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THE LADY AND THE 'COOLIE..
"I WANTED TO TWIG HIS EARS."
Tussle in a Laundry Depot:
whon
delivered in London on June soulting Mrs. Vloresce Cornell, of the, Stoum Laundry Depot at Beaconsfield Arcade, yesterday. afternond.
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Torpedo Boat Arrives. Torpado-liat 37 arrived from the West River yesterday after noon
Left for England. Lieutenants K. Mitchell and R. M. Stopford of U.M.S. Rozario, | left for England on Thursday, per
5.8. Syrin
Opium.
Mr. Irving :-And she told you to go out?
Prisover-When I left tho" basket there alie told ine to go away.
COMPANY MEETING.
The China and Manila Steamship
NOTES AND
COMMENTS.
The Monteith Sentence.
readors will receive with mixed
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Mr. Irving: And you did not?
A correspondent writes: "I Prisoner: Your worship, Infood
The annual general inceting of cannot help thinking that the for a while and I was thinking The following story was told of taking away the basket when shareholders in the above Com- great majority of Telegraph to Mr. B. Irving, at the she pushed me out. I said I pany was hold of the oflices of feelings the news contained in would go, and I waited a few Messrs. Shewan, Tomos and Co., your telegram of yesterday. Miss Police Court, this morning,
Minutos.
This morning, Mr. O., A. Tomes Monteith (alaok for British chiva a coolie was charged-with-as-
Try-sho-ban already become On the charge of assault de-
tho fendant was discharged but on presided, and there were also pre-Miriam Monteith and **** the cargo of using abusive In-sont Messrs. D. W. Craddock and Woman Monteith) may be n guage he was sont to gaol for H. P. White (consulting commit criminal; but she is a wonin fourteen days' hard labour. teo), R, Hancock J. A. Young, A. and a European' woman; and that Mr. Irving Instead of Liking G. Gordon A. A. Cordeiro, mud A. a European julge could be found the law in your own hands and
who would pass a sentence of nine, months imprisonment with rying to twig his onra you should
hard labour on such, is to me wall have sent for the police.
nigh unthinkable. I do not need Complainant: I had no police
The Chairman said:-The ro- to be reminded that, at Home, the whistle at the time. When the manager came I got his police-port and accounts having beon law would probably have dealt before you for some days I pre-much more severely with her. sume they may be taken as road. That is beside the point altoget The Philippines Steamship Com- her; everyone who is not a fool pany's report is appended and or a child knows full well that discloses the position very no-nine months in an Eastern prison curately. It is necessary to bear in is equivalent almost to ne muny mind that there are two dobit yoara, served in Engloud." balances to be cleared off before
The Complainant said sho way the manageress of the establish ment. Every day the doors were closed from one o'clock until two, for tillin." The defendant came in it all pust one whilst she was having her dillin: Sho did not know how he managed to force the doors opan as they were bolted. She jumpet up and asked ing, a man was fined $20 or in him what he wanted. He said he was Mr. Jebaon's honso coolie, mid-tho.basket he had with him containing dirty clothes he put down. He said he wanted to pat the clothes in the wash and she asked him if he minded calling again at two.
At the Police Court, this morn-
default one month for being in unlawful possession of opium"
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The Tamar and other vessels in the Harbour to-day wore anniversary of the coronation of King George......
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II.E the Ollicor Administering
whistle.
Mr. Irving-Yes, but you should not take the law in your
Thank you
own-honda,
Complainant our Worship., TROUBLE IN SHANTUNG,
Most Insolently." Mr. Irving: In English? No. I speak Chinese quite well---|----- Continuing, witness said that
A. S. Watson & Co.'s Branch Looted
Tempoiley (Secretary.) "The Serrotary having road the notice convening the meeting,
we can look for a dividend from British Justice.
this Company and the total of After discussing at some length: thoro is $87,813.71, The deprecia-the merits of Miss Monteith's tion of the stonniers too should re-case, our correspondent proceeds: coiro_Home_ottontion, no matter" The administration of the law how well thoir condition rony bo in Shanghai, so fur to British
for any pariod, less than no month will be charged as for n tho Governmont has appointed the prisoner said it was a quarter [tung Provinco, us is evident from kept up, but if we can continue olement is concerned, is almost
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On 27th May, 1912, at his residence at Petorhead, E. (), Arbu- [157
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1912.
DREDGING THE HARBOUR.
in
·A Stupid Witness..
the time of the Court.
