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What are you living on at the present time?- I can raise enough money to pay my expenses. Where are you living now-With my friend at 80 Wellington Street.
Do you not live with your concubine in Peel Street P-Wh n she comes down from Canton.
Who pays the tent of the house P-My con- cubine raises money by pawning her things.
Have you borrowed any money since bank ruptcy proceedings started P-No.
Just pawned things ?—Yes.
Is it not a fact that your eldest brother has petitioned the Namhoi magistrate to divide your father's property in China amongst all your brothers P-When I was in Canton he had not, but I don't know what has happened since my absence.
His Lordship-It is not his property yet. Mr. Bonn-r-But under Chinese law it is well known that all sons are entitled to a share in their father's estate.
His Lordship-I think that ou such evidence as has been addæced, there is a probable reason for believing that the debtor has committed an offence, under section 82 (e), with regard to the fraudulent removal of any part of his property, and I order a warrant to issue. The so ic itors concerned, with the Official Receiver will lay before the Crown officer, within ten days such information as they now p 88 88, and will intimate what further evidence they think they can produce. I want to ensure that the Crown wilt know, in considering the cases, what materials they will have for prosecution. The ten days is allowed to lay befor the Crown at once only what materials they have in their present pos ession, and then what materials they can collect. The parties interest d must then consider as promptly as possible whether they will under take a private pro oution, PoO that there won't be that ifficulty which occurred before. Then I want the cred tors to have a fur her short period to decide whether they will take proceedings tuems Ives in the event of the Crown not proseca ing. A warrant will issue on these grouuds for the debtor's arrest, and the case stands adjourned sine die
POLICE COURT.
Wednesday, 1st November.
BEFORE ME. F. A. Hazeland (FIRST POLICE MAGISTRATE),
THH DEFECTIVE MORT E CASE.
His Worship gave bis decision in the case in Which Lam Cheuk San, contracto, of 9 Wellington Street, was charged with failing to comply with the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, which required him to make us of proper materials in the construction of building works at No. 16 Des Vœur Road. Perkins, of the Building Department, conducted the prosecution, and Mr. P. W. Goldring the defence.
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satisfied on the evidence that mortar exactly similar to the morter which was made into these two briquettes was being used in the brick work of this house. I am morever of opinion that the making of two briquettes only in the present case was a fair test of the quality of the mortar as a whole. I therefore convict the defendant and order him to pay a fine of 8250 in default of which he will be imprisoned and kept to h rd labour for six months,
Mr. Goldring Would your Worship fix s time when the fine should be paid.
His Worship-Oh, it must ba paid at once, otherwise he will have to go to goal.
GAMBLING OVER A CRICKET FIGHT,
Judgment was also delivered in the case in which three natives were charged with keeping a gambling house and 60 others charged with gambling on the results of a cricket fight.
Mr. F. B L. Bowley, Crown solicitor, pro- secuted, Mr. P. W. Golding appeared for the second defendant, and Hon. Dr. Ho Kai for the remainder.
His Worship reviewed the evidence for the prosecution which he said had been proved to his satisfaction. He had no hesitation in con. victing the firs' three defendants of keeping a common gambling house, while the rest of the defendants were found therein when the police raided the house. Under the Ordinance they were presumed, un'il the contrary was proved, to have been playing therein. He therefore convicted the rest of the defendants of playing in a common gambling house The first thr e defendants would be flued $75 dollars each or ix weeks' imprisonment with hard labour, and the others $5 each or 14 days' imprisonment with hard labour.
WITH THE VOLUNTEERS.
A GRIFFIN'S EXPERIENCES.
A sham fight conducted by Volunteers is not always the tame and colourless affair it is generally suppowd to be. T'o the ordinary observer such an event might not appear very thri ling, and perhaps hardly interesting but it is surprising the excit ment and adventure it has for thos engaged in it; not that there was anything very special in the field manoeuvre of Saturday, 21st Oc ober, but it was my first experience or n of mimio warfare, and as such impressed itself in all its detvils on my mind.
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[November 4, 1906. and swearing we found ourselves on paratively level ground and, were ordered to take cover. We squatted behind trees and bushes, but as we had not been accustomed to knee drill we found our positions rather awkward, and one was inclined to stand
No sooner, however, had one showed B head than an invisible companion would tell him in a stage whisper to get out of sight. The fanny man of our party was detes ed standing up regardless, of the vicinity of the foe and was ordered to take cover.
