TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
AGO,
A Glance at our Files.
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(May 8-11, 1897)
THE NAVY LEAGUE.
JAPANESE GIRL,
Drowns Herself in Harbour.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
Total Sta
The death of a Japanese girl
What is the quaintest character named Hurako Ishiyama, the 14 you have ever met in real life? A year old adopted daughter of reader sends a Home paper the Takutaro Ishiyama, proprietor of following little sketch of one he the Iroha Hotel, No. 1 Hautong sees daily
"His self-appointed task is lane, was the subject of an enquiry conducted by the Coroner (Mr. Ralking stick. I don't know just sticking cigar-bands round his
E. Lindsell at the Magistracy.
It is very satisfactory to learn that there is nothing like an yesterday afternoon. Sitting on [how many be requires to com- abatement of interest being shown the Bench with the Coroner was plate his task, but I have seen six in the work of the Hongkong Mr. Kuga, Japantse Vice-Consalat a time. With his old stick branch of the Navy League. The The girl lived with her parente commences quite early and under his arm, bandle outwards, list of members is growing steadi- in the Iroha Hotel in Wanchai. Is, and be their constant advocacy and, as far as is known, had bad vigilantly scans pavement and of the upholding of our Naval
gutter for the object of his search. [no quarrel with anyone in the prestige and the strengthening of household on the day before her an bis stick in triumph, his step As each is discovered and pasted; our Beats, the local branch has
death.
The facts, disclosed by becames lighter and a look of become a valuable coadjutor. to those at home. A striking ex- the evidence of the various wit satisfaction comes over his face. ample of the interest shown by asses called, were briedy that What becomes of those cigar the members of the League in the deceased went out, estensibly is clean, and he has disposed of shortly after 6 pm. on May 4th bands? Every morning his stick Hongkong has just been brought under our notice. Mr. Claud to post a letter. As she did not yesterday's collection in some Ley Kum. British subject, who return after 7 o'clock a search was way. It may be worth my while joined the branch of the League made for her by her father and some day to inquire of the eld here, has had a large picture in her uncle, which went on up to man, but up to the present I am oils of the Chica squadron (as 2 or 3 am. The search proved un-too much awed at the whole many would wish rosee it) pain-availing. A report was made to basiness."
&
ed for presentation to the head-the police by the girl's uncle. quarters in London. We have Hakeihi lasue. On the 5th infor been favoured with large mation was received by the girl's. portrait of the picture, and judg. ing by it Mr. Ley Kum is certain ly to be congratulated on the splendid taste he has shown in the matter. The vessels are seen at anchor in Hongkong Harbour ant in the background is an ex- cellent view of the Peak and city.
An interesting souvenir linking father from the Japanese Consul- the names of Dickens and Jobn ate that the body of his daughter Forester has been presented to the the London Library. It is the old had been found floating in harbour.
bracket clock which through Dr. J. T. Smalley, Government many a year hung in Forster's Medical Officer in charge of the library, and reminded him of end- Kowloon Mortuary, gave evidenceless appointments with the great as to the post-mortem examination.give in volume form. Forster novelist whose "life" be was to
He said that the girl was ally dressed. There were two bands London, founded in 1840 at the an original member of the The annual general meeting off of cloth tied round her thighs, one instance of Carlyle: hence na the Hongkong Chess Club was of them over her clothes half way better home could be found for held at Thoma's Grill Room, yes-between the hips and knees and the this particular gift. The clock terday evening at 5.15 p.m. The other over her innermost garment had passed into the bands of Chair was taken by Col. the about seven inches above the knee. Judge Chitty, whose descendants O'Gorman. Among those present) Round the neck there was a double were Messrs. H. E. Fallack, E. J.fturned red cloth tied
bare with generous thought front presented it. Moses. C. M. de Jesus. J. H. Dr. Smalley said that he presumed
THE CHESS CLUB.
