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An official of the company stated that the contract, the value of which was approximately £500,000, would cover the creation of the 132,000 volt line in the district north of the Thames, stretching from Reading 'on the west to Peterborough on the north, and Ipawlch and Colchester on the past. The total mileage of the overhead trans- inisalon would be 254 miles, and the total actual length of conductor would be 1,800 miles,

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HUSBAND WANTED.

MAN & WOMAN' GAOLED FOR

TAKING AWAY GIRL.

TUESDAY,

THE PANAMA CANAL.

HUGE LANDSLIDE REDUCES

DEPTH OF CHANNEL. ›

Balboa, Panama, June 24.

A huge slide of a quarter of a million cubic feet of material into the Gaillard cut of the canal has occurred, affecting 700 feet of the canal bottoni and reducing the depth at the contro Traffic his from forty to thirty-eight feet. Reuters American Service.

not been interrupled.--

"She wanted two things of me: a job and a husband," said an old Chinese woman when charged be- fore Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Contral Magistracy yesterday afternoon, with taking an un married girl under 21 years of age, from the guardianship of her aunt. A young man who, until the pre- sent proceedings, had claimed the girl as a bride, also appeared with the woman in the dock to answer water overy day from the street on his part, a charge of harbout-girl was on a "pleasure vielt," and fountain. She insisted that the Ing the girl.

The CESO occurred as a sequel to a romance which appeared to have its beginning at a. water fountain. Employed by her aunt to fetch water from the tap daily, she soon tired of the occupation, and it was then that she came Into contact with the old woman, What ensued from the meeting 'was described by Mr. H. R. But tera, who conducted the ease on behalf of the Secretary for Chin- ene Affairs.

elther her husband nor herself wanted the girl to go to work.

A European detective sergeant who called at the house at Kwong Hon Terrace, said he found the girl in a normal frame of mind in the room. It did not look to him as if she was frightened. The door of the room was closed, but not locked.

The chief tenant of the floor, a woman named Li Paak, said she permitted the man to rent a cubicle on being assured that they were a married couple. He referred to the girl as his wife, and the girl made no comment to thia.

Mr. Butlers said the girl came down from Sun Wai City at the beginning of the month and lived] with her uncle and aunt at No, 48, Graham Street. The chief Leung Kam, the woman defend- thing she did in carrying out herjant, said the girl came to her and share of the domestic work, was to asked two things of her, namely a go to collect water daily from the job and a husband. She could not otrect fountains.

find her the first, but she was able to accommodate her with the second, and introduced the young man who was with her in the dock as the prospective bridegroom.. "Having brought the parties together," she continued, "1 was them)- content to leave them to selves; and would, not have any- thing more to do with it."

Ten days ago she did not return home at the accustomed hour, and It was reported to them that a nephew had seen her in the company of an old woman. The anxious relatives then went to see this woman, a seamstress, but she gave an evasivà reply to their enquiry.

Mr. Hamilton: But did you not take the trouble to enquire who her guardians were?

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It occurred to the relatives of the girl to blow whistle, and when a constable arrivest, they all repaired to the Police Station,, The woman, She made where the case was laid before the promise not to tell, bar aunt of police. The old, woman then con- what site proposed to do. fessed that she had handed the The male defendant said he was girl over to a young man, and con- a house-coolle employed at No. ducted the police to a house at 53, Hollywood Rond. He know the Hollywood Road, where he was em-old woman, and told her that ho ployed

A coolie. Having wanted a wife. She replied that affected his arrest, the police next that wish was fairly easy of fulfil- went to No., G, Kwong Honment. If he was not too fastidious, race, where they found the girl. as who had in mind a simple coun- The case against the man was try girl who was employed in a that he took the girl to the house small way, fetching water from the at Kwong Hon Terrace and har-street fountains. boured her. What actually hap- pened there, Mr. Butters said he had no evidence to offer.

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Money of No Consideration.

She next told him that the girl The Girl's Evidence.

had been married, at which he was anxious, enquiring what had Tam Ng, the girl, said she was happened to her husband. His 19 years of ago, according to the fears of being drawn into an en- native rockoning. Her parents Langlement were dispelled when lived at Sun Wui City. Sheshe assured him that the husband left them at about the be had been dead theno, many years: ginning of the month to vlult he had in fact killed himself when her aunt, who lived on the trying to rid himself of the opium- Recond floor of No. 48, Graham smoking habit. She said: "It is Street.

sufllelent that you like the girl. She was put to the task of draw-The girl's aunt is well-off and ing water from the street foun-money is of no consideration. All tain. Then one day she met the you have old woman, who advised her to cubicle."

to do to to hire a leave her relatives and offered her Of course, as a match-maker or more lucrative employment. She go-between she had to have her never mentioned wanting a hus- fee. He promised to pay her $10 band, the offer of a job at $3 per as anon as he received fils pay ati mensum being an attractive in the end of the month. Then he ducement in itself to leave herwent away with the girl. new home.

They were on their way to look for this job, when a man came up to them, and pointing to him, the old woman said he was her son. and told her she could go along safely with him. She then left them.

The man took her to n house, where he shut her up in a cubicle. He stayed with her for about 16 minutes and then went away She screamed for assistance, but ber erics were unheeded. Later, her uncle came with other people and took her home.

Mr. Hamilton: Did he make any suggestion of becoming your hus- band? The girl: No. He only said he could find employment for

me.

The old woman: She asked me to find her a husband, and also a job.

This was denied by the girl.

On a "Pleasure Visit," Stating that she was the aunt of the girl, Leung Kwan denied the suggestion that the girl was "fed up" with being made to draw

$ALESMAN ŞAM

BY GOSH, I'M SINKED IN THIS BURG- AS FAST AS I GET A JOB I LOSE IT! WHATS

TW' USE OF STICKIN' AROUND HERE?

The Magistrate: Without any ceremony, no jess, ceremony, no juss-sticka?

The man said there was no time to go through such rites. The girl came to him at 7 and he had to go back to his work at 10 u'clock.

His Worship: Both of you are convleted.

In sentencing the old woman to six months' hard labour, tho Magistrale said that even she her self admitted that she did not make the proper enquiries as re- taking her away. gurds the girl's guardians before

Replying to his Worship, Mr. Butters agreed that the girl had been a not unwilling party in the

Affair.

The Magistrate. Inflicted a sen- tence of two months' hard labour on the male defendant,

Before the guardians of the girl left the Court, his Worship ad- vised them strongly to have the girl off their hands. by returning her to her parents' in the country, as soon as possible.

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