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asked me to bring him $50 first. defendant was present.
The second
Mr. Brutton objected to the last question as not being evidence. It was for the prosecution to prove a charge of conspiracy, and apparently they were trying to get out in evidence certain facts in connection with the conspiracy which had not been proved.
After considerable argument His Worship overruled Mr. Brutton's objection.
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Hau Tim, continuing:-I think he could hear what was said. On the following day I returned to the shop. The first defendant said You deposit $50 and I will give you receipt and proceed to
a paper for you.' I paid the money and the first defendant gave a receipt which he chopped. He said he would write to me when the paper was ready. I received a letter on the 4th Dec, I again called at defendant's shop He asked me if I had the money ready. The second defendant was present. I said I would bring the money another day. I asked the first de. fendant when he would have the paper ready. He said "If you deposit more money you can have the paper."
I then went away. On the 9th instant I got another letter from the first defendant. I again went to see him. The two prisoners were present. The first defendant askel me to go to a photographer's shop to have my photo taken. I was photo. graphed on the 10th instant. I paid $1:40 to the second defendant, being the price for the photo. On the 11th I received another letter from the first defendant. I again called at his shop. The second defendant was present, The first defendant said "When I get your photo I will give you the paper.
When it is ready I will write to you." The first defendant sent me another letter on the 12th December. I called
on him the same evening. He asked me if I had the money ready. The second defendant was present. I said, "The money will be ready in another day. Will you have the paper readyp On the evening of the 17th I went to the Chan Hop. I asked the first defendant about the He said "It is ready now." I returned again on the 19th, when both defendants were present. I asked the first about the paper. He said “Yes, I have it ready." He showed it to me. He asked me whether I brought the
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money.
On Jan. 5th the charge against Wong Chuk Yau, of attempting to forge an Australian Im- migration c rtificate, was withd awo.
The next witness called was Lau Kun Hing, Master of the Ying Fong Photographer's shop. He said: I printed two prints from the negative produced. Wong Tim came and took them on te 16th December. I was paid 40 cents for them by Wong Tim. I was not paid $1,40 as stated.
Cross-examined by Mr. Brutton: I did not tell the last witness that the price of the photo- graphs was 40 cents. I told the second defendant when he came to take them. I did not tell him the price when he came to have the photographs taken. I did not print the photographs myself and could not say whether more than two prints were taken. The last witness came in while I was conversing with Wong Tim.
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John William Hanson, Chief Detective Inspector, deposed :--On 20th ult. I went to No. 151, ('onnaught Road West. had several Police officers with me, also the first witness Hau. Tim, and clansman, Hau Sui. I sent Hau Tim and his clansman upstairs and waited below. I had given them certain instructions. After five minutes Hau Tim came down stairs and I followed him up. I went into a room where I saw the first defendant seted at a table. Han Soi was seated on the corner of a Chinese settee with something in his hand. A Detective Sergeant who was with me asked
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What are you doing here? Hau Sui answered Trying to get a naturalisation paper." I took from Hau Sui a naturalisation paper he was holding, also a photograph. As I took them from him he said-" These are what
I am to use to go with." I turned round to the first defendant and asked if the pho'o graph went on the back of the naturalisation paper.
He said, "Yea." I asked the total amount required to reach "Kam shan." Han Sui answered $850." The first defendant
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heard it. I searched him and found the opposed to English law, and common sense! key of a safe on his person. I found the safe in The chief "argument," as you call it, is that. a cubicle on the third floor. I opened as the men have been condemned to death, and it, and found a lot of old naturalisation certi-rightly so, for their reckless disregard of life, ficates besides a sum of money. The papers and the sentenc will be carried out in a day or referred to different parts of Australia, Canada two, it simply remains with the Chinese.com. and the Hawaiian Islands. There was also a manity to show that they are capable of kindly miscellaneous lot of papers relating to emigra- feeling, and are not vindictive owing to more tion. While I was searching the papers the or less recent cases of evasion of justice in defend int said These are old papers. Some other ports. were left with m by people who intend to return.' I then took the first defendant to the Police Station, and arrested the second defen- dent on the 28th ult. When I arrested the second defendant he said he was in the employ of the first.
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The case was remanded till January 10th, bail being allowed the first defoudant in the sum of $5,000, and the second in the sum of $2,000.
CORRESPONDENCE.
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CUM SHAN.'
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PRESS.
30th December.
