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To-day's "Paper. Court and other local news almivat suonopolises this page and page 5 and some is also to be found on page 3. On page are late telegrams and rows of gonoral interest.

January 17.

them ashore in & launch..

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ALLEGED HARBOUR money he told him he had no but complainant said he would NOTES AND COMMENTS;

* OUTRAGEN

olange He then, demanded $2 not have it the case was in hie gold and witness took 82 (the officer's hands and he would Simply A Misunderstanding

gold note from his purse and see it through. Consequently The Alleged Harbour Qutrage. gave it to him, On examin- the woman was clinrged at com- At the Magistracy this morning, dollar we want, Shortly after son at the hotel said.

ing the note oney said "Five plainant's instigation. One per- Harbour outrage has been what

The outcome of

of the alleged before MeUD. Melbourne, nine

He is n might have been expected. In- on were charged with obtaining wards another man said $2.00 Britisher; ho won't squeal," money by hanses from the Revs. would do for one man, but $2.00

Complainant bore out counsel's the first that the outrage" would ternal evidence suggested from Father James Thomas Madagan Witness omphasised that it was had been, in the navy, but was into a misunderstanding. Now more were required for the other, opening statement and said he resolve itself upon investigation and Father Murtagh P. Shiel, on the 15th inst., whilst bridging seemed to be urging on the others present he left the navy in 104.pected to know the local customs an American note. One man not connected with the navy at comers to the port cannot be ex- The French Mail of December Mr. H, Gardiner, appeared to get more, but it was eventually Mr. Grist. He had abver and it must be admitted that the was delivered' in London on for the defendants, and, the case agrood on not to ask for any been in the Royal Garrison Artil-launch and sampan men of Hong-

for the prosecution was conducted more.

lery and when he signed "R.G.A." kong liava a rather truculent In answer to Mr. Garding wit after his name ona chit it was a manner of prosenting requests by Detective Sergonit Willa

He admitted signing clits at the conditions will think that the and hud nota military significance that most people who know local Hongkong Hotel and the Golf Club Magistrate took the commonsensé but said those ohits had never affair was so trifling that a dis- without stating his address view when he held that the whole been presented to him for missal would meet the case. payment. He also admitted that whilst having breakfast, with the woman ho received a note from Teaching the Young Iden." the manager asking him to quite A Balcolmaster of our acquaint- the room he had engaged. He ance told us rather a quaint story Belle View Hotel from tiffin time school in Hongkong where there also admitted remaining at the the other day, In a certain until the time ho gave the de-are both English and Chinese admit having trouble with the queue, is examiled both by Eng- fendant in charge. He would not teachers, and ioli, in conse manager.

lish and Chinese inspectora, an

The authorities have officially dedared, Hongkong to be infected by small-póx

At the Magistracy, this morn ing, a man was charged with disorderly conduct in the police station, yesterday, and fined $25

or a month.

Twenty-four strokes of the birch and three months' imprison most with hard labour was the sentence passed upon a boy at the Magistracy, this morning for stealing a gold car-pick.

The body of a male child aged five years has boon found in Queen's Road East, the dead body of a female child in Kennedy Town, and the body of a male ngad fifty years also ine Kennedy

Town..

According to the evidence thoness said that, he did not speak certain check he lind on himself for payment. However, we think

clergymen arrived by the Tacoma Maru which,bnd" arrived from Manila Ta the dark they

chance of resisting he would not Chiness. If he had had any have paid the money.

Chinese they might have been Then if you don't understand saying nice things about you in- stead of using threats. I could tell by their attitudo. ̈·

Did you think the charge ex Cessive? It was not really

large; it was more of a demand. for the money didn't usk it as a I know the persons who asked fare

the launches go on.

I did not know what system

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Did the boy bring you.rohit, oxamination in Chinese was pro- after tilfin ?--I don't know what ceeding the other day. The ex- the boy brought, and only know amination papers were banded I have lost iny money and I have round the class which started di come here for, simple British ligently to work. Of course the Justio

Chinese teacher was interested in The Magistrale: Answer the the questions-iuimensely inter- question.

eated. Alad he wanted, as was remenilor the boy bringing a chit That was why, when the inspec Witness said that he did not natural, to see his roles. do well. for $8, neither would he admit tor turned his back on the busy putting a roll of noles on the table.class, the teacher wrote an answer had. He would not admit ondos-ed quickly, but the class had it He sail that he paid for all they on the blackboard. It disappear-

boarded a lounali and about mlf way across the harbour some of the Chinese on board domanded $9/gold as their fare. This re quert was granted, but did not satisfy them. There was consultation among the whole of the Chinese and, the outcome of it was a domand for more money. They became threatening and caused the priesta much uneasiness. Eventually the considered it was not for the

What did they ask it for? the harbour in the neighbourhood launch reached the other side of launch.

bour Master was complained to

You expected to get a free ride, of West Point. Next day the far- didn't you. regarding the matter and the in- uiry into the affair was left in the hands of Detective Sergeant launch Yes.

