'A mafoo etoployed at the Shing Kee stables, Range Road, was charged with 1g cruelly ill-treated a pony, by working tached to a Jicensed carriage whilst in a starved condition and when lame in the hind legs, on Tiendong Road at 5 p.w, on August 29, The accused was fined $10, the Court ordered hat the pony to be destroyed, and " summons was issued against 'ithe proprietor of the livery stables.
RAILWAY THIEVES, Five natives were charged by Detective-Sergeant Vaughan with the theft of s hand-bag containing valuable property from the Shanghai Railway Station at 9 p.m. on August 23; also with being members of an organized gang of railway thieves and a source of danger to the peace and good order of the Settlement.
The hearing was adjourned for one week to enable the complainant to appear and give evidence; and a warrant gras issued for the arrest of the accom-Plice who had taken the stolen property to Hankow.
LIBKL BY A CHINESE NEWsraren, An employee of the " Hua Shih Chih" newspaper was charged with writing a libellousarticle, thereby damaying the reputation of a restaurant-proprietor of Foochow Road, and also with obtaining or attempting to obtain money from the complainant by threatening to insert or promising to ref from inserting watter in his newspaj which was damaging to the complainant's reparation, The charge of attempted blackmail was dismissed, but on the charge of libel the accused, who was defended by Mr. d'Anxion de Rnffe, was fined $75.
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