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MR. KESKICK IN -COLONY.

FORMER JARDINS CHIỆP,

VLADIVOSTOCK INCIDENT.

DETAILS OF THE TRAGEDY.

SENTRY TO BE COURT-MARTIALLED.

An East News Agency mes- sage from Tokyo, on Jan. 11 stated: |

A dispatch from Vladivostock states that while a guard was on, pentry in front of the headquarters of the 11th Division of Pater the Great Road, on the 8th instant, at about 4.30

Harbouring a 15-year old unmır

Mr. Henry Keswick, ten years ago ried girl without the consent of her the head of Messrs. Jardine, Mathe parents or guardians, was the charge son & Co, in the East, who arrived preferred against a Chinese woman here several days ago on his yacht before Magistrate Lindsell at the the Cutty Sark," is on a tour of the Magistracy yesterday afternoon world, combining pleasure and bost- Another woman, arrested on a charge ness, and will remain here several of siding and abetting the defendant, weeks. On leaving Hongkong be was allowed bail in the sum of $500, will visit some of the coast ports and hut failed to surrender when the case Japan, and return to Erigland by way foreigner came up and focus- was called. The Magistrate there of the Panama Canal.

sed his pocket-lamp on the guard for ordered the bail to be estreated. Į Mr. Keswick left Hongkong in and on the headquarters. His action Mr. W. Schofield, chief assistant 1911, and this is his first visit since being suspicious, the guard called z to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, his departure. During the years he halt to the man in Russian repeated- appeared for the prosecution, Mr. G. was in the East he was chairman of G. N. Tinson for the defence,

the Municipal Council and Chamber of ly, but the latter, without respond- In the winess box, the girl said Shanghai, and later a member of the ing timed and took to his heels. that she was the maldservant of a Legislative and Executive Councils Thereupon, the guard, after giving family living in Sheklung, Canton. of Hongkong. He was chairman of chase for about 30 metres, called out While out one day, the made the the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, to him again, asking him whether he acquaintance of a woman named the Hongkong Chamber of Com-was Russian or American. Chow, (the missing defendant), who merce, the Dock Company, and fatter replied that he did not know invited her to go with her on other organtiations. Since leaving and at the same time he began to pleasure trip to Trangshing-here: he has sat as a Member of approach the guard, removing, was Not doubting the

women's Parliament for Epsom and has he did so, some object out of his honesty, she agreed

to served in the war as a Major. pocket. The guard, retreating a few make the journey. The woman in The yacht, built on the lines of a paces, took up a counter posture the dock met them at the Sheking destroyer, is named after a famous when, all of a sudden, the man railway station, where witness was Chias tea clipper of the early days.fired a revolver, to which the guard turned over to her charge. The Mr. Keswick said that he sailed from replied with an answering, shot. woman Chow did not board the Home on November 4, and has The man then attempted to take to

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PROPOSED ANNUAL RACE.

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The G.W.R. Company's scheme for fore, it is far from being good busi-į train.. Learning that she was destined visited Bordeaux, Marseilles, Morte, Aight, whereupon the guard fired constructing a new bridge over the ress for underwriters to try to reduce ] för Hongkong, witness was very die Carlo, Naples, Fort Said, Suez, Aden; another shot. Alarmed by the report, į Severn estuary, and the Ministry of the element of risk on anything in-tressed, and was crying when the Laccadives Islands, Cochin, Colombo, the garrisen at the headquarters Teamsport's project to harness the surable, for the reason that either the rain arrived at Kowloon. The de- Bangkok Penang. Singapore and rushed out to render sid to the of the ties there for the generation of risk so reduced is no longer covered fendant told her that the police would Saigon. He will remain in Hongkong guard. An examination

ticinity of the affair led to the dis- čovery of a revolver and some blood electricity, have been co-ordinated by insurance thus reducing the arrest ber if they saw her crying, and for the races. The scheme which has been worked underwriter's income-or the buf questioned, not to claim to be a native of Sheklang. The defendant

stains. A visit to the U. S. man-of- out by the Civil Engineering Departness is written on such a stali i took the witness to the ground floor

war "Albany” next morning brought | ment of the Ministry provides over gin of profit that any loss incurred is of No. 5. Wah Yim Feng where she

out the fact for the first time that half a million horsepower dur-bound to prove disastrous.

