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EURASIAN KILLED.

A TRAGEDY AT WEST POINT.

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ARRIVAL OF POLICE CAUSES

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SINCERE CO. PROSECUTED.

A KOWLOON SMOKING CHIMNEY.

SUMMONS DISMISSED.

Mr. M. K. Lo defended.

The Sincere Co., Ltd., appeared as A shocking tragedy occurred at West defendants in a case brought before r Foint late on Tuesday night, a Eurasian J. H. B. Nihill, at the Kowloon Magis- named Alfred Cunningham, aged about tracy yesterday afternoon, for failure to 29 years, who was employed in the offices comply with a notice of the Sanitary of Mestra, Brunner, Mond & Co., meet-Department served on August 21st, re- ing his death under tragic circum quiring the Company to abate the follow- ing nuisance:.” A chimney as rear of the Company's factory at Nos. 2 to 8; Kailung It appears that shortly before mid-Street, Kowloon, sending forth black night a party of police, who had received | smeke in such quantities as to be a

naisance," information that Cunningham was to be found at Yu On Terrace, West Point, Sanitary Inspector Murray gave evi proceeded there in "an endeavour to dence to the effect that a complaint from arrest him on a

a Police Cheer was received at the be warrant for allegeginning at august and that he was tent embezzlement of a certain sum of money to the premises to watch the chimney, belonging to Messrs. Brunner, Mond & which he did. On August 11th the Chier Co. Their presence becoming known to and as a result, he was ordered to lospector and witness visited the place Cunningham, it is presumed that he observe. At between 2 and a p.m. on jumped out of a window on the third floor August 12th he observed that the chim- of the Tin Tin Club in an attempt to minutes, and moderate smoke for ninety ney gave of black amoke for forty-one reach the roof of another Building across minutes. In consequence of his report On September an alleyway. He apparently, misjudged the notice was served.

3rd he made another observation. from the distance (a few feet) and fell about 2.48 to 2.43 p.m., when he noticed that 40 feet into the lane below. Here the black smoke issued from the chimney for police found him with his head badly thirty-seven minutes and moderate smoke for twenty-three minutes. As the result battered and having severe injuries to of that report the summons was issued. the upper part of the body. It is be- lieved that death must have been instar. tuneous

The late Mr. Cunningham, who lived -with-his-parents-at-No-29, Robinson Road, had been employed for some months at the Icen office of Messrs. Brunner, Mond & Co., on returning here from Manila.

He was one of those commended by Mr. D. Burlingham (Deputy Superintendent of Police) for assistance given in the rescuing alive of a Chinese who was im. prisoned for 40 hours in the débris at the Po Hing Fong disaster last year.

The body of deceased was removed to the Victory Mortuary by the police.

THE SUEZ CANAL.

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Mr. M K. Lo did not argue about the facts of the case but asked his Worship to regard the circumstances of the case, including the nature of the district and the nature of the industries carried on there. He considered that the smoke was not in Juch large quantities 31 26 constitute a nuisance.

Mr. Nihill agreed with Mr. In, and dismissed the summons accordingly."

WEDDING AT MACAO.

DA SILVA-PEREIRA.

The marriage took place at the Cathedral at Macao, on Sunday morning" of Mr. Guilherme V. da Silva, Agent for Meurs. C. E. Warren & Co., of

Hongkong, to Miss Anna Carlota de Barros Pereira. The Rev. Father A. Morais Sarmento officisted, and the wed- ding was largely`attended.

The bridegroom was attended by Capt. D. Fonseca and Mr. F. Barros, while the bridesmaids were Misses J. Soares, M. Souza, C. Botelho and G. Silva. The flower-girls were Misses M. Ribeiro da Silva, and A. Barros; while Master A da Silva was page boy.

The Cathedral ceremony was followed by a reception at the bridela homel

HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE: CLOSING QUOTATIONS

Speaking last year at the general meeting of the Suez Canal" Company, the chairman made a very confident pre diction that 1925 would be a "brilliant" year and might indeed justify a "new

SEPTEMBER 29TH, 175. and important increase" of the dividend. Hangrong Bank $1,092) bay, 1,090)§, ca.