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in
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Pidgeon. G. Pierey, W. C. Barlow the girl first attempted to strangle | and others. The Secretary's re-herself,
rot succeeding. Coventry, for which Mr. Lloyd port was read and approved and threw berself into the George has to find a new Bishop, it was decided to continue the water. Death was due to down-counts Dr. Yeatman Biggs as its
lease of the FOO
be. 8.9
jing and not tɔ strangulation. fore. To provide members with a weekly game and a
The girle father said he could weekly problem during the sum-ggest no reason why his daugh mer months it was agreed to ter should have committed suicide. leave the Committee the duty of "She had been in the habit of arranging for another all against reading novels unnt for young all tournament at class odds and apple," was the only explanation problem solving competition. The which he could offer.
first prelate of the modern dis- pensation, tnt Coventry hart her Bishops and her cathedral loag 30. The stately cathedral was completely destroyed at the Re- formation, but over a long period Lichfield, and Coventry were co- in our early history Chester,
ordinated As sister cathedral cities. The Bishops took their titles indifferently from any of the three, and for this reason, the arms of the See of Chester still bear three mitres. The whole district answers roughly to the know-old kingdom of Mercia,
Was she like any
number of the Committee was
No Love Affair. reduced to fire and Colonel the
The Coroner: O'Gorman, Messrs. Piercy, de Jesus, Moses (Treasurer) and Bar-other girls of her age? Τα κ (Secretary)
were
daly Witness: She talked like an old appointed. A very heart rate woman.
of thanks was given to Mr. The Caroser: To par Pollock, the retiring Secretary ledge had she any love affair for his exertions to establish th- 'N club on a firm basis and advance its interests in many ways.
ROBBERY EPIDEMIC
6)
A good number of visitors look-
The witness did not disclose that the deceased was his adopted ed in at St. Paul's Cathedral to see the newly-acquired picture. daughter unti che Vice-Consul
which has just been bung in the A regrettable feature of the questioned him
that point South chito aisle. The subject is report of the Captain Superioten Deceased, he said, had been in his that of "The Dead Christ" and sten: of Police is the number of househ, id for five or six years.
in treatment everything points to cases of robbery with violence "Supposing she committed sub-early 17th. century work. Ro- and the very small proportion of side can you give any reason why macelli, the artist, was an Italien arrests and convictions. This she should have done so was of Viterbo, where some of his pic- seems to show that our secret! the question put by the Coroner tures are preserved. Tbs canvas police are not as well informed of to the next witness, the girl's has been presented to the Cathe. the arrival bere of armed rumians Bacle.
dral by the Duke of Bedford, and
The Corner:
from the mainland as is desir Witness: As I have told the goes well with the two Watts's able, and if the cause of this is Water Police the girl was very and "The Light of the World.” to be traced to the lack of fond of reading tragic novels, funds wherewith to induce shady which made her hysterical. characters to give away "their!
The overcoat has apparently How did she become a problem in Berlin. confederates then we trust the secret service funds will be show hysterics2-Very often she And not without reason.
No: took a book to the hills.de to read long ago zugmented without delay. In any
a clever shop-lifter case we think this question of and then came home crying. carried away half a breakfast ser ganz robberies requires carefull That doesn't rebunt for her vice in one, and such a garment investigation and We would committing suicide?-She said she is now, by those in authority, looked upon with as much suspi- a Con- was very tired of the world. suggest therefore that mission be appointed to go into The
cion as a burglar's jemmy. Corner: Did she? other day, as I entered a cafe." the matter thoroughly and make that age? Were your sister and writes a correspondent from the ita report to the Government with her husband good to her?-Yes.
German capital, "I saw a man as little delay as prasible.
Do you know if she ever had being refused admission because LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLOR any love affair? No.
he was not wearing an overcoat,
FINED.
We publish in another column
a full report of proceedings in-
You believe she committed sui- cide?-Yes.
*The
You
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34 Mansions Raided in Daylight.
"Ach,
Herr Doctor." Baid Helene, in the aforesaid atrocious Berlinese. "I broke in at the back doors when the people went out at the front. I took what I could."
