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Intimations.

THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY

affairs to the neighbouring countries, has been granted to Major 1 E. B. Dykes, R.G.A., from 15th April to 15th July.

wants is not exterior hut interior Leave of absenco, on-private movement interior novoment, that is, that liner a sottled' diroc tion: The Self-Government So: ciety, like the fowl to which wo have compared it, informs us

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A. S. WATSON &of its prosenco, but not by at-bers that the annual meeting will

CO, ED.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

WINE AND SPIRIT

MERCHANTS.

WATSON'S

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__VERY OLD LIQUEUR

SCOTCH.

WHISKY A Blend of the Finest Pure

Malt Whiskies distilled in

Scotland

tempts to improve its surround: ings. It is alive, and useless, the hardest thing to say- of any

thing.

brethren in Singapore, Ponang, America, England, are appealed to but tho "cornlield" itself is allowed to remain a more exercíso -

ground for the Self-tiovernment "ovinerake." It is true ho livos on it, and grows fat, but his GENUINE AGE living spolls its donnution, and without the help of croatures of species other than his own, his living itself would not bo adequate to him.

· AND

难道

"

ed the meeting of the Hongkong By mistake yesterday we report Fire Insurance Company Ltd., Mossrs. Jardine Matheson, agents, under the heading "China Fira Insurance Company, Lid."

Ralphs.

SELF-GOVERNMENT. CANTON SOCIETY AGAIN

APPEALS.

SUPREME COURT. CLAIM FOR MONEY LENT.

APRIL 5

Court. The first defondant lind disposed of the greater por tion of the property and business Minul converted them to his own

use and has not properly account- od to any of the plaintiffs for sun. The first dofondant had further courented or destroyed the books of the firm for the years 1809 and

1911

NEW CRIMINAL TEST.

FOUND IN THE BACK OF

THE HAND.

A RECORD OF TOIL

It is not surprising, then, that the veins on the back of her linnd should be small and protty. But how is it with the woman of like IDENTIFICATION BY THE age, who through all her life Ims been accustomed to laborious days-washing, scrubbing, swoope

VEINS.

Criminologists are at presenting and performing other arduous tasks that call for much pumping considering & proposal of Profos of blood through the 66 miles of sor Tamassia, an Italian scientist

backs of her hands, and you will photographs of the back of the fund there the record of her un- of high repute. He suggests that tubing in lior body? Look at the hands should bo utilised, instead of finger-prints, for identifying cutting toil. The voius aro dis-

evildoera.

which rolinnco -lad for identifi-

tonded and ugly

Hard work moans moro strain. the blood vessels, which has an inevitable tendency to wear tijom out sooner. It signifios a more rapid functional impairment of the valvos which control tho few of the vital thaid through the now of the ver comes about quite naturally, that men and women

who do mnoh hurd labour are culatory system than porsons who more liable to diseases of the cir lead less active lives. They died much more often of such come 7 plaints. Compare the back of a

relative prominence of the venous day labourer, and observing the network, you will find that the latter, in respect to his blood vessels, is growing old much faster than the former...

If you will take the trouble to look at your foot attentively, you

Before the Chief Justico, Sir Francis Piggott, at the Supreme The Hongkong branch of the Court this aftornbou, Lun Po China Association notifies mem-Taun; merchant, of 12, Caine, Road, sueff Chung In Kan, of 1, he hold at the City Hall at 4.45 Connaught Road Central, ship's 1000. He further from time to pm, to-day.

compradore, te rogqver the sum the issuod false and misleading of $3,308,25 and interest on balance shoots to the plaintiffs 1010, at the rate of 1) por cont. es belonging to the firmand which $3,000 from 22nd September, witha vior to concealing the mon If the cornerako were an in-

per annum to payment or judg- he converted to his own use.

