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LOCAL AND GENERAL,

Bits Cossley Batt, OBE, KA, DSC, a well-known English journalist and orator, is visiting the Orient and a guest at the Hongkong Hotel

TWO BROTHERS OHANGED. Unusual circumstances were related at the Magistracy Festerday afternoons when two brothers, Mak Lam and Mak: Wah, were charged before Magistrate Lindsell with having caused grievous bodily harm to a compatric in Kwairah Lane on April 21.

for permission to go and live at Matto many clients. The police are search Magistrate took his dring deposition. Grosso, in Brazil. The place iing for him. situated on a plateau" in the middle of South America, whence rivers.flow

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Mr. H. A. Castro was yesterday fined $4 by Mr. Lindsell for keeping a spaniel without a licence. Be explained that he had been under the impression that his dog's licence was

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEER

HE Steamship THE

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From TRIESTE, vix - VENICE, BRINDISI & THE STRAITS,

CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby

informed that all Goods are being | landed as their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, at Kowloon, wherce and/or from the wharees de livery may be obtained.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given | before 11th May

No chins will be admitted after the

All claims against the steamer znat be presented to the Undersigned on ar before the 30th inst, or they will not be recognized

All braten, chafed, „ and damage-1 Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on sho 30th just a 10 s..

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No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned

The complainant said that about 3 p. m., on the day in question, he was walking in Kwaiwah Lane

-We are asked to announce that when the defendants' attempted to the Musicale arranged for Wednes relieve him of $140 which a clansmanday, May 18, at the Helena May had given to him to start a business. Institute, has been postponed till In the struggle which followed, one Thursday, May 19, at 5.15 p.m. This of the defendants stabbed tim in the will be the last concert of the winter left hand,In spite of his wound he session. continued to struggle, and was stabbed several more times in the arms and A marriage has been "arranged, Advertising "divorces while you and various parts of the body. His and will take place early in June. Goods have left the Godowns, and alli a bogus lawyer giving an condition was so bad in hospital that between Lieut. Arthur H.S. Casawell, Goods remaining undelivered after the:

Henry Casswell and Mrs. Casswell. The Kaiser is said to have asked address at Reno Nevada, has duped/bis life was dispaired of, and the/DS.C. RN, san ct the late Mr 20th inst, will be subject to rent.

of Old Park Rasper, Soises, and Mr. Mason said that the cause of Maria Edith, daughter of the late Mr. the affray was not robbery as suggest-F. de F. and Mrs. Ossorio, of Manila. A Budapest message says a lack of led by the defendant. His clients

Playing in the Lawn Tennis zorth to the Amazon and south to money was one of the prime causes struck the complainant in self-defence. Buenos Aires. Not that it is a per- of the ex-Emperor's incurion, and Some time ago the complainset Tounament at Dulwich recently, Ng ticularly accessible place. Indeed, that for some time past he has subsist visited the ss."Sanning" on which See-cheang, brother of Ng Sze kwong, semi-final against the Kaiser at Matto Gross could be largely by pawning personal the defendants ran a food stall and beat E. T. Lamb 06, 61, 64, and

attempted to force one of their fokis got into the more safely forgotten than Napoleon valuabl

to join a Triad Society, deniarding Ritchie. The latter won 60, 61, on St. Helena. It is described as a small decayed town, but it should be!

Eighty pounds reward is offered in $60 as entrance fee. O Mak Wah but Ng Stecherng was far from well and practically gave the match quiet and healthy. Matto Grosso is the Fars evening newspapers for the advice, the foki refused to have any- the next State to San Paulo, where recovery of Loulon a small blark thing to do with the complainant.

*It is understood that the O.BE. there are large German interests, but Pomeration of 6 years, who strayed The complainant had a grievance

On has been conferred upon the Hon. communications between the two hardly exist, so there need not be from her mistress in the Champs against Mak Wak os that score.

the day in question. Mak Lam was Mr. S. & C. Ross, Secretary for such fear of any imperialistic! Elysees recently.

returning to his home in Kwaiwah Chinese Affairs, in recognition of excursions. 1 the Kaber really

Lane when the complainant and services rendered during the war.THE Steamship wishes to go there, the Allies might

eight others attacked him, and be- Mr. G. P. Martin and Mr. F. J. de just as well let him.