the victim of the tragedy was 1st with connection, states a writer in Ner- remained until the 9th inst, when A tem Lour

one of the tenants of the house,

Liect. H. W. Langdon, Chief Engineer of ticus (New York), we need but recall taking pity on her, took her to the peak load

aboard the "Albany." over a million horse-power, at an the experience with the Titanic to

police station,

AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT. estimated cost for generation of instance that when a risk has been

The tenant in question deposed electricity at present-day prices of a reduced to a minimum by so-called that when she spoke to the defen-

Tokyo, Jan, 12-An official of the little over a halfpenny per Board of safeguards, the slender margin of prodant, she was told that the girl was

War Office, interviewed on the above Trade unit. In order to appreciate it for years past and a come is wired the defendant's adopted daughter. Much interest is attached to the affair, stated that, although no de the magnitude of the power to be out if ever loss occurs, on accent of She suspected kidnapping and ex-forthcoming Kowloon Marathon, tailed report was yet to hand relative made this available, comparison may the reduction in the premium.

pressed her intention of communicat-organized by St. Andrew's Church to the matter, the facts and circum be made with the world's greatest The above remarks are suggesteding with the police. The defendant Men's Association, the first big sporttances of the affair tended to show water power installations, viz., Amal- by something which one of the lead-told her she could do so, and when ing u "taking that it has arranged, that the Japanese guard had tried to gamated Niagara Falls power Co. ing underwriters of the New York the witness took the girl to the The Association, which has not been discharge his duties as a sentry, which 385.000 hp: Big Creek Development market is reported to have told a station, the defendant came with long organized, has been formed to stipulated, in a case of that kind, Pacific Light and Power Co., 350,000 contemporary about the theft and pil- them.

promet a spirit of comradeship that, after calling a person to halt Ep; Ontario Power Co., 200,000 ferage covers that most local under- The defendant, in the witness box, amon2 the men of the district and three times, he was empowered to hip: Capdella River Flamisell, Spain, writers now sby at. In his opinion, said that she brought the girl to to provide healthy recreational diver shoot in the event of the order not 150,000 E.p.: Toronto Power Co., pillage of cargo ought to be made an Hongkong the instructions sions on the Peninsula. It will make being heeded. This procedure was 146,000 hp-; Keoduk Dam on the oferce against the Federal Govern of the woman Chow who told liberal provision for billiards, bad- farried out and the fact that in spite "Mississippi, 150,000 h.p.; and Vimlement, and when that is done thelt and her that the girl had been minton, and other games, and of the sentry's order, no heed was chleven (Scotland), 30,660 hp. The pilferage will be checked. It is per bought for $40 as her husband's organize sports and other social paid by the man, notwithstanding utilisation of the enormous power tinent to inquire, however, in which concubine. They were to meet Chow events.

which the guard at first refrained would effect a saving of about three respect the underwriter as such is in Hongkong, but the latter failed to The Marathon will be run

from firing but instead carefully to four million tons of coal per interested in the suppression of the turn up. Not wishing to have the Thursday, February 10, at 4 p.m. advanced towards the person, should sacum, which would thus be availapiliage of cargo. If theft and pil-girl on their hands, witness and ber over a course of about seven miles, be recognized as an act of bravery ble for export, and would result in ferage did not exist there would be husband took her to the tation on laid out over the roads about Kow and coolness. The death of the the amelioration of the living condo incentive to insure and as long 25, their own initiative.

loon. Special care has been taken to officer was a regrettable affair. tions in the great industrial areas. insurance is in demand it is the busi- The Sergeant Interpreter said that avoid roads that have beavy grades. SENTRY TO BE COURT-MARTIALLED. From a fransport point of view ness of the underwriter to make him the defendant and her husband came The race is open to all Europeang Tokyo, Jan. 12-An authority of the scheme provides for a level road self familiar with conditions, so that to the station at 10.30 p.m. on the in the Colony, the only condition the Army Department states that the for vehicular traffic over the Sever the rate which the quotes on the risk 8th inst. and interviewed him about of entry being that each competitor conduct of the sentry will form the for the quadrupling of the G-Way be adequate to take care of the the girl. He told them to take the must be cominated by a member subject matter of an investigation at line when required between the west claims, instead of letting the claims girl to the station and on the follow of the Association and his applica a court-martial The death of the of England and South Wales; it creates a gigantic locked basin forun away with the premiums and parring evening the defendant brought tion sanctioned by the Committee.) naval officer is a matter for genuine]

of the company's cash reserves as the girl, accompanied by the second It is hoped to make the race an regret."

