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At7 p.m. yesterday fire broke Woman Fined for Perjury. out in a large malahed arealed on Fossendon of üžicit oplum w34 the reclamation in Shaukiwan the charge against two Chinese
British - India". Steam for Chinees theatricals. The shed at the Magistroy this morning. Navigation, Co's; as " Egra " had been used earlier in the day Mr. R. & Lindsell bearing the (Capt. G. W. Sinclair) was on fete, it caught fire. Two Chinese Yesterday the police searched midday to day when the Cam- firemen on duty during the junk lying off Tin Lok Lane and entertained its Chinese
alientale, the vessāls having just | demolition and a police con-fading the first defendant and ⚫ been par on the Stralia-China atable ancceeded in extinguishing woman
on board, ordered the Hitherto the flames before much damage latter to produce the opium. Thes-bean
the "Egra" the Calcutta- was done.
woman went to the stern and Rangoon Singapore run, carry- brought out 34 packets ing mails. It is now on its of FAW - opium aggregating initial voyage under the new re- The police have detained a man, 1,380 formerly pawnshop scooun-man and woman had been taken Bime, having come from Sing- tant who was alleged to have to the Water Police Station, the wharf. From here the "Egra
apore in 4 days, I hour, wharf to been in collusion with a robber police arrested the second de gang tonberned in a robbery at fendant, who was pointed out by a pawnshop at 950, Shanghai the woman. Street, Yumati,
The “EgraTM is of 5,108 .tous In the witness-box this morning, February last. Defendant was the woman denied that it was sheThe vessel is of the twin-screw gross, 425k. long, and 52ft. beam. accountant of the pawnshop and who was instrumental in the is alleged to have admitted the arrest of the second man. marauders. In the robbery, the
On account of the unsatie- pawnshop sustained the loss of factory evidence, the Magistrate about $19,000 is money, jewellery discharged the second defendant, and other valuables.
who was defended by Mr. A. E. Hall, and ordered the woman to Following the receipt of in-wait. in Court His Worship sentenced the first accused to six formation of a schame to rob a Jowellery shop in Shankiwan last months' hard labour. night, a trap was arranged by the An application for the confisca pelice and a cordon of detectives tion of the junk was conds by the was stationed round the place police. and the adjoining shops. Soms
The Magistrato sail that he time after the police arrived, five considered it would be a big men walking along the street penalty if the junk were confis wore suspected and apprehended. cated, and asked for the produc The police found a resolver, sion of records of previous cases which was the subject matter of for guidance.
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The womas in the case was
s charge against the five men at the Magistracy this morning. then charged with wilful and The men were remanded to en-corrupt perjury, able the police to prosecute fur- ther enquiries.
type, 7,000 hp, sad is capable of developing seventeen knots.
first-class passengers, 38 second- class, and 2,000 3rd-class (deck tween decks have sleeping plat- passengers). A feature is that the forms. The decks are sheathed with teak.
There is accommodation for 30)
A numerous company of Chin- sse obviously enjoyed themselves while inspecting this commodious vessel, the tour of the abip being interspersed with refreshments and enlivened by the band of the King's Regiment,
ALARMIST RUMOURS IN SHANGHAL
Gen. Ho Feng-ling and his Post. Sub-Inspector Shannon reiter.
Ramours of impending bestil- ated in the witness box the stateities in the neighbourhood of ment that the woman pointed out shangbai ware widely discussed the second defendant in the pre-in Chinese circles yesterday. Today's Canton Times says:vions case, was supported by the
[states the N. C. Daily News of the The people in Canton are quite evidence of a Chinese detective.
121st inst. excited and furious aver thei The woman was fined $50, or notice issued by the Traffic two months' hard labour. Manager of the Canton-Kowloon! Railway. This notice requires, that all fares and freights must be paid in Hongkong currency or ita | equivalent in Canton sub- sidiary coln. The Cantonese 270 very indignant over this notice, for the Chinese Section of the said railroad is owned and operated by Chinese. Why
TENNIS LEAGUE.
ATTEMPTED ARMED ROBBERIES.
