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LOCAL SPORT,

WATER POLO.

SUPREME COURT.

Thursday, 18th August.

IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION. -

The Art match in connection with the Water Polo Shield Competition was played at the V.R.C. last evening, before a fair number of BEFORE HI HONOUR SIR W. M. GOODMAN *pectators. The match was V:R.C. "B" team v.

V.R.C. "C" team

"B" Tecom

N. Alves (Capt.

A. V. Barros

A. J. Ribeiro

H. A. Lammert

C. Alves

P. Jorge

They were na follows

"U" Team

R. Witchell (Capt.)

C. Humphreys

A. Loureira

B. Hendersons

J. A. 8. Alres -F.M.R. Pereira

L. E. Laurt gont) J. M. Pereira igual) My T. Meek acted as refereo; Mr. H. Anton, timokuopar: Mr. M. Melver and Capt. Burke (of the barque Sokolo), linesameFL.

(CHER JUSTICE).

CHADE OF CHILD PEALING, Chat Hong, a middle-aged Chinaman, was charged with haring on 28th December stufen a seven year old boy named i Maa Lam with intent to deprive the mother, Chan Yan, of the possession of the child.

He plaelod nat guilty, stating that he was not in Hongkong hut in Singapore at the time. The following jury was empanalled :-Mussa's S. A. Seth, T. Brawne, A. B. Rouse. E. K. Ray, W. F. Gardner. G. W. Binder, and J. W. Cronelt.

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19TH, 1904,

The Attorney-Genmal withdrow the other two clarges.

REVIEWS.

The Burns Country. By Cusutes S, DOUGALT, M.A. London: Adam and Charles Black,

1904.

The Chief Justice in passing soutence stated that prisoner had appropriated to his own use this money belonging to his musier. He spent the money in extravagant living; for among

It is the duty of every Scotsman who has a the items of his expenses were 8250 for the shelf of favourite books to und this one to thus ransom of a girl, $100 for wine, and $200 for

number. If he be not an Ayrshire man, ho is a prosents, His salary was 814 a month with Burns lover, as this book proves its anther to be

The headmaster of Dollar Institution (Sussonudi extra for night work. Therefore he must have known that he could not indulge in extrava-Doing informed that Dollar is a pluce and not a coing seems to be steeped in Scottish poetry, ganen of this kind and still las honest. His Lordship took into consideration the fact that the prisoner was only 2 years of age, and although the maximum punishment was 14years would pass startence of 12 months on vach of the fluros comuts--in uli three years.

HOW IN A BARBER'S SHOP.

Hau Won was charged with having on 5th) Augustaenalted Sum Ken and wounded him with intent to do grievous hodily harm.

He piraded not guilty, stating that he went to get shaved, that he had trouble with com plainant. and that the latter got ent.

The following jury wore empanelleel : --- Messrs. J. S. Levy, A. Loureira, J. Craik- harik, C. Konig, B. A. Grigson, K. Sayce and J. E. Bingha

Witchell secured the ball on the throw in and He swam to a forward nssed to the backs.

Hon. Sir Henry S. Berkeley, Attorney, position immediately, afterwards, the hill was jaseł to bini, un't he shot first blood the General, appeared for the Crown (instructed by whole thing taking but a few motorals. Again Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, Crow Solicitor). In to work. A. Loarvivo tried. L. £.. Lammert his opening statement he wid that while the i belded "well, Barros made a feeble shot. J.boy was playing about in the street prisoner Alves fouled Jorge, After the free throw

came up to him and asked him to go to the Barros swung up the centre with the ball and

The boy went will hin, and was score a goal Witchell, having ontawum his taken over to Kowloon, who he was detained

The Attorney-General in opening the cass oppsite, and captured the ball for his side.

for five days by the primer, after which swan forward and tried somewhat feebly. Hum- the prisoner took him to Samelan City said thai during the course of a quarrel which About three the prisoner.luid with another man in a barbers phreys made a weak shot. N. H. Alves took the ut sold the boy for yet

of shop he indicted upon the other man wounds ball from Witchell and passed to Burros, who shot weeks afterwards the her learned unsuccessfully.. A foul was given against the whereabouts of her chill, and on going to with a chopper, causing the latter to lose two Witchell for wing both hands. H. Lammert. Samchun found the boy there. She informed of his fingers. The quarrel, it appeareil. was shot. J. Alves ducked Jorge, though the latter the police, and the prisoner'sfather was arrested. as to who should be shared first. Prisoner did not seem to be touching the ball; so foul was given. Barros fouled Hamphreys. Hun-Prisoner's defence was that it was a case of phreys passed to Loureiro, who shot neatly into net. The half-time whistle went just as the ball was thrown in.

