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Royal Square Trees,

APRIL 24, 11

DAY BY DAY.

STAR FERRY

TRUTH IS AS IMPOSSIBLE TO BE sOILED BY ANY OUTWARD TOUCH AS THESUNBEAM-Milton.

Thanks to the Hon. Mr. 1.E. Pollcok's series of questions to the Government, we now know who were responsible for the removal of the trees from Royal square. The order was given by His Ex cellency the Governor, acting on the advice of Executive Council, which body, apparently, was influenced by the statement of the fog. Director of Public Works that the

Too Many Excuses,

To the ordinary mind it would

The Weather.

Lower level 8 a.m. Temp 79; sunshine.

At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp 72;

The Mails.

to-morrow,

English Mail-Closes per sa

Delta at 11a.m. to-morrow. Siberian Mail-Oloses per se.

morrow.

PROSECUTION.

A Case of Considerable Import-

ance to the Company.

SANITARY BOARD.

Prospect of an Election After all,

W

EUROPEAN CONSTABLE

CONVICTED.

from the Force.

The case was one in which

There is a proapeat of an elec- Haw Mon Secure their Dischargo, tion being fought to fill the At the Marine Court, before candy on the Sanitary Bord

At the Police Court, this morn Commander Basil Taylor, K.N., during the leave of Mr. F. B. L.

Bowley. Mr. W. L. Carter hasing, Mr. King, Deputy Superin- this morning, Leung Su, master already been nominated and it tendent of Police, in the course of the Star ferry iandoh Suthern

was thought that he would be of a case in which a European Star, was charged by P.O. Peplow returned. anopposed To-day, constable was charged with troos were so situated as to make Siberian Mail, Due per s.o. Delta with anlawfully carrying 16 pas- it difficult to keep the roadway in

to-day.

sengers in excess of the number we learn that another can absenting himself and violating didate for the honour has his office, told un interesting a proper state of repair. That, Siberian Mail.-Left per s.s.allowed by the licence, at 7.30 however, appears to have been Assaye this morning.

p.m. on April 13 in Victoria appeard in the lists in the person story of how constables secure of Mr. P. W. Goldring of Messrs, their discharge from the force on only one of the reasons which led Canadian Mail.-Due por 8.8. Harbour,

Mr. H. W. Looker, of Messrs. Goldring and Ruse. In fact his finding more remunerative eat- to the step, for in extenuation of

Empreas of Japan at 8 a.m. the deed we are told that the trees

to-morrow..

Deacon, Looker, Deason and nomination was handed in this ployment. morning. were not of a saitable kind foreuoh Ameriosn Mail-Olosas per 8.8. Haraton, defended and entere i a Mr. Goldring has been in the Sidney Harry Goodwin, Pollos an exposed spot as Royal Square,

Hongkong Mara al 9 30 a.m. ples of not guilty, while a further excuse is that

P. C. Peplow stated that on the colony for some fourteen years, constable 147, aged 26, of English and, while he has not isken nationality, and of the Central BRY large they obscured the view of Queen

13th inst. In company with s

port in .. the Police Station, Hongking, was | Victoria's statue and of the Squars

Chinese detective sergeant, he municipal libe of the city charged before Mr.C.D.Melbourne generally.

went to the Star Ferry Wharf, he has nevertheless, become with while being a constable in Yingohow at 6 p.m. io-Hongkong, to couns the pawell known and popular in a the Hongkong Police Force, un.

songora.. The Southern Star arrived and on board were 203 large circle of friends. As for lawfully being guilty of neglect or Members of the Kowloon Uw-Chinese third class and 121 first training and aptitude go he violation of daty in his off to br appears well fitted for the post. absenting himself from his duty one breath the Colonial Secretary | ling Ølubaro At Home to-morrow clasa passengers. He counted He was born in 1875, and was contrary to section 22 of -Dali- educated at Working School, pince 11 of 1900, on the 22nd. Clifton College and Trinity Col-inst

Mr. Dennys, of Mesars Donnya lege, Oxford, where he obtained bonours in olassical moderand Bowley, defended and in ations and in the final addressing the Bench aid: I school of jurisprudence. He was appear for the defendant your admitted to the bar in 1899 at Worship; he pleads guilty to the the age of twenty-four and from charge of being absent and loan- that year until April 1908 he not say anything in extenuation. P. O. Peplow:-I was sent there. was member of the firm of your Worship but there is a certain Did you count these all your Mesare. Brutton, Hett and circumstance I would like to put self ?-No. I counted the first-class Goldring. Ia that year he before you. Defendant has only": passengere and the detective left the foregoing firm and been in the Police Force about s sergeant counted the third-class started in practice on his own year and on the day in question So you only know yourself account, later forming the firm he had been out on & party about the number of first-class of Mesars. Goldring, Barlow and and apparently had a little too Morrell, and subsequently that of much. It is no excuse of course, Answering further questions, Messrs. Goldring and Russ. passengers? Yes.

your Worship, but I will ask you witness said there were no other people on the wharf at the time,

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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1914.

