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TUESDAY
AN INTERESTING VISITOR.
Interview with a Maker of Photographic Records.
AUGUST 20
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CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
An Armed Robbery at Yaumati,
SPECIAL CABLES.
H. M, S. MINOTAUR. REPORTED FATAL ACCIDENT.
(Our Own Correspondent.]
NOTES AND
COMMENTS.
Australia's Loyalty," This morning in the Supreme
Rentor's message from Mel- Court, the Chief Justice, Mr. W.
bourne concerning Mr. Andrew Rees Davies, K.U., sitting in Crimi-
Fisher's speech is quite too tan- Among the many interesting nal jurisdiction, continued the
talising. It is all very well to in form us that Mr. Fisher doclared visitors who come to Hongkong hoaring of the case in which Chan
that while they did not desire during the year there are few Sam, Au Kwok, Chan Shop, and
Shanghai, August 20, Naval people here report that would not stand by and allow any lo injure anybody, Australia that equal Mr. Harry L. Marker, Leung Shi were charged with
armed robbery, and Hoi Mai was when H.M.8. Minotaur was proof His Majesty's dominions to whose one objeut in life, profes- charged with receiving the goods, seding for target shooting from sionally speaking, is to make well knowing them to be stolen. Woi-hai-wei to the region of Lash-suffer disabilities or injurios with rooorde for the Columbia Phono Yesterday afternoon all the ing, the target pinnace (?) burst, out boing with them in the strife." graph Company of America. In prisoners pleaded not guilty, and knocking off one man's head, That is all very well and very this he has to travel all over the Messrs L. M. Whyte (foreman) all over and was drowned, point? What was in his mind at the following jury was empanelled. tearing the stomach of a second, loyal, but what was Mr. Fisher a world mail take records ranging Hans J. Westphal, T. Braun, H. and breaking the arm of a third. the moment that gave rise to such from the sublime to the ridicu-W. Potley, EF.G. Orchard, J. H.
a statement? Talk so straight is lous, from the finest works of a Ruttonjee and S. E. Michael,
not employed by a responsible European/ virtuoso to the weird
It will be remembered that the dock, but the other two did not Colonial statesman without reason, A. coolie was charged at the sounds that emanate from the Police Court to-day with having throats of some Oriontals. Ina ola at Yaumati, where the wife of the same complacency.
with the and most readers of tlie telogram case concerned an armed robbery receive their sentonces
in question would like to have & atolon the brass fittings from the with a "Telograph" representa householder was bound with wire A Charge of Burglary.
hint as to the réazón, splash-board of a rickshaw attivo to other evening, Mr. Marker round the wrists, gagged, and Taimtsatani yosterday.
This afternoon soven men were Wanted A Strong Man
The telegram which to-day im2 furnished some interesting facts robbed of her jewellery. The indicted before the Chief Justice, concerning the phonograph and thieves got clear away but the first on charges of barglary, and with forms newspaper readers that the some of the experiences he has prisoner, who was alleged to be receiving stolen property. Their engineer apprentices in Scotland undergone in his endeavours to one of them, was arrested on an- names were-Wong Fuk, Chan have struck, in prateat against the obtain records. At present he is other charge, and the fact that he Chick, Ohan Lai, Fung Teat, Insurance Act, and have sent a at work on Chinose vocal music. had a loaded revolver in his pos- Kwan Lam, Chan Teoi, Choung onlling upon him either to amend telegram to Mr. Lloyd George He has done some of this work session aroused the suspicions of Kow. before, and the chances are that the police; who effected other some of the phonograph render- arrests. inga that one hears as he passes down a Chinese street are the result of his handiwork.
Theft of Brass,
Opium.
For being in possession of 72 taols of opium a man ne fined $500, with the option of three months imprisonment at the Police Court this morning.
Counterfeit Coln. A man and a women were
day with being in possession at 140 Wellington Street 57 Anieri- can gold Dollars, 4,010 Amori- can five gent pieces and a press for making the same. Prisoners wore romanded.
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BONGKONG TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1912.
COCOANUTS IN THE F.M.S.
sideration of those who are uninitiated.
at
Plague Return.
One witness, an old woman, gave evidence as to the nature of some of the stolen property; more particularly a pair of bangles.
Mr. Bucknill:Woro they now nese music is no music at all, banglea?-Ten thousand years but on this point Mr. Marker has old rattan.
Chinese Have Actual Music, It has often been said that Chi-
2
Prisoners numbers 1. and 4 the Act or to resign, is at once ploaded not guilty to both counts, amusing and pathetio. It tickles' and 3 guilty, while this Attorney one, at first thought, that thes General entored a wolle prosequi irresponsible (lasgow youngsters in the case of the last three, who who run riot occasionally, should sand such a message to the Chan- were consequently discharged.
prisoner.
