was dissolvad, on May 15, 1911, says the Wall Street Journal.
AN ARMS CASE.
Documents Which Need
Translation.
Another case of a breach of the Arms Ordinance was heard by Mr. J. R. Wood at the Police Court
to-day when a Chinese living st # Chinees restaurant at 74, Cought Road, was charged.
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and B number of Police visited the premises, and when† RECEIVED. constables were set to watch all floors, the defendant's roon. was
Mr. John D. Rockefeller prior to the dissolution of the company entered, and he was caught trying held 247,692 shares out of the to conceal something in a bag The bag was 983,383 aluxree, or, rongaly, 25 under a blanket.
opened and was found to contain per cent. His holdings had a martwo pistols and fifty detonators. ket value of $167,192,100 when Defendant's excase was that the decree of the Supreme Court the bag was left there by some- of the United States was handed body, and that he did not know down, using $675-3 share the what it contained. He was only dissolation price. To-day those living as a 20ess at the house. shares have a market value of
A quantity of papers was found object of getting these translated, Hr. Wood remanded the case until Wednesday next, firing bail at $1,500.
is retiring from the staff of Punch also the quarry at Teat Tas Maï. Sir Henry Lacy was knighted | A: Wanchai, B.owning pistol in 1909. He was educated stand 20 rounds of ammunition Crescent School, Liverpool, and were found in the watchman's Charged with the theft of a roll Parisand was first of all appran- but, and it was he who was now of cloth, a Chinese was brought ticed to a Liverpool merchant. charged.
before Mr. J. R. Wood, at the In 1864 be joined the staff of the Evidence was given by Sergeant | Police Court this morning. Shrewsbury Chronicle, later going Murphy, who said that the pistol It was stared by Inspector to Paris to study language bare a police licence nam cred and literature. Returning to 20 of 1919 When he asked the London, he joined the staff of defendant where he got it fom, the Fall Hall Gazette and was later he said that he had a permit from editor of the Daily News. It was Mr. Ross at Takro Duck, and that
· în 1893 that he joined the staff of he bought it from a seaman for chance until they came to 47, more than $421,000,000, based in his possession, and, with the Punch creating the character of $24. That was in the year when Queen's Road West They all on the price of $1,700 for old Toby MP." from whow Diary the flying machine was out at three went into the shop, the Standard 01 "all on," as it is the Essence of Parliament, com- Shatin. Questioned later, he said defendant standing near the door. now quoted. menced by Shirley Brooks, is ex- that it had been given him by Mr. One of the other two men handed tracred. In addition to this work, | Eldridge, an overseer of the him the roll of cloth which was
As a matter of fact, the value of he has published many Diaries P. W. D., for protection during the subject of the present charge, the old Standard Oil sicck is can- of varions Parliamcata, all of the Chinese New Year, and his Sentence of three months' im-sidered sa farin excess of $1,700, which are valuable records of the object in making the former state-prisonment was passed. Defan- which is largely a nominal quota- personal side of the Rouse of ment was because he did not want dant admitted that he had only tion. Two thousand dollars a Uɔmmons]
to get Mr. Eldridge into trouble.coms into the Colony the night share is regarded as a far more
His Worship said that he before. thought the revolver was used in connection with the robbery and he would impose a nominal penal- ty of $25, and order the arms to ba crnfiscated. Ee thought that Mr. Eldridge was seriously to blame.
OBITUARY.
Sir William Turner.
London, Receivad, Fobicary 14 The death is sancuzced of Sir
ON BOARD WITHOUT
PERMISSION.
accurate price, but even that would only partially represent the present and potential valus of the old Standard Oil stock.
William Turner, K.C.B., Princi OPIUM SMUGGLING TRICK. First Street, with unlawfully be ever, that all of that stock is not pal and Vice-Chancellor of Edin- burgh University since 1903,
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Waistcoats
Twenty-Seven Pockets In
in his waistcoat, each of which Having no less than 27 pockets
contained a small tin of opium,
At $2,000 a share, the value of Mr. John D. Rockefeller's Stand The case in which Lace Serard Oil holdings of close to 250,- geant W. Thom peon charged Lam 000 shares is approximately Yau, memployed, residing at $500,000,000. It is known, how
ing found on board the se. Daigi now held by Mr. Rockafeller, for Mara without the permission of some of it has been turned over the master of cfficer in charge to the Rockefeller Foundation and thereof on the 13th inst., was | other institutions.
Beckwith, B. N, at the Marine resumed before Commander C.W.
Court this morning.
THEFT FROM
OFFICERS' QUARTERS.