What did she do with the pro- For months past the dwellers in caeds of her raids on the villas? asked the doorkeeper the reason. the pleasant villas of Potsdam Apparently she sold them to a 'Well, he said, if he came in and several outlying, wall-to-do gang of receivers who traded on Evidence of the finding of the easily go out with one-
without an overcoat, he might suburbs of Berlin have been the her lack of knowledge of the value of her booty and gave her forenoon against the Hon. T. H. keng Yacht Club, North Point, at people might be up to. In one best people-Generals, high Gov-
ituted in the Police Court this body floating off the Royal Hong never know what thieving tricks Victims of mysterious thefts.
Thirty-four houses of the very little for the valuables she stole. Whitehead by the police, who 11 am on the 5th was given by chilly art gallery I was sternly
Helene clearly was mentally charged bim that, "on Saturday Lance Sergeant Scott. The body deprived
officials. ernment
fashionable defective, so paragraph 51 of the evening the 8th, instant he rode he said, bore no marks of violence. Things might be carried off in-have been entered in broad day applied. It decrees that a person! of my Overcoat doctors, Excellencies and judges State Law Book had to be a pony on the puble footpath in Queen's Road Central with- After a short adjournment the it,' said the keeper, with slander-light, and the thief was never as of wesk intellect mast be
Coroner said to the Japanese inter- ous frankees." obvion necessity," Whitehead stated in Court that Preter: Tell the deceased's father he lives at the Peak and being that the Japanese Consul and I are wilbont a change of clothing in satisfied that it is a case of suicide the City he took shelter under the whilst in a fit of temporary in verandabs. leading his pony to sanity, and I will record a verdict a place near the Club, where bis] to that effect.
out
Mr.
mafoo was waiting to take it back
•
acquitted.
:: much as seen. The villadwellers
became terror-stricken, and the And a receiver, charged with Eden Hall, in Cumberland, long local gunsmiths did a good trade her, had to be acquitted too, for, as the thief was declared legally the home of the Musgrave family, in revolvers.
Then, one happy day, the terror not guilty, the charge of receiving is to be immediately adapted for occupation as a girls school. The ended; it was announced that the stolen goods could not idea of converting one of our police had the mysterious thief
proceeded with! stately homes into a school is not under lock and key. A burglar
A
be
MRS. LLOYD GEORGE.
Re-elected to Criccieth Council By 404 Votes.
to the stables. A few people appear to have been lightly inconvent and was therefore properly sum-now. It must be 35 years since of international notoriety? enced by this and complained oned and fined. We are bound Redland Court, near Bristol, a housebreaker with European ex- to a constable who took out the earne thing would have been Bath, was turned into a girls' high merely an ordinary servant-girl, to assume that anyone else doing beautiful structure by Wood, of perience? A Raffies? Ob, no; summons against Mr. Whitehead and to-day he had the satisfaction treated in the same way-aven school. Much later Lord Lia-slow-witted, and speaking with an of seeing him mulcted in the sum. It mast bave been "crumbs" High Wysombe, became the home
the Major-General-but we doubt colnshire's Wycombe Abber, in atrocious Berlio accent.
UNROMANTIC ADMISSION. of $25 by the presiding Magistrate, who was, presurably, dissatisfied to the police to get a chance at of one of the best girls schools in Potsdam and the outlying, well- Dame Margaret Lloyd George with the plausible excuss offered the Hon. Member for the Cham the country. Since the outbreak to-do suburbs felt distinctly an- was re-elected by 404 votes at the by Mr. Whitehead and seems to ber of Commerce and the uncom of war Claremont, that once Royal noyed. They thought that they triennial election of urban coun-
& romanticcillare at Criccieth.- have thought the breach of the promising critic of the Govern- residence by Esber, has shared ought to have had
She was second on the list of 15 law so grave that the ends ofment. We hope the police will the same fate, and looks none the expert in crime, & film villain. justice woull not be attained by be equally active in all other cases worse for it. There are numerous But the prisoner at the bar was successful candidates, Miss Leah "Helene Bornschein, Thomas being first with 416 votes, the imposition of a merely nomin keeping the footways clear. As examples all over the country merely ical fine of, say 25 cents, or the rule they are cot, excepi perhaps to-day, and Stowe House, in domestic servant, aged 26."
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