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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1912,

DAY BY DAY.

Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application.

Leaving for America. Mr. W. D. Kraft, of the Stan dard Oil Co., and Mrs. Kraft are

Dead Bodies.

There were four dead bodios found in the opon yesterday. Two came from Wanghai, one of which was a case of plague, while ono was picked up in the Harbour and the other at "aumati,

Rogues and Vagabonds. John Allon a soamun, and leaving for Amories by the Nip- Peter Sagura wore oharged at pon Mary, May 28.

the Magistracy this morning A Big Conflagration. with being rogues and vaga- The damage done by the re-bonds. They were remanded to cent couflagration at. Matsumot, the house of detention. Shinano provinco, Japan, already reported," is now estimated to excoed Y1,100,000...

Kipling's Possible Visit. According to the "Straits Echo" there is a likelihood that Rudyard Kipling will visit the Philippinos lato this year, as the, gucal of Governor-General Forbes.

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The Cigarette Collector. For boing in unlawful posses- sion of ten packets of cigarettes in the Canton Road, Kowloon a Chinese was fined $5 or in do- fault ton day's hard labour at the Police Court to day.

Madame Lou.

The reason why Mr. Lou Teong-

Yuan Wants European Dress, at Prusident Yuan intends A Chinese paper announces adopt a national costume after wife is a Belgian and ho escorts the European and American her 10 bor people there before fashion. A majority of the high embarking on his home tip officials oppose the ilon, however, The Min Su Pao. and the decision has boon past. ponoj.

Sult Against Ted Sloan, Miss Julia Sanderson, the ac

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ports that Mr. Jao Pao-shu is the warrant with obtaining monoy Chief now of the Commercial under falso protonces within the Bureau of the Waichino Pu. He jurisdiction of Shanghai. has had many years of experience Mr. Shenton of Messrs. Deacon with the affairs of the bureau and Looker and Deacon appoared for is regarded as one of the best the defendant, documentary writers in China. A lotective sorgennt of the

Railway Tresspassers. Two men were charged before rant, signed by a Shanghai Ma- Mr. Melbourne at the magistracygistrate.

Mr. Irving: this morning with trespassing.

Is the lady in on the property of the Canton court-the lady mentioned in the Kowloon Railway. They wont warrant ?-I believe нo.

Mr.Shenton-You don't know Miss Montieth "-No.

You have never soon her bo foro 7-No.

HONGKONG MATRI-

MONIAL CASE.

Allegations Against a Wife.

Did that happen on many occa- NOTES AND sions?-Yos, all the year round.

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His Lordship: How is it you didn't know nt, what time ho wont away?

Witness:-I slept down stairs, I did not open the door to let him out. He himself, opened the door

Mr. Hind-Thot'ia all.

COMMENTS.

First Class Rickshaws.

Singapore is ahead of Hong kong in the matter of riokshaws. We read that, a number of 'ox- ceptionally comfortable looking rick slaws are appearing in the

A Rise in Wages. Mr. Darria:-Whon. did you tell Mr. Fisher about this?-Long stroots thoro and are in great do- ngo, two years ago.

mand. They are fitted with tyres Marcellino Place and Mrs. Fisher, torus, and the body reats low on Did you tell Mr. Fishier that Mr.of the Dunlop and Michelin pat- slept in one bed ?—Yes.

Some remarkable ovidence was givon at the Supreme Court, to-and lot himself out. day, when Mr. Justice Gomporiz board the caso of Fishor versus Fisher arising out of a claim under a separation agreement.

The plaintif

was Martha Delfina da Cruz Fishier, of 3 Queen's Road East and the de- fondant Froderick Alfred William Fisher, Sanitary Inspector of Hongkong.

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Continuing witness said he was the axles which run on ball bear She paid him $7 a month; Mr. one fare and prices are similar the only servant Mrs. Fisher bad, ings. Thoy are designed to carry Fisher now paid him $12 a to those of other first class rick- Mr M. R. Harris appeared for month. He brought tea to the shaws. If our information is oor- talang goes to Belgium before ho the plaintiff and Mr. Hind for bedroom to Mrs. Fisher and Mr. reat a local company proposed to Marcellino Place. Ho did not institute rickshaws with pnonma- charge of his new post is that lis returns to Poking to tame the defoudnut.

see them in the room. to- tio tyres in flongkong and were. Mrs. Fisher chimed 8100 ns gother on any other occasion. forced to postpone the project be damages for breach of a covenant lo had known Mr. Marcellino cause the Government felt that in connection with a separation Place for a year,

thern was alrely. a unflicient agreement of June 1908, whereby brought the ton up the room dour hire. That is truo, no doubt, but By his Lordship': When he number of rickshaws plying for In all ninety-eight undesirables defendant coyouautod with the was half closed.

