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THE TRAGEDY

OF POVERTY.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

THE TIGER.

|Seen Agala Lest Byealng and

This Morning--

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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1914.

TELEGRAMS.

{The following telegrams arrived too late for lasertion on Paga 1.] IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

NONE THIS YEAR,

Routers Service To The "Telogmph."

London, Received April 20.

TELEGRAMS.

THE ROYAL VISIT.

KINGLY PRESENTS.

London. Received April 22.

LIFE SENTENCE.

American Soldier Sentenced at Manilla.

WAS

ALLEGED

EMBEZZLEMENT.

Subsequent Winding-up of i

Chi ese Firm.

PIRACY INQUIRY.

Investigation into the Shing Tal.

Affair.

Untold Tales of Want In Hongkong.

The tiger is again in evidence,

To be imprisoned for the re-

At the Police Court, this after- mainder of his natural life, to (SPECIAL ARTICLE.]

there being reports of the animal There is the poverty with which having been seen both last even

indemnify the heirs of the flo At the Police Court, this noon, Mr. Wood held an inquiry every observant citizen is toing and this morning.

Reuter's e rresponden at Paris ceased in the sum of Peeps 1,000, morning before Mr. Wood, into a pirney on board the 8.9. quainted through the constant

Two European gentlemen were

and to pay the costs of the case Chinese named U. Yim-lai, with Shing Tai on March 31 off Lin- states that King George has Pokfulum charitable walking AL appeals made by

the sentence, imposed at any aliases, was charged within island, in the course of which Last

prezented to the French Govern Manila by Judge Romualdez the embezzlement of $13,000, two guards more killed, inatitations which repeatedly have evening at about six o'clock when

ment six bronze. bra reliefs their objects brought to the notice they spotted the tiger quite

by the French scnlpter Du Jardin, pon Private Walter F. Wilson, the property of the Tai Fung firm who, on March 23, deliberately the defendant was arrested on of the public in no disguised close to Bisney Villa. The animal

A White Paper which has been which have long been in the murdered his fellow soldier, he 6th inst. by Constable Deary manner, and there are other was lying outstretched close issued shows that an Imperial possession of the British Royal Hugh J. Malligan, at the Ouartel a Queen's Road Contral. Institutions, overy bit as charit- to the roadway sunning himself, Naval Conference is impossible Family and which formerly de Espana. able as the more frequently and the Europeans watched him a 1914, as Australia, which decorated the statue of Louis advertised and assisted ones, for quite a time. He was a desires a full Conference, is which parform a wonderful work medium-sized banst. As the ob.unable to attend.". for the alleviation of the suffering servers had no means of attacking of humanity, for the class of por-him, they did not disturb the son who hides proverty as though beast, who was still enjoying bis

it was a cardinal sin to be poor. sun bath hon they saw the last

If there is one class of poreon of him.

more than another worthy of the The other instance is reported. assistance of those more comfort to the palice by Mr. Carvalho, of ably placed in life, it is that 1, May Road, by telephone, He class which, from shear modesty states that his sister saw the

AUSTRIAN EMPEROR

HOPES OF RECOVERY.

and disinclination to be for a mo. tiger passing that address at 10 Vienna states that it is hoped the

ment thought unworthy members a.m. to-day.

of society, secrets poverty as though it was an unspeakable

Reward Offered.

London. Rocsired April 22. Reuter's correspondent al Emperor will soon completely recover. He transacted business as usual. yesterday.

London, Roceived April 22.-

correspondent Bt

Reuter's

Mr. Holmes prosecuted and Mr. I. 'D'Almada defended...

Mr. Loker, of Mesere Dacon, Looker, Lencou and Haraton #ppeared for the owners of the ship.

Constable Drury spoke to going on board and searching for on- traband arms. He saw four Chinese soldiers there and thirty or

Mr. Holmes said that the facle he proposed to present to bis Worship were as follows: he forty people on board altogether. Tai Fung firm was a rice business

He opened up several packages

XIV at the Place de Victoires pearance in court of the defend.

The sentence followed the ap There were brilliant illamina-ant and his counsel. Aitroney tions in Paris last evening and Burke, who expressed a desire to remarkable enthusiasm WOB shown by the vast crowds who change the plea of not guilty sout #p cheers of Vive previously made by the soldier this C long and it was carried and searched six or seven pas at 186, Wing Lok Street West, Fongers. The reason why he did to one of guilty. Lo Roi Vive In Reine. ?>

In view of this the judge con

nd the defendant was the mana. not make a more extensive search continuously. The wearing of sented to hold a special session of tar of the business at the time of was because he had four ships to miniature Union Jacks

the criminal court to allow the the occurrences which he was search between the time he front universal.

plea. Attorney Burke addressed about to mention. In October down to the water front and the court on behalf of Wilson, 1915, so far as the persons in the seven colock. He had not the and in an eloquent plea, pointed hop knew, the

time to make a more extensive

Correspondents concur that no sovereigns were ever so splendidly

welcomed.

