CHINESE AFFRAY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 March 1913, Page 5

CHINESE AFFRAY.

AT MELBOURNE SHOT., ATTACKED BY HIS EXSEORETARY. | (Rcooived March 12, 9.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, March 12. ■Jfc gliomas Jones Ohio,, an accomplish-. 4HM. Chinese, aged thirty, lias boon arxested on a charge of unlawfully -wounding with intent to murder. Tho victim of tho affray, Hung Tiiang Hwang, is the Chine-He *.OonsulCleneral. , Oliia, who lately was prominent through Ilia marriage to a well-known Australian girl, called «n Hwang, •and is alloged, after a long argument regarding his private affairs, to have iked two revolver shots, but'they were without result. He then fired a third as Hwang grappled with him, the bullet passing through Hwang's upper arm and arfioulder. His condition is not serious. "Tho Chinese Government, in ' Sept'&:aiber, an the recommendation of /-the Consul, terminated o*hia*s engagement as secretary to the Consulate. . Gliia has since been acting as manager of tho Eastern Trading Company. He has held a number of important positions, including the head"mastershrn of the Prefectual Training . "College at Ghangchow, tho Professorshin to.f English at Pelcin University, and chief secretary "to Tang, Chin- — Consul-General in 1910-12. [Mr Hwang wa<s at one time Chinese Consul in Wellington.' 1 ]