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as they had a common intent. The questions the jury had to decide were: (1) Were the prisoners there? (2) What did they do? (3) What was the legal effect of what they did?
The jury retired and after a short absence -returned with a unanimous verdict of not guilty against all five prisoners, who were accordingly discharged.
ALLEGED · KIDNAPPING.
Cheung Fook was indicted on a charge to which he pleaded not guilty, of detaining a boy by force with intent to sell him.
The following jury were empanelled: Messrs, L. G. Bird (foreman), E. D. Haskell, H. L. Korten, O. el Arculli, E. B. Pye, L. G. Jolly and K. D. Mistry.
The Attorney-General, in opening the case for the prosecution, stated that the boy, who was fifteen years of age, had been brought by the prisoner from Canton and detained in a house in Bridges Street, Hongkong, where someone was always in charge and prevented him from escaping. After being kept in the house for seven days he was taken to another house, where defendant sold him to a certain man.
The boy stated that he was sitting in a theatre in Canton with another boy when defendant accosted him with the words, "Youngster, there are good prospects in Hongkong. You can make sixty or seventy cents a day." He went with defendant and wished to escape when on the steamer coming down to Hongkong, but was afraid of the Indian. Arrived in Hongkong he was taken to a house in Bridges Street, where he was detained for a month and three days and subsequently sold for $42.50.
After hearing the evidence for the defence the jury found the prisoner not guilty and he was acquitted.
ANOTHER KIDNAPPING CASE.
Three men and a woman were next arraigned on a charge of detaining two boys with a view to selling them. They pleaded not guilty. The Acting Attorney-General prosecuted
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Evidence was given on behalf of the Crown that all four, had participated in an interview | with a woman who agreed to buy children, one at $190 and the other at $180, and a bill of sale was made out by the fourth defendant.
The woman was sentenced to three year's imprisonment and the men to twelve years.
BISHOP INGHAM'S ADDRESS TO CHILDREN.
The schoolroom of St. Paul's College was All d with children on the 22nd inst: when the Rt. Rev. Bishop Ingham, secretary of the Church Missionary Society, addressed them. In simple language, understandable by the smallest present, his Lordship told of the day when Britain was conquered by the Romans, and of the saying of Pope Gregory that the little Angles would have been angels if they were Christians. He then told when and how we became a people through missionaries bringing to us the Gospel of Bethlehem, Nazareth and Bethany, and how our home life grew from Christianity. There was no such home life in China, Japan and Africa, where the Gospel was unknown, but missionaries from all parts of the world were carrying the glad tidings to those dark lands.
After listening to the Bishop's address the children partook of tea and light refreshments.
TRADE-MARK PROSECUTIONS.
The master of a tea shop in Ko Shing Street was proceeded against before Mr. J. R. Wood at the Magistracy yesterday for applying a false trade description to a package of tea. After hearing the evidence his Worship imposed! a fine of $100, or six weeks' imprisonment, and ordered the defendant to pay costs amounting to $900.
Detective-Sergeant Murphy proceeded on board the s.s. Telemachus and seized five cases of joss sticks under the Trademarks Ordinance. Before Mr. J. R. Wood at the Magistracy yesterday Mr. P. Sydenham Dixon, of Mr. R. A. Harding's office, applied that these sticks should be confiscated, hecause they bore trademark so nearly representing the com- plainant's as to be calculated to deceive. The hearing was adjourned for a week.
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PRESENTATI N TO DR. THOMSON.
A GIFT FROM THE TUNG WA HOSPITAL
An interesting ceremony took place at the Tung Wa Hospital yesterday afternoon, when Dr. J. C. Thomson, who leaves the Colony for
Home in the course of a few days on account of ill-health, was presented with a handsome silver tea set consisting of five pieces in recognition of the disinterested services rendered to that institution during the twelve years he has acted as visiting medical officer. Mr. Sin Tak Fan, the past chairman of the Hospital, presided over a large attendance of the leading Chinese, and was supported by Mr. Lau Chu Pak, the present chairman; Dr. Thomson, Dr. F. C. Clark, Hon. Dr. Atkinson, Hon. Mr. A W. Brewin, Registrar General; and the Rev. C. H. Hickling.
[December 24, 1909.