But you thought it was a hotel Wills who brought in the steam.

And that you. would have. ́D Wong Kai and Kok Kai were launch Ping Po which was identi-free ride?--Yon. morning, with stealing a quantity 11.30 last night the detective said that there was no case made charged at the Magistracy, this fied as the one concerned.. At Mr. Gardiner in his address of feathers valued at $70 from arrested two of the boarding out. It was clear to the bench's Kwong Tung Road. The first house runners along with the mind what bad taken place, there the second defendant said he defendant pleaded not gility, and

had been a misunderstanding. The Rev. James Thomas Ma- The Magistrate said that it Iwo dollars for cachinan. He alk The case was remanded......

that he had no change and would gentlemen had been labouring gentleman's hat nor calling out than once, and no doubt that

under some misapprehension. We are asked to mention that pay on shore. They said "No. The men might have asked for that morning with $105. He commendatory notice la the in- where's my gun?" He set out class and that tenchor will receive two telephiques have been install-You must her. He then two dollars and meant one dollar could not have le intoxiosted spector's report. But Chinese ol in the City Hall for the use of told Father Shiel to pay them, and each in currency and were given or he could not have gone the Teachers who play this trick should the Far Eastern Association of he gave them the paper money two dollars in gold. He did not police station and given the wo first make quite certain that an Tropical Medicine and that they One of the crew brought forward see where there had been any man in charge. He bought gloves English teacher who happens to are numbered 34 and 35..

a lamp to look at the money. I'menacé Two of the men began to use

for the defendant and that was all be about is not a rather elever Asleep on the Deep,

Mr. Gardiner: Do you want he had spent out of the $185. Chinese scholar. P. C. Woolford churgel four threats and demanded $2.00

any defence ?

Mr. Grist So when you go! besimon and two bontwomen more. Father Shiel pointed out Before Commander C. W. Beck-that this money he had given it necessary to call any defence-$195, loss the price of the gloves? The Magistrato: I do not think to the Belle Vue Hotel you had with R.N., Harbour Master, a was in golf currency and Defendants discharged.

Y€8, the Marine Court this morning was sufficient.

others.

Single Copies, Daily, ton conts.. Weekly, twenty-five cents (for purclusad them from the first dugan said the Chinese demanded appeared that the reverend 'vouring to kick an America correotly: This happened "inore

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The Medical Congress.

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The men com-

with (1) mooring their boats with-menced protesting and the in 100 yards of low-water.mark equabble continued until they ARTHUR,On the 0th January, at Auping, Spith Formosa, the wile p.m. on January 17 and (2) hav-taked to propor landing place the in a prohibited place at 11.30 reached the shore, Not being of H. W. ARTHUR, of a son.

197 ing no light on board. Prosecu- clergymen know not where they tor said that he saw the boats were, but after walking for some lying in shore to the East of the time eventually found themselves Market close in to the Praya. in the city. They then made for There was no light of any sort. the Astor House. All the defendante were asleep.

Mr. Melbourne: What were the Defendants' story was that they menacer? were waiting for passengers. They were each fined $2, or, in default, Hoven days' hard labour.

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1912.

IN THE WAKE OF WAR.

President Sun.".

Witness: It appaired to us by their attitude that if we did not pay them what they asked it would be dangerous.

ALLEGED THEFT.

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Foreign Woman Charged.

noon, Miss Virgil Ward, of Holly, Af the Magistracy, this after- wood Road, was charged with stealing $150, from the person of Charles James Krikpatrick, on the 7th inst.

Then you did not pay for the breakfast at the Hongkong Hotel I had paid for those. There is not a ohit there, but what is twelve, months old. Produce chit dated the seventur.