Hair Mattreses and Bolsters
Stalea
Yesterday morning the Ser- geant in charge of Mount Austin Barracks went on his rounds of the encccupied officers' quarters and found that 12 hair mattresses and 12 hair bolsters, of the total value of £27, were missing. Two Chinese were seen, earlier in the day, to be carrying & quantity of horse hair down the Fear Road, and these were sub- sequently arrested. Before the street, they had disposed of the goods to a marine store stealer, who has since been charged with receiving the property.-
Fortunes of the other big Stand- The 01868 Came before Mr. ard Oil stockholders show corres- Hazeland at the Police Court this a Chinese was charged before Mr. Defendant pleaded guilty, sy.pondingly large increares. The morning, when one of the alleged Bazeland, at the Police Courting he was trying to get back to value of the shares held by the est thieves denied the cffence and the this morning, with having in his his country.
ate of Charles Pratt has increased other admitted it. The marine pornestion 2 taels of prepared Lacce Sergeant Thompson stat from $35,600,000 to $89,700,000, atcre dealer, who was represent- opium.
ed that he found defendant on The 42,400 shares held by C. W. fed by Mr. E. J. Grist, denied the The defendant WEB seen board the Daigi Marn at 11 am, Harkness bare increased in offence. coming of the Wing Lok Whari on the 13th inst. He was quar- market value from $29,200,000 His Won hip adjourned the case and, on being searched by a Chirelling with another passenger, to $72,000,000,
antil Saturday morning, bai FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE | Pere detective, the opium was who complained that defendant t
being allowed to the store dealer in $250.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE
MEMORIAL
London, Received, Febraazy 15.
The Queen Las unveiled the Florence Nightingale memorial at Et. Paul's. The Primate, the Lord Mayor and other prominent personages were present.
DEATH OF VISCOUNT RIDLEY.
London, Eeceived. February 15
found on him.
had stolen his pures. He (Lance! The old Standard Oil Co. of Revenue Officer Wilden said that Sergeant Thor paa:) took defend-New Jersey was controlled by ten when questioned as to where he ant before the master, who stated individuals and two estates. With got the opium, defendant said the that he had no authority to be the exception of the stock which opium farmer at Macoso had asked on board the ship. him to bring it to Hongkong and sell it.
Bie Worship-imposed a fine of $1,500, or in default, mosths' hard labour.
LANGKAT OUTPUT.
four
Meurs, Wright and. Hornby The death of Vicount Bidley advise us that the Langkat cutpoi
is announced.
CRICKET.
The following team has been chosen to represent the Civil Service Cricket Club in their match against Hongkong on the Hongkong ground on Saturday afternoon:--ars. R. E. O. Bird (Cept), Hon. Mr. Claud Severn, RA B. Ponsonby. EW. Hamil loo, G. Southerton, P. T. Tamble, R. C. Witchell, E. W. Dawron, C. Sara, R. O. Hutchison, and W. Hill. Reserves:-W. E. monds and. W. Bearne. -W. Fincher. Umpires--
for the current month is as follows: February 1
Tons 222
203
198
203
ガ
191
183
His Worship sentenced de fandant to 14 days' hard labour.
SMUGGLING CHINESE INTO AMERICA.
The s.. Mongolia's Chief Engineer ladicted.
has been set aside by Mr. Rocks- feller for various purposes, it is believed that the holdings of the big Standard Oil stockholders are intset to a large extent, for it is the opinion in well informed quarters that the insiders have sold only the pipe lices.
A list of the large strckholders of the company, as taken from the Government's brief, filed against the Standard Ci Co in 1907, shows that twenty-nine individu- A San Francisco telegiamala and estates held 568,928 of (February 9) to the Manila Bulletin £83,383 shares of the old Standard. states that the Chief Engineer of 01 Co. of New Jersey, which at the former Pacific Keil liner the time of dissolution had svalos Mongolia, and twenty-six other of $384,025,050. The market persons, the majority members of value of that stock is approx- the crew, have been indicted at imately 1967 834,000 at present. San Francisco for smuggling 131
The nominal market price of Chinese into the United States. $1,700 a abare for the old Stand- According to the testimony ard 01 stock "all on” includes addaced, a large proportion of the stock dividends, and rights by the Mongolis'e crew and many of the subsidiary company. For this officers are alleged to have been resson it is not necessary to ‘în- implicated in a gigantic plot, clade in the above calculation any having as its object the contra- value which may have accrued in vention of the immigration laws, she original Standard Oil stock- The ring received a certain holders through the revenue amount, said to be about $500, derived from the rights on the G. for each Chinese smuggled fractional shares of the subsidiary into the United States.
companies held.
190
19
9
157
10
22
11
21
144
12
152
13
143
14
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15
149 210.
Total to 15th inst. 2,673
Daily #volage 178.20
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