Half-time : "C" team. 2;"B" team, 1. Recommencing, Humdireys obtained posses

чіод. Pereira fouled H. Lammert. H. Lam- mert tried well with a long shot over his shoulder. H. Lammert shot again. J. Alves fouled Jorge. H. Lammert mads still another

Witchell fruitless attempt/

fouled N. H. Alves. Henslerson shot; and H. Lammert shot iu the opposite direction almost immediately afterwards, Witchell took a long aim the ball going a little on one side. Pereira fouled good goal A. Laonnert. Jorge naile i

left wing. off a tricky shot from the Give-and-take play between the six pairseach of the respective opponents keeping elese to his marked" man-continued for some time. Witchell shot. J. Alves fouled Jorge badly, Jorge's protests, when he returned to surface, N. H. Alves shot a fine goal, but play continued for about balf a minute afterwards. Capt. Burke, the lines mon. put ap his Jag right enough, but Mr. Meek did not see him do 80. Continued cries of " Goal, goal," put things to rights. Result "B" team, 3; "C" tean,

caused some merriment.

BOWLS

But accord- On 20th July prisoner was found at Shatin.stated that in the course of the quarrel com-

plainant cut himself with a razor.

mistaken identity so far as he was concerned, leat he was at Singapore at the time. The purchaser stated that he thought he was buying the child from the father. As a matter of fact the father of the child was deud.

Evidence was taken.

His Lordship in the court of the hearing of the case remarked that he would like the Chin eso in this Colony to understand that such a thing as buying and selling children was quite anknown to the law here. The law did not A child was not allow any such proceeding.

You:

a subject of sale like goods and chattels, might adopt, but you could not buy a child.

The jury after hearing the evidence found the charge proven.

Chan Hoog, alias Ho Ing. was afterwariks charged with having on 14th July stolen from Hongkong in company with Chan A Sum two children aged eight and four years respectively. Chau Hong pleaded guilty, Clan A Sam not guilty.

The evidence went to show that the prisoners invoigled the children over to Yaunati, pro- inising to give the fruit, and when they got the children over there took them into the country.

The jay returned a verdict of guilty as Libelled..

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The Attorney General said there was Two competitions will be entered upon at the previous conviction for kilapping against the

first prissuer. Kowloon Bowling Gresas next 100nth.

The lists for entries are posted at the Club House and intending competitors are requested to enter their names before the 7th of nerti month when the first round will be drawI.

The prizes are a pair of silver-mounted bowls presented by Mr. Thos. Tuylor. bowl masker, Glasgow, and a silver cup, presented by Mr. Jas Neish. Empress of China.

Hie Lordship said it was a pity lis had not hson deportad.

The Attorney-General put in a previous conviction against the first prisoner for kid- napping.

The Chief Justice in passing sentence said the first prisoner had already been convicted for kidnapping a child. He silently made a trade

would sentence the prisoner to two years in

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ing to the medical evidence the wound was not such as to be inflicted by a razor cut.

The jury, ufter hearing evidence, found the prisoner guilty of unlawful wounding.

·His Lordship said be quite agreed with the yerlict, which he thought was the safest one in But it was more like a the circumstances.

vage than a mun to attack another with a chopper. Why not hit him with your list or with a stick. Sustence-18 months' imprison-

ment with baril labour

The Court adjourned until 10 a.m. to-day.

POLICE COURT.

Thursday, 18th August.

BEFORE Mr. H. . J. COMPERTZ (ACTING POLICE MAGISTRATE),

THEFT,

A Chinamun charged on temand with steal ing 18 pieces of clothing was sentenced to six months imprisonment and six hours' stocks.

CONSTABLE FINED.

Au Indian constable convicted of assaulting a ward boy at Government Civil Hospital was fined $15,

ASSAVIT.

