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HE MAGISTRAGY Eco Coart is in many plans , and the people who gather na interested or disinterested terive as much enjoyment, struction, from tio pro

of eclogi children from Ortainment Ont here the far, ut least, 9 DONCSTOL m, even though time per accommodation of the

Court la ne uftración, nts otherwise might offer, For, of tus class that frequent -hen the weather is ales is and its attendant discomforts rroom doubtless wild b company, the Police Court, stauces impol the maglatents, is open to the public, and ess and order aro observed

itted to altond.

adicial business transactolit a single day is surprising. Onsidors the many differah mally have to bo interprekd day English, sarpino gires The Sutcli tongan is ni by Britishers us a foreigı dialectical pecaliarities be prehension by poopts bor d-but at least one can ha

agistracy where the servica

were essary to render ridouce of a "práv, prav

long arrived in the Colony tracos of his native rusticity. - find this opinn he wa ar questiona, in roforaure to

1. “In a weak, yez Worship, real" Ropeated questioniar ausger, which had at last to the magistrate by a Be

as meaning "in a corner ddy and 'euda." Kobaked superior officer for his ts, the policeman, apošte. trate's jusbility to understand Puir ozat, did he went s Sou? This recille to mul appened or is said to h

mush the sam's thing in the Pallon Court of a small an tland A Prouch sailor-

ato custody for fighting was *Wool, monsuro, what has chairge o fechtia at the Frunchrest nade a gesture inability te nuderstand the

Court unlu another a d the common ezpaunt of nvey a messing to a foreigne brokoa English: ta hin, have ye to sy to dis cha

miss comprangdin that?"! said the prisoner. Au' ya pityingly replied tie baie ta'e hallayo say, 'an': I'm so

■rei'ye pair, silly, jabberin" go, au bi sire. tas keep iba leaves, when yo can natosab ms. But dions kick up ony

a cur qnalertuan.",

ly referred to the multiplicity countered in a day's wak

acy. There may be appor -on all four coruers, of the can xist on a spher),

8. of the Court never come

it doesu oren. hesitate

the old hdy who enquiral

be express train that had ju

be station didu stop there.

ople frem tho Ens from th

Borth, and from the oath, b

found for everyous 6 11:0 ves itself into Sunday-choo- tall at the Magistiney is dlos about half-a-dozen dialè th as much facility as he do ve tongue.

Polico Court proceeding t laughter" is often intre it is rarely the case that af nile greets a livening incidert ine. This is not une to my tion. Us it remembered, per chat the proverbial inability of joke extends to the mag thing, the dignity of the Court t of, and to encouragement is nd for anether, these incilerts be regarded as a matter of —well, hare simply come to be tter of course. However, fil sterousness what a word to Police Cont, most solema of feeling of enjoyment when re tickkod is mover lacking in any hons Nets are found in the ced by Chinese defendantsin explanation of the offencar ben. Asked how he came into

■ble obain suspected of bating master of e sampan olly Frmation that he had found it arbour Justna startling it. as the excnes offered by priated a six-foot beam of wood urpauter. "I had just eaten end Iranted to pick ny les of this naivets could be seun, but these two gems are

that

« dark noe, meve that are: vampi

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a" "closing

the personaliten

=the Puliso Court.

plot Magistrate, iss el who places each chce car ance and gives his decis cales wing under the weight genial friend when es him to exceed tas

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When the policy destitute of "euntouts. examined the basement they found that bound had ou removed from the staircas and undore this as a quantly of my soaked with jerosene, and the wood stocked in the basement had been lighted at that place That was the io which the Chiuso, constable first aw and extinguished. The fire wai evidently lighted by somebody both in the basement and on the first floor, und it was clear that when the police, vors fortunately, saw the fire in the bismant and extinguished it the prisoners were obliged to extinguish their on the first fear or they have discovered. Vranistakable traces of fire wen