Sr-With reference to the report in your issue of to-day, concerning the casa at present be- ing heard by Mr. Gompertz, where Hau Tim, the police agent. is quoted as having asked the first defendant if he had for sale any "Cum shan papers, may I be permitted to point out that the translation given for this expression ("papers for Australia) is quite erroneous, It means, used in this form, simply and only California, but may be sometimes taken to mean the whole of the American continent, or at least
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the United States. If a Chinaman wishes to speak about Australia, he uses the prefix Sun" (new) and says Sun Kam or Cum Shan (. e. New Golden Hills), and if he desires to be very explicit, he says for California" Kau" (old) Cum Shan, but the two words Cum Shan only never mean anything but California and the U.S., likewise the three words "Sun Cum Shan" do not by any means imply only South Australia, as stated in your report, but the whole of the Commonwealth.-Yours véry faithfully,
THE DOUGLAS S.S. CO.
N.G.O.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PRESS.
1st January. SIR. There is a rumour that the Douglas 8.8. Co. intend building a new boat for the Formosa trade; in other words, the Company propose to extend their business. The question now arises whether an extension of business can be warranted in any enterprise on any other lines than such as are profitable to those con- cerned. We all know that this Company in parti- cular for many a year has only learned to earn the dissatisfaction of the shareholders by the poor results shown in their accounts from year to year.
In fact, the continued disappointment with which the shareholders receive the reports of the Company from time to time has already created in many a shareholder the deep-r oted feeling that the sooner the Company be wound up andthe capital retu ned o them the better. As a matter of fact, shareholders can employ their money better. They have been told all the time that the competition on the coast has been very keen and the Company can hardly cope with the subsidised Japa ese and yet in the f ce of this they are trying to launch into additional unprofitable enterprises by increasing an al- ready non-remunerative fleet. Yours truly,
A SHAREHOLDER.
RE THE SAMPAN OUTRAGE,
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PRESS,
Hongkong, 5th January, SIE-I se in your issue of this morning that in the matter of a proposed reprieve of the boy p isoner through the favour of the Chinese community, you gay the chief "argument" adduced is that as two lives only were lost, two hangings should suffice! This of coursy is not correct, and altogether
Our Judge and Jury have shown them that the English law knows not the word "favour,” but that rich and poor are served alike, and unless they choose to ask (and even then it might not be granted) for the life of the boy prisoner, the law will take its full course. Now it is not a'ways pleasant to ask a favour, and in such a case as the present it may be doubly unpleasant, but it affords our Cuinese friends an opportunity to prove their magnanimity. If they don't care to interest themselves by petitioning His Excellency the Governor, there is nothing more to be said and the boy will be hanged. Would our Chinese friends not feel better satisfied with themselves if they were instrumental in saving the life of this young boy, than if they allowed the law to take its course? It is not interference on their part at all. They, and nly they, might get the boy's sentence commuted to penal servitude for life, a sufficiently hard sentence for being led into such a stupid reckless enterprise by older men. He would go into gaol a boy, and come out an old ma almost, if he lived. If they allow the opportunity to pas, what can be thought of them! The influential men lead the lower orders. They are the representatives, and they surely have sufficient courage to act humanely. The lower orders would not have a voice at all in China, but here their representa- tives can surely be trusted to take the right course in such a case ?
The Chinese will understand, of course, that the Europeans cannot petition the Governor- for obvious reasons-and His Excellency would only thank the Chinese petitioners, even if he did not see his way to accede to their request. Yours sincerely,
"THE EUROPEAN."
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IN JAPAN JUST NOW.
We have permission to publish the following extract from a letter addressed to a gentleman in Hongkong:-
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Arms
All sensible people, those amongst our Japanese friends too (not too numerous an- fortunately) wish fervently that the leaders of the two nations may soon see the folly of this game of the Kilkenny cats and call: down!" There is really enouzh room yet for both of them in the East, and how often has it come true that he who wants too much gets nothing: The war so far has been an eye opener to the Russians and a harder nut to the Japanese I hear that this to crack than they imagined year's campaign was planned for the possession of Mukden as the most moderate goal, but if the d oision does n t come soon they will not so soon get t› Harbin as they expected, and it will simply become a question who can
From what one can stand the strain lo rest. gather. Japanese resources are plentiful yet, but all the same the burden of the war l'es heavily on the people. Until the beginning of autumn there was rejoicing and hilarity, processions and music whenever there was a small or great success. For months past, however, things have become very quiet, and everywhere we har sighs about the terror of this war. Especially since the fearful losses came home o them, when some garrison towns have tw or three times more wounded in their hospitals than the garrison formerly amounted to. The care for the wounded is admirable. The ladies of the towns form assistant nursing-c rp2, spacious barracks are built for the wounded, when they are sufficiently recovered they are s nt to one of the numerons bathing-places. Also the relatives of those fallen in battle are liberally provided for with grants of money *o the rank and pensions, graduated according of the dead. What the casualti s have been so far is not publicly known, as the official figures always leave out Port Arthur. Europ-an. estimites are likely to be far below the mark, as the wounded bought back to Japan seem to
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