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No one who reads the evidence adduced at the trial in the Supreme Court of the man A blend of the finest WHISKIES disarraigned for complicity in what is known the Gage Street murder can doubt the tilled in SCOTLAND, of great age; very fine justice of the sentence of death passed upon him yesterday by the Acting Chief Justice.
and mellow.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 22ND 1903
The postponed polo match of last Saturday, Scotland v. Ireland, will be played to-morrow, weather permitting.
Mangoes, which are very plentiful in Barina this year, neo being hawked abeat Rangoon at Rs. 1.8 per hundred
A French Indo-China paper, gives the. existance of plague at Hongkong as the reason why the Russia warships and torpedo destroyere northwards bound did not call here.
Mr. Hanmer has been appointed Assistant
was admitted as a solicitor in 1898, and Secretary of the Sanitary Board. Mr. Hanmer practisel for himself for about two years in Sonthampton.
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Our Portuguese weekly coolemporary O Patriota states that the well-known Hing Keo Hotel at Macão has been sold for $20,000 to Mr. W. Farmer, who has failed to obtain the loss of the Bos Vista Hotel.
Fourteen cases were the total of yesterday's daily plague return, all but two being Chinese, the exceptions being Indians. All the Chinese were entered es dead; not so the Indians
Seven of the Chinese cases had been "dumped." It was mattor of comment that Sir Henry Barkeley did not put on the black cap when
TELEGRAMS.
REUTER'S SERVICE.
GOVERNMENT OF THE TRANSVAAL
LONDON, 19th May.
A draft of a Municipal Ordinanse for sub- mission to the Legislative Commsil' grants muslopal franchise to educated socially qualified coloured persons, this will affoot about 250 Indiana'in Johannesburg alone. ":
Lord Milner in addressing a congress of the Transvaal Munisipal Delegates at Proforia appealed for more liberal treatment to educated coloured perseus.
THE "AMERICA" CUP.
Losnon, 19th May.
SUPREME COURT.
Thursday, let May,
Is CвnaNAL JURISDICTION
BEFORE HIS HONOUR SIE HENRY S
BERKELEY ( ACTING
CHLIEF JUSTICE), THE GAGE STREET MURDER TRIAL-SENTASC
OF DEATH..AN The trial was continued of Lui Chui alias Li Kwai Fit who was charged with the murder of a Reformer schoolmaster at 52, Gage Street on 10th January, 1901.
Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C. Acting &ttorney General instructed by Mr. F. B. Bowlsy, Crown Solicitor), conducted the prosecution and Mr. T. Morgan Phillips, barrister-at-law, was for the defonce
min shootingho asked
pon
The first information he gave to the police ta connection with the matter was when a sergeant camo d asked big to identify the prisoner.
Wo Sing, sherman, stated that before the murder ho met the hits
to assist
Teung Kus War. He refused, Prisquer then asked for the use of witness's boat for this purpose. of kiduapping the deceased. Witness refused, but his partner A Sem promised. At that time it was mentioned that there would be a roward of 35.400 if Young Kas Was was killed and $10,000 if he was captured alive, the reward Government. Their boat comma meross to this to come from Li Ka Chuk of the Chinens side on the morning following the day which the conversation took place. On the next day he saw the prisoner looking at the bust. Two nights later he saw him ag a. Prisoner came off in a sampan. On that occasion he Chen Wan, who had been under examination called for A Sam to let him have a bundle of when the Court rose on the previous night, clothing that he had left on board the boat. Pri was again pat in the witness-box. He said Boner said, We have killed Young Kue Wan bu met the gang in Canton after thews do not need your boot, you can go and murder. Witness's elder brother, Lam Teal secure business" He paid no money, saying and did the actual shooting. Tang Chung the same sarapan; he appeared to be frightened. Bed him. Tani Fak and the privener / Ten, or treaty days juter he saw prisoner i
outside. Three of the gang received Canton. He along with his fokis was walking the greater part of the money roward; these to the theatre in Honam when he met him. were the prisoner, who got $2,900 Lam Tani Prisoner said he had not yet got his reward $2,000; and Tung
He did not from Lá Ki Chok and could not pay him. Chang know what the other man received. These Witness saw prisoner at Yaumati last year on board ན་ jouk Last month he saw prisoner three also got buttons of the fifth mak, along
diplomas ol rank, on in the
the poression of his led to his arrest,
The Court adjourned at a quarter past one older brother Lam Taal and one in the poseso o'clock for an hour. this out twenty others. Witaces saw two of again and gave information to the police which
of Tung Chichtelonged to his elder He produced and identified the -palcat 1901.