I spiriter of the harvestor its noise

mont. Mr. M. W. Slade, K.Ç., In his statement of defence, the would be an asset of humanity

instructed by Messrs. Ewons and first defendant admitted the open. This may be done by moons of Harston, appeared for the plaintiff. ing portion of the statement of the roins: Criminals, it appears, If tlio Self-Govornicat Society

Dofondant was unrepresented.. elaim in so far as it related to the gave hapetus to its surround. Yet other presentation of

have found a way of boating the The statomont of claim sot out first throo plaintiffs. With ro ings it would do more for Chius

portraits has boon nindo to Queen's that plaintiff was a merchant ro- gard to the-Hop Shing Tong, ho fingerprint system by burning or searifying the ends of their lingors than it is possible to describe. College, this time from Shanghai siding at 12, Chine Road and that did not know who the parties worn with neid. This process destroys In our news columns we refer to The latest donors are the defendant was a ship's com- who were claiming in this the delicato patterns formed by

Junior pradoro. of No. 1 Connaught to be the Hop Shing Tong. day to an interesting article Wen Chun-you, latò entitled "China's Riches," which Ambanin Tibet, who prosents a Road Contral. The plaintiff was le further donied that the cations of the skin, upon

portrait of the Headmaster, Mr.one of the executors of one Lau Hop Shing Tong or the persons cation: tells us that the rateable value of K. Dealy, Mr. J. Anderson, Chin Ting, docensed, who died who in that action claimed to be If an ex-convict, whose finger the Empire is no less than Hung Kwok-long) Barrister-at-on the 3rd October, 1907, leaving the Hop Shing Tong were part- £3,000,000,000,- No-appeals Law, Legal Adviser to the Total, will-of-which probato was aars in the firm in question. He prints are on record at police mudo to the owners-of-this-on-Shanghai, who presents a portrait granted to the executors named admitted thint since the 3rd Jan., headquarters in Paris, for. O

amplo, is arrested for a sub- ormous wonth. Their progressive of the Acting Headmastor, Mr.horein on the 18th November, 1900, he had been tho manigor soquent offonce against the law bank clork's land with that of n 1007: On the 30th January, of the defondant firm and further 1905, Laut Chin Ting, deconsod, stated that he was the sole survi- such an expedient as that above it may, through the adoption of lent to the defondant and others ing partner of the firm. At the the sum of 858,500 under the boginning of 1800, certain persons suggested, bo impossible to iden security, inter alia, of a mortgage named Chan 'Yun Po, Pan Ontify him.

If, on the other hand, the police given by the defendant on pro- Clan and Tung Lai hold shares. (Tür "TELESHAPE" CORRESPONDENTperty of the defendant known in the firm under the name of

records contained a photograph Canton, April 5.and registered as the romaining Hop Shing Tong. Those three of the back of his hand it could The Self-Governmont Society portion of Section 3 of Marine persons were now dead. lo ad not fail to identify him. For it of Canton has issued an appeal Lot No. 18, and Inland Lot No. mitted that since the death of would not be possible for him to will notice that they, liko your altor "the network of voins, by hands, oxhibit on their uppor On the 1st February, Cheung Hoi on 3rd January, 1900, to Chinese residents abroad to re:1320. turn to their "mother country to 1908, the sum of $17,100 boing he had managed the business burning, or otherwise, without actually endangering his life, promoto industries and to ad- thon due on the mortgage and of the defendant firm but ho ho senrification of the ends of vocata Chinoso products.* The payablo-by defendant, plaintiff denied it largo appeal is made because of the and the other executors of tho, profits had been nunde in the tlie fingera deprives the latter of their sensitiveness; and so impairs loss of revenue consequent on this deceased executed a re-nasign-business since that dato, and by the usefulness of the hands; but ment of the property in consider-way of further answer he stated abolition of gambling.

ation of a sum of $34,500 paid that if any profits had been made this is a trifling mattor relatively to the ascouters in cash and ofa in the business, those had since speaking, from the criminal mortgago for $9,800 on otlier been lost He denied the allega point of view. Sueli photograplas, fact far from, boing, desirous of

property of the defondant and a tions regarding the conversion of necessarily, would bo taken with emulating the slayer of the gooso

promissory note for $3,000 given monies to his own use. Ho with the golden eggs; but the

by the defendant to the plaintiff. admitted that in 1907 the nccount By the said note dated the 1st books of the firm for the years most blindly optimistic, the most

February, 1908, defendant pro- 1899 and 1906 were destroyed but in favour, must see something.

mised to pay plaintiff the sum of doniod that they were destrofe most hopelessly pathetic in the

