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A Fair Voyage. The s.s, Kwanglee, from Bhang- hai, reports: Light monsoon and fair; olear weather.
Child Drowned.
A child, whilst stepping from ono junk to another yesterday, fell into the Harbour and was drowned.
Rickshaw Stanic..
A Stowaway Fined.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10-19
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TO BREED
SENITARY BOARD PROSECUTION.
BREACH OF CLOSING
ORDER
An Interesting Case.
COMMENTS.
Rubber-Estate Murder
Yet another caso of a European
The owner of No. 2 Shui-ou rubber-ossistant's being murdered Line was summoned to appear Jolore. It is easy for onlookers recautly omo to hand; this time in Hongkong
Aman named Fung Kwong, of Telegraph
at the Police Court this morning, to say that this kind of thing is 31 Pokfulam Road, was summon Sir,-As a constant reader ed to appear before Mr. C. D. for allowing the first floor to be a part of the inevitable conse of your paper, I am very much Melbourne, at Police Court, this occupied by four persons in quences of employing native struck by the way you have care-morning, for unlawfully allowing contravention of a closing order, labour on a large scale - and fully remained from reporting mosquito larvas to soenmulate in A Chinese was also summoned with a ridiculously small white any of the numerdcases of bar his garilen and thereby promote for being tenant occupying the staff as casy, in fact, as it carrying ou, on estate glary that have occurred rightly ake breeling of the incools.
of
in the Colony, for many wooks H. Knight, Sanitary Board same in contravention of the is for one class of cranks o paat. :-
Inspector, stated that on the 22nd orders 1 regard the suppression of ult. ho visited the ground this most important item of newe floor and garden
Iny the occurrence at the door of The first defendant did not European tyranny, and for an- of de appear but was represented by od assistant as a martyr, and all other class to regard the murder- as highly reprehensible, as the fendant's promises andin Public ought to be kept most flower pots which wero fall his agent.
He said that the natives on fiends. Every onso of carefully warned as to the pre of water, mosquitoes were breed-place was not rento! by the man this kind has to be judged on its sent state of insecurity in which ing. He served a notice on but was in his charge as own special morite or demerita. they are dwelling.
defendant on the 25th calling his caretaker.
Coulies will tako meokly from one attention to the nuisance. The
Mr. E, D. C. Wolfe, Head of the for which they would slaughter. ground floor was used as a school.
white man the very wordsor blows
or a
A paved rickshaw stand, is to be provided in Connaught Road, is already under construction. in front of King's Buildings. I
Unlicensed Hawker, Several mon who had been caught hawking without licences woradealt with by the magistrates, at the Police Court, this morning,
Boy Found in the Harbour. In some districts of the Colony The body of a Chinese boy, no police are to be found between about thirteen years of ngo, was certain hours owing to changing le visited the place again on the Sanitary Department, said that another. Again, Chinese coolies found in the Harbour, yesterday, rounds, and during theso poriods, 28th and found the flower pots both were liable; the tonnat for will submit to frontment that Ho had been reported as missing burglars have the time of their as they wore before. by his parents.
Occupying and the owner for would madden negrose, and no- lives, and peaceable citizens, are The defendant Bald that the allowing it to be occupied. groes will grin at a thing that severe nerve'strain. In fact, in found was not under his charge defendent says he was there, and notico. As long as rubber is put to great personal loss and place where tha mosquitoes were Mr. Molbourne-Tho second Javanese amok at a second's
would son a Malay several instances, householders As to what the inspector had said have lind to put on one side the about the mosquitoes breeding in bie daughter, and two friends. fact that. they pay Police rates, the flower pots, it could not be Mr. Wolfe-That means he and are obliged to engage watch-true as the pols had holes in them admits it. The inspectors visited do the work that ought to be complained of. men at considerable expense to and could not contain the water the premises and found defendant done by the Public Guardiana of
there and poveral others,' . the Peace. Can you give any
Mr. Melbourne: I see the information as to the number of
house was closed? actual burglaries which have to the present dato in July? And taken place during Jano, and up also, at the same time, the number of cases in which the Police have been successful in capturing the culprits or in recovering the stolen property?—Yours otc,
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THE STRIKE VICTIMS.
Among those who left by the 8.8. Chino yesterday wore Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Biugham, and Major Ponny. Several U. S. Naval officers left by the saine boat.
Left for Home..
To-day there loft for Home by the s.s. Simla, Mr. G.. A. Cooke, Secretary to Commodore Eyres, and Asst. Paymr. Rocquette. Both will be keenly missed in loc
cricket circlos
Hongkong Map.