Laboured him so badly that he had to Rome, who were employed at the Forocions Sentence.

go to hospital with two serious Post Office during the war in consec tion with the censorship of mails, are each honoured with the M.BE

The sympathy of many old residents will go out to Mr. James McGregor Forbes, late of Jardine Matheson and Co., Ltd, Swatow, on the death of his wife, which occurred at his residence at Forres, Scotland, on the 2nd inst. Mr. Forbes recently retired after a long spell in the East. For some years he was kong office of Ewo and held the rank of Captain in the old Volunteer

With the loss of moral feeling evident all over the world there goes a concomitant loss or mercy and justice, with the result that sentences in the law courts tend to become! more and more ferocious. An ex- ample is shown by the sentence of tewive months' imprisonment passed on a man who broke the windows in "Farrow's Bank at Manchester after

the failure of the back. The tan had a deposit in the bank of £150 and was no doubt led away by his

feelings at the loss of his macey to commit the offence. In the circums stances the proper punishment would have been to have faed him to the extent of the damage done, since it was done under great provocation and in a moment of excitement. Ia stead the Court sentences him to a year's imprisonment and at applica tion for leave appeal was refused. A Statistician Kons amok.

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Prince Henry, King George's third son, was created a Knight of the garter on March 31, on the attainment of his majority. The Prince is station-

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ed at Aldershot, where he is a sub-incised wounds on the head. When Mak Wah discovered what had hap- alters in the 13th Hussars,

pened, he went, to his brother's aid Warriors" Day was a big sucress in and the melee which followed resulted Londoh. "All the theatres were crowd-in the complainant being wounded. ed. and it is expected that Earl Haig's Counsel held that in the circumstances, funds will benefit to the extent of Mak Wah was quite justified in assist- $200,000 Over 100 amatear drama-his brother. the performances were given.

It is reported from Rome that the giant Caproni Hydravi with a capacity for carrying 100 passengers, which recently executed rather unfortunate trial flights on Lake Maggiore. has been completely destroyed by fire.

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Substantial reductions are reported in Australian freights. It is stated that 100,000 tons of wheat have been sold to Germany at 778 per quarter.

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The Magistrate held that Mak Wah did not have sufficient justification for wounding the complainant so seriously, and in view of the fact that he had a dagger on him at the time of his arrest, sentenced him to six months hard labour. Mak Lam was discharged.

The police were instructed to have the complainant deported from the Colony as an undesirable character.

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Agenta Hongkong, May 14, 1991.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

"BOWES CASTLE" From NEW YORK.

CONSIGNEES of Cargo are bareby

informed that all Goods are being landed at their rük into the

Godowns of the Hongkong and Kow- toon Wharf and Godown Company, Ltd, at Kowloon, whence andjor from the wharves delivery may be obtained. Optional Chrgo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before 14th May.

No claims will be admitted after the

Goods have leit the Godowns, and all pndelivered after Goods remsisia

the 20th inst., wit"s subject to rent. All claim against the steamer must

be presented to the Gadesigned wa or before the 30th inți, or they will not be recognized.

All broken, chafed, and damaged -Goods are to be left in the Godowaz, where they will be examined-on the

BEN LINE OF STEAMERS, 20th inst, at 10 am.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNÉES.

Lan Tai Ngan, mistress of a passenger boat was fined $5 at the Marine Court this morning for having carried fifteen passengers in excess of the number permitted by her licence. From A similar penalty was imposed upon Tsang Tsat and Chen Fai, argo boat steersmen, who were convicted on a charge of having moored their

The late war cost a thousand milf.. which means that the wheat is lion pounds a year. These figures sold at 7s 7d per bushel f.o.b. in are very easy to say; they are equally Australia diffecit to grasp, but not too difficult.

At a West Chester county (U.S.) Assuming that the instant he was born a baby started counting, every penitentiary inmates selected the minute he counts 60 numbers. He colour of the cell walls. All shades counts every moment of his time, of paint, from boudoir pink to asher 24 hours a day, with not an instant's parse for sleep or food. By the timeter, have been purchased. The idea craft outside five other boats along-

is to study the effect of colours side the ss. Lai Sang."

It

upon criminals.

he had counted ase thousand mition be would be nearly 31 years of age. A thousand million pounds means rearly all the gold coin in the world. It means 14 shilings for every human being on earth. mears enough gold, if beaten out to Cover 1,500 square miles. Fascy an array of a thousand million soldiers arching past your house-march- ing in single file day and night, week day and Sunday, without ceasing: During mail week over 2,000 re- they would take 38 years to pass. eruits to the Territorial Army were

Mr. Patrick Kelly, Representa The Home Office returi of street tive for Michigan, voiced a very accidents show that no fewer than common sentiment in Congress when 2,837 persons were killed and 54,910 he declared in the debate on the injured on public highways in the naval appropriations that America United Kingdom daring 1920. The must first have the biggest navy in figures for 1919 were 2.028 fatal and the world and then propose IT- portional disarmament. So too in 48.695 non-fatal accidents,

Japan, we have plenty of advocates of disarmament who want the eight- and eight Beet completed, and "re- plenished," by which process it will

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informed that all Goods are being

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 20th inst, will be abject to rent.

All claims against the Steamer must

When a soldier is an active service, enrolled, bringing the total to 102,000 be doubled in eight years, and then he presented to the Undersigned an or his full day's rations weigh in round) rank and file and 6,182 officers. Easter they will be willing to discuss pro- before the 27th inst, or they will †

figures, 4 lb. The cost is 15. 34., including everything. The day's supply of food for one thousand million men would cost £62,500,000. Battleship Saves Baby.