A Chinaman charged with assaulting #wo- man at West Point said that the woman was

month's imprisonment, six hours stocks, and his runaway wife. He was sentenced to one bound over for six months good behaviour in the sum of $50.

OPIUM.

Several fines varying from a few dollars to $150 were imposed for unlawful possession of illicit opiura..

UNLAWFUL POSSESSION.

ENLARGEMENTS

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The conventionally-minded fonkly admit.. Joan on the other hand, is a familiar English and has an apt quotation for almost every step The lends his render on the admiring pilgrimage over the grond hallowed by associations of the tyre exceedingly well portrayed. It is u absorbing story. full of real human nature, and Januar' chiel, Burns once had the thought “to make leisurely pilgrimages through Caledonin: the only fault we have to find with it is its unsatisfactory ending. for which we spect to sit on the fields of her imitless; to wander an

Claude was more to blame thun Alien. If the romantic tanks of bay rivers; and to muse

the Shulamile loved Robert Waring with on the stately towers, or venerable ruins,, once

sho such m

overnmstering passion that the honorest alories of her heros." Mr. Dougall has done this, confining his attentions could defy the whole Decalogue, from munier

tu Bible burning, mely a Ber particularly to the Bacascountry, and in simple | dowa

was coerced into making and clear diction has set out for us the fruits of raw that she his gleanings Beginning with Auld Ayy," could not have made her send her lover he follows the orster of Burns' own migrations, away when both were free to marry. The authors seeni do have deliberately cast aside the and gives ns. senic descriptions and bits of

obvious and natural vienouement is a silly that interesting local history.

well preserved in this form. There are over fifty excellent photographis, of moderu scenus in the Burns country. Many of them had a startling familiarity for the reviewer, recalling memories of a cycling tour through the same historic land. It is thur alast fa substitute; the poet's

name for that of Wallare, and to k

At Burn's anter, what Scottie: block

Ha boil in a spring-ride flow y

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For there is not asingle Northman in the Orient wha is'nae prood o' Kelin."nud regards him, in

lankering after the artistic polish that is decadent, modern, and "smart." It isas it stands a very good story with a very poor ending.

RUSSIANS NOT LAVS.

It is a faseario device of Russian apologists. For the present war. states the Globe. tu repres¦ sent the Tsar as the champion of civilisation against the Yellow Peril. But the Russian claim to be an Aryan, and therefore civilizing race, is boldly disputed by Mr. Karl Blind. In in article in the North American Review that veteran student of political ethnology cortends | that so far from having the right even to pose Slavs. the Russians are absolutely non. "Europesus, although they include Europesu Russia. is Nyria. By Mrs. CAMPBELL PRAED. London: elements. Even the very name.

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not Slavic. but Germanie, and it was given to the country by the conquering German Warangians. There formerly dwelt, says Mr. Blind. for buutreds of years after the Russian Kingdom was established, to the east of Moscow. a people of non-Aryan origin and non-Blar speech; and their descendants as well as other nationalities of Oriental origin, DR. NEWELL WILSON DR. WILLIAM DANEL have been incorporated in the present Russian people. The actual founders of the Russing Kingdom according to Duchinski, were Saudinavians, the country being populated mainly by tribes of Turanian or Mongol offrity, with only here and there a sprinkling of Slavs. The names of very meny well-known Russians uro cited to prove their relationship with non-Slay peoples, and with such farts before us Russia hus, as Mr. Blind

the Polish writer

Tiin, unthoress of that extraordinary story, The Insane Hoot, possibly recognising that her tata of the Emperor Domitis and the Christian tortyrs a vivid picture after the stylo of Famar's - Dava of Christianity," and in humbler category, the Sign of the Cross," Que Vulis, and others) would strike no new not hit upon the idea of a bombastic and sensational foreword."to my readers." In this introduction. Mrs. Campbell Prsed gives for personal assuranes that it is a true us starting that this tale was told her by Navia the martyr horself. re-incarnated in some person un-named and unplaced, bat "of mixed nationality,`

Remembering the mysticism with which Mrs. Prod WAN so convincingly possessed in The Insane Rool, wewny attribute sincerity to her belief in the transmigration of souls. We, how urges, very small claim to play the part of

defender of the Aryan ruce.