The Attorney General, the Hon. cellor of the Exchequer. Yot, is Mr. Buoknill, proseoated on behalf it altogether funny? Is it not of the Orown and Mr. Jenkins, rather a saddening sign of the his own opinion, which is sup- When you say "ton thousand instructed by Mr. Crowther Smith, decadent portnoes and unadalter-
you simply appeared to defond the fourth ported by many observers. He year old ratton' Last week's plague roturns holds that the Chinese have mean lucky?—Yes. show a maintenance of the welcome real music, their combinations of decrease There were only four notes having an actual rhythm
In his defence the second pri- cases and four deaths, Two of which is perceptible to those who soner moroly said that Leung the cases were in the City and make anything like a study of Shi asked him to commit the rob- two in other districts. There the art. were thirco casos of entoric fever and two deaths,
"Do you like the music?" queriod the interviewer.
bory.
A Variety of Defences,
His Lordship-That is no de-
fonco.
Prisoner-Well, I did not stab the man so many times.
Prisoner No: 3 I did not
The case contains a certain interest as it is the first appear sace of Mr. Jenkins in the local
courts.
ated "cheok" of youth to-day? Is it not, again, a proof of the deep- seated unrsat at Home? The ap prentices are only following the example of their olders. The
strike spirit is in the air and has affected them. Britain. to-day sorely wants one or two big and strong men; and she seems un- able to produce them.
of
a serious situation. The execü-
tions, it will be remembered, wore rdered, by President Yuan Shih- kai on the recomendation of Vico- President Li, and the reason for
The Attorney General said that he had in front of him almost enough jewellery to stook a Plague Death at Manila,
"Well, you see it comes in at
joweller's shop and the jury would seo in the box two persons who The Pelding Executions.
There is no doubt but that the A Filipino dropped dead in the one car and goes out at the other"
were charged with being con-
the summary execution in Poking office of the Compania Traslantica, was the reply, giving the impres Manila, on the 10th inst. De- sion that Mr. Marker cares for the commit the robbery, the police nocted with the robbery. The of two Chinese generals, who were
theft took place in the early ceased was Gabino Bernaldo, 45 music only on a strictly business struck me and made me ouafees. hours of June 25 and it was leading spirits in the early days yoars old: married and residing footing..
Prisoner No. 4: No. 1 gave not discovered until the people in the Revolution, has precipitated with his wife and daughter ni The process of making a reine the pair of bangles to pawn, the house had risen. The next No. 686 Calle Ylays. The body cord," said Mr. Marker," is more I did not pawn them myself. I
day, however, the police saw the was removed to the city morgue, or less secret, though I can give gave them to Ah Chuen to pawn: first prisoner carrying a bug and Dontli was caused by the plague you a brief outline of how it is No 2 is not on good terms with
being somewhat suspicious of him dono, Iflx up my machine with me and so accused me. Carpeting the Summary Court
The woman, who is only charged made him open it when some of The Summary Cout prosented quite a comfortable aspect this and I get the singers to sing into taoraing, when it was found that the record inoanwhile being korchief was given her by her covered.
husband when he was discharged scratched on the record in wax. over night a heavy cocos-nut This record is sont to the factory.
from his ship. aatting had been laid on the There the first thing to be done A Sensible Verdict: floor. The end in view, we under-
The jury returned a verdict of is to dust it with graphite, and a oppor matrix is made from it of guilty with respect to prisoners by electro-deposition. This is Nos. 1, 2 and 3. With regard swested on to a copper plate to the first two, the foreman asked and the whole nickel-plated to that they be dealt with severely. give it a good surface. The ma- They wore dangerous characters. trix is then placed in a machine Nos. 4 and 5 were acquitted. and the records are pressed ont His Lordship: What disting under very gront pressure. They tion do you draw between 1 and Gre uot stamped out as some peo-2, and 37
properties of the Court, and it must be acknowledged that the
rosult is entirely satisfactory.
PHILIPPINE meat
PRICES.
霍
'of Hongkong.
a big trampot in my laboratory with receiving, said the hand the articles produced wore digthe order was alleged intrigue.
"
A Good Tale.
to
undertake
tho
a
The Sentences.
The caso was proceeding as we went to press.
TRADE MARKS.