conversational limits set by the terso judel qtery, Guilty or unt guilty?his is the magistrato again when the Borch has him for occupant, and no caso is to complicated, no dalls connected therewith are too minute or Irain-racking, to ensure anything but the olmest deliberation and the text raling, be Pre defendant black, white, or yellow. Mr. JH. Komp is his junior in yea's as in offles, but bie daily take discharges with the sang tot of a mus of riper experience and churneterises his decisionsät all tiines with a strict obversuper of the trend of facts. Not yet possessed of the invulnerability that trots of wage and bag ervice, he & Keraly, pops tee kesly positive to criticism and quick to retaliatestegnently found and it appeared that theme of thechareed wood tone by the policu hating his condition to be very serioas Thus, the falling pressun is at pant priteners therupu Led collected the rags and sticke soaked in oil and put them in this bor เม thetronilo. of deciphering Mr. Kemp's handwriting in the depositicas, and locked then up in order to destroy the erder that, these deposition were not to be traces of the op-rations. Their motive: w revessible bating gone farth after the pubien without any reasonable question, to defraud the

The cantants of tion by another newspaper if úí sentiues of six insurance company. monilis passed on a peiser who in reality promises wind for $2,000 at the tied received aniruix weeks, but where case, viewed the fire, and thought in would 'pravo che in the former light by the editor, was at the Were not spill-$104. All the valuables and subject of sympatholle comment timt veeled oney tong to the accused were found is mfarably and najustly on the presiding the woman's peckets, and she also had in hf asgistrate,. To err, we are told, is Furnasion maker of pawn-tickets relate and may hap the day is not far didnt en fulmost untidy to the stock, which the priscul Mr. Kemp will exercise the divine virtue dished pawned Akiing the less. Gays immediately. -preceding thatite. It was perfeily clear that giveness and let bygones be bygones.

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Monday, 18th May.

IN CRIMINAL JURIDICTION,

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PP'S TUESDAY, MAY 19tπ 1903 about three o'clock. He was orakonel be some) to show that when on the ground deceased was one crying out an almon of fire down below. Hasalted by the other three prisoners-kicked. saw the sun coming out, Confused by the fand otherwise maltreated. The affray lasted stana be wait to get n piece of rope from below only minute or so, after which thoso man this bed with which to escape, and a dojngrigrad to their work. The xalted ma so be overturned a lamp which was burning was very severely lujuced. He sat down and near his bed. The emeke we very thick and rested on the wharf Thero re a person he could not so anything. He did not blue with bin, who remained beside bla for some bis wife for overtarning this lamp; he did it fine. The injured man complained of himself. De used to hang a lamp over a shelffeling great paine in his abdomen and and that was the reason the keraeus was found eventually be felt very giddy and full on the. ther Some time ago a stuitary, incrostar round. Harenained there from abané konių came to him and told him that he must pull till about live o'clock, at which timen passer-by down the enbiete partitions tid make a bolted his conilition and informed the police. at the back of this shelf; this he carried out. Two policemen weat them with sa ambalance

M. Pellt, the French Minister of Masing- was charred by the harning of juss-paper and removed him to the Ganyanent. Civil Mos. by cooking. As regards one box which such plat, where he was ferunt to be suffering from last menth placul a vessel at the disposal of M. THE OLD FIRM STILL LEADING. of kerosme, be said the sergant had pred optured spleen. Later on that evening. Zuchowiecki La Rochelle, for the continuanes the oil in it out of a keresne-pot. Had as the only way of saving hin life, an operation of his interesting experimentawith a life-saving NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE SUCCESS.

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MOTOR CYCLES, MAIL CANTS, nitted that his houss anelt of korene nt be performel upon him and his spleen was apparatus. This, says a despateli from Pari, thehad nothing to do with the kem on the need. It was then found that his sploon led crusists of a large kite of sil cloth with fou

of Bool. He died only on the morning of The kite's tail consists of cloth pockets in the RICKSHAS FITTED WITH PNEUMATIC staircase, which was a commer staircase iron ruptund and his abdominal cavity was fall] nit legs in the holtó muírtain its equilibrion,

#hith. His spleen, was abanensity large; it form of fire buckets, suspenib.one above the TYRES AND BALL BEARINGS THROVONZ carried on basiness as a taitur; sum times hin place was full of goods and sometimes he reut

We are Bolo Agente for: the following?- then away and gut in new gust. He took out weighed over the whereas the Leimal weight other. At the end of thó til rope-n strongly, our.

