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HONGKONG JOTTINGS.

SUPREME COURT. ·

Monday, 20th March.

IN URIMINAL JURISDICTION. BEFORE SIR H. 8. BERKELEY (CHIEF JUSTICE)

WOUNDING WITH INTENT TO MAIN,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 21st, 1905.

Yuu Fat was arrested and gave information which led up to the arrest of the other two, - The prisoners were convicted and sentenced 'THE to fire years hard labour and 24 strokes of the birch within the first six months' imprison- meat. Wong Yuu Fat was sentenced to four yours' hard labour and twelve strokes of the birch within the first six months' imprisonment.

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The Minnesota, the pioneer steamer of tho Great Northern Co'n servico botween Seattle and this ecast of the Pacific, causes the man-in- the-street to again take note of the astonishing increase in recent years in the size of the alesiners now outering the ports of the Far East. What change has come over the character of our shipping during the last five years! This is especially noticcable in the ships that cross the Pacific. It brings home to ne the expansion which is taking plaer in the traks of America with the Orlent and the commencement ola service of steamers like the Minnesota manifests the conflencs felt on the other J. D. Kinnaird, C. Linahan, D. 8. D. Dargor (from t ́s China Review of Tientsin may be extraordinary match which lasted only four the Players, the North and the South respec

Wong Kwony Tui, Chan Choi nhu Lai Fat were charged with woopding with intent to rauim. Hon. Mr. E, H. harp, K.C. (Altorney General), instinoted by Mr. Morrell (of the! Crown Solicitor's ofti) provated. prisor ers pleadeil pot guilty, and the following jury was empanelled;-Messrs. F. W. White

H. D. Bell, Erich Georg and A. G. Coppin,

The

The Attorney General in his opening usrks

CHINESE ENGINEERING AND

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There is no doubt that the visit of the Ass traffans will overshadow ufl other orioket this

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Hongkong, 27th December, 1904. between the Australians (and the Gentlemen,

As the legal proceedings in connection with this company continued to arrive in fragments, coming summer, and this is not to be rendered Ever sinen Megre. Spoffarth and Boyle long after the verdict had been telegraphically st. announced in tuo vnity Press, the following routed a magnificent side of MC.C. in an story of the events leading up to the litigation

and a half hours, a Colonist tour has inspired a neceptable to those interested :-

thrill of interest in all classes of the comsanity tively, as well as to have a preliminary ixture, which has no parallei in other years. The Probables v. Possibles, to assist in selecting vulas of the different clovens that have risited the best representativo team, and for all these it is desired that tho counties should release our shores need not here be estimated, but with- cut fear of contradiction I will say that the lust any cricketers that are required, whilst the two matches in which the M.C.C. oppese our site was eyoul to any of its predecessors and in

visitors will ake a further drain ou connty Mr. Vietor Trumper it passed the best as

strength. No it is obvious that this release well as the zooal attractivo batuna in the world.

of their best men mast press most heavily on The Colegials will certainly strain every the counties, like Lavcashire, Yorkshire aud nerve to avengo the fine series of defesta in-

Surrey, which play two matches a week right ficted on them by the side sont out by 31.C.C.through the mason, and on these others, which

ara the highest up the list.

side of the Pacific in the pessibilities of the development of trade in the immediate future. Not only here the San Francisco said:-Thage thre prisoners are charged with companies increased the tonnage of their vessule, acting in a garg and committing an attack, a and the great Northern Company excelled very brutal attack, on a Chinese police sergeant them in this respect. but the Canadian Pacific in the New Territory. The facts are that Company are also building now stexters for thus the 31st January, between six and soven in tho trade. Thoman-in-the-stract is inclined torening, this sergeant was on duty at a place wonder where all the fright is to come from not far from Deep Bug, near the Tak-tai Tom for the homeward trip.

ple, which appears to honed as a sort of club or The crowds which to ked off on the launches lodging home for very andesimble characters. The sergeant saw a man soming out of the on Saturday to view the Miune saw a great deal to marvel at in the arrangements made for temple, and walking away in a manner such London firm also distinguished by smartness. to recover the "asher," a task which was suc

'much.

on-fully accomplished in a way that has now become bistorical.