Both were members of that power- fal political organisation, the Tungmenghui (the Jointly Bworn Union), and it is now reported that the party is instructing its members in the Provinces to “tako notion" against President
Motion for the Recification of Yuna, whatever that may precise
Register.
ly mean. The State Council, too, han decided to denounce the two
Those readers who are at all familiar with the planting coul-stand, is to improve the acoustic tions obtaining farther South, will feel that the investing world Home is under a very distinci obligation to the Government of the
This morning in original highest officials in the land. What Federated Malay States for the words. of warning which it issued the
Jurisdiction, before Mr. Justice the outcome will be it is not onay other day concerning the cocoa-nut industry in Malaya. No brangli
Gompertz, a motion was heard for to forecast, but there are ugly of the planter's enlling offers so tempting a bait to the would-be
the rectification of the register of possibilities in the situation. The speculator, and none is more hedged about with risks and dis-
trade marks with regard to the strange, aspect of the whole affair appointments. Much of the snare lies in the seeming simplicity of |
trade marks No, 70, 1911, 1, 2, 3o the Wosterner is that, after The Foreman-No. 1, we think and 4, and Nos. 25, 26, 27 and ordering the execution of General cocoa-nut growing The most sanguine or the most ill-informed Excessive as Compared with those ple soom to think,"
is the ringleader; No. 2 was not a 28, of 1018 of the Wo Loo firm. Chung, the President should an- layman allows for iho necessity of a slowly and painfully acquirod
ringleader, but we consider him The motion was made in the case nouace his intention of awarding Mr. Marker tells a very good technical knowledge where rubber, tobacco, ten, eta, are concerned;
dangerous character: No. 2 is of the Wo Lee firm v. the Lampension to the family of the but, because he has read in some book or newspaper that the comBoard of Manila has returned to he had engaged to sing for cutrix, and No. 3 was evidently
The president of the Municipal tale of one Chinese vocalist whom the man who assaulted the prose Yat Shing firm.
deceased, should grant permission Mr. C. G. Alabaster, instructed for the dead. General to be buried nut palm gives little trouble to the grower and is an unfailing source that body the meat raport pre- the purposes of record tak- there, according to his own stato-by. Mr. G. K. H. Bratton, sp with full military honours, and of revenue to its owner, he is all too ready to waive every consented by Mr. J. C. Mehan ne ang. The singer was quite mont.
poured on behalf of the applicants, should despatoh his son to Lingency and sido-condition; in brief, to think that the nuts grow result of his trip to Hongkong, willing
Asked what they had to say the Lam Yat Shing firm, nadworship" the decoarad. These was put face before sentence was passed, Mr. Eldon Potter, instructed by actions appear to smack some anyhow and anywhere and that tho cultivator's sole concern is the suggesting that further inform task until he collection of revenue., Travellers' tales have fustored this belief. tion be secured as to the methods to face with the huge trumpet. No. 1 blamed No. 4 who had Mr. Otto Kong Sing, for thewhat of vacillation.
of controlling the retail prices of He was a Court singer at Peking been acquitted.
respondents, the Wo Lee firm. New Testament Revision. too; for a moan may live in the Malay-speaking countries half a life meat in the local market. Major and apparently realised his ro- No. 2 Baid':-I did not commit The case for the applicante Readers who value the 1811 time without learning the truth about palm-roaring, unless he makes | Roxas saya:-
sponsibilities, for when he saw the the robbery. Will your lordship was that the parties were grass translation of the Bible for ite it his business to do so. Such a man has unconsciously seen und "To his report to the Municipal instrument that was to reproduce hang me? I was beaten until cloth dealera, their goode com-superb English, will welcome painted the industry in pleasurable colours merely because a cocoa- Board the chief of the department his voice he absolutely refused to confessed..
prising both the washed and very heartily a new venture op nut plantation is not like a rubber or cocoa estate-dotted with of sanitation and transportation on sing a note. Every kind of bland-
unwashed varieties. It
was the part of the Cambridge. bundreds of coolies giving daily and hourly attention to the trees recommends a means of con- was obdurate. He would not sing, the subject of meat, he only islament was used, but the artiste
His Lordship: You have been claimed that the Wo Lee firm University Press; to wit: the It may be wol; then to offer one or two simple facts for the con- trolling the excessive prices and, when pressed for his reason, found guilty, practically on your denoting qualition in the washed Hebrews with corrections in had registered trade marks, publication of the Epistle to the of mont, sold wholesale, sug said that if he sang into the trum-own admissions, of this cowardly and unwashed varieties, which those places only where it was Cocoa-nuts are as inuch dependent on good weather, gooi soil, gesting that the government pet lie would never get his voice robbery. You went to the house, in fact were common to the trade, erroneous or misleading or unexceptionable seed and judicious spacing, weeding and tending purchase the nient and soll back again. On this occasion armed with revolvers and knives,
obscure. "We may presume that, as any other trees; drought-spells, insect pests (especially the cocoa. it to wholesale dealers, adopting Mr. Marker had to acknowledge terrorised these wretched women ROBBERY CHARGES. should the altorations mest with
and stole their jewellery. This nut beetle) or the presence of poisonous elements in the soil are no system analogous to that made that he had lost the game.
