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WEDNESDAY, JULY 17- 1912.

"WHEN I WAS YOUNG."

A Tailor Who Had Mended His Ways.

At the Police Court, this morn- ing, a strange story was told to The Delta arrived to-day, with Mr. Melbourne by an old Chinese maile from Europe and Singapore.who was charged with obtaining

Off to Japan..

money by false pratoncos, and Mrs. J. W. Kew and Mrs. boing in possession of three Quinn loft Hongkong by the se spurious coins. Awa Maru for Japan on holiday. Honorary Fellowship for Sir

C. Clemonti Smith. Sir C. Olementi Smith, late Governor of the Straits Settle-

Mr. Melbourno':-What did ho monte, has been elected an hono-give you the dollar for? The sary follow of Corpus Christi money was supplied by the Euro- Collego, Cambridge.

poan for giving a lecture.

Stopt in the Street. A man, who said he stopt in the street, was remanded at the Police Court, this morning, on a chargé of being in unlawful possession of a box of Chinese clothing.

Theft of Clothing. A sentence of fourteen days and four hours stocks was imposed on a man by Mr. Melbourne, at on boing found guilty of the larco ny of clolling from a woman.

Expensive Litigation.

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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1912.

NORTH BORNEO'S NEW ERA.

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The Simple Life.

We understand that a proposal is on foot in Y. M, G. A. circles to start a permanent camp outside Hongkong, where residents will be able to enjoy the simple life. The scheme, which was discussed at a preliminary meeting on Tuesday evening, includes the provision of a launch between the camp and the City.

What was the leature for P-

THE MORPHINE CON- VICTION.

THE DUMPING OF SAILORS.

Question of "Possession"

Reargued.

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Austrian Consul to dive.

Assistance,

NOTES AND

COMMENTS."

A Gratifying. Appointment

The information contained in a telegram olsowhoro that Mr. H C. Belfield, O.M.G., British Resi

In the Tolograph" og k

M. Lewis re-urgued the questerday appeared verbatim, and dent of Peruk, has been given the tion of " possession to-day at exclusively, a report of a caso appointment of Governor of the Police Court, arising out of the brought up at the Police Court, British East Africa, boars out the in which it was, alleged that recent declaration by the Imperial race in inch a 150 by Mr. Mol: sailors had been dumped in Government that, as far as is recently fined $150 by Mr. Mol

Crown Solicitor.

An answer to the charge, debourne for being in possession of Hongkong and that the Austrian compatible with the gonoral wool, fendant said he was on board a

15lbs. of morphine valuod $3,000. Consul had declined to assist the highest appointments shall bo open to those in the Coloniul them. Mr. Melbourne: Have you

For this reason, and steamer and a European Was

We are informed that the three Service. soan the Crown Solicitor ? so very kind as to give me a dollar."

Mr. Lewis-I saw the Crown sailors, who were originally con- from the fact that, in Mr. Belfield's Bolicitor; ho is not coming

pected with an Austrain ship, cane, it is an instance of merit up. I saw him yesterday. I saw have now been provided with meeting with due recognition, both Mr. Hodgson and the food and shelter by the Consul the appointment is one which and that he has also promised to will be widely approved. The new send them to Colombo, the port Governor was previously a barris- at which they were paid off from tor practising on tho Western the Austrian stenwer. The Har Circuit, but whon 33 years of age bour Master of Hongkong and he entered tho Selangor Civil the matter laid fully boforo him Service as u. Magistrate, and, by successive promotions, won his Did you tell the police you

yesterday.

way through to the position he is nhout to vacato. Fifty-seven years wors 262 (laughter)--No, 70.

tion. Bo admitted the frots I thought it

waa rather donbt-

of age, he has waited long for ful when I saw here 20 (laughter): witnesses, because his would and he did not call for any

higher promotion, but now he is as he got any occupation ?-1

making a change, distinctly for have proved only the same At the Police Court, this morn- the bettor. As ftesident of Perak was a tailor when I was young thing as the witnesses for the ing, a man was charged before his salary was £1,600; now be (more laughter),

prosecution. He then submitted Mr. Melbourne, with cutting and will receive £3,000, plus £1,000 Does he do anything now-to his Worship, rather strongly, wounding a woman with a sword. duty allowance, I am at present employed as a that although his client was cer- Defendant said the woman was The Retiring vernor.

tainly in custody of the morphine his wife. This was denied by the

For the hospital. The bad coins were coins collected from people:

What ago are you?—Lam 70| yours old.

