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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1933.

ECHOES OF 1858

73.-Bishop's Opinion of Sir John Bowring

(On Saturday, and again yes- terday, we published the earlier portions of a letter written by the Bishop of Victoria to a friend at Home. It described the conditions | of life in the Colony and a plot to blow up the Cathedral" while the English community was attending a service. The plot was happily frustrated. Below we give the con- tinuation of the latter).·

INDIANS SENT TO GAOL

Theft From A

Watchman

was concluded before Mr. Schofield. Sher Mohamed another Indian. at Central Magistracy yesterday.

The defendants were Wali Dad He Mohamed Asharf, Sahib, Dad and of Sakander Khan, The Arst three and were charged with farceny receiving, while the fourth was only charged with receiving.

The case in which four Indians were charged in connection with the theft of $500 in Hongkong Bank notes, a ten-rupee note and The heat has been very oppres-clothing to the value of $150, from alve here of,late, and we have had many deaths. Our Governor, Sir John Bowring, looks very i; and I think he cannot last very much- longer with his many harrassing cares in this trying" climate. is involved in a great deal trouble just now in the internal of the Colonial administration Government; it is likely that the

Mr. A, el Arculli· appeared for The presence of our Admiral has matter may be mooted in the tended to reassure public con- House of Commons. I hope Con- the fourth defendant. while Mr.

and Churchment will Adence, and we hear of some de-servativés

When the case was resumed cisive measures for putting down pursue a generous part towards Horace Lo was for the others.

submission to neighbourhood him. He is undoubtedly an able piracy

the in, this

no case which is rife and rampant along and well-intended man, and both yesterday the whole coast; and it is to be as Consul at Canton in former effect that there was

been made out against res, and more recently as Gov-had feared some English, American and

clients and be asked are on ernor of this Colony. he has al-his Portuguese desparadoes board the pirate-junks as leaders.ways maintained an example of for their discharge. Prior to this, the second defendant Way Big- A young naval officer, Lieut. Wild- strictest morality. man, RN., commanding the gun-

charged on the grounds that there boat "Staunch" has just been stay- ing a couple of days with me after

was no evidence against him. a most narrow escape. His gallant services in destroying three pirate Junks which attacked him about 100 miles South of Chusan, will doubtless, as they certainly ought to be, rewarded by immediate pro- motion to a commander's cocamis-

He belongs to an unsatisfactory political and religious school; but,

Regarding the other defendants in personal kindness of dispost- tion, and a desire to beneft the however, Mr. Schofeld, held that and local Chinese population, the has they had a case to answer shown himself werhy of every con- after, Mr. Arculit had put his sideration: He has fallen on trou-ellent (fourth defendant) into the blous times. His wife lately gone box, the first and third defendanta were each ordered to pay $155 to England, having never recover-

sion. With only twenty men and ed from the effect of the Chinese The greatest enemy two small howitzers he boarded poisoning. the junks in succession, each with Sir John Bowring ever had would on be melted to pity and "sympathy nity or sixty desparadoes board, and blew them up. He lost if he could see the slow but cer- one man killed and nine wound-tain progress of sickness and in- creeping over him. His ed, and brought two prisoners to firmity Hong Kong. He is a nephew of public policy and local politics, I. nothing to do Mr. Wildman, of Chilham Castle of course, have

with. in Kent.

MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE

FAILS

FISHERMAN ACQUITTED AT

SESSIONS

At the Criminal Sessions yester- fisherman, wES day, Lo Lung, charged with the manslaughter of a fellow fisherman, Tsang Kin, on Middle Island off Aberdeen "on August. 7.

Prisoner pleaded not guilty and after hearing the witnesses for the Crown Counsel, Mr. Lim, submitted that there was no case to answer.

The Chief Justice (Mr. J. R. Wood) accepted this view and ordered the prisoner's discharge.

was killed whilst engaging with prisoner in an unlawful act,

$200.

compensation to the complainant and were, in addition, each fined They told the magistrate that they had not got the money to pay either the fine or compen- sation, so they were sent to prison, with hard labour, for two months on each of the two counts, the

sentences to run consecutively.

The fourth defendant was dis- charged,

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Mr. Tudor stated further that the bankrupt had had no income and had been living on the income of his father. Subject to a substan- tial suspension he did not object to the discharge being granted.

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MARINE COURT CASES

ILLEGAL ANCHORING,

Before Commander Newill at the Marine Court yesterday, a Chinese boatman named Cheung Sai So was charged with illegal anchoring at the Yaumati Typhoon Shelter. De- fendant pleaded guilty and a fine of.. 85 was imposed.

UNLAWFUL FISHING."

