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HOTELS.
THE
HONGKONG
HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL Telegraphic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG. AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL
Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHal"
HOTELS.
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lits. Peking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms, newly renovated and installed with Bax. Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone. All Trams pass in front of Hotel. Most Moderate Rates in the Colony.
Hotel launch meets all steamers.
Dining Room and Lounge now open to the Public.
TEA DANCES
MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS
5 to 7 p.m.
Tel. Add Victoria.
Telephone C.378. J. H. WITCHELL
Manager.
HOTEL SAVOY
Finaus for its Comfort, Conveni
co, Appointments and
Guiaith.
You'll be proud th stay at the Savoy.
HOTEL METROPOLE. HOTEL BOA VISTA.
22, Ice House Street."
Macao.
UNDER THE SAME MANAGEMENT.
KOWLOON HOTEL
PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON
Modorn Toilet System.
Elovator and Telephones to each floor.
Smoking Room. and Saloon Bar. First Class Billiard Table
Recently renovated throughout.
Manager's Personal Attention
Tels. K. 608--609.
Cables KOWLOTEL. HONGKONG
Eel Kowloon No. 8
PALACE HOTEL.
H. J WHITE
Manager
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
Tel. Address "PALACE," Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station, Entirely under English Management. Electric Light and Fans throughout. Every Room with Private Bath. Leungo, Bar and Billiard-Rooms. Darivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Terms moderate. Special terms to families on application to:
Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietress,
EUROPE
After-dinner dancing every
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Cables:--
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Singapore.
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SINGAPORE.
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Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director.
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Four Liqueurs in one Bottle.
A saving of time
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Printed and Published for the Proprictor by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria, Hongkong,
ON TICKET-OF-LEAVE,
AGAIN ARRESTED FOR THEFT.
When a Chinese was charged be fore. Mr. R. E. Lindsell this mor- ning with the theft of two crates of chickens from different cottages at Aberdeen, the police asked for the man's committal to the Crimi- nal Sessions, in view of his bad
record.
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It was shown that after a lengthy career of crime he was last sentenced to three years' bard labour at the Supreme Court. That term had not been fully serv- ad, and it was while the man was out on ticket-of-leave that he was alleged to have stolen the chicken. Evidence in this connexion was given by a farmer of Aberdeen. ile stated that at three o'clock in the morning he was roused by a dog barking, and on going outside, he saw the silhouette of a slinking down the roadway with a crate of chickens in each hand.
The ensuing chase took the man to the seawall at Aberdeen
over which he jumped, after dropping the crates. Then a constable ar- rived, and, with a revolver drawn, ordered the man to clamber ashore. The defendant denied the charge attributing this to an old grudge which the complainant had against him.
If he had wanted to steal, he would assuredly have stolen something more valuable
than a crate of chickens.
Mr. Lindsell: Why not? If the dog had not barked you would have got away with it.
While giving his evidence, the complainant became excited, and was chided by his Worship: "Don't get excited, old man, we have got your chickens here."
Inspector Goble, in an applica- tion for the defendant's commit
tal, reviewed the man's record. and stated with regard to the fact that the man was on parole on ticket-of-leave, that another charge would be preferred, of "breach of conditions of his con- duct-licence."
The case was adjourned until this afternoon,
CHINESE SPIRIT BELIEF.
(Continued from Page 1.)
stage that this woman was killed? There is conjecture, of course.. There is suspicion. Suspicion might be rampant in a case of this kind, but there is no proof of it and therefore there is no evidence to go to the jury.
There is nothing here to conjec- ture by reason of the fact that no witness has been able to say 'In my opinion her death was in fact caused by violence.
"Strangulation has been suggest- ed by the Crown but no one could. say death was caused by that. I will not say, is the attitude of the witnesses, that in fact the woman lost her life by violence.
"In that position. I put it to you that it would be perilous to allow the case to go to the jury on evistence in which there is not one expression of opinion that she lost her life by killing. It is nothing against me that anyone should say that the woman, having been in the soil for six weeks, there is no criteria by which an opinion can be given.
A "Total Failure." "On the evidence that the Crown
FRIDAY, AUGUST – 12, 1927.
POLICEMAN AND A WOMAN.