The great dilically in shipwrecka near slow | MONOPOLE, FUTURE CENTAUR, and the insurance policy not lease be wanted to of a penang the Chinese was Sox. The built padalo is fixed.

censed before he died as having been among always has beez in getting a rope aboard to NEW PREMIER CYCLES. set fire to the fiber, but to protect hanself from 1st irre prizones were recoquísed by 46s de

ibuse who assaulted him, and two or three wit establish commistions with land. A string wind invariably blows fashore. Me Zudio- The finale prisoner said the dre took plac on the basement ther: they knew nothing aleness weaid identify the fourth prisoner us

aided by the other prisoners, There were in these penis at the time of her husband to go down and lep

Bylines was the lid. For the defouce it fire seme -20persone, and it was little short fire ont; he did su.

mirach that the Chinese covetable arrived jul The male și orsod read that the reason his prose that the fourth prisoners Mas] Cheung, who WIN a kind of torerano at the in the nick of time to give them the am;auts, sucit of beror: no whis Le was exted, had recrived general ouders from the had he been two minutes later prefably no D by the polje jurpidetor was that he tied over

Portuguese oko nece at the wharf to keep the would have been able to extinguish it.

pile drive clear, that be and the working d Evidence.sus then taken.

considerable diffiening in doing this and that the deceased was one of those who roanifest, ons to the phuv?

the woman as well as the than was impliedded. There was a great distulate and he told the or who commenced the attack and was; Wiecki suggests the crying of a life-asvit { Chainless), ineluding the

fursed the lardı.

top, this

His Locslip, in spoming up, said the police evidence ind shown in a manner that admitted of s chain that this fire was deliberately ugl purposely bid by rcmelody. It was a very suspicious cirenmstance indeed against the

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His Lordship having sammud up, The jury after an absence of throw minutes

kite en every vessel, as an inshore-blowing wind would make it easier to carry a pope from a Tevsel ustore than vice-vers, "If rocks mads it. dangerous for the man with the repo and GE - belt to travel in shere steering with the paddie, dummy conll be substitute, otherwise Be tran guiding hindif with the paddle can read the shore with great rupidity.

M. Zuchowie i threw himself into the water with the apporats eight times on one day-list mouth during a gale of wind and arrived safely hore pulled by the kite fren, distanets of

E. W. Capenter, excentiva vngineer in the P.W.D., patis and profiilis plan of the promise THE CALENDAR,

Chinese Constable 62, who discovered the There were six cares on the calcader, the implicating 14 persons, and including one outbreak of fire, stated that ho first saw that charge of inwder, two of netsinnghter, one of the best pr was burning. He land fre-raising, one of 1obbery and one of perjury. lo prop him the upper fuery.. Eome of this prisounes that, there was only some Sion worth in whej to consider their serdiet Eound the H, Text) with 1,500 yards. The experiments, ]

of goods on the premists when the insurance | prisoners guilty by a majority of five to two and

Lunanimewly crommended thera to mercy. The jury retiresi at 90 to consider their de korskip sa di be quite cometered with

Gretornid a. vadiet of gully ágaing dada] given effeit (o,"

prisoners.

MARGE OF PERJURY.

Ou the application of Mr. P. W: Goldring, seliciter. the Aeting Attorney-Genera, iskel¦

neighbours crinud lielped him to put out be fire. There was a strong all of keroman. There was a separate fire under the staireme

wax for $200,

as well as the bests, with the dummy, ver

nerersful." It is regarded as probable thựt kites will sim 19. adopted 15 thus Freach

Lordship to allow the es No 4 on the list. He afterwards reported in utter at 13 polic/erdict and after ab absence of four minds that remakeHIGATION ABA would not that it was Navy as well as by fishing and merchant ships.

in which Lan Ali was clinproel with perjury in

a and Coert china to slund over flex

His Lordship agreed tothe adjourumem.