We have received from Messrs. Kelly and Walsh a capital map of Hongkong and the Now: Territories, which has been com- In piled from the latest surveys.,
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LOCAL SPORT.
BILLIARDS.
ment.
the house from the garden?
Mr. Molbourne-Do you enter
Defendant:-Yos, part of it. Mr. Melbourne:-Have you any witness?
have made is my witness.
Defendant:-The statement:
Mr. Wolla: Yes. Mr. Melbourne: Woll,
should have been thero.
grown, so long will these happenings crop up from time to time. We believe that, in British rubber-producing countries, the Imperial Government has done ita honest, best fu protect both white man and columrod ; but no governmicut can introduce any nobodytrol men's passions or the tropical form of legislation that will con
Mr. Wolfe:That is so. This placo was closed by an order of oeive a notice from the Sanitary lowed to occupy it.
Mr. Melbourne: Did you re-the Magistrate and nobody is al- Board-Yea.
Mr. Melbourne:The second What did you do with it?-Iman says he is the caretaker.. commenced to work and cleaned Mr. Wolle: It seems to me all the place.
the owner is ohiofly to blame.
Do the boys use the play-The premises were closed in grouad-No.
loat that aggravates these. The Unspeakable Coolle.
Whon, one wonders, will the Powers-that-ho exercise them solves in the direction of making. it possible for Europeans to ase he pavement in certain parts of this Colony 2 As instters stand, there are many quarters in Hong kong, which are far from being. exclusively Chinese, where, at
Septembar 1000 for certain Mr. Wolfe: He is the tenant alterations, but as the owner did is clear and bold and full of the
of the ground floor and he is not make these, a Magistrate's my time of day or night, and expected in a local map. The mast minute details such as are The Royal Engineers' Tourn-responsible unless he proves that order was obtained in. con especially during he tiffia hour, ho let out a part of the ground sequence. In the recent demand the funt-passenger who has the |solling price is $1.50.
floor.
for houses the owner though misfortune to be either a woman. Burglaries.
Tho thirty-two competitors in
Mr. Melbourne-Five dollarse could get this order roscindor a weakling must needs walk Burglaries are becoming rife the billiard tournament hold
Dafendant How can you tine and wrote to the Board asking in the hot, unshvided road-be in the Colony and it secins as under the auspices of the Royal no when the place is not mine? for permission to do so ouse, forsooth, our dear friend though the police must have their Euginsors at the N., C. O's Mos Mr. Melbourne:-You can encertain suggested alterations, the 'coolio elects to take his hands full at present. Within have now been able to congratuago a solicitor, and if you want the last two days the midnight into the winner, as on Monday to appeal you have seven days marauders have paid a visit to a night Corporal Carpenter, in a for doing it. house in Poktulum, while the re- brilliant game, bout his rival sidence of Mr. E. Ormiston 04 finalist, C. Bond Messrs. Stewart Bros, has also received their unwelcome atten- tions,
90. In the course of the game: Boad owed 120 and Carpontor the corporat made some pretty Bond's best effort on the night compilations of over twenty. was an all-round. twenty-three. Eventually Carpenter ran out
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THE ** EMPIRE STOW
AWAYS:
Those however, were not carried otiumaine dignitate at full length out and after he had gone to thoross the pavement, or, if not, trouble of making enquiries and to squat on his hams, playing hand been informed as to what re abatruss gims of chance or skill; pairs were necessary ha promptly or else to fr himself as a unit goes and lete the place.
of a thick and sinelisema 'arid· window-gazing group which nothing short of a battering-ram can cleave. (Wo have mentioned
Mr. Melbourne-The second mau saya he is the caretaker.
Mr. Wolfo I don't mind what
The eleven mon charged with he is. We find people on the pro-in a former note that, while thus being stowaways on the s.s. Em-mises and those premises should pire, and the two mon charged not be occupied..
engaged, be stanile on no cere mony as regards disambarrassing
Opium Divan. Six men were charged before Mr. E. A. Irving at the Police Court, to-day, with being con- corned in an opium divan at No. victor with the ecoros standing with aiding and abetting, wore Mr. Melbourne-He says he himself of superfluous saliva or
5; Mo On Lane. The first defend-250 and 173. ant, who was also charged with "keeping," was fined $300 or in and the others were fined $2 each, default ordered three months, with the exception of one who was fined $1.
Synthetic rubber, Opinion in Shanghai does not
....
