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SUPREME COURT.

Wednesday, 29th October, -

*IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION, BEFORE HIS HONOUR W. HEIGH GOODMAN CHINE JUSTICE),

THE FIRST STRERT HOUSE COLLAPSE. The bearing of the case in which Cheong

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30th, 1902

necessary." When “dooters dimgreed."" it wan of course for the jury to take their own courbe in deciding the question. His Lordship con elnded by again ending the proposition of law and the four questions which are given above and which he had, batininded he would leave to the jury. It was not necessary, be informed the jury, for them to answer the questions in. writing; it was sufficient for them to return

thole vordiet.

The jury retired at 2.43 p.m., and re-entered the L'ourt at: 3 o'clock.

The Foreman (Mr. E. Osborns) infimated

HONGKONG BANITARY BOARD

move-

ORDEKS OF TER DAY..

A morting of the Board will be held to day at 4.15 p.

1. Thy Frosident, paruant to notter, will That the Board obtain authority to insert an alertinent in the English and Chinese news papers requesting the occupiers of domestic balling to cooperate with the Board in the efforts to combat plague by thoroughly cleans ing their dwellings between the 15th Novem owners and cecupiers of domestle dwellings that the Board proposes after December 15th to strictly enforce the provision of the Bye-laws

Domestic Cleanliness and Youtile

MORE TROUBLE IN NORTHERN

SIAMGO ADIPAN

PRIMARITAN FUROFRAN KILLED...

it is with the grestant couret, anys the

EASTMAN'S

Bangkok Timer of the 18th Inst., that we have KODAKS. FILMS.

1ɔ atate that un official telegram wän reveived in Bangkok yesterday announcing that Capt Jensen, of the Provincial: Cedarmerie, fad buen shot and killed whils

gelernt party of Shan, dacoite. The Sight took place on the 14th inst. between Muang was billy 24 years of age. He was Dane, and leutenant in the 21st Battalion of the Danish Army, in Copenhagen, when he accept ed service in the Siamese Provincial Gender. movie nuder Colonel Sohnu.

Hong, contractor, is charged with manslaughter the verdict. He said-We find unanimously and 15th, Decorabor next; and informing Ngan and Mang Payao. Capt. A. M. Jansen

in connection with the fatal collapse of the wall of a house in First Street on 29th July, we resumed. The evidenca had been

had been completed ou

priser is not guilty and with gaur Lordship's permission we desine to record the following opinion that the supervision at

Works Depart goveraing present exercieel by the Pablic

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the previous Bayborn Martin. Ement over the demolition, erection and alteration", aurl that the Board will, if on inspection December, 190, that he arrivd here, and be

Jury-Messrn.

W. Mitshall, H. W. Robinson, G. H. Medhurst, E. A. Hewett, and J. He Lawind afectar The Crown was represented by the Attorney: General (Hon. Sir Hoary 8. Berkeley), Instructed by Mr. H. L. Dentys, Acting Urown Belfeltor Mr. E. H. Sharp KC appeared for the prisoner, instructed by Mfr. P. W. Goldring solicitor. pagpatayanner as

His Lordship said he proposed to put to the jury first a ruling of law and then ask them to answer four questions, in their own way, and if any of these questions, were answered in the zepe iye, they maat Hud the man not guilty, The proposition of law was: Having regard to the nature of the work undertaken by the cused and the age and spparent condition of the houses adjacent to those he undertook to pull down, it was his legal duty to, ne reason able skill and prepsutions de prevent damege to these houses and their inhabitants. Then

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proposed to put these four question || (1) the dendused man Wong Eak killed by the Wa collapse of the wall at No. 50, First Street P (2) Did the acensed fail to use such reasonable skill and precautions as It was his duty to nee? (3) Was it owing to the want of the use of such reasonable skill and precautions that the wall collapsed P. and (4). If so, did the omission to use such reasonable skill and precautions amount to criminal negligence P. With regard to crim inat negligence," bis Lordship sait he proposed to adopt the words of Justice Blackburn, P. 57) that * criminal negligence is who stated (Reg. Fyse, Finlason's Report, plirase constantly used in erluminal cases, but The amonnt

of uegligence that would make a mau so responsible cannot be defined. It is not a little failure in duty that would make him criminally responsible. A great failure of duty andoaltedly would. The line between the two andy, and must be left to a great

tion of builsings is inadequate

His Lordship may tell you, gentlemen of the jury, that what you say will be taken to the proper quarters. But of course this is a parti-

rose and not a general investigation into the collapse of houses. Tas prisoner has been found at guilty, and he is entitled to be discharged.