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Shamrock I and Shamrock III will both sail imesed, stated that he entered the house that he had none Privoner then went away in
for America on the 30th lost.
RUSSIA.
LONDON, 19th May. M. Bogdanovitch, the Governor of Ufa, has been assassinated; another symplain of weathing anrost in Brasin,
The Tsar bas dismissed Governor Kischinoff
wich
sentencing the man concerned in the Gage for failing to check an auti-semitia oatbrest in brother: it hard" the dato 30th January at him on the warrings-bost there. That was
This vas
Strest murder to death yesterday. not as oversight. It appears that the Acting Chief Justice has an aversion to the black-cap
custom,
which a hundred Jows were killed.
CANTON NOTES.
Chan Chung, fisherman, Taumati, said he had kaown the prisoner for several years. He first The patent was sealed with the
It on or about 1st November, 1950. Prisoner viceregal seat and signed by Viceroy Tak bare that Chas Tai On (the official name of asked him to go on shore with him to drink Chan Lam Tani) had exerted himself in the tea and smoke opium. In the opium divas arrest of the leader of the Ko-ls Society and prisoner said Yeang Ang Won was the #ad the Chinese Government other members of secret societies and great chief reboi credit waa due to him. His brother Lam Trai had offered a reward of between $10,000 and showed him the pateat of his rank when he 320,00 for his caplarh would wilsors assist received it. Long before he got it be told the him? Witness refused, saying he had not the shooting of the reformer Yeung Kue Wan, atenid, as he would get a reward and the and worshipped jess to give thanks for The reward was to come from Li After his brother showed him the diploma they Chinese Government would protect him, the receipt of the diploms. After reading Chule. Prisoner said Young Kue
saw the prisoner through the document, witness asked his lived in Hongkong. Witness a brother what the words Taing Láng Tan again on 28th Dea mber, 1900. On that meant, and his brother told him that cension prisoner spoke about the murder of these words meant chief leader of the Young Kus Wan and asked witness to aseist and referred to the deceased him. Witness refused. Prisoner ropested Yenug Kue
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The Derbyshire Regiment are holding their
Murray Barracks. The preliminary beats were decided yesterday afternoon, and the fuals will ba contested to-day. Apropor, it may be stated
that the title of the Derbyshires now is the Northampton and Derbyshire Regiment. The change was made recently,
(FROM THE "CHUSO NGOT BAN PO.*] On the 10th inst, a draper named Kang-Sun silk.When the foki arrived at Sa Tau Fan village, by boat, he was attacked by a notorions pirate named Chei Cham and a number of his followers. Seeing that the poor foki had only wixty, tacle in his possession, the leader of the pirates took him prisoner and sent a letter to
bandred toels for the prisoner's ransom.
went
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The following programme of music will be the draper's shop asking one thousand fire rebellion wan. His brother had not been that he would be under the protection all movement, and in Hongkong followed "the played by the 33rd Burma Infantry this oven108 The master of the shop in question refused to concerned in the arrest or desassination of any Chinese Government. Ho fent prisover
March...
Valeo...
* Amoureus
If God Save the King."
ZOAN.
ather revolutionary but Yang Kuo Wan. He dollar and exchanged his now shoes for pri profession of a schoolmaster. It was while boat the King Edward Hotel:-
acode to the ontragons demands of the pirates. gut special instructions to carry out this murder, soner's old ones. He next mot prisoner in wasengagedin teachin ga class in Gage Street
Soldiers of the King."...... Howitt Overture.. Lu Reine d'am Joor," Adam The money not being forthowning, the pirmes After his brother's death, wituses got possession Canton about 19th January and accompanied that the room was entered by two of the con.
