WING ON CASE.
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the labels he used a special long with a magnification which enabled him to measure accurate ly to a two hundredth part of an inch, Ho repeated his measuro- ments for the purpose of checking his observations,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1926.
HONGKONG IMPORTS.
"CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
REPORT.
The following is from the fort- nightly market report issued by the Hongko g General Chamber of
Commerce
Cotton Piece Goods and Fancy Cotton Goods.-There are no signs NINA'S FIGURES LONGER,
of improvement in market con- The result of his observations ditions and no sales of any magni- was that he found the figures on tude are reported. The fall in "Nina's" label to be approximately exchange tends to make the placing one. tenth longer than on any other of orders a difficult matter. Do book he examined. This he con-liveries still remain relatively sidered a considerable difference poor. Eg. Sakel. has advanced to in figures of this size. The colour 16.30d whilst Mid. Am. "Spot" has and texture of the corner of "Nina" declined to 9.90d. was different from that of "Emma."
"Emma" had a double row of stitching at the back one row of stitching holes having no cotton in.
The case la proceeding.
CORRESPONDENCE,
[To the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph.]
A HOT WEATHER SUGGESTION.
AHEAD OF MALL.
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS..
Calcutta, March 30,
said to have been practised by an The story of alleged witchcraft; olderly up country woman, Sara. patia Dosadin, on a child with fatal results, has been reported to the Calcutta North District Police.
According to the father of the child, the woman, who was 4 well- known witch of the locality, had a quarrel with his wife.
Is the
course of the quarrel Sampati Dosadin muttered something to the Cotton Yarn.-A limited busi-effect that she would see that the ness has been put through at a re-child died, and the child was found duction in prices of $2 to $3 per dead yesterday. The father trac- bale.
Market
closed quiet. ed the woman and begged of her to- Nominal quotations are as follows: bring the child back to life. She No. 10s. $160/170. No. 128. agreed to do so, and asked the $165/180. No. 168. $180/186. No. father to take the child, to a burn- 20%. $100/135. Arrivals 1,000 ing ghat. This was done. There bales. Shipments Nil. Unsold the woman went through a process stocks 7,500 balcs. Bargaina 2,400 of sorcery. But as the child did bales.
not show any sign of life the mat- ter was reported to the Police who took the woman into custody.
Woollens-Very little demand. Raw Cotton-No süles to report. Metals.-Market, dull, nothing
doing.
Quiet. Quotations:
Window Glass.-Local plentiful.
stocks
Sugar.Market dull. Saltpetre-Stocks 12,000 bags Unexpected heavy drop in Rupec Exchange has entirely checked ready and forward transactions.
ECHO OF MEXICAN
OUTRAGE.
It is understood that Marshal Foch intimated that, having fought the War, he did not want to fight the peace.
The Matin significantly re- marked: "People in this country are not paniestricken, but they are coming tired of political trick- They are straining their eyes trying to find n' man to lead them out from the present chaos."
sters,
DUKE OF ORLEANS DEATH. *
DICTATORSHIP IN FRANCE.
London, March 30. Flour Market Report Stocks: According to some London re- About 600,000 sucks. Sir-Some few weeks ago,
Market: ports a group of Senators, béjong.. American ing to noticed that the Macau Steamboat Patent, $4.30 per suck; American French Senate, visited Marshal the Right Wing of the Company advertised that special Straight, $3.55 per sack; American Fosh, and sounded him on his will- excursions would be made to Cut off, $3.55 per sack; Australian ingness to become dictator. Macau, and that зл orchestra No. 1, 33.58 per sack; Canadian would provide the music for dane-Cut-off, $3.15 per sack.. ing. Since I have been in Hong- kong, I seem to remember seeing a anggestion that excursion steamorr should make circalar trips of the Island. Now it seems to me that some such venture would prove im mensely popular, and 1 am sur prised that nothing has so far beer done with the exception of the musical trip to Macau. For that I cannot speak, but I do feel that bi-weekly or even weekly trips around the island of Hongkon would prove a great attraction, es pecially during the hot weather The fare could be sufficient, to make the venture worth while to the Company. Three dollars would not be excessive, because, one ha to pay considerably more to en circle Hongkong by motor ear.
