NINE YEARS
AFTERWARDS.
Prisoner Discharged in
Murder Cast.
CANTON NEWS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH ~ 24. 1914.
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Railway In the Eastern Suburb. (From Our Own Correspondent.)
Canton, March 20. A proposal has been made by a merchant for the construc- Sitting in Criminal Ju sdio- tion of A tion, at the Supreme Court, thin the Eastern Suburb for trade- new railway in morsing, the Pulane Judge (Mr. porting passengers and goods
A copy of an interesting supple- A. H. J. Gomperiz) continued from the villages to the Canton-been handed to us for notice, It ment to Society Illustrated has the hearing of A obarge Kowloon Railway and the Fruit deals wholly with the Band mann of murder preferred by the Crown Market. The plan of the railway Opera Company and is a most WE colicitor (Mr. Kemp) against Chu line has been drawn up. The creditable production. There are Loi, sling Chu Teoi, the victim sections will be (1) from East photographs of all the leading. being Sing Wing, at Wong Nai-u Parade Ground-to-Yin Tong; (2) members of the company and one on March 14th, 1905. -*- from Tung Mun to Sai Chin; (3) showing the company as a whole. Mr. Alabaster, instructed by from Tung Mun to Chin Loong These are finely executed, the Mr. Crowther Smith, defended, Hon; (4) from Yin Tong to Sameneses being wonderfully clear, The jury was empanelled as Po Tin. The chief station will Lar gthy notes on the various pro- follows:-Mesara G. A. Diss be in the East Parade Ground. (foreman), A. J. Hassan, A.J.C. The fare for each passenger will da Silva, J. F. Miller, A. W.bs ten cents for one section. Heron, A. G. Miller and J. M. P. | **
Machinery for Melting Tavares.
Silver Bars..
Evidence for the defence was In View of the insu- called by Mr. Albuster,
fficiency of machinery for melting silver bare, the Director of the mint has ordered more machines from two foreign firms,
A contractor said he know the defendant. He worked for wit ness in the tenth moon of lant year. He had worked in the
Subsidiary Silver Coins. name of Chu Loi and was entered The Government of Canton has 'on witness' booke in that name. already prohibited people carry- A farmer who had never been ing out of Canton the sum of in Hongkong before, or ever left over fifty dollars in silver coins. his native, village, said he had But this order has son neglected known the defendant since by most people, Yesterday two witness was boy, several persone, Lok Kin and Wong Ching, tens of years ago. Defendant were arrested for being in posses left the village in the ninth moon sion of $400 and $250 in silver of last year. Defendant left on coins, respectively. account of the floods ruining the crops and he took his wife with
Canton, March 22, Chinese Copper, Cents.
actions of the Company are also given and are distinctly helpful Altogether the supplement is a work of art and should be secured and preserved by all who propose tree the company perform, at least once-and who deen not?
is now on sale at Messrs. Moutrie's.
The company is due to arrive to-morrow and to open on Thurs- day evening. The plans are now open, at Mesars. Moutries.
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him, with the intention of going The prices of Chinese copper abroad. lle got a mortgage on coats has risen very much re- KAFUE arrived at Boston on the 20th MANUFACTURERS:
his house for several 1908 of dollars.
By the Crown Solicitor :-De- fendant was a clausmon of his. They were uncleand nephew.There were about a hundred houses in the village. The village was near Tam Teui. The defendant had no business.
gently. The reason is that most of the copper conta havo ten taken to the districts and there are few of them in Canton. Moreover the mint has stopped making such coins.
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The Chief of Police bas crdered bia subordinate officers to investi- Mr. Alabaster said that the gate and report on births and prisoner had told them that he deaths. The deaths, whether caus- had been at Kowloon side since ed by infectious or other diseaser, the ninth moon of last year. He are to be clearly stated in therepor. had called the employer, and Great attention is to be paid to contractor, and the learned Crown deaths caused by infectious Solicitor asked the contractor no diseases. The date and the time questions, so that evidence stood at which a person dies is to be absolutely. There seemed to be indicated. "no question that this man had
Subsidiary coins. been living with his family in a
Owing to the fact that the Chi honso, the number of which he nese subsidiary silver coins are not had given, since the ninth moon accepted in Hongkong, the Hong- of last year. Could they believe kong 10 coat pieces in Canton are that these people did not kaow becoming scarcer and scarcer every him? From the first week he was day. The reason is that most of there expecting to go on before them are brought back to Hong taking a house and then he lived kong. It is said that the premium in a vegetable garden. Did they for the exchange of Hongkong 10 believe they did not know the cent pieces is 5 cents for one All claims against the steamer gardeners in the neighbourhood? dollar. For convenience the must be presented to the Under- APPOINMENT WANTED. The learned Orown Solicitor market has now son using the signed on or before the 25th prox.. By European young man. Buggested that the story might be Chinese 10 cent pir 98. In order or they will not be recognized. Excelent English Correspondent believed if he only referred to to provide a large supply of such All broken, chafed, and dam-and Typist, throughly Conversant Lau Kee and Shung Chu, but subsidiary silver coins the Mintaged Goods are to be left in the with general offios routine. Good
Godowns, where they will be ex- Linguist. A1. References. Apply Consignees of Cargo from Lon- because one witness said he was is continually making them and a
Hongkong To-don ex. s.8. "NORMAND" and employed last year by the Military multitude of them has been amined on the 28th inst., at. 10" CLERICO
"BABQUE.". legraph. ". "Authorities and there was no made.
