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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 24TH, 1911.

INTIMATION

jof labour, "no country afforda grester

N. WATSON

LIMITED,

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841

Another death from small-pox doccurred In

facilities than North Borneo for the pro- Shanghai last week the victim in this inatamos TELEGRAMS.

The highest fitable cultivation of rubber.” price so far obtained for rubber has been paid for the product of a Borneo estate, and the development of the estates is such 00, that the company is already expecting to bogin very shortly receiving back the sums they have paid in the form of guar nteed interest on the capital of some of the com- panies. In spite of the experiences in the rubber market during the past twelve

CHAMPAGNE months, there remains a quiet confidence

DE ST. MARCEAUX & CO.,

in the fature of the trade. Lord CREWE, was present at the annual dinner of the North Borano Company, remarked in re- ference to the rubber planting industry in the ferritory:You have, as I should hope, a prospect not merely of an increasing, but of a lasting revenue from rubber, because AS SUPPLIED TO THE ROYAL although the days of those who have become

COURTS OF

ENGLAND,

RUSSIA,

REIMS.

being Mr. G. E. McKay, lato chief officer of the C. M. str. Felching.

It has been reported to the police that Henry Tobias, residing in Calze Road, lost from his bedroom on Saturday morning e geld ecarf pinset with epal and surrounded by small dis- monds, the value of which was £15.

At the Peak Church, yesterday morning, the wedding of Mr. J. H. Backbone and Mrs. A Mr. Bocker. After the ceremony, which was Cull took place. The bride was given away by

conducted by the Rev. F. T. Johnson, Greception was held at 125s, Barker Roid, the residence of Mr. Becker.

"Protested by the Toleji aph Ateenage

Copyright Ordinance 1894]

DAILY PERON" NICLUSIVE SERVICE.]

PLAGUE IN THE NORTH.

THE QUESTION OF ISOLATING THE LEGATIONS.

PEKING,, January 23rd. There are no further deaths in

The questions addressed by the Hon. Mr. E Osborne in the Legislative Council to the Gor-Peking but a few are reported outside. ernment concerning the shooting of wild birds in the Now Territory are bearing fruit A summons for shooting wild birds is down for bearing at the Magistracy to day.

SUPREME COURT.

Monday, January 23rd.

IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION,

The jury, after retiromont, roturned a verdict

of guilty against the male prisoner, and not gailly against the female.

The latter was discharged, and the man was sentenced to death

Mr. Alabaster moved for an arrest of judg- BEFORE HIS HONOUR SIR FRANCIS PIGGOTT meat for the reasons he had stated.

His Lordship decided that the point should (CHIEF JUSTICE).

bo argued sometime during the wook,

ALLEGED MUEDER, ·

Chung Lok and Li Tso were indicted on a charge of murdar.

Sir Henry Ferkoley, K.C., instructed by Mr. F.B.L, Bowley, as Crown Solicitor, appeared for the Attorney General, and Mr. C. G. Alabastor, instructed by Mr. H. E. Holmes, appeared for

tho accused.

My Alabaster, before the prisoners pleaded, said he wished to move under sections 54 and 55 of the Criminal Procalace Ordinance, No. 9 of 1899, that the indictmont be quashed, His Lordship-What is the point?

ILLUSION AND DISILLUSION. Those who wont to the Theatre Royal Inst night enjoyed the unique experience of being illusioned and disillusioned. Professor Grossi performed all sorts of extraordinary tricks with cards, giving a really clever and original orhibi- tion of legerdamsin, while his magle ball was. very amusing before it was explained and still more amasing after its operation was under- stood. The walob trick, though simple, we

very effective, but the great feature of the The majority of the Ministers favour

first part was that relating to the paoking capa. " Mr. Alabastar-The point is that the indict The lady assistant was tied in a sock, placed in the practical isolation of the Legation

tho caso, which was looked and afterwards quarter, but the Chinese officials ment in this case is the form of indictment ridicule the proposal as u njustifiable, introduced into England by the Criminal Pro-roped. Then when the curtain was pulled over cadore Act of 1851, which is not in force in this it in the space of four seconds the professor had Panic prevails among the lower Colony, and the only forms we have in fores disappeared and the lady came into view. Sho The financial statement to be submitted to

the Common Law form the warder must be the professor himself. This fext was heartily the annual meeting of senthoklers in St. John's Special collections ameanted to 31,048 nud or in of large stores signifies an impend-doseribed with a great deal of particularity,