A Brave Woman. Two attempted armed robberies
Arm
In connection with the more- ment to annul the Tuchanship, it is believed that Wo Pei-fu and Taso Kun have applied to Peking for the abolition of the Shanghai and Sungkinng Military Gor. jernorship. The office is at present held by Gen. Ho Feng-ling, who is believed to have Fengtien sympathies. According to the Chinese press, Admiral Tu Shih- kuei, commanding the Second
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century of life, we shall watch the octogenarian's career with more studied carefulness. Sixty years ago Sir George Are the clergy specially.subject | Cornewall Lewis said there was
The little German town of
should the manager refuse to occurred yesterday, one of them accept his own provincial sub-being prevented by a woman. It Squadron of the Navy, who sidiary coins for payments but appears that at Bea.m. two men gave valuable assistance to Gen.
ia the recent to "Spoonerisms," or is it only anno authenticaled instance of a welcome promissory notes issued broke into 37 Keelung Street, Wa Pel-fu by the Hongkong bankers !
Shamshuipo, and held up a shop fighting, has been recommended unkind rumour? We sak, says centenarian since Biblical days. keeper who was seized by the left by the Chihli leader for the post Bome paper, because a friend told At that time compulsory registra
by one of the robbers of Chief of the Admiralty here, as of his curate, who returned tion was still in its infancy, and as he was leaving his cubicle. The Admiral is said to have des recently from yisit to we had only fugitive family Astracted by the noise, the wife patched 6 000 of his men, "wbo Switzerland. Trying to describe Bibles and erratic monumental of the shopkeeper arrived on the have been trained to fight ashore," his amotions as he stood at the masons to rely upon. scene and grappled with the to Shanghai. This force is to meet edge of a precipice, admiring the Indians' Unbeaten. Fecord. armed with s revolver, fight, or if General Ho refuses to Oh that I could convey to Tostede, like all others, hates the
robber, despite the fact that the local garrison should it show grandeur of the scenery, he said: In the "A" Division, the and succeeded in freeing her vacate his office.
you, by any power of speech, my profiteer, a person who still The latter at
The Minkuopao states that the ecstasy as I stood there on the flourishes mightily once
in the Indian Recreation Club are to be husband. congratulated on winning the escaped through the window and General on Monday summoned busy drink."
Fatherland. To show its intense League with the maximum 180t into an adjoining bouse and the City Magistrate, the Chief of
dislike, it has just issued paper number of points. There is one then slid into the street by the the Chinese Police and other The right of search, so long money in the shape of 50-pfen- interesting match still to be play-drain pipe. Es blew a police functionaries, to a conference to exercised by woman, is threaten nige (half & mark) notes, the In the ed. In the Senate of Maryland picture on one side of which ed in this division, between Hong-whistle and tea minutes later, discuss the situation. koog ant the U.S.R.C. This will when he returned to his house, he meanticle it is asserted in other has been introduced & Bill making presents the town's idea of how take place on the Club ground on found that the robbers had de-quarters that several members of it unlawful for wife to search profiteers should be dealt with, Saturday, and will settle whether camp d without stealing any the Kuomintang who have taken the pockets of her husband for the figures being shown suspend- these two Clube are to be bracker-thing. His wife was not molested refuge in Shanghai are stirring hidden treasure, which prompts ad from a bough). Abore ed for second place.
by the robbers. On the staircase up trouble in this port, Yangchow an impenitent bard to the follow The other postponed games are which had apparently been dis
the shopkeeper found a dagger and other towns in the province. ing:
Yesterday a meeting was con- Club de Recreio versus Hona carded by the robbers when they yened in the native city attended kong. Civil Bervice and the
by representatives of numerous Chan Kwai-ching, of 46 Des commercial and political Voeux Road Central, reports ganizations to decide whether Pts. that at 8 p.m. last night three men they should request Gen. Ho to!
entered his house. Two of them offer no resistance to Admiral whipped out revolvers and asked Tu's forces.
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C. R. C.
H. K. C. C. K.0.0.
M. B. K
C. 8. C...
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"B" Division.
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In the B" Division, L. R. C. defeated, Queen's College by the narrow, margin of three games, which improves their position in! the table and gives them a chance of carrying off both trophies. However there is still a chance of all the four top Clubs finishing with the same number of points.