witness.

annual feature. The Men's Associa Japanese forces has called on the The Magistrate said that the Sertion is providing trophies. It is Captain of the "Albany" to offer his

the thought that others may make offers personal condolences. The Minister | geant's evidence established defendant's bona fides.

of trophies, and that Kowloon of War has also instructed the latter Mr. Schofield, who agreed said that residents may also interest them to convey to the commander of the apparently she was used by the other selves in the matter to the extent of Albany on the former's behalf an woman as a catspaw.

providing a Kowloon Resident's

expression of deep sympathy. Regretting that the bail he had Cup.” granted the woman Chow w: net The expectations are that there heavier, and expressing the hope will be a good many entries, re- that she would be reapressed, the presenting the Services as well as Magistrate discharged the defendant civilians. Those who are making the arrangements are especially hopeful that a strong representation will come

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The answer, of course, is that if an Tunnel of over 27 square miles in extent, a very large portion of adequate rate is quoted for theft and which will be suitable for the accom- pilferage the merchant will no longer

That is to say, the merchan size, and which would be usable at insures himself if he finds that the modation of vessels of the largest insure. all states of the tide. This portion underwriter demands a rate commen- of the scheme, combined with the surate with the amount of risk pre enormous power available at cheap seated by the business offered. He, rates, may confidently be anticipated for instance, purs the moneys saved in to lead to vast industrial develop insurance premiums into better and ment over the whole of this area, stronger packing and other safeguards and by bringing the great shipping which he disregards so long as he can further up the estuary and nearer to get an underwriter to hold the bag the existing industrial area, thus There is no doubt that at the present More than 3,000 suits of winter from the Services. Entries will close materially shorten the distance and time all cargo insurance is being writ-clothing and a similar number of free on February S. During the race the

" SHE WALKED IN HER SLEEP." dessen the cost of transit to inland ten on

Tsinanfu, Jamary 8--An impor Whist little actual change has basis which is bound to prove rice tickets have been distributed to course will be well patrolled, and. places such as Birmingham.

oferous to the underwriter, for no- the poor of Shanghai by the Shang-conveyances will be provided for any

occurred in the position in the ship tant conference was held here yer The great basin will accommodate where is there any attempt made at hai Benevolent Association, states of the competitors who do not finish

The success of Mark Swan's farce, ping dispute, there is fresh evidence terday, to discuss ways and means large ocean-going steamers, and its systematizing the business and pit- the Chinese press.

It is proposed that this race will be "She walked in her sleep" which of the arrogance of the men's de of preventing or controlling an out- configuration with readily admit of the ting it on a basis where the insires.i

medly the first of an ambitious sports appears at the Theatre. Royal on mands. It was reported to the break of typhus following on the construction of deep water wharves either goes on the risk with his eyes at which shipments, of all kinds can open or leaves it alone. This is just a cliff on the road from Yokohama Programme, including cross-country Monday night, January 24, by the Australian Steamship-owners' Federa-heels of the present famine in North be dealt with. Ordinary canal barges what has happened in connection with to Atami on the might of December aces as well as Marathons, and that Denniston Players, Las induced don that, amongst other demands China. The conference was called could here, come alongside the vessels theft and pilferage in this market and 30, cost the lives of two foreigners an important addition will be made George Broadhurst, himself an adept received by the owners in the by the Council of Health Education, and go inland. A large reservoir when a few more offices have been on a New Year boliday trip. The to the established athletic contests in at farce writing, to disclose some of case of the steamer "Wyreema, under the auspices of the Inter- his views on that interesting subject, laid up in Sydney, were the national Famine Relief Committee. near Tintern is contemplated, and a badly, hit we may yet live to see the victims were Mr. and Mrs. E. Ter the Colony.