Selection.... "Carurn,"
Bizet shot the unfortunate prisoner and threw the of his brother's papers including the diploma, him on board the Kin Yut. While they were demned man's confederates and he was fatally Song Sunshine and Kain," lumenthal corpse into the river. When the master found through his sister-in-law. After his brother dising prisoner said "Some time ago I askod
bis rank he was put in charge of a war-junk you to do a certain thing and you were afraid; - Selection..... The Mesruger Boy," Ivan Caryll shot, It was an absolutely cold-blooded in ur
Berger the corpse, le immediately reported this case and was it that position up till the time of bis look at ane now, I am a mandarin and have Contorno to the local magistrate who promised to do danth. After he stayed with the gang in Limoney to spend." Prisoner told him that they der, deliberately planned and carried out for Romanco...... "Ethel,"
bis best to find out the culprits. It is Danel Ka Chok's barracks he next saw the prisoner had killed Young Kue Wan, Lam Tesi did the sake of monetary rewards and social dis
when any case of robbery is brought to the between 19th February and 19th March at a the actual killing and prisenor acted as a watch- tinctions ill-befitting the class of men who
notion of the local mandarins that the com- then wearing a button of the Bfth rank and was place called Pun Pa near Canton; prisoner was became the wretched tools of the Chinese
Prisoner afterwards went home to Government in this matter. Uae of the
plainants have to disbure a good sum of money on board the flagship looking after odds and as bribes to the gamen runners, otherwise their eads
Sergeant E. O'Sullivan stated that he made case will never be brought to the knowledge of his sweetheart in his country. Witness next him in his (witness's) house in Canton about the mandarins. Hence, very few cases of rob-2rd August. About the same time he saw the the arrest acting on the information of Wong frisoner on board his brother's junk. Hishing. He did not know how Wong Shing Erather was executed on 26th September, 1901. came to be in communication with the police. Bubsequently he did not see the prisoner nati When the prisoner was put in Vietoria Gal he after his arrest: Prisoner bought a wife at this had seon none of the with sses but Wong Bhing. Some daya later pri-oner was porad- time.
13 others for identification and
must sensational features of tho trial was the
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How necessary it is that those who write for the Press, especially where the compositors ure not Englishmen, should take pains to make their caligraphy legible is well illustrated by the following story-A writer in a colonial journal, who was comparing Mr. Rider Hagbery are reported, gard with another sutbor, was made to say: There nood be demand no longer for Julos Verno's and other "blackgaside' works of The journal fait that some imagination." reparation was dus to Jalos Vorne, and in a subsequent issue the following regret appeared: For 'other blackguards' please read Ridor
Beggard's."
clear testimony of the instigation of the murder by the Chinese Government, and the Acting Attorney-General was able not only to adduce testimony that sums amounting to at least, 56,000 had been paid to three of the miscreants by the Canton authori-
able rewards, but Lie#
Court the actual patent produce in conferring, uuder the viceregal seal of Canton, the distinction of Mandarin of the fifth class
upon one of the gang who. perpetrated the outrage. It has all along been surmised that the murder was carried out by emissaries of the Chinese Government, and now that the fact has been clearly established, iting all the while in order to keep the small craft is to be hoped there will be no delay in out of her way. The Mercury understands that taking the necessary diplomatic action at Peking which the circumstances warrant.
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THE KWANGSI FAMINE..
Cross-examined-He was afraid to give in- threatened that he would be beaten to death formation about the plot as the prisoner if be told anyone,
Cross-examined-Before the death of Yeunged smoa by Kong Lan Ying. So.ne
Pro
The M.M... Caledonien, which arrived at Shanghai on, the 12th inst., finding the tide favourable, steamed right up the Whangpo and took her mooringe almostia front of the French rice is gradually declining at the latter place the orders for the payment of $2,000 each to and perjured. It had boev esnolusively proved
Consulate, and a rather unusual sight presented itself as the huge vessel spud slowly along toot
this is the second instauen in which the mail tine travelled so far up the river, the only other instance on record being that of the Sydney Mr. B. M. Sheriff, who was for some years a
which arrived there fully twelve months lawyer's clerk in Singapore and who afterwards. The water at the Woosung bar has registered quite 2 ft. for the last week or so became a police inspector in Bangkok, has
and as the Oceanien which is expected on the
hopes of repeating this performance.
that
LICENSING UNES AND BOATS. The Canton Goverment has sanctioned, in consideration of payment of a largo ananal sum, proposal presented by an influential marchant to licence all the junke and bosts in Canton.
General Son of Kwangsi has scrived at Canton from Wuchow. The General was reported to the Throne some days ago and censured by the Governor of Kwangsi for boing unable to anppress the rebols and allow ing the soldiers under his command to join hands with the rebels. An Imperial decree was Tecently iesmed ordering the General to go
against him.
