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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
COFFIN BREAKERS.
This is the
piled by the Chinose to a gang of thi who operate on the passenger boats travelling between Hơng. kong and Canton. Just how the terrá esme be invented, it is dimoult to conceive, but anta -there-in doubtless something in the mačkali «into a operandi of the thieves that has suggested it aat money, to those upon whom they prey. - "They are
$20,000 different ways of pursuing their unlawful call Sharp had ing, and these are adop på as circumstances the seriou
the all god necessitats. Before ■ steamer sails, members done to
Stift's reputation of the gang have taken, an inventory of and how seriously it had depressed the passengers" luggage, and when any bow did not show signs of that depres- strikes them as likely to contain something The witness box. He was actually valuable, the word is passed along and
another box Identically similar is substituted. bus, I think. If the coup has not been made before the bost casts off from the wharf, one of the gàng makes Lord,
the trip as a passenger, and when the owner of Lord, he the coveted box arrives at his destination ho la generally chagrined to find that the one he has rdship mid the | faken away with him contains dothing but For altercation | rubbish. The stranger who travelled with him consin, the and made himself so agreeable on the the Portuguese panen e might have effected the change, he pelled for their thinks, but then he left at the first opportunity they had been and it would be a hopelour tank now to try to Gutierres, went find him amongst the multita fe around, many ced what it was all of whom are probably confederates Bo the vio hing and proceeded timised one yields to the inevitable, and sadly his and his cousin's départs, poorer in material wealth but richer für family. As far as in the knowledge that experience has taught (only person who heard him. what be admitted- he
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Gutierres, Mr. Guiterres a busybody. If he had told ut to be quiet, and had himself about i what bad passed, nothing ave been heard about the matter. come into Court, however, and the the jury to decide was whether the attered deliberatel" by the defen- continuation of a previous If they rere continuation that had been exchanged eties, they were not slanderous ter them for the Police Magis anthorities of the club. If the conclusion that the words were erately with intent to convey imputation of dishonesty then the verdict would be If on the other hand, the that the words were deli- then it was their duty laintiff. On the question of ought to remember that the the words uttared was Mr.
with hom the defen
only five yards away one of the five surrounding the defendant and ard what he delivered been called to give evidence to His Lordship then directed the or thair wordist. frew attention to the fact that $200 osited Court by the defendant, ship thereupon counselled the jury that point at "1; but to dismiss it their minds of damages were
could
ten oents or give king at all.
If A and was slandered C to have no
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of the methods enable instances to follow it in a
* THE KWANGSI FAMINE
The following telegram -hai by Hie Erosiloney Sir Henr Wong Chow, Governor of
Blake -fron
**Whilé vý«Twan Chow I- from Coneal Fox informing quence of the famine in the various districts in Wachow, Tim Chow and Y Chou, Your ́Ercëllenoy had delpa
proceed 'thi her distribute rios distinction of ru Ercellonoy shors behalf of the millions my bounden duty to Mr. Clementi had pers Team Chou and shortly after at Yang Chou.
be arrived
**With regard to the relief rice which you hav already sent, I have despatched a stoäm Intuõh to tow it up to Taam Chon, and I have also ordered all the officials along the route to afford all necessary protection and assistance, and have further given instructions to all lekin stations to totally exempt the rice from all lekin charges. This has already been put od record *: But I have read from Hongkong now pabora" Mate- ments asserting that in this Proving we were not willing to waive lekin charges. *. Those státe ments are without foundation and are utterly unreasonable. As Your Excellency, moved by your well-known charitable feeling for those distress has come forward "toʻsave' the lives of the famine-stricken people I feelthaly "and deeply grateful to you. Is it reënɔ̃mable that I should still tax this rice? Trüf Your Excellency will not believe such this statements; and besides thanking you in a wellton Harpatch I send this telegram in the first Instancë të diku you,'
That is one way of operating, but some- times, as has been said, eircumstance make it imp ssible to adopt this particular course, Even then the thief is not defeated, as the following case, which occurred about a week ago, will show. Travelling from Canton," Chinaman was approached by another who seemed disposed to be friendly. The first man felt lonely; and did not object to having the trip brightened by the companionship of such an agreeable individual as the stranger appeared to be. So they chatted together, drank each other's health in samshu," and smoked opium with the greater gusto that the enjoyment was not marred by solitariness. The thief, however, over-reached himself, and h his exceeding effusive nees arousel suspicion in the breast of the other. The latter watched his man narrowly and just before entering Hongkong harbour, when supposed to be sound asleep, he obterved his friend of the voyage tampering with his | box. The alarm was given at once, and inves. tigation showed that a hole had been out in the box at one end through which the thist was dragging everything" he could lay his hand to. The culprit was arrested, not, how over, before he had succeeded in throwing a large clasp knife into the water. No conviction “Fox, Consul, Wadlow, “Plake Wine to followed, for the simple reason that the owner Clementi to return to Hongkong for e anal- of the box and the coloured man who arrested tation settling with you where the s
“gentlémán the prisoner on the boat told their respective is to go to who is proceeding to mist in dispi- stories with such an exilent desire to outshin-bution. Blake." ench other in claiming all the glory of the cape ture that their evidence clashed in every essential particular, and the defendant, who must have thought himself a lucky man, discharged.
"Another way of tricking passengers ont of their belongings is for one member of the gang to attract the intended victima attention whilst another appropriates whatever they have set their desires and makes off. This ruse was tri d the other morning. A China man going tol Canton had with him a bag containing about $900 in money and overal articles of clothing. As some time had to elapse before the steamier started," he continuation pread out a mat and lay down on it, using
bag s • Possibly his 'jenfons for his trosaure attracted the attention
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FURTHER YESBAGE. MË POS
are asked to insert the following telegrams one from HE the Governor fir Henry A. Blake, G.C.M.G., to Mr Toz, British Consul at Wuchow, and the others fr Mr. C. Clementi, the Relief Commissioner, to His Fixéellenoy ;
“Nanning, 4th Governor, Hongkong:Arrived. Nänning propose to remain here until "morning of 7th, inst. and n
on that day return by criver to Hongkong unless «receive further tole. graphic Instruction. Famine extends to Pási and Lungohow but do not suppose that Hong- Fong Fund will sumon to relieve those districts. Wire at once estimated amount "Fund, how much rice has been sent up River, what place rios has reached, and con being bought by Fund.-- Linkey and Wordip of Al soon 'T'sotai, Prefect and thankful for prospects of
of Nanning famine to-morro
istrict wh
sther districtá should be Clamenti.” m
Governor
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