FUTURE OF KOREA:

In Europe there are many countries, just as weak in comparison with their neighbours as Korea is, who preserve their independence by virtue of their positions as buffer states. Any attempt at oncroachment by a neighbour on thei West would be immediately rezenteil by the neighbour on the East. This is the position which Korest is in, and which she can, by wise government, maintain.

So we say to Korea, Awake! Reforms coming forced on a country from without. There is yet

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of this wort of thing. On the first charge D. Thomson, solicitor, uppeared for the defence. If Nyria told her of the parrot of Stephanus from within are infinitely preferable to those under strict supervision of Europeans only.

Handicappers.-Messrs. T. Meek, J. H. Prisonment with hard Inheur, and on the second the stolen property in a cubicle on the top ficorit. theu Nyria, Christian martyr though she fine, but none too much; Korea must not lea

TO-MORROW'S AQUATICS.

fance aud H. C. Austen.

Meek.

Mitchell.

Starters Mess. G. A. Caldwell and T. Judges.Messrs. A. Chapraan and E. W.

ever, catulot accept her assurance that her intro- ductory story is a simple statement of personal experience It is nothing moro ingenuous than the plausible prefuses that (say) Defoc used to give his fiction the vraisemblance of fact; and for the asseverations and rasasseverations in it the lady must settle the matter with her own conscience. The story of the Roman court, with its geus and pleba, tho Christian Catacombs, and the arena with its wild boasts Two men were charged with entering No. 24, and gladiators, was well enough without this Cough Street, and stealing clothing. Mr. O.mysterious living girl to launch it on the public.

Dotsetive Murisou explained how he had found the Silversmith, just as Mrs Przed bas described

charge to three years imprisonment with hard of No. 4, I On Lane, which was rented by one was, was a fibber too. It seems old, moreover, inbour; and he would ask the police to take of the defendants. There would be no difficulty to have Licinius prating of the "attraction of note that these terms of imprisonment would in gaining access to No. 24. Gough Street atomas" (p. 3), more than a thousand yours before run consecutively that was, five years altoge-over the roofs of houses, from No. 4. LOn Lase the atomic theory was understood. Mrs Camp ther. He could have got fourteen years, but Both defendants were convicted of having bell Praed closes her pedantic and unbelievable The entrics, etc., for to-morrow's V.B.C. his Lordship did not think it would do any stolen property, and sentenced to three months"

proface with these words: "As yet. however, swimming fete are as follows

good to give him that, and he thought the imprisonment and six hours' stocks,

the old question remains-whence came 1. and Colony would be well il of him. In his 4. p.nu. A handicap Two prizas.

opinion the prisoner should be deported at the BEFORE ME, J. H. Keur (SECOND POLICE whither do I go?" There are good orthodox MAGIFTRATE). Jeut 2.

fol who, reading her bank and its intro- Heat 1.

Go" J. E. Ellis..."Go" end of his term. His Lordship was sorry that

duction, will be tempted to answer her conclud J. M. Brittenwes lis G. B. Macdonald owests. he was not able by law to ortler the prisoner to

7... W. C. Goggiu

Three Chinainen were charged with felonious.ing query in a way that politeness prevent bo Boggal. He sentenced the second prisoner E. Humphreys... s. J. W. Buius

ly killing Li Cheung, a coolie, at No. 21, the Reviewer from answering it. H.A. Lammerts. G. Humphreys... 11. to two years' imprisonment with hard labour. R. C, Witchell,15. N. H. Alves... 15.

Des Voeux Road West, on the 16th inst Mr. Bailey, solicitor. appeared for the defence. It is alleged that the deceased was a coolie, detained for emigration against his will at a boarding-house; and that he tried to escape by jumping from a verandah. He was killed by the drop. The case was roupadod,

Timekeeper-Mr. E. M. Hazeled.

F. Ellis

A. Loureiro,

Hrat

TWO IENGTHS.

F. Long Owes 2 sec.

P.M. Remodios, 5„

L. E. Lammert

Heat

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F. T. Masso Owes 2 Kor. A. C. F. Ozorio

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C. M. 8. Alves.. 8. A. V. Barros A. J.V. Releiro.... J. H. R. Huree.. 8 R. Lapsley, ...B. Witchell.

