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HONGKONG, MAGISTRACY. MISSING BRICKS,

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Acting on a complaint made by a A Wanchai contractor as to the loss of bricks, a watch was kept and a coolie was arrested,

The defendant's excuse was that be bad ben umployed by another man; but Mr. Wood sentenced him to three months' bard labour,

A WANDERER,

disreputable-looking Chinese charged bafora Mr. Wood with being a rogue dhil vagabond. In the early hours of yesterday morning the Indian watch

nt Messrs. Whiteaway, Laidlaw &

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Co saw the man wandering about the first flder, and, his explanations Rot

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1917)

ALLEGED FORGED

DOCUMENTS.

MILLION DOLLAR MYSTERY The action in which Mr. E Carpmael, Official Receiver, sues the Po Yuen, Mo Choe Lung and Lee Hysen, to account for 100 chests of opium be- longing to the Ynen Hing Company of which the plaintiff 18 liquidator, was resumed yesterday before Mr. Justice Gumpert. The value of the opium in question is estimated at a million dollars.

Mr. F. Jenkin appeared for the

Paintiff, and Mr. Alabaster and Mr. Eldon Potter for the defendants.

Mr. Alabaster, continuing his cross oxamination of Chan Kang Iu, acked:

You say it used to be the practice for

document to put in the word

BREACH OF BUILDING.

CONTRACT

$1,000 DAMAGES AWARDED:

The Chief Justice resterday, in the

Summary Court awarded $1,000 damages an action brought by Lau Shun-cho against Yeung King-shung.

The plaintif was represented by Mr. Agassiz solicitor, and Mr RC Faith ful, solicitor, appeared for the defend ant

Mr. Agassiz, in his opening atatement, purchased a lot of said plaintif had u Sound in Kennedy Road, on which he

four houses He enter

proposed to erect four ed into a contract with defendant, to erect the so houses in November last year, Mr Clark being the architect There was considerable delay about starting the

SWATOW NOTES.

F303 OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

BWMow, March 11th.

REPARATION FOR A MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON, A

PRIEST,

gather that reparation has been made the Chinese, autliorities in the

case of Pure Etienne, of the French Mission, who was murderously assaulted a considerable time ago. We have not learned that the criminals were arrested, but that they were traced to their habitat. The authorities, having learned so much, know well how to apply the "instruments

of extraction. The village must produce the men wanted or the "oquivalent in dollars. We hear that the latter alterna live has been chosen, and that in the immediate future we shall behold one or

ng satisfactory, he was handed over a man when lie signed an impor work, and the only part of the work two beautiful church edifices in the neigh

to the police. The watebrian mentioned that several things had been missed of Tats

Defendant, who said that he had been unemployed for two years, that he lived

words tik pat,

or own hand-writing " --Witness-Yes, You said it was not done in unimport

ant docoments, such as a minute.book Yes. No one suggested minute-book to

and slept the open air, and that heme. It just occurred to me at the time.

ambourhood. done by the defendant--the digging of some trenches contravened the building regulations. The architect became im-

FA PROUD BUAST,

“Our General has devised a new method of dealing with thieves and all undesir

persona. Every town and village in being supplied with blank paper books in

patient, west to see the defendant, whole persone naked verbally to be released from the

Had bren away to the country for a holt It is not an important document, but I contract, and subsequently, in a letters which the Town Council or the village

day occasionally, was scatenced to four, toon days' hard Inhour and four hours' mocks. He had bad previous convictions aghuast him

YOUTHFUL THIEVES.

Two small Chinese boys appeared be fore Mr. Wood charged with stealing a quantity of nails from a shopkeeper a Chung Sau Wao. The complainant, at in early hour on Wednesday morning

w four boy, leaving his ship. He caught one of them and took him to the police station. As the result of informa tion given by this boy, the second was arrested.

The frat boy stated that he was told by man to, steal the nails, and if he had not done so he would have been thrashed. The scoond boy told the same story.

One of the defendants was discharged, owing to lack of evidence, but the other was ordered to receive ten strokes with the birch and also to be detained in gact

for 24 hours.

ROBBING A GUEST.

would call & promissory note important. You would expect to find these words tik pat on that?--Yes,

Especially if it was for 80,000? Even

if it was for $1 I would expect it.

I show you two promissory notes signed by Ku Yin San without having these words affixed. Do you consider them forgeries?—There is no tik pas there, but, it bears the chon of the granters of the note-Po Lung firm.

If it is the Po Lung's noto is it not the more necessary that he should put in that it was bis own handwriting No, not with the chop on it.

