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SPECIAL CABLES.

A HARD CASE

TWENTY-FIVE MILLIONS.

CHINA'S PROPOSED SEXTUPLE LOAN,

[Our Own Correspondent.]

Shanghai, December 10.

What the Police Have to Contend with.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1912.

WHOSE OPIUM?

Wife Appears and Accuses her

Husband.)

A man was charged before Mr.

A woman was charged before Mr C. D. Melbourne, at the Police O. D. Melbourne, at the Police Court, this morning, with boing Court this morning, with being in unlawful possession of a qu in unlawful possession of a quan-antity of opium dross valued at

The general outlines of antity of ammunition." Agreement for a loan of £25,000 sterling have been arranged by the Sextuple Loon Syndicate with the Chinese Minister of Finance.

OPIUM IN BOMAY.

$16.80.

His Worship: She has pleaded guilty already in answer to the charge. The opium dross is mine," she said.

Mr Mason:Sho says now it is not here. His Worship said ho believed His Worship: Well, she can- the man could give the police some not withdraw the plea. Will valuable information if ho likod. you call the witnesses for the de-

fence?

Inspection McDonald said he believed he could, but he was too well paid for that..

Defendant was fined $25.

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Mr. Mason-Will you adjourn SUITABLE AS A PRESENT. the oase for about an hour, your worship?

Mr O. F. Mason, of Messrs Defendant said that he was un-wilkinson and Grist, was in- employed, had no fixed place of structed to defend in Court. abode, had only been in the Co- A plea of not guilty was enter- lony three days, and the ammuni-ed by Mr Mason.

ion was given him by a man to carry. He did not know where he Exceptional interest attaches was taking the ammunition to to the Report of the Opium De- (laughter); he was really given partment of the Bombay Pre-it to bold. He did not know the sidenoy fur the financial year man who gave it to him. 1911-12, owing to the introduc- tion during that period of the practice of selling by anotion the right of exportation of Malwa opium from Bc nbay by soa. Under the new arrangement, which actually came into operation at the beginning of 1912, the Pass duty per obest has been raised to Rs. 1200. Three sales were held during the period covered by the Report, and the average prica paid at the suctions was Rs 1,774-13 in January, Rs. 1,781-8 in February, and Rs. 3;136:15 in March, The total number of Founded for the purpose of chests imported and lodged in combined action in France and the Bombay warehouses during England with a view to develop the official year was 12,107 auing travel in the two countries, against 0,010 1-2 in the preceding the Franco-British Travel Union year, and out of these and the ba hold its inaugural dinner at the lance of 2,002 12 in stock on Cafe Royal on November 6. April 1st, 1911, 14,035 1-2 obests Lord Montagu of Beaulien (pre- were exported to China, 3 1-2 sident of the Union) "occupied chosts to Zanzibar, and 1-2 chest the chair. to Mombasso, while 035 1-2 ...cheats were sold for home con-

A CHANNEL TUNNEL.

Sir A. Conan Doyle's View.

His Worship:Yes. I suppose it is now, a question of bail. Bail as before, $200.

The case was mentioned later, Mr. Mason stating that the plea of guilty could stand, but asked the Bench to accept defendant's story that the opium belonged to her husband. He thought a small fine should be imposed as she was. not really the guilty party. It was found in the house but it was her husband's..

The case was remanded for the husband to be callo; bail in $200 again being allowed.

NEW CHINESE PREMIER

AND OPIUM.

Writing on the opium question, Mr. Edwin J. Dingle alludes to the fact that Chao Ping-chun, the new Chinese Premier, is an avowed

Speaking in response to the toast of "The Visitors," Sir A. sumption in the Presidency, in- Conan Doyle said the least in- cluding the Native States. The tolligent thing which had been balance found in stock on March done in our generation was the 31st, 1912, was 200 chests and 55 refusal to build the Channel lbs. against a book balance of 324 tunnel. It was, in his judge 1-2 chests. The deficiency ment, a matter of such urgent opium-smoker. Mr. Dingle thinks is much smaller

in national intorest that it should that the fact should not be passed ilian 1910-11 and is at tributed chief be pressed forward at once over lightly, that the man holding ly to the fact that the chests to completion. (Chicers). But it one of the highest positions in brought down in the year ander should be a Government undertok China, and whose influence is review for export to China diding, for it was far too important widespread, admits in the Parlia