to stop at that is, we should think, arrived to be dealt with by the plaintiff inter alia to pay to a The case was adjourned for to miss the real point. Might not police by the ss. Derwent to day third party in trust for the plain-

Cillin.

quite a few of the present sick- The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will tross, has filed a suit for divorce while another batch came by the tiff the sum of $100 a month. Mrs. Fisher was put into the box lays, be scrapped in favour of On the hearing being resimor shaws, which have seen their best nguinst her husband, Tod Sloan, 8.8. Arrntoon Apear numbering

Dofandant had refused and nog-and wholly denied the misconduct really first-class conveyances? who in at present living at Mai-

The large butch sons Lafitte in France. Miss Saa-camo from Saigon. They uro all lected to pay the sum of $100 due which had been alleged by the That would keep the number the same as now, raise the standard derson appeared with great success passed on to their native districts. on the first day of April 1912. defonco... in "The Arcadians."

Mrs. Fisher said sho lived in dl round, and add to the comfort An attempt had been made to Queen's Road East and Inyl done of the travelling public. 1,000,000,000 New Stamps for

EXTRADITION PROCEED-settle the matter out of court but so for twolvo Inonths. Previously S Africa.

INGS AGAINST A LADY. failed. Most of the evidenco was she lived in Robinson Road, Hong- South Africa is inviting tend-

taken in chambers, yesterday..

kong and ut Macao. She had not Criticism Indeed.- ers for the printing of its now

Miss Monteith in Court, Mr. Harris: I find my friend sometimes visited Macro adecasionally a little bit "touchy

lived at Macao for a year. She Hongkong musical folk aro five years, and it is calculated stampa. The contract will be for

Judy friend. At the Magistracy this after has not brought an interpreter. stayed with

regarding Press criticism of their 000 stamps per annum will be case in which Miss Marian client; she talks English pretty she knew him for a long time. Society would say if some daring that a supply of about 1,000,000,-noon Mr. E. 4. Irving took the I have not an interpreter for my She had never stayed a night in perform mees but we wonder The house of Mr. Marcellino Placo, what the local Philharmonic Montoith, a lady, who was re-well but I think it would be better is lived next door to her friend newspaper man wrote of its work Chief of Commercial Bureau: siding at the Poak Hotel, was

Peking Daily News" re-charged under

10 have an interpreter. au extradition

in Macao. There was a door, in the following strain:-"Turn Hi Lordship-Sho speaks leading from one house to theur big choruses loose in an English fairly well?

other but she had never soenratorio, of this type and they it open. Sho know Mr. Harris -Yos I can just named Vinconte Place but had ammer-and-tongs style, giving. man instantly rovert to the old-fashion- Laroly get along with her, but never been to his house. Mr. you a cannonade that is like a sho 18 very loaf.

Marcellino Place had visited her broad-side from a Dreadnought. His Lordship-Thon an inter-house at Rao de la Resurrection if one had not been sure that what Shanghai Police, profneed a war-proter would not assist you much. whilst hor gun was there. Hor they were singing in the ficat Mr. Hind:-Woll I will ask son and Place were friends, le horus was the prayer of a stary- for an adjournment until this stayed about a quarter of an houring and desporto people not to afternoon..

plying music with her son, lebo utterly destroyed, one would His Lordship: Have you many had never seen her off on the Oave been able to delight in it witnesses Mr. Harris P

Leo from Macao. Ile onco saw or the magnificont outburst of Mr. Harris:-Only one Your her on her way to the steamer but exultation it was. It was no doubt Lordship.

tint was to tell her to inform lesson in how to bear misfortune, woman that her husband had it perhaps not quite what Men A cook boy employed by Mr.jumped overboard. She denied lesson intended." This is what And you don't know whether Fisher, and formerly wouk boy that Mr. Place had over slept Mr. Ernest Newman, the well- Captain Transferred.

Hor ago was sixty known musical critic, ponued in Captain S. J. Payne, who has she is the lady mentioned in the to Mrs, Fisher in Macno was the her room.

witness for the defence. He said six this year. Mr. Fisher was her his notice of a recent performance boen in the Far East for a nam warrant?-No.