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1 7
7
8
6
2
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to see a man named Wong Ming. The above reports are "quoted Shouts of Robbers" were raised under all reserve. There is no by the foris at the back of the visible reason why General Wu shop, which compelled the in-Pei-fu should send a new Admiral, truders to take to their heels here with 6,000 marines and the before they succeeded in collect-story sounds very much like a ing any booty.
piece of anti-Wu propaganda.
SERVANT BECOMES A MILLIONAIRESS.
A Father's Death-Bed
Atonement.
WORLD-WIDE SPORT.
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the grim, waiting ravens is a Low German couplat, which sayı that if such a just fate overtook all profiteers, things would go better in Germany. But the German Government thinks the
notes are-much too gruesome-it)
hazards no opinion about the suggested riethod of dealing with profiteers and has ordered them to be withdrawn.
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Which is the least talkative profession? Barristers Andi solicitore can hardly compete, for talking is of the essence of their profession. But recent ex- periences suggest that a good claim might be made for dentista of the modern school. Perhaps there is something in the fact that their victims are not often in Lincoln's Inn, which celebrates a position to initiate much con. | its five-hundredth aniversary this versation during professional Hugh W. Cunningham, of Gul year, might perhaps have done so visits. One practitioner set up a Maria Fredridy, 18 years ago lane, has been appointed green- many years ago, if the exact date record by substituting bow for left by a stranger in the keeper and professional to Gos of its origin could have been dis- any words of greeting, indicating Destitute Children's Refuge of wick Gold Clab, Berwick-on-covered. Its existing records, the chair by a wave of the hand, Paris.
Tweed.
called the " Black Books," com- making his examination in Until a few days ago she was Falkirk are standardising their mence in 1422, but its "Admission | silence, and summing up the re- a poor village servant usid in the players' wages, and that decision Register" shows it had members sult in four words.
Two fillings, Pas de Calais department.
has retarded signing, but most of before this date. If also its name four extractions." To-day she has left for Italy, an the present League team are is derived from Henry de Lacy, heiress worth more than 500,000 expected to re-engage.
Eaxl of Lingeln, who died “at his' francs in negotiable securities Rangers bare re-engaged Robb, house called "Lincoln's Inn, near and more than 10,000,000 francs in Manderson, M'Candless Meikle Chancery-lane," in 1310, the real estate.
john, Dixon, Mairbead, Nicolson, society may really be more than Her father, Signor Fredridy, walls. Archibald, Cunningham, 600 years old. But whether the as Italian. of Troviso, 22 years Henderson, Hansen, Cairos, excl's mansion stood on what is
go met an Austrian woman Morton, and Laird
now known as Lincoln's Inn, and named Muller. She gave birth to J. GM'Intyre, the Scottish whether he founded the present" Baturday's matches 670 girl, who was called Maria. four miles champion, who won Inn, will probably remain saf und Hongkong v. U.S.R.C. in the “A” At the age of three the father the 10 miles championship at solved mystery. Division and the following "B" seat the baby to Paris, with or-Celtic Park by over "half a lap matches:-LRG. v. M.B.K.; C.ders that she be left at the Chil-from a record field of 27, is s Bir James Criston Browne, | mediaeval times probably one of de R. v. Police; C.S.C.O. v. Uni-dren's Refuge. The father, on postman. at Cardross Had be the eminent photo, who is the most Impregnable castles in versity; C.R.C.v. Queen's College: his deathbed, stated he had been pushed K.C.C.. Craigengower.
he could bave recovering from a sadour illness, | Englanda, Close by, on the 12th. abandoned his daughter, and improved upon his time of 54 is practically pledged craten. of May, 1264, was fought the ter It is hoped to have all the post-sized with remorse, he caused mins, 59 sece, but even as it is azian, although he has anotherrible battle of Lewes, in which poned matches played off next inquiries to be made,
this time has only been excelled 18 years, to CO. BATE 8 Writer | Simon de Montfort and his barons week, and to have the presenta- He died, but in his will, he left in a championship camection by in Home Journal Ten years gained a decisive victory over the tion of the shields and the match bis fortune to Maris should she J. Wilson, J. C. La Wallace 1: ggo, before his second marriage, forces of Henry II, and helped Champions versus the Rest, on be found. A few months ago a Jack, A. Hannab, 8. Bievenson, he contended that every buman to lay the foundation of English| Saturday the 13th,
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