A Lecturer.

have had this book for four yours.

Have you any doctors there ?- No; we have no doctors there now;

it is a charitable institution.

1. S. WollsHe was very careful only to go to steamers alongside the buoys and not alongside the wharves,

No Such Man

Oplum Divan, Twenty-two men were brought before Mr. Melbourne at the Police Court, to-day, charged with being concerned in an opium divan at Wanchai. One man, found guilty of "keeping," was man Tu Shui Ki? fined $150 or in default Bix weeks, and the others $2 each, A man out on bail did not put an appearance and his bail

Mr. Melbourne:-Who is this

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caso for the

Mr. Melbourne:--Vory well, Mr. Lewis said his Worship would remember that at the con clusion of the prosocution in this particular brought forward by the prosecu instanco ho agreed with the facts

SANITARY BOARD.

Sextons Quarters at Mount

Caroline Cemetery.

THE MAN AND THE SWORD.

LAWN BOWLS,

The Championship of the Colony.

Me pak fj

P. W.L. F. A. Pis.

Civil Service..5 0 5 106 351

MARINE COURT.

Sir Percy Girouard, whom Mr. Belfield succeeds, is resigning at an early age, as ho is yet five years on the youthful side of fifty, A Canadian by birth, he spent his carly career in the Army,

ssvoral and, after

railway appointments, in 1907 he was made High Commissioner of Northern : Nigeria and Inter he become Governor thereof. Three yours

ho was appointed to the post, ngo which he is now vacating, and he loavos the Service with a fino record behind him. It will be recalled that it was Sir Percy Girouard who deported the Hon. Mr. Galbraith Cole for shooting

native.

A New Chinoso Alphabet.

It is estimated that the case lecturer. for any period less than ano month will be charged as for a of U. L.A. Mohideon v. Lau L. S. Wills: This is a case of of the first defendant, yet in the woman

He was fined $25 or in default full month..

Ngai-po and the Coronation gotting money for hospitals under meaning of the Ordinance he was Garage, which was completed false pretences. According to not in possessiou. His Worship six wooks for being in possession yesterday, when the Chief Justice this book, he is collecting money; appreciated that the morphine of arms-the sword, and on the gave his judgment,, cost at least a cap ain gaye him $1, at 6.30 on did not belong to his client and charged of assault he was dis-

in view of that fact he had anid |inissed." - Monday morning. $4,000 to fight.

The woman had been in hospi- Loft by the Manchuria. Mr. Melbourne:And these are ho would only inflict a light fine

or a comparatively light fine. On tal as a result of her wounds. Among the passengers by the the coins he collected? p. H. Manohuria yesterday were L.S. Wills-No, he was charg the question of possession his Mr. Hassan, (manager of Counciled with obtaining a dollar. The Worship in the first place rs- Bros., Manila), Lieutenant J. D. coins are concerned with the served judgment and subsequent- Fulton, the Rev. Father R. Neyra second charge of being in posses-ly held against him. In support of that decision his Worship quoted of the Spanish Procuration, Mr.sion.

Mr. Melbourne-On the first law casos. Mr. Lewis then quoted B. 1. Hastings of the Manila

legal instances of diffentiation bo- Customs, and Mr. R. T. Ander-charge he says a captain gave

The third round in the pom- son, of the firm of W. H. Ander him a dollar for giving a lecture tween custody and possession and son and Co., Manila.

on the steamer.Did you show one instance, in Stroud, where a petition for the championship of distinction was drawn botwoon the Colony closes on Saturday him this book beforo ho gave you

possossion, custody, and "in next. So far, four matches inve the dollar?