More Dope."....
a
Unrest still continues in Shan a-telegram which hus_just_beon Dr. J. C. Dalmahoy-Allan to be to two. She looked at hor-watel received in Ilongkong by Messrs. we have been doing for the on a par with what obtains in would seem to be daylight shoad, week or so ago, u Chinose was Justice of the Peace for the Colony and told him it was not; He then, D. Humphroys & Co., geral past six mouths thero corininly Hongkong. In our Colony, : a entered the enclosure where only managors for Messrs. A, S. Won and we are all very anxious to see sent to six months' hard labour of Hongkong.
employes of the firm were allow & Co., Ltd., to the effect that on their period of nu-dividend come for indecently resulting, od. He put the basket down in the 20th inst.. Messrs. Watson's
little English girl; while, yes more lad receiv At the Police Court this morn the enclosure, lo sail he could branch at Clini-nam-fu was looted to an end.......
The negotiations over the sub-terday, ing a foarale witness was so stn-leave the basket there if he liked.
by mutinous saldiere.
A representative of the "Tele-sidy proposed have boon rather ed exactly the same sentence. pid that Me. Irving had to tell her She told him she would not be re- to stand down as she was wasting sponsible for the things if he did, graph called at the offics of the protracted but everything is set for pleking pockets. Similarly,
ae somebody night steal them. He said there was no one there to general managers this morning. led now, and we appreciate the recent issue of the Telegraph
and was informed by Mr. Hump difficulties the Philippine Au-reported that an incorrigible steal them and w. uld hold her re-hreys that no particulars wore thorities have had to contend with loafer and waster in Shanghai, sponsible. She replied the firm contained in the wire, which in their desire to give us as much who had been twice convicted of was not responsible if people left stated that details would follow aid and assistance as they con- sending his children out to beg, things like that and told him later by post. Our representative sistently could. We are to receive and who had refused lucrative he had better take them away. toarned that it is a purely native a payinent of Ps. 20,000 for a work when it was offered him, not He looked at her most insolen- branch at Chai-nam-fu, employing sear from the lat June this year only came off seatheless when tly" and planked himself down no Europeans. If the whole of for the Mail contract run between tried, but was given a free pre- on a bench. Then he commenc the stock were taken away, said Manila and Iloilo and Cebu;" and age to Singapore as well." "Yet The following telegram was reed shiking sulphur matches. Humphreys, the loss would this will be supplemented by now, a woman, presumably of ceived by the American con- and strewing them all over the not be above $3,000, and, of shore of the Government froight education and delicate nurture, sulate General from the Manila foot. ile was not trying to Observatory at 12.30 p.m. to fight a cigarette but doing it for Jay-Cyclone or Typhoon S. of the wake of hearing them crack. Naha, filling.
She told him he had not to do Prince of Wales' Birthday, that and thon he jumped up and Rwore at her quite a lot. She To-morrow is the eighteeth stood it for some time and tried anniversary of the birthday of the Prince of Walla. A telegram
to ignore it. to-day-announces that he has
A filthy-looking coolie stood in the dock at the Police Court, this morning charged with being in unlawful possession of opium He was fined or in default soven days.
Typhoon Warning.
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Ordered him out
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course, it might be less.
DEFRAUDING THE
GOVERNMENT.
CAUTIONS.
Latest Bye-Election.
is condoned to nine inouth's. and passage money.
The Company's gross receipts hard labour for fraud. Would wore groator in the second hull not expulsion lave et such h of the year 1911 than in the first so?" We do not uccessarily. by about $50,000 and if welissent from our correspondent's can make a further, like itupirove as suggestion; but deportation, Man Sentenced.
ment in these times we ought to for a variety of reasons, is not al ways as practicable as it sounds. Mr. Groon, Superintendent of be content. the Botanical and Forestry De- The accounts seem to require Whore (o.g.) Hongkong has n continental or Ainerican woman Ho beaume so bad howoverpartment, told Mr. Irving at the no explanation but I regret to say arrived from Paris to apsud his that she ordered him not. He Police Court that he had further that I cannot this year make the to deal with, the matter is simple birthday at home.
would not go and commenced evidence to place hofors him usual statement that all outstand but if she ben British subject Alleged Kidnapping. "blackguarding her. He said concerning the charge preferred ing freights and passage money we cannot foist bor on Singapore, Interest in the question of the necessity or otherwise of dreil
At the Police Court, this morn
"You only get twonly conte against a man, on Friday, of de- have been since collected, for there and a thousand difficulties may ging Hongkong Harbour háa basu revived by the publication of the
ug, a man and two women were nonth; you can't be of much no frauding the Government by, al-is an amount of Bomo $10,000 stand in the way of sending hor
She lowing mon to impersonate certain passago money overdue from to England. correspondence which has passed between the Government and the charged before Mr. E. A. Irving count to do this work." Chamber of Commerro on the subject. On maro Uluan one occasion with kidnapping. Mr. Shsaton caught him by the shoulders, others employed by the depart-one passenger broker that we
The rosult of the Holmfirtli A inan had now come forward It Beons his account had been ruporta have been made of the bigger vessels which make long-who appeared for a defendant pushed him outside and closed ment and to draw their wages, have not been able to collect yet,
torialists can still command a kong a regular port of call "touching bottom" when going to their named Lo Tai asked for a remand-the door.
ed and it was granted.