Foreigners outside consider

His Lordship-I'm afraid I don't quite catch dinary collections to $6.595, while seat rentals ing siege.

the point. produced $3,585, and donations and subscrip

AUSTRIA, BEL-study of the prospects of that industry Cathedral shows a debit balance of $1,184, classes, who consider that the taking hora by low are the Common Law forms, and in opened the cass, untied the sack, and liborated

millionaires in a week from rubber may not occur again just yet, at the saine time, I be- GERMANY,lieve, so far as I was able to judge from a GIUM, ITALY, DENMARK,at the Colonial Office, where it naturally in- terested me greatly, that there is a steady &c., &o: SOME LONDON ESTABLISH-British North Borneo, however, does not rely $1,200.

entirelyon rubber for its prosperity. To quote MENTS AT WHICH

the words of Sir WEST RIDGEWAY, the new Chairman of the Company, the of the country are appar

ST.

MARCEAUX CHAMPAGNE

Berkeley Cafe Royal

IS A FAVOURITE WINE.

Les Laurier's Maison Jules Midland Hotels Monico

Cafe Verrey

Carlton

Cavour

Cecil Chandos

taurant Pagani's. Piccadilly Pimm's

and a sound future for the rubber trade."tions $3,699, The Government o ntribution was the pitiable situation will possibly Mr. Alabaster-The point is that the proseca gestion and transmission of thought. The..

resources ently

inexhaustible."

Tobeco cultiva-

tion is steadily increasing, and the soil and climate are such as make it possible to pro- duce "practically every tropical product of any value." Geological research has shown that British North Borneo is a mineralized country, and in course of time some dis-

The Waiwapn is nege'inting with the The general basis Russian Minieter in Peking for the new trenty for the treaty sencerna boundaries, customs dutles, missionaries, commeres, travelling and

between China and Russia,

naturalization, arresting robbars and other offenders, mines and bank notes, and mutual protection of colonists.

Dr. and Mrs. Beanie are leaving Foucher on a long furlough for England. Untiring,

lead to serious consequence, but it is pointed out by Chinese that the consuls

their duties unscathed, and "that"a in Manchuria have calmly performed magnificent opportunity is afforded Ministers to insist on stringent pre- cautions under an international board of health for the whole of Peking, rather than on narrow isolation.

SHANGHAI, January 28rd.

tion have by the law of this Colony, not by the law of England; to describe in detail the manner Sir Henry Borkeley-That has not been the practica ever since I have been here. in which this murder, was committed.

Mr. Alabaster Before 1851 in indictments in the indictment. In 1851 an Act was passed for murder a great dent of detail was required which made that unnecessary and introduced the form they have at Hous.

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applanded.

The second part of the programme was devoted to wonderfal exhibitions of auto-sug-

entertainment is absolutely unique and should not be missed. It will be repeated to-morrow night.

An-article-explaining tricks of the can aud moking-hox kind has recently appeared in the will be of interest to those who witnessed Scientific American, and the following extract Professor Grossi's performance last night:—

Some years ago, an original performer introduced a method of escape from a panking His Lordship-I will reserve the point. Sir Henry Berkeley-It is covered by sub. case, the lid of which was mailed up by a com. asction 2 of section 18 of Ordinance 9 of 1899.mittee selected from the audience. The packing case was in this instance the performer's

Mr. Alabaster-Will your Lordship give me own and stood upon the stage from the beginTM ning of the act. Examination was first invited, leave to move if necessary!

and, this having been completed, the performer His Lordship Yes.

was placed in the packing case pad the lil pailed down. After a few moments, however, the per former unde his escap?, while his assistant (who stood beside the case, when the screen was placed in front of him) was found inside of it.

Prisoners were then charged, pleaded not guilty, and the following jury was empanelled: W. H. Purcell (foromst), J. B. C. Neilson, C. M. P. des Remedios, C.Woldringb, E. B. Shepherd, 20. B. Wilks and F. F. Barretto.

A serious conflict occurred at Han- kaw yesterday arising out of a report that a rickshaw coolie had be en killed by the foreign police.