21 YEARS AGO.
(Continued From Page 7)
EXTRACTS FROM “TELEGRAPH" FILES.
was alleged to have used threats The following items are from to the constable was the defen- the Hongkong Telegraph for the dant's daughter. She had follow-week ended August 11th, 1906.
woman to the ed an arrested police station to see what would The rate of the dollar on demand happen to her, and when the con- stable saw the defendant's daugh- was 2/ 1 7/16, ter outside the "police station he' promptly seized her and charged her with obstruction.
After the two women had been taken into custody both charged with obstruction by selling rice at Second Street the constable went of his duty. Mr. McCullum said that, unknown to witness, the women were released.
The constable, however, said that the women were discharged from the police station in his pre- senco.
Mr. McCullum: They went back to Second Street? I don't know. When you went to Second Street, they were both at home? I can not say.
:
Mr. Lindsell: Did you not see them?-I saw them both in the middle of the street during the 18Bault.
Mr. McCullum contended that the quarrel began when one of the women, not the defendant, told the constable that if he was secking promotion he should arrest the thieves and robbers in the Colony, and not persecute poor women..
The case was adjourned.
HAS AN ACCIDENT.
Mr. Wm. Cosgrave, Presi- dent of the Dail, who may have to resign owing to Mr. De Valera's followers enter- ing the Irish Free State par- liament has been slightly hurt in a motor accident.
C. N. C. COLLAPSE.
(Continued from Page 1).
..
ean place before this court, there one explaining why the recent is an absolute and total failure, negotiations were broken off. Its even with all the science at their purport has been conveyed during beck and call, to give any evidence the lust few days in reports publish- that death in this case was caused ed in this journal.
by killing
"For these reasons I submit that there is no case to go before this or any other tribunal."
His Lordship did not call upon Mr. Fitzroy to reply, and intimated to Mr. Jenkin that he did not in- tend to detail to the jury what evidence he considered Lo be present.
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Shanghai Statement.
Shanghai, Aug. 11. 'In connexion with the break- down of the conference between the C.N.C. officers and Messrs. But- terfield and Swire, the China Con it Offfeers' and Marine Engineers' Guilds have issued a statement that the recent conferences of the The defence, therefore, is called China Navigation Company of- upon, and it is expected that the ficials and the Guilda' representa- case for the prisoner will be com- tives discussed the 1916 agree- pleted by the end of this after-ment, the 10 per cent réduction noon's hearing.
of salaries, and the re-instatement of all the strikers.
Mr. Jenkin intimated that his only evidence would be that of the prisoner.
NEW CORPS OF CAVALRY.
RE-GROUPING AT HOME.
Eventually it was agreed that a new agreement should be drawn up, but the company declined to agree to the principle of neutral arbitration.
The Guilds agreed in principle to a conciliation board, but the Company nullified the desire to reach an agreement by maintain- ing their original attitude in the matter of the 10 per cent. reduc- tion in salaries, and declaring Army Orders contain a Royal their intention of penalising cer- Warrant under which the regular tain masters and chief engineers, Militia corps of Dragoona, Lancers-Reuter.
London, Aug. 11.
and Hussars, are henceforth con-
stituted a single corps, designated the "Cavalry of the Line."
At a meeting of the Stalnes At the same time, various Rural Council attention was called auxiliary cavalry forces will be to the fact that Mr. Lias, one of the apportioned to three Territorial members, had been married. It согра, and be designated
was thereupon moved that the Coun- Dragoons, Laneers and Hussars cfl send Mr. Lias a message of (Territorial Army)-Reuter.
TO-DAY.
Dollar on demand 1/11.3/16. Lighting-up
6.59 p.m.
congratulation and good wishes. The Clerk said he had received a message that Mr. Llus would be away on holiday for three weeks. Mr. Lias is an old resident of Yoko- hama, where he was a well-known personality.
Canton celebrated the anniver- sary of the death of Fung Hu-wai, the boycott bero, thousands of people participating.
Tenders were invited for the erection of a mortuary in Kow- loon.
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Sir Henry S. Berkeley, Attorney
General, was appointed, one of His Majesty's Counsel for Hongkong.
*
Inspector Dymond was trans- ferred from Mount Gough Police Station to Aberdeen Station in place of Inspector MacHardy who
was
placed in charge of the Station on the Peak.
*
The British ateam launch Wing Fat was pirated at Wuchow. One man was killed and three others wounded.