As a matter of fact, there isnt Mrs. Fisher lived at Macao amend husband. She had been of "Elijah" at Birmingham. The question of Britain socuring a re-arrangement of the fron-ber of years and is known to tior which soparatos China proper from the New Territoriosis by no transferred from the Yatshing to You.

wide circle of friends has been another Miss Montieth in Shang-her son lived along with hor. Amurrio to Mr. Fisher for twenty Satirical, isn't it?

man used to call there often. The years. means a new one, but it has recently been revived in a rather un- the Suisang (Jardine, Matheson

The ammo initiala ?Yes M. house coutained three rooms, a

By Mr. Hind:Sho was never fortunato ni auer. A report has boon going the rounds through the & Co.) which has been chartered

Monteith.

back room, a ten room, and one separated from her first husband The Daily Mail! Again.

| excopt whon ho went to England Just a month ago the " Daily medium of the native Press that Britain intonis inking the exten- by the British India Company to

Sorgt. T. Murphy of the Hong-bedroom: kong Police spoke to executing Mr. Hind-Who slept in the through sickness. Asiator of Mr. Mail", published news of tho sion of the Territorios a condition precedent to her formal rocognition Ply between Calcutta and Japan. provisional, vaurant. He did first bedroom 7-Mrs. Fisher. Marcellino Place lived close by assassination and an obituary of the Chinese Republic, and naturally enough such a statement his

not know whether she was the How often did Mr. Marcelino her now; in the same block of notice of General Li Yuan Hung. Roparts of the assassination of aroused the ire of prominent Chinose bodies in Kwangtung, who

Complete reluras of the pol- Miss Monteith mentioned in the Place stay at the house ?-Some-buildings. He never came to see urge that the matter be brought to the notics of President Yuan Columbia show that not a single description

ling for the Legislature of British warrant, though she answered the times he came and sometimes he than sister as far nashe knew. She General Li Yuan Hung, the Chi-

Bent down from did not,

never saw him in Hongkongcse Republican Commander-in- Shih-kai with a hopo that he may turn down the demand, as they Liberal has been elected. The Shanghai.

Whon lo camo to the house When she was leaving Robinson Chief," says the paper,

aro, four such a stop would mean the beginning of the partition of China new House will consist of forty

Road heenme once to see hissister. According to a telegram from where did he sloop? The Magistrato:-Have you The idea that Britain would permit such a comparatively trifling Conservatives and two Socialists, anything to say Mr. Shonton ? Mr. Harris: He never said he She did not stay as long in Macao Tientsin to the Exchange Tele-

the letter representing coal-min- No your worship.

alept thoro.

as she did in Hongkong. Her graph Company,.confirmed. One mattor as the readjustment of this little frontier to stand in the waying districts. The contest turned

Mr. Bind-No-1-will-put-it son was in Hongkong. She of the most striking figures on the of her recognition of the new Republic is too absurd to be seriously chielly on the proposals of the

him now. Did Mr. Place even thought Mr. Marcellino Place was Republicanside is thas removed." entertained, and it is at any rate comforting to feel that the foolish McBride Government for a great

sleep at the house ?—Yos

over forty. She maintained tha: This has rather annoyed the story has originated, not in the British Press, but from Chinese increase in railway mileage and

Where did he sleep when he he was a friend of her son's. Her" Peking, and Tientsin Times" which wants to know how the throughout the province.

was at the house?-In the same on was twenty two. bed room as Mrs. Fisher,

His Lordship:-Similar diftor-Tientsin correspondent of the Have you oven seen him in the ence in their ages as in Marcellino Exchange Telegraph Company could confirm news of something. Rame bedroom as Mrs. Fisher and the witness (laughter). Yes when I went upstairs at nine

Mr. Harris: Yes, (to Mr. Hind) lint never happened at a place o'clock,

so don't argue, that it is improb hundred of miles away. "If able.

messages of this kind coutinue to be sent from Tientsin. it will not bo long before our Port earns an oven worse reputation for blund- ors than Shanghai," it remarks very nastily. We shall wait with intereat to see whether Shanghai lies down lamely under this.

sources.

The Hongkong Telegraph.

BONGKONG, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1912,

TOO SUSPICIOUS.

into the Shatin Tunnel at the

south end and were caught as the emerged from the other end. Thoy wore oach fined $10.

Not a Liberal Returned. ·

Profiting by the Recent Coal Strike.

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How many people have made the Pall Mall Gazotta. money out of the coal strike aska!

To

the brief list must be added the tramway and bus companies, who have gained both by the reduced railway services and the

New York.

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Are you raising the point that the defondant is not the person mentioned in the warrant ?-No your worship, I simply want it to J'appear on the depositions.

The magistrate made the usual order for defendant to be returned to Shanghai,

THE DUMMY HAND.

Woman's Hysterical Cinim

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What the Cook Boy Saw

How was he dressed ?-He was drossed in a night suit.

And how was she, dresser ?→→ She was dressed the same.

Verdict Judgment for plaintiff with

costs.

THAT £100.

Will He Get It?