Dr. Ronnie in dearly loved, says the local Pall Mall Res.covery is expected to be made which will attentivo, and courteous to all his patients SERIOUS RIOT AT HANKOW. It is quite oloar.

prove of value. Attention is being paid at Echo, and his kind and hospitable wife has also the present time to the development of won the hearts of all who know her. A preson de tation, has been made to Dr. Rennie at the oil fields, and the outlook is scribed as very promising. As one of Foochow Club, as a small mark of esteem frems the dinner, the community. Dr. Rentis leaves his duties the speakers remarked thres things are essential to the proper in the care of his partner, Dr. Moorhead. development of a new country-one is capital, another confidence, and the third patience. Given these, the speaker said he had not the slightest doubt but that North Borneo would prove to be one valuable portions of

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Frederick Hotels Savoy

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the richest and the greatest Empire

The faseral of the late Rear Admiml Guhler takes place to-day. The funeral procession will leare the German Consulate at 230 pm and proceed to St. John's Cathedral, where the funeral service will take place. The cortege will then proceed to the Naval Yard, whence

the collin will be transferred by SMS. Teinglas

to the German steamer by which it will bọ the world has over seen. It requires nonveyed to ermany. We are asked to state great foresight to perceive in the light of that the regulations forbid the use of cameras in the development which has already taken the Naral Yard. A. S. WATSON & CO., place, that North Bornoo is destined

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Sir Henry Berkeley, in opening, informed the British and German sailors were Court and jurors that the prisoners in this case engaged in quelling the riot.

Ten Chinese are reported to have been killed and others injured. Several foreigners were also injured.

[REUTER'S SERVICE TO THE "BONGKONG DAILY PRESS."

THE PLAGUE AT PEKING.

LONDON, January 23rd. The Peking correspondent of the Daily Mail" has telegraphed that

to letters of this description lomatic Body has closed the Legation and our advice to members who feel aggrieved quarter.

TURKEY AND THE POWERS.

The method of coapo is as follows: The

packing case really consists of four parts: (1) the four sides seemingly nailad together; (2) the top, also devoid of trickery; (3) the bottom to

were charged with the murder of a woman named Chin San Kiu at 95, Hok Le Tann, in Kowloon City. They were charged with having which (4) the wooden corners of Inftens are 17th and 19th November, 1913. The daid of the box. The four sides are then slipped into

murdered the woman sometime between the nailed these supposedly belonging to the sides

man

of the these server strips and screwed to them from woman was married to s name of Fun Kwai, who had a licensed board-the inside with a couple of screws, well cílad. ing-house in Hongkong. He would say that he A number of dummy nails (ie., nsils which have last visited his wife on November 15th. The been filed off a little below the hand) are driven dead woman rented the upper floor of the house into the battens from the outsile, giving the in which she lived from a Hoklo wamen, who Oase n very solid and genuine appearance. The would be called, and the two prisoners ronted performer is now placed in the case, and

While this i the ground floor from the same woman. The the lid is nailed down.

performer extracts dead woman used the same kitohen as the being done, defendants to have her meals. On the evening serew driver and an electric lamp from his. of November 17th the Hoklo woman last saw pockets, and proceeds to unscrew the screws the deceased alive; at that time she was in the which fasten the sides of the case to the coruar

the

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We have received for publication a letter relat to fill a much bigger place in the imperial scheme than it does now. Lord REDESDALE, ing to some dissatisfaction which the writer who was one of the speakers at the dinner, Bays exists among members of the Volunteers Corps concerning the rumour that only officers mentioned the strategical importance of will be selected to compose the coutingent which He recalled a will represent the Colony at the Coronation of there

#mall time when

hope the King. No good, but rather much harm:

be done by giving owing to the spread of plague the Dip-house with the two prisoners and their little slats or battens. This done, the instant the think may

At former has only to push upward upon the lid of the successful development of the we

hd, and, as far as the Hokio woman could say, stresa is placed in front of the case, the per they appeared to be on friendly terms. nine o'clock on the morning of the 18th the of the case, when the lid and sites slide upward, territory, and negotiations were started publicity.