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,
Masonic Hall
The new opened at Shameen.
was
The following quotations pre vailed at the close of the week:-
Hongkong Banka
Canton Insurance Union Insurance Hongkong, Fires,
Indo Chinas
Entertainments
AT THE
QUEEN'S
.$850
335
800
220
Steamboats
2714
Douglases
47
70'
1
China Sugars.
160
Kowloon Docks
153
Hongkong Lands
170.
Cementa
2212
Providents
9
China Lights
10
Hongkong Hotels
125
SHARE PRICES.
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.
The following is the list of local
sharo quotations issued to-day: "/ Banka.
Hongkong Bank, $1055 b. Chartered Bank, £20 n, Mercantile A. & B., £32 I.
Marcantile O., £137 n.
P. and O., £9 b.
East Asia, $68 n.
Marine Ins.
Canton Ins, $590 s.
n.
8.
n.
China Underwriters. $.50 s. North China, Tls. 143 Union Ins., $282 b. Yangtze Ins., $35, n.
Fire Ins. China Fires, $210 b. H. K. Fire Ins., 600
Shipping. Douglases, $32 H. K. Steamboats, $22 a. H. K. Tuge, $.60 s. Indo-Chinas, (Pref.) $30 Shell Trans., 92/- n. Star Ferries, $14 b. Waterboats, $16 90 n.
Refineries. China Sugars, $15 s. Malabons, $32
Mining.
8.
Benguets, $1.70 b.
Kailans, 45
b.
Langkats, le. 19 n.
S'hai Exploration. Tis. 3
#1
Shanghai Loans, Tls. 6 n. Raulis, $4 n.
Tronohs, 19/3 n.
Ural Caspians, 5/- n.
Docks, etc, Kowloon Wharves, 8112 b. Whampoa Docks, $35 5. Hongkews, Tls. 136 b.
5.
n.
Now Engineeringe, Tls. 4 20 b Shanghai Dooks Tis. 91
Lands, Hotels, etc.. H. and S. Hotels, 6 H. K. Lande, $531 b Realtys, $6 S. Territorials, $13 Humphreys, $123_n. Princes Bldga, $89 n. Rural Londe, $11 'n.
Cottons.
8.
£.
Ewo Cottons, Tis. $7 15 b. Orientals, The $1280 b S'hai Cottone, Tls $51 n.
Buses,. Trams. China Buser, Tis. 7. 3 Tramways, $20.90 b Peak Trams, (old) $14 A. Singapore Trams, 11/ s. Taxis, $1, n.
Miscellaneous. Amusements, $20 b." Canton Ioos, $5 n Comente (Comb. $7 9. China Lights, $13ł China Prov., $4_n. Constructions, 817 s Dairy Farma, $15- n. Der A. Wing, $& n. H'kong Elootrios. $51 Macao Electrics, $37 ́b. Ropes (Old) $10 m. Lane Crawfords, $5 8. Mackintosh, $19) n. Sinceros, 83 4. United Abestos, $15 s. Watsons $11 n. Powells, $59, Téléphone 3.706
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There would be an all-round HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW? simplification" of
marriage pro-
blems if we were faced by such an brder 'aa' that which has made marriage compulsory within a
The following are the replies to
month for the women in the to-day's questions:
From cinnabar, a red mineral found fu Hunan Province of China. If spain and California. 4. A form of gratuity, the feminist view of the feminine or overweight given by tradesmen of India. B. William the Conqueror's chaplain, in Kings- mind is correct, we may expect "Hereward the Wake." The Army new reballion in Chine embracing Education Corps, with four. 5. The first man to translate the Dible foth English. Da wu all the women who decline to be martyred in 1936. 6. The Layal Enzingers, T. come marriage conscripts. The To the north of Cape York, Queensland, Aus- masculinist, on the other hand tall. B. A Flemish geographer, born in 1817...
9. For is silver mines, which have produced will score a little triumph if it is more than £400,000,000 since their discovery, found that Chinese women are 10. The Corps of Military Police, whose hadge very gratified with the prospect 11. Durham Cathedral. 12. The manufacture of being found a husband at the of shoddy from old rags. This is 14ter made end of the month. In his coun- try, however, with our much-
talked-of "surplus women," the
I worn by the officer in charge of records.
Into Army ubiforms, ste.
syatem right create a little con- Presumably; marriage would be fusion unless-it could be run by come literally a lottery, and no department, male would have the chance of comments the Westminster Gazette, drawing a blank.
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