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· DEATH-TRAPS.

INSPECTION' WANTED.

On October aznd there appeared in "this paper a short account of the fall of Nos. 32 and 34, Cochrane Street and the whitewashing process that followed, at the enquiries. Wa said, amongst other things," it remains to be seen if the F.W.D. are really honest in their endeavours to remedy a very evil state of things. Why do they want to go to a Chinese tenement house, built with their cognisance 20 years ago, when the very same faults are being committed at the present moment."

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1901.

SUPPOSED PIHAJY IN BRITISH the Boer, but she would rather see him in a

WATERS.

News is to hand of what appears to be a very daring pimey perpetrated in British waters some 20 to 25 miles from Hongkong. To the west of Lau Tao is a little bay situated near Bluff Point which juts into the sen close to Tai-ho. Betw.en there and Hongkong the Chinese hunch U! Fat has been steaming for some time past. She leaves Hongkong about half-past two in the aftenogn, arrives at Tai-ho by five o'clock, and remains there till the following morning when she makes the retur journey. Soon after her arrival in the bay on It is our duty to the public to point out an Tuesday evening several Chinese pirates are instance and prove on October the 31st that our said to have boarded and forcibly taken posses words of October zand were true and to openly sign of her and then steained away in the direc challenge the Public Works Department totion of Hengshan. Immediately the news was réfute our statements.

In Chater Road, Kowloon a block of build- ings are being erected for the longkong and Kowloon Wharf und Godown Company, Limited, we suppose' from plans and, presem ably under the supervision of architects. These plans must have been passed by the P. W.D. before the buildings ware tommenced. In the centre of the corner houses are two alleged 4 inch walls with".

ha well-hole between in which ascends the staircase. From these walls (and we call them walls by courtesy) to the outer walls is 16 feet and the poles carrying the weight of the roof (same six tons or more) are resting on the top of the 4inch flimsies When these inner walls were built they were plumb, we are told, until the roof poles were fixed and the tiles put on. in a week they had bulged and were two inches out of the straight. At the present date one wall is 4 inches out of plumb and is bulging in manner alarming even to the eye of a layman. If these walls were built honestly there might be a slight hope for them, but they are rotten, bail of roten bricks with rolten mud inisnamed orar. incredible as it may see, the writer of this account saw a man picka hole with the ferrule end of a small swagger cane and take out pieces of brick with his fingers, all the time the will quivering and vibrating at ench impact of the end of his little cane. The Building Ordinance distinctly and spect fically lays down that all peles carrying weight shall not rest on a wall without corbelling. How can you corbel a wall that is barely

malter inches wide? The

must have been brought to the knowledge of the head of the Public Works Department, the Hon. W Chatham (Acting Director of Public Works) who in the event of what we fear coming about, would be morally responsible for any loss of life. Again, how is it that Mr. Crisp has not reported this wretched jobbery? It does not need an expert to detect such a manifest death

Ife is paid for, and occupies his time in inspecting new buildings. Why has he not discovered a state of things that we mentioned nine days ago?

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trap.

This is not a question of some small Chinese householder, for these buildings are being put up for one of the richest carpim tions in the Colony, for their-European staff

received at Hongkong the Police patrol launch steamed away to the island of Tai-shan and st once informed the Custom officials of the occurrence. Since then a telegram.has been received stating that. Ut Fat is stranded in a creek near the mouth of the Canton River Further details are expected. Another piracy of a similar character, occurred in the same waters-not very long since.

CRICKET.

A CLUB XI. CAPTAIN WAYMOUTH'S TEAM.

2 p.m. Friday, 1st November.. LA : Saturday, and November.

A Club XII H. Arthur.

Clifton Browne, R. Hancock. Lt

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(Capt.) F. Miniland. PA. Cox.

Capt. Waymouth's Team, Private Preedy, R.W.F.

Capt. Radcliffe, R.E. Sinith A. Mackenzie,

C. Franklin, R.N. W. E. Dixon,

Lt. Clapham.

1. Woolcombe, R N. f.. Ross, R.N.'

C. M. Burnie. JE. Lee. Major Beresford Ash, J. Hooper.

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reen jacket fighting for Ireland. She naively concludes: "I could be a tiger against them. (the English) but were I write mort it would. wey you."