Hoklo woman wout to feed her pigs, and on enabling the performer to make his escape, and for the sale of the country to another

pushing open the street door she saw, lying in his assistant to enter at the same time. The a pool of blood and quite dead, the woman who assistant finds and utilizes the screw driver and had rented the top floor. A chopper was lying the pocket lamp, which the performer has left LONDON, January 23rd. ". near the body which would be produced, and behind him, and by their and again screws the Replying in the Chamber at Cons-with which the doctor would say the wounds on sides of the packing case securely to the corner the body could have besa inflicted. That shop. batters. This done, the oase is again ready for tantinople to questions in reference per was lying near bloodstained, and the two any amount of examination. to the Potsdam interview, the Foreign prisoners and their child had vanished as well

H.K. FOOTBALL LEAGUE. Corsed. The Hoklo woman at once reported

Two matches were playes on Saturday, and Minister said relations between Great aquatity of property belonging to the de-

found of the prisoners, who were looked for at the competition is now closed. The table reads: Britain and Turkey were of the friend the matter to the police, but no trace could be liest character. Consequently he was convinced that the interests of Turkey

is to represent the matter to the Commanding Government. That, as his lordship said, Officer. would have been fatal thing for British commerce, and perhaps a disas MURDER IN THE NEW TERRITORY. trous thing for the British Navy in the Far East if the great harbours of Borneo, with all their potertialities, had fallen into any other hands. From that danger the British Empire was saved by the patriotism and courage of two men, Messrs. DENT Brothers whose names, it might be added, are conspicuously and honourably inscribed in the history of British_com_

Information of a dreadful sutrage which. tenured at the village of Nim Wax on Deep Bay has been reported to the police. According to the statements given to the police at Fingshan it appears thats gang of men, numbering ten or mors, and armed with revolvers and other weapons, surrounded the house of a former on Friday night, torrifying the inmates. Shots

were fred, and one-man was killed, but not

satisfied with this the robbers euf his threal and

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ange, On December 15th, nearly a month afterwards, they were discovered in a

Naval Yard... 9 6 the room of the house which they yors found to

R.E... On January 23rd, at his residence. No. 1mercial relations with China. Borneo may set fire to his clothing. They ransacked the in the Persian Gulf would not suffer, small house on the inland of Pingeban, and in Baffs

never be made a British naval base, because house and decamped with clothing and money Singapore adequately serves that purpose in to the value of $188. No arrest has been made. He said the German Ambassador in a be inhabiting a large quantity of the property R

supplement the of the dead woman was found, and two pawn Hongkong

tickets were found on the person of the Kowloon HONGKONG OFD: 28: 10A, DES VERY ROAD & the South, but the growing commercial and the task of tracing the robbers is few days would

given, which had already male prisoner. assurances

The property roprozented interests of North Borneo must in course of rendered more difficult by the fact that the village is close to the border, and the men in all

calined the fears aroused by the by the pawn tickets would be proved to have time require more adequate provision for its likelihood have gone int Chinese territory, defence than it now receives.

publication of the alleged agreenient. been the property of the deceased, and to have baan pawned since her death. That was the Thirty cases of cholera were notified at Bang. YESTERDAY AT THE MAGISTRACY. He donied the existence of the alleged important point. At the time of her arrest the Only one Court is sitting at present, fr. J. Anglo-German pourparlers in refer ence to the Bagdad railway, saying be R. Wood being on leave until Thursday.

had received assurances that such pourparlers would only take place with Turkey.

The Daily Press.

HONGXONG, JANUARY 24TH, 1911.

kok in the first week of this month.

The St. George's Society of Shanghai have presented to Sir Pelham L Warren, K.C.M.G,

souvenir in the form of a gilver bowl,

Mr. Mee Cheung, the well-known photo grapher, sende ne specimens of nine interesting photographs of Sir Henry May's departure on Saturday.

A French bluejacket charged with damaging a ricska pleaded guilty and was ordered to pay two dollars compensation.

Few people who are not directly interested are aware how remarkable has been the. progress roado in the development of British North Borneo since it came under the control of the Charter Company, Ip the year 1882, when the charter was obtained, the revenue of the Colony was £10,000, Ja 1904 it was $98,000, and five years later (in 1909) it was £243,000 The companies engaged in developing the the half-year ending December 31, 1910.ing 8500 by frand from Lau Cheung Chi. He

At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Shanghai Land Investment Co., Lad.. hold last week, it was doolded, subject to audit, to recommend a final dividend of 6 per cent. for

fatal Chinese cases of small-pox.

the non-productive period of the estates.