We desire to assure you that the memory of yourself and your self-sacrificing work in the interests of the Chinese Community will ever be cherished by us; and we wish you a speedy restoration to perfect health, and a long life to enjoy many years of peace, happiness, usefuluess and distinction in your Homeland. We are, sir, yours sincerely. Dr. THOMSON replied:-Mr. Sin Tak Fan, and Gentlemen,Words fail me to express what I
feel in view of the high tribute you have paid 10 my work in the Tung Wa Hospital, and the generous gifts you have made to me in token of tion. This tray and tea service will be among your appreciation of my services to his institu- my proudest possessions, for there is nothing in my work in Hongkong that gives me greater satisfaction than the circums ance that I have had the friendship and good will of those with whom I have been associated in, this hospital. My task here has been no easy one. My appointment to the office of inspecting medical officer on January, 1897, followed the report of a special Tung, Wa Hospital commis-
sion that sat in 1896, and was a result of the
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The various pieces were inscribed as follows: Presented by the Chinese Community of decision of the commission that great impro- Hongkong to Dr. J.. C. Thomson, MA, M.D.,vements in the working of the Hospital were D.T.M. and H., D.P.H., visiting Medical possible, and extensive reforms essential. Officer, Tung Wa Hospital, from 1897 to 1909 fore that time only Chinese treatment was
available, but on the surgeon, Dr. Chung, trained in Western medicine, surgery and midwifery, was appointed, that in future all patients who might enter should have the option of treatment by European methods, though no compulsion was to be exercised. The directors of that day, while consideration, were by no means unanimous in treating us with constant courtesy and all due
the belief that the changes proposed were desir- able, the Chinese doctors regarded our efforts as an interference with themselves, to be openly resented
Mr. SIN TAK FAN said: Gentlemen, The purpose for which we are assembled here to-day is to present a farewell address and a silver tea set to Dr. Thomson, who is about to leave us and this Colony on account of his health, a matter much to be regretted. I have just re- linquished the Presidency of this Hospital, but by the courtesy of Mr. Lau Chu Pak, my worthy successor, the pleasing duty of making the pre- sentation has been accorded to me. Gentlemen, you are all aware that for the past 13 years Dr. Thomson has been associated with this Hospital as Visiting Medical Officer. The invaluable services he has fendered, are, I believe unparalleled in the history of the Tung Wa Hospital, and the relations he has had with the Directors have been most cordial. Dr. Thomson, it is for these services the Chinese Community of Hongkong have in token of their gratitude thought fit to present you with the silver tea set and the farewell address, which with your permission I will now read.
Hongkong, December, 1909. To J. C. Thomson, Esq., M.D., D.T.M. and H.,
D.P.H.
SIR,On the eve of your departure from the Colony, we, the Directors of the Tung Wa Hospital and the undersigned Chinese Merchants and residents of Hongkong, desire to place on record our high appreciation of the inestimable services rendered by you to the Hospital, and to tender you our heartfelt thanks for your loyal support and assistance in the humane work carried on by this Charit- able Institution.
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The exemplary manner in which so unreservedly devoted your time and skill to the benefit of the Hospital as Visiting Medical Officer since 1897 will never be for gotten, while the number of persons who owe you a deep debt of gratitude for your kindness and assiduous care when they were under your treatment is very great.
The courtesy and consideration which you have continuously extended to all with whom you have come in contact, the great interest and sympathy which you have ever manifested in the suffering poor of this Colony, and the exceptional skill and tenderness that you have always displayed in the exercise of you profession, have won our highest esteem and admiration, and in token thereof we beg you to accept the accompany ing silver tea set and this address.
We are also deeply sensible of the invaluable knowledge and experience you have acquired for the benefit of the Colony by your laborious and scientfic study of the treatment and prevention of Malaria, which has been in. strumental in so vastly improving the health of its residents; and the success you have achieved in this direction should be a lasting source of gratification to you, and will be written large In the history of the Colony.
Your departure will be a severe loss to the Hospital as well as to the Colony generally, in which you have deservedly occupied an eminent position, and it fills us with the keenest regret.
and opposed, and the employees generally pursued, for a time, a policy of passive resistance that was occasionally very trying. But ere long all this was changed, and friendly relations were soundly established. I was able in some sense, and Dr. Chung very thoroughly, to look at matters from the other side, and to re- gard sympathetically the Chinese point of view. passed, has been more ready than its pre Bach new board of directors, as the years haye
decessors to co-operate with me in my efforts to raise the standard of the work done in this
institution, Chinese and European methods of treatment are carried on harmonously side by side, and in just about equal proportions as to the number of patients being treated by the one method and the other, and no more willing staff of employees exists, I can say with confidence, in any institution in this Colony. The Chinese community has not resented the changes introduced. There has been a steady, continuous increase in the num- ber of patients during the past twelve years. The number of admissions in 1896, the year previous to my assuming duty here, was 2,041, in 1890 it was 2,898, and last year, 1908, the figure was 4,122. In 1903 the the other side of the road added seventy-eight beds and large out-patient department to the accom- modation of the hospital, and a continuous demand in excess of ward space through the whole of last year or two has rendered the need of the new wards about to be opened an urgent one, altogether irrespective of the incidence of any plague epidemic. I would like to avail myself of this opportunity of publicly acknowledging the great indebtedness of this institution to the late Dr. Chung, the first resident European- trained house surgeon, Chung King, he was a Tientsin, and had already been for eight years diplomate of the viceroy's medical college,
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