Mr. A. J, Hughes has accepted the Councils invitation to serve as its representative on the Royal Asintic Society's governing body for the year 1983-4, week by the First Special District Court on June 1 for alleged opium ber to 16 years' imprisonment for rob-'The prison term, counsel trafficking. reduced to four years Inspr. Papp, of the Municipal Police's' narcotic "squatd, told. the of the accused's appeal in the High, Com Court that the prisoners, together with Eliotore Meden, Italian, were 'The accused, questioned by the Court, both denied being involved arrested at 2 Em. on Wednesday in the opium deal and asserted in room 'No. 210" of the Cent 'Hotel, Canton Road.' When police that they only acted as interpreters: in the affair. entered the room, the three' men Were sitting around a. table "on which there were two pieces Foreign Woman Sentenced opium covered with a hat. An-'h other small Mrs. Colgate, an unrecognized found foreigner was sentenced to two Possession. Prior to the prisoners' years imprisonment and fined $20 arrest, the detectives had arranged in the First Special District Court through an informer to meet the on June 2 on charges of assault, Accused at the corner of Broad: larceny, possession of arms, and way and Dent Roads at about 11.80 uttering © false cheque.
m. on Wednesday for the pur-'The accused was first brought ghase of 50 kilogrammes of oplum.|® re Judge Ng on May 22, With a view of enabling the Police to be present during the drug deal, a Chi ding] sult that they were all taken into custody. The Italian was later handed over to his consular, authorities, Chinese detective Liu Shao-kuei stated, acting under instructions from "his superiors, he went to the corner of Broadway and Dent Roads on Wednesday morning. posing, as an opium buyer." When arrived there, he saw only the second accused and the Italian. He then took a motor car with the two foreigners to Range Road where they met the first accused. The accused proposed to deliver the drug in a foreign hotel on the Bund, but, it was subsequently agreed to talk over the matter in the Central Hotel. cused had previous convictions, having been sentenced by the Court charged with assault, causing injuries to Bi Mao-sze, an mah employed at the house where the Jaceused resided. When the case frst came up for hearing, she citizen. The stater jelared' she was an American was, however, unsupported and the deo was consequently concluded in the Chinese court yesterday morning.
The accused was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for. having assaulted the amah, and additional on the other charges. She was further fined $20 for uttering a false cheque.
MISCELLANEOUS, Mr. C. H. Haines, H. M. Coroner, after' hearing the evidence at att inquest on Mrs, Kathleen Rosa. Me-Owan, on May 80, found that the deceased died at the Ca on May 22 of cresol "It is quite clear to, one of an accident; continued eident showed the necessity taking extreme care when poisons are used in a house,
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