It can easily demonstrated that, on our-

company was originally a Chinese under taking with on intelligent, if rather unsophisti-

Chitras

gentleman. Chang Yi-wae, as Director General, he being an official of the Chinese Guvernment; and the company boing, like thas

thas Chion Merchants S.N. Company and the local railway and telegraph undertakings, under the agis of the Chiors Government. In 1909 the said is was not worth and the opportunity was taken by a smart London financial agent of American untonality. Hoever by name, to renew one more the efforts he had mad unsailingly at earlier periods, to get the company into the bands of his fem, Messrs, Besick, Morcing & Co. The foreign the comfort and convenienenot passagers, and the as to canse suspicion. As soon as this man saw troops had spread over the land, and the cam. increasing size os wall as the increasing unn. the sorgeant ho took to his heels and ran. The pany's property was seized and occupied by

нам и

a billeting Bro

ground for troops.

half- of ber of stanswers croming the Pacific suggest a sergeant gase chase, arrested him, and found them. Chinongtae, the company's port.

and want of new men. At all times the cange from Its wharves, shije. a-lozen nations, time when it will be as cheap to get to England several boxes of opium and a scales on his

which a representative side can be mernited at via America os via the Suez Canal. We have person. Bringing the man back along the roai | properties were to all appearance, only scon great developments in recent years in the towards the police station, when they reached a so auch loot, and Chang Yi-man himself was the Antipodes is far more restricted than with tarned out of his house, the fine residence uns, and out of the sixto mexicketers actually German stentnship services to the Far East via lonely spot the three prisoners cemu out and Meadows Road, Tientsin, which is now occupied invited to participate in their last five Test objection whataser to letting all the men go to us at this season of the rear how passengers / keeper of the temple. The sergeant refused to users of the Japanese troops. This was Cotter and P. McAlister-had not previon ly exerunrous to those arranged by my county. to SuozCrnul an d weare having it made manifest demanded the sun's ruleasa One prisoner is the agent and get was made the hund-Matcher, only three-Bones. A. R. Oelirs, A. who are needed for any of the dixtures struggle to book berths on the largest steamers surrender the mus, and the four attacked him. Mr. Hoover's psychological moment. Ylvisited England. The Colonial interest during How long. I wander, skall we have to wait! He trok out his whistle, but the place was too have reiccted my generous offers to put Bentleir corrent season will be concentrated on the before the P, and O. Company put some of far from the station for it to be heard. The life and capital into the company" he discovery of "now blood," but of bowling their largest steamers on this run? Sir Thomas Sutherland a few months ago in a sparchergeant's revolver. The sergeant finally 3 rated by the Powers: you will get wol cent foreshadowed this, but there is no iedisation that they are coming this year.

It is satisfactory to l-arn from the annual

report of the Superintendant of Police that during the year 1994 there was a very sa

stantial deer in the number of serious offences as compared with the number in the provious year.

There is nothing in the Raport suggesting an explanation of the decrease, but it is possibly due largely to the mors peaceful and prosperous state of the neighbouring provinces.and also to the frequent. use of the stocks as a form of punishment in cases of robbery and larceny.

on snatched the whistle away, and also the thrown down, kicked, and stabbed ten or fiven times in the face. They tried to blind him The sergeant, after putting up a very good fight became in-eusible. His body was Brugged

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distance along the road and thrown into a pit. They may have thought the men was dead, bat forinnately he was not. Some time later a policeman was walking along the road and heard groans. The wounded may gave certain information, and in consequence of this the three men were arrested at the temple. The sergeest was brought into the Government Civil Hospital where he was laid up for six

werks.

After the hearing of the evidence. the Attorney Generul said he desired to withdraw the charge against the third prisoner, as he did not consider the identification of this man

natiefactory.

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The outery against the increases in the price of butcher's weal in Hongkong does not get to have had any marked effect except on the activities of the Dairy Farm Co. who have seize the opportunity to make known the Possibilition of a great development of their frozen ment business. Noticing the reworks in the Hongkong papers on this subject, and hard labour and to receive 24 strokes of the holders, Chinese and foreign, should be the The practice on the last tour was that the Board also survived the fact that on several occasions

particularly the references made to the example not by the foreign community of Kobe, the Japan Chronicle remarka→→→ There is nothing like united individual action, and it is just

The jury returned a verdict of guilty with respect to the first and second prisoners. They were sentenced to fire yours

ment.