Mr. Irving:Did he struggle? who said he was no relation to running behind for some tiniebye-election shows that the Mini moorings in the western end of the harbour, and it in doubtless in
No, not a great deal, Continu- the defendant and had received and attention being called to it Filipino Skipper and Oplum ing, complainant said when she twenty cents from him for draw last July the system of allowing good mersure of support in the Bountry, for the encocesful Liberal consequence of these that the Government has had under its con-
Captain Jose Britaga, of the closed the door she saw that doing $420 for him in the name credit to theso brokers was stop has a majority of well over a sidoration a selicne for providing ineroased facilities for ships of interisland steamer Islas Fili-fendant's basket was inside. She of another.
pad and since then all passage thousand above his rearest rival deep draft by improving the western entrance of the harbour. The pinas, has been sentonsel by the opened the door again and Dofondant was sontenced to tickets are sold for cash only. The
inn three cornered fight. At the and plen put forward by the broker
last General Election Mr. Wilson, proposal of the Government, as sot out in the letter to the Chamber Philippine Government to a year's threw it after him. Then he three months hard labour, un
panishmont commenced calling out all the ordered to return the sums of is that a native bank in Canton the retired member, had a walk- of Commercs, is to drodge a section of the channel to the eastward imprisonment, at
for the illegal presence of a large names lie could lay his tongue $4.20 and $4.11 or in default stopped payment at the time of the
over, while in the previous contest: of Groen Island so as to gign a depth of five fathoms at low water,
amount of opium on his vessel. to." Sho oponed the
preliminary revolutionary. ou' door to go to prison for three wosks,
break in the early part of 1911 emerged on top in a triangular battle. His majority on thef over a breadth of two and a half cables. This would allow deep-
Wigs Optional.
and went after him. She wanted Jadon ships to antor by the Sulphur Channel at any state of the
"to twig his ears. (laughter.) PETROL STORAGE PRE- and ho had a deposit there of occasion was well over 3,000... The Summer liberty, to lawyera
Ths. 24,000 which he has never The shrinkage of the Liberal tide, and, in the opinion of the Harbour Master, would make tho was announced by Sir llavilland did not quite succeed in twigging He called her fearful names. She
been able to get. For the time majority this time is apparently nditions of the port first-class. The total cost of the scheme de Sausmarez in H. B. Me his cars although she did-her-best
being we put agairat this account due to a good number of the late The conditions of licence to all conmissions and brokerages Mr. Wilson's supporters voting put at $330,000 (including enbsequent docking and refitting of the Supreme Court, Shanghai,on.June (more laughter.) She tried to got drodgor), from which might be deducted a sum of $40,000 if the 17, the Chief Judge intimating at him, and as she was trying to store 30 gallons of petrol for the accruing to the compradore with for the labour candidate, who this dredging were dumped at convenient spots near at hand. The idea would keep the practica of wigs get hold of him he struck her use of motor cars, in the ground lus consent, and we hold a pro- kime polls well over 3,000 ägainat floor and backyard of a domestic missory note of the broker 1,600 in the Inst contest. The building, made by the Governor-
Unionit vote has been increased Mines Output,
Before moving the adoption of He then ran away and she gave in-Council on the 15th day of guaranteed by the Compradore. The Chinese Engineering and chase, He managed to get out- November, 1911, have been the report and accounts I shall be
amended. Condition No. 2 has pleased to answer any questions. These aro the main points of the schomme, but it will have been Mining Company, Limited, inside into the lane and being so
beon revoked and the following Thero being no questions, the observed from the correspondence that the Chamber of Commerco form us that the towl output of public a place she stopped chasing substituted therefore: No pet Chairman moved the adoption of the Company's three mines for him. Before he started to run las expressed its disapproval of the suggestions, arguing that the the week ending June 8 amount-away he struck her with his un-rol, shall be kept or allowed to the report and accounts. that this is the first anniversary- resultant benefits would be out of all proportion to the expenditure, ed 30,477.17.tous and the Salos brolla. When he wont away, bis remain in any roofed-ovor portion White seconded.-Carried.