On moonlight nights the thought of a couple or more hours on the sen is most enchanting. In orde to safeguard the Company, it might be advertised that booking would be necessary, and that unless certain number of passengers book ed by a certain date, the trip would not be made, I am surt you will be thanked by a great num- ber of people if you can in any way influence the Company to make a trint-Yours, etc.,"
INVIGORATING, Hongkong, April 25, 1926.
GALLIPOLI ANNIVERSARY.
CELEBRATED IN LONDON.
London, April 25.
A RE-TRIAL ORDERED.
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On the other hand, supporters of the direct branch of the Bourton family regard Don Jaime, King Alfonso's cousin, as sucessor..
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ed. One may say that perhaps his misfortunes were largely his own; fault in that he did not write to his wife at Malneca and keep her! that he did not do so is in no way apprised of his movements; butj
surprising to those who are acquainted with the life of the Chinese in Malaya.
Paglandi
Sir John A. Bucknil, who was Attorney-General in Hongkong, and afterwards Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements, and is now in during the Great War there have I should have thought that India, discusses, in a letter to The arizen cases somewhat of this type. Times, some cases of mistaken pre-I may mention that it was only as sumption of death, from which the result of certain secret Informa- London, March 30. following extract is of interest totion received by me that deaths The Duke of Orleans' death has our readers:-A Chinese "Towkay" were not presumed in the case of caused profound consternation in (leading man) of Malacca, who several persons who were passen- French Royalist circles due to the was engaged as a merchant in agers from Singapore on board the fact that the Duc de Guise will now large way of business, Jeft his home! Yunarose steamer Hitachi Mary. Mexico City, April 25. become Pretender to the French to go to Rangaon (where he was This ship was Yu-In Engl There was a re-echo of a cele-throne, under the rules of succes-interested in trade in rice), for one during the war, and after she left brated
case to-day when thesion to the House of France, but of his periodical visits; he expected Colombo to travel round the Cape Supreme Court ordered the restrial if the Duc de Guise accepts the to be away for some few months. of Good Hope (the Mediterranean of Alejo Garela and Francisco Ruiz, France in accordance with the law owning in the neighbourhood of heard of for a very long time; it title he will be obliged to leave He was a well-to-do gentleman, being then too dangerous) was not who were sentenced to death for of 1886.
Malacca a quantity of house pro-was supposed that she had struck the alleged murder of Mrs. Evans,
perty and land. His wife he left a mine and had been lost. Some the wife of a British subject, in
behind. He did not return for of the passengers possessed busi- 1924. The Court held that the
several months; but two Chinese ness and property in the Straits original trial was full of errors.
men arrived in Malacca and saw Settlements, and applications were The order automatically stays" the
his wife, telling her that her hus-made to the Supreme Court on death sentence.--Router.
band had died in their presence behalf of the relatives of those London, March 30.
Kangoen not long previously and missing persons that their deaths that they had been present at his might be presumed in order that The Crown Colony of British Honduras i benent by an as-funeral. He had left no will, and probate of their wills or letters of tonishing windfall in the form of the wife applied to the Malacca administration to their estates a legacy by Lord Bliss, who died Registrar for letters of adminis might be issued from the Registry. ADOPTED BY CHAMBER.
aboard his yacht at Belize, theration to his estate; the two men These, applications were supported capital of Honduras on March 9th, and she swore affidavits which by afidavits which certainly tend- thoroughly satisfied the Registrated to show that there was little Paris, April 25..
According to an intimation re-that the gentleman was dead. He doubt that the ship had foundered ceived from Mr. Algernon Aspin The Chamber has adopted the Aspinall, Lord Bliss has bequeath-was, perhaps, not sufficiently cau- with all hands. I was not myself whole of the 1926 Budget by 427ed to the Colony a fortune. estimat-administration to the lady, who might not have been some other
tious, but he issued letters of altogether satisfied that
there
voles to 15.-Reuters.
ed locally at £25,000 annually. sold most, if not all, of her hus solution of the disappearance of The Governor, Colonial Secte band's immovable property for ex-the ship, as the German raider tary and Attorney-General have cellent value at auction with the Wolf was supposed to have been been appointed trustees with full sanction of the Court; the proceeds operating in the neighbourhood of powers.
in cash were dissipated; it was Madagascar. I therefore refused alleged that one (at least) of the the applications to presume death, two men obtained a good deal of but I appointed a receiver to carry the money, but they both disappear on the affairs of the persons who
were missing.
