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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1933.

ECHOES OF 1858

THE FIGHT FOR ORDEREÓ OLİVERNMENT IN HONG KONG

13. Mr. Hoey and the Oplum ́rade

May 6, 1659

A contemporary says that after the writ of certiorari in the Carrib. bean's Opium case shall have been disposed of, he will give the whole affair a good airing, and try his best to do justice to the amusing amount of roguery and rascality that the Ordinance during its short life has developed.

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of our leading houses for looking sharp after its pigin some littce we suppose Seeing however that the said house never did anything that we ever heard of, that would not hear the daylight, we expect the entry made in the books opposite the payment must have been to stop the fellow's mouth "

OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The following are taken from our We would advise our conteni- | advertisement columns of 1858- porary to mind what he is doing. The same disaster will be over-Lot of Sharp's RIFLES, with all taking him that overtook us. We the fixtures and Fifty rounds of do not allude to the infliction of Ammunition to each Rifle, heavier fine that we can pay; with the addition of homicidal incarcern- tion. That is a trifle-but as we do not wish it to go any farther,sidered the most effective weapon

now manufactured. we would simply state without com-

HUNT & CO.. ment, that Mr. Hoey had indig- uantly withdrawn his name from Hong Kong, 17th March, 1888,

NOTICE. our subscription list. Surely when Mr. Hoey is making such a good thing by his opium license, he was unreasonable in supposing that we should stand by him for 82.60 a We entirely approved of the course he took, barring the pro- misa to turn informer on his guests. Noah Claypole liked dirty work-agreed to do it, and did it. Had he promised to do it and then declined, his character would have stood much higher in the pagca of history. Now, if air. Hoey in stead of stopping his paper, had come forward and offered to pay the fine inflicted on us—we do not say we should have accepted it-or that we should have thought a bit better of him-but this we do say, that the sum sa offered would have been precisely identical with the amount paid the hurdy gurdy upon its advent to these regions, by one

month.

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TO WORLD.

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ROYAL MINT'S HUGE

CLIENTELE

(Special Air-Mail Service)

London, July 26. The Royal Mint has a clientèle of foreign nations extending from Guatemala to Lithuania. In the decado ending in December last year these clients ordered 348,000,000 coins, more than half of which, were silver.

Recently Sir Robert Johnson, Deputy Master and Comptroller, revealed that the Royal Mint was "making the coinage for all Europe except Germany and France."

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Mr. HENRY EDWARDS HOEY begs to notify to the Fublic that from this date be has retired from the Opium hailing and selling in favour of Chua Tai Kwong, who

now holds the sole license under this Ordinance.

Hong Kong, 5th May, 1858.

NOTICE.

Mr. F. INNES HAZELAND, a I the undersigned have admitted partner in my business of Attorney Solicitor Proctor end Notary Public.

G. COOPER TURNER. Hong Kong, 15th March, 1938,

NOTICE.

CHUN TAI KWONG'S Opium Farm Office has this day been re- moved to No. 15, Rangel's Row, Hollywood Road,

Hong Kong, 7th April, 1858.

TWO PRIVATES STOWAWAY

FOUND ON BLUE FUNNEL ·

LINER

When the Blue Funnel liner Pro- tesilaus came in on Friday, the Police went on board and arrested.

two European stowaways, who have since been identified as Privates Grundy and Hall, absentees from the 2nd Battalion East Lancashire Regiment, at present in Shanghai.

RUSSIAN GIRL'S DEATH

SEQUEL TO MARRIAGE. REQUEST

SINGAPORE, July 4.

A verdict of death due to poison was returned by Procurator Kuo Wei at the conclusion of the in-.

gost, at the Public Mortuary yes- terday morning, over the body of T.. Tavdgulridre, 24-year old Rus sian girl, who died in the General Hospital on Sunday afternoon. he Procurator ordered the re- moval of the body for burial by Folmer Djergfelt, & Danish citizen, whom the deceased visited before taking poison. ¡

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Sub-Inepr. Dalgetty told the Procurator that deceased resided at 239 Route Vallon and was om- plofed at the American Bible So- ciety. She was on friendly terms with Mr. Rolmer Diergfelt, who resided at 02 the Embassy Hotel, Carter Road. At 12.25 p.m. Sunday, deceased visited him at

conversation. his address and a took place, during which she ask ed him if he would marry her. As ahe failed to get a satisfactory answer, she went to the bath-room of the apartment and swallowed poison. Then she returned to the room, and the man, seeing she was sick and in pain. had her removed failed to respond to medical treat to the General Hospital where she

ment and died at 2.15 p.m. the same day.