A farce is a delicate thing," says following:-All foodstuffs to be Dr. W. W. Peter of the Council on dam will have to be built across the day when marine underwriting wil Keverkoss, since last July residents

Mr. Broadhurst.. "It has not à supplied in enamelware; a menu to Health Education: Dr. H. G. Barrie, lower end of the Wye Valley.

strong constitution. It is a bundle be framed in each messroom; con- who has lately returned from Peraia of nerves and the least little thing densed milk to be substituted for where he was engaged in anti- that goes wrong upsets it, yet when concentrated; canned fruits to take typhus operations: Dr. Ford, who everything is right in the play with the place of dried fruits; pickles recently served with the American last evening at Government House, delightful form of dramatic enter and

His Excellency gave a dinner party the production and the acting, what Worcestershire sauce, tomato sauce Red Cross in Siberia and a number made to discharge into the Great the dam to replenish the upper part to Atami to spend the New Year The guests present were >ELE! |tainment it is Farce is the melo-ever the crew felt some such reliah | the Conference, wisere important Lake. This tunnel will be 40 feet in of the river while the tide is rising.holidays. They were driven from Major-Gen. Sir George Kirkpatrick, drama of comedy." It is the most was required; and clean table cloths matters were discussed affecting this diameter. There will be two separate and will automatically shut in the Yokohama to Odawara by a Japanese CB., Lady Kirkpatrick, The Misses difficult form at drama Writing to be supplied three times a week gent question of possible out. installations required in connection turn of the tide. One of the principal chauffeur. At Gdaware, however, the Kirkpatrick, Capt. C. S. Fisher, A.D.C. farce is really hard work, latents In addition, the men demanded the break of fever and typhus epidemic. with the power scheme (1) a great novel features of the present design chauffeur, learning that the road to Commodore concrete dam or barrage across the is the way in which the Atami, which runs along the shore, C.BE, RN, Mrs. Bowden-Smith, tion. The playwright, naturally,

Bowden-Smith,fied brain work and careful calcula- following menu Se Severni, within which sluices and difficulty of allowing ships to

Monday' and Wednesday-Break- at most places on the edge of a cliff, Mr. Berners, Hon. Mr. C. Severn does not elect to write the ranet fast-Porridge, boiled eggs, steak turbines will be installed for utilising pass. up and down the · river the power of the tides, and with without in any way interfering with further that night. Mr. and Mrs. Ter Addison, M.V.O. Mrs Addison, Hon. write the easiest, which is quite potatoes, hot rolls and scones. Din pudding and sauce, macaron custard, was unusually bad, refused to go CM.G., Mrs. Severn, Mr. D'Arcy dimcult kind of play. He prefers to and onions, Irish stew, mashed boiled potatoes, boiled onions, plum which will be combined the road or interrupting the passage of the Keverkoss, it seems, were insistent Mr. E. E. Follock, K.C, Mrs. natural, all things considered. I do ner-Soup, roast beef, boiled mutton, canned fruits Tea Cold roast bridge and railway bridge over the trains across the bridge a locking upon getting to Atami for the right, Pollock, Capt. R. G. Henderson, not mean to infer that there is not roast potatoes, boiled potatoes, boiled mutton, cold corned pork, dry hash, Severn at this place; and (2) an basin capable of taking the longest so Mr. Ter Keverkoss decided to CB., RN, Mrs. energy storage plant comprising a ships has been provided on the line drive the rest of the way himself. Capt. J. W. Carrington, DS.O., R.N., would be quite absurd, but I do canned fruits, blanc mange, tapioca mashed potatoes, cal

Henderson, characterization in farce for that cabbage, haricot beans and turnips, stew, beetroot, assorted salads," great high level lake and tunnel-in of the navigable chancel and inter- Ee secured the services of the ricsha Mrs. Carrington, Capt. C. B. Ballard, mean that the situations and plot, of custard. Tea Cold roast beef, cold Sunday Breakfast Porridge, be combination with an immense pump-secting the barrage. The ships will ing and turbine power house on the be led into and worked through this man as a guide and left Odasrara a RN, Mrs. Ballard, Mr. A. G. Stephen, story in Farce abeolutely dominate roast mutton, dry mash, stew, beet-con and eggs, fried or boiled fish, banks of the tidal portion of the Wye locking basin by electric locomotives were found at the bottom of the ci McKenney. Mr. C. D, Melbourne, drawn of humorous those characters salads, calces.