Defendant :-Yes, Sir.

keeping." His client was not the been played with the result that An interesting statement in Mr. Melbourne:-Does this getual owner and could not possese two representatives from Taikoo, made to the effect that Chow Hi- book say you are making collec-

it.

and on each Police and Kowloon chu, Secretary of the Chinose tions for Chui Lok Hospital,

The bearing was adjourned.

Club shave emerged into the last Legation in Rome, has been do 71, Second Street ?--Yes, Sir. I

eight. Thoy aro: Scott and voting his time recently to making Batoman, of Taikbo, Stuart, of an alphabet suitable for Chinese. Polico, and Haxton, of Kowloon. It is said that the young Chinese, The League Competition. educated in the Universities. The table now stands:

abroad, are no longer content with Polico 50 324 220 100, characters in which their langungo has been written for Taikoo .... ...52 305 2346 thousands of years, ench character Kowloon ..... 2 3 282 290 4 meeting of the Sanitary

and want letters which will ropresenting an idon-not a word Only a day or two ago attention was drawn, in our "Notes and

Board was hold yesterday after-

represent sounds. To meet this Comments", to a frosh departure in the policy of the Chartered

noon, when the head of the

now wish, Mr. Chow has made Company that owne North Borneo. This morning a further wire

Sanitary Department, Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, presided. There were

up an lpabet consisting of announces that the late government secretary. Mr. Aylmer Pourson,

This morning at the Murine forty-two characters, of which Defendant:-There is no such also present:--Hon. Mr. E. 1. is to succeed Mr. Ellis as Governor; a development which will not

Hallifex, Mossrs. W. L. Carter, Court, beforo Commander O. W twenty-three are vowels and Ho has Beckwith, R.N. one boatinan and inetcon consonants. Melbourne-Well, he F. B. L. Bowley, Col. Irwin, five boatwomen wore charged had surprise those who have followed the recent march of events in this

signed this, didn't ho?-I don't Chan Kai-ming, Ng Hon-sz, with unlawfully mooring their all existing languages for those to. draw upon almost little Prolostorate. Of a fruth, things are now moving quickly in|

Fitzwilliams, Dr. W. F. Clark Borneo. It was about this time last year that Mr. Ellis, ut a some- Mr A. D. Cox. Convalescent. : How long has the institution (Medical Officer of Health), Dr. boats within 100 yards of low characters and it is said that the wlint advanced age, and after a very long and toilsome career as a Mr. A. D. Cox, who was serious existed? For more than ton W. Pearse (Assist. M. O. H.) and water mark, in a prohibited place new style of writing takes about

nd during prohibited houra on W. Bowen-Rowlands, secretary.

a quarter of the time and trouble Civil Servant in Ceylon, was appointed successor to Mr. E. P.ly injured some weeks back by Guoritz, then at Home on love. During the interrognum the bungalow, is progressing splen- falling from the verandal of his

A letter was read from the July 17. Thoy pleaded guilty and involved in the old. The pro- Government relative

were each fined $15 or, intagonists of this reform say that administration was in the hands of the latter's secretary and son-in- didly, but it will be three or four

Pokfulam Reservoir catchment default, imprisonment for one the year 1912 will not closa

month with hard labour.

before the new letters have been law, the newly appointed Governor. The country was then in a weeks before he will be able to particularly disordered condition, and Mr. Pearson undoubtedly Cox's tennis exploits in the past

Jau Yung, master of the s. 1.fficially and universally adopted." leave the Nursing Home. Mr.

The prosidont said they would remember that a select committee unlawfully failing to exhibit the The alphabet used during a thou- Lagu Taikoo, was charged with That is so much shoer nonsonss. displayed great sagacity and patience over the carrying out of a are well-known to all Hongkong

was appointed to ascertain how supremely difficult and thankless task. For, on the one side of him sportsmen.