GENERAL BOU AT CANTON,
heen mad Chief Interpreter of the Royal 20th, is a vessel of similar draft the agents have to Peking to answer the charges brought between ten and twenty years Li Chi Tin, taken to punish any of these people, bat these
Siamese law courts
We have felt it to be our duty on more than one occasion to draw attention to the.
Mr. E. W. Mitchell, the Acting Hon. dumping of bodies, dead of the plague, in Secretary of the loos branch of the Navy the streets of the Colony, and we have sug-League, notifies us of the receipt of a telegram gested what is practically a certain means from Mr. Wyatt intimating that he expects to of potting a stop to a practice, which, reach here by the sa. Kunagama Mara due we regret to notice, is still as rampant about the 29th instant; its ever: A correspondent whose letter appears in another column
over: the sigunture of Anti-Dumping" suggests that an improvement in the methods of the Sanitary Board. would speedily check this dangerous and disgusting practice, If the facts are as stated by our correspon.
A Chinese male prisoner attempted to bang himself in a cell at Hunghou Police Stition on Wednesday. He was discovered by a lakong and prevented from accomplishing his purpose. The man is believed to be insaue, and is now nadergoing medical supervision.
Before Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the Magistracy
The Japanese cireus opposi'e the Central Market is proving a great draw. The por formace is a clever one, and surpresos in some respects that seen in similar Western concurs daring and original though the artistes there generally are. Apart from its value or an entertaining inedina, the eireas is unique from its purely Japanes napect, and when viewed in this light the sounds emanating from the screened corner on the imprevised staga relegated to the "orchostra" can be li-tened to with toleriacs if hardly with estasy. A feature of thoshow is a duel between of Eastern version of the cake walk prior to carving each other, in which amiable purpose they are frustrated by the timely arrival of a third Japaness Indy who throws oil as the troubled waters and has the happiness of seeing the other two ranited. The performance takes place in a large, airy matshed, and the excellent seating accommodation within makes a visit additionally plsssant. V
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TIMES."
It is reported that a meeting was held a few days ego is a charitable institution, the Prefect of Kuang Chow being voted to the chair, to decide upon plans for raising a fund for the relief of sufferers by the famine in Kwanger, Prisenor was not prosent at the house of his time later thera
Kne Wan prisoner was unknown to him.
was another identifies- It was decided to distribute subscription lists brother and at Li ka Chuk's barracks in Canton, tion. The witnesses Chan Wan and T to all the gantry and the merchants making for an initial fund of three hundred and fifty-six It was Li Ka Chak who instructed his brother huu identided bima sopara ely; Chisu Chung teals The local gentry of Kwangsi were also to carry out the murder. He first saw prisoner also identified him.
This olesed the evidence for the prosecution. asked to co-operate in assisting to distribute at the farracks after the death of Yeung Kos
Mr. Morgan Phillips said he did not propose congee and rice to the starting people and to Wan, Witness's brother said in the barracks
coding to address the jury bo sail that sail rice at a cheap rate in various districts, that the prisoner ran away when he board the to-call any witnesses for the defence. from Canton to Wnchow, so
Re-examined-He did not see the order for within his experience he had never in a murder the price of Recently a large quantity of rice has been sent shots,
payment of the $2,010 to the prisoner; he raw trial heard evidence which was so week, so false that the notusi inurderer was Chan In Tesi; to the conclusion his brother and Tung Chung
Keng Lan Ying, a fishmonger from Yanmati, the jury might come deposed that he first met the prisoner on 8th that the accused wse somewhere near the January, 1901, at West Point with Lum Tesi scene of that murder and if they did and others. There they went into a brothel. they had the evidenes of Chan Lam Tesi's He knew Lam Tani, Afterwards he learned brither that prisoner ran away when the shots. the roal instigator. The real instigators, the that two of the othere along with the prisoner were fired. It had been proved that he was not were Tung Chung and Tesi Fak. He saw prisoner again on 10th January at West Point people who encompassed the death of Yeung in the Strest; long with him ware Chan Lam KnoWan, wore the viceroy of the two provinosa Canton, and his two lieutenants. He did not Tsai, Tung Chong and Tsai Fuk. They took Tak; Li Ku Chuk, the military commandant witness to an eating-bous. After that they want to the house of Ng Lo Sam, whom be bad known know whether sny diplomatic steps had been were the persons who were guilty of the murder secretary to Li Ka Chuk, wes there also man
Wan-not this wretched coolie nawed Young Ching La,whether he wished to who was before the jury now. Kai, captain of the Ain Yut. Young Li Chi Tiu ak asked Go where F Li