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Mic.C. and the Ashes,

Are the Australian batsmen loss fish team has managed to get rid gritty than formerly? The Eng of them very cheaply in the first innings of the last. tavo test mat ches, and it, they put up a big fight in the second innings of the know how much you had --Oh did very moderately. The Aus- I put it to you you did not observed that the last five wickets matel just completed, it will be

yes I did.

tralians used to bat very sturdily Mr. Otto Kong Sing: You put down to the finish or very near to it down at $150, and this you the last man! It would almost Mr. Otto Kong Sing appeared

told the Inspector?-Yos, for the prosecution and Afr. Urist was closed, counsel saying that little fight in them. That, if it The case for the prosecution lier men go cheaply, the roat have appear as though now, if the ear for the defence.

Mr. Otto Kong Sing said that facio case and that the woman tradition. They used to Aght. he put it that there was a prime is the case, is a doparture from The following is from the "N.

In answer to the detective ri- the woman was charged with should be committed. There are horrors of wear not immediately attendant on it, but Telegrams received in Shanghai cause for fear with all the men thought his Worship would'agree would hear the evidence.

C. Daily Now of Jan. 13:-ness said that there was every stealing from the person and he -The Magistrata said that he mon failed to do well. The next grimly for runs when the earlier which follow in its train. The trail of blood of dead men and yesterday from Nanking stated around them. There were no other with him that it was a most Mr. Grist said that much broken man-may be appalling, but it holds no more of grinnons that Dr. Sun Yat-sen officially in whito passengers on board. They serious charge, and if proved an of the evidence was true

tost ie pregnant with interest. than the broader trail of famine and want and suffering which suc- spacted the men-of-war lying in were landed near a wall. coads the earlier track. It captures the popular imagination more from the ex-Viceroy's yacht diner withess said that there were It was a charge brought by a was under the influence of drink brewing in Bellust. Mr. Winston

indictable offence it would have to the doings of the couple. Ireland and the Union. Cross-examined by Mr. Gar-to be dealt with at the Sessions. He submitted that complainant the river at Nanking yesterday than the other because the thought of men lying dead on a battle-which stearned between the lines no other Inunches alongside the British subject of high standing, and the woman asked him to pay Churchill will display more plack There is a pretty little sorm field is a thought which sharply strikes the mind and rallion home, of right beflagged cruisers and ship. They did not make any and a gentleman who had held a bill presented. He threw $116 than judgment if he persists in It is easy to visualise the horrors of a battlefield. It is a more difli-gunboats, the banks being packed enquiries as to the cost of the high positions in the naval on the table to her to pay. She did, joining Mr. John Redmond on a cult matter to picture peasants, who have held not swords but The British, German and Ameri- get ashore and thought the launch court not only to protect himself, and put some of her own into hormond the Unionists of Belfest with thousands of spectators.launch. They were anxious to service. He had come before the kept the $85 change in her hond Belfast platform. To Mr. Red- ploughshores, homeless and starving; over a vast area. mind-picture is luridly coloured; the other is grey and gloomy, poi-ledge the salutes of the Presi

The one can mon-of-war did not acknow. belonged to one of the hotels. but to protect all the British in the stocking. The change she offer- have probably only a deep politi

Did you think $ an excessive Colony. When his worship had ed him and he anid he had giron cal antagonism; hapa uncomfortable, but blurred at best. To the average man it dent's yacht. Dr. Sun Yat-son,

fare?

heard the evidence he would, he her $200 and caused trouble in Mr. Churchill is personal, as it the detestation of Lacke sharpness of outline and clearness of tint.

who was accompanied by his My idea was that we should not felt, come to the conclusion that the hotel. They lind evidence by has not been forgotten that only Yet, for once in a way where war is concerned, it should be suito and members of his Cabinet, pay anything at all.

a state of things existed a the the way of unpaid chits of the yesterday; so to speak, he was a then returned to the gamen ac.

Oh, you didn't; you expected a Colony which should not exist charactor of the man and ovidence Unionist. To be blunt he is re possible to realise, with some degree of accuracy, the sufferings companied by a bodyguard of free ride? We thought that it and were only thought to exist of his past had been hoard. which the military operations in China hayo entailed upon the troop of cavalry. Little on was an hotel launch. peaceful inhabitants in the regions where fighting has taken place.

garded as a ronogado and his in cities of the magnitude of Complainant in her evidence pullie appearance in Belfast as London and New York'and their said that she insisted on himaciated with Mr. Redmond would thusiasm was shown. In more than one district the advance of an army has moant the

like. Such a rain of thousands of homes, of many villages.. Houses; where they

state of affairs paying a chit for $0, lle got be looked upon as an unforgive THE COURTS OF JUSTIC

should not exist in this Colony, angry and throw some notes into able affront. A Christian ord are left standing at all, are roofless, and starving peasants who have

