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THIEF'S TRICK.

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A hut tenanted by an old woman on the hillside at Shaukiwan was visited by thieves on Saturday morning.

Returning somewhat earlier than, the usual hour from the hillside, where she was tonding to a herd of pigs, the woman was surprised to And the door of her hut ajur. Her screams brought two men rushing out of the hut, where they had been busy rifling the contents,

In the chase which ensued, one of the runaways was caught by an Indian constable, it is alleged, with | part of the money stolen from the hut in his possession.

The woman related to the Court, this morningi a cunning device dopted by one of the thieves to put her off the track during the) chase. She said that while going as fast as her aged limbs permitted her, she found a man following in the rear, and he persuaded her noti to shout, saying "I will catch they thief. for you.** She saw through the trick, and explained to the Magistrate this morning that it was! done with the object of detracting attention from the runaway,

For the purpose of further in- vestigation, his Worship ordered]

• remand of forty-eight hours. The prisoner will be retained in police custody firing that period.

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"gushed up as fast as I pessibly) could, in spite of my weight," s plained, Mr. (: A. S. Iiss in mak ing a sudden appearance at the Police Court Inlay in a" rase inj which a sarapan woman was being 'charged with possession of opium.

Mr. A. Fraser, in stating the place in which the drug, amouni- ing to some 130 taels, was found, denied the assertion of the woman that the rug was placed there without her knowledge.

Mr. Russ was informed that the i woman had admitted the technicali point that the opium was in her possession, but had returned a plea of not guilty to. the second charge of permitting her boat to be used for its transportation. This Recond erunt involved guilty knowledge, said the Magistrate.

Saying that be hail had B: chance yet of seeing his client. Mr. Russ applied for a remand, and, a regard to the question of bail, sug- gested $1,000 as the amount.

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of my client to find this amount. His Worship:-N, 1 rather thought you would not be."

The woman was remanded, the ease being fixed for hearing at noon on the 31st,

MORNING.

At the Supreme Court tld: morning, before Sir Benry Geila's three applications were made for leave to file returns of allotment

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COMPETITION RESULTS.

final de played at Fanling on Inah Captain's Cup 1925 Saturday, ith Jamary. J. M. Walker 16! heat A. H. Ferguson 160 by one up

In the Governor's Shield, B. &

the Yan You Kung Lighter Com-Es. Treland & Tronside heat pany, said that. The Company was Naval

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SINGAPORE LETTER.med in December, 1920, with Flearn by and I und so qualify capital of $26,0mm, divided to meet A.P.C (Pendered & But- two hundred shares of $100 uri.terfield in the final tie which i There were only two share will be played about 12.445 pm, op holders, each holding and half th' 31st Juntary, stock, and consequently there whe none is particular, to look after

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¿Contianal from Page 67 Cowns, and, one wonders where it is going to end, The fact is

the matter. It was a private rot

To the Junior Championship, | open to niebers with handicaps 10 ur over, on Sunday, 17th Jan-

that the Dutch have a very dif-} cult problem to solve in the terany and it was pure inadver-uary, at Fanling, the following! ritories

Sence that the return of allotment qualified for match play stiges:-- they style. Îisulinde..

J W. Franks 86, J. Hooper 88. Their colonial policy has always was not made at the right time.

Mr. T. Addis made a like a T. C. Monaghan 88, J. Smith 91. differed very materially from thatlication on behalf of the Sui Wa W. J. Clerk 91, 0.3. Layton 92, followed in British Malaya, and it] Caelad, a small company formed A. D. Bumphreys 04, A. W. may be that the constrast bp: tween the complete prilitical sere-tence, he said, that the rpm A. K. Hewlerson 95, 7, 8, Forsyth in April. 1924, I was inadver Shovelion 94, A.0. Brawn 95, nity of this peninsula and the

not, made within the requisite six li, A. Sommerfelt 95, T. Ramsay unrest which unquestionably ex- weeks.

96, D... Valentine 97, T.S. Whyte-

company

Jondon, Jan. 16,

ists in the Dutchy ladies is not A similar application was mide - Smith 98. D. M. Goodall, 8. M. without significance. This is not

on behalf of the Chinese Foreign Mayes and Lt. Commde C. Hake the place to discuss Dutch policy. Kaitling Company by M. IL Gaeli 1001 play off for 16th place. nor to criticise our nearest neigh-Sheldon. He mentiqued that the bour, but one can say that the Dutch have adopted a different nititude March 16th. 1915. The present was incorporuięd” on towards their native subjects return showed the allotment of According to the Times, Sir and they have never sought 15,812 shares hut that figure was Ausien Chamberlain, on his the friendship of the Chinese incorrect. Actually 16,692 shares turn to London, will stop at Paris who have very largely made had been allolied.

The mistake to confer with 51. Briand, with the Malay what it is to-day. erying evil is the preventive deten error.

urose through, a typographical object of arriving at an necord in principle on the subject of the Eeonomic Disarmament. Confer-l ence.-Indopaciji.

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tion for non-Europeans which is His Lordship granted an exten. practised on a tremendour reale insion of a week in each case. the Dutch East Indies. It is an

undeniable fact that every year

hundreds of natives are kept under MOROCCAN QUESTION.

remand for several weeks or even months awaiting trial, and the re-

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London, Jan. 16. According to the Morning Post, official circles at Washington Paris, Jan, 16, think that Al. Berenger will ob According to Le Journal, Capt. tain better terms than M. Cail imprisonment far in excess of that Canning has arrived at Tangier laux.

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