The Acting Attorney-General in addressing коо or not. Witness. Chi Tin replied To go to shoot-Tenag Kne the jury said his friend on the other side hed Wan, Witneas said he was not going. Pris: zaked ovary witness why he did not tell the It must have rejoiced many residents in the oner and the others were all present. Li Chi police of the plot to murder Yeung Kue Wan, Far East to observe the announcements appear in then said Why don't you got there is a and each one had answered that he was afraid of ing in our advertisement columns with reference reward of between $10,000 and 321,000 and you the Chinese Govtrument And were they not to the sale in China of the Times edition of the will get an appointment as a mandarin; adding safe under the protection of the Hongkong Encyclopedia Britannica on exactly the same that the reward would come from Viceroy Tak. Police he asked. This case was an anator in as the work is sold talbscribers in Li Chi Tin explained that Yeung Koo Wan itself Young Kne Wan was not safe ander lion, the protection of the Hongkong police. It England. All who take miligent in was the emperor of the Waiohou reballiem. forest in life and the affairs the world The others agreed to go, namely, the prisoner was questionable whether even now the lives of must welcome a chanes of placing on their Lam Tasi, Tsai Fuk and Tung Chang. The the witnesses who had given evidence were safe book shelvos such an invaluable library sa the th-five volumes of the Tooth Fitary se gang then left the house. Witness followed them it was a matter which it was better perhaps not of up Gough Street and Aberdeen Street. Teai Fak to go late. Considering that the evidence had the E-glopmiin represents. To poopla of stead in front of Young Kus Wan's house af bean collected piecemeal by the police it was limited means the
seemed prohibitive, but with the and remained there throuwbout the prosodings, wifhemes fitted into each other. The prisoner's institution by the Times of the monthly system The prisoner walked shand of Lats Test end organisation of and participation in this dos. of payment, thus spreading the total cost over a went up the flight of stone steps at the back of tardly maxler for the meanest and most be gained period of from 17 to 24 months, it can readily the house entering on the hue. Lom Trai and sordid at motives, mers money be understood that thousands would become Tung Chang walked towards the stone stops had been provat asecuelasivaly as bonld purobasers who, were they required to pay the and at the bottom of the steps prisoner came ever practically be, having regard to the
to the crime. up price in a lump sura would prefer, reluctantly down. They appeared to be talking. Then ercunstances which led no doubt, to indefinitely defer the purchase. prisoner stayed at the bottom of the stops and His Lordship in summing up said the eri- Much good-natured shaff has been indulged in the other two went up the steps Shortly after ticism by the defence of the evidenes for the respecting the up-to-date methods of the Times these two men went up the lane he beard Crown was based on this--that if it had been in placing the Encyclopædia before the world, few shota from a firearm coming from trus the witnesses would have gone to the but it must be admitted that in thus patting Young Kne Wan's house. During that time pollos or cacht to have gone to the polios and this magnificent library within the reach of prisoner remained at the font roor stump for the jury to say whether or no their silence o Raved the man Yeaag Kus Wan.. It was the multitude by means of a monthly system Witness was standing in front of s grocor & shop
was sufficient in their opinion to destroy of payments the Times worthily maintains the in Gongh Street. From there he could see the position it has so long held as sustional stops but not the door of the bones. When he the value of their testimony. As regarde schoolmaster. On the payment of the first heard the shots he raw Lan Toni come out of the law, if two me combined to murder a third monthly instalment of the purchase price the the lebe, followed by Tung Chung. They went and together went to the house, and one went entire set of 35" volumes" is delivered to down Aberdeen Street. Pristiner followed them into the house with his rovelvar and shot the the purchaser, while those who prefer to Tent Fak went last They all went down to the man while the other remained outside to koop pay cash down obtain the work here for the Praya, walking quickly. Witness followed them, watch they were both guilty of murder. No same price as subscribers in London. There Three of the four went off in asampan. He did witness had be called for the defence. The should be o big sale for the Encyclopedia in the not know what because of the fourth. From the jury would be justified in nocepting it as Far East, for the greater the distance from home time of the shooting until he saw the prisoner a fact that he would not have boots able
bim
to call witnesses to prove that he was not the the greator the need for the possession of sncli gool he
Croze examined He had been making in Hongkong at the time witnesses said artioles ou every conceivable
dent the procedure of the Sanitary officials yesterday, an enquiry was opened into the cir. two Japanese ladies, who go through o kindlamp sum price of the work paid in a the corner of Aberdeen Street nod Gage Street, remarkable how the stories of the various
appears to be but little less dangerous to the cumstances attending the death of the woman public health than the actual dumping of who committed suicide recently in a call at the dead bodies in the street, for our cor- Central Station. Medical and polics evidence respondent alleges that if a death occurring was teken, and an adjourment was made until in a house-which in Hongkong geneally-morrow morning at ton o'clock.... means a tenement house" is pronounced to be from plague the Sanitary Board officials take ebarge of the premises and "the occupants of the whole house are "turned out into the street with their "furniture and all their clothing, winter "and summer, which is emptied from the "boxes and disinfected." Our correspon
Damage to the extent of about $1,000 according to the estimate formed by the pro- pristor-was done by a fire which broke ont early yesterday morning in a peppermint
afastarer's shop on the first floor at 38, Becond Street. The place was insured in the Tung On Company for $7,000.
