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CHARGE OF

MANSLAUGHTER

NO BLOODSTAINS ON THE CHOPPER.

Where is the Deceased's Wife? The case was continued this morning at the Police Court, in which Young Lom, an office coolie, stands charged with the manslaughter of another Chinese, The defendant, who was engaged by the Cotton Mills, was defended by Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton.

Dr. Koch, assistant superinten- dent at the Government Hospital, said the deceased was admitted to hospital on May 24, suffering from & wound on the outside of the left hip, bolow the orest of the hip-bone, penetrating, in a slanting direction, for about four inches. He did not think the -wound could have been made by the chopper produced in Court, The man developed blood poisoning the next day and despite a cleansing of the wound under an anaesthetic he grew worse until he died on Juno 30.

"In reply to his Worship, witness suggested that a dagger or a pointed narrow blade would make the fatal wound.

Ali Bux produced the dying deposition. of the deceased takon on June 29

A Dirty Wound.

Sergt. Pitt said that at 9.15

stall.

Wit-

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1914,

SPECIAL CABLES.

(Epesial Rasiflo Service to the "Telegraph "-Router.) CHINA AND FOREIGN TRADE.

GOVERNMENT TO OPEN INTERIOR CITIES.

Peking, Received July 8. The Chinese Government is at present carrying out the preliminaries for opening the following interior cities to foreign trade.-Kalgan, Kveihwacheng, Halpino, Dolornor, Lungkow, Taonanfu and Chifeng,

The procedure to be adopted will bo similar to that at Tsinanfa and Kirin, which are not treaty porte but are. places in which foreign merchants have been given facilities to 'oarry on business.

WELCOME RAIN.

DROUGHT RELIeved in ChengTU.

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Chongtu. Received July 8. Heavy rains have fallen in different parts of the pro- vince, relieving the drought and cheapening foodstuffs.

IRRIGATION IN THE

PUNJAB.

Canal.

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

WE HAVE RECEIVED:

NEW

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OF

FRESH SIBERIAN SALMON,

SMOKED

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THE ABSENT WITNESS.

Solicitor who Cannot Control the

·Weather.

Mr. Potter strongly objected. The onse was fired as far back as June 26, which gave the other side ample time to get him down

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS. PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned has received instructions to sell by Public Auction on

WEDNESDAY, the 15th July 1914, commenc-

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at bis Sales Rooms, Duddell St. A Fine Collection of Postage Stamps, in a Sectional Imperial Album.

(The collection has been divided

up so that each country in its own Sectional album comprises one lot. No stamps have been removed from any section prior to sale).

On view from Saturday the 11th July.

Catalogues will be issued. Terms: Cash on delivery!"

GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.'

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

From NEW YORK, via

SUEZ CANAL.

THE Steamship

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having arrived from the above

with the aid of the other Earop- eans, was toon able to train “a

At the Summary Court, is Bafficient number of native morning, before Mr. Jastico driller and blastere to undertake Hazeland, Lam Pui, Ho Wing, the whole work, and for some time Ho In. Ho Kom, 4 Kin and Ju past the whole of the labour. King-wan sued the Kwong Hing skilled and un-skilled, inside the firm, asking for the return of p.m., on May 24, he was in charge Opening of the Upper Swat

tunnel has been Indian. The certain household furniture and of No. 2 Polica Station when the

drillers were chiefig Punjabis, wearing apparel takon and carried deceased cums in. He was then

Last month, almost exactly a and to a less extent Pathans."

away by the defendants, valued suffering from the wound.

The rock pierced was a very at $102,43. The plaintiffs also nees examined him and found the year after the opening of the wound covered with a lei of Lower Bari Doab Canal, a amalier tough, hard muscovite granite, claimed damages for the detention Witness but even more daring tribute to difficult to drill, and quickly thereof, not exceeding $807.57, Chinese medicine. gleaned and dressed the wound the genius of Sir John Benton was blunting the best drill stoel. For the limit of the jurisdiction. In alternative the plaintiffs and bandaged it up and sent him inaugurated by the opening of a short portion of its length near the to the Government Oivil Hospital. the Upper Swat Canal. This theSouth Portal quartz-mica-schiat claimed $1,000 damages for

Mr. Bratton: Do you know canal is not remarkable for its size was encountered, but though conversion.