The prisoner was discharged. The Court adjourned.

POLICE, COURT. Wednesday, 29th October.

BEFORE MY. E. D. C. WOLFE (ACTING POLICH MAGISTRATE).

RUNNING AMOK.

it be found pessary, direct its officers to cleanse and disinfect premises under the pro. visions of the Bye-laws for the Prevention or Mitigation of Epidemic, Endemicor Contagious Disease.

Mr. Osborne, parenant to notice, will move 1. That measures be taken to stop the nuisance caused by aavenging coolies raising clouls of dust in the public streets.

II. That Government be asked to mako pro, vision in the next conservancy contract for fining the contractor when there are reasonable grounds to suspect that his coolies Have thrown night-soil into the drains or on to the hillsicos.

G. A. WOODCOCK,

Fecretary.

AGENDA.

1. Result of the analysis of a staple of well- water taken from No. 99, Jervois Strent..

2. Lime-washing return for the fortnight endel October 25th, 1902.

for 3. Rat-return "The thightended October 27th, 1962

was stationsa Üst at Pachims, und, juter, at

Aynthia. In Foboary this year he was sent to Chiengmat in command of the gender- rie there, and when the trouble began in Jaly he came down with a body of men help in the defence of Lakawn Lampang. It was on him, in fact, that the defence of the town really rested, and, young and compare. tively inexperienced as he was, ko acted throughout with courage and good sense in the rather trying circumstances. We believe it was by his plucky conduct of the fight on the morning of the 4th of August that Lakawn and the north were saved, a fact which we understand was fully appreciated by tha Government.

The new trouble in the north is due simply to the fact that a number of the worst churautors who were attrasted to Phrae when that town was captured, are now Lent on pillage where they an, and it may be a difficult business to hunt them down. They have gathered in the district botwoon Maang Ngay and-Murg Payao, and tight was expected at the former place on inst when a party of 30 Shans were defeated. Captain Jensen reached Muang Ngao tron Lakaw on the 11th inst., with 100 gendarmer is

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A carpenter named Chenug You pleaded guilty to four charges of cutting and wounding The facts of the case are briefly as follows. About half-post eleven on the day mentioned, the defendant, armed with a hatchet, rushed at a native boy working outside a matted awood by Chan A King, contractor, at Kennedy town. The boy saw him coming, and darted inside the matshed, where he was followed by the defen M. DEWITTE AT VLADIVOSTUCK, and about 1200 soldiers. data. A number of earpenters were at work in the shed, and two of them were assaulted by stable, according to the statements of witnesses, the defendant, one seriously. Az Indian con was called, but ran away after receiving cut on the finger from the are. The defendent altimately gut into a ricksha to was pursued by, a make his escape, o lukeng, whom he also attacked when brought to bay, splitting his bolmet by a blow aimed at the bad and inflicting an incised wound on the which the constable held up to shield himself from another stroke. This policeman blew his whist for nasistance, and with the assistance of a second lukong took the defendunt to the station.

left arm,

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SENSATION IN HAWAII, GOVERNMENT'S CHINESE LUND $18,000 SHORT latter dated from Honelain on the let inst

The Manila Times publishes the following

William H. Wright, Territorial-Trenstrur of the Hawaiian Islands, hos disappeared, leaving a shortage in bis accounts of nearly in China, Japan, and the Philippine Islands. $18,000. Detectives are looking for him Thus shortago is in the Chinese Fand which was deposited with the Treasurer, and was