THE SCENE IN THE COMMONS.

stated that after ten years' growth only a few of the trees had at- tained any size; in the next he spoke of the way in which the view of the Square was "much

remember them, the trees werd by nomanner of means an obstruo«. tion to the general view of the Square. They would indeed have to be huge specimens to have this effect. W venture to say that by the public generally they were! regarded as a distinct ornamenta- tion of the Square, which, as consequence of their removal, now presents an aspect of severe bareness. The only comfort is that the question of planting flowering trees on the sides of the roads in now under consideration, though it will take many years before these can serve any real ornamental purpose. No Need for Fuss.

A correspondent in this issue regards it as quite unnecessary to have decent dogs butchered in the streets, but rightly acquits fr th the Polica of any culpability in matter. But, after all, the owner of a decout dog has only to prevent it from running about after ten o'clock at night and it will be in no danger of being butchered. He is on excellent lines when he asks for more humane shooting of dogs. A scatter-gun is not the proper woapon to employ. It must be recognised that the Police have a difficult task. They must carry out their orders, and if they make a slip in osrrying them out there will an ontory. Equally, if the slightest laxity is shown |and some child is bitten by a dog suffering from rabies, there will be a tremendous storm of indignation. If dog-owners, how ever, will only assist the Police as far as they can there nood be little occasion for fass or fest. Keep the Public Informed,

Kowloon. Bowing Club,

afternoon.

Sports.

The Boys' Own Club sports take place to-morrow afternoon at the Racecourse, Miss Kelly is to present the prizen.

Sports Photographs. "We have to acknowledge the receipt of some excellent photo- graph, of the Hongking Schools Sports from A Fong

Hongkong Jockey Club, ne The half-yearly meeting of the Hongkong Jockey Club is called for to-morrow at 12.30 o'clock p.m. at the Offices of the Ulab.

Company. Meeting.

them OR landing. The licence allowed 320 all told, including 12 of a crew. "There

were therefore 16 passengers in excesa. He did not count those remaining on board.

Mr. Looker:-What made you count the passengers on

this particular,occasion?

La

The Confidence Trick, A Chinese woman has com- plained to the Police that yester-

I want to know how you knew. day afternoon she was robbed in Queen's Road Central of two gold-Because from where I stood rings valued at $14 by manas, of could see them coming off the the confidence trick.

gangway.

Kowloon Ferry Pier. We understand that arrange- mants are to be made whereby the time indicator signal over the ferry pier at Kowloon will better serve the purpose for which it is intended.

Alice Memorial Hospital. The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice

I

And you therefore assumol they all came off the boat?-I did not assame; I saw them.

You counted every single one of these 121? yes.

Mr.

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to deal with him as leniently as possible under the circumstancee. A meeting of shareholders of excepting the ticket-collector and

His Worship: I think I will Wm. Powell Ltd., is to be held himself, He took particular awing there was never any ques have to hear some of the evidence to-morrow to confirm the resolu-notice of that, and he was suretion of over-oronding on there Mr. Dennys. tion increasing the capital of the of it.

boats, bat since it became ap- Mr. Dennya: The charge is Company.

How do you know all these parent to the Company that these simple your, Worship, it is people that passed you travelled might be some danger of that, absence; he was absent. on the ferry? How else could they at once began to out. That His Worship: I will have to

was begun as far back as January bear the circumstances. they be there ?

last, and recently, on the opening King are you here in connection of the new wharf at Kowloon, the with this case, Company had detailed special men