$3,000 with interest at the rate for the purpose of concealing to way in which Young China is

of. por cont. per annum five contents thereof or for any impro In a vortain, village, near Can developing" its country. Run-

purpost whatever.. months aftor duto. Defendant per toys twat brothors were arrested had paid to plaintiff interest to denied false mislead &ning round in circles, like the for taking part in a daring the luunt of us in varius then issuing false and is a

cornzako; attracting attention to burglary. When arrested, the datos but lund not paid the prin- beginning of 1900 up to the itself for northily reuson, like the younger brother asked his elder cipal sum of $3,000

complete bal- cornrake; living on riches with brother to dony any knowledge of nuca of the interest, pumoly unce sheets showing the profit no idea of enjoying them except free and look after their aged September, 1910, or in part shown in the books of account of

the crime so that he might got $303.25, duo up to thỏ 22nd | and, loss of trading operations as your hand, and you will notice physical make-UP as they dovolop themselves, liko mother. At the trial, the younger theroof. the cornerake,it presents u pie-brother pleaded guilty the

caso, the first three plaintiffs and took at them again. You will observe thin one particularly turq of misdirected energy now to charge, and said his older brother

the representatives of the Hip large vein runs down the middle mankind. Ti Hing Chang knew had nothing to do with it. The

Shing Tong, all of whom had ag of the back of the hand, branch elder brother was discharged, and

cópted and agreed to such bal

ing off in the direction of the fing- how to donk with noisy imbecilities;

neo shoots. 7.... youngor-was-oxocutad. ·

era. But thoro are others. Tho the Canton Viceroy might copy

arrangement, in fact, is quito his example, and by rolig moans

complex. or smooth attract the attention of his Self-Govornment Society to the necessity of self-government.

FINE MELLOW FLAVOUR.

Robert Porter & Co.'s

BULL DOG

BRAND

GUINNESS

STOUT

in P.NTS and SPLITS.

A. S. WATSON

CO., LD. ALEXANDRA" BUILDINGS. Hongkong. 7th July, 1910,

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favour.

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The articles that from time to time appear in this columu.show, we think, that the Telegraph' is a friend to China. Wo uro in

HONGKONG DAY

BY DAY,

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Barnston's circus was to open in Singapore on April 1.

Hongkong. Telegraph Mr. Justice Ciupertz is due

HONGKONG, Woxis, Arno, 5, 1911

THE CORNCRAKE.

a very great noise in the midst of

to arrive here early in May.

Singapore Swimming Club are organising an aquatic tarnival in June.

Mr. Georgo Lack (of Messrs Luck and Davies) leaves for the

We are asked to state that Mr. Pringle has wan the silo-wheel paddle bont, formerly owned by Mr. Ridgeway,

The Hon. Mr. Rees Davies, KC., Attorney General, goes

It states that it behoves the Chinese residents abroad to be ware of the national danger and to take up the matter with | will."

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The terms of the telegram

sensational..

tho

NEWS FROM THE NORTH.

a

are

or the bal-end of 1989,

This boing an ox parte judgment was entered for the plaintiff with costs on the claim being proved by Counsel,

A QUESTION OF ADMINIS- TRATION.

'Or Any

Ho

tho firm had been furnished to

On the claim being proved, His Lordship found in favour of the plaintiffs and gavo judgment accordingly....

SALE OF STEAMERS.

Russian troops have been stationed It is reported that over 30,000

Kwok Sz, widow, executrix of in Manchuria on the protext of combatting the plague. Hearing the will of Cheang Hoi, deceased, the news, the Japanese have in-and Li Tal Kan, Wong Wa Ting crossed their army by many and the Hip Shing Tong suod divisions of troops, for protecting Cheung Tang Ohi and the the South Manchurian Railway. Sheung Kee firm, otherwise

known as Robert Jack and Com- The following British steamers pany, of 41, Connaught Road were sold. by auction at Powell Central, for an account of the and Co's sale-room, Singapore, shares of the plaintiffs in the on the 28th ultimo. There was business of the Sheung Kee firm; a large attendance, including re- (2) payment of such monies as prosentatives of soveral leading

Singapure firms:

The theatre in this Summer Palace is one of the thres largest theatres in China. It is ten times the size of any of the Chinose theatres in Shanghai. The theatre

is

beautifully decorated, and the

cost of adornment alone is over $1,500,000. At one-Stuto por formance recently, a huge dragon in water was staged. As reported in our colums, another theatre in the Summer Palace is in course of construction, at an estimated cost of $3,000,000,

STOWAWAYS ON THE WALDEMAR.

may be found due to the plaintiffs

on the taking of such account;(3) costs and (4) further or other relief. Mr. M. W. Slado, K.C., instructed by Mr. P. W. Goldring appeared for the plaintiffs. - fondants were unroprosented by Counsel, this being also an ex

parle case.