Extout in each individual case to the common- sense of the jury whether or the degree of His Lordship failure of daty le criminal proposed to tell the jury that if they answered all the four questions in the affirmative, thes it was their duty to find the prisoner guilty; if they answered any one of these questions in the nogatavs or if they had a reasonables doaborernment Civil Hospital, described the injuries of those persons attacked by the whether the prisoner was guilty or not, it was

defendant. he condition of one of them, he stops, is about 12 days. With the completion recommended that soldiers water rail considers the results of this ous to be much first mad known when Wright, of his own their daty to and bim not guilty, ......

deposed, was so grace that it was thought it to In reply to Mr. Sharp, His Lordship said he bad had in mind the tako his dying deposition. The Indian con question whether the alleged criminal negli stable and an incised woned on the little finger, gence was defendant's or somebody else's and which was not seziens, he thought that was covered in the questions One of the Chinese witnesses said that when the lndhin constable attempted to arrost the

discharge.

The Committed

The report of a Committen, comprising Colonel G. E. Wilson, isutenant-Colonels H. Lyons, A. W. Allen and . Priestley, which recently sat at Simia to consider the question of the training of British soldiers in Indis in railway duties, has been published. The Com-

To the current number of the Geographical mitteo point out the bed which is liable touris Journal Dr. Sven Hedia contributes a concise for additional trained railway men in case of any general mobilisation, and serve that ons summary of his remarkable explorations ia line stone would need nearly 2,400 extra sub Esatera Tackostan and Tibet during the last is former jou ney in Central ordinates. As it is enlikely that civilians could three years. be spared on such occasions, it is proposed to Asia-from 1843 to 1897-was thought, as traiu soldiers when they can be spared. from their regiments, such men to be generally those modestly observes to mark an advance in the who would be willing to take up railway werk geographical knowledge of these regious, but he on obtaining their

more valuable. Is it be bras traversed a great or training, or when called out for duty on railway should be treated as on duty and tent of hitherto untrodden ground, and has been should receive full military pay, including rationable, as ho jastly claims, "to lift the rell which money and extra messing allowance as if on for a thousand year has hidden vast stratches furlough. This should be provided by Govorn of the mountainous and desert regions of the ment. They should further receive feem the

silway to which they are attached (1) as guards heart of Asia." They are without a rival on the surface of the globe. The mountain chains of und firemen under training forty rupees month- ly, and, if exployed after training, a further sum Central Asia radiate from the Famirs—the roof of fifteen rupees monthly us milage allowance, of the world-like giant roota from su okê trea (2) as station musters and assistant station. masters while under training, fifty-five rufees stump. Two of thes, the vast compound mass monthly, and if employed after training, the of the Himalayne and Karakorams and the chain pay of the appointment they fill to be subject of the Kusn-inn, enciosa the greatest and loftiest to minimum of alty-ve rupees monthly. mountain plateau in the world, not a little of The Committee do not udviso training soldiers

accord, informed fr. Cooper, the Territorial Secretary, that he had made use of public money, but that he would make restitution Governor Dole was notified dollar for dollar.

of the shortago and it was agreed to allow Wright to meet the secretary at the appointed time, che several days to make good hisaccounts, but failing latter became suspicious that Wright had made the promise in order to secure time to

escape from the authorities. and the sheriff was notified. A search was made for the missing Treasurer with. out success and every vessel leaving the port of Honolula sines the occurrence has been

The Russian Minister of Finance, M. "de" Wille arrived here by syncial train from Moscow on the 9th inst. being accompanied by the Military Governor of the local Maritime Din- trict, Lieutenant General N. M. Telitchagoff. who returns after a lengthy leave of absence, The Minister and the Governor were not by many of the local officials, and after the exchange of greetings, drove to the residence of the Military Governor. The special train which carried the Minister direct from Moscow to Vladivostook took only fourteen days to cover the distance, while about two-and-a-half days were spent in stopping to inspect various places on the Chiume Lastern Railway. Thus, with the present state of the road, a fast passenger train wight sover the distance from St. Peters burg to Visdivostock, including the usuni of the Baikal contooting line and a further improvement of the Chinese tastern Railway lino, it will be possible to travel the same

On the 10th iust, by iaritation of the distance in less than ten days. Minister of Finance, there assembled at the defendant the Infter cut him over the finger residence of the Military Governor representa with the axe. The constable then let go aistives of the city administration, members of the prisoner and ran away.

