Hong Kong Telegraph 1890-09-10

Hong Kong Telegraph 1890-09-10

Year: 1890

THERE cannot be the least doubt that Mr. H. E. WODEHOUSE, in giving judgment in the Chinese gambling-house fiasco a the Police Court yesterday, was fully justified in his severe censure of the police authorities for bringing forward such a case for trial without sufficient evidence to ensure a conviction. DESOLATING FIRE IN TURKEY. CHARLES, COUNT POPOW, is once again in trouble. He arrived from anton this afternoon in custody of Detective-Sergeant Melver. FROM THE Singapore Free Press, of September 2nd: --- Raub shares are recovering from the sudden collapse that occurred in connection with the telegram. TO-DAY Mr. Robinson's attention was taken up, for quite a while, at the Police Court with the case of a daring thief who was "nailed" by Gunner Wakeman just as he was walking out of the Naval Dockyard at Kowloon wiht three pounds of brass filings under his jacket. THIS is the kind of tommyrot that Mr. James Gordon Bennett thinks fit to cable from London to the New York Herald. THE great increase in the tonnage of large ocean steamers during the last 25 years has brought about a correspondingly remarkable change in the size of modern sailing ships.