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n smaller loss through or superior to the Suez Canal pays a tribute to the way in which

taken up by a police launch or a rrage Theiatalon perial de alates. In the first place it would to Menchus had attacked the

ing. There was no suggestion Tenta collected from opium bring an enormous increase of opium evil. In 1909-10 he tra- Each Party Makes a Calm for that everything which could be in the Presidency was Rs. tourist traffic, while the advantage valled some 8,000 miles overland

Damages

done was not done by those in 1,04,72,468-an increase of of taking merchandise across within Interior China. Crossing China

change of the Loongsang after the Rs. 1,02,84,973, or 5.485 "perent transhipment was too obvious from Shanghai to British Burmah cent. It will be seen, Eays to need dwelling upon.

he wasable to inspect the country,

Sitting in Admiralty Jurisdic accident. The main point in the the Commissioner of Customs, It was the advantage in war and could teatify even then to the tion, with Commander G. W case was whether the plaintiff that during the year under rehat was most

important. A resoluteness with which the Man Beckwith, R. N., as assessor, this showed the lights he said he did. There would probably also be port a very maleri I change has tunnel would be a cheap and chu Government had set its face morning, the Chief Justice Mr. W.

another point, whother, assuming) taken place in the system of deal complete insurance against against the drug and all evils Rese Davies, K. C., beard two his client had no regulation lighte,

consolidated actions arising ou of ing with opium intended for ex-national starvation. If we lost connected with it. To-day, how- a collision which occurred on had the Leongsang taken sufficient CLIFFORD WILKINSON'S port from India. The export duty command of the sea for a short ever, he admits so many roports lisa been doubled, and Govern- time we should be forced to make reach the coast ports of China May 2, 1912, off the Waglan precautions to avoid an accident ment have brought into operation a dishonourable peace, and why regarding the areas in which Lighthouse, be tween the s.e.in the existing circumstances,

The case was proceeding ns wo measures designed to secure both should we rest content with that the poppy

is again being Loong Sang, owned by the

LOCAL SPORT.

BILLIARDS.

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not having been stampod, there-

for Imperial revenues, and for the state of things when we should grown that it is difficult Indo-China Steam Navigation went to press.. revenues of the States in which readily insure against it? They to tell the exact position. Since Co. and a fishing junk be- the opium is grown a fair share were told the coat would not be the revolution, and the coming of longing to Yeung Hing Hi of 26 of the value whicb, under existing great, nor the task hard, and, the a strong Government in the In- Main St., Aberdeen, conditions and restrictions at tunnel once completed, corn from terior, there can be no doubt that The claim was by the latter for A man was charger before Mr. taches to the right to export the South of Europe could reach advantage has been taken by the $400 for damagesalleged to have C. D. Melbourne, at the Police opium to China-(Ex.) us in safety. While if they had people in outlying areas to revert been caused by the collision, and Court, this morning, with bring

to send an army to the Continent, to the old conditions. So long as in a cross summons, the owners ing thirty nine letters into the France being our ally, the army there is no very drastic hold upon of the stormship claimed. $350 Colony from Macao, the same could pass over with none of the the commion people and the small for damages.

Mr. Eldon Potter, instructed by by defrauding the Revenue au- The semi-finals of the Grand danger and trouble of a sea landholders, the cultivation of

the poppy will be the order of Mr. FXD'Almada o Castro,ap-thorities. Defendant said a man Hotel Billiard Tournament will P1893 go.

