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Hato hurts most the one who THE WIZARD AGAIN BEFORE hatos.

Mr. McWilliams. Mr. C. F. MoWilliams loft for the North by the Nippon Maru to-day.

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THE COURT.

Takes an Interest in the Court

Walls.

CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

The Yaumall Bomb Throwing

Case,

A CURIOUS STORY.

Demanding a Sum of Money.

NOTES

AND

COMMENTS:

Lord Roberts and Conscription.

At the Police Court this morn- Coming from a soldier so re- This morning, the trial of Wuling, before Mr. E. A Irving, anowned, experienced and revered Hon for the murder of La Kwan man named Cheung Fak was as Lord Roberts, any augument Teim, at Yaumati on Sept. 11, charged with demanding the sum on behalf of compulsory military was resumed before the Chief of $2, by menaces from a man service must necessarily be res With amusing nonchalance, Justice, Mr. W. Ross Davies K.O., at 7, Fet Hing Stroot coived with at least due respect. Wong Chouk, the Peak Burglar, and a jury comprised as follows: Complainant said he offered And yet! To talk in favour Typhoon Fills Up.

with many aliases, squatted in the Messrs. J. W. Kew, R. K. Miller, him $1 bat defendant would of conscription to the Britisher, The Observatory reports that far righthand corner of the dock the typhoon of which we bad in front of Mr. B. A. Irving, at the WB. Stormer, P. W. A. Wilkie, not take it. He was afraid of do is to offer a rod flag for the con sideration of an angry bull; and warning two days ago has filled Polico Court, this morning. The J. Blackburn H. L. Beyer, and fendant.

T. S. Robson,

Mr. Irving What were you if Lord Roberts hnd, hád lesa up.

|trip from Maoao was made on the

The Attorney General, the Hon, afraid of? Ho said he was a claim to universal deference, We Rough Weather.

8.8. Sui An, which arrived last Mr. J. A. S. Bucknill, instructed bad character and must have would have ventared a wich The ss. Jesorio, from Keelung, night, Sergeants Appleton and reports strong N. E. Monsoon with Terreit, along with four Chinose by the Assistant Crown Solicitor money. He asked for four dollars that he had held his tongue.

Mr. P. M. Hodgson, appeared for at least, 20

The Britisher is a queer, ob heavy rain and 80s in the For-detectives, forming the escort.

the Crown and Mr. F. U. Jenkin, Complainant, continuing, said | stinate sort of animal. Up to a As ho squatted in the dook this instructed by Mr. C. A. S. Russ he gave the man $2. He then certain point you may do what moes obancol.

herning prisoner's eyes wandered

of Mosers. Goldring, Barlow and went way, but some of com- you like with him in o round the four walls of the Court, Morrell, defended.

plainant's fokis followed the man score of ways you may lend him and the windows loading on to

Mr. Jenkin, who opened the and asked for the money back, with a pack thread; but you must the Magistrate's verandal defendant's case this morning, As he would not hand the money not touch the institutions which appeared particularly to attract, said his defence was a very sim- back there was a fight between he regards as sacred. And first him. Thore were twenty pla "one and a very short one, the fokis and the defendant. -- and foremost among those, is the other coolies in the dock along I was the boat defence known to Defendant said he went to liberty of tho subject. with him but he took very little law and lawyers and shortly was smoke opium in the complainant's notice of them. In fact, he this, "I am not the man." In the place and when he fell asleep Conscription not Wanted, appeared to scorn the smaller fry caso he would suggest to them, afterwards the complainant be John Bull argues-and from in the realm of misdemeanour and he hoped he should prove came angry because he (defen- excellent premisses that one yo- and law-breaking. Whether by to them, the Crown had got hold dant) was occupying his place.lunteer is worth ten pressed men; accident or arrangement, the of a panceful citizen of Yaumati Defendant was sentenced to and even though Lord Roberta number of tuiformed Europea and a resident of Woo Sung three months' hard labour and police officers at the door of the St. where the occurrence took four hours' stooks, Court was remarkably large.

Tramcar Accident. A woman who was knocked down by & tramenr in Des Voeux Road, yesterday, has been remov- ed to the hospital.

Craigengower Cricket Club.

The annual general meeting of the Craigengower Cricket Club will be held at the Pavilion on Friday, November 1, at 5.30 p.m.

Chinese Injured.

A Chinese employed as a sales man in the Central Market, was knocked down by a tram-car

hospital.

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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1912.

THE STRIKERS.

The Dacre Castle.

From an advertisement else, where, it will be seen that tendera aro being invited for the wrecked steamer Dacre Castle as she lies at Keelung,

Dope."

the dock rails) Sergeant Appleton was in Woo Sung St. when the stood and did not allow the the bomb was thrown and in common with others he fled. slightest notion of the prisoner to cscape his notice. The prisoner was bandoulled throughout the proceedings.