ASSAULT ON A JUNE,

Lo Po Bhing and Lo I were charged with

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made of the County Championship. It has rarely stood in the way of invitations to play in

possible that had there beon a little more of it woundling with intent to do grievous Lodils † Chinese basis, to the enrichment of the Captain and another amateur who was to play, Hut when it comes to the other matches en

a Text Match, and I am confident that it will not in the future. Gentleman v. Players has

of Control of Test Matches nominated by the prominent cricketers have preferred to assist Commities of M.C.C. chase fares to compose a their counties to participating in the representa- Selection Committee and these co-opted the tive invitation match of the ordinary sessou.

before deciding on the rest of the side. Asgested, I can only remark that North and South matter of fact, thirteen were amally chosen, hare ruffered in pablic estination by the unre the final selection being practically left to the Captain on the morning of the match. Personally. I should like to bars sera that Selection Committee reduced to two, who should co-opt the captain; and that triumvirats ought

But I cannot undertake to lead my shorn side Your properties are all seized and will be con-

into the field for match after match which are Chang Yi mao, and now see what comes of

to be regarded as fixturos in the County Cham- of recompense, while I can offer you a £100,000

pionship. If all, these proposed matches are to down, with wore to follow, and (it may be imagined) something for yourselves to soothe

be really representative, why then let the County your family pride. Further, the company can

Championship be frankly dropped. Personally ve e put uzler British laws, mul those who

lose their heads or give anything away, their I should accept that solution of the difficulty are willing to rob the Chiasman will be far too conscientious to steal from a grunt Power. You sound batting, and above all the exoribanco of with the greatest satisfaction and devote myself will therefore gain something and lose their felding and their great knowledge of the to training likely young cricketers, indifferent nothing by necesting my proposals You lose everything and gain nothing Fame, must at the worst make them formidable. whether we won games or lost them se long ar by rejecting them. Is it a go." "It' I say at the worst, but there is not the least we played good cricket. My attention would be after duly taking the advice of disinterested be shown from the bigh standard of the last would eventually fill the places of the elder age, replied Chang Yi-mao, in effect, ground for believing that any deterioration will directed to developing the skill of those whe

Mr.

side except in bowling, and even about that we members of my present team. No county can afford to neglect the future, but such an ungar. persons such as Mr. Detring and Mr. Fou Hanneken. A deed was drawn up by

alleled opportunity to build up a slide for subsc not be called in question behind his back, and Emens, barrister-at-law, whose perspicacity used may receive an unpleasant surprise.

quent seasone is one of it was arranged, among other things, that the to the regenerated according

avail myself, provide the championship were in · company should be immaculate provisions of British jeint-stock

aboyance. law; that the management should be contacted by two boards, ons in London and one in China; that, thong Yi theuld continue 4 Director-General, having equal powers with the foreign directors in China, that the manage ment of the company's mines, ships, and eil other properties in China should be in the beads of the China Board, and that all the sharo- persons to rect the London as well as the birch within the Brat six months' imprison-China Bean); finally, that he to conduce to the company should be managed in hormony of Chinese and forbiga interests on a fair and Chinese Government and the general blessed ness of all concerned.

is not too much to say that every one of the special provisions above summarised has following jury was empandled-Mosscs D. E. Clark, L. Datar, E. C. Engel, J. Cruickshank, een fagrantly and weutonly violated. There is no Chisa Board, and neve. has been since J. Benjamin, W. F. Must and T. E. Cellinge. the agreement was signed; hence the manage- The Attorney-General in his opening state- ment has not been directed by such a beard, but alternately by London and Brussels; Chang ment eaid the two prisoners were charged with

Yi did not cortions os Director-General, "and for purposes of either robbing him or doing the ecelies who swept the Boors: On the him grierons bodily harm. This man Pang bistoric ecension when he attempted to lift a Ling was a sort of small ship-chandler and tinger and have the flag of China hoisted at the Tongshan minor, he was figuratively hit on the carried on business with juuks at a village head with a brickbat and curled up on the floor; not far outside British territory. He was also the flags of China and Belgium Buttered for a a money lender, and was owed Tis. 120 by a moment in the breeze, till "British troops werd

ordered to

spot and the British

BOME REMINISCENCES AND A WISH. woman who owned a junk. On the 11th cisted in their plats. Chang Yi-ma Las

Looking over eld fixtures. I note that in 1886 February, in the afternoon, this man was indeed bad gun! powers with the foreign Hongkong and went on boord the junk of directors in China, for there are no foreign this woman.

