THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH:
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6 1999
ON THE WATERFRONT. AN ARTFUL DODGER YELLOW RIVER BRIDGE,
And a Detective Porter.
A Clever Bit of Navigation. A fine bit of navigation Tu
British Interests Associated carried out by Captain George W.
An alusive crook, an amateur
In Important Work. Yardley of the Golden State res detective and a stupid fakt were Further information is now avail. terday afternoon when the vessel the central character in an able as to the competitive desiga was ordered to proceed Into interesting story related at the quarantine. The steamer bad to Magistracy this morning, when and tender for the Yellow River move from A3 buoy and to tarn Kang Chan-ki, said to be an ex-Bridge, which was awarded to a her there would have been attend-employee of the Sus Company, Belgian combination måde up of ed with some risk. Captain was charged with the larceny of the Societe d'Etudes et de Construe Yardley decided to back her down pair of Chinese shoes from a tion, the Societa Belge de Chemin the harbour and did so, the vessel shop in Queen's Road Central. de fer en Chine, and the Compagnie travelling at quite a fair spaed. Shipping man speak of this as a particularly clever piece of work.
Nanking Arrives.
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It appears from the evidence, Generala de Chemin de ler es de that the larceny was brought Tramways en Chine. about by a trick, which defendant companies the two latter are well Of these is said to bave practised on a known in China; for purpose of the The China Mail steamer Nan-was said that he visited a shoe active members, and the work of number of shops. Yesterday, it Bridge the first-mentioned is the king arrived to-day from Singa- makar's pore, which she left on December Road Central,
shop on Queen's 1, with 35 first-class, 10 second examined
zad carefully Preparing the design and estimates several class and 689 steerage passenger shoes. She carried a lot of cargo.
He eventually selected The Societe d'Etudes et de Pon. Nile is due from the same po:ten the shop-keeper that the price Societe Anglo Belge de Construe pair and W25 told by atruction was formerly known as the Thursday morning.
was $3.10. Defendant announced on and is a subsidiary combination Korea Maru Passengers.
that he had brought less money between Messrs. S. Pearson and Son Travelling by the T. K. K.ths that and he requested that a Contracting Department) Limited, Korea Maru, which leaves to. "small boy" might be sent along of London, the well-known Coatrac morrow, are, amongst others:- with the pair of shoes to collect tors for Public Works and the Com Mr. F. B. Marshall, of Messrs. the money to which the shop panie Belge de Chemine de fer et Tait & Co., tan exporters of Amor The "small boy" was taken tod'Entreprises of Brussels (formerly keeper without suspicion, agreed. and Formosa, who is travelling] to Keelung.
the main entrance of the Chinese Compagnie General de Chemin de Miss E. I. Ward of Massa-Club in Queen's Road Central. fer Secondaires) a well-known firm chusets, who attended the recent Here be was induced to part with in Railway Engineering. Press Conference at Honolule the pair of shoes and Kang went and has since paid a visit to the up the staircase. But he was prepared in mutual consultation, "Two designs, and tenders were long time in returning with there by each of the above firm; that Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Currie who money in fact he might never have of the large spans by the Com
Far East.
returning to San Francisco.
returned at all had it not been
Golden State Passengers.
for the watchfulness of a porer design, and a mere economic design pagnie Secondares known as “A” of the Club. Mrs. C. Phipps, of the Stand- ard Oil Co., Hongkong, and Missfter it seemed that in the coarse "B" design by Messra Pearsons. From the evidecce of the par-with more moderate spans known as Charman Phipps, Mr. F. L. Reed of the previous week he saw It is to the latter design that the of the same company, and Mr. R.Kang made frequent use of the first place has been awarded
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J. Weir of Davis Company Ltd, staircase and Mrs. Weir were passengers with by the Golden State. Passing on through on the vessel areMrs.
which communicated back door giving out the projects sent in by the combin The Lonsultating Engineers for Stanley Street short cat
ation were Sir Ernest Meir, Bart., of Forth renown, M. Clavier, Grand Garden de Order de Doable
Ruby Gaertio and her daughter desiring
for
It Was anyone
to go into Stanley
over the Tellow
Mrs. Guertin is the wife of the Street from Queen's Road, and chief of the secret service in Man-witness thought that that was Dragon de f'hine, who built the ila: M. J. E. Dye, chief manager Ksog's reason for going in until existing bridge of the Manila branch of Mess the regularity of his appearance River. and Mr. T. J. Bourn, C.EE, Thomas Cook and Sons, who is aroused suspicion. Thinking, how-who for over 30 years has been Koing to Tientsin: Mrs. Farnsworth and Miss M. Weston.Imember of the Cluk be bad asked who built the Huai Bridge as Pezg Sever, that Kang might be a associted with Chinese Railways, who are completing a tour of the no question, but decided to do a Pu, and was in charge of the designs world.