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In these days the Chinese are far too api to read into every silly rumour which has to do with matters affecting East and West a sinister motive on the part of foreign, Powors. But it is surely Inte in the day now to revive the old cry of territorial aggrandisement by Britain or any other of the great Powers, all of whom realise the supremo necessity of preserving the integrity of China at all costs. Britain certainly has no ulterior designs in South China, and we suspension of the by-laws against The Great Raymond met with] · Did you seo them in the same should have thought the Chinese were sensible enough to have ro lis-overcrowding, One wook's rea queer experience at the Kauf room on one ocossion or more; ed this long sinco, especially in view of hor moreʼthan patient mood ceipts of the London General U. Fong, theatre on Tuesday than one occasioni —Once only. exhibited during the constant interference with her interests regnteresso of nearly $15,000, on trick with the dummy hand that, Fisher's room on other occasions? Omnibus Company show an evening.In the course of the Have you seen him go to Mrs. ly in West River incidents. It may be that for purposes of ex- those for the corresponding week when placed on in sheet of glass, I only saw him sleep in, the pediency, which would be of distinct advantage to either party, a of last year.

The Compleat Rubber-planter. answers questions; he passed it room onco. I saw him on more

Wo understand that an interent

Writing in the "Singapore Free revision of the Now Territories boundary is desirable. A narrow Proposed Line from Hongkong to round the audience for the usual then one occasion in the room, stream across which robbers ani pirates can literally skip is obvious.

inspection. Eventually it came

ing sequel is likely to arise out of Press," a correspondent gives s The United States Government to a woman, who, when she re-bed once? Yes. I saw him in the tre Royal on Saturday evening rubber-planter, which, from per- Do you mean you saw him in the scene on the stage of the Then- very happy picture of the typical ly a most unsatisfactory frontier line, especially when a magnificent proposes to prohibit vessels, owned ceived it, broke out into a loud bed once. range of hille is easily available for the purp 130. Owing to the wholly or in part by railway com- Boream and immediately went What did you see on that over-"Great Raymond."

during an exhibition by the sonul experience we have, much

The scene

plessure in confirming." You easy facilities affor lod by the present boundary for robbers to orois panics, from passing through the off into hysterics. Attempts to sion?-I saw them in the room.

Panama Canal, with the rosult quieten her proved, for some time,

was not a part of the programme suits so much as by the serione, into British territory, commit a raid, and then hurriedly retreat to that, until the decision of legislato be of no avail and at one time Place stayed at the house?

know them, not þy their klinki. How many times.. has Mr. As the case is sub judice we their owa soil again, the little town of Sam Chus, just over the tora is known, progress in more she had the whole of the stage to His Lordship:-What do you from giving the details to our

are precluded at the moment, anxious air they carry about with border, has become a regular hot-bed of thieves and out-throats, and than one project of importance herself. Eventually, when the mean by staying; stayed there all readers. Suflice it to say that virtue even if he has it not and thom. The planter must assume rumour has it that the inhabitants of the place have more Steamship Company, for instance, ed off, she was questioned by an

is suspended. The Pacific Mail storm of the hysterica had pase- night? than once petitioned the Hongkong Government to

some interesting developments, as you watch him knit his Witness: He usually came at which is controlled by the interpreter, and it transpired that eleven o'clock.

may be looked for, and the case brows and pucker his face, you interent. Both parties will be speculating as to whether the out- -Witness-often-saw-him represented by solicitors, the put of rubber on his setate is go between New York and Hongkong her ancestor was out in a sampan or eleven o'clock at night, I did Masers, Goldring and Barlow, pilforage of latex cups. But this of about 40,000 tons each to run The tale that she told was that came to the house at nine o'clock and Grist and the defendant by or, how he can check the awful

plaintiff, by Messrs. Wilkinsoning to come up to the estimate via the Canal, but of course the and fell overboard and when she not see him go away. contracte cannot yet be placed, was, recovered from the water it

The case will be mentioned to-idea vanishes when you actually Which room did he go into and may indeed never reach the was found that one hand was when he came on those days? when probably a day for hearing of soule, full of fun and invariably morrow in the Summary Court meet him; he is the most goainl shipyards, & 0. Express." missing.

He went into Mrs. Fisher's room, will be fixed.

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the place over and so rid them of the constant danger within their Southern Pacific Railway, has, it she claimed to recognise the His Lordship:--Did he over/will be watched with great foolishly imagine he is for over

gatos.

The difficulty at the present time, however, is to get the Chinese to view questions affecting their own country in an unbiassed and dispassionate spirit. But when they begin to compose themselves somewhat, perhaps it will be possible for, them to dissociate little matters of this kind from larger issues, and to avoid the tempestion of making mountains out of mole-hills.

is stated, already received tenders dummy hand as that of a dead stop the night? for the construction of four boata ancestor.