For failing to shade their lights while fishing in Kowloon Bay last night, four Chinese boatmen were each fined

No Hope of Faying. Mr. Wilson submitted that after a man had been bankrupt for 25 years the court might waive the matter of suspension. The bank- rupt had no interest in any estate and there was no possibility now of his acquiring any property. "The intention of the Bankruptcy Ordinance is not that a man should be kept bankrupt all the days of his life," said Mr." Wilson. bad no hope of ever being able to pay and he should get his discharge without any further suspension." The acts proved against the bank- Mr. Tudor said that when the ap- rupt, said Mr. Tudor, were that beplication for discharge was brought contributed to his bankruptcy by to the antice of the official Assignee or extravagant the bankrupt was told that he had rash speculation

His assets were not of a failed to file six-monthly accounts. months..

At that time he was a member of the Singapore Sporting Club, but denied that he took any part in horse racing beyond the fact that a borse belonging to a relative of his was entered in his naine.

Dr. R. 9. Begbie said that he examined the body of the dead man some 30 to 48 hours afterliving. ilfe had expired. He found no signs of violence externally and such signs, if any, would have been obliterated by the decomposition which had set in. Deceased had suffering from apparently been acute, active maleria and had a spleen enlarged to about three times normal size. It was an in- CASE FOR THE CROWN. Mt. J. A. Fraser, the Assistant jury to the spleen which had been Attorney General, opening the case, the direct cause of death but in its stated that a number of fisher- enlarged condition any slight vio- men, including deceased and Lolence, fall, or exertion would prove

fatal within an hour. Lung, slept on, Middle Island on

The Defence. the night in question. About mid-

Mr. Lim said. that during the nght a cry was heard of "Save life." Witnesses would state that Police Court proceedings, prisoner had said that the night occurred they went and found Wu Lui.and Lo Lung together, the former being about 7 or 8 p.m. and as this evi- in great pain. He expired shortly dence had not been contraverted he suggested that deceased might afterwards and Lo disappeared.

have received a fatal injury dur ing the four hours between the flight and midnight. He might have fallen or hurt himself whilst ar- ranging nets during that time, and as the delivery of the blow by prisoner had not been established. he submitted that the Crown had falled to make out a case for the Jury.

A search was made for Lo and he was found, the next day hiding on a hill on the land. He was brought back and tied to a pole until the arrival of the police.

Prisoner was eventually charged with manslaughter at the police court and he.. then said "I killed Wu Lul. After I had hit him he fell down and I ran away. He was my fokt." I hope you will give me a chance. We were having congee together and had a quarrel and used our 1sts."

If the killing was accidental. "said Mr. Fraser, that would make no difference to the case for the Crown which was, that Wu Liu

According to medical evidence Wu would have succumbed an hour after being struck on the spleen, and if the fight took place at P p.m. prisoner's blow could not have been the cause.

The judge accepted this view as already stated..

DISCHARGED AFTER 25 YEARS

Guilty Of Contempt Of Court All The

Time

all that time and had, therefore, thought it was not necessary to file the accounts.

ARAB TRADER'S AFFAIRS

SINGAPORE, Sept. 11. For 23 years he had been a His Lorship, although he agreed bankrupt, his liabilities at the time that there did got seem to be much of his adjudication being 827,553; use in keeping the man a bankrupt he had paid only one dividend-all his life, remarked that he would. small one-and that only as re- have to take the default into consi

deration. cently as in June last

That was the position revealed

Thirty-One Creditors.

when E. Y. Angulia, o sixty-yeare 1 According to the offical As- old Arab, spplied for his discharge signee's report, Anguja submitted. before the Chief Justice, Sir Walter a statement of affairs showing that Huggard, in the Bankruptcy his liabilities amounted to 827,659 when he became bankrupt in 1908,

M. Tudor, who appeared on be his creditors being at în number. half of the Official Amignee, said Proofs were admitted for 83,448, that the bankrupt had been guilty, which was owing to 13 creditors. of contempt of court for the past. The bankrupt started business in 25 years because, ever since he had 1906 as a prodros merchant in beer made bankrupt in 1808 he had Raffles Place. He borrowed hig failed to file his six-monthly "se capital $2,000 on the guarantee of counts.

A bis wife, During the Brst year of his trading he dealt with $100,000 worth of goods. He purchased them in Singapore and sent them to (Continued on sert column)

M H. R. Wilson, who appeared for the bankrupt, suggested that it may have been because the bank rapt had no money at all during

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Since then he had filed them.

Mr. Wilson said the only income- the bankrupt had was 880 a month which his wife received from an estate.

His Lordship granted the dis charge but suspended it for six

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