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FOUNDED 181

No. 12 736

NEW SCHOOL.

Pa

A LOCAL APPEAL.

二拜禮

Stating that a sum of $342,872.-

MARCH 10,

TUESDAY 號十月三英港香

PAWNSHOP ROBBED.

HOTEL COMPANY.

FINAL DIVIDEND OF GO CENTS.

paid in

ARMED GANG'S

HAUL,

NEARLY 800 WORTH TAKEN.

Police raporte to-day show

1925-

日六十月二

MASTER'S EYESIGHT.

OLAIM AGAINST LOCAL COMPANY.

CAPT. KETTLEWELL GIVES

EVIDENCE.

KINDLY: COFFIN OFNTS * 69 PER ARNTIK

andurs and they

safety sure. Large stook on

band suitablo for all cars.

Prices, fitted, from

$35

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD}' Telephone Contral 1246 or 1247.

93, Wong Nai Chung Road...Hay Valley.

OPIUM ON SHIP.

SKIPPER ROBBED.

RICKSHA COOLIE TAKES

$600.

FOUND PAOKE? WITH SUGAR.

CHINESE BIOPKEXPER

ARRESTED.

Captain Haaland, of the a.8. Botain, was robbed in a singular, manner last night. Shortly after leaving the Hongkong Hotel, the ricksha coollo took him into a ride "International quentione," re- atroot and dropped the anafta with of opium amongst cargo shipped The discovery of #38,000 worth

cents, cropped up at the Supreme tain was not proparad. Tumbling Lorenzo led to the appearance

46 in otll required for tho Subject to audit, the profit of undertaking. the Rov. W.T. the Hongkong and Shanghai The distinction of having saved Featherstone (Headmaster of the Hotels, Ltd., for the year onded the liven of two different parties Diocoran Boys School) gives 31st December, 1924, after provid of shipwrecked native fishorfolk some facts in his annual reporting for depreciation, interest, on one voyage was aarned ro.regarding the now building which doubtful debts, etc. amounto 'tol cently by the coaster Botnia (ox-is in course of erection on the $855,082.52. Deducting therefrom that armed robbors have madalating to Scottish and Irish a0-a suddonness for whlob the Cap aboard the Bank Lino atosmship Mondomi), Captain A. Haaland, Kowloon sido. Those show that the interim dividend

the total cost of the new school August last, amovoting to $281,-soother big haul, this time from Court this morning, when the caso out of the ricksha, he was thrown before Mr. J. B. Wood, this which arrived hero from Bangkok

equipment, hoadmaster's house 617.20, a balance of $573,465.32 to a pawnshop in the Westorn was continued in which Capt to the ground. Before he could a couple of days ago.

Robert Kettlewoll is suing the got on his foot again, agile hands morning, of Lam Teo Yu, shop, On her last trip from Hong-eto, is $940,000, and that the mains, which the Board propose district.

China Navigation Company for passed over his pockete and ax-keeper of No. 12 Hwal Hung kong, the Botnia was running funde in sight now amount to to recommend be apportioned as

Lato customers who came into wrongful di misaal. Capt. Kottle.tracted a wallet containing 8600 Lane, on a charge of exportation down south with a strong N. E. 8597,127.54. The building is to follows:

the Po Sang pawnshop just before well occupied the witness bar in notes. Meating the first policothe Oplum Ordinance. Evidence of the drug in contravention of monenon with heavy seas behind be erected on an excellent site, To pay a final divid

otosing time last night showed throughout the greator part of her, and making good speed, comprising about 23 acros, given

the morning and spoke of the had run away with the money,investigated by tha

man on the buat after the coolie baing withheld for the facts to be their real intentione when they

Crown many examinations ho under- $454,183,20 suddenly whipped out revolvers went He mentioned that though Captain Haaland reported the ac Sollaltor, a formal remand for

wook was given, with Mr. Thore is very little chance of Whitehouse retained for the 119,282.12 and pointed them at the pawn-Dr. Morrison pronounced him flt

to tako charge of a ship's the thiof being traced as the broker and his assistants. It was bridge and ordered him woak Captain did not know the number

defonco. $573,465.32

disconcerting for the shop people glasses, Dr. Harston doslared, of the rickeha.

