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ECHOES OF 1859

53-Suicide Of A Parsee Resident

July 8, 1880.

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JUVENILE COURT BEGINS CAREER

Dealt First Cases

With Yesterday

The first sitting of the Juvenile offenders · Court took place at Magistracy yesterday, Central with Mr. Balfour presiding.

A number of trivial cases "came before the court,

The Probation Omcer is Mr. whose appoint- Ho Chung-yue, ment was gazetted on Saturday.

Mr. E. W. Hamilton, First Po- lice Magistrate, this morning read the following extract from the Juvenile Offenders Ordinance:

and other Parsees quickly follow- A singular and melancholy sui-ed. They found poor Muncherjee cide occurred here on Wednesday quite dead, flat on his back, his face morning last, which bas a turned extremely yellow, and any gloom over the whole Parsee com-empty phial which had contained munity."

morphia lying close by. The name of the deceased was The rites and ceremonies of his Muncherjee Huttonjee, aged 41. religion, which occupy many hours Ha was bookkeeper to Messrs. Ewere commenced upon without de- Framjes Sons &C. He had sufi lay, as it seamed expedient to bury fered some years from à pulmon- him that evening without taking ary complaint, for which he was the body into town and back again. in the habit of taking small doses The arrangements for the due in of morphia, a quantity of which terment of the deceased accordingly be had

Bombay went on simultaneously with the other than procured in and brought on with him. Hence religious ceremonies, and about five the fact of his having poison in his o'clock he was buried.. possession. It is more than pre- bable that he had fallen into the

doses habit of taking strong

of this medicine, hence the prostration, of his mind which excited him to self-destruction.

On Wednesday morning about eight o'clock he went out taking one of the house coolies with him. He took a Harbour sampan and opposite Wongneichong landed He caused the coolie to accompany him to the Parsee burial ground, dismissed with a where he was cover to Messrs. E. Framjee Sons & Co. Ere the coolie's return Mua- cherjee had been missed, and a diligent search made in vain for him. The cover brought by the coolie was found to contain his tash account with the Compradore balanced to a cent, the key of his desk, and a note desiring that his effects might be sent to his friends and stating bis determination to destroy himself

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The Parsees entirely overlooked, were unacquainted with the functions of the coroner, who com- menced instituting enquiries on Wednesday evening. They petition- ed Government yesterday detailing all the circumstances, and praying that the Coroner might, dispense with the form of exhuming the body, as such an act would be gross violation of their religious ideas. The petition, we are happy to say, was granted.

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The deceased bore an unblemished character, so much so that his em- players, with that munificence for which Parsees have become famous, have assigned his family 5,000 rupees. The placid determination. to commit suicide, making his last account of his act the strict stewardship, causes the affair to assume melancholy aspect. The insanity, which was strong enough to conceived and calmly perpetrate self destruction, still failed to un- An acquaintance of the firm ac-sent for a moment those principles companied by his servant imme-of-probity and correctness, which diately hurried to the burial ground had endeared him to his employers,

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FLOATING DOWN THE DANUBE FROM WACHAU

Europe's Greatest International

River In Summer

The Danube is smiling now. Here, at least, for this is the Wachau, and the year is at summer.

Of course, Europe's greatest in- ternational river, which flows through five lands and past two others, does not smile at all times and all places. Sometimes it sings soft, alluring songs by which people may waltz. At others it rushes, raging and scolding, between sharp high precipices, as at the "irch gates". Not infrequently it grows venturesome and slips quitely down long byways, exploring quaint towns and villages in the lands it visits; it listens to strange Bulgarian, Hungarian, Roumanian, Russian, Gagouzian, Armenian, Gypsy, and Tintear dialects,

many

strong and generous, around obstacles, unerring toward your goal.

"In a Juvenile Court no person the members and officers of the Court and the par- ties to the case, their solicitors and counsel, and other persons case, directly concerned in the shall, except by leave of the court be allowed to attend.

Provided that bona fide repre- sentatives of a newspaper of news agency shall not be excluded by special order of the court.

"Provided that no person shall publish the name, address, school. photograph or anything likely to lead to the identification of the charged child or young person

save before the juvenile court, with the permission of the court or in so far as required by the provisions of this ordinance. Any person who acts in contravention of the provisions of this proviso shall be liable upon Jummary conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.

POPPY DAY FUND

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Total 813,576.35

current itself bears you

up and carries you rapidly along. You are coasting downhill on water, only it is the banks which seem to be do- ing all the rushing and not you and they go uphill. No more than the all slightest effort is required to stay

above water and, with a little exer tion, you can pilot yourself out of the current onto the bank wherever you like. Then you run upstream again to coast down once more in the cool invigorating current, with black heads and blond heads curly. heads and clipped heads bobbing all about you.

The Wachau constitutes the brightest pearls on the Danubias necklace, It is to this river what spring is to the cycle of the sea- sons. It is as the blossoms on the cherry tree, as that part of day which comes before the dew dries.