Do

..2133 nom.

buy. Offee and dealing with the Canal traffic Mercantil: Bank, A. & B50) pom. daring 1925 shows that this optimism

P. & O. Bank...... Was well founded.

£91 bay. East Asia Bank, .......... As a matter of fact, the amount of Canton Kisurance............86-3 om. cargo passing through the waterway North Uhina Iawaranes... Tla.

China Underwriters.... 112. 1:25 not. exceeded by 802,000 tons the previous Union Innrance $200 bay, & record total, the figure, being 26,578,000 Yangtze Insuranes Alex $33 bay.

Fire Insurance...

$200 buy.

A White Paper issued by the Foreign Chartered Bank..........

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tons, compared with 25,775,000 tons in/ong Fire Insarance...3600 bay.

1013. The increase is in merchandise carried from south to north, which amounted to 17,778,000 tons, compared with 14,466,000 tons in the last pre-war year.

The outward traffic (8,802,000 tons) is being still more than 3,000,000 tons below the 1913 6gure, coal cargoes being down by 513,000 tons, and machinery, etc., by close on 400,000 tons. Compared with 1913, the quantity of mineral oil from the East has increased by 1,260,000 tons, while wheat, soya beans, copra and gun nies have also been carried in consider chly greater quantities.

Europe's Share.

it is of interest to note that the higher figures for 1925 are mainly due to the larger imports of Oriental merchandise by the United States, these being almost double the 1913 figure of 893,000 tons. So far aa Europe is concerned, it appears that it has exported east of Suez 2,934,000. tons less than before the war while it has imported 2,402,000 tona mode.

India has proved a good customer, tak ing 3,055,000 tons of goods, against 3,641,000 tona in 1994, but exports to China and Japan were on a markedly lower scale. There were increases to the Straits Settlements, East Africa and Australia.

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ECHO OF FAMOUS TRIAL. HARRY THAW'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

NEW YORK, September 1st, Harry Thaw, the central figure twenty years ago in one of America's most On aécount of the weakness of stocks sensational murder trials, has written his of paddy remaining available in the in- to a bitter denunciation of an unnamed autobiography, which is largely devoted terior up to the coming of the new crop member of his legal counsel, whom he and the demand being still rather im- charges with betraying him to Stanford. portant the tone of our market is brm White's friends. Hence the name of the with a constant upward tendency parti- book, The Traitor." Thaw's writingis is cularly for rice.

No interesting enquiry has been report- uses words not in the dictionary, and not always coherent. Occasionally he ed either from Japan or Java but some in one part there is a blank space in the business has been booked on Europe and midst of the description of his trial, with especially on Shanghai.

Prices of brokens are steady. Nothing can yet be said about the new crop which most certainly will come on the market one month later than last

year.

the words "The censor but this out?“

Thaw speaks well of Evelyn Nesbit, his wife, whose tale of White's enticement caused him to kill the latter. She was a gallant, immovable, steadfast 'figure, foiling open enmity and secret treason by

The total amount of rice exported from January 1st to September 15th, 1928, is simple truth." He even has some kind

1/15/30 Hengbong Lifectrics...$67 buy. 63 sol, 671,8z. 1,051,085 tons, against 1,109,593,083 in

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1925.

We quote to-day white Saigon rice No. 125 per cent. brokens round grain: Hong- kong 87.70 per picul of 124 lbs. Lo.. Saigon; 138. 11d. per ovt. Lob. Baigon; Yens 8.50 per picul of 134 lbs. fo.b. Saigon." White Baigon rice No. 2 sifted Japan quality: Hongkong 87.40 per picul of 134 158. fo.b. Saigon; 13a 40 per cyt Lo.b.. Saigon Yens B.15 per picul of 134 1 lbs. Lo.b. Saigon For September/Octo

ber shipment.

·

words for the victim. White had his good points,” Thaw writes, “and apart from his one 'vice, was a man of many attractions. Thaw denies that he was insane, and says he killed White under "the unwritten law."

Fifty thousand copies of the book have been printed at an expense to Thaw of 25,000. The Fittsburg millionaire is now awhite-haired, elderly-looking man with a constant bodyguard who distributes large tips wherever he goes for the grati- fcation of being recognised publicly