Some weeks after I had taken
FRENCH BUDGET.
Paris, April 25, The Chamber,, discussing the Budget, has passed the clause establishing an independent re- The cleventh anniversary of the demption curd, It has also pass landing on Gallipoli was celebrated ad Olause 1, which fixes the Budget lo-day when, those who served int 37,376,000,000 francs expendi-] Gie famous 29th Division assembled ture and 37,517,000,000 revenue. on the Here Guards parade and Reuter. afterwards marched to the Ceno tnph, where wreaths were laid af ita base.
Folk who distrust banka, like General Sir Ian Hamilton, who the Sydney woman who buried was. Commander-in-Chief at Gallic12,000 in gold in her gardon, aro poli afterwards took the salute-art to choose strange hiding- British Wireless.
SYRIAN TROUBLE.
..
FRENCH CAPTURE DRUSE CAPITAL.
It is stipulated that only British material and labour must be wol in development schemes.
all
Lord Bliss's will provides £100 (ed. annually on a regatta, for his burial at Fort Gedige, and for the erection of a granite monument alongside, on which there will be an eighty foot obolisk showing red light for the use of shipping
places for their wealth. A fow NEW SHAH OF PERSIA.
years ago a policecourt case revealed the fact that a London woman kept her money hidden in her mother's grave in a subur- ban cemetery, and quite a number of porsone seem to put trust in the security of cannon as bank-
A WEEK'S FESTIVITIES.
Teheran, April 25. The new Shah has been crowned, ing-places, In a solitary gun in and the ceremony will be followed a fort near Shoreham was found by a wook's festivities, including a parcel of jewellery, and in an Beirut, April 26. bid Crimean gun at Liverpool, the opening of the wireless station, Te French troops captured some while ago, an inquisitivo and night-time illuminations and Sucida, the capital of the Jebel youngster discovered a roll of fireworks. Receptions are being Druses to-day after six hours notes, wrapped in a soldier's) fighting-Reuter,
discharge papers, to the value of arranged by the various Legations. over £100.
4.
Later, Druses engaged in the defence of Suelda were estimated as being. over six thousand strong. They desperately resisted the French attacks and suffered heavy losses. The French captured two guns.- Reuter.
TO-DAY.:
Dollar on domand 28.2.7/168.
Lighting-up.
6.48 ..
Barometer2 p.m.)
29.90
Temperaturo 2 p.m.)
66
Humidity 12 pmd.
87
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Quite a considerable time after this step I received information this had happened some from a source (which I do not returned to Malacca; he had been to the effact that this Japanese months had elapsed the husband think I am at liberty to divulge) unexpectedly detained in various ship had been, in fact, captured places. It is possible (for it is by the Wolf. It was not, however, not wrong in any way, according to until some months later that any the Chinese view in Malaya) that definite- news was made públic He had another wife und family in (even if it was known) as to the Rangoon. At any rate, on his refate of the passengers on the ves- turn (very much alive) he found sel; their ship had been sunk, but himself presumed dead, his proper they had beer transforred to an- ty sold, and his wife the only victim other prize which the Wolf took upon whom he could vent his with her and nearly succeeded in wrath. She was prosecuted, but bringing back-safely with her to thought she had been deceived by ever, is that this Spanish vessel found not guilty by a jury which Germany. My recollection, how- the two visitors. The "Towkay" had to part company with the Wolf brought actions against the purwing to a storm, and went ashore chasers of his property; but the on the coast of Denmark; some of direct sanction of the Court, and Wolf itself, and one I know WES sales had been conducted with the the passengers were on board the the price paid to the administra interned for a long time in Bavaria. trix, and his actions were dismiss-
THE MAN WHỖ Bucked his MANGO”
Trouble occurred yesterday between sixty and seventy Shang- hai men, at a tea shop in Canton Road, Kowloon, apparently owing to the fact that one of them re- fused to pay for some tea. The mon, who are employed by a Jocal building firm, assemblod outside the shop, and a report WB8 Rent to the Water Polica. The man was taken to the Polico Station, where be paid his debt, and it was after whon his friends triod to create a disturbanco. A posse of policó was sent to the soone, but overy- thing was quiet wh they arrived,
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