A woman sat rocking ber baby at sundown the other Saturday in the as "Venetian," homeward bound in the Bay of Biscay from Alexandria. Her arms ached and her eyes had known no sleep for a week past, for her child's life was ebbing away, and there was no doctor on board. The grey cutline of a man of war appear ed in the distance, and a wireless message was sent asking for help.

Territorial camps proved a success, good percentages of the strengths of the various regiments being present.

Mrs. Bamberger, who was sentenced at the Old Bailey on September 23 to nine months' imprisonment in the second division for perjury in a Divorce Court action, will, her friends believe, be released shortly. For the past month she has been in hospital at Holloway Gaol where she is serving her sentence."

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The remains of seventeen British The war vessel flashed back a reply. tanks captured by the Germans and The "Venetian" stopped, "the war vessel drew to within a quarter of a used by them against the French and mile, and in spite of the heavy swell a ultimately sinashed by French artillery

portional disarmament. All this, of course, is merely trying to play the old game and to play it cheap, observes the Japan Chronicle.

not be recognized.

All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 20th inst., at 10 mm.

CAUSE OF DESPONDENCY. No Fire Insurance has been effected. ESPONDENCY is often caused by Bills of Lading will be countersign. D

ad by. indigestion and constipation, and quickly disappear when Chamberlain's Tablets are taken. These tablets strengthen the digestion and more the. bowels. For sale by all Chemists and

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Efeboat manned by sixteen sailors, at Fort de la Pompelle were sold at cork-jacketed, put out from her. 35 frares each. Two of these battered. Passengers in the "Venetian" watched tanks were bought from the 'con their progress breathlessly as the tractor by the Rheims reconstruction little boat swung up and down in the syndicate at 3,000 francs each. The troughs of the waves. At length the contractor asked 15,000 fisnes apiece.

Domestic Occurrences .... side of the "Venetian" was reached. and the man whose help was so

After 25 years' service in the Met- Leading Articles.... sorely needed mounted the rope- fadder prepared for him. The baby's ropolitan Police, Police-Constable Local and General The rame of the Walter Davis, of Kingston-on-Thames, Sunk in the Gorges He was saved. baby was Elizabeth. The name of who for 11 years timed the speed; of Toy Gun Unlawful....... the warship was the Queen Eliza motor vehicles on the London-Forst- $45,000 Forgery Case

mouth road at Kingston, has retired Dishonest Boy...... beth."

'Gap Rock"..... Qazint Church Incident

His "hold-up" of vehicles exceeding $10,000 Bail... Here is one of the Rev. E. W. Leach the speed limit resulted in 3,500 Searched in the Street man's "Stories of Clerical Life," summonses, and many of the divers Midnight Disturbance

paid a tribute in court to the courtesy Hard Luck If True...

One evening, he visited a village

"AR was dark in the building, except of their captor.

at the lectern, where two candles prere

Passenger Farmazioni "Got His Own Back Children's Corner A New Bank

lighted and we could just distinguish A singular run of ill-lack is reported young person standing. Then, in connection with a bicycle which as we looked, he announced in a nerformed the subject of a theft charge Gymkhana ........ vous toule, which was meant to be loud before Mr. Arthur Gill, the Lambeth Placky Lady Teacher... and diamatic: Here beginneth the magistrate. On the way to court the Sup's Alaster Fined

Chinese Procession.......... fourth chapter of the Epistle to the bicycle was wrecked and the constable Hengkong Children Hebrews, and to our amazement he wheeling it was injured by a motor Constitutional Reform added in the same voice: "Is that car. Its first owner was killed in the The World's Mais better, darling? We gathered that war, and his brother, who then came Ship's Oil Stolen there must be some lady-love back in into possession of it, was also killed Increased Rates..... the tower, conducting a sort of rest the front. Sold by the parents, Wednesday's Public Meetings hearsal before the morrow, so we it was stolen from a library. Then New Bulding

adged it kinder, to beat & kagy te it world to a hit who siding home. Company Report Kreat, and leave them to it.

was killed in collision with a motor-car. Cricket Club Gamme

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1 Sanitary Board 1-7 Obituary. ***

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7-9 Loss of the "Hong Moh.....20

Heavy Landslides

Aiding and Abetting?

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Armed Robbery

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House Collapse

Forgery Charge

Yaumati Drama

China Coast...un

Fight with Robbers

Armed Robbers Busy... Correspondence

New Steamer - $5,000 Fine...mnas

-14 Kidnapping Alleged

Motor Coaches

Motorist Fined

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New Tobacco Duties What Is It?.................

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15-16 Quarrel Over Theft

Special Cables Sport

17-18 | Passengers die

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