MEXICAN WAR.

T

defendant

The Captain Superintendent of Police contended that

out that the latter was of a low, lisappeared on the 14th search without farther assistance. order of mentality and devoid of and it was in the early part of He had one Chinese constable with him. To thoroughly search moral training, his boyhood hav. October that the offences were ing been spent in the backwood leged to have taken place. The abip, he told Mr. Looker, it districts of the North Carolina rat item was on October 9. On would take him a week. He took about balf an hour to search each mountains, and on this ground hat date the defendant was

ship. THE SPIZURE OF VERA CRUZ. asked that the court be lenient in upposed to have taken $3,000,

its judgment.

a notes, from the monies of the At the conclusion of the argu-

Tai Fung fm for the purpose of ment the judge expressed his paying them into the Kum Sang non-compliance with any one of the death penalty was not meted $3,000 owing to the bank by the readiness to pasa sentence. That Bank. There was a sum of the articles on the bond provided. and agreed to was sufficient to call for the bond being estreated. the manager un that date. The Inspector Terret gave evidence defendant received the sum which regarding the bond..

The hearing was proceeding s was counted out to him in order that that debt misht be paid off we went to press, by the firm. Ile went out of the hop with the money, and when

Reuter's

London. Received April 22.

correspondent

st

Melbourne sistes that there have Washington states that a despatch

been splendid rains in Victoria,|from Admiral·Flsteber states :-out by the court was due in large fi m of which the defendant was

disease, and prefers to wait the The police inform us that Mr. inevitable result of silence in re- Ho Tung has intimated that he gard to their want; those who will give $100 to the party welcome death as the only balm capturing a tiger and and $200 AUSTRALIAN PROSPECTS to be prescribed for the disability if a tiger and sigress are bagged. from which they suffer. In Hong kong, with all its prosperity in, trade, its gigantic shipping and ita palatial residences, there are many more of these people than the average person is aware of. They do not all belong to the Chinese either; unfortunately many of them belong to the Port- uguese community, the branches of hard working and respectable families to whom nature has shown little of kindness; those whose forefathers have assistod in the building of the premier port of the Far East.

On Sunday last the writer had the opportunity of visiting some of

these unfortunate children of

Christianity in their so-called

enthusinam such as it was. In another place a similar story was unfolded, and a young woman was eagerly devouring the con- tenis of some lent book for the want of something else to assist in forgetting that tooth had an- other purpose than being an ornament to the mouth. Every- thing was remarkably clean too, but there is little difficulty, we suppose, in keeping the shelves of an uncrumbed cupboard from coking as though it bal not

mach use;"

homes on the other side of the Harbour, For obvious reasona These people are relieved in we do not mention the preciso their distress to some exiest by locality The experience was that world-famed society - the one of indescribable sadnegs, and Society of St. Vincent de Paul. the most facile pen could not But the Society is a poor one, and adequately depict the terrible relief means money-good wishes scene of a family of four living and intentions are a poor sub- -if one is not abusing the term stitute for bread-and" a poorer -in a cubicle of ten feet measure-solace to a hungry bally, Kow- ment either way. On the same loon bae a body of men who are

and there is promise of a bountiful season.

THE JUDICIARY.

FURTHER CHANGES.

London. Received April 22.

DISESTABLISHMENT.

THE WELSH BILL.

65

'Landed matines and sailors.

from battleships Utah and Florida and transport Prairie on Tuesday; seized Customs House. Mexicans

to

veston slates that 200 Mexicane were killed at Vera Cruz,

Reuter's correspondent at Vera |Cruz states that Admiral Badger.

measure to the representativas of Attorney Burke,

The crime for which Wilson must spend the rest of his life did notopro loading, bat open- behind prison bara is the murder nd with rifles and artillery after seizure of Castoma. Prairie hell of Private Hugh J. Mulligan of ed Mexicansoul of positions. There the Eighth Infantry. Il-feeling he came back and was asked not, the firm had seized to oxint, bad developed betwcon the two where the entry had been made It was wound up in the same year. was desultory firing, from house

the payment, a certain There was a bankruptcy proceed. topa in atreete. We hold section as a result of a charge preferred f

Ha ing following the happenings in. Mr. Justice Chantell baste of city in vicinity of wharves. against Wilson by the ma dered locument was produced.

the former had stolen a shirt locament in a moment because at longer existed. There was signed and Mr. Montagu Shear-Oar casualties are four killed and man in which it was alleged that would go into the question of the October and the business no Bao, K., and Mr. John Sankey, 20 wounded,

"After the fight the Americas belonging to the latter. On the present he did not wish to go composition in the bankruptcy K.O., have been appointed Judges of the King's Bench Division of Consul called on General Maas morning when Wilson was to too far with the documents. proceedings he thought 58 pr have been tried for this offence He would explain why in a cent. was composed and thous the High Court.