of the licensed promises except! On the motion of Mr. Hancook, of the King Emperor's Corona- that the channel as it exists is suficient for the goods of the aver during the period, to 23,125.93 umbrella was not broken; it was
intact. Afterwards he came back that which is contained in the seconded by Mr. Gordon, Messrs. tion. Queen Victoria was crown- would age steamer visiting the port; nil that the bigger steaméra can uno ton.
with the umbrella broken for lauks of the motor cars. The P. White and D. W. Oraddock od on June 20; her son specified alternative entrances. Meeting the suggestion of the pos Currency Prohibition.
vengeance. The blowe did not following is also added to tho, were re-appointed Consulting but for the sudden illness which aibility of vessels of greater draft calling at Hongkong subsequent The "Government Gazette to the opening of the l'anama Canal-which the Chamber thinks notifies that His Majesty the King hurt ber although they wore de conditions: A receptacle con Committee. improbable the Committee throws out the idea that if their has not been advised to exercise livered with great force; her taining not less than 100 lbs. of forecast in this respect provos incorrect, the whole question should his power of disallowance, with skirts protected her. When and shall be kept ready for nee be considered later and a new survey of the entire harbour made respect to the Ordinance to pro policeman the umbrella and
he came back he showed the lin case of accident." with a view to a comprehensive scheme of dredging being carried hibit the importation and oiroula-
MOTOR ACCIDENT IN out. For these reasons the Chamber advises the abandonment of tion of foreign copper and bronze said that in defending himself
PHILIPPINES. the Government's proposals.
from her blows the umbrella wAB It was soveral months ago that this correspondence took place,
broken.
Mr. Irving-Which and did toporte by telegraph reached and in the meantime, there have beon no indications as to whether Bequest to the late Mr. Keswick. or not the Government intoads acting on its own expert advice or Mr. Thomas Gibson Glover, of he strike you with?-Ho held the Manila on June 17 of a automɑ- on the opinions expressed by the Chamber. For a variety of rea: 134, Queen's-gate, South Ken- handle and struck me with the bilo accident near Atimonan, Tayabas, in which serious injuries sons we hope that the scheme will be pushed forward, inasmuch as gington, S. W. retired master-other end. wo have it on the word of the Harbour Master who surely ought mariner, who died April 17 last, Mr. Irvings that all?-Yon, were 'sustained by all who were to kový his business-that so long no things romain as they are the left £283,282. He bequeathedPrisoner: Sho throw away in the car as it fell 120 feet over port cannot be considered as of first-class rank. That is the only inter alia, e1,000 to Willium my basket and pushed me out of a bank.
The injuredonea re conclusion which can be drawn from his observations. A good Keswick, M. P. of 3, Lombard the door. name is everything to a port like Hongkong, und if all prosent shortsfrest, E.U." in consideration of Mr. Irving You came in Camphill, an engineer
employ of the Me comings can be removed by an expenditure of about $300,000, his kindness to me when in after the door was shu). spread over a number of years, we cannot help thinking that it Hongkong." (Mr. Keswick pre- would be a fatal policy not to embark on this soleme simply be, deceased, Mr. Glover by n cauan a larger undertaking may be necessary later o weeks:
that after 15th June the court
of the Government is to carry not the work gradually, limiting the being optional.. expenditure to such amounts as could annually he provided in the estimates.
coins.
with his umbrella.
Blows Did Not Hurt
i.
Jun Yen, tout trorship; oompany, four American
Spened the door for one Filipino "workman and
Mr.
by about 300.
Coronation Day
The eight of the bunting-deck- od vessels in harbour reminds one
have been crowned on the 22nd
a8
Mr. Craddock movel and Mr. made postponement necessary Cordeiro seconded the appoint and her grandson slso received ment of Messrs. W. Hutton Potta bis crown on June 22. It used und A. O. D'Gourdia, ne nuditors to be a fashionable fancy to look at a remuneration of 8300 each. forward to "Coronation Day
ono on which we were safe to fare Carried:
The Chairman-That is all the fine weather Queen's weather! Alas for the vanity of human business, gentlemen; thánk you,
wislice, carrecall b tow-fi days on June 20, 21 or 22. Daya- like yesterday and to-day are far more common,
Escaped Crocodile.
At Osake, some time since loungers in the Museum garden w were astonished to see protruding Mr. From a drain pipe a long mout, the which commonoed to a
egs of passers-by: It was found men to belong to a large
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