The telegrams from Europe just now provide melancholy reading indeed, and none more than those that relate to the dock strike in England. "Striking" is, after all, very like bomb throwing; in either case, the weapon use injures anybody and everybody rather than those against whom it is avowedly employed. The infornal machine laid or thrown by the infuriated anarchist seem to be very much in favour third prize, a mutilates and disembowels not the tyrant" whose death is so of the synthetic rubber flotation. (prosented), was won by Staff eagerly sought, but some inoffensive nurse girl or strest-beggar, o As an indication of what share- Sergeant Giddy, and the fourth, a bunkers and not allowed to go horss; at whilos it even destroys the would-be slayer himself. brokers think about the matter, pair of gold ouff links, was won Similarly, the victims of this present atrike-the real sufforers by the "N. China Daily News" this ill-timed and woren planned labour-conflict-instead of being mentions that a broker offered:
by C. 8.M. Stewart. the capitalists, are the general publin, the wives and children of the to sell the Synthetic Rubber Co.'s S.M. Morgan. strikers and, finally, the strikers themselves..
shares, delivered in Shanghai in twelve months from date, at 25. per cent discount.
The "doeben": Stowaways.
If, in place of hearing of these matters as something that is happening at the present moment, wo were inorely reading of them
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The prizes were presented by
BANISHED CHINESE.
orow.
tina.
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again brought up before Mr. Afel-is a watchman.
sputum, so perhaps we need not The highest bronk in the bourne, today.
Mr. Wolfe:We cannot prove recur to that.) If wo dared, tournament was made by A. G.
Mr. Mostor prosecutod and Mr. what he is. He was found thore wo would suggest that some a thirty-nine. Pile, wlio secured the honour with Russ defended six of the de- with his family. If he wore the of the army of police whose
fondants.
caretaker he ought to be alone. In. luty it appears to be to keep Corporal Carpenter's prizo was
Mr. Master said he proposed to any case he had no business to be watch and wird over the youthful a clock (prosented). The second call two of the defendants in there.
erimin ls who venl the Telo- prize, wou by C. Bond, a pair of order to give evidence againat Mr. Melbourne:He says he graph," should be drafted to silver of silver flower vosos. The the aiders and abettors... is the caretaker and had the koys various parts of the Praya, of
taken on board and put in the keys he was the tenant. silver junk One of the men said he wal
Mr. Wolfe If he had the Des Voeux Road, and of Queon's Houd (particularly that part of the The second defendant, after tatter that skirts the Naval Yord), out. He was fod by one of the being questioned, said he did there to hint mildly to the "rank
pay any rent.
sbonted many" that they should The first defendant, a fireman,
Mr. Wolfe-He has got per allow to the phor,
down-trodden said he went to look in the bus mission to live there. I do no: European an inch or two, of foot- kers and found a number of mon
mind whether he in caretaker or way. there. There was also one tin of not; he has to business thero. 1 Latest In Insurance, as a historical ovout with the dust of three centuries upon it, our
biscuite and three empty liscuit withdraw the case against the We live in an age when it is main feeling would surely bo one of amazement; of utter bewilder mostly Cantonese, found hidden
The seventy-seven Chinese, Suggestion of Hongkong French the mattor to the engineer,
second defendant, but continuo possible to insure against almost He immediately reported | the case against the owner for anything-oven twins. But one ment at the wrong-headedness and short-sightedness-yea, the
Consul.
Mr. Irving dismissed the second allowing the place to be occupied of the most sensible forms of in- pitiless selfishness of the striker. It is this last item, this hideous away on the German mail stenmer indifference to the hunger-moans of wife and children, that Hongkong on June 17, apponro: (Annam) has submitted to the $1,000 in the care of the first
defendant, and again remanded in breach of the order of the aurance which we have noticed "Goeben
on her arrival from The Governor Gonoral of Huo the others, fixing the bail at
Magistratos, of lato has been that advertised nansantes and enrages the man who has devoted even so much 38 before Mr. Arthur, third magis-Bosident Superior a communica- defendant.