Lot 1. The iron crew steamer Glonfalloch, classed 100 A 1 at Lloyds; built at Glasgow in 1873. Gross tonnage 2,180. Bought by Lim Pong Sing for $60,000.

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surface a network of bluish voina. A foot, in a senso, is merely a land modified for walking. Thus it is'not surprising to learn that its blood supply is altogether similar.. Two great artorios deseond from the region of the knee to the ankle, and, branching out, doop in the tissues. the land in a pondout attitude of the foot, furnish the individual that is to say, lunging downward.toos with blood. You can find Fors you will often have these arterios pulsating in your noticed, when the hand is in this

ankles if you try position the blood flows into it through gravity and the veins become distended and much more plainly visiblo, Contrariwlso, if the land be raised and the fingers pointed upward, the blond flows out, and the veins are hardly

visible at all..

Examino closely the back of

this curious, network of veins that its most striking feature is

It may be taken for granted. that the not-work of veins on the dividually characteristic as that of

surfaco of the foot is quite as in-

the back of the hand. Indeed, it

night terve photograph of it, son who has lost his hands. Ap- tont is to say to identify a per- Parently there is no item of our that is

than the foot or hand, and tho a peculiarly and essentially characteristic of any one of us individuality, so to sponk, of those members finds a most striking expression in the arrangement of their blood vessels.

POLICE COURT.

(Thomas Thomson, unemployed, was-charged-before-Mr-ER- Hallifax with behaving in a dis orderly mannor whilst being drunk at Praya East.

le Worship-Do you plead- guilty? Guilty, your Worship.

His Worship Whatare you?--- A ship's ollicer.

His Worship-You are fined

NO TWO HANDS ALIKE,

The really romarkable point about the mattor, however, is that the network of blood-vessels, on the back of your hand is not like anybody else's. Compare it with that of your own brother, or sister, and you will find that the two are very different. Your own will not match that of any other mem- $5. ber of your family; and even your right hand and left hand, in this Fang Yan was sentenced to particular, are not mates. There three weeks hund labour for istoal isoling in a word, more pecuing a jacket from No. 42, Graham liar and individual than the voin Street

is so distinctive a personal pattern on the back of ong's land,

characteristic that it would serve admirably for purposes of identi- fication.

So Rui, alias So Wai Châu, a contractor's 'coolie, was charged with the theft of a tin of French oil from the Kowloon Docks. After hearing the evidence, the Magis trate romanded the case till to- morrow morning, so as to enable the defondant to call witnesses,

Lot 2. The iron screw steamer "Hong Mal" classed AT built, at British Corporation The statement of claim stated

While the configuration of the that the second plaintiff was theasgow in 1881. Gross tonnage network of voins on the back of 3,916. Bought by Teo Sin the hand does not alter during the administrator of the estate of Li-

Kong for $32,000.

lifetime of an individual human Siu Chan,otherwisoli U On Tang, Ten Chinamen who stowed deconsed; the third plaintiff was Lot.3. The iron scrow steamer being, the blood vessels. become

Hong Wan I;" classed A1 steadily more prominent and con- Ho Ngan, a fisherman, who was away on the German steamer the administrator of the estate of Prinz Waldemar, and wefe dis- Wong Mun Shang, deconsed the British Corporation; built at spicuous rs ago advances. In a charged with the murder of Kwan covered at Brisbane when the fourth plaintiff was a partner in Glasgow in 1870. Gross tonnage young person they are na slightly Kan, master of a fishing boat at Bought by Li Peng conspicuous as to be not very Yungsuwan, Lana Island, ou The first 3,230. vessel arrived thore from Japan the defendant firm...

Siang for $85,000.

noticeable, whereas in an old man the 28th March, appeared again. board, says the "Sydney Evening partner of the Shoung Keo firm

Hong Beo "classed AL British auch prominence ne fton to be committed for trial, News of Feb. 23. The stenger but had now absconded, and the arrived at Sydney this afternoon, second dofendant wore a firm of Corporation; built at Glasgow in Father unsightly. This is because To cliargo against the crow of when it was officially reported stovedores, compradoros and coal 1870,

Gross tonnage 3,220. the constant pumping of blood

through the vessels doos in the a cargo boat was again heard this Mr., Reader Harris course of time distend them, and morning. in to life the valves which can (from the firm of Mesers Wilkinson trol the flow of the vital fluid and Crist) represented the de- fendants. After hearing the through the veins give way to a

evidence Mr. E.R. Hallifax passed certain extent and no longer ex- sentence of six weeks' imprison- orcise their function officiently.

home on leave by the Manchuria and China, via ports, are still on dofdictant as the managing Lot 4. The iron screw stenine or oki-woman they stand out with bóförò illo. Magistralė! and was

on Saturday..