whon about 150 milos cast of

hy the Government of Hongkong. Kulao Rai`a small Anuamite The site formation should bo fishing juok was suddenly sight-Anished this summer and the

end of 60 cents per abaro on 756,972 sharos fully-paid-

up

ed, dismastud, her deck awash buildings, according to the con-To carry forward and five survivors-three men, atract, should be completed by woman and a small boy hanging Dacombor 31st next. It is hopod on to the wreckage. The captain it the new school will bo in stoored hin vossal elightly to the operation Home time in 1926 windward of the wreck in order

In addition to the money ra- to give her a little leo shelter. quired for buildings, an aim is The weather was altogether too being made to gol large Endow heavy to launch a boat, so that mont Fund, in which connection it is stated that "In the first the only possible way to attempt fifty years of its history this

was to lot the Botnia drift alongsido tho

junk,chool, like many others, had no Now we aro do.) throw the shipwrecked fishor-endowmont.

hig scheme for a veloping a

a foscuo

"SOERAKARTAS” MISHAP.

SHIP IN PRECARIOUS

to be first handed a gold ring and in a latter to Messrs Buttorfield that ho was not and Swire, wrist watch, and, whilst apprais competent to be in control, at the ing those articles, to be threaten-amo tine rating the

a

the

od from behind with revolvers. A glasses ordered by Dr. Morrison genuine customer, who came in ought to be weakened.

Mr. F. C. Jonkin, with Mr. minute boforo the gang, Elkjoy

for Zoitlyn, is

the found himself called upon to un- plaintiff and Mr. Eldon Potter, POSITION.

dergo the same treatment, boing K. C. represents the defendant

Company. bundled willy nilly into the London, March 9. was followed, and the stoamor

modern equipmont and an Mossages from Rotterdam stato cockloft, where all were bound manoouvred alongside the junk, efflcient staff. The maintenance that the three tugs unsuccessfully and gagged and then covorod when the three men immediately of such a school will be heavy attempted to tow the 8.8. Soerak- grasped the ropes thrown down

folk lines and pull them up by school in an excellent situation hand. Accordingly this procedure with ita

OWE

playing fields,

clear in rogard to the two lines

ourronco.

SOVIET TAXES.

Detalling tho

Mr. 0680, Clark, the C.P.O., said that the maizure was accomplished at the last minute before the Lorenzo Balled for Cebu. The ahlo was slipping her buoy at 5-o'olook on Baturday afternoon when Re- vonuo Officers boarded her, and, REDUCTION ARRANGED.

soarching amongst the cargo, Tillis, March 9. they came to a number of 03806 Cattle and land have boon marked "K.U. Cabu," of which adopad as the standard assess they had received previous in- mont for taxation by the session formation. Selecting at random cases thus of the Central Soviet executive, one of sovontoon just closed, approving a Budget marked, thoy prized the cover- which reduces the taxation by ings off and from within_took out nearly forty per cent., and romita a quantity of opium. This was arrears of taxation until next packed together with cubo sugar. Other cases contained mirrors, Resolutions were adopted wol- but it was from the packages dustry and commerce.-Heuter,

that the drug was discovered in large quantities. The total amount came up to 3,277 taels, according to a cheok mado latar In the evening.

year.

evor, followed after the men and Grant; our school foen are $100 The tug which wont ashore haedoor, and took leisurely stook of lof defence. In paragraph thros, coming the improvemont in 10-supposed to contain sugar' only

NEW STANDARD NOT ALLOWED, Concluding the opening for the plaintiff this

morning, Mr. to them, climbed aboard the and we cannot expect to meet all arts, which has fourteen foot of over with blanketu.

annual expouses out of water in numbers one and two With the whole shop to them-Jonkin said he would like to steamer and left the woman and our little boy bobind. The boy, how-school fees and the Government holds, also water in the stakehold. selves, the robbera closad the make his position absolutely a pilot laddor was thrown down per annum for a Day Boy; com-auuk.