The Hos, Treasurer of the Alice Memorial dent says that there are several instances and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge of people turned out from plague-infected with thanks the following donations to the funds houses living in the public street for several of the Hospitals:--- days. If what our correspondent says is Hormusjes Nasserwantee Cooper $500
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LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS, The Imperial German mail atasmer Zeiten left Kobe via Nagasaki and Shanghai on the 19th inst, and may be oxpected here on the The C.PR, steamer Empress of Chind arrived Bi Kobe at 3 pm on the 20th inst, and left | again at midnight same day for Nagasaki, where a compact yet complete Ebrary the Ency living by selling fish for three months, he was. If it was true that the officials in
cispadia Britannica, comprising to the Before that he was a brothel keep r for 1 Canton made this plot it was no defence she is due to arrive at 7am. to-day.
The CP.R. steamer Empress of Japan number of 23,000, written by contributors between ten and twenty years. He was forty the prisoner that they had not now standing
Meners. Kelly Walsh arrived at Kobe at 8 p.m. on the 20th inst., and of the highest standing and repote. As the four years old. He did not give information to before them in the dock these oficials from left again at 4a.m. on the 21st inst; for Yoko-advertisement states,
Rua Wan because he was afraid of the silenes of the with eses and the sudden giving information he might point out that the padis in the Far East, and are able to show Chinese Gorerumeat. He saw the men going of specimens and supply fall information to into Yeung Kno Wan's hone to shoot him, but brother of one of the witnesses Lam Teni who, bending subscribers. We learn that there has he had no time then to report the matter to the committed the setaal murder had been befiend been a good demand for the work in China, polios. He did not know either whether the ed by the Chinese Government for having been end, se the number of copies available for this men were actually going to carry out the plan. found in possession of a letter from Mr. May. part of world is very lituited, intending pur. The reason why he did not give any informs the then fed of the police in Hongkong, and chasers should lose no time in registering their tion to the police after the shooting wes that at that it was not unnatural to suppose that the mames with the local agente.
that time the polios were relieving each other.deceased man's brother in coming forward to
Nuvaranjee Cooper and Dorabjes Nowroje hama, where she is due to arriva af,5 a.m. to-day.have been appointed agents for the Enerelo-Teung ng police about the plot to murder Canton. As a pissible explanation of the tong
Funds respectively and kept intact.
that the Chinese are, as our correspondent (1) The funds shall be named the Hormusjoo says, more afraid of the Sanitary Board than of the plague itself. It is, of course impossible for the Sanitary Board to carry out its duties in this respect without cansing great irritation and annoyance to the people whose dwellings and whose belongings are fumigated and disinfected
(2) The funds shall be placed on fixed deposit
The 0.8.8, steamer Patroclus left Shanghai in the Hongkong and Shangoni Banking | at daylight yesterday, and is due here on the Corporation and the annual interest therefrom: 24th inst., a.m.
The N.7.K steamer Aki Maru (American shall be applied to the funds of the Alice Memorial and Nethercole Hospitals in the Line) loft Shanghai for this port on the 31st
inst., and is expected here on the 24th inst. names of the donora..
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