DIVING FOR PLATES.

...14.

4. 20p. Two prizes. Entries: R. C. Wit- chell. J. E. Ellis, F. M. Roza Pereira, E..

Humphreys. J. Witchell, J. H. R. Hauce. N. If. Alses. A. J. V. Rebeiro, A. Laurairo, O. F. Ozorie. W. T. Andrews and C. J. Cooks.

BURDLE RACE.

CHARGE OF 158AULT.

Tong Yau Tak was charged with having

asimalted Man Tim Kau

He pleaded not guilty, and suid that he was first assaulted by the complainant, and struck him back again.

The following jury wasempanelled-Moss J. Cruikshank, R. Israel, F. A. Brown. J. Smith, E. Meyer, C. H.Lammert, and W. B. Doyen.

The Attorney-General said the prisoner was charged with wounding with intent to do grievou hodily harm. Prisoner and complain- ant were neighbouring farmers at Santin Complainant said that on the day in question 430 pau-Two lengths. Two prizes. En-they were both working in the fields when the tries: R. C. Witchell, C. Humphreys, L. Edefendant cut a hole in the boundary lank to Laminert, A. J. V.Rebeiro, J. H. R. Hance,

let the water run into his fields. Prisoner G. B. Mucdonald. JW. Bains, F. Ellis N. H.

expostulated, whereupon the prisoner came at Alves. J. Witchell E. Humphreys und C. J.

him with a chopper and chopped bim, cutting Cooke.

off two fingers, The wounded man was taken in a semi-consous state to the Civil Hospital. Prisoner's account before the Magis- trate was that the thing was an accident and that he inflicted the wound in solf defeus, The modical evidence showed that the character of the wound was such as to lead to the conclusion that prisoner had indicted it with intent to do grievous bodily harm. wounded man had been in hospital for 68 days and had not yet properly regained the as of his injured leg.

BOYS RACE.

4:30 p.m.-Boys nine to 14 years 2-length Landicu. Bons and brothers of members only.

Two prizes.

The final of flui Two Longtus will be at 5.10

p.m.

TEAM RACE.

6.25 p.m.-Four teams: C. J. Cooke (Capt.) .. R. Lapsley

W. G. Goggin

F..M. Hoza Pereira

W. T. Andrews

G. B. Macdonald

F. Ellis

J. Witchell (Capt.)

A. V. BairoS

H. N. Lammert

J. A. S. Alres

J. M. Britto

F. P. Musso

White v, Blue.

R. C. Witchell (Capt.) C. Humphreys

J. M. Roza Pereira

O. B. Chunnutt

C. F. Ozorio

II. C. Austen

J. E. Ellis

N. H. Alvos (Capt.)

A. J. V. Bebeiro

A. Loureiro

C. M. S. Alves

F. P. Ley

E. Humphreys

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The jury found the charge proven, and his Lordlip passed senterer of 18 months' impri sonment with hard labour..

ENBEZZLEMENT.

ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER.

ROBBING THE ADMIRALTY,

A coolie chargul with stealing soldor from the Noval Yard was sentenced to one month's im- prisonment and three hours" stocks.

SHIPPING NOTES.

STEAMER MOVEMENTS,

The C.P.R. steiner Empress of Japan left Vancouver on Monday, the 15th August, p m., for Hongkong via the usual ports of call.

The C.P.R. steamer Tartar arrived, at

The King of Dinamiku. By LOUIS TRACY.

London: George Bell & Sons. Harry in the title he has chosen for this tale. Mr. Tracy is happier still in the tale itself. Famous for the thrills he gives his readers, the author of The Final War and many other stirring stories has in this book provided prasa- tion without departing from the rash of possibilities. The diamond-yielding meteorite which starts the young here on his Mante Cristo career is an improbable boginning onough, but the doubts of the reader are son, explained wway in the most plausible, Jules Verne, pacudo- scientific fashion. After ut, from the third

moment in commencing to set her country in order. Money is the root of all evil, and once the Guaices and financial administration of this country were firmly established on a basis of probity and wisdon the regeneration of Korea would be in sight.

