The manager of the Woo Zung-chan; cotton cloth mill on the Yangtzepoo Roa was fined $10 for blowing the factory allowed go seconds) by the Municipal whistle for a longer period than that
Council Regulations.—A shroff who had ormerly been in the employ of Messrs, mando' chaige of fraudulently obtaining Ricci & Ca. was brought up on a re-
money by means of a Hongkong wud Shanghai. Bank cheque. Mr. Nelson appeared for defendant and asked that his client should be leniently dealt with as he was n respectable young man und had admitted writing the cheque, but had lately fallen in with bad companions. He asked that his client be fin OF course he did not hold with his client's conduct, Mr, f, Turner, on behalf of the Bank, desired that the man should not be leniently dealt with, as the Bank was seriously inconvenienced by cheques of this description which tended to make the native banks doubtful of accepting their cheque 'The Court ordered defendant two months' imprisonment.—Two men were charged with stealing two bird cages from a man whom they also stabbed severely inthe left hand. The principal was given 500 blows and six months, and the other 200 blows and two months.—Inspector Wilson charged two men with bringing 17 pheasants into the Settlement during the close season. The Inspector stated prisoners were in the habit of doing this as was evidenced by the birds being carried in a basket and covered with green leaves, The men were caught between midnight and 1 a.m. on the ith. Prisone s were each given a week's cangue.—A man alleged to have stolen $450 in notes from a drawer in Mr. T. Gradwell's room at the Soy Chee Cotton Mill on the 2nd of August appeared before the Court. The case was not gone into as the Inspector asked for a week's remand,
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