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GENERAL NEWS.

The Indian Finance and

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A KING'S PARDOŇ.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1913.

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Dramatic Scene in Court

"The case in which Mr. John S. Mr Austen Chamberlain's Royal Hansen, the American impresario, Commission is located at the was charged with using threats India Office, and Mr F. W. Head towards Arthur Bourchier FROM 1st February, MEITO LET on 2nd Floor No. %. Smith has been appointed assist resulted at Bow-street in the de- RION, No. 10, Peak, furni-

Pedder Street. ant secretary. The first roguler and ordered to find two suretion

fenant being bonud over in £1,000 shed or unfurnished. 6 Rooms.! One roomed Office.

No: 21, SHELLY STREET.

Apply meetings were to be held on May of 2500 each to keep the

Property Office, Jardine, Mathe- peace No. 2 Mountain View, Poak,on & Co., Ltd. 27 and 20 and thenceforward for twelve monthe. Mr. Hansen

from 1st July. there will be two meetings week-was also ordered to pay £10 108. ly. There is no reason to autic His arrest had followed the ipate that the Commission will visit India, says the "Times," as tre, in a dispute between Mr. recont siege of the Garrick Thea- the prevailing view of the mem- Bourchier and Mr. Hansen over bera is that it will be a more con- the production of Baron Henri de venient course and more in no-

Rothschild's play, "Crossus."" sordance with precedent for Mr. Bourchier, in his evidence,

selected witnesses to come to Britain to give evidence oven in the comparatively few cases in

arranged to visit Europe this

summer.

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ROGATE, on part of Kowloon In- FOR SALE-HARTING and

said he had been lessee of the Darrick Theatre for fifteen which such porsone may not have youre. Mr Frederick Kerr hadtand Lot No. 1154.

sus," and in consequence of the No. 9 Conduit Road. Fine View been engaged to produce "Cro- FOR SALE. LADBROKE." treatment of 3ir Kerr the witness of harbour; 8 Rooms, 3 Bathrooms, asked Mr Hanson to apologise to Garden and Tennis Court. Ae-. Mr Kerr. Ile informed me that comodations for 30 Servants. ho-hind attacked bet er men than yself and that he was quite ready to attack me. I think the words used were that he would bash my head in,' or something like that, which, na a peaceable citizen, I was very much alarmed

Chinese on the Congo. The Congo authorities, it is Baid, contemplats the importation of Chinese coolies as Inbourers in the Congo, both on the surface and underground. An article ap- pearing in the "Journal de Congo states that the local in- habitats are not fitted for either underground or surface work, and in any case there is no!

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Mr Do 'kin (prosecuting): Did enough of them. Due note hasaron de Rothschild interfere ?E. been taken of the difficulties that attended the introduction of

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Are you afraid of personal oaKitchen; highest level; good furnished, 3 rooms with use violence-I am, absolutely, Jow-Reasonable;" Mr Rose-Innes (cross examin-kong Telegraph."

Hong Deserter, as a Scarecrow. ing): Entirely from his point of A strange spectacle was pre- view the defendant got squeezed sealed at the Ashford (Kent) out of your version of "TLET-from 1st July 1913) by an electric motor.

FOR SALE-Auxetophone, by the Gramophone Company, Limited, complete with 100 re- cords, of which 70 are practically now. This gramophone works It was No. 2 Mountain View, The bought in May, 1911, and is in Police Court by William Merrin, which was put on the stage last Peak. Apply LINSTEAD & good condition. Originally cost who was charged with being a de-night?-I don't consider that a D ".VIS.

£100. Apply to Adjutant 126th serter from the 1st Battalion King's very proper question. I don't Hor kong, 9th June, 1913. [345 Baluchistan Infantry, Kowloon. Own Lancaster Regiment. With like the words "squeezed out." two other men, Merrin absconded

Canneel: Shall I say excluded? from the regiment at Dever, and Objection was raised to this while tramping through Romney line of cross-examination. Marsh, on the way to Hastings, he discarded his khaki uniform and robbed a scarecrow in a corn-

The Magistrate: You can't fiell in orded to obtain à fresh crose-examine if you have cean- outfit. His appearance in court sel." in his patched garments was Mr. Rose-Tone

# most singular one. He was de- the case. tained in custody pending the ar rival of an escort to take him

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Another Peer's Son Engaged

to an Actress.