the Australians twice met the Gontlemen and i She admitted the debt bat aid directors in China, and Chang's powers are nil; and things which are equal to the same she could not pay then. The junk left in the

thing are

China have never been allowed to matches of the cricket season, those of the very flattered at being invited to form one of To limit the export of cattle. But what is the afternous, this man being on board as a pussed-holders in a to we another. The shore- 1 Australiana visit us is how to compress all the have not done to wince. I remember I was gor. The prisoners were sailors employed elest or have a hand in electing a London or counties, the University trials, the fixtures of the side at the Oval, and myself, exceeded 50 i. on the junk, At seven in the evening Fung any other board. This is the method that has M.C., and Ground and of L.C.C. together when the Grand Old Man accounted for 119.

bern employed to bring about the spirit of

13, and Mr. S. P. Jones made 3 more runs ardently advocated a few years ago? We have Ling went to sleep in the hold of the junk harmony and brotherly lore which Mr. Hoover with all the Colonial engagements within the The Australians exoseded our total of 471 by in Hongkong aus of chocking aqueszo At

and his co-signatories put their faoilo prosto limitations of our brief summer. As you can-

not force a quart of wins into a pint bottle, it than W.G. On that tour our visitors played pilgin"in this connection which is denied to morning, just outside Lyemun, the first pri. in February 1991.

Lon- At the last meeting of shareholders the foreign communities further north, if only soner woke up Pang Ling and demanded money don reference was ale to the threstored in obvious that something must be lost. It has Cambridge Past and Present, Liverpool and been therefore usual to reduce the initaum District, ike Players, the North, the South. Pang Ling said he had none.and the first prisoner litigation, by which Chang and his party and About the "Musings in a Hongkong Chair / proceeded to search him. Pang Ling struggled, the Chise shareholders- who include many number of ecuaties which must be met, in order and ten soratah elevens of varying degress of

Tientsin residents-sought to

to qualify for the championship. There has strength, but since that time the range of their and the first prisonor sinshod at him with s

ecmpel fu:fil. of the ternas of

writion published a few days ago in the Daily Press, a chopper. Peng Ling shouted and the second ment

an ever been the soullest attempt to unfairly the card has more nearly cuípcided n...a that of our Chairman compact. It was stated by the London

thrown in. There must always be a temptation

among foreign residents the cry would not be harm. They pleaded not guilty and the

so load at the present time concerning the increased cost of living all round." There was s time in the bistory of flengkong when the community seized upon any excuse for a public indiguation meeting, but the suggestion of

Now it

called The "keenness of county cricket" has Presentative teams which have at times been so become proverbial, and I fancy it would be readily extended to those other matches if it became

such a thing now-a-days in regarded with acting together in an attack on Fang Ling I was no mere allowed to control its affairs than to be able to pick a representative sido. It leur that they were in some sort trials for the

absoluto fadifference. "The increased cost of living all round" is, to be sure, a theme on which any number of speeches could be made, and if we could got a little more of this "united in dividual action" it is just possible that the Government might le induced to consider the many ways in which they could assist the com- munity in the matter.. Reverting to the price of meat, it seems to be accepted as a sufficient excuse that the Chinese an thorities of the neighbouring provinces have deemed it uucessary.

Government doing to encourage the breading

of cattle in the New Territory which was no

we would use them.

more when the term pig-tail" was in oumma use in England to describe the tonsorial mode

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A problem which always recurs when the

its own

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promising enit a high trial by including him in

an eagogement with the Australians, and it is

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question which must often suggest itself to prisoner came to the assistance of the firet, at that the proceedings did not cause them any advantage of this in arranging the fixtures Own counties, with the Test Matches, of course, those who muse in Hongkong Chaire, is tacking Pang Ling with a bludgeon and inflicting uneasiness, "Why do we call the queno a pig-tail?" Surely somewhat serious injuries. Pang Ling was in Judgment. d could not amount to much. The necessity ander modern conditious of ob the gueve is no more like the curly caudal hospital for ten days. Pang Ling culled for | Chang Xi-man and the Chioa shareholders. Je taining good gates and the sportsmanlike spirit on the part of a county executive to give a

s is upheld on appeal, sa seems most ceritio, with which fist-class cricket is played alika forbid any axecutive to comprse a programme appendogo of the pig than it is like the liora of help and the women came to the resons.

the management und control of the company buffalo. The explanation doubtless is that junk arrival tack at Hongkong on the follow-will be shifted to China-that is to say, to entirely with counties manifestly inferior to "pig-tail" is a description which has been passed ing morning and the prisoners wore arrested. Tientsin or Shanghai, and China shareholders,

his mark against the Australians, for Lowellyn ROYAL PIANOS. down to us like a heirlooma from our English The prisoners were convicted and sentenced foreign and Chinese, wil, for the first time,

had had already won his spúrs" although not forebears who came to China a century ago or 10 five years' hard labour and 24 stroke the gain control of their own property. Thus at

length will British law tend to promote the But an Australian visit does mean that regularly qualified for Hampshire when be

equity which Mr. Hoover bireh within the first six months' imprisonment spirit of justico and here, with wouwerful | county may succumb to another simply because showed such fine form on the ossasion of the

and his party bava

it bas released its best players for a Test Mutoh, Colonial visit to Southampton. of the day. The "tails" of our English Cheung Mak Sung and Yau Kai were churg. ingenuity, contrived to defeat.