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The first case onlled wes that in which the basement for, He rented the whale crime of setting fire to a home in which jezaple j „viene left the Pigy m ́eptini huť to fùnd fallen in W. Japan. in connection with the treat 205. Queen's Door as a taller. Witness went into The base. most serious crimes under the Karlish law; } cleor that threatch their not they enamed "the

Iling nid Wong Ping were elirged wilhagemisest The male accused tenanted the firsti

West on 15th April.

They del not guilly

Mr. E. H. Slary, KC, Acting- Atfurry s General instructed by Mr. F. B. L. Howby, Clown Solector), cruithated the profventiva. He stated to his Turcsip that in canceling with this caso there Badalso been es weittel

Sr. Magan Pillas drew his Lordship's The madr ef the draper's shop text gave

The Cent adjourned from LStill 2.556elocitaroition to the fact that the girlsoners" hal ovidence. When he was aroused by the

Hishi, nedressing the first prisonet. - been some six weeks in prison—i Warm oldre, he said, he went and looked

Hi Lodehi in posing wistenen sai into the bass tamemkeaw raoke coining frozat he had en found guilty of the very serious

wers Ring at the fine. That was one of the then guity of innanloughter, brauen it was

had the policeman not discovered the firo-in the death of this men. The verdien of the jury was a'munal proper our and one in which he eatively sabsequently went upstairs with the English nick of time the store his Lorddip found it

his duty to pus upon him would have onerred. These aree, he himself Rought, vevant. On el first floor everything winch heavier than that whith be was going to showed that the man was in a very bad state of In stule of muïusien. He gathad the goods on

the first found 20. Of that value, $79 was 1s. It appeared that for the sakroi getilag health Frew is enlarged spken and that the Home $250 from the instance company the prisoner had diberately atte

ment after the fire..was put out.

food onli

Sergeant 3._Grant:depared that when he wri

and SW.winds, decreasing, in the Forms Channel,hud N. part of the China Sea.

Forest-Moderate SW. winds; squally, thunder showers.

fer trial mail by pumed Ho Yat. He to tho premian with the Chinese constable he / Partially succredki in his attempt to burt fiskis dosib hil ba o ha ced state of heali. for this port on the 17th-ins at avou, withthe.

had considered the evidence carefully und did not think it advisablete include Lim in the indictment. Ilu acridingly asked it in Boy be illselarged,

His Lordship crimed the bay, to be discharged, The following jary warempauche:Mesers, J. 31. A. Thiesson, W. J. HJ. Cruikshank, J. A. T. Flummer, H. A. Lanisert, P. Dow and J. A, Curvalico.

found a sunker of small places of word, showing of barning, about the door, näd the stairwry. From the staircase a pak

hnd-Lown takım away.

There was a strong

smit of terone. The places of woce lyng, about were not the same as the wond stared there, having apparutig belonged to a partition On going which they found forn down. upstairs lo found the staircase was saturated with kerose all the way up to the first for

well kosene,

But

taneou

plisovac did't know his condition. What they did to him wombi probaldy not huva cumid | honse deen, régulless of the people living in But it be of line y conduct it. Thevidence was umudusty ghee the P

thesunulves fögards aid other. Prisoners had prisoner was guilty. For the offence that hol!

heen in jaison for the past six works. Taking een committed the law allowed the Judge to

ai: the circumstances of the case into considera- pass a enten of life impristinent,

kard Inbour, mutil the rising of the Court, having regard to the fact that the policeation he would sentence them to be confinest with discovered the fie in time to prevent any risk