Inspector Watt-Will your Worship take the Peak Burglar's case now?

Why he fled he would tell them

DEATH OF MR, J, H. LEWIS,

It is with regret that wo learn

pako with the tongues of men

and of angels, ho could not shake that conviction, John Bull doen not forget that, in the old press gang daye, long-shore lubbers who woro Shanghaied on board of our war-ships would even mutilate themselves rather than fight; nor dous ho forget that, in the Crimea, Russian officers were

himself. Probably he was frightened. He was immediately of the death of an old Hongkong arrested and therefore he could resident, Mr. John Hughes Lewis, not collect witnesses who might the head of the well-known ship seen beating their own consor have seen him, and seen another ping firm of Douglas, Lapraikinto battle with the flat of their man who throw the bomb. It so and Co., which took place at his words. Without question, there For unlawfully having in his Mr. Irving-Yoa. Have you happened that there was a co- residence at Bythe, Kent, on the aro certain men, no matter what possession a quantity of opium, got the depositions?

iderable number of people in 28th inst.

their nationality, who, while be Chinese was fined $50, with tho Inspector Watt:-YBS.

the vicinity at the time, and the Mr. Lowie began lilo as an ing sound enough in wind and alternative of six weake' unprison-Mr. Irving. The original matter was probably talked about apprentice on the one of the old limb, have yet a constitutionally and in that way he would be able sailing vessels, and, ranny years unhealthy dislike of fighting. mont, at the Police Court this ones? morning.

Inspector Watt:-No, not the to call three witnesses bofore ago, came to the East in a clippor. Then why force such people into original ones, thoy aro in the office them in addition to the Later he took up tea-planting in the battle-field, where they would

this ho of the obief clerk. We have the used. One was an amah and Ceylon, and

aban-be more plogue nor profit"? A man has been sent to the committal warrauts, the originals the other two had something to doned to return to Hongkong When the position of the British hospital from the Western dis-aro with the Crown Solicitor,

1 clork with Messrs. soldier is more generally regarded do with boiler making. In fact Chief trict suffering from a wound in

Detective Inspector they would till the jury that they Douglas, Luprail and as an honourable one, and when the leg said to have boon inflicted Collett:-There is a copy of the saw a man dressed in black throw He spent some time in Formos, due provision is made for the by another man in the course of depositions in the Magistrates bomb and that this man fled and ultimately made Hongkong post-service life of mon who have a quarrol.

towards the hill district-what his homo. His advancement was given their best years and best ever that might mean and that rapid. He becamea partner in 1893 strength to their country, there thoy presently saw W Hon and on the death of the senior will be no dearth of willing ro- brought back by two or three member of the firm, Mr. John eraits.

Lapraik, Mr. Lewis purchased tho people.

Wounded in the Leg.

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Heavy Oplum Fices. Two men were fined' $500, or in default three months' imprison- mont oach, by Mr. E. A. Irving, at the Police Court, this morning, for being in unlawful possession

office.

Mr. Irving-You want him committed to the Sessions ? Inspector Watt :-Yes. Mr. Irving November Sea- Isions?

Inspector Watt-Yes. Mr. Irving-He was originally

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If that evidence wors unshak-business from the executors of the Mr. Belloc's Prophecy.

Mr. Hillaire Belloo has enlisted estate. en by the Attorney General, then he would submit that this evidence

Ho maintained his active-in-the aid of the "Yellow Dragon"

of 45 tools and 15 tales of opium, committed to the October Ses must conolude the matter, and terest in the firm until the year in discovering something more

respectively.

· Colonial Secretary's Holiday..

The Hon. Mr. Claud Severn, Colonial Secretary, will, we learn, leave for Home on the 23rd No- vember. He will be absent for four months. Mr. Severa will go Home by P. & O. Steamer and will return via Siberia.

The Bag of Rice.

Over every event, important or trifling, of daily life, it seems natural that men should look for the final or immediate cause, and resolutely refuse to trace matters any farther back than that. The result of this extremely philosophical procedure is that most of us spond quite the greater part of our time in self-deception more or losa deliberate. When, yesterday, Hongkong people found the city bereft of its chairs and rickshaws, they devoted one third of the day District Watchman 00 caught to bomoaning the inconvenience to which they personally were thus a man in Queen's Road West, subjected, and the other two-thirds to explaining to themselves that with a bag of rice. The latter the strike had broken out on account of the heavier fiues recently torily and was arrested. At the imposed by the local magistrates on such of the coolies as had shown Police Court, this morning, be themselves disorderly, extortionate or insolent. And probably nine-was fined $50 or in default one

mooth's hard labour; tenths of us were perfectly satisfied with this explanation; as satisfied as we should be if told that the leaves fall in the autumn' because the wind blows thein.

could not account for it satisfac-

THE ALLEGed murder.