Broeckema said it was he who prompt the English papers with news and brought about discussions in Parliament, adding to Dr. Krause, Do everything you can in London whilst you are in the vicinity of Stead and his party.”

Putinations,

SANITARY

BOARD..

WNERS of HOUSES sued in the Central Division of the City of Victoria, and in the Westem Division of Kowloon,. who bave not had their Premises LIME- WASHED and CLEANSED in accordance with Law, are reminded that the period during which this work should be FINISHED ends on the 31st day of OCTOBER, 1901, and the Suggestions were made for enclosing pro-Sanitary Board being convinced of the necessity Boer prints within Jingo nowspapers, wrap of Cleanliness in its efforts to Stamp out Plague, is determined to rigorously prosecute any pings, &c.de

owner in 'default after the above named Dite."

The Gentral, Division of the City lies between Garden Road on the East, and Morrison Street and East Street on the West. The Western Division of Kowloon is all that part of the Kowloon Peninsula to the West of Robinson Road and includes Tsim Sha Tsui, Yau Ma Ti; Mong Kok Tsui, Tai Kok Tsui and Sham Shui Po.

Letter No 18, writen by "r. Krause from the Middle Temple, London, to Broecksma and others, went to show that the writer was in communication with Dr. Leyds, to whom he was giving Broecksma's news, &c.

Incidentally, Dr. Kruse, whose address was "Care of the Standard Bank of South Africa, Clement's-lane," said he had been retained in' the case of Beil vs. Markham, and would make the puppets sit up. The evidence of the whole conspiracy seems overwhelming.

A THIEF'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

Charles Stuart, 21st, cabinet-maker, pleaded guilty, reports the Daily Telegraph, to having stolen a purse and the sum of 3s. 6d. from the person of Mary Ana Brittain, who, with a great crowd of people, had been attracted to a fire in Redinin-road, Commercial-street, E., on the evening of August 8th.

Stuart was caught in the act and giyen into. the custody of Police-constable Gooding, He then struck the officer sa violently on the right side of the jaw as to knock him off his feet. Warder Cook proved several previous convic tions against the prisoner for various offences."

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By Order of the Board,

G. A. WOODCOCK, Secretary.

Sanitary Board Office, 1st October; 1901,

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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. TWEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in

HE THIRTY-FIFTH the above Company will be held of the HEAD OFFICE, Victoria, Hongkong, on TUESDAY, the rath November, at TWELVE O'CLOCK, NOON, for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to the joth April last, end of declaring Dividends.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 30th instant, to the 12th November, both Days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

W. H. RAY, Secretary.

Hongkong, zrat October, 1901. THE PUMJOM MINING COMPANY,.

LIMITED.

ONSEQUENT upon the new and satisfac

necessity for a Tramway, Trucks, and Acces series in the immediate future; the Directors have resolved to make the FINAL CALL of ONE DOLLAR per Share; and accordingly:—

Notice is hereby given that at a Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Company, held at the Company's Office, No. 13, Beaconsfield Arcade, Victoria, Hongkong, on MONDAY, the 14th October, 1901, the following RESOLU- TION was passed.

In mitigation of punishment Stuart handed up to his lord hip the following document: "At the tender age of six my mother and father, who could never agree together, mutory developments at the Mines, and the ually came to the conclusion that it would be better 10 part.

My father went, taking me with him, to a lodging-house in Dorset street, Spitalfields, a street described by Mr. McKenzie, in an article which appeared in a daily paper a few weeks back, as the worst street in London, being the resort of KRAUSE AND BROECKSMA.ieves, murderers, and burglars, where the criminals of to-morrow are trained today, where children six and eight years of age gam. ble in the gutters, and where babes in ains learn to sip gin at their mother's breasts.' Such was the street, my lord, in which 1 was fated to The startling case of Cornelius Broecksma pass my childhood days, amongst all the evil and corruption of that unholy neighbourhood, (since shot) perhaps the most prominent pri where neither the fear of God nor the law is soner of the score recently, arrested at Johan nesburg in connection with the printing and felt. My life from the age of six to thirteen, was

surrounded by all the evil that years of wicked circulation of Paer documents and holdingness and vice could bring to bear on a mind and intercoure with the enemy, began to-day, Sept. 16 before the Military Court,