Assist in restoration of order. be entered the dining room at noment. The bank absolutely assets were sold by the Official Re Masa refused. No refugees

the barracks where Mulligan waalenied having got the money.ceiver and tliere was an arrange- injured."

Reuter's correspondent at Gil.seated and approaching the latter On the 13th. the defendant took meat by which the affaire were from behind, caught bis bond and from the sale, of which he had wound up by some composition. not..so with a razor slashed his throat charge and hail the key, the sum Ho mentioned that

10 boar оп from ear to ear. Mulligan died of $1,500 which he said he was much a few moments later from the going to load or deposit with the this case, but with regard to the wound.

bank. In the same way he want point of the books. He proposed and five battleships have arrived. At first Wilson entered a ples ont for the purpose of hunding to call among others a man

that he was the message to the Daily Telegraph of not guilty, and it was said the money to the bank as it was would say in which he says be will swait that his attorney would try to alleged. The bank would say accountant when the payment future events with cerenity, and prove that he had been insane that they never got that money was made of the $3,000 which it at the time the crime was com and that they did not know any was alleged was never received the republic will maintain its mitted. The murderer, however, thing about it at all. As regards by the Kum Sang Bank He digaity.

maintained that he had done the $3,000 they had still a note which had the man who said he made deed deliberately, and that he was supposed to have been paid the entry. He (Mr. Holmes) had harboured no remorse, and finally off, but there was another note mentioned the fact of the books, bo the plea entered was changed so for the same amount which had cause although he did not despair as to allow for an immediate been paid off, and it would be absolutely finding the books, alleged and he thought in up to the present he could only evidence it would be supported account for their disappearance. that the defendant, for a short He also mentioned that he could time, o ed ap the disap-only go on, with three of the pearance of the $3,000, by a connie contained in the charge, substitution of an old-note for the because he thought he would. same amount which had been have some difficulty in laying paid by the Tai Fung firm, the others before the Court with Those were the two items with satisfaction.

London. Received April 22

ALBANIAN ARMY.

President Huerta has sent a

The Welsh Disestablishment floor in several similar cubicles making the best of endeavours to Bill has been read a second time Chinese, of no commendable assist these poor people, and it in the House of Commona by 349 standard of morality, are goes without saying that they votes to 265. boused, and all that trans- cannot look hopefully to the futur - piroe, eavoury and otherwise, without funds. Any assistance ja witnrased and heard by they can be given will be thank. the childreo of the family com fully received. They make an pol'ed to live in such a place. The appeal for anything that can be furniture consisted of two boxes, spared, and for old clothing they an oil lamp, a couple of cooking can find a very great nee. utensils that could not stand any of left-off clothes will be gladly Durazzo states that the Govern more strain

than the scant received at the priest's house con-ment is calling out 20,000 mon passed the second reading of the THE HONGKONG means of the users bring to bear nected with the Church of the Holy to join the colours.

Gifta

on them, and a photograph in a Rosary, Kowloon, and the givera frame that stands out in relief can rest assurred that the boat from the wallpaper of journals use will be made of them, printed in many languages and of

divers dates. There was not a

London. Received April, 22. ̧ Reuter's correspondent

;

YANGTSZE OPENINGS.

There is a movement on foot

ARMY ANNUAL BILL.

London. Received April 22. The House of Commons has

Army Annual Bill.

DEATH OF A

MILLIONAIRE.

The death is announced at the age of 51 of Mr. Georgo W. Vanderbilt, youngest son of the In the House of Commons, Sir late Mr. W. H. Vanderbilt, and

Loades. Received April 22.

bed or a board on which a single to house the poor people mare one of the inhabitants could sleep, suitably, and a St. Vincent de QUESTIONS IN THE COMMONS. and it was obvious that the friend Paul Sanatorium is about to be of the night was the floor. There prepared for them. It must be were some tatters that travestod understood that all will be done elothing, and a bright-eyed girl with the view to making the John D. Rees asked what steps owner of the famous estate of of some ten years stared expect people feel happy, and at the were being taken to safeguard Biltmore, North Carolina, on the antly into the face of the visitor. same time keep them fros from Brittsh interests in the Yangtsze French Broad River, consisting There was no oral appeal for the stigma that is attached to region, where, in view of the of 100,000 acres of mountain relief, but there shone from those many relief institutions. Em- financial activity of other Powers, land, which be purchased and eyes an appeal that touched the ployment such, as will enable the only financial action can be laid out in a vast park, with heart. The little wizened face people to pay a rental and main-effectual. relapsed into a smile as a gentle. tain their old time pride, will be

sentence.