Interview with Dead Man's

Brother,

Bions?

Inspector Wall: Yes, your Worship.

Mr. Irving: Is this the man? Inspector Watt:-Yes.

Mr. Irving (to the interpreter). Tell the defondant this is an ap- plication by the police to have him committed to the November Sassions for trial instead of to the October Sessions. Prisoner:-Yos.

Mr. Irving-Are you Wong Chouk alias Trot Tin?.

Prisoner Yes,

that in the panic which ensued 1904, when lie withdrow into concerning a comparatively un- upon the throwing of the bomb, semi-private life. In 1000 he known book, "The Wallet of Kai unfortunately the wrong man was roturned to Hongkong for a brief Lung". Greatly daring, he says captured. He thought, after they business visit, and since then he that sooner or later it will count had heard his evidence, he would had been living in retirement in as an English classic. With all be able to induce them to say

Kent.

respect to Mr. Belloo, who knows that on the balance of the evi- The well-known Maltese Cross good literature from moderate once he would produce, they age of the Douglas boats in would not take so much notice of Harbour are at half-mast to-day, the evidence of the Crown 16 would bave been the case had it not been combatted."

ATTEMPTED SHIP KOBBERY.

literature as well as any man living, not even he can be certain on a matter of this kind... If he Hays that the book has genius, we' may safely take it that it has genius; but, when he claime par- The prisoner in the box

manency for it, we are disposed bore out his counsel's statement,

Tho, quartermaster of the 8.8. to think that he has let his pen and admitted in cross examination Halvard has reported that about and bis judgment run loose for a Mr. Irving Very well, you that he had met the deceased two o'clock yesterday morning as minute. Can it be that Parlia are committed, to the November before. On one occasion, he was his boat was lying in the Har-mentary life has somewhat dulled Sessions.

quarrelling with another man in bour, two bosta approached it and his critical faculty? Ho is a a ten shop and the deceased came three men boarded the Halvard. literary man, who is out of place HARBOUR OFFENCES. up and spoke to him.

They covered him with revolvers at St. Steplions, just as Jolin The Attorney General:-Did and eventually ten others board- Morley has always been, and Mr. This morning at the Marine you not as a matter of fact, have ed the ship. They went to No. 4 Balfour, and the late Mr. Gled- Magistrate's Court, before Com- fight with another, man hold and hoisted up six bales of stone himself. Whatever success

and the deceased eame mander Basil Taylor R.N., Capt.

up silk. A compradore's foki came may have been their's in the Raher of the .8. Chow Tai was to you and remonstrated with and gave an alarm. The quarter-House of Commons, their real charged with unlawfully failing to you and told you not to fight?-master got away and informed place was the study. the captain and the second officer. An III Wind,'' etc. under way in the waters of the throwing, was this conversation? but the men who tried to rob the carry the regulation lights, while Ho said don't aght.

How long before this bomb The ship's crew was turned out Colony on Sept. 24.

About 20 days,

slup decamped.

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Did you see him again before the bomb throwing? No.

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It is a little too bad that the chair and rickshaw coolies should

choose to go out on strike just as

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does

Just as those leaves would havo fallon, sooner or lator, without any help from the wind, so such an incident as yesterday's strike would have taken place, even had there been no fines. For a long time past, the Hongkong policy in regard to the Chinoso has been Joseph Wangstrom, brother of one of weak compromise; of giving way wherever there seemed the to have been murdered on board Robert Wangetrom, who is said least possible excuse for so doing. The native has but to ask, to the s.e. Minnesota, seen by a re- clamour or to grab, and all is well witli him. Looked at squarely presentative of the "Tolograph" Defendant pleaded not guilty. the fact that these coolies, holding-ns they do-government this morning said his brother and L. S. Fox said that at 6.35 p.m.

A CAPTAIN'S DISMISSAL. we are experiencing something licenses, daro refuse to work, or dare protend to dietato terms to the he had been on the ship as water he was on duty at the west end of

tenders for several trips.

the Central Tairway, when he saw

Did you threaten him?-No. This afternoon in the Summary in the nature of a boat wave. police, must be described as over bold us well as fool-hardy.