Questioned by the Procurator. Mr. Djergfalt stated that he lived at No. Flat of the Embassy the Great Northern Telegraph Co. Hotel and that he was employed at

Witness continued that he was on friendly terms with deceased who visited his room at 12.25 pm. on Sunday when they had a conversa. tion. Deceised then went to the bathroom and took strychnine. He found this out afterwards. She cama back to his room and he saw she was in pain, so he had her removed to the General Hospital where she died. Witness said he would undertake to have the body buried.-N.O. Daily News.

A FILM STUDIO BURNED OUT

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE OCOURS AT KIANGWAN

SHANGHAI, July 4. A spectacular and very damag- ing fire broke out shortly after noon yesterday, as a result of which, it is understood, the Kiangwan studioe of the China Sound and Colour Motion Ricture Co. have been completely gutted and a very Privates Grundy and · Hull was discovered aboard the Protesilaus large part of their stock of Blms soon after, the vessel had sailed and extensive up-to-date equipment from Shanghai, and after they had destroyed. Many well-known local been identified here, they were sporting men were interested in the handed over to the military autho-studio, from whence there have

rities:

Yesterday I visited the Mint, and watched the succession of processes SIX LAKHS FOR SHANGHAI by which a miss. of metal passed through an ordesil by fire to emerge

centavos de quetzal" for Guate mala

Among the nations for which the Mint strikes coins are:--Poland, U.S.S.R.. Lithuania, Bolivia, Jugo- slavia, Greece, Romania, Egypt, Latvia, Gäutemala, Hedjaz, Irak, Albania.

DIRECTOR

VOTING AT SHAREHOLDERS' MEETING.

been turned out several excellent sporting subjects, and it was gen- erally admitted that the place was ped, and managed. most admirably arranged, equip.

The fire is believed to have been caused by a short-circuit of the elec. house, and, though an alarm was sric current in the film drying-

raised with all promptitude and the Chapel Fire Brigade as quickly as possible sent, several engines and other equipment to the scene, before the brigade arrived the flames had Spread with such alarming rapidity that some sixteen or seventeen houses, all or most of which were connected with the studio, were involved and the fire had secured

SHANGHAI, July 5. Directors of the Shanghai Land The members of the British Em Investment Co. Ltd., were yester- pire which the Royal Mint supplies day authorised to pay to Mr. includeáustralia, British West-Maurice Benjamin a sum of Tis. Afrien, Free State, Canada, Cyprus,450,000 (or 8030,000), as remunera S. Rhodesia, Palestine, Hong Kong. tion for. special services rendered, A big order was recently complet as a result of an extraordinary ed for Jugoslavia consisting of general meeting of shareholders.. such a bold that the bremen had 36,000,000 10-dinar pieces and 5,800,- 000 50-dinar pieces.

The original show of hands dis.little hope of doing more than closed 23 of those present in favour attempting to confine the outbreak. of the directors' resolution, and 25 Within a short while the roof of against, but a poll was demanded, the main building collapsed and it The Royal Mint has a quaternary the result being that (out of a total was fully-14 hours before the

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all retains its colour. Neverthe majority of 9,868 for the resolu-had been gutted. A message from By that time the seventeen houses less, to secure a foreign order means tion.

putting in Lexier in competition During the necting it was stated the Chapel fire brigade yesterday with other big national mints, the by Mr. A. M. Canaan that, being evening put the damage at 890,000, whole transaction being a business unable to acquiesce with the ma.but probably it ja even beyond that matter.

Working to full capacity the Mint jority of the board as to certain figure. can turn out 1,000,000 coins a day. the coarse of relinquishing his payments to Mr. Benjamin, he took Of the 235,000,000 coins struck for position with the agents and re-. foreign countries up to 1930, 125,etgning from the board. 000,000 were silver

DRYS MAPPING OUT CAMPAIGN

INTERESTING U.S. PROHIBI TION FIGURES

ASEDIGTON, July' 2" Heads of all the anti-prohibition Organisations were in com liere today to map out a campe to bring sudut, state repeal conte tions in the southern states have thus far not expressed then solver on the Congressions), mãolu tion to repeal the Eighteenti Amendments have

Treasury Department records

the close of the fiscal year show

ów, Brozawa - that aînée pfohibition has effect the Government bas

ed $140,000,000 in attempting force, it and has received.

THE INVERCLYDE SERVICE CASE

Lord Fleming, in, the Court of Session, Edinburgh, fixed the week beginning Nov. 14 for the hearing of a defended petition of divorce by Lord Inverclyde of Wemyss Castles Renfrewiniro, agamat June, Lady Inverclyde, of Hertford-

street, London,

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THIEF WHO BIT, AND HIT HIM WITH CLOCK.

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before Mr.Wynne resolution passed At ité recent con Jones this morning, the man was es for violations. ference of Vienna, will include a sentenced to six weeks hard, igbour do not include, the suggestion that "all nations, should for theft, Budi & further ane

dividual remove such evils to international 75 or six weeks gaol was imposed normally shipping As discriminatory treat

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