Mr. Beanett Burleigh, in his latest received despatch from Johannesburg, throws much light upon Dr. Krause's case.

of his remarks he says:

In the course

Broecksma, who is a Grand Chief Templar, pleaded not guilty "'upon all four counts breaking bath of neutrality, treachery, high treason, nad inciting in oath-breaking. Pri oaer is a medium-sized, fair-haired, heat

character like mine, naturally weak and ill

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That the FINAL CALL of ONE DOLLAR per Shard upon all the Holders of Ordinary Shares in the above Company in respect of all the Shares held by them in the above Company be, and the same is hereby made. Such CALLS to be PAID to the Company at their Bankers, THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPURATION, at their Premises, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong, on or before the gh day of NOVEMBER, 1901. And Notice is also given that in accordance with Article 24 of the Company's Articles of Association, Interest will be charged as from

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fitted to hear the temptations to which it was hourly subjected. At the age of thirteen 'I was sent to the training-ship Shaftesbury, where, L.Pastment of the same, spent three of the bapplest years of my life. At the expiration of my time I came home on inỷ

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are in the position of those of old who cried Morituri te salFlaut. In conclusion we ask the Public Works Department to answer the following questions and, writing without malice, implore His Excellency the Governor, And his Executive Counci in the public welfare' to investigate this matter and see if what we say is correct.

No. 1 Have the plans of these buildings been passed by die P.W.D. ?

No. 2 Were the two inner walls built plumb? No. 3 Have these two walls bulged sincè the weight of the roof came on them?

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No. 4 Has the state of these walls been re- ported to the heads of the P.W.D.)

No. 5. Has Mr. Tooker inspected these walls and passed them as good?

Again, on another case:

No. 7. Will the Department say if the split pierof No.95 Queen's Road East is safe ?.

No. 8 Will the head of the Department deny that this menace to thepublic was reported a month ago and that nothing has been done?

THE BOXING MATCH ON SATUR- DAY NIGHT,

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Several Counsel assisted in his defence. The Cout was densely crowded, and one or two woman were present. *

The prosecutor. Captain Douglas, was assisted brithe Acting Commissioner of Pol ce, Colonel Davies, who put in over a se re of documents, including a printed, pamphlet. may type-written letters, official and other addressed envelopes, &c, found in the house of the prisoner.

Considerable time was occupied in reading the documents, which tended to show that a treasonable correspondence had been pro 'ceeding for over six months between the accused, Dr Krause, of London, Dr. Leyds and even Kruger Reitz, and the Boer Com- mandant in the field, under cover of letters addressed, in some cases, to the Hon Dr. J. W. Williamson, care of the American Consul at The Hague, and in others to Mr. Gordon, the

Americas Consul here.

It is interesting to note the workings of Nemesh, According to a swarn deposition, prisoner, when third pablle prosecutor, was the person who packed a meeting with 300 public road employes, and aided in breaking up the fameus gathering of the British here on Jan. 14th, 1899, which protested against the arrest of Webb and Dodd.

The "piece de resistance was a lengthy pamphlet to "True Afrikanders," with poetry at the beginning and end which presumably Broeksma wrote, but anyhow it was stated that be printed and circulated it. The pamphlet urged that the oath of neutrality was not bind- A lot has been written lately about chaming, and that it was the duty of every Boer to prons and championships and what does it shoot down every armed Englishman. matter to the spectators if men are top notch or not if they fight straight out to the best of their ability. On Saturday a square go will bo witnessed by two good men who, maski their arrangements are going to box on their mente and the better man will wio. Bentley we shall have something, further, to say about and with regard to Phillips we cuil the follow ing from that excellent Kitle book on boxing by Captain W. Edgeworth Johnstone. He says. In 1895 the competitions were opened to the Navy but only one blue jacket entered. This was Stoker Phillips, H.M.S., Victory, who was one of the variest gluttons I have ever come across. He wong large number of com- Petitions and contests at Portsmouth, for most of which I trained him myself. He was not clever, but: "was terrific bitter for big weight, and could stay for ever. He ran up guainst a quick, clever man in the first round of the Army Meeting, and got beat on points Before leaving Aldershot he challenged every body all round to fight twenty sounds; an unfortunate gunner accepted and Phillips bad the satisfaction of lacking him out in the second round, at the Portsmonth Gymnasium. The last I heard of my friend the stoker was that he had defeated a big nigger in Jamaica for a Lao purse, a nice little thirst quenching sum for a tropical climate