The Court adjourned at 4 fiuntil 30 550 ibis to life the sentence upon the prisoner would to a compuntively mild cas However, it W necessary that the prisoner and those of THE BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS. kind who for the sake of getting insurans consequaces, should midterstand that in any insistances the consequences, if the guilty party we found out, would be very serious, The offence which the priser had commits was extremely easy to commit and extremely difficult to detect, and the timber of undetected was very great. Therefore when, a was the cast here, the charge was broughth heme

would by a deterrent to others likely to offead in the same direction. The sentence upou the mah prisoner would be seven years' im-

The Acting Attorney-General in opening the caso said that the accrised were husband mud wife. When he fored the house on this floor he money would sat fire, to a house, irrespective of The house where the Grovecurred consisted of and trous of burning anf them as a strug basement and threo doors, all separately lot, The baserri was used for storing wood; the ground floor above the gruent was a prosper. ous tailor shop. The first floor was where the prisoners lived and ostensibly carried on a tailor's business. Le tronal show the jury that they had practically no goods there Ou tin second flair was a family house. The ground

Chief Tector 1. G. Baker stated that son he inspected the premises on the morning in nextion l observed that the door of thin bengut nd heen burst open and was charred. There were signs of there using boon a tire. An upright plank was missing from

in

which all the way from the

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low factory. Both impurts and, exports

steady and general rise in keeping with their reward early in the gear. The flḥpris valued... ut £},952 am the ex. incre

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at the back of this house was ane stang lower bottom to the first floor had boon gatunted clearly the Judge shamnki wake ati example which↑ Hurch, 1902. The voluør of British conmerelal 1

with kerssues Ou examining the first for, he found signs of burning, and the cuvides smelt very strongly of levo

With regred for the details of British trade with the Far East there was a large decrease in. expert of cotton yurn and twist to Chian, Japan and the Straits Sotdements during

March.

than at the front, being built on the lower side of Queen's Road where the ground falls very rapidly towards the water. The draper's shop was on the level. On the night of in The rooms were in a state of great prisouuent with hard labor, fad the fre fisertler, ngs, oht shoes and paper strom all aut een discovered and he, people in the over the lone. In a box be found a ple of house been burned prisoner would As regards the wond p by shich the mule prisoner said, vach have been hanget. examined fore the Magistrate, that he intend his Landship took a milder view of ber the small boy who bad just been diseharged anal cd &-oscaju over the verandah. In the kitchenTene, net leeanse it was not legally who was found asleepen the veranlub. On the ho found a kerosene tin containing a little great is that of her husband but because scond for there was ahrge family of abent tenkercsene. The male prisoner's Lands melt roostlikely she did it under his influence if not by Indies and the Straits Settlements show

o the busement was locked up; it was 1 mere godown. In the draper's shop. cu the gromal duor the inundue Wore asleep. On the lint Beor there were only Be two pri-obers and

people all asleep. Alsot a quarier to four -o'clock tink morning a Chineso constable on duly sawllemes coming out of the door of the basement floor. He locked through mal saw a fire also lening inside. He broke through and found a separate fire underneath the staircase. He alarmed the inmate, and then west for the police. A fow winntes later an English ser. geant arrived and made an examination of the premises Fo smelt kerosene, as the Chinees constails bed. He found it on the wooden stairengs and tracer is up to the that tour, was opened where the door of the room by the malo prisoner who was fully dress ed and prepared to leave. A thorough examination of the premises was then made, with the assistance of the inspector, and the first floor was found he strewn

very strongly of kerosene,

F. Bane, Government Analyst, doposed that he had analysed and tested a number of articles bought from the house where Us fire cecurred. He gave evidence in detail of the results of his examination which went to show that the articles in question were more or loss saturated with keroseno,

Hiro Mikasthura, chief clerk of the Mitsui Bussan Krisht, spents for the Maiji Insane Co., stated that in May inst the first floor of 205 Queen's frad West was insured with them by the mal prisoner for $2,000-stock, $1,500; furniture, 300; and clothing, $300. The clerk who proceded him inspected the premises before the polles was ismed. He saw the premises after the fire and estimated the value of the contents at about $100.