local Exchange Committee, and a number of prominent merchants, in order to discuss with them virions matters pertaining to local trade, petitions regarding which had previously been ent to the Minister while at St. Pe reburg,

thoroughly searched for him. It is believed Affer a lengthy discussion, during which the

that Wright has succeeded in making his escape Minister asked a number of questions regarding

from the islands, that coufederales and friends have aucceeded in Lidding him away is the stata of local commerce, His Excellency announced that after earsful consideration he drivers, as for this a long apprenticeship which overtops Mont Blanc, and musu is the vessels leaving Honolulu, and that he is at was able to give fasurable replies to the is necessary and firemen can fill vacancies high above

summit present somewhere in the Orient. Following are available of the Wetterhort-a region of scorch the disappearance of Treasurer Wright, Gover- petitions presented, many of which, it is hoped, as drivers, if trained

The Coming heat in the summer san, and bitter investigation of the Treasurer's accounts.

nor Dolo ordered Secretary Cooper- to make an will have a direct infltenes upon the revival of to take their places as firemeu.

The mittee advise that only men with three cold in the winter frost. Between the Kuon shortage was found to be entirely in the Chinese yeare still to serve with the colours, should be

luu and the Thian sau is another platead, more Fand, which was ra special deposit with selected .r training, and then only those of level and lower sinking pastward down to the Wright. This fund was deposited with the good character, and possessing at least third-grest rainless Gobi desert. On his former government prior to examination, by the plan- class education certificates. They advise that as

Journey, says the Standard, Dr. Sven Hedin's ters, to insure the return to China of contract. many men should be trained as regiments can explorativas carried him over Turkestan from labourers imported to the Hawaiian Islands. spare and an railways can take, and that rail the foot of the Thias-shan to the Lob Nor. There was no appearance of falsification of waye shonk grant certificates of competency. This time he has not only worked at mang

the books. but & shortage in the cash on hand the men to be placed entirely at the disposal of points previously incomplete, but has examined in the Chinese Fund. The total amount of the the line during their training and to be located

the desert still further east, and explored a large away from barracks. The time to be occupied area of Eastera Tibet from north to seath. He Chinese Fand which should have been on deposit, in training is to be generally twelve months for

was tuxted back, though withent injury, in a $161,226.25, but after a thorough investiga firemen and eight months for suck traffic dalies two attempts to penetrate as far as Lhasa, and tion of all accounts and all moneys it was found that the deficiency was $17,949.91. Treasurer as those of guards and station masters. Th: finally made his way westward to Leh. Travell Wright was not under bond, as the only bonded Committen reject as unworkable the proposals ing in such regions is very laborious and government official in Honniulu is the Registrar made by the Oudh and Rohilkhead Railway for unfails much hardship,

Sren of Public Accounts. He is supposed to be the training a whole company ander a saptain and Hedin's industry somas unaffected by fatigue. only man authorised to handle moneys, and the two subalterns in railway work..

The amount of work he has accomplished logs will fall on the territorial government is prodigions. His chartographical material. the islands. At first it was believed that the saya, consists of not Jaxe than 114 Treasurer had left Honolula on the Alameda, sheete, which, if arranged end to end in a row which was in port at the time, but a search of would measure over 1.000 fost; 114 astronorakal the vessel failed to reveal his whereabouts,

Le had addressing the jury, siated

Mr. Sherp in that they would have to be satisfied that this wall fell through the defendant's criminal

Hie Worship-Are you quite sure he ran negligence in not adequately supplying support to replace that which he took away by the award demolition of the waxt house, before they could Witness--Yes, because when I saw him And him guilty. This divided itself into four running away I ran too, gitestions which were practically those which Delel Khan, the constable in question, Lordship had already indicated. The first aid that when he got to the nateked. in was Is the jury satisfied in the flat instance response to a summons, he saw the defendunt that the wall fell outwards and not inwards? with an axe in his band. Witness attempted The whole case turned upon that question, to arrest him, and was out over the finger. He They Ind to be satisfied, in order to convict the took out his truncheon to ward off ether blows,

that the wall fall out wada, not in.and the truncheon was also eat. Birds. If the inry, decided that question in the

wards,

His Worship Is the truncheon here i Inspector Baker-That is the first I hive" heard about his truncheon; I-didn't examine it. for assistance, and afterwards in pursuit of the Continuing, wittosa said he ran to the station defendant with four other Indian constables.