Does it strike you as Fraudulent be cause these words are not on it !--No, it is in order,

annonuced that his Company had been wound up. When defendant signed the contract he did so as an individual and said nothing about his firm, The plain tiff, through the architect, offered to settle on payment of $500, and in reply to this defendant simply returned the plans and specification without any com ment or proposal, Plaintif pleaded that had lost 83,500 in the increased price

he had had to pay under a fresh con- tract, and had lost rent through defen dant's delay,

HONGKONG MARINE COURT.

SECOND MATE FINED.

In the Marine Court yesterday Com If it is a note of the Fo Lung Hing mandor Beckwith had before him Ernest Kec, bearing their chop, does his signing G Andrew, second nute on board the it not

dicate t

that he takes the respons. Pak Hui, charged with refusing to ability? He is merely vouching that it join his ship and absenting himself with- is the Po Lung chop.

Is it not necessary that he should put. the words "own handwriting on it I don't know,

The whole value of the voucher for the shop would be lost if there was any doubt about the genuineness of the signature? I don't know, but in ing own business I would put the words after my gigua- ture. I came here from the Chamber of Commerce to speak to these two docu-

ments.

A- Chiarze at Yaumati neked a fellow Countryman to share his matshed with him for the night. The offer was accepted ant, on the following morning, the owner, of the matshed told his guest that he could obtain good employment for him, and told him to pack up his clothes. This was dogs, and the two men then made their way to Kowloon City, where the clothes sero left at a stall. The matshed owner-That in his business. then went to the back of the police station, mentioning that he was going to look forot his practice to do this, or else, a foreman, the guest of the evening being akod to wait. When he had left his

guest the defendant went back to the stall and took the clothes away. Later in the day he was seen riding in Yaumati and arrested.

Bentence of six weeks hard labour was passed.

PICKPOCKETS.

Sergeant Wills charged three Chinese Lefore Mr. Wood, one with attempting to jick a man's pocket and the two others with assaulting the complainant. It ap peared from the evidence that the com plainant, a contractor, was standing near a stall in Reclamation Street, Yaumat, when the three men camo up to the stall He felt his pocket being picked, and, when the alarm was given, the complainant caught hold of the man who had

Vinched his pocket.

hereupon the i ther two men set upon the complainant.

The three defendants, who are defended by Mr. Goldring, were remanded.

money hig

Another Chinese was charged beforo Mr. Melbourne with picking a man's pocket, removing #216 in notes Complainant, who is a shopkeeper, had been collecting how from customers and was Walk ing lang. Dey Vaux Road when he was oled by the defendant, and then the complainant felt his pocket being picked Defendant ran away, but a Police Reservo coustable who was on duty, near the Sincere store, seeing what had happened, gare chase and caught the pickpocket, While being chased the defondant threw.

and they were picked up

the notes away, by the conijplainant,

Sentence of three months hard labour and four hours' stocks was passed, it being mentioned that the defendant had only completed a banishment order on the day. the theft took place.

TOLE GOLD FOR THE VICTORY LOAN

Ku Yin 8an has not added these words to his signature in these four documents 1

And it would seem from that that it

that they are all forgeries 1-I don't knew which is the explanation. I can't say what he would do, but I would put these words after my signature on pro

missory notes

If Ku was signing an important docu- ment for a firm would he put tik pat to his dignature-I can't say what Ku would do, but I would do it. I would call a letter of guarantee for $100,000 signed by Ku Yiu Son, an important | document and I would have put tik pat

on such a document as that.

Now that you have seen all those five documents without these words to Kus signature, would you say that it does not appear to be his practice to put these words int1 don't know whether Ku Yin Son wrote the signatures or not

In the absence of the words you cannot Bay that they are genuine? I don't know. I came here to speak of what had been decided in the Chamber of Com merce, and not to be examined on all the documents in the case. I am a busy man and want to get away,

His Lordship You will have to be a little patient. You are summoned here as a witness to assist the Court with your experience of such documents as are put before you.

Mr Alabaster-You said yesterday with respect to one of the documents pant it was out of order because the date was below the signature, and not above it -

Witness: Yes.

I show you a document with Em's signature having the date below it Yes; that is a letter. That is all right

out leave.

From the evidence given by the master- of the vessel, Captain John Dewar, and others, it seris that defendant went ashore without leave the night before the vessel was due to leave, and no other officer being available to fill his place the vessel was detained for a period of 36 hours past her sailing time,

Defendant was sentenced to eight weeks imprisonment and a fine of $100.

