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MURDER CHARGE,

THE KENNEDY ROAD CASE

`AT THE MAGISTRACY.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY

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CONSIGNEES' NOTICES,

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(NIPPON YUSEN KAISITA.)

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"SUWA MARG” having arrived from the above perte. informed that their Goods are being Consignees of Cargo are hereby landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godówne at Kow- loon, whence delivery may be obtained.

The murder of a young Chinese Chinese hawkera of foodstuffs at Kennedy Road on February 27 and other goods near the Yaumati of last year, was recalled at the Typhoon Shelter complained to Central Magistracy yesterday the Chinese Chamber of Com- when a man who is stated to be merce in regard to a recent police a Naval Yard workman, appeared order to the effect that hawking In the dock on a charge of muron sampans within the Shelter der of the deceased. He was re- was prohibited after 9 p.m. They presented by Mr. E. S. C. Brooke.requested the Chamber to ask the For the Crown, Mr. Someraet authorities for permission to al-

Goods not cleared by the 14th Fitzroy atated that police in low them to continue business un- vestigations in the case took a de 2 a.m. It was explained, how- January, 1920, will be subject to finite turn when a bracelet was ever, that, the Police urder was Damaged packages must be left recently discovered in a pawnshop made consequent on recent lar-in the Godowns for examination by at Queen's Road East which ans- cenies, in which it was believed the Consignee's and the Co.'s-repre- wered to the description given at that undesirable characters got tatives on any Tuesdays and Fridays, storage the time of the murder. It was away by congealing themselves in at 2.30 p.m. within the free

Period. n chain bracelet with a jade orna- bawkers' sampans, ... ment, which was now identified as

in ten days of the steamer's arrival All claims must be presented with. belonging to the young woman

here, after which date they cannot be who was with the deceased when

recognized. the murder and robbery was car-

ried out,

But Pui-fong, the young woman In question, stated that she had been married in Singapore before she returned, last year, to sco her mother in Hongkong. While here, she met an old friend, Fung Mun shu and accompanied him on a walk along Kennedy Road.

The Chairman said that it would be quite reasonable if the traders were allowed to continue up to midnight and that there appear ed no reason why their activities should' extånd Beyond that hour.

At Causeway Bay.

A letter from Chinese shop-

keepers of the Causeway Bay dis-

trict

netion in ordering sampunk to complained about Police

keep out of the Shelter at Cause- way Bay and not to moor therein. They claimed that their business has been interfered with, because the floating, population their provisións elsewhere.

secure

rent.

the goods have left the Godowns,

No claims will be admitted

after

No Fire Insurance has been effected.

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA, Hongkong, 7th January, 1929,

NEW CANTON COINS.

TO BE ACCEPTED IN ALL TRANSACTIONS.

At about eight o'clock in the evening, they were in a solitary stretch of Kennedy Rond, above Wanchai, when two men appear- ed. While one of the men made the girl take off her jewellery and hand it to him, his companion en- gaged in a struggle with Fang Man-shu. The assailant struck Pung with a dagger inflicting a fatal wound from which the vic. im died. The two men concerned in the affair then ran away,

Referring to the bracelet which wns Identified as being one of the trinkets stolen from the girl, Mr. Fitzroy said its recovery led to j the arrest of the defendant. NEW YEAR BAZAAR. the Chinese characters "Twenty Actually it was another man who pawned it at the shop in Wanchai.

The Chairman Intimated that the protest expressed the shop keepers' point of view and agreed that they had cause to complain. Nothing definite was deelded but the Chairman indicated that he would take up the matter with the in dun authority concerned course,

TO HAWKERS,

A notification has been issued Colt- by the National Revenue | trolling Office at Canton notifying the public of the design of the new silver coins produced by the Mint for the 18th year of the Re- public, based upon the report sub- mitted by Mr. Wong King-fong, Director of the Mint, according to which the new coins bear the portrait of the Into Director, Say Yat-sen, with the date 18th year of the Republic' on one side, and

Cents" surrounded by Chin-huo Crops, on the other. The strokes of the characters and the Chia-

cut than those on the coins minted for the 17th year of the Republic, and the intrinsic value of the new coine in question is precisely the same as fixed by the Government,

It is stated in the notification that the new coins referred to above should be accepted in' all transactions, and should in na way be refused or depreciated in value. Both sides and the mari gin of these sidea should neither be besmeared nor chopped, and anyone found acting to the con- trary will be brought up, for punishment. Counterfeiters of

By means of the name and adWELLINGTON STREET CLOSED huo Crops have been more deeply dress retained by the pawnbroker, the police were able to locate this customer, and heard, from him a statement that he previously re- At the Chineau Chamber of deemed it from another shop in Commerce yesterday, a letter was Hunghom, after being given the read, protesting against the deci- pawntieket by the defendant. In sion of the authorities to close due course, the defendant was ar- Wellington Street to hawkers, de- rested on the information.

siring to carry out the "end-of- the-year" sale, in the middle of February.

At an identification parade at the Central Police Station, But Tul-fong, the woman, was unablé to pick out the defendant as being the man whom she saw attack the deceased.

It was pointed out that for many years, hawkers have been allowed lo carry on business at the close of the Chinese year. In Jervois In reply to the Court, witness Street, Wing Lok Street, Bonhan said it was dark at the time, and Strand East, Wellington Street, detalls as might help towards an area. identification of the two men con- cerned escaped her attention. The case was adjourned.

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