The first defendunt said hyn surety Company of New ten seconds' reflection to the situation. After some years' experience
was the agent for the ownor York, which provides for the pro of the British workman, wo scarcely looked to see him consult his trale, at Singapore, on July 2nd.tion from the French Consul at own beat interests in junctures of this sort; we were prepared to asked to live the caso postponed vantages that would arise from abetting, Mr. Master intimating months. He was under the im-nooklaces, surf-pins, liraoobes, The Deputy Public Proscontor, flongkong, pointing out the ad-also charged with aiding and lead acted for him for four worn. It is well-known how that A boarding house keeper he who was at present in Canton, teotion of jewellery while being find him led away by the spacious misrepresentations and pseudo- logic of wall-paid agitatore; woliad given him full-oradit for not and suggested that the accused be generalising, in all countries of that he would pro-face-ovidence pression, when the order wasoto, are frequently taken by rob being able to see three inches beyond the tip of his own nose; but allowed bail. Fifty-six wore the Union, the measures adopted to prove that he had taken soveral made, that it prohibited the owner bera while being worn, it the we had clung to the belief that he would not turn deaf ear or blinded found in the bunkers and twenty-in Tonkin for preventing the re-men on board the ship with the or his agent from renting theatrests, and protection against eye to the most snored appeal on earth; that of home and wife and one in cabins. Ho suggested tarn of banished Asiatics to our intention of getting them away.
place. A watchman was employ this form of robbery can, it is child. Women and children-not just a handful, but scores of tliat those found in the bunkers (the French) possessions. of thousands—are starving, and yot those whoso firat duty it is to those from the cabine at $50 each, takes a record of physical details Empire about eighteen days ago is a plea of guilty.
ed by the owners and he was stated, bo had at most reasonable A ship's quartermaster said bo allowed bail of $30 each, and provide them with brend are rofusing a living wage, whining at His Worship consented.
The government of Tonkin that he last went on board the allowed to sleep there:
rates, Hongkong should fool a the street-corner, or bawling in the market-place against en oppres
Mr. Melbourne:I think that particular interest in this on- -together with photograplis,He wont on board to see a sjon which, were it thrice as great, would shrink to nothing by the
of all banishees, which are for who owed him $2. After ho got which stated that "no person is Colony to merit a warning from Mr. Wolfe quoted the bye-lave mon enough in the streets of the nouncement, as snatching is com- side of that tyranny which has ever been the hall-mark of the Rise in Silver In Manchuria.
warded to the neighbouring Con the monoy he waited for a while, demagogue the moment he found himself in a position to exercise The "Manchuria Daily News" suls in Indo-China, and notably Whilst waiting he saw the first allowed ou closed premises be the police that ladies should take it. What does the Government think of it all? Has it given even says that the 8. M. R.. Co. has to the French representative at defendant in the last case comis y nd the caretakor." the most elementary sign of ability to grapple with the ghastly raised the silver yen to a par with Hongkong. position? And more; what does the working-man think of the the gold yon from Monday after- But it may happen that a Government now? He left no means untried to get, and keep, noon, the 24th ult. The Kwan- Chinose, banished from Cochin was not satisfied with the inter
Mr. Master here said that he Radical Ministry in power; ho waxed delirious with joy at the tang Government has followed China or from Arnam, may ob proter and his Chinoso clerk said Limehouse patter of the Chancellor and at the noisy outbursts of the example. Such a rise of silver tain a pass-port for Tonkin under they could get a better one. the Labour members; yet we really fail to see how the gods wherein on the exchange markets of South an assumed name, proper precau-
A contemporary states that he trusted are going to help him in his present straits.
Mr. Irving also remanded this defondant would give an under, Flunghutzes recondly mona Manchuria has not been experi tions us to his identity not having case.
taking not to allow the people to successfully to hold up a Those whom God wishes to destroy, He firat drives mad and silver was quoted above par. As for has therefore circularised the onced, since 1907, in which year been taken. The Resident Super-
sleep on the premises.
the Chineas Eastern ltanway assuredly the madness that fore-runs destruction would seem to be the great loan negotiatione ad- leads of Provinces asking them if Glasgow: Emigration to America was informed by his Worship that thereon. They
Defendant agreed to this and rob all the nati descending on England now Only malness or inconceivable vanoe, and when large sums of thay consider that's measure such Three baseness could prompt men to stand idle while women starve. If money must be delivered in specie as that above mentioned world be
carrying over lie found him guilty. He would, all olenrod ull, suce Er Asquith's Government can settle the difficulty forthwith, in
chiefly emi- howevor merely hind him overina the train was Hearon's name let it. If not--but the alternative is obvious.
до one will be surprised to see praslicable in Anns Cour-grants lasgow on June 8 for sum of $25 to come up for jndg gra eilver quoted above premium. rior d'Haiphon
Canada and the United Slater - ment when called upou cantandoli reted somew!
on board.
friend
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care to see that all välüübles word Mr. Melbourne:-Does wateli or erriod are, well secure Defensinnt: You man mean caretaker?
Mr. Wolfe said he was prepare pared to withdraw the summons
Train held up near Harbin,
if
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