To make a noise without de-north at Saturday, veloping in the hearer a sense of direction is the primary attribute of the cornerake. Tho Self- Government Society throughout the Empiro of China is giving the world an excellent copy of this uninteresting bird. The singile is true in moro senises than co. The cornerako dwolls amid richos, on which it grows fat but which it By the str. Ville do La Ciotat does nothing to develop; it makes on the 30th ult. twenty-nine that the stowaways were under Inerciants, which lately carried Bought by Lim Pong Siang for

sailors for the relief of various lock and key. The men wore on business 41, Connaught $38,000. men of the French fleet in the found among the cargo in the Road Cantral, but the business

These steaners are well known plenty and succoeds only in at Far East, arrived in Shanghai. foreholt. They wore in good was now in the hands of a Receiver on, the China cost and in the tracting notice to its environment,

condition, apparently having been and was now in course of being Straits of Malncen. They have The Self-Government Society, The open air skating carnival well kept on the passage. They wound up. "Choung Hoi, Li Sui been running regularly between "fat," talkative, and, with hold at the Balle view Hotel lastno still being well fed, but will Chow and Wong Man Shang died Penang, Singapore and South

was another BUCCOSX, reason, delighted with its habitat, night

not land in Australia. The ship onor about the 3rd January, 1000, Chinn ports for many years, Many pretty costaunes word soon, is responsible for their safe koop- 10th October, 1880 and 16tli raisos its voico to Heaven and the winners well deserved inguntilala returns to Hongkong. Soptember, 1895, respectively, The claim for damagos brought and attracts the Earth. Its latest this prizes. A string band was The responsibility amounts to and had onch at the time of their by the Easten Shipping Com- fulmination, outlined in pur nows in attendance.

£100 por man.

death shares of $7,000, $3,000 pany, Ltd., against the Straits if she be not-beyond middle life It is settled that Indian troops The Prinz Waldomar called at and $3,000 in the Sheung Kee Steamship Company, Ltd., insbows only a delicate tracery of at the Coronation will oncamp at columns, still allows us to won-

A pretty wedding took place Now Guinon ports on route firm. The Top Shing Tong had respect of is collision which oc- bluish vessels on its surfaco. Thoy Hampton Court on the site used der "whore it is," "It' bas,puls liebod. an

appeal": to Chinese Yosterday afternoon at the St. Island affairs in that group were a, lure of $1,000. Since the curred on to. Porak River, in are rather pretty than otherwise, in 1902.

tho Bho has never had riny hard work Peter's Church, whon Mr. A, W.quist, and trade good. Thecoprn death of Choung Hoi on the 3rd September Just," "between resident abroad to return to their Smith, of Messrs. Alox Ross and trade was on the increase, 1000 January, 1900, the second do- steamers Avaygos and Perak was country to promote industries. Company, was married to Miss M. tous boing received on board the fendant had managed the busi continued before the neting On the face of it this is attraétivo, Gourdin, daughter of Mr. A. O'D.stoamer for transhipment to the nose of the dofondant firm, who Chief Justice, Sir Archibald Law, like the noise of the cornerako gurdin. The Rev. O. E. Thomp-Continent. Thib vessel met amado considerable profite and with Capt. Synimers, of the British son officiated. The happy couple strong south-easterly galo after wore, interested in several other India steamor, Taroha, in the Su- --but it leads nowhere, again leave for Home by the German leaving Brisbane, accompanied by businesses and property within preme Court, Singapore, on the like the cornorake. What China mail to-da

{ high coas

the jurisdiction of that honours 29th ult

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Prointuonco of the veins on the ment on the mistress of the boat- back of the band is a sign of ad- and discharged the second and vancing years. It is also a sign of third defendants, hard work. A society lady's hand

to do; nor lus she boon obliged "The appointment of a fialories to undorgo excessive oxertion or export for Bangul has been sang- to experience fatiguo, This mana tioned and arrangem that her heart has not been called being made to, select upon to pump the blood violently home for the post life through her blood vessels, dis that of Dopis

Fisherion tending them