His Worship Did you catch him? Witness-No, sir.

thut it anybody Anry decided all three questions. I was eft-rwards told that the Chinese had

the

station to O ME.

trade here.

of

The questions referred to are:- (1) The establishment at the port Vinlivostock of a free zono harbour."

(2)- Permission to asks transhipments of foreign goods in transit on the same conditions as at the southern ports of Manchuria-.e. that the Customs duty shall be returned upon the export of the goods from the country, and an. ad valorem laty imposed only on such goods as are importedl

(3) To extend the preceding rule to all goods. in transit by land.

(4) Permission to import by ship free of duty all goods of Chinese innanfacture (except tea and alcohol), on the same conditions as those imported by the land rontà.

(5) To equalise the railway tariff rates between Vladivostock, Port Arthur, and Dalny.

(6) To facilitate the method of passing goods by the Customs officials,

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THE FINGER PRINT OFFICE.

How many people know that there is such na alt, at the London Guildhall, Sergeant Charles he has kept a complet› meteorological journal, defaulting Treasurer on board the ship during

deposition of the defendant maile bolure. The lind never-zince then seen the defondant, not-punies-in-this-part of the country. Hee-astiat mentioned above?-On the 25th determinations have been secured to pheck this; although parties stated that they saw the

(7) Permission to organise small stock com-

(*) The estabhebment of school at Vladivostock.

In consequenes of M. de Witte's attitude, u iseling among commercial here, and a big revival of trade is shortly expected.-Kobe Chronicle

Tarini.

"YEBISU."

THE FAMOUS

affirmative, then there arose the question: The jury satisfied that the falling outwards of the wall was caused by an insufflingy of shoring to replace the support which had been taken If they should decido both these away: questions against the defendant, there was the third: Is the defondant responsible in law for

His Worship Well, what did you do? Did the iuxameiont shoring? That, of course, wan

question very largely for his Lordship. The you continue innuing, or did you go away?

responsible, defence said that he was not

and Witness-Ho went out of my sight, air, and was it was the shoring con- I went to look for him but did not find him: tractor. If the against the defendant a fourth aro8,;. Did arrested him,

Inspector Baker-The witness's evidence is the insuficient sboring show negligence so gross and rookless is to justify a conviction altogether different from the statement he apon the very serions charge of manslaughter. made to me at the time. He said he Mr. Sharp went on to refer at length to authong in Queen's Road West, and was safer- ing badly from fever. That was the exense vilies bearing on the case.

The Attorney General having also addressed be made. He said he was coming to the

jury summed up. He reviewed the

In answer to his Worship, witness said he His Lordship Coroner and afterwards the evidence of the even at the Government Civil Hospital.

His Worship-It strikes me this evidence is varions withessen before the Court. addition

With regard to many other petitions pressut Collins, of the Finger Print Office, New Soot-making records thrice a day: has taken overwhe morning of his disappearanco. Others to that evidence, he said, there was the evidence very unsat afactory. I went to the Government 10 postes with regard to that the jury world Civil Hospital to take dying depositions, and ed by the local merchants, the Minister promised said I have been deputed to appear before ical, and kotanical collotions; besides bringing was a ruse, and that the Treasurer left Honolul have to decide whether it was the evidence I saw you in the same room with the other his consideration.