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"ALLEGED MANOLAUGHTER. Mau Yes, Kwok Kas, Chan Yau and Man Cheng were charged with manslaughter in

They pleaded not gailly, connection with the death of eno Chum -Ng.

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600 yards for the same period. guinst 416,775,609 The export of linen manufactures to the Philip of 26,700 yards, but for the three months an pine Talauds shows a decrease for the mouth ease of tiâ,000 yards. In woollen tiesausthe increase of figures for China byth for the month and three The following jury was empanelled-months show a considerable falling off, whereas The shipments of worsted tissues to China Mestry. A. Steger, P. Hanilmanu, C. W. J. Japanshows good increases daring both periods. Hagelberg, A. E. Asger, F. F. Barrotto, A. I also show decreases in both periods, whilst the Bursfor Japan ara less for the mouth bat the three months. The quantity of Ough and B. T. Wilgress, laws, who conducted the prosecution on nixe

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Tho value of textile, perinda

ared with £44 the case that. Messrs. Jarding, Matheson & Co. March was only £100, as compared ure the owners of Jardine's Wharf situated last year, and for the three months £1305, near West Point, which was undergoing against let year. For Jepin the

figures were 26,907, sguiast £4,900 for structural repairs. On 7th April ubout soon

month, and £16,022, agaiost £1,310 for the an accident occurred to one of the pile-drivers longer period. In old iron for remanufacture China did a larger business- daring the meath, which were being used at this wharf, and four

hout the same as last year. Torning to or in bafsido coolies who were not employed whilst the figures for the three months work out ports wo find that there was a decrease in the ality of tea shipped from China during upon the work gathered around to have a look at this pilo-driver and the accident which

Ibe lea-Silk shipments from the had happened. This seemed to have incensed whilst the figures for the three months are two or three of the in regularly employed some 355,003 The loss. Sill shipments from the upon the work and No. prisoner, Mantas of interest to note that 70,640 cwin, of Cheng, proceeded to get rid of one or more of sugar, ef n total value of £26,283, were exported Will be glad to send STAMPS on approval those coilies, one of whom was the decensed from the Philippine Islands in March. Hetup to any address on ressips of satisfactory refer P

Mr. T. Morgan Philips bereider-at-greater for allow ruled out to Chias, was CHEONG SHING.

with pices cf rag, motto wool and papor ali Chan Sing the locant of the basement four, behalf of the Crown, stated in opening machinery and will work exported to Chius in

scaked in korosung The walls and lier were found to to sprinkkd with kerosene. A cubicle deer was staked with kerosene, and there was every sign of preparations for a fire. The hands of the prisoner fere dks Covered with kerosene and matches and twists of paper wow found fo his pockets. A locked box which was found on the first floor and moved by the police was subsequently opened and found to contain abance of rage saturated with kerosens. There were trage of burning on the first floor. The partitions and woodwork had been lighted at several places. A partition was torn down

and the pieces of wood scattered about the reat of the promises were evidently torn from this partition and these fragments were all saturated with karowne The place was in the greatest possible onfusion and was almoet

.

said that his promises were all in orde when last inspected by him on the 16th April

KumKur, shoemaker, said that on the night of the ire there were tes people sleging on the secind floor of the house.

Lan Sun, a married woman, who resides opposib No. 7 Police Station and who marched the female prisoner when arrested, spoke us to the moner, etc., found in her possession. There were air rolls of money in ton and twenty couts pieces; some cords or strings and eight pawan tickets,

C. P-S, 981 stated that the amount of money discoravd in the ferosle prisoner's possession wes $1.68

TEbesnelated the evidence.

Thsiale prisoner, when asked if halad any thing to say, declared that the fire took place

ManCheung beat him, with a row, he suppose to get him away from the place and nudoubt edly he was either kucked or pulled to the floor of the wharf. Evidence would be called

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