The proprietor and the manager of the Ya Kor Chun restaurant, Foochow Road, were brought up on rowand, charged with gross carelessness in having allowed an outbreak of fire to occur at the restaurant, No. 524 Foochow Road, about 6.30 a.m. on the 14th instant, thereby endangering life and Dectective-Inspector McDowell said the Court had inspected the premises since the last hearing of the charge and he had no further evidence to offer beyond putting in the report of Mr. 8. Rayes Davy, who had surveyed the premises and estimated the contents to be of the value of Tls. 4,046.50, although they were insured for Tia. 10,000.
In reply to the Assessor, Inspector MeDowell said that very little dat was done by the fire.
The proprietor of the restaurant was discharged with o cantion and the nager was fined Tls. 50, which the Court said would amount to double the amount of the damage caused by the fire, AN USLICENSED opium-hor.
Lok Sung-tan, a shopkeeper, was charged with keeping an unlicensed opium shop within the limite of the tlement and retailing opium therein of stolen goods were found in his posses sion. An old man, who was 2 passenger on board the best, stated that he had been robbed of $24 which he kept in his hat. The defendant at first denied all knowledge of the $24, but after being beaten, confessed that he had taken the money, but stated that he had given it to a native hotel-ranner who was on the boat. The hotel-ranner emphatic cally denied that he knew anything bout the money and he committed suicide that same night.
The defendant was remanded in custody pending the result of the inquest on the body of the hotel-ranner.
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