"The last time that I saw my the Claw Tai ooming in from

When he told you to go away Court, before Mr. Justice Gom- But however, hard may be the lot Little by little they have been gaining ground, in a manner that no brother," he said "was at ton Green Taland, with no steaming what did you do?--I walked pertz, the case was continued in of perspiring humanity in Hong other city in the East, ruled by Europeans, would tolerate for o'clock on the night of his death. light up. She had bow and two away.

which Fok Taim, sued the Tai Wo kong, there is at least one con second; and now they soize on the first opportunity that comes to We were both ashore together, riding lights. Daylight had just until, when?-Until I saw him damages for alleged wrongful die now. walk down the streets with And you did not see him again, Steamship Co., claiming $70 as solation, namely that one can hand for pleading the old "grievance" story. This particular and he said: Joe, I've got to go gone.

on board to stand the watch,".- The defendant said it was 7.10 in the Hospital.

missal, without notice, from the out being barked at and yelled to pag on which it has been their good pleasure to hang their alleged

"I did not know of his death a.m. when they made fast to the

After describing his arrest, the employ of the defendant firm, as by the raucous-voiced hordes of grievances is comio rather than otherwise: they break the law, are until 9.16 the next morning when buoy. He, personally, saw the prisoner said, he did not know captain of the s.s. Shing Tai, boarors and pailors. Thus do punished for so doing, and consequently refuse to work!

I reached the ship:”

whether the decoused accused Mr. Needham, of Mesars. Even the law of compensation operate steaming light lowered, and the lim. He did not hear him tell and Harston, appeared for the in the present situation. One If the authorities choose-and for their own credit as Britishers The quarter master of the ves-riding light hoisted when they the two constables to arrest him plaintiff, and Mr. W. F. L. Shen-can now walk openly abroad and we feel sure that they will chooss-they can yot turn this folly on sel said to-day "The Doctor got to the buoy.

(the acoused). the part of the coolies to good account, and so recover some of the was ashore at the time of the af- Mr. Schade, inale of the s.s.

ton, of Messrs. Deacon Looker and breathe freely, in the glorious The case was proceeding as Deacon, for the defendants." certainty that when he turns a. ground that they or their predecessors have lost in former times. fair, and we could do nothing for Chow Tai, corroborated, and said

It will be remembered that the corner he may go on his way un To err on the side of mergy is certainly nobler than to go to the the injured man. He did not seem the steaming light was not hoistad we wont to press.

Under conditions Other extreme of tyranny; but there is a happy medium observed to suffer, and there was scarcely to the mast head but to the stay. OUTBREAK OF FIRE, /

plaintiff alleged that on going to disturbed. The case was dismissed.

his ship one morning, he found such as these, life becomes really by other nations, in their dealings with natives, the value of which any outward bleeding, and wo English seem to have agreed in, the past, to ignore. What,

L. 9. R. Lanigan charged two A few minutes after twelve some one else in charge, who bearable in Hongkong. The mainly, Hongkong never seems to realise is that, given an inch, the when I heard him cry, and rush-boat people with unlawfully mak- o'clock, mid-night, a fire broke gave him a letter stating his unfortunate thing is that these coolle will take a yard. Under the old Manchu Government, ed up on deck, passing the wording fast their hosts to the ma, out in the classroom on the second services were no longer required. happy conditions will not last for The defendants called evidence ever. We shall welcome the punishments were, so gevere, and liberty so restricted, that our for the chief officer at the same Chow Tai thorsby causing an floor of the Ellis Kadoorie School: generons and merciful we are more pany child's play to the time.

obstruction in the Central Fair- The building is being recon- to the effect that it was customary chaire and the rickshaws, back Ühinese; trifles to be langed at and set at naught as someth him Dann made no attempt at re-way in Victoria Harbour. They structed and the fire is supposed on the West River steamers for again but not the shocks to our good. Of course the Government had it in its power, in a dozen sistance; he did not seem to rea-were each fined $6.

to have been caused by workmen only one day's, notice, to be given nervous systems which their res ways, to stop the strike in hour or two; but we trust that, so far lize the position: We looked him Revenue Officer L. A. Langley, having dropped cigarette enda on on either side. There was an appearance inevitably from resting content with that, the authorities will see fit to guard in a cabin until the police should charged the master of the Tsare the floor. Damage to the extent other defence, that the plaintiff And even as we write sre hard on us, for. against a repetition of anything of the kind. Hongkong is being arrive, and not a guard over him Mara with unlawfully falling to of $100 was done. The brigade dismissed, himself.

Judgment was given for the to hand that he roundly laughed, at already, In a variety of directions, and it is time so that he should not either.com obey the rule of the road turned out and in apont two hours

stay of exsontion starting work, v that it showed steelf not too proud to profit by the lesson to be mit suicide, or try to escape by The case was dismissed and iba

Jumping overboard.

defendant cautio defred from formET STOZA,

'I was about to come on watch

with plaintif

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