The above, on the word of one of the greatest authorities in England, is the sort of man we gre to 168 perform on Saturday and be meets equally as good, or better a man in Bam Bentley,

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Charles Brooks is stated to be the name under which prisoner conducted most of his correspondence. Many of the letters to Dr. Leyds are for money and more money. Prisoner states that he has sold part of his furniture, he is miserably poor, he protests his undying hatred of the English brutes. Nothing, he said, would induce him to accept their frequent temptations to take office.

WI SAUNDERS,”

Secretary. Hongkong, roth October, 1901.

NOTICE •

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note that upon pre entation at the Office of the Shareholders am particularly requested to Company of the Banker's receipt for payment, of being subject to walking in my sleep and Shares in respect of which the Call has been nearly losing my life orce by walking over-paid, an endorsement to that effect will be

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made upop.the certificate. board in the English Channel..

By Order of the Board of Directors, home about April, 1897, on a Saturday. My

W, H. GASKELL,

Secretary, parents and my two sisters were just sitting

Hongkong, 15th October, 1901. down to tea, and everything seemed to

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CANTON, LIMITED; deceiving are appearances at times. Instead

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS, of everything being as it seemed, my father was up to his eyes in debt, being in the clutch

DIVIDEND of $23 per Share for the year of money-lenders. The crash did not come at

1900, equivalent to 46% on the. Paid-up Capital of $50 per Share, has been declared. once. I obtained employment with the ex-

WARRANTS will be issued on the th cellent character from the ship. Now

October, commenced the breaking-up of the home.

By Order of the Board, again. My father went back to Dorset- street to live. I went along with him; and my mother and sisters took a little.room and furnished it with what hits of things the cré- As a matter of ditors had left them. course I was recognised and snapped up at once by my old companions, most of whom I soon found had had a taste of prison. 1 bad no inclination whatever to join my old associ ates in, wrong doing, being as happy at my work as could be expected under the circum stances. But all good intentions were destined to have a fall, and to bring me to what I am,styles from London and Paris, and that through no fault of my own. On Sunday afternoon all the men were usually congregated outside one of the lodging-houses gambling. Me and another little chap, neither of us having on anything save our trousers and shins, were eagerly watching the game one day when down came some policemen in plain clothes. My friend and I were locked up, and on Monday ptaing the magistrate remanded us for a week. So I lost my employ ment, and being flattered by my elders about, having been in "stitas they call prison.

I began to lose my head, and thought what a grand thing it was to do as you like, to have no master, and get money without; working for it. Although I have eight previous convictions. I have never made a practice of stealing for my living. It is only when out of work that I have strayed, and my sins have found me out, ff, my lord, you only faintly Dr. Krause, in his replies, says much the knew the life of temptation, misery, and same, alleging that overtures have been made wretchedness I have passed through since I which he rejected scornfully. Yet So far as was six, having no home to go to, no kind- Broeckim is concenied, but three weeks ago hearted mother at hand to speak loging and be wrote to the Rev Grey of Pretoria, for a gentle words to me and so, by her win certificate of character in order to asulet him to ning looks and pleading, voice, counteract get employment in our sanitary department. the evil which we all have, some in less degree ome humour is introduced into the affair by than others 1 When I had finishet work for Brocckia's letters in. Steyn, Botha, and De the night there was no bright fire or kindly Wet beggine permission to use their Christian looks to draw my mind from evil ways, bur on names for his infant daughter. He also thanks the contrary, a diny lodging-house kitchen, God that his fears are passed as his child was old men and woman smoking dirty, black born not on the 24th, buť May 26111. Another pipes, with its usual accompaniment the allusion was to an alleged true-hearted English curse of humanity-drink, and their language woolsh to ber soldist husband. She thanked more foul than their pipes.... God she had no son for he might have been forced to wear, the red coat, and fight against

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