Uncertainty, as to the taxation, is fatal to all enterprise. Once the people knew that the land was theirs so long as they continued to pay a certain fixed tax, and that nothing more world he demanded of them, improvements would comencen all directions. Any capital invested would be seenre, and land, which has been lying fallow for luck of drainage and irrigation, would soon be made productive. Mines would be exploited and all commercial enterprise would receive a great stimmins.

All these improvements depend upon one thing-au inerrupt financial administration. Korea Daily News.

Kobeat 6.30 am, on Wednesday, the 17th Aug..possibility, is provided to defer the happiness case. and left again at 5 p.m. same day for Yoko Lama, where she is due to arrive at 7an, to-day,

The H.A.L. steamer Scandia, from Hamburg, left Slugapore for this port on the 18th Aug a.m.. and may be expected here on the 24th August at daylight.

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The Far East has always been an Eldorado | to the peculating Rurian official and the din place of the 8.8. "WING CHAI" from honest contractor, and the story that Dalny was, MONDAY. the 15th inst., until SUNDAY, it possible to be destroyed by the Russians, the 21st, on which both the steamers will run in order that no unsympathetic contrast should cursion trips to Macao. First Class Retara Ticket 3: only. Passengers of one steamer will be made between the real value of the buildings be allowed to retara by the other if so desired. and the sams paid for their erection, is quite The CHU KANG" will leave on that day at a likely one. Foreigners from Port Arthur 7.30 AM, and reitir at 3P.M. The departures

MING ON & CO. chapter onwards, the narrative marches with and Dalny are full of stories illustrating of the "WING CHAI" wil be as usual.

| 2014 the reader breathlessly enthralled. Ingenious Russian "squeezes." Russians erept the fact Hoogkong, 18th August, 1904. villainy of the most amazing description, yet with that calu pessimism which is sin of the

BOARD AND RESIDENCE worked out in most careful detail to prove its Oriental traits of the nation. Here is a typical;

A contractor, an honest man in his of as lovable a pair of lovers as modern fiction way, was engaged to make some hundreds There are plenty of other very of waggons for the Russian Government. Tho contains. taking characters, no padding, and a happy Arst fifty were completed, and the

then

the commissariat to ending. What more can the novel render ask? tractor took This excellent story will set them onquiring for yard. The official whose duty it was to Mr. Tracy's other works.. We advise all but receive the waggons looked at them and then Arrivals from the north report strong S.E.

The Final Wor In that Mr. Tracy wanted to walked down the lius, putting a number from winds to the north of Turnabout; moderate S.W.

one to fifty on each. He then asked the con- monsoon between Turnabout and Hongkong. teach, rather than to entertain. He is an Arrivals from the west report moderate mon-excellent entertainer, as The King of Diamonds tractor to lunch with him, entertained him nobly, and, after the meal, suggested that they soon and fine.

shows,

should go and look at the other 1fty waggons. MISCELLANEOUS."

The contractor declared that he had no mora ready to deliver, but the official told him that The P. & O. intermediate steamer Barnes THE collaboration here of writers of opposite he was mistaken. They went together to the arrived from Kobe and Foochow yesterday. sexes has given as character delineation of a yard and walked down the other side of the

The as. Kensington takes the first batch of more than usually well-balanced, sort. Save in line of waggons, the official marking them from Hongkong, 19th March, 1904, emigrants to Callao to-morrow. There are the one strong chapter that describes the shoot-afty to a hundred. The official then suggested i altogether, some 450 merchants going in her.

The Teintay arrived from Bangkok yestaring of the Ever farmer, there is no sensational that the price of the second fifty waggons day with 1,800 tons of rice for Messrs. Batter movement in the story, which concerns itself should be divided between the contractor and teld and Swire.

with the lives of two women beloved by one himself. To the query: "Did the contractor man. The Shulamito woman is certainly an accept" an astonishad "Of course!" was the unfamiliar type of Boor woman, as the authors

WEATHER AT SEA.

The Ataka arrived from New York yesterday with 129,122 cases of oil for the Standard Oil Company.

Chang Tak Hang, alias Cheung Chuk Yu, was charged with embolment, entering forged receipt for money (two counts), and obtaining property upon forged instruments (two counts).

The Quangnam arrived from Saipon yester He pleaded guilty to obtaining, by false pro-day with 1,400 tons of rice for Messrs. Bradley tences, the sum of $261,50.

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