When the big ships come along, It is in Austria, one hundred people swim out from the nearest miles or so above Vienna. It be- bank so as to be tossed up

and gins at a little town called Melk, down by the waves of the back one hundred and twenty-five miles water. Now and then sa enoriasus below the Austrian border, where raft of logs, carried by the current the Danube emerges from Ger passes on the way to some distant many; it continues downstream to mill. It has little house or Krems, a millennial town of impos-board which seems to be the kitchen. ing churches and formidable walls. Ten men with huge, oarlike rud- During this course the Fiver em- ders stand in front and ten. behind Now and then it just sprawls out braces a number of small green to keep the raft in the stream and in vaat slugglish awamps and rests,islands, accepts the waters of a away from the banks. They make half-hidden in the reeds. Some dozen tributaries, washes the base one think of twenty Tom Sawyers, times it puts on thick, white, of many castles, passes between two floating happily down the Danube. winter armor and completely, dia- almost unbroken lines of vineyards Every night they stop their huge, appears from sight, as automobiles, and orcharde, the spring fragrance clumsy craft at some town and go sleighs, and hosts of pedestrians fo which meets over its water and ashore to see the sights. I used to romp over the place where its dark winds amid rooky, wooded hills think that running a railroad en- waters were wont to swirl. In the whose peska are crowned with

gine was the best job in the world, spring, when a hundred tributaries castles,

but now I know it's guiding a, raft bring malting snow down from the Balkare and Carpathians, from the This is the Wachau, the watch on down the Danube, past old castles haughty gray Alps and humble the Danube. The castles are the and fragent orebards.

But this river offers a greater joy brown hills, it becomes angry; and, old watch towers, and their ruins refusing to swallow all the watera teem with history. This was once

even than rafting. That is floating gathered from half of Europe, it within the realm of Charlemagne; downstream in a canvas boat. You pours them impetuously into start you may visit here the dungeons may go solo or with a compzation. ed villages and hamlets, carrying off whers Richard the Lion-Hearted You enter the stream at Passau on cows and chickens, wood piles from was held captive; rooms where the Austrian border, or at some back yards, and wagons from road Napoleon slept are pointed out to lower point; and you let the water sides.

you; you may follow the paths carry you down to Linz or Visans where a dozen emperors have trod, or Budapest, or even further. If But here, in August, this majestic walk down the road that was many you choose. If a wind is blowing, river is in a different mood. It a times dark with Crusaders march you put up a little sail. Wher smiling. Almost laughing aloud, in fact it says welcome to a mil-ing out on a great vain adventure, hungry, you stop at some friendly lion folks that come to visit it, It and ascend trails up which heavy town for lunch. When sleepy, you armored knights often rode, to lofty pull your boat up under a tree be- defies the rays of a relentless wun,

strongholds.

tside the bank and rest. If you're wafts refreshing coolness, over # verdant valley, and invites every Fortress and chapel sit side by interested in old castles, you stop one to frolic in its waters, charging side on the same peak, within the and visit them as you pass. Or old them no price, and exposing them same walls, with an armory on one churches, or ancient walls and to almost no danger. Here the side, a stable on the other, and the portals, or passante or fishermen,

the Danuba is a kind and friendly women's apartment actose

Every day of the summer, scores and picnicking court. And the ground you look of such little boats float down the river, a holiday river that wants everyone to have down upon, all about you, was once

French, Swiss, Americana, good time; a genial, democratic cultivated by seris; while all who stream, carrying English people, river that turns no one away, gives traveled on the land and waterways most of all, Australians. Some all it has to every visitor and makes past these castles had to pay heavy have little radio sets, others gramo children feel as much at home as tribute to the barons within the phones, and others guitars; so that their parents.

just for the privilege of passing

But in spring or summer a visi the waves of the Danube appear. Yet it is not sluggish or shallow. tor to the Wachau is not supreme- really to emit music,

of course, that life de- through a wide basin, displaying churches, nor in the ruins of an-mands much toil and acknowledge terrific might. It has a grand and cient fortresses. He wants to en- that those good people who warn magnificent sweep, and streame with irresistible force toward its distant joy the Danube, the waters of us against drifting are right. But, Europe's friendliest river. Ite if one worked assiduously fifty kual. It is calm, self-reliant un banke here are two continuous bath weeks in a year, wouldn't his con ruffled, unhurried, and majestically sure. It is as certain as tims, asing beaches, scares of miles long. science let him spend one week constant us the hills, artery where you may dress and undress the swift and friendly Danube with There are many little bathhouses, floating in a tiny white bout, down throbbing in a living continent. As

s book in his hands, with a little- you sit lang beside it, you come to for a few cents. love this calmness, certainty And Whole families go into the swift, machine beside him drawing music power. You are both

and flowing waters, together and, for from the air, and with the rem- inspired, both calmed and

one who has even a meager knownanta of formidable old castle walls lated, and you resolve

ledge of swimming: no betur beth-telling him the history of a dozen your life run like

quiet, ing place could be imagined. The centuries 1. Mine would

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