the approval of the Archbishops less disastrous to them than they are to rubber-saplings. Under uso of in the control of the price
On another occasion Mr. Marker system of robbery, unfortunately, the best conditions, tross should be bearing at the rate of about fifty of rice.
had his civility taxed to the ut is going on all over the Colony, Prisoner who Possessed Key to and of Convocation, other books
Back Doors.
of the New Testament will be "The undersigned calls the most. The Chinese singer las as and every effort hitherto has been
treated in a similar manner. to the palm by the time they are eight years old, and the copre attention of the board to the fact many occentricities as some of his ineffectual to chook it. I intand | derived from the nuts is admittedly # very profitable commodity that this recommendation is all European contemporaries, Ha to infliot on each of you some of
To-day at the Magistracy This undoubtedly is the kind of In recent yours the best land in the F.M.S. has been required for rubber, and all that can be spared may not unreasonably be regarded right from the point of view that requires a pill of apius before he the bodily suffering you have put Chinese, formerly in the service thing that should have been done On the occasion in on other people. The jury regard of Mrs. Hill, of Taikoo Torrace, instead of the tedious and some with suspicion. The promoters of syndicates can plant nuts by the the price of meat sold wholesale
performs. thousand or the million; they are cheap enough, in all conscionco; might be the cause of the rise in question Mr. Marker was taking you, Chan Sam, as the ringleader, was charged by Inspector Gourlay what unthankful producing of the and I am disposed to agree with before Mr. Irving, with robbery. version of 1881. The Revised but in what kind of soil? In plain words, the home-biding investor the price of meat sold retail.
The principal duty of the peared before the late Emperor
a record of a singer who had SP them; and although they accept In the first instance he was Version may be useful for re- is liable to be asked to buy, at a ruinous igure, land which the board is to see to the regulation of China, and; before he started the statement of Ohan Shap that acoused of having stolon articles férence purposes, and as a key to promoters can acquire at dirt-price and, for which no experience of the retail price which, accord-to lift his voice, he took tone was present at the robbery to the value of $100 from Mrs. the Grook Testament; but it plantor would give ton coats in sore. The weeding, draining or
clearing" of saoh land would, of course, yield fruitful opportunity ing to information in the report, is and oakes and then wanted they regard Au Kwok as the more Hill's hones; in the second, with could never gain any real hold to unscrupulous directors with an itch for figures that point to excessivo as compared with the to take opium Nor would he notive robber. The sentence of having taken clothing els,, valued with a people who had been heavy and unavoidable working-expensos.
current price in flongkong, and leave it at that, for he in the court on you, Chan Sam, is at $150 from the house of Mr. E. nourishod and suckled on as the report contains no recom.sisted that M Marker should that you be imprisoned for nine Dickson; and, in the third, with translation whose every line was panies is the present immanity from competition-an argument this condition in the market, I should offend the artiste, the pro-receive twenty-two strokes of the of 8100 from the house of Mr. J. deny that the Authorised Varsion Another circumstance greatly urged by certain incipient. commendation as to the correction of have some töö: - Loat a refusal yours with hard labour, and stealing clothing etc. to the value a poem in itself. No one will oriminally misleading: for, throughout the East Indies and a great recommend that, prior to definite ferred favour: us bocopted and cat. Au Kwok will be imprison-Mitchell. In prisoner's possession has many, and in some fo portion of the Straits and the F.M.B., every Malay peasant family action being taken on the report
ed for aix years hard labour, anda koy was found which opened onses-serious mistr has trees in grepicnumber-trees that are tended by the owners additional information be sought
will receive eighteen, strokes of the back doors of the three houses, but, as the new pabli themselves, who are born to the work, who choose their soil and seed on this special point to the end
the cat, and Chan Bhap will be all of which are in Taikoo Terrace, probably show, it was with unerring instinet, whose outlay is nothing, and who can afford that the retail price of meat in the
imprisoned for five years with Most of the articles belonging to easier and better to ame to sell to the copra merchants at an abnormally low rate. Only a market may be reduced from its
hard labour and receive ten strokes Mrs. Hill have been
than to moderates wha sound alion company, backed by the best soil and the most exten present price and that it may not
of the cat.
by reason of its sive technical otporioncé "can" "ompete with these men and moh futuro be raised."--". Cable companies may well be likened unto the visitsoftheangels.
the opium taken.
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When will the dream come?" asked Mr. Markers,
"Oh that will come later was the reply
Mr. Marker in still waiting for the dre
The first prisoner stolidity, of
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