KOWLOON MATTERS.
"ERRORS OF JUDGMENT"! AT HOSPITAL
K.R.A, "ACTIVITIES.
לי ליני,
There was a good attendance of members when the Committee of the KRA. met this month, and they had a full agenda before them. The Treasurer reported eight now members of the Associa tion, one having sent the $2 sub- acription but not given his name. The envelope and dollar notes were solemnly passed round, but the Committee, although reputed to be a very representative one, lacks a second-sighted Sandy and the mystery remained unsolved)
RUSES AND TELEPHONES.
It was reported that the "Full Bus" sign-board, advocated by the Committee, would soon be in use, bat on the other more serious pro- blems connected with the bus wer-i vico, a final report cannot yet be given. In the same way certain improvements were reported in the telephone arrangements, but the Committee are stili in corres- pendence with the Company some questions of Major impor- tance.
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HOSPITAL COMPLAINT.
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THE HONGKONG/TELEGRAPH
FRIDAY JUNE 26, 1926.
LEAVES COLONY TO MORROW.
DAIRY FARM NEWS
CLOTHES FOR THE
Above is Mr. B. L. Froat, of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, who is proceeding Home to-morrow after 82 years in the East, of which 21 have been spent in Hongkong. (Photo: Ming Yuen).
THE OPIUM CASE.
THIS MORNING'S PROCEEDINGS. '
MRS. WU TE-CHEN.
SEEKING HUSBAND'S
RELEASE.
Kowloon residents who remen- ber with pleasure the fortnightly public concerts given for their benefit by the Ane Band of the lat Batth. of the. East Surrey Regi
O that was sold not by the ment, will be greatly disappointed
The arrest and detention of to learn that the Commilies have catty, but by the unit of solid General Wu' Te-chen on charges hand to abandon the hope of arrang, measure of the tael, constituted in connection with public funds an item so unusual from the view-whilst occupying the position of ing a similar series this year.point of the authorities as, to re- Commissioner of Police at Canton, The Lt.-Colonel commanding the Battalion has written: "It is elve their particular attention in is a matter which is receiving much regretted that the free con-investigations into the business considerable notice at the moment. certs, cannot again be given this affairs of Lo Yu-houng and his Considered in certain quarters nз foki, Yu Yau-heung, now under being somewhat precarious, the trial on charges. f extensive position of the General, who is deilings in opium
now being detained in the Faumun When the was resumed forts, opposite Whumpöa, has been It may be remembered. that a before Mr. R. E. Lindsell. this the subject of speculation within complaint relating to the Kowloon morning, the principal defendant the last few days, and the views Hospital came up before the April was not present, and in explana-and decision of General Chang tion of this was stated by Mr. M. Kai-shek, who directed his arrest,. meeting of the Committee and was K. Lo, defending, that the man are still being awaited as to the referred to the Principal Civil was pressed to go to Canton to disposal of the General's case. Medical Oncer. The attitude of consult a German doctor as he was
Yesterday a development occur- the Medical Department was the suffering from consumption, and red in the arrival. in Hongkong End made an application for of the wife of the imprisoned reverse of conciliatory, but, as the fortnight's adjournment until his General. Mrs. Wu Te-chen came complainant had referred the mat-return. Alluding to a misappre-down from Shanghai on 44 ter to His Excellency the Governor hension that might be engendered Japanese boat, and the urgency of and a Government enquiry was in by this absence, Mr. Lo said that the mission which presumably she progress, and as, moreover, the he had been particularly informed is engaged upon, may be judged President of the K.R.A. was a wit- of the trip, and, in connection from the fact that, having only ness in the enquiry, the Commit with the application, Mr. Lo was obtained a brief rest, the hurried tee, at its May mucting, decided confident that the defendant, so up to Canton to-day by the morn- to await the Government's finding. for from wishing to avoid the ing boat. The Committee, at this month's issue, was very desirous to have
In an appeal, for the release of meeting, received, through the the whole matter thrashed out her husband, which, it is pre- On instructions, sumed, Mrs. Wu is now being President, a report of the Govern- on his return. ment's finding. While the Com- Mr. Lo had a conference with Mr. engaged on, it is thought that she mittee cannot conceal the fact that Eldon Potter and the result of that will endeavour to obtain a per-
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IMPRESSIVE CLOSING SCENES.
Chicago, June 24.
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The grass-covered hills rounding the cloistered Seminary of "Mundelein, 35 miles north of [Chicago, were the scene of the closing rites of the Eucharistic Congress. Seven hundred thou Garden Lot No. 24, situate at sand pilgrims at High Mass form Magazine Gap, was sold by auc-a semi-circle mile-a-half deep, tion at the PW. D. offices. Hav ing an area of 7,500 square feet, nullifying the efforts of the police the upset price was $390, for to keep free the grounds reserved which it was purchased by Mfr. for the clergy. Duncan Clark. **
The following items are extract. General the complaint was well grounded, conference nevertheless it is with sincerc strengthen Mr. Lo in his belief of Chang Kai-shek, in which connected from the Telegraph files for the satisfaction that the Committee the defendant's eventual return.tion mention is made of support week ended June 24th, 1905: makes known at the same time in any case, the Court had the having been received by Mrs. Wu of "estreating the de- from influential quarters in her that the whole case was made the option subject of very careful investiga-fendant's bail should he not turn appeal for clemency towards the tion by the Government, that His up at the stipulated date.