Mr. King said he was. to count the passengers na they defendant was absent from daty went on board, and a return was from seven o'clock in the evening supplied to the office showing the of Wednesday and he did not put exact number. All that was done in an appearacce until 3.30 yes on this particular evening, and the terday afternoon and he was recard showed that as a matter brought back to number 2 Police of fact the number of first-class Station and he was found in a passengers travelling on the brothel at Wanchai, He under- Southern Star was 110 and the 1od that the defen Inten Fumber of third olas pas angora in the fires about a year në Me was 180-200 altogether, wie Dy had said, and this was not was well under the number they the first time that he had were allowed to carry. On this been Од the__report; there particular occasion there was a were two or three previous very large influx of passongere by reports against him. These men the train some 850 he believed came out from Home and on class passengers were allowed on and an extra boat had to be arrival in the Colony they might the top deck. Witness went on put on. The Company always get a better job or some induce Mrs. Jorge of Minden Villas,th explain that there was a gate: kept an extra boat at the wharf ment that leads them to want to Kowloon, has reported to the way at the bottom of a fight of in readinese for the railway traffic get away from the Police Force polics that some time between staire which prevented third-class and as soon as the number on after signing for five years, In

and April 20

22 some passengers coming on to the top board the launch approached the order to do that they got into person atole from her bedroom deck.

number entitled to be carried the trouble a few times and as in this valued at $20. à silver watch with wrist strap Li Wa, Chinese detective sergate was shut and the boat sent case, he might be discharged geant, gave evidence to the effect off and an extra launch pat on, without paying three months. that he counted the passengers as was done on this particular money; he disgraced himself and, coming off the lower deck. From night.

the name of the force, and where he stood he could see the Mr. T. W. Robertson, Superin- dismissal follows with a small passengers coming off the boat, tending Engineer to the Star Ferry fine that made it cheaper. He.. and he counted altogether 203. Company, was called for the de- thought in this case his Worship His Worship: You are are fence. He stated that precautions should not deal leniently with the sure they all came from the for counting the number of pas- defendant. Southern Star?

Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals bege to acknowledge with thanks the following donation to the funda of the Hospitals:-Ho Tang $50.

Stolen from a Bedroom.

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Why didn't you count them as they stepped off the side of the boat? From where I stood I could see them step off,

Witness was questioned at length as to whether he could awear that all the 121 passengers ba counted bad actually travelled first class, and he stated that thay must have done so, as only first

Witness:-Yee.

eengers were instituted on Janz- Mr. Dennya said he did not ary 16. The inspector on duty, want to say anything against the

His Worship:-Qaite certain?a Portuguese, was detailed to fact, but this mun himself went Witness-Ier.

count the third class passengers

His Worship-What makes you so cortain?

to the Police Station.

a

Mr. King said he was found in

brothel before that.

His Worship: Have you got his character?

as they passed the gate and the sailor on the upper deck gang couting up from the launch.

Witness: I actually saw them way came on to the pontoon and counted the first class passengers, Witness was questioned by Mr.They were given instructions that under no consideration were

Mr. Dennys: I don't know that Looker as follows:

These 203 passengers came off they allowed to have more than the character in a case of this together in a rush, didn't they?-300 passengers on board.

sort can be put in as evidence.

Mr. King: Yes

The stormy scene in the House of Commons, when the Prim:

A case of suspected rabies has Minister and Mr. Bouar. Law had a wordy duel, reminds one of the couplet which tells of the bistoric doel between the Earl of been reported to the Police, it Chatham and Sir Richard Strachan. Neither of the gentlemen wag stated in these columne seemed very anxious to come to real grips and the matter ended yesterday, and the Police had the very much where it began. Mr. Asquith and Mr. Bonar Law animal killed and conveyd to the were alternately at the table challenging one another amidst the public crematorium where it angriest oriea." And as neither leader had the faintest intention, awaits inspection by the Colonist apparently, of immediately accepting each other's challenge all the Veterinary Surgeon. It is to be tumult and clamour went for nothing. Mr. Bonar Law renewed hoped that every dogowner who his request for a judicial inquiry into the allegations of a Govern has the faintest suspicion that ment plot to overawe Ulster, and Mr. Asquith pointblank refused; his dog has rabies will follow Alleged Larceny of Dynamite.. and no doubt he was wise in this from bis party's point of view,