The Soerakarta is head on to the valuables, of which there the defendants stated that under to him. As ho was too small to Pared with other local schools thene foos are high. In addition

considerable variety. the agrooment plaintiff was to climb up the ladder, he simply hung on to it and was pulled up we have an Orphanage atrashod to braakwator, hor storn being were

vessol; he became, unfit, and on the dock of the Botnia, laddor to the School in which provision float in the channel. She has Solesting only money and jewel-coutinus fit to take charge of a

really deserving to holds number one and two

and three is invol with the son, the outrage oventually escaped agreement became unnecessary poor weman soomed to have lost orphans. and

and it was terminatod. The onse boys who are admitted after o her son os and made no attempt careful scrutiny of their claims. The engineroom and stekehold with a haul estimated to amount for the plaintiff was that if Mr. to save homell-she was simply Thun wo appoal for money for are making water. The position to nearly 86,000 in value. Kotilowoll was to maintain a certain standard of eyoaight, it howing and moaning, with folded hande. Finally the sailors shout endowment as well as for build-is serious.

was the standard which applied whom tho agrooment was mado and the standard which had ap plied throughout the whole of plaintiff's service with the Com-boxing tournament hold at Ox-for the case the Crown Solleitor is pany, namely the Board of Tradeford, by five evente to two tost. It was not allowable for Reuter.

1

and all. In the meantime, the is mado for a limited number of listed fiftoon dogroes. The watersry, the four ment concorned in thereupon porformance of tho

HOBBS SENTENCED.

ed to hor and throw hor anotherings. rope, with which sho at last managed to mako a running bow. line around her waist, so that sho could bo pulled up on deck. All those people luckily very soon recovered, although they had been without food for two days. The next day they were landed at Kam Ranh Bay.

STRONG COMMENTS ON NEWTON'S SHARE.

London, March 9. After a trial laeting inter- mittently since he was arrested THE SECOND INCIDENT. The Boinis loft am Ranh Basin November in connection with the "Mr. A" caso, Hobbs has been and proceeded on her voyage to Bangkok. The weather continued found guilty of conspiracy to de- rough with a high sea, and three fraud, and boen sentanced to two

yoare' hard labour. days afterwards, while sho was: about 200 miles off Pulo Obl (the

Hobbs was unwell practically throughout tho trial, in which

southern point of Cambodia) the the man Newton was the chief officer on the bridgo noticed a small object hobbing up and down prosecution witness,

In the 60s, only discernible when

Counsel for the defence, ad- dressing the jury, complained

it was on the top of a huge wave, that Hebbe had not boon given an The voanol was slowed down, and finally stopped, when the object opportunity of being confronted was observed to be a small bamboo by the Rajab, Sir Hari Singh,

who was the chief prosecutor In

The vossol had her outward joargo aboard, amounting to two

thousand tonn.-Reuter,

[An earlier cable reported that) the Soorakarta, from Hamburg! bound for Java, went ashore off the north pior at the Hook of Holland, in a heavy son.]

Hook-of-Holland, March 9. Lifeboats have rescued 48 of the crow of the Boorokarts. Only the ship's officers remain aboard.

Reuter-.

CRUISER-WEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP.

LONDONER DEFEATS

YORKSHIREMAN,

London, March 9. raft with what looked like a

the caso. The whole fabric of the In the National Sporting Club corpse on it. A fishing not was soon to extend down into the case against Hobbs deponded on in a twenty-rounds contest for the wator. As the weather was still the story of one of the biggest cruiser-weight championship of and most clever scoundrels who Britain, Tom Borry (London) won altogether too rough to attempt lowering a boat, the steamer was ever gave evidence on behalf on points over Sorgeant Syd Pap

(Yorkshire)-Reuter. brought alongside the raft, when of the crown.

The prosecutor said he would

London, lator.