. S. Wille:Yes, your Wor- far the original recommendations regulation lights on his craft sand years cannot be rooted out wore the rubber Syndicates, who had bought and paid for the bulk

made in 1910 had been carried while moored off the naval can- in six months, and they ought to of the land down the west coast and who intended to hold what At the Police Court to-day, Mr. Melbourne:If it is a out. They made a few additional teen at Wanchai on July 15. Ho know it. they had got; on the other, the native chiefs, who maintained (and before Mr. Dick Melbourne, a man charitable institution, this case recommendations and the letter, was fined $5, the defendant in some instances with perfect right) that the Chartered Company was charged with the larceny of should go before the Registrar which showed the action taken by stating that the lights would not had sold land which was their own hereditary property and which a door. Defendant denied steal-General first, and get his signa. the Government in the matter, contained not only the graves of their relatives, but also the fruit-ing the door. He said that as ho

was laid on the table. trees that formed their principal source of revenue. In the and the passed the door, which was lying.

The report of the select com- natives gained the day, albo't the victory was only such, morally loose, the owner Cante and in name,

assaulted him and sconeod him of

mittee appointed to consider the Head of the Sanitary Depart He had been Until the appointment of Mr. Ellis, the country had virtually stealing the door.

A police witness said that mont's recommendations for new been ruled by the Directors in Threadneedle Street, and the succes in Hongkong seventeen years when he went to 71 Second latrines to be erected during 1913, sive Governors appear to have been little more than mouth-pieces to He was sentenced to three weeks' Street he found no doctors there, was adopted. that powerful body. But when it was known that an ex-corvant of imprisonment.

The doctor who had had charge the British Government was to rulo in the stond of one of thỏ Com-

was now in Canton. pany's officials, old residents began to be seized with the spirit of

Mr. Melbourne said that if there prophecy. Whether in fulfilment of the soothsaying of there law, who was one of the passen had been doctors there it was still wiseacros, or by sheer coincidence, matters certainly took a sudden gers from home in the s.a. Mishima for the police to prove that it was and wonderful turn forthwith. Departmental lackness was dealt Maru, has come to Hongkong to not one of the many charitable with anmmarily, and young officials were spalily provided with practice in the Courts here. Mr. institutions carried on by the Chin- considerable material for reflection. Then came the visit of Jenkins was. admitted to the bar the Chairman of Directors, Sir West Ridgway, and, almost from Gray's Ian and for five. The man the police had brought said the doctor had gone simultaneously, the now regulations regarding contract colle labour: years has been practising in to Canton. and, on the heals of these, the establishment of a Legislative London. His formal introduction

Changed His Tune. Council on similar lines to that of Ilongkong,

LIE

was estreated.

Thelt of a Door.

A New Barrister.

Mr. F. C. Jenkins, barrister-at-

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003,

Mr.

know.

Yeare.

occupy the house left in 1890.

L. S. Wills: The last man to Mr. Melbourne-What is 71 Second Street now?

L. S. Wills-A coolio house.

Mr. Melbourne: Did you send anyone to make enquiries?

ship.

Juro.

L.S. Wills:-No, your Worship; I wont into that yesterday morn

ing.

a

what he told me last night.

L. 8. Willa:-That was not

Mr Melbourne: Have you any other witness?

area.

to

the

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The Sickle of Progress.

The Chiness Logation at Lon

koep in.

don no longer possesses a quouo For unlawfully failing to licence which depends froin a human their boats, a boatwoman was hand. The only one remaining fell beneath the sickle of pro- fined $5 and a boatmen $10.

gress baraly a month ago, It "DAVID GILLIES grew, on the head of Yeo Luk

RETURNS.