little after 8 o'clock. The bodies Mr. G. M. Young, M.B.E, Dr. C. W. the characters, no matter how well root, mashed potatoes, assorted grilled chops, and onions, bed potatoes, hot rolls and scones. "Dis The site which has been selected for somewhat similar to those in use near the village of Kataura, about 3 Capt. C. O. Olliver, Mrs. Oliver, Mr. may be and some of the characters Tuesday and Friday Breakfast ner Soup, roast Teal, fout be the great dam or barrage has been in the Panama Canal The railway miles from Odawara, the next mor- Hancock, Mrs. Hancock, the subject of very careful study. It and road traffic is passed over on aing. The ricsha man, unconscious, lies close to the line of the Severn the end of this basin by means of was still alive and is expected to tunnel, where the estuary is about lifting bridges operating in such a two and a-half miles wide, with low-way as to ensure that there is no ¡ying country on either side." It is pro- delay either to railway, road or river, posed to trap the water in the upper trafic. This is effected by duplicat- part of the estuary above the dam at ing the railway into the form of a

It is intended to force the water

up from the low level of the Wyel

of Yokohama. Mr. Ter Keverkoss was an Armenian merchant and the couple had been living at the Grand Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Ter Keverkoss

through a tunnel driven through horizontally hung sluices which will left about 3 o'clock on the Thursday

recover,

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in the well-known farces have iade Porridge, eggs and bacon, fried fish, roast mutton, French Beats, baked stage history at that. But if those grilled chops, tomatoes, or onions, and boiled potatoes, regetable mar farces had been written only | Curry and rice, mashed potatoes, Hot row, plant pudding and sauce, hated with ́regard to the develop rolls and scopes Dinner Soup, enstard and jellies, canned fruit.. Tea The Hankow native press rement of the humorous characters, corned beef and carrots, roast pork-Cold ham, cold-roast beef, gilled counts that the, French Manicing! they would have died young. Not and apple sauce, roast potatoes, bolled chops and sanwagen with Couistoes Council carried out a house to house only is farce the most difficult form potatoes, cabbage, and apple pie, rice and onional, beetroot and amarted. high water, so as to create ari artificial loop line; it crosses the locking bazin, THERE is no use of our besting search of Chinese occupied premises of drama to write, but at custard, and jelly, Tea Cold corned salada; mashed potatoes, cheese,

STRAIGHT AT IT.

around the bash. We might se

difference in the level between the and so controlling and, interlocking well out with it first at last. We want This is said to be on account of the drama to act. It requires more beetroot and salads to bearted,

in their concession Last week. Is the most difficult form of beef, cold, roast pork, cottage pie, ) calcen,

It will be noticed that egga, at two water thus impounded above the the arrangements as to allow con- you to try Chamberlain't Crash Remedy

Shillings a dozen are demtended for dam and the water in the estuary tinuous free passage for the callway the next time you have cough or cold native custom, shortly before the skill, sincerity, technique and pep mashed potatoes, cheese, cakes.

Thursday and Saturday Break breakfast every day. The food map. below the dam for a period of several or road traffic. in one or other There is no resega ao lar sa we can see approach of New Year, of assembling on the part of the actor to make a hours round about the period of low branches of the loop with absolute why you should not do so. This pr quantities of incendiary matter in success in fares than it does in the fast-Porridge, fried eggs, grilled piled to crews on Australian coastal tide. The method of trapping the safety. The electricity generated Paration by its ikamarkable cures be houses that are well covered by classic drams, really great farço sausages and onions, grilled steak, vessels is now far better than the

gained a world-wide reputation, and water in the principal part of the will be able to be supplied to South people ordey whore spots of it in the insurance-This is a playful habit hit will live through a generation of stew, mashed potatoes, hot rolls and scale laid down by the Navigation estuar is a very simple one, and is Wales, Birmingham, and even fishest terms of praise. It is for sale by not unknown in other parts of Chine, theatre-goers and survive to entertain scones Dinner Roast mutton Act, and it unlikely that the affected-by--means--of-gigantic-London-

alf Chemifata and Störekvepor

| observes the NC. Daily News,

corned pork, green peas, baked and owners will agree to any additions.