His obiof

it was soon that there was a 10 have liked to call the Rajah if it on it, barely alive, absolutely had been possible, but what could Borry, who is approaching the unablo to moyo. Ho was sitting|

oleverer throughout. on the edge of the raft, with his he have proved? He nover saw votoran stage, was quicker and

Hobbs in his life. foot dangling in the wator. As

The Judge, summing up, said scoring blows were hooks and ho was incapable of helping him the jury were only concerned to swings. Papo occasionally did solf, a sailor volunteered to determine whether Hobbs was well with upper-cuts and books down in a boatswain's ohair, and

If they in in-fighting, but was clearly then made a rope fast around party to the conspiracy.

the men's waist, after which concluded that a conspiracy ex-outboxed by Berry, who was both mon were pulled back onated between Nowton and Cap-going strong all the way, Reuter. board the vessel. The survivor tain Arthur, in view of Newton's immediately collapsed upon being admissions, and ho was an ao- landed on the dock.

boen out in a small craft to pull up his fi-hing not, for which the bamboo raft served as a buny. His canoo was only mado fast with

GERMAN CABINET.

No arrests have been mado.

SERIOUSLY ILL.

Above is Lord Curzon, who in soriously ill, following a Lovere operation.

HOME FOOTBALL.

complice in a wicked conspiracy..

OUP SEMI-FINALS. and had sworn a falso affidavit, RSCUED MAN'S STORY.

London, March 9. the jury would be unable to not *Having gradually recovered,

upon his evidence, except where

The Association Cup draw for the rescued man told his story.it was corroborated by testimony

the semi-finale, to be played on which was only understood with which implicated Hobbs,

DIFFICULTIES OF CHOICE. March 28th, is as follows:--- difficulty, as he spoke a quaint would be much easier to deal with

Southampton versus ShofBold Cambodia dialect, hardly com- a rogue who admitted he was a

Borlin, March 9.

United, at Cheloos, prehensible to the natives on

Blackburn versus Carliff on the board. It appeared that be had gue than a hypocrite who cloaks Nominations for the Presidency

his sine undor transparent) aro taking shape, following Notts County ground-Bouter. affectation of honasty"-Reuter, the Socialists' adoption of Herr

LEAGUE MATCHES. Braun, which has landed the other demonoratic parties into a

London, Marob 9. Latest English League results thin bamboo rope to the raft. the raft was torn from hor mooringquandary, forcing them to tho

difficult task of finding their own are:- The man on which he was kneeling while and drifted ont to soA,

First division →→ pulllog in his baul In the mean- had been four days without food candidates.

Doubtless the Contrists will Spurs time the bamboo painter chafed or water with his logs continually off and the canoe drifted away, so submerged in the sea when ho choose Horr Marx. The Com-! Bagond division: that when the man finally pulled was so miraculously rasound, munists have already selected the Barnsley. up his not and looked for his graft] When the Botnis at last arrived ex-Boxer Horr Thaolmann. The Coventry ho found that it had drifted nearly at Bangkok from this eventful Right section appear to be agreed out of sight. There was nothing voyage, the man was doing quite on the joint candidature of Herr division:- for it but to remain on the raft. well, considering the torrible ex- Jarros, an ex-Minister in, the Aberdare

Marx Cabinot-Beuter. In the meatime a stort broke, perleno0 he had gone through.

them to import a now standard and say "You don't come up to that standard".

INTER VARSITY

BOXING.

OXFORD BEATS CAMBRIDGE.

London, March 9. Oxford beat Cambridge in

The officers of the Department wore active on the following morning in following up curtain clues placed in their hands, and from No. 12, Kwal Hung Street, whore the defendant lived, oortsin documents wore takon which were believed to be helpful

proparing against the defendant. Ball was fixed at $38,000 cash and security. Tho dofondant, be- ing unable to meet this, was re- SupernumeraryChlefOffloor of themanded in polico custody. If the case was a pure question Fatehan on April 28th, and of fact, then bo would confidently voluntarily submitted himself to submit that the totality of the the Board of Trade test at the evidenco was with the officer se Harbour Offico. Ho paesed and regards bis fitness to take obarge took a certificate to Capt. Innes, of a ship's bridgo. No standard who expressed surprise that he or test, he would submit, except had passed the Board of Trade test, could be Įtaken into consideration by the

Court.