The minor advantages were the day. We may, however, note peared for the plaintiff, and Mr. M. gave him twenty cents to take be played as follows:-

Mr. Heathcote meets Mr. Martin manifold, and the only drawback that it is announced the Chinese W. Slade, K. C., instructed by Mr. them to the Po Yuen Hing. He

he had ever heard mentioned was Government is already taking

W. Davidson, of Messre Hastings was fined $40 or in default five to-night at 9 o'clock.

Mr. Phillips meets Mr. Me. the danger of invasion through a action

and Hastings, was for the defence. weeks. to enforce prohibitive hole in the ground thirty miles measures in various districts.-

His Lordship briefly welcomed Lenuan to-morrow night at the

Mr. Blade back to the Colony, same hour, and the winners ofg, which could be at any time" L and C. Express.""

this being his first appearance these two matches meet in the blocked up, or destroyed, was the

since his return. Final on Thursday, also at the kind of danger which he should not feel justified in discussing some hour,

Sergeant Tom Pitt has chal- before an assembly of sensible lenged the winner to play him men. If the estimates were cor- rect we could, for the price of

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Mr. Potter said the facts of the case were very short. On the oven- ing of May 20 of this year, the Five Chinese women and a boy junk Fook Kon Li, in company 500 up (owe 250; on Friday

about three Dreadnoughts, have and girl were charged before Mr with a sister junk it was the tre Royal, evening. It will be remembered that the proprietor of the Grand an absolute insurance against the C. D. Melbourne, at the Police custom of fishing junks to fish in Hotel has offeret a lundsome one great threat which another Court this morning, with damag pains-loft Aberdeen and pro-

plantations. ceeded in a South Easterly direc gold watch as the first prize; the nation could hold over us (Cheers.) ing Government

The charge was not pressed ion, Evidence would be called the second is a gold and silver

against the boy and girl, - to prove that the junk in question cigarette oase, and the third,

An official from the Forestry carried the ordinary lights. Every: Royal. given by Mossa Kruse and Com-Labour Member's Libel Action.

Department said the Government thing went well until they got pany, is a prettily shaped silver At the Newcastle-on-Tyne As had decided to plant 60,000 ten miles south east of Waglan. cup. A cue in case goes to the sizes, before before Mr. Justice young pines and when these It was a dark night; there was Royal. maker of the highest brook.

Pickford and a special jury last people cut grass in the neigh no moon, and no fog; it was what Mormon Missionary Sentenced. month, an action was brought by bourhood of Beacon Hill Tunnel he understood was described as At Gloucester on November 9 Mr. John Wilson, M.P., general they could not help but out these "dark but clear." In the early

The as, Isobe Maru, from Edward Floyd Walton, a native scoretary of the Durham Miners' pines which were planted six feet hours of the morning of May 21, of Salt Lake City, Utah, who has Association, against

at about 1a.m., the ss. Loong Miike, brought 3,200 tons Fof besa in England eight montha Harvey, miner, of Grango Villa,

His Worship said the damage ang said 3.16 a.m.-they sighted coal to Hongkong to-day for the for the ostensible purpose of near Chester-le-Street, claiming to the extent of $20 had already he s.s. Loongsang at a distance M.B.K. sirrying on missionary work on damagesand an injunction against been done. He fined the woman of 400 chenngs. Seeing that a babalf of the Church of the Latter the defendant in respect of an 82 each and dismissed the chil- collision was inevitable, a noise Day Saints, was convicted on alleged libel contained in a pam-drea with a caution. two charges of indecent behaviour phlet issued by the defendant in with intent to insult females in June last, entitled "Does John villages near Gloucester, and was Wilson, M.P., Serve the Working

A man who went to Yaumati accident had occurred the Loong- sentenced to three months im Class?" The jury found for the prisonment. The magistrata also the plaintiff, and awarded him to see a doctor, trok suddenly ill Bang did everything to protect decided to recommend the Home $200 damages. The Judge gave in Woo Sung Street, and had to the lives of the crew of the junk, Beoretary to make an order indgment for this amount, and be removed to the hospital by the and in fact towed them half-way Apply to A. Raymond, ef 8. J. Darid

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to Hongkong, when they were a Co. the prisoner a expulsion, granted an injunction.

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was made on board the junk, and gongs were beaten. That, how- ever, had no effect and the junk was struck amidships." After the

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