Mr. W. B. Hind, of Mr. G. K. what medicine it was 7-Not or volume; its total length of 150 slightly softer than the granite, European medicine; herba and miles and its carrying capacity of wasnot much softer to drill. Three fall Brutton's olice, appeared

2,200 ousees are exceeded by shafts were lowered in order for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Eldon INDRA" LINE, LIMITED. The wound was very dirty?-many of the Indian causls, but to ventilate the boring, pump Potier, instructed by Mr. Holmes,

thero is none which has been up water accamala.ion, dis-defended. Very dirty.

face of charge rock debris and open Mr." Hind asked for an adjourn Inspector McHardy said that at constructed in the

which up more faces to work at. For a ment on the ground that hig 8.46 p.m. the deceased came too many obstacles, or

greater the station and complained of presents

triumph great pat of the time occupied principal witness had not arrived having been assaulted by a man of man against the forces of in carrying on the work 100 drills fromCanton owing to the typhoon, at the Cotton Mills, whom he could nature. The country it traverses had to ho sharpened every day. point out, Witness sent him to the is of a wild and rooky character, In sach heading 16. bolos were mills with & Uhinese detective. intersected by ravinee and bills, drilled, besides 14 in the sides and He saw the deceased a second time and in its comparatively short bottom beaching. Each hole and when his wound had been dressed, length there woro 107 ravines to was from 53 ft. to 7it, deep,

Hie Lordship Why did you The defendant, who was present, be crossod of depths ranging it took from 10 to 16 hours to complete the round of 30 holes:

not get him down before? was charged with cutting and from 201t, to over 100ft.

The main feature of the canal, The blasting and removal of Mr. Hiad:-We had him down wounding.

By Mr. Bration:-Ohinese bowever, is the tunnel through debris required from five to eight and took bis evidenca but we plasters had been placed in the which it passes beneath the hours, so that the whole round cannot keep him done here for The original of operation took from 15 to 24 ever and a day. I have no more wound when the defendant first Malakand hills. one to the station. There were alignment provided for a tunnel Loure. At esel blast an advance control over the weather than my no bloodstains on the chopper 5,000ft, in length, and had it of it. to Bit, was made, according friend or the Observatory has.

been followed the canal would on to the hardness of the rock. The His Lordship granted. the when it was brought in.

A Chinese detective gave avid- its way to the tunnel have had to explosives used were blasting application, the ence of the arrest of the defend-pass through a tract in independ-gelatine and nonobel made by adjournment ant. The chopper was found on ent territory studded with old the Nobel's Explosives Company, defondants. a bed in the presence of the Mahomedan graveyards. The Glasgow. The cost was la, per

against cubic foot of rook removed. defendant.

Course of the Canal. course were BO great Mr. Bratton proceeded to cross-this

The headworks of the canal attain an excessive velocity, and examine the witness when that instead of the take-off being,

weir 700ft. long, to reduce the speed to 9ft. per his Worship naked as to the trend aa originally intended, made from consist of a

the Swat River half a mile down secured by a strong dam on its second no fewer than 197 rapids of his questions.

Mr. Brutton pointed out that stream of the Chakdara fort, the right fiant, and provided with a have been inserted in this length. his client admitted hitting the present site at Admandara (the fish ladder and three sluice open- Each has a drop of 1ft., andersigned by :---

On the consists of masonry cross walle, deceased with a chopper, but did Gate of Penco) was adopted for inge, enoh 40ft. wide. not wound him. The shopper the handworks. This position is left flank of the weir and jom-with a 1 in 10 glacis of grouted produced was defendant's chop-some three milea lower down the ing the Amandara rock is the pitching between them. per and medical evidence was river, at a level 60ft. bolow the that that was not the weapon first projected site. The result is which caused the wound. so that the length of the tunnel apparently the man must have necessary to convey the water to gone off and wounded himself,

Wifo Disappeared. Inspector Mutiary said that the deceased's wife had since dis- appeared.

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canel regulator of uinc openings, each 20ft. in width. The gatea, grooves, and gearing. were sup- plied by Messrs. Ransome and the country to be irrigated has Napiera, of Ipswich, sad are de- been increased to 11,235ft, The signed to give fall control of the tunnel is the second longest in river both at low water and India, the longcat being the Kho:in food time, so that a regular jak tunnel on the North-Western and proportionate supply will at Railway in Baluchistan. The only ail tires be obtainable in the irrigation tonnel that can be com-canal. The canal rane for four pared with it ie the Pariyar tunnel miles along the base of the bills in Madras, which has a length of tatil it turns into the tunnel at only '5,704ft. The cross section of the North Portal," After issuing the Swat tunnel is 215 sq. ft., from the "south Portal" it will

Cargo impeding discharge or obtained by a width of 18ft, and flow down the Dargai Nala for

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hazardous and/or extra hazardous Meters, Siamesen and Co., a very canal is required to carry. It has distance of 10 miles, and the

Godowns of the Hongkong" and bed slope of 1 in 215ft. Besides Machai, which is aligned along the

Kowloon Wharf and Godown handsomely get-up handbook of the Panama Pacião International this main tunnel there are no southern slopes and spurs of the A pedido de um grupo Co, Ltd. Exposition, which the Company fewer than seven subsidiary fills in a south-easterly direction Socios, & Assemblea Geral desta No Fire Insurance will be

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