We have received from the Central China Famine Relief Committee the intelligence that the Committee is bringing its work to a close. The people are beginning to scatter again to their homes in connexion with the harvests and in other r pects there are reasons for euspending work. In due course @ comprehensive report will be issued covering the work that has thus far been done. Certain members of the Committee have been officially an. pointed to act as trustees of balances in hand and to see that penalty of his misdeeds. The cir. cumstances of the case were related at the Mixed Court to Mr. Kuan, Magistrate, and Mr. Johnson, U. 8. Assessor, by Det.-Sgt. Brewster who prosecuted, and from the evidence it appeared that at the time the theft was committed, the night of June 13, the victim of the affair and 8 friend were proceed it one of the central thorough ricshas. In the breast pocket of one of the men's tunics was a roll of notes amounting to 820, and the accused, who was standing at the side of the street, saw the money protruding. Leaving his own ricsha, he made a dash at the blue jacket, grabbed the notes, and be fore anything could be done had bolted.
When the thief made away his ricsha was left standing on the street, and obtaining possession of this, the police were able to estsplish the identity of the man. A couple of days ago his arrest wat effected, and he was brought up st the Mixed Court. Sentence of six weeks' imprisonment was imposed.
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