An exciseman from Choung Chan is in custody on a charge of larceny from the person. It is suggested that while searching a man suspected of haring opium he took three dollars in money from the man's pocket. He was romanded.

Cheung In Cheung was charged with ohtsin.

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be proved R.GA. femalo prisoner was found to be wearing a pair Buffs... of shoes which it would belonged

the deceased Woman. It could only be supposed that the defendant, after R.E. taking part in the tragedy, thought they could disappear and hide themselves, which they man- aged to do for abent a month. The first prisoner at the police station made a long state. mest by way of defence, and one of the most extraordinary that was ever made by a prisoner in similar cironmstances. The gist of his state- ment was that he did not murter the dead

A Bonsstional arrest was made by Inspector women; that he was present when she was ur- 'Sallivan at Hunghom on Baturday night, dered; that he was asleep when a man came to He discovered a mina in possession of a lorded The Berlin newspapers are published at kicked. The woman came down

GERMAN CROWN PRINCE'S TOUR.

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BOBBERY AVERTED.

her he had come to kill her husband because onaned before the Inspector could secure his her haben stealing hue relations, and as he was man. The loaded revolver was an element of not present the visitor would kill her. The first danger in the scullo, but nothing serious defendant heard all this, and said the midnight happened. Not only was the revolver found ot woman in his presence. According to the gris other five chambers in his possession, in addition to a formidable looking knife and three gags. visitor proceeded to take a knife and bill the be loaded in five chambers, but the man had

resources-of the territory have increased in The return of communicable diseases issued is alleged to have offered for sale shares in sing reports that the plague in China and a conversation resulted between her and the rovdvor, and when he attempted to take him five years from three to twenty-five and by the Medical Officer of Health for the week company called the Hongkong Taz Hi Ka Un will compel the Crown Prince to midnight visitor, in which the lather told to custody the men resisted and a struggle. the capital from £883,000 to £3,500,000 anded the 21st inst. shows one Chinese end one Yau Han Kang Sa, which had been registered abandon his visit to Peking and to The majority of these new companies are German (imported) case of enteric fever, one with the Registrar of Companies. He was engaged in the rubber industry, the Chartered fatal British ease of purperal fever, and two remanded, bail being tired at a personal bond return via South America or the

of $500 and two cureties of $1,000 each,

German Colonies in South Africa, Company haring guaranteed dividends during

At the Magistraty yesterday before Mr. E 4. Chinese who was found by a detective It is, however, pointed out in official The Clairaan told the shareholders last K. Hallifax Cheung In Cheung was brought boarding the Yaumati ferry on Sunday morning quarters in Berlin that this is pure oner's statement, he said to the man, "Why The defendant admitted that the articles and month that the reporta regarding the growth tonces from one, Lau Chung Chi. Mr. P. W. which examination proved to have been taken journalistic guesswork. The Prince are you doing this "The man explained and

her jewellery and property and go away. Ton robbery which he had contemplated with two of rubber and the progross of the estates Goldring (of Massen. Goldring, Barlow & from homes three hours sarlier which the 18 engaged in a tour of Asia and not said, "Don't say anything at all about it. Take weapons wore to have been employed in a generally continue to be satisfactory, and Morrel) prosecuted, and Mr. W. E. L. Shenton defendant had burglariously entered was brought of the world, and this can be accom-ar are to get away, and if anybody says any- he expressed the opinion that in view of (of Mesirs. Deacon, Looker & Descon) repre: before the Magistrate, He said that he took plished even if the route home be thing about it, tell them I told you to do it."

The hearing was ad the things because he was poor. Sentence of the steps which the company are taking sented the defendant,

three months imprisonment was. gamed.

to establish a regular and ample supply

up on a charge of obtaining $500 by false pro with a quantity of clothing and other things.

journed.

changed to via Vladivos took.

Evidence was then called, counsel addressed

the jury, and his Lordship summed up.

others.

Mr. J. Ferguson, an assistant in the I. M. Customs at Shanghai, has been transferred to Harbin as Deputy Commissioner,