A Victoria, B. C., court has reserved judgment in the case of Wong Chung-quong, who is sparing no money in his endeavour to prove that a trunk for which he assumed responsibility while in transit on the str. Protesilaus, and in which he admits drugs were found under a false bottom, contained the drugs without his knowledge. His story is that be left for China in a hurry on the receipt of a cablegram to the effect that his wife and_ five children had been captured by bandits in a raid om their village. He found, however, that his family was safe, and that it was the children from a school near by who had been abducted. When Leaving for British Columbia, he said, a man in Canton gave him the trunk to bring toa man Victoria. The accused, a man of wealth and influence, has lived in Victoria for many years and evidence was given to show his good character.
San Proviciseo despatches report the death there recently, rather suddenly,, of Captain A. O Cooper, master of the Canadian government Merchant Marine rir, Canadian Observer. He is k: own to many shipping and mercantile men in ports of the Grient as the former chief officer of the Canadian Pacific str. Empress of China. He was also engaged for some time in the coastal service of that company. To him belongs the credit of hav: ing commanded the sturdy steamer Princess Ena on her voyage to Vladivostok during the war, and to him also was due the credit of discovering the lost steamer Canadian Importer when she was adrift and helpless on the Pacific. The body was brought on the Canadian Observer (his last command) from San Francisco Vancouver for interment.
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