QUESTION OF FACT. His Lordship-1 gather that the defence will submit that this is a puro question of fact.

Mr. Potter: That is go; wo do not admit the Board of Trade test. Continuing, Mr. Jonkin said that the medical officer to whom plaintiff was specifically reforrod by defendanta had declared that there was no disease in the eyes and that his fitness to take charge jof a ship's bridge was not affected: and therefore he would submit that the clause in the agreement which gave them power to deter mine the agreement upon the report of an M.O, had not boon Batisfied.

SCOTOH ACCENT. Capt. Robert Kottlowell, who said he was now living with friends at Taikoo, was examined at some length on the facts by Mr. Zoitlyn.

Mr. Zeltlyn Did you ob ́ain master's certificate "Granock" in 1918) Witness:-Yoka

your

at

His Lordship:-Groenook" is usually pronounced "Gregook," I think. Mr. Zeitlyn.

Mr. Zoltlyn :-I was trying to the Bootch accent, your Lordship.

Use

His Lordship-No inferior raco can do that, Mr. Zeitlyn. (Laughter)

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Mr. Zeitlyn-Throughout the whole period you wore with the China Navigation Company your conduct was beyond reproach?

Witness:-I bellovo so. Mr. Poltor. There is not the slightest suggestion, Mr. Zeitlyn; on the contrary we wished to promote him. Witness said he was given notice on June 10th and was retired on July 10th.

Mr. Zoitlyn-You were die trossod whon you recolved notice?

Witness:-You.

And you wont to suo Dr. Aubroy?-Yos.

Did he examine your eyes, medically and mechanically -

Yes.

MR. KIRKWOOD REINSTATED.

LABOUR MOLLIFIED.

London, March 9. In the House of Commons Mr Baldwin read a letter from Mr Hope, the chairman of com- mittees, explaining the reasons for bis reporting Mr Kirkwood to the Speaker on March 5th, and emphasising the importance of the debate and necessity that Mr Chamberlain be uninterrupted, while recognising that Mr Kirk- wood acted without premedita- tion. But this did not absolvo Mr Hope from the responsibility of enforcing the rules of the House on a grave occasion,

Mr Ramesy MacDonald, sinid. And did he say bo would go to

some Labourite back-benchera" soo the managers on your bo-cries of dissent, said the letter halff-You.

smoothed the way to a withdrawal Contuining witness said that of the resolution of cangure, but on July 11th he obtained a tem- asked to see the latter for quiet porary position as Chief Officer consideration. Mr Baldwin said of the Haldis, and he left an Doto-if Mr MacDonald withdrow the ber 15th. He went to Shanghai, Labour motion for a resolution where bo saw Dr. Bolillos and he would recommend that the obtained a certificate from him. House rescind Mr. Kirkwood's

suspension. PASSED IN IRISH.

Tho Labourities eventually Mr. Zeltlyn:-You returned to accepted Mr. Hope's letter and Hongkong and were appointed to withdraw the vote of censure, the Apoey as Oblof Omeer-Yes.

Mr. Kirkwood's suspension Mr. Zeitlyn-1 sm informed ands to-morrow, when the Gov that Aposy la Irish and

brament will move a recission of siso that I pronounced it correctly is exclusion from the House.

laughter).

Reuter..

Mr. Zaitlyn-You here 'under Capt. Anderson and the vessel belongs to the Wo Fat Company, Mr. Potter:Another good old Irish name~(laughter.)

Mr. Kottlewell, answering fur- ther questions, roisted the naturo 2. Loods 1. and circumstances of the tests Mr. Zoitlyn :-You took bridge mads by Dr. Morrison, by Capt. duty wille on board both the 3, Dorby

0. Thompson and by Dr. Hara Haidis and the Apogy?

whom ho Blackpool 1.ton,

visited

Witness-The whole time. of third at the section,

request

Capt. His Lordship:You carried Innes after he had brought the out the ordinary duties of Chief 0." Hunan" from Taikoo Dook to Officer, I suppose?—Yes. -Reuter. Buoy 018. He was appointed

Boutherg

2.

Charlton

The osse in proceeding..

TO-DAY.

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