ELECTRIC CO., LTD.

Sabject to.Audit The

Hongkong Electric" Co. Ltd. will pay a Dividend of $1.80 per share........... $108,000.00 Place to Reserve. 70,000.00 Write of Plant Ac-

count for Depre oiation

Write off Property

Account for Depre oiation ... ...........nie

Write

Forniture

next Account

which he proposed to go on st Mr. D'Almada said the man present. He was going to explain who was really the complainant that as regards the documents had since died.

there would also be a statement Mr. Holmes said that that was that when the defendent disap-80.. 121,562.90 poared with the key of the safe

Interesting Engagement.

there were certain monies am- ounting to $4,000 or more, but

Interport Sport,

25,000.00 when the safe as broken oper In the match for the Strasit nothing of any value was found and T.M.S. golf championship at -Account for Depre

in it. On the disappearance of Kuala Lumpur, C. J. Foot, Selan ciation

530.53 the defendant the Tai Fung firm gor, and C. E. Winter, Singapore, capacious mansion and stables, Pay a Bonus to Staff 6,283.38 became very much involved, that tied with 172, Bell being 173. In Mr. F. D. Acland. Under Seare Mr Vanderbilt had been manif- Carry Forward to

was to say the creditors pressed the play-off, Foot and Winter man handed the mother a ticket provided in the fulness of time, and tary for Foreign Affairs, said the cent in his donations for educa

31.808.10 for their money and there was no again tied with 87 Another which enabled her to negotiate those who have low class Chinese Government was fully alive to the tional purposes and had travelled

money to meet the pressure round was played and Foot won with a compradore for food, a smile for their neighbours at the necessity of taking all possible extensively. He was born at Total $303,044.97 There was subsequently a bank with 41 to 47. In tennis Singapore that did not do one good to see moment, will be able to enjoy the steps, but to advance money New Dorp, Staten Island, New

ruptcy and a receiving order was claim the honours of the meeting, it chilled one into the realisation association of their own people therefor was not contemplated, York on November. 14, 1862.

made, and Mr. Fletcher, as Rece. the feature of which seems to be that it was no stage den of sham under conditions which just now especially as British firms were He was the brother of Mr. William

The engagement is announced iver, sold the business and the the defeat of F. Salzmann, the poverty that he visited, but the canid not appear to them in any ready to take up projects offering Kissam Vanderbilt, the present of Roger Crofton Royal Artillery, books and for that reason, up to Singapore cliampion, by Weir, in Bors of those who claim the right light other than that of a dream. reasonable security and fair head of the Vanderbilt family. Ride-de-Camp to Sir Arthur the present time--although he two saite, 61, 10.8. Kleimpson to be called humans-Christians. Of the Sanatorium more will be profit.

A man of studious disposition, he Young, K.O.M.G., Ocvernor and was not able to find those book accounted for Young, 2-6, 6-2, 6-4, The thin and bony hand of the said aoon; for the present the

Sir John D. Rees asked whether was educated privately, and later Commander-in-Chief of the Stra- he could only trans them to the Capt. Day beat E. F. Saltmann, mother grasped the ticket as matter is still in the shell and the firms were not prejudiced by travelled extensively. In 1898 its Rettlements, younger con of Official Receiver. He could show 6-2, 6-2, Hill beat Deubeny, 7-5, though it were a passport to the will need a little more inonba- other nations assisting their he married Efith Stuyvesant Colonel Malby Orofton, late the that the Offical Receiver sold the 6-2, and Terre I beat Barn-Mar-

tion. Suffice it to say, that efforte nationale financially? land of plenty, an invitation to

Dreamer, and their daughter, King's Own Regiment; and Stella stock-in-trade, credits, books doch, 62.0-2. Etont oral beaten fallen in the desert, and despite connected with this great cause and said they did not Cornelin Stuyvesant Vanderbilt, Olifton, youngest daughter of the book debts of the The books and by Hovil, 0-3, 6-45ad be the table of Dives, manna had in the way of entertainment

propose to finance doubtful pro is now in her 14th year Mr. late Judge Carver, K.U., of Lin- His Worship Is it still going The cricket match between the the rapidly vanishing strength are worthy of all the support that positions in the Yangtze region Vanderbilt bad made mazy coln's fun, and of Mrs. T.Gon?

Colony and F.M.9, at Penang the or elsewhere. there was sufficient, life, left for can be given them,

munificent gifts to New York | Carver.

Mr. Holmen said that it was former won by 8 wickets

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