London. May 10-Another member of the famous Gaiety Theatre company is soon to be come a lady of title. She is Mies May Etheridge, and her fiancee is

The Defendant: May I cross- examino Mr. Barohier?

I retire from

A dramatic scene marked the cross-examination of Mr. Burchell by the defendan'.

Mr. Hansen (to the witness: Have you ever been convicted for anything?

The witness turned very white and, gripping the witness-box con- valsively, almost shouted "Yes."

Have you ever been in prison?

On what charge? Don't be afraid? It was a mistake.

The Dafondant (to Mr Bour--Yes, chier): You admit that I eng- aged Mr Fred Kerr to produce "Croaus," as I thought you were incapable of producing the play properly?

Say it? I was granted a King'e pardon.

At this point the witness ap The Magistrate: I don't think peared about, to collapse. His jou uro entitled to put that face twitched, but he refused to question.

leave the box when given permis The Defendant (to Mr. Boursion by the magistrate. clier: I put it to you that in the The Defendant: I am awfully

you cuse Mr. Burchell if he desires.

Mr. Bodkin. A little regret

The Magistrate: Yes. Mr. Bodkin (to the witness): Was that charge against you. found out to be an absolute mis-

Lord Edward Fitz Gerald, brother course of the conversation, which sorry, Mr. Burchell, I will ex of the Duke of Leinster, and was rather beated, lieutenant in the Irish Guards. rose from your sofa, jump- Miss Etheridge is one of the most ed up towards me, and before- popular idole of the theatrical set said, Hansen, if you say another here and has been a favourite with word I'll thrash you"-I abso- playgoers ever since she west on lutely deny that. I requested the stage nine years ago, when at you to leave the room. the age of thirteen she became a Later the defendant said he take and did you leave that member of the Gaiety Company wished to prove that he had no country with the King's pardon under the famous George Ed-intention at any time of doing in your pocket 7-Yes, sir. wardes.

any bodily harm to Mr Bourchier. How long ago was that? -Ten "I merely accepted his challenge or twelve years.

American-Naval Plans Missing.

to throgh and he backed out.

The,

Shock to a Witness.

oa the English stage. He engaged Mr Bourchier at £125 a week to play ** Cresus.” Mr Bouchier wanted Baron de Rothschild as his friend and as the defendant's enemy. The expression that he the defendant) used in reference to Mr Boucahier was merely the relief of a momentary tension which any artist was apt to experience.

Unbreakable Meteorite.

has recently been the subject of A meteorite weighing 37 lbs,

discussion in chemical circles in was not only noticed by an eye- Zululand a few months ago, and witness some fifteen miles away, bat fell within a few fest of a native woman, who

gave informa- The meteorite cannot far be tion which led to its discovery.

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Flow long have you been with THE FAIR FARM

It came out last month that That is all there is to the story." Mr Bourchier?-Nearly ten years.18 Located in The Healthiest some minor items in the plans for the super-Dreadnought Penn-

The Magistrate: And you District of Kowloon, and Supplies sylvania, together with some

leave this court, witness, without us daily with Mr Barchell, general manager any stain on you character. Do VEGETABLES,

the Choicest otter more or less confidential to Mr Bourchier, gave evidence

EGOS, And papers, have disappeared from of hearing the defendant use

you hear? the Navy Department. Their abusive language regarding Mr

The Witness (with tears in his disappearance was noted some Bourchier and say, "I will do oyes): Thank you, sir.

He was then assisted out of

months ago, but zealous detective him in' yet." work has failed to clear up the mystery, It is feared that the

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A Curious view.

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