The Jepun Chronicle adds:There is one Take a hypothetical case in my own county. I may be pardoned for expressing the wish forefathers were much shorter than are the led with robbery, and Wong Yan Fat with correction in the above account which 好 queues of the Chinese, and therefore more no robbery with others. The lattor phalod guilty. Iappen to be in a position to make. It is that Suppose the Yorkshire executive worn ssked to that the coming tour will not be utilised for the auswered to tho descriptiva term "pig-tail" The Army was the first to abandon them in the und subsequently ravo ovidence against the first Chang Yi nas was not turned out of his house soud Mr. Jackson, Hirst, Rhodus-and Danton purpose of getting fine Colonial cricketers ta beginuing of the Nineteenth Century, but the two priscuss who pleaded not guilty. The at Tientsin by the Japanese in 1910. The to a Test Match, and that Haigh and Tau- stop in this country. It is a subject on which jury was as follows:-Messrs. J. MeArthur, arrangement by which it should earse as the nicliffe were both injured, it is eonceivable I feel deeply and one in which my own conaty

Japypese head quarters was a perfectly amicable Navy stunk to them until 1825, and their dis-M. P. Beattie, C. G. Brückuer, T. E. Colling, on between him and the Japanese authorities, we might suffer a severe defent from any county bus eat a decisive example, for I, myself, am the appearance we then lamented in a pathetic F. E. C. Georg, P. A. Canningham xul C. For the whole period that the house was eleven, when playing what would be less than only member of my ride not born within its occupied the Japanese paid rest for it, and an "A" tean, and thus perhaps lose que or confinas. I am not objecting to duly arranged | Linahan.

daring this time Chang Yi-mno and his family

more places in the championship table. Now qualifications, but I want to see English county *Mc. K. G. Calthrop, who in this case acted | lived quietly at Nagasaki.

if something like this were repeated on the oc- cricket played by Englishmen, and I do not for the Attorney General, in opening, the cage anid that the robbery had been committed in At the annual meeting on March 14th of the casion of each of the fire National fixtures, want Australians to settle here to the detriment the Now Territory. The prisoners on the 22nd shareholders in the Shanghai Horse Tacar Yorkshire instead of losing two matches as in of our homeborn talent, which ought to be February attacked a house (there were aix Co., Ld, the Chairman (Mr. A. W. Burkill) 1904 would lose soven, and have to take at the nurtured by each individual county.

was able to comment on a year which had bn beat the sixth position on the list. Now even ".On the value of these tours as a stimalus to robbers altogether) at one o'clock in the morn. iug. The robbers seized an inmate who prosperous under difficulties. The last mortgage the most putrístic Tyke would call this asevere cricket it is needless to expatiate, so obvious is we welcome our Colonial visitors, and though had just returned from abroad (from Honolulu), has been paid off, the building improvements price to have to pay for his country as opposed the fact. There is no need to say how heartily bound him and threatened to take his life. have been carried out and paid for from work to his county's cricket.

There is an additional proposal largely sup we hope to maintain var sapronsey, I hope we They asked bim for money, and for his keys. Heing capital, and the directors were able to refused, and they broke opon the boxes and stole recommend a dividend of ten per cent, with a ported which goes further. Some prominent are all good enough sportsmen to cordially

cricketers desire to see the revival of matches denirs that the best side may win. property to the value of about $350. Wong bonus of two per cent added,

ballad, the refrain which rau.:--

Oh, long shall poor old England

That unhappy day bewail, sir That turned her lars to croppies

And loft Jack without his tail, sir!

BANYAN.

General Bragg, the Consul General for the United States, calls our attention to the paragraph (the statement in which was taken from an American paper) referring to four «American senators said to be charged with receiving bribes. There are no present senators bearing the names given, says our informant.

Hongkong, 23rd February, 1905.

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