The defendont was a woman of her lap.

minent local resilent from Bel- that line been received by a pro- - "taken no active part in the struggle have to face the rigours of winter, in many cases homeless, in more cases with homes that are

fast shows that the Unionist Sitting in the second court at was not so much the fare as the visited the house in question on NEWS OF THE WORLD importance of employing every nearly ruined. When it is remembered that this comes hard upon the Courts of Justice this more- threatening attitude.

organization there is alive to the Buecessive years of famine it will be seen how pitous is the situs attention to the inconvenience hension; yo'i thought there was first, but did so later and oven- ing, Mr. Justice Gompertz drew

this occassion. He sought the You were under a misappre-woman there, did not find. Her at

means for their propagando. The tion.

front of the folding card as the Always the peaceful mau in tlie wake of war suffers most. Atness box being between the jury they asked you for the money?-to the. Belle Vue Hotel. The delphia, who purchased The Unionist lubs of Ireland. God caused by the dook and the wit nothing to pay, you refused, and tually they had a motor trip by Mr. P.A. B. Widener, of Phila- a crown and surrounded by a Purchase of three Rembrandtsag of the Union surmounted by least the fighting man has something to gain or lose, though it be and the windows, with the result. We gave them $2 each anyhow. nothing more material than honour, but the man of peace, who is witness could hardly be seen.

border in which is printed had drink there, but were not that the faces of prisoner and You are reckoning it in gold, intoxicated. Defendant called Mill last spring for n sum anid Anxique only to pursus the arts of posce, loses, every time. It is

of course. But do you think some young men overte, tlioir table to be in the noighbourhood of our Trust Above the Crown is his misfortune to get in the way of the devastating blast, and he is this was the case to tell him, as per cent, too much,

He asked the jury if they found it excessive?Decidedly so, 200 and complainant paid for drink $500,000, is announced in the scroll with the words "One left scorched and crippled if he is left alive at all. He may care it was the first case taken in that

for them. He (complainant) current number of the "American Flag and below, in bold typo, Crown, one Parliament, One little, or none at all, for the matter in dispute; a change of ruler court, and he would see whether his evidence, stated that shortly direction of the woman and then respondsace. It is reported that The card is issued by the Unionist Father Shiel in the course of reached over the table in the Art Nowa" in its london cor-We will not have Home Itale. may be to him as the change from Jeroboam to Rehoboam, or the made.

better arrangements could not be after the launch had commenced she put her hand in his pocket Mr. Widoner got the three ex Clubs of Ireland, whose head- other way about; yet he is an immediate and long-continuing sufferer, The Attorney General-I don't pressing his (witnesses') pocket He had in his pocket about $150. through Sulley & Co. for $1,000,- quartos us st Mayfair, Arthur

sailing pro of the men began and took out a bundle of actes, amples, of the Detol paintor Flood, lamine, war-these have been visitants of the Chinese poa- know whether Your Lordship with his fool Whon they got a He asked for them back, she 000. The paintings are on canvis quare, Belfast. Within the card sant. They have left him homeless and without means to build or It almost means that in order to bled in the front of the launch for the polico when a man con Man" and a scriptural subject Happy New Year and to ask you notices the position of Counsel. little further all the crow assem refused and he was about to go Writing Doak," "Portrait of a you a Merry Christmas and p restore his home Something is being done for him, but not all address the jury he has to turn and began a heated conversation nected with the hotel offered him

and include Apostle Peter at a appears the following ----To with that seems nepeatery if thousands of lives are not to be sacrificed his back on the judge. during the coming winter. There seems a real and urgent need at To-day's cases showed that the One of the men came forward declined, motored for the police, in the collection of the Earl of

which aroused his suspicions 880 to let the affair firop. Is According to advices, they were to help us to remain partners this time for an opening of purs-strings, for charity full and freecoustics in the second Court are and said "You pay me, you don't brought Sergeant Pitt and the Wimborne and hung in Canford in the world,

grontest business concern instead of share much better than those in the pay boat," Witnes said. yes officer wentinto the hotel. Hecame

Manor, England.

holders (against our will) igi land whan the pan, ingu

afterwarde with 4115 dollars

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More Criticisms.

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The Astor House launch-No, we thought it was a restaurant launch: I heard the nenie Can ton mentioned."

Now that you know it was not a certain class and resided at The Magistrate dismissed the the Astar House Launchi, do you Hollywood Road. Complainant case. think the fare excessive?—No, it was a man of the world and

(From Various Sources.) Famous Pletures Bought.

in the