Yins, major domo, who, we read, hails from the Peking distriot. In the early days of the revolution. Plana for a proposed vegetable The s. David Gillios, of the he wished to get rid of this em market at Yaumati and sextons Hongkong Whampoa Dook, which blem of Manchu servitude, but, quarters at Mount Caroline Ceme was dopatched to the Paracels to although forty years of age, tory were adopted.

attempt the salvage of the 8.5 would not do so until he had In connection with the latter Quinis, returned to longkong obtained the consent of his father. Mr. Bowley asked

ast evening. As she did not tow

The old man, was who probably How many sextons are there at The Quinta in, enquiica were shrewd enough himself to wait and

made; but, in the absence of a re- Mount Caroline?

The President:-There are port from the "David Gillies." see what happened before he dis four and all married. The bed Messrs, Stemssen and Co. had no the pormission until quite recent covered his sympathies, withold room accommodation is suitable statement to give to the press. for eleven and there are elevon in

ly. One home paper tells, with all. I am not sure how muny

quito affecting interest, that tho children they have, but each lin

queue is going to China to be treasured by the major dome's a wife, ro that makes oight The

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English Officers qualify as Japanese Interpreters.

to the Chief Justice, Mr. W. Roos Davies, K.C., will take place to Thus far the country's immediato past and prosunt. Ita future marrow morning, prior to the can largely be read from the context of Reuter's massage, which Criminal Sessions. statos that, for the next three years, Sir West Ridgeway and the

L. B. Wills What does this reason for spending the money The undermentioned officers wife as a gift from her husband, Colonial office will govern jointly, through the medium of a Malay Service officer as to whose identity we can more than make a LADY MAY'S "AT HOME." charitable institution mean? What on Mount Caroline is that it is having attained the standard re-end a souvenir. It may become a guess. Bearing in mind the fact that Labuan and Brunei are already

Are they doing with the money? really the best Chinese cemetery quired by the regulations re- family heirloom, too, recalling as Included in the Straits Sottlements, it is not easy to believe that the.

Inting to the study of foreign it will to futuro generations, the In what way do they dispose of in the Colony, Lady May held her frat "At the money? The captain of a Colonial Office has quite reached the end of its programme where Home" since her arrival in the steamer is a witness he gave

Languages, are qualified to be in epoch-making fato of the Mangliu North Borneo is concerned. Of the commercial worth of the country. Colony, yesterday afternoon, a defendant a dollar.

terpretora in Japanese-First dynasty. Had the writer of thess class-Captain F. 8. G. Piggott, words lived out East for oven a there can be no doubt; it has rubber and tobicco in abundance; it Mountain Lodge, The Paak Mr. Melbourne The case is] Dr. Ilinded, the well-known R.E,; Secoud olase-Lient. G. B. week, a few months ago, he wouli, vields enormous supplies of cocon-nuta, jungin-produce, timber, Favoured with fine weather the remanded until Saturday morn- Danish diet expert, who has Oilver, R.F.A., Capt G. F. Per- have made a deal less to-do about and gold which it has been proved to contain on a generous scale, is thoroughly enjoyable afternoon collecting for three years. He a laboratory founded by the fruit, etc., and the potential value of the coal, oil, copper, magnesium large number of guests spent a ing. He has pleaded guilty to been working for aevoral years in kine, Hampshire Regiment. tho shedding of a major domo's The Philippine Locust Plague, queue. Still, so many went from incalculable. Given wise immigration laws and restrictions, there The band of the let K.O.Y.I.Lays "We have no doctors at the Government and himself, hea

A publio subscription has been East to West recently, in one forms would be no reason why Chinese workers should not settle freely was in attendance, while tennis present time." Well; you have to discovered potatoes to be the best started in Leyte, Philippine Is- or another, that it is good to roun there, and by co-operation with the British, help to develop what and croquet were enjoyed by prove it is not a charitable institut and almost only cure for die lands, to cover the cost of the of one which reverses the ans may soon be a thriving Crown Colony,

anti-loonet campaign. ilon or hospital, Bil $1,000,; order of the kidneys.

many

The Potato Cure

operation