"So. I. am," he said, don't you see I am biding behind this Christmas tree.' Some: Chinese, curious to know the meaning of the unusual bustle and activity in their quiet neigh- bourhood, appeared on the scene. Instantly. a dozen rifles were levelled at them and they scattered. Then we thought of what might have been. Had. ге offered them a bribe we might have ascertained the position of the enemy and stolen a march upon them. However, our reflections were cut short by the word to advance, passed in a whisper from one to another. We had to crawl under bushes that we could not get over or round, and when a branch hit one sharply on the eye there were unatterable things, thought. We, had to take l-aps which at other times we would have hea- itated to take, but we had been roused to a pitch at which we would dre anything, and so WO mad our way out of the wood, ran along the bed of a stream, and commenced to climb. We gained the first ridge in a breathless condition, and here we adjusted the putties that bad slipped down, and adjusted the belts that were getting uncomfortable. Having recovered our breaths we de-cended the valley, slipping. on rocks, stepping on to insecure footholds. and ro ling down with a clatter that must have put any enemy on the qui vive. This went on for about an hour and a half, creeping to the top of a ridge, and then advancing to another; while the ether spotions covered our advance. Then we got the word to fire. No enemy was visible but we blazed away at where we throught we detected something moving on the top of the hill, about half a mile off, and trusted that our aim was accurate. Not long afterwards there w is the order t> "osse fire" and, with the knowledge that we. had routed the inviders, we pe-pared to descend the hill. This was almost as diffi ult as climbing, the footing being very treacherous The peal of laughter. which rang out on ons man collapsing and sliding rome distance on his back until: he Among the company of volunteers who used his riffs as a brake, had hardly subsided: gathered at the bead quarters to r-ceive so when it was followed by another. All at once many roun la of blank »mmuni ion there was a wild y ll shook the air. There was a pause, a unusually free exchange of badinage, and and a deep silence, "Hornets," said someone the spirits of the men rose even higher when and we all edged backwards. One unfortunate sailing in the launch across to Cosmopolitan youth had disturbed a nest and the insects. Dook. One gay and debonair youth, addicted were angrily attacking him. Several cams our to the weed, was so lost in thought as he way, but as we remained tranquil they passed: contemplated the doings of that afternoon us over as friends, or at least not enem.as... In he actually came on parade with the the struggle to extricats himself the poor. pipe in his mouth. He Was Soon made wight who discovered the nest dropped his sware of his indiscretion. After being helmet and beat a retreat to the higher ground, drawn up in maro'ing order, we proceeded Now here was a problem., He, must get his through narrow streets, along a somewhat helmet but who was to risk a secondineursionTM tortuous course past a native market, and halted to the alarmed hornet city. The adventure did on the outskirts of Yanmati, where we were not appeal to anyone, and it looked as if tħa.. critically inspected by the Chinese children; helmet and the man would have to be left, but the women, with native modesty, glanced because we could not wait longer. for him, and at us and pa-sed on with averted heads, causing he would not budge without bis, headgear. us to r fl-ct on what a curious mixture it is that By-and-by a Chinaman came on the scene, is called femininity! At Home such a sight as and offer of fire cents. induced him, the we presented wou'd have delighted the eyes and to undertake what the others wouldɔ một hearts of the girls, who would have gathered have done for a much greater sumi На round like bess round sugar. That the recovered the helmet and we all; resuned ɛour. uniform should not be that same magnet here, descent to the shors, where we onos moru halted or rather on the other side, is disappointing. and the provident were able to drink something. out of their water bottles. A short march brought us to the jetty at Laichikok, and; we were soon in camp again. At the canteen we once more encountered our friends the enemies, and though we tried to persuade them that they ought to consider themselves dead and their detachment annihilated, they revealed a per- versity which was only equalled by their impudence, for they alleged that they had wiped. us out long before we got near them. Finding it useless to argue with such obstinate, people. we desisted, and enjoyed the luxuries of a wash and a good dinner, at which the hair-breadth escapes of friend and foo were related with peculiar unction. The extent of some appetites may be ganged from the fact that one man told boy to bring fish and meat until he told him
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His Worship said-The defendant is charged before me for that he on the 5th day of September, 1905, did negl ot to comply with the requirements of the Public Health and Building Ordinance requiring him to make use of proper materials in the construction of building works at No. 16, Des Voeux Road Central Section 100 of the Ordinance is as follows:-" Every wall constructed of brick "stone or other hard and incombustible sub. stance shall be solid across its entire thick.
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ness and shall be properly bouded and substantia ly put together with coment-mortar or good lime-mortar composed of good cement or lime and clean s arp sand with red or 'yellow earth or other suitable material to the satisfaction of the Building Authority." The following facts were proved to my ratis, faction: That on the 5th September, 1905 extensive building alterations were going on at No. 16, Des Voeux Road Central and that the defendant was the contractor making the alterations. A building inspector of the Public Work Department took a sample of the mortar which was being used. This sample was taken from the same heap of mortar which was being hoist d up and used for brick work on a wall of the said building. The s.id sample of mortar was then made into two briquettes, tested, and found not to be a good lime mortar. I am
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Having been rejoined by the other half of the company, we resumed the march. This gave us opportunities of seeing a little of the rural life of the (hinese, the industrious native tilling the soil with the assistance of his family; the curious farms standing in all their primitive and malodorous simplicity; and the numerous graves of horse-shoe shape, with their various oblations. But the interesting views were so n shut out wh u we found ourselves on a road whose sides rose straight to a height of about thirty feet, and after halting here for some time we were joined by the mounted troops. Then the serious business of the after- noon began. We proceeded some distance up the hill, left the road, and plunged into thicket. Running and tripping and tumbling
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