The local merchants, in order to commemorate your Worship by Mr Heary, the Assistant about seven hundred rack spasimans to illustrate from the inter-island wharf and that he is head- of nabiassed witnesses or that of men who bad men and the defendant, it is clear you, wust

the beneficial result of their endeavours, have. Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, whose the goology of Thibet, of which at present very ad for if not alreeds inthe Orient. The secret gous to the scene of the collapse with precou have seen him. estre ideas of buir the thing happened that at the station, when they were all brought Eastern Jastituto in the name of M. da Witte, worked at New Ecotland Yard under Hama deavoured to avoid travelling over rontes already and are keeping a sharp lookout for the missing" Inspector Baker--He saw him previous to resolved to establish a scholarship at the local system of finger print classification is being little is known. Throughout, he says, he ex-service bureaus of the Orisut has been notified Without

în any way casting any reflection upon

offer an explanation traversed by other explorers. But the earlier man in hopes of capturing him and returning the gentlemen who had come forward and given in and this man was charged.

the means for which have already been subscrib. Office authority to His Worship-It is most unsatisfactory, ed. The Minister, before leaving, thanked the regarding an alleged failure in a fuger print part of his journey was in a region which he him to the authorities at Honolulu expert evidence in this case his Lordship

identification, concsroing which so much ins had already visited, Northern Torkestan, its obje t, which was completely successful, bo- reminded the jury that it was a well-known fact evidence,

Ho Un, the lukong, who made the fist Merchants for the honour they had done hit been aid in th- Press. On the 12:hiest. Mr. that two bodies of eminent e

wool often

Aldermen Vaughan Morgan was informed that infotras necurately the cause of the River Both that and the less important ecmg forward in a ond support two attempt to arrest the defendant, and who with consented to the proposal.

the Finger Print Olles kad stated that the finger prints of one William Ward wero Charchon-Daria are frequently charging their entirely

one channel to exenvata idention with those of a convicted person course, abandoning named Hopkins. What happened at the snother. The former river shows a constant Finger Print Offee was this-The offiver tendone to shift its bed towards the south Bud who made the search andoubtedly identified by on that side throws off namerome arms or the finger marks that the prisoner Ward was secondary chanoels, into which cocasionaliy identical with a criminal of the same name, but diverte its main streate. Those vagrant ton- in copying down the reference number from dencies are rendered. easy by the nature of the the finger print slip in the record he unfortur region transzsed-an arid lowland, with the ately put down 2,392 for 2392: This caused shifting sand-dunes for hills. In one place, oti the corresponding clerk to forward to the City the right hunk of the Tarim, a chain of long Polic the record of convictions of Hopkins lakes formed, which are continued between instead of Ward. The error was a clerical one, duses sometimes more than a hundred yards This tendency inger print system which is werking so saccess by clay and absolutely barren, fully. By comparing the imprints of Ward to shift its bed becomes more pronounced as PLEASANT. with those of Hopkins, your Worship will at the river approaches the region where it par once see that the searcher could not possibly ishes and among the desert sands, sad the Oat of the many ancient lake of Loir Nor, goes on past it and the lines is so different thousands of recognitions made by means of forms the lake of Kara-Koshan, farther to the have thought the identical--the contour of Tarim, fustead of emptying itself into the the finger prints we have never erred; on the south. The position of the former has been a other hand, we have been able to correct sorious matter of dispute, which Dr. Seen Hedin has mistakes isle in perscual identification an betance-some time nok a wurder stated completely dried up, but on its northern shora that an acensed person had a red a term of he found ruins of towns, settlements, and PER CASE OF

But by mass of temples, as well as manuscripts sad tables of huger prints we clearly proved his innocence tamucisk-wood, in Chinese cuructors, dating of this conviction. Thess pofuts w ex out for from third to the fifth century of the present the sngtit at the inncount with stablishing ers, together with indubitatio, rice of

ancient caravan road. His former journey was rewarded by similar archaeological discoveries farther west in Turksisu, so that evidently PE CASE OF the region was much more fearhising some fifteen oentaries ago, Partly this has been the work of man, but perhaps it is still more due to a change in climate. A very large portion Central Asis, not only in the region wet of the Thin-shan, but even in that to the west of this chats, seems to be gradually drying up, but can venture to declare positively. what may be the cause of the desiccation no one

to decide between the falling-in and took him to the station described the part he the falling out theorira if they were of bad taken in the affair, and showed the mark opinion that this wall fell inwards, then he or his left arm where the defendant struck him thought it was not contended on the part of the with the axe, as well as the cut in his bamboo Crown that the collapse arose in

By Way from belmet.