COMPANY PEPORT.

HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE/

CO., LTD.

chief is used to write down the names of every person who is a peace-breaker or thief, or otherwise engaged in illegalities, Happy the town which has no evil person to report. Such is the case in Tshiung Heu, on the Bon river. The authorities teplied to the Genera, a orders that he need not forward the books, for there is no subject for entry [beta THE DRINK TRAFFIC AND ITS TAXATION.

Dealers in antoxicants are at their wits ends. They have been ordered by the Chiof Tax Collector to hand in their

licences for renewal. They bold back. Now a date has been fixed on which they must appear, failing which dire conse- quences will ensac. The taxes are to be greatly mortasen; hence the slow move-

ments or “ wait and sep" policy of the

publicans,

MONEY-LENDERS IN DIFFICULTIES,

The endil money lending companies in Swatow have fallen on evil times. No, end of them have failed and are unable to meet the demands of their clients. Paper money will not cirentate, and the holders of it fad to their sorrow that there is no silver to back it. We hear now and again of the authorities trying

to check this reckless banking system, but failures such as the present show how ing effective the ruling of the authorities

NEW COING TO BEPLACE CAST.

We learn that the Cantonese Govern- mant is iving large quantities of new coina 10 replace the present cash system. The new issue is announced to be the equivalent of one cent, equal to

We are officially informed that, subject to audit, the General Managers and Con sulting Committee of the Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., will recommend at the forthcoming meeting of shareholders. to be held on 28th instant, the payment present out of the profits for the year 1915 of a

in circulation

ten cash and half a cent. These doing have a square hole in the centre and so admit of being strung together like tho The Japanese are said to be responsible for dividend of $7 per share, absorbing the new coinage. It is reported that they $216,000; to pass £15,000 to credit of bought up large quantities of the old Reinsuranco Fund, $103,140,51 to credit copper cash, malted them down, and of Investment and Exchange Fluctuation converted them into ornamenta, Account; and to carry forward $467,907,7 Gainese have endeavoured to prohibit the removal of theso * cash”” frum their in respect of the year 1916.

markets, bug bow can it be prevented When the thousand cash strings fail what will the little children do? How can they buy the 1-40 of a penny's worth of sweets ?

Well, 1 show you such a document, bearing the signatures of the directors and the date is at the bottom, any from the text-This is a minute of meeting and has a date at both ends.

That mihute is signed by five directors and a chairman (—Yes, ~--~;

None of those signatories bars tik pa after their signatures 1-No, because it is merely a minute

After the signatures you have got the names of persons agreeing to take more sheres-It is not an agreement, but a promise by these men to produce fresa capital. It is just do me siguing my name to a subscription list. This is just 1 status of that they are willing to take new shares.

Do you mean to say that it is not

NAM binding agreement by these men to take the number of shares appearing opposite their names? No, it would not be. When the time one they might say I have no money" In a document like this the idea is to help the business. I state what

THE OLD AND THE NEW IN CONFLICT.

The

Ta-pu from of old has been rich in prequation of classical solars. The tue produzotion: new system of education has rendered this distinction less conspicuous. The

suical ons" have been irritated, and have actually tried, in spite of the autho- rities, to reinstate the old system schools. The parents gladly backed

The consequence is that the Government schools have been denuded; Realising the facts, the Government has now issued strict, injunctions that these Confucian schools must be closed forth- with

NOVEL METHOD OF KALBING SCHOOL FUNDS

The superintendent of a Government school in our neighbourhood found that his fanda would not meet the expenses of his school, su he took to the novel plan of appealing to the medium of the local idol tome to secure for him the ten- ple duce. His pleading was successful. Other, interested in the temple dues ob signatures do not bind the signatories jected, and there was a joint appeal once to anything. The words tik pot are not more to the temple medium, but with

Bignaturea because the docu after

the same result. The superintendent bas important

thus succeeded in diverting a consider

to maintain his able sum of money, to ecticol, into the caffers of the institution.

for a letter, but not for an agreement, 1 sm prepared to do at the time, but ab Would you agree that a document by the time of collection I am not hound which the directors of a Company agree to pay. In this sort of document these to subscribe new capital is an important document-If they really intended to increase their capital it would be an

st

A man emptied £2,000 in gold on the rounter of a branch bank at New Malden,mportant document,

Burray, to this surprise of the manager and his clerks. It was to buy War Loan

(Lontsnued at foot of nezi culinit.)

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solicitor, and Mr. John H. Beth, accountant were after wards examined, and the hearing was adjourned,

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