detained official. Excellency the Governor has, Mr. J. D. Lloyd, Superintendent through the Colonial Secretary, ex- of the Imports and Exports De-
How a young Walsall miner has pressed regret for the misunder-partment, who prosecuted, had been helped by his real godmother standings and criors of judgment nothing to say, but the Magistrate a "fairy godmother" in human which led to the incident complain- decided to go on with the case. ed of, and has awarded blame
form is revealed by the will of Miss Margaret Emily Bromhall, of where blame seemed duo, and also the Secretariat of Chinese Affairs, Walsall. Twenty-one years ago that an amendment of Ordinance handed in a number of documents Miss Bromhall was told that a No. 6, 1906 is under consideration purporting to be translations and poor woman who had gone to Rus-
Mr. G. Kennedy-Skipton, from
Shareholders of the Hong-
The proceedings wound up with
a monster pageant featuring thir-
SEVERE-HAILSTORM.
Later.
with a view to the better protec- Precis of business letters seized hall church to have her baby chris- the second Test Match between events in the history of the Roman A London telegram stated that teen cars symbolising the major tion of the rights of patients and by the revenue departinent in a tened had no
no sponsors. Mies their relatives. Having received raid on the defendant's business Bromhall, who was in the church- England and Australia was aban- Catholle Church Reuter's Ameri- "this evidence of the Government's offices it. Lee Yuen Street, and head, offered to stand as god-doned on account of drenching can Service.
conciliatory and sympathetic atti-explained certain references con-mother. To her godson she has rain. tude, it is small wonder that the tained therein as having a con- now left £600. Her charwoman Committee availed themselves of nection with the subject matter will receive £100, and an annuity the opportunity of renewing the of the case. In particular hereof £26 is left to the woman who hong High Level
Hailstones, liat an inch in request of the Kowloon Residents ferred to a shipment of "oil con- looked after Miss Bromball before Co. confirmed, resolutions for throngs of worshippers at the Tramways diameter, suddenly fell on the Association that patients in the tained in kerosine tins that was her death. A further 6,000 is the registration of Kowloon Hospital should be allow-sold by the tael at Swatow" and left to local charities,
height of the proceedings at company, to be called the éd to be attended by their own to a shipment of 74 tins, worth|_
three o'clock in the afternoon. docu-eak Tramways Co., Ltd., and the There was vivid lightping, the gale of the old Company to the thunder resounding throughout. new concern at a price of $200 the vast Seminary grounds. The per share. Mr. Henry Humphreys deluge sent the pligrims scurrying presided at the meeting.'"
for shelter to escape from the severest storm for many months.-- Reuter.
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Chinese merchants at Peking boycotted American goods, by reason of the new exclusion law, and incited others to follow suit.
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private doctors, if they so desire. $900 per tin,, and in respect of ferences to the principal
which Yu You-heung, (the ments concerning the second de- principal defendant) had a shore fendant... The attention of the Committe of one tin."
Later, Mr. Lo intimated that as was next called to the fact that the Alluding to certain letters, he had accepted that a prima 'hawkora' cries,' which had been al- which, in the view of the witness, facie case had been made out by
most silenced in the region south "form a connective narrative of the prosecution they would of Austin Road by the prompt and dealings," Mr. Lo submitted as didly came out with the point that effective action of the police, were being "bad doctrine" that any all that witness had produced now tuning up again. It was, ac- thing that might bo produced as from the documents was in allu- cordingly, resolved to write to the evidence against other persons insion to dealings in oplum.. He Captain Superintendent of Police other places should be taken a wished to put a "vital question" At the fourth annual meeting: thanking for the energetic mea-evidence against the second de to witness," in the query as to gures taken and urging the con- fendant, simply on the supposed how much of the evidence from of shareholders of the Light tinuous enforcement of the law. ground' that he was connected the documents had shown that the and Power Co., Ltd. (Mr. R. Shp It was announced with regret with them or associated with them second defendants was in the Cowan presiding), it was stated that that Mr. H. S. Rouss, who had been as a gang of fifty men dealing in lony during the period covered by Invited to join the Committee in opium, the place of Mr. E. Cock, was not. Mr. Lo objected in particular, free to accept the invitation, Mr. certain letters with which the to a letter alleged to have been ad- Mr. Kennedy-Skipton referred F. J. Easterbrook was then própos Becond defendant was"
as not directly dressed by one of the alleged part connected.
nors in the ring, to the second
ed and unanimously elected.
The question of bathing facill
ties In Kowloon was referred to
a Sub-Committee appointed to deal. with it-Communicated.
the case
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At the end 1904, the Colony's had been obtained at the latter total assets were $1,651,470, with oficial yamens. At a inter meet place, including the lighting of liabilities amounting to $1,147,658.
Mr. Lo on the point of law thus eile here during the material creation of 20,000 shares of $10 Sergt. J. S. Gubbay and Gunner rnised, but allowed the admission period.
Mr. Lindsell concurred with defendant as evidence of his domi-ing, the capital of the Company
was increased to $500,000 by the Sergt. Major H. W. B. Kennett,
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The case la continuing..
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