SPECIAL
WHEN THE DAY WORK
IS DONE
there is no stimulant to equal a DGN and soda. It throws of the depression due to the climate, and fills one with the necossary vigour, with no unpleasant after effects.
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JUST TO DAY when yon feel SCOTCH WHISKY fagged out try a DON and soda. You will appreciate the. excellence of this mellow, aged, pre-war favourite.
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LOTOL
18 HARMLESS TO CLOTHES OR OTHER FABRICS.
EVAPORATES AND LEAVES NO STAIN.
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METAL SURFACES. OR
DOES NOT LEAVE ANY STAINS ON WALLS OR WALL-PAPER, AND COMPLETELY DIS. APPEARS IN ABOUT 30 HOURS, AT A TEMPERATURE OF 70 DEOREES F.
A SANITARY FLUID HIGHLY RECOM- MENDED FOR DEODORIZING PURPOSES IN URINALS, CLOSETS AND OTHER SANITARY CONVENIENCES.
LOTOL 18 HARMLESS TO THE HANDS AND SKIN,
LOTOL HAS THE UNIQUE EFFECT OF MAKING
INSECTS LEAVE ALL CRACKS AND CORNERS THAT HARBOUR THEM AND COME OUT TO RE DESTROYED.
'ANY
MAY
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19, Wyndham Street.
HONGKONG.
THE - HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
DEFRAUDING THE
·GOVERNMENT.
CONCLUSION OF INTERESTING KOWLOON CASE.
Extraordinary and Unusual
TUESDAY, DECEMBER
1925.
PROPERTY SALE
WEST POINT SITE FOR $27,500;
Over $80 a Square Foot.
There was a small attendance nt Messra. Lammerts'. auction ooms, yesterday when property situated in the Western district
'After an unusual number of hearings, the ease conguraing six Chinese, who appeared before Mr. Was put up for sale by order of the mortgagor. Bidding was E. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon brisk however and resulted in Mr. Magistracy on charges of defraud Chau Yui becoming the new
owner at $27,500,000
ing the Revenue, was concluded yesterday, when two of the defer- dants were sentenced to torms of imprisonment while the others were aequited.
tion 7 of Section A of Marine The tot naisted of Subsec, Lot No. 95 Section A of Subsec
tion 1 of Subsection 8 of Section The charge, which is the first A of Marine Lot No. 96 und Sec- of its kind to be preferred against tion A of Subscrtion 1 of Section mon enfazed in the wine trade in B of Inland Lot Nu. 1311 together the Colony, was that the de- with the messunge thereon known fendants on October 14, conspired as No. 239 Des Voeux Road West, together and with other persons,
The property contains a total unknown, to diminish the King's aren, of 882 square feet, and is Revenue by precipitating the held under two several Crown denaturant in four drums con- Leases respectively, both for taining approximately 560 gallons terms of 999 years. The total of denatured spirit, with intent proportion of Crown Rent pay- thereby to reconvert denatured juble in respect of the property spirit, not duțiable "quer, inta is $6.92 per anffum. dutiable quor, and to evade pay- ment of duty on such reconverted and dutiable liquor.
Mr. J. D. Lloyd, Superintendent of Imports and Exports, prosecut
Opening at $20,000 with beds of $100 acceptable, two parties were In opposition and the price was rapidly pushed" up to $24,600, thereafter bidding was slow until
ed, and Mr. C. A. S. Russ appear- Mr. Chau Yui made the final
ed for the first and sixth defen-call as stated above, the other dants, while Mr. Leo d' Almada re-party with-drawing against his presented the others.
steady opposition.
Most Extraordinary Case.
The case for the prosecution having concluded at the previous hearing, when the fourth and Afth defendants were discharged, Mr. d'Almada, before calling his de fence, addressed the Bench, and aald he thought that the case was
OPIUM TRAFFIC.
UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF LABELS,
Fung Ping, an ex-employee of the most extraordinary and un-a curio shop at No. 15, Eastern usual one of conspiracy that his Street, was charged at the Central Worship would find in the annala Magistracy yesterday with posses- of our Criminal Law, His Worsion of one tael of opium and 176 ship would agree that it was for oplum labels, which were found in the prosecution to prove his clients a small drawer in his trunk, Mr. guilty before he called his defenc.. M. K. Lo defended. and he would submit "that there was not one tittle of evidence against the defendants, with the exception that it was proved they were fokis of wine shops, which he (Mr. d'Almada) would admit. He would go further and say that the defendants assisted in the denu-] turing of the spirits in one way or another, but there was not an fota of evidence of their having guilty of knowledge of the evasion
of the revenue.
Mr. Russ, who waived his right to address the Court first, said that he would associate himself with the remarks of his friend, and said that there was no doubt that the ring leaders had escaped.
His Worship said that he did not take the same view of the evidence as Mr. d'Almada, but after having gone through the evidence again he was inclinded | to agree with him as regards the
Only an Accountant,
The defendant stated that he had left his shop for some three months leaving his box on the pre- mises pending his return. He denied knowledge of the opium and; labels and remarked that if he had known they were there he would not have gone to the Police station to redeem the trunk.
The defence called a feki from
the shop who gave evidence of a quarrel between the manager and the defendunt.
The master of a timber shop, who had twenty years' experience in the timber trade stated that the drawers of the box were newl made.
discharged the defendant remark- His Worship (Mr. R. E. Lindsell)
had put the opium in the box. ing that it was possible somebody
third defendant, who would be discarried out the instructions given charged. The evidence against him was merely that he was ar to him by his employer. During rested sitting in a shop which had the course of his employment he been opened to carry out this con- had no knowledge that the shop spiracy.
was defrauding the Government. Explaining his, conduct on the day of the raid, the defendant said that Mr. Russ said that he would he ran away because he saw police When formally submit that there was no officers on the premises. evidence against the first defendant isken back to the house after his and would not put him in the box. prrest he accidently kicked a
The sixth defendant, giving bucket, spilling the contenta. evidence, said that he was engaged, Is Worship did he was satisf- as an assistant accountant in one ed the first defendant had know-- of the firms Involved in the con-ledge of the conspiracy, and he spiracy. On October 14, one day could not accept the statement after being engaged, the police made by the second defendant. The raided No. 1 Dundas Street, but first defendant would go to prison he was not arrested till two days for six months, while the second later, during which time he was would be sentenced to two months' at full liberty and not in custody. hard labour, the term to date from The second defendant stated that October 15. The sixth defendant he was engaged as a coolie and was discharged.
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Opinions flying about Cigarettes going--- All sorts of opinions. But mostly the same ciqarette
CAPSTAN
Jumbo's Jait Dying for the Chance
By Blosses
XMAS GIFT BOXES
• OF
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BE SURE THEY ARE EITHER
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AWW - NICE KITTY. CEE-I'VISA I ALAD
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LIKE YOU.
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:: TO THAT POOR
·LITTLE KITTY!