No Fire Insurance has been effected,
- corroborative evidence on the
point, therefore they could not
give it. What was he employed as? A nightsoil coolie, but did
THE PEAK TIGER.
be sit in the barracks with the A plaster cast of the puge of nightsoil all day long? They the tiger has been taken by Mr. knew perfectly well that all these Holyoak on an afforestation path Bightsoil coolies did not carry et Pokfulam and is on, show in nightsoil in the day time. They the window of Messre. L'ne, knew that he had been working Crawford and Company. for half of the last fourteen
that he had
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years at Wong Nai-n, as a garden- rolatione lived there and that er. He called himself a gardener was why he wen to live and was it likely he would carry there.
Could they believe his nightsoil at night when he had for one single moment that there Auction on been working there in the gar-was any truth in the story that he dene in the day time? The went to live with friends of the the 31st March, 1914, at 10 a.m. prisoner had told. them very person he had shot; the at Army Ordnance Stores,
quarrel only exception being that he was Queen's Road East, with these people whom he a Hakka, the decoased was Punte, Stores at the Arsenal Yard:- The following Government knew quite wall and had been on and like all Puntes they were friendly terms with, Be know afraid of the Hakkas, particularly\TLES, OIL ENGINE, LAMPS, arrived from the above Port, Con-me on or before the 30th inst. them by name and he would as the Hakkas were not above IRON 'BLOCKS, LANTERNS, Įsivnees of Cargo are hereby or they will not be recognized, have a little difficulty in picking oarrying arms, and they BELTS, POUCHES. FLUTES, informed that their goods are bo- them out as they bad in picking knew when they quarrelled with IRON HOOKS, OLD ELEC-ing landed at their risk into the examined him out, because they had known him that the best thing to get TRIC CABLE, BRASS, CUPRO- Godowns of the Hongkong and at 10am.
No Fire Insurance has been each other for months. He had him out of the way was to identify NICKEL, GUNMETAL, COP- Kowloon Wharf and Godown also told them that until last year him with the man who committed FER, LEAD, WHITE METAL, Company, Limited, Kowloon, and effected. he bad never been in the neigh this murder some nine years ago. ZINC, STEEL, CAST, stored at Consignees risk and bourhood and his evidence was This they were unable to do until WROUGHT & GALVANIZED expense.
All broken, chafed, and dam- Hongkong, 22nd Mar., 1914. [1189 confirmed by a witness from the a few days ago although they had IRON, LEATHER, GROUND country who had come down heen seeing the man every day. RED and PLAIN CANVAS, godowne, where they will be ex- FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG
SHEETS, BLANKETS, TAR- aged goods are to be left in the sent for, of course to give Everyone told the same story of ROPE, DOOSOOTIE,BUNTING, amined on Monday, 30th inst., at evidence that the man was dark nights, the night in WOOLLEN RAGS, OLD WOOD, 10a.m. not a wanderer, but had lived question being so dark that TRON DRUMS & CYLINDERS. All Claims must be presented in his family hours in the notwithstanding their Ismps they PAINT KEGS, PAOKING within FIFTEEN DAYS of the country all his life. He was a stumbled over a pig in the rood. CASES, &c., &c., &c.
steamer's arrival here, after which married man, the head of a family. That story was ridiculous and be Also a quantity of Clothing...date they cannot be recognized. over fifty years of age, and to bogged them most earnestly to Catalogues can be had at the No Claims will be admitted HE Steamship cause he lost his money in the find a verdict of not guilty, Ordnance Office or from the after the goods have left the Go- downs, and all Goods.,remaining.
"JAPAN," farming business through the remembering particularly not Auctioneers. floods he sold his house for a few withstanding the fact that he had livery. All faults and errors of will be subject to reat
Terms of Sale-Cash on de- undelivered after the 30th inst., Captain C. H. Seddon, will be despatched for the above ports on tons of dollars and it went away proved where this man was nine, descriptions at Purchasers risk, No Fire Insurance has been FRIDAY, the 27th instant at in doctors' fees. He came here years ago, it was for the Crown on the fall of the hammer,
effected.
3p.m. and his wife took him to that to prove his guilt and not for him. All lots to be cleared within Bills of Lading will be count For Further Particulars,' apply neighbourhood and he got to to prove his inescence.
3 days.ant. with ersigned by burden
to know the people in the neigh- The Jury returned a verdict of
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discharged,
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