The hearing was ut this point adjourned till defective shorlur, all the shoring put up on

Do outside of the walk would not have prevented to-morrow afternoon. it falling inwards. Therefore, if they found that the wall fell inside, it seemed to his Lord. ship that there was an end of the case; on the Other hand, if they came to the omclusion that star word entitled (ie the falling out theory

tis proper solution of the matter, they

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BEFORE ME. F. A. HAZELAND (POLICE MAGISTRATE)

THEFT PROM A CHILD.

THE FASTEST CRAFT IN THE

WORLD.

MUKIst say how that came about. If they con- a sleeping baby strapped to her back, charged, or at the rate of 59.13 knots an hour. and should not be put to the prejudice of the high, by a serious of depressions, each covered

idered that the wall fell because of defective shoring, then they would love to consider if

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The new American steam-yacht Arrow is described as the fastust craft in the world. Recently, over mile course where vessels are usually

isted on the Hudson River, the Arrow covered a nautical mile in exactly 1 minute 32 A little nine-year-old Chinese girl, carrying

This i squivalent to 15 statute miles an hour. an evil-looking native youth with satehing

and constitutes a new record for vessels of any gold-mounted rattan bangle from the wrist of kind whatsoever. The Arrou is a twin-more

yacht 130ft. Siu, in total length, 12ft, 6in. beam, the blame or what blame, was attributable to the infantenn the prisoner in regard to that defective shoting. The little girl was giving the ba' an cuting 3ft. Biu. zerual draught, with a displacement if he employed somebody else to do the shoring and committed the set of which he was accused by Mr. barles D. Mosher, of New York. It had been contended for the defence that if it appeared, and the defendant came up behind on that draught of 58 tons, he was designed there was no further responsibility upon him. The girl saw him sud held on to his ginthus, but The Scientific American, commenting upon be with regard to if His Turtchige said he might he get away from her. She followed up, and resord outablished by the Arrow, says that tell the jury that he did not sooept that. If a told some companions who were plug to although there is no reason seriously to doubt person was engaged to take down certain bonses inform her mother of the affair. The defendant the accuracy either of the cures or of the adjoining old houses he was going to undertake was followed to a ten-shop, which he entered timing, it is greatly to be regretted that the a dangerous werk, and if he was not competent and on leaving which he was seized and held by trials were so limited in duration. It was a ree years' penal'wrvitude to do it himself be maat engage a skilled the mother of the two little ones. The bangle pity, that journal thinke, that the vessel was Hot seat over the course for several consecutive architect or contractor who cuald competently

The case was adjourned till to-morrow after runs, and given at opportunity to prove undertake it. The proposition of the law that

whether she was capable of his Lordship laid down to the jury was that the Untractor did not get out of the responsi bilty by employing another man to do the Biloring

It was bir business to see that the showing was properly done. The question as to whether the aboring was proper was a ques tion for the jury. Mr. Turner be thought it www, had stated that he did not think the shoring was necessary. Certainly he did not agree with The man himself, besoanas the sobirantor distinct ly, said it was recessary: I shored up the wall because the typhoon signal was raised

thy

case shoring would have been

was not recovered.

noon for corroborative evidence.

The following from the Globe is a suitable coad to the story of the prisoner guilty either of forgery or perjury. As your Lordship please. "I don't know whether I'm guilty or not," observed a costermonger at the Citv Sammons Court recently, "I'll wait and see Very sensible. When there is a specially appointed official who receives a thumping salary simply for committing prisaners, why should the prisoners commit themselves!

As set at reat. The ancient lake has now

of speed on a continous run of dye or six proof against the guilty. The Alderman said miles. The Arrow has not accomplished 30 glad to learn and the publie would be knots on tour, but a mile at the rate of 39qually pleased that the error referred to was a clerical one, and in no degrees fault of tho finger print system. knots an hour, which is somewhat different.

The last cens shows the population of Bootland on March 31st, 1901 to be 4,472,109, a total increase of 446,456 persons, in ten years. There are 4,536,541 people in the County of London, so that the population of London is greater than that of the whole of Bootland.

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