Mrs. Leonard Wood, wife of the aly. The result of this was that Pearsons is known to the Chinese little bit of detective work on the for Messrs. Pearson. The Erm of new Governor-General of the he followed Kang when he turned Philippines, and her daughter up with the shoes and
as the Ta Cheng Kung Ssu. were passengers for Manils on Pottinger Street had him detain board the Golden State.
ed while he seat a foki to look Another passenger hy the for the small boy who was wait Golden State, who is, of course, ing at the staircase for Kang's still on board, is Mrs. Acton wife return. Witness went on to
in
of Mr. R. D. Acton, attorney-describe how on the previous general at Singapore.
Japanese Shipbuilding.
Three new shipt of 1,000 tons
Sunday he had followed Kang
It will be of interest to our Eng- fish readers to know that British
with this new ant important work. interests are associated with this
and was the witness of a similar NOTABLE COMPOSERS. trick the latter practised on an-
and upward were built in Japan other boy from a hat maker's
during October, of a total tonnage shop.
of 5,750 tons. The figures show
Defendant was sentenced to.
a decrease of three in numbers 3 weeks"bard labour.
and 14,150 in tonnage against
launchings during the
Same
month last year. During the first tea months of the present year 38 ships with 195,915 tons were constructed in Japan.
This
indicates a big drop as compared with the same period of last year.
GOLF.
Captain's Cup.
The following are the scores
The decrease is 46 in the number for the above Cup played over
of vessels and 177,643 in tonnage the last week-end.
the Old Course, Fanling. during
New N.Y.K. Vessel.
The Now N.Y.K. voзsel,
Mr. J. W.
Franks 2 - 12
75
the Hakone Maru, is due Mr. H. Scott 87. 12 = 75 bere
Thursday morning. Mr. R Appel 85 10 · 76 She is carrying many leading Mr. B.
Japanese on this, her first trip,) Haworth 57 - 11 including Prince Kitashirakawa, Lt. Col. J. R.
Princess Shimazu and Marquis į Wyndham 94 18- and Marchionesa Tokugawa. The Mr. H. M. new vessel which is of 10,020 tons
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19
Ireland 85 - 8 -- gross, bas accommodation for 120 Mr. R. Melville
** 6rst-class, 56second-class and 189; Smith third-class passengers.
...18 Scratch 78 She is Mr. J.M. Dod-- equipped with double reduction ington ... 93 engines which are said to lessen Mr.C.C.Stark 90 -
- 15 the rolling and pitching cf Mr.J. D. Kin- vessels. She is expected to develop
Baird spee of sixteen knots.
Cargo.
The Golden State brought 12,630 packages, meseuring 800 tons, of Cargo to Hongkong. Most of this was canned goods and inclued 4,000 packages of milk, 3,000 packages of pearl barley, 800 packages of choride of lime, a deal of lubricating oil and asphalt. The vessel also brough! 401 bars
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11 - 79
---80 Mr. R. E. 0.
Bird.
91
16 81 Major H. G.
Bagnall 80 - -81
87
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The boatswain of a coolie boat proper distance-зy 14 inches was obarged with approaching from your eye, have your eyes
THE LATE MR. AWDRY (New Zealand, and began his career yesterday within 30 yards of the examined in the Hongkong Opti.
as a journalist on the staff of The Golden State, then being an in-
cal Co. Successors to Clark & was working, he heard a work-pox of Mr. F. J. Andry, who was for Forces, being a lieutenant in the
Dominion. During the fected vessel, without the written Co, Befracting and Manufactur-man beneath his window singing a little #ile on the staff of the New Zealand Infantry. When the war he Reporting the death from small served with the Australasian permission of the Fort Health Opticians, located in 53, an old folk song, and he used the Hongkong Telegraph, the NC.D. armistice was declared he sought Officer. He was fined $5, the Queen's Road Central, and have alternative being 7 days im- the satisfaction of using a pair of "Andante Cantabile," which is
theme for this exquisite News 167B.-- prisonment with hard labour. right seeing and right fitting the second movement of his first on October 16, On November 18 staff of the San Francisco Journal experience of American journalism The mistresses of six other glaJ100.
Mr. Awdry serived in Shanghai and, after serving on the editorial boats were fined $10 each, with
string quartet. An illustration he was taken ill and admitted to of Commerce, did relief duty ** the alternative of 14 days' im-
of poetic thought and nationality, the Isolation Hospital the following editor of a weekly paper. On his prisonment with bard labour, for
expressed in the form of a song. day. The patient made fair pro-way back to Australia, Mr Awdry going along-side the Horg Wab before the veel bad been
VICTOR RECORD grees, but bis Beart suddenly gave took advantage of the opportunity xamined by a police officer
out during Bunday night.
to tour the Far East and India yesterday.
The deceased, who was in his He was appointed to the "Shang- 26th year, was born in Wellington, hai Sunday Times" in August,
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