the same course. In a matter of

At the Police Court, this after- The Prime Minister, however, though he refused an enquiry, this kind no chances should be noon the case in which two was quite willing to give the earliest possible date for discussion if token and the question of a dog's Chinose are charged with the Mr. Bonar Law, would make in the House itself a charge that the value should not count se against larceny of dynamite and de- Government devised an organised plot to promote a rising in the public safety. We may point tonators, was again brought before Ulster, but the Unionist leader apparently was not minded to out, however, that it should not Mr. C. D. Melbourne. The case repeat his accusations in the House, Neithor leader appears to have be sufficient merely to have it shown any great courage. Mr. Law made a capital point when he stated that a case of suspected was proceeding as we went to naked why, if there was nothing to be ashamed of, an inquiry was rabies has been reported. It a Manila Harbour Deepening. not granted. Mr. Asquith's reply has its amusing side. The dog is handed over to the Police, { allegation was against the honour of Ministers, he said, and it in order that the public shall be Dredging operations in Manila No, they came one after another. Replying to the Magistrate, The charge is absenting himself They didn't pass you in single witness stated that the inspector from duty. I don't wish to take should be made in the House, Striotly speaking, the Prime protected from danger as far as Harbour to make the port acces- Minister wan right, but the leader of the Liberal Party should be possible, it is only resonable to faible for the largest vessels to file, did they ?! could cunt had authority to turn passengers any objection that is wrong, bat off the boat if he thought there I don't think it is evidence in a about the last to dwell too greatly upon the honour of Ministers ask that the public shall after-enter at all stages, of the tide them all right. while the Marconi affair is still fresh in the minds of the electorate, wards be informed whether the began on the 20th, inst. A sum They all came up together?--was an excess.,

charge of absenting himself from His WorshipCan you speak duty to put in his character ir That is a sleeping dog which it is as well not to rouse.

case, or cases, turned out to be of 175,000 pesos has been setNo, one after another,

You don't mean single file, do of your own knowledge that the Palica Force A discussion in the House, it is trae, would never secure the rabies or not. The public has aside for the parpone, and practi-

His Worship: I have not sen same result as a calmly-purened judicial inquiry carried out in an every light to be kept fully in- cally the entire harbour is to be you? As one passed I donated that authority has been exercised?

WitnessIt has never been the character roll. impartial spirit. A matter of this kind can hardly be probed to formed in s matter of this dredged to a depth of 31 feet at that one. the bottom in the course of a discussion where only the broader kind and we have little doubt low water.

Mr. Looker, addresing his neceser to Worship Mr. Donnyar 11. Mr. facts are under notice; and, in any event, however the debate, that, since the matter has besu

Worship, stated that the case was Replying to his. Worship, speaks to his character I this it of considerable importance to the witness said he was perfectly is the best way, might go, the Government majority could always he relied on. That mentioned, it will be kept in- fact, no doubt, was in the back of Mr. Asquith's mind when he so formed.:

At the Police Court, this after Bier Ferry Company owing to the satisfied, from his own observa His Worship. I am arau courageously demanded that the matter should be discussed in the

noon, Mr. Wood continued the position it occupied as being tions, that the precautions were most call for it. (The /oll wa House of Commons At the same time, since it was olear that sa

hearing of the case in which a engaged in the passenger trade parried out

then produced.) The lapt Chinese in charged with embezzl-between Hongkong and Kowloon. His Worship at this stage in- is the 14th of this moné. inquiry was not to be granted, the Unionist leader would have been

|ing $13,000, the property It was naturally of great im-timated that be did not desire to hundred dollars,, better, perhaps, to have accepted what was offered. There was It is announced that, in vlow of the Tax Fang, firm, portance to the Company that no hear any further evidence, re- always the probability of sufficient coming to light in, the course of the risk of communicating Mr. Eldon Potter, Instructed alarm should be created in the marking I think that the count about the safety of assengers. of the discussion if the charges are at all well founded, that is to infectious diseases to Army horses by Mr. Holmes, prosecuted, and breasts of the travelling public as by the police was carried out in I discharge the dele antido say-to force the Government to grant an inquiry as it did in the by the use of War Department Mr. D'Almada, defended. Yester to any danger arising from the such a way as to leave the po not wish to impug anything to caso of the Marconi elfair, Wo should not be surprised, indeed, horse-ruga on animals hired from day the first charge of the three passage owing to overorowding sibill's of a mistake. I think if the police. I thi con did all to see the Unionist leader adopt that course before many days are contractors for Territorial train-proceeded on was withdrawn. It a feeling of insecurity prevailed there regulations that are made you could bat was large num over. It is, in fact, the only course open to him, and Mr. Law in a ing, it has been decided to dis. The depositions of witnesses were abroad, it might very seriously are carried out and I'm satisfied ber of people at the opint man who may be relied upon to take whatever opportunity offers continue the supply of suge for being read over as we wont to affect this Company, Unill the that they have been and will be it very like to be a wal

camp.gze

No Rugs

Alleged Embezzlement.

recont tráin nórvice was in full there need not be any fear one.