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No. 6869-October 15, 1580)
Paze, A. O. Gourdin, D Lillis, L. F. Barretto, F. Lid the und C. Lange, gave a special verdict which in bodied in the Puisae Jange's judgment. Un the Jury's önding Counsel were heard on another two,
judgment.
axid
nt
victed of dence Ayhem cum antled on board an American ship at the Assizes for a county to the exclusion Admiralty jurisdiction, although the whip was acchored in an open roadstead at a dis or three days, and their Lordships now gave, because the Bristol channel was held tanen of three quarters of a mile from the sboro,
of the two bordering ousties, The Attorney General (Hon. E. L. to be O'Malley) instructed by the Acting Crown Ulamorganshire and Bemersetshire, al Solicitor, Mr A. B. Johnson, prosecuted, though exclusive jurisdiction of the Admi and Mr Hayliar, instructed by Messrs Bro ralty was set up. reton and Wotton, deforded the prisoners. Mr Justice Snowdo in giving judgment These prisoners were tried at the Cri miesi Sessions for September, on an inform ation charging them that they, together with other persons to the Attorney eneral: Buknown, did piratically and with force of arma Attack, and seiza certala trading juak or vessel called the Sun Fee Les to lylag
in P-k Sha Wan B
Van B., within the Jurisdiction of the Admiralty, and in the of the Queen, and then and thers did piratically and feloniously make an assault upon Chu Asam and other mariners on buard the said junk,
rud did folcniously ,"" and piratically and violently stunt, take and carry away this sald junk, 48 picule of sugar, 9 picale of rice, and divers other poods the property of one Cheung Anau, against the pice of our Lady the Queen, on the 15th
day of August.
THE CHINA MAIL.
tank in he animent had been entirely ignored by their Lordships in giving jag
In t
Mr Justle Snowden said he was very Sorry what was it i
whether the planting of Do Common La
The Attorney Glenoral said the point was Jurtalletian ousted the Admiralty Juria die ion is Fucsia Ports,
cand
The Piano Indgs referred to which he thongst decided that.
The Atorney ties er 4 sund no Pnglab case could decide it; it must be a culebial
Case:
The Puieno Jadga nail he had really for geiton that the learned Attorney raised the pant although be had a note of it.
The cases of Queen ». Audarnon, L ́ K. 1 L. C. IL page 161, and the od cases of in re Jemo, reported in Rusel on Crimes, and Queen ..
Allen,
(page Mandy 494, ahow that the Admiralty retains in jurisdiction in great rivets bolow bridgea.
The thief Justice said the prisoners were But it is only in case of marder and mayhem, cutting er wounding, shat this in custody. It was now for the Attorney
not find General to decide what he should do. preserved
Did, jurlediction is any caso or muy diet or as to concurrent ju be why to the discharge of the prisoners? risdiction applicable to any other than one
The
Att rney General raid he did. They
CBody on another charge. of these two offences, aul certainly not to wore in
Mr laylar a case of piracy jure gentium pure and ai
of them only. ple. I am therefore of piou that the The Chief Justice said the Attorney Ge Set Fee Lee juuk was not in th- jmisdemeral our appichen i them on leaving the tion of the Admirsity, when this was so12cil, Court, but it was a question, whether he but exclusively within the jurisdiction of could ppose their discharge. It was for The ab. bom (the Attorney General) to decide what the municipal law of Hongkong. sonce of the allegation that the offence was he should do. committed on the high sex" renders an information for piracy jure gentium bad an
point of law and unsustainable,
Whatter the possession of the peak out sida Pak Sha Wan bay, as shows being removed, and so in the high sons, was not
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to take the good metal out of the pieces and sell it to those who dealt in that bot in dity. It would be for the Aury to jonge hy the evidence,
The man evlonce, virtually, en var nd duced before the Police flaust van province<. The Attorney General then said he wasađ
press the case, The Chief Juvice instructed the Jury that there was no evidence before them t pro- the change, and directed a verdict of
equitia.
A verdict of not guilty was accordingly
prisons were dia Tatorted, and th charge
KUONAPPING.
Wings A•z and Ips Aud, two w men, were
chwith lawindy by fres detaung a calid under the age of 14 years fomusig,
the age of four pours.) The mother of the child was the principal wiLuens. The ces has been already huidp reported, in the proceedings of the lower Cust..
"The Jury found the first prisoner guilty unaloniy, the second praenor not guilty by five to twa
Chief Juncien told the seostul pri
Clan Ay
EN MILITARY GROUND.
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Tang Wah Bosintal be communicated with She escaped however the full violence | raius; at 11:30 am. wind shifted to S. and asked to take bars into Hospital.
of the storm on each occasion, and no E. iben to N. E. round by north, and injury has been done to the vessel. The settled in o W. Y. W, blowing hard 1-8 and Che Ahn wors Sised 90. S. S. Geely arrived on the 5th 1 three hours, when the weather cleared. tab, in delante way impriacts inst, having wiso experienced three The ship as showed by action of wind bolt, for tising out ht-hates hg: typhoons on her passage up, give must have passed close to the conten, 1lasade da pisem od 1.
he ground belang-the reports in detail.
the storm recurring to the N. E. Passed ing to the montory and allting in fpareti's The Communster of the French steamer | Ou-shima at 9 pm, on the 4th Oct., and Bad, they then throwing this offensive Mensaleh, M. Hemery, winel left Hong-arrived at Yokohama at midnight of the
Kong on the 20th September, and arrived | 5th, at Yokohama at 3 pin, un the 5th, re- ports as follows
Kun to the said ground.
Ar other nedenlent was sumarly charged, heat the offence was not vleady proved
gas her and she was discharged,
PUBLIC GAMELANG,
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The British steamer Bengler, which eft Hongkong on Sept. 27di at 5 p.m., reports
Loft in fine weather; passed through the Pornosa chanel and at 4 pm o Experienced strong N E. gales with Can A-sag and une others, variedly the 27th, three miles east and west of high son and heavy head swell from de gled us godice, hawkers, and chair Lon.ock. As the wind freshened from Formosa channel to Van Dieman's dudes, were charged with public gambling, XX., and the bameter fell rapidly Straits. Heses to port moderate und on the Toth est.
to 74 there was no longer any doubt fresh N. and N. E. `winds, with elear Inspector Thankson proved the open. Ho
that a typhoon was coming; I made weather. Arrived in Yokohama at 6 and the house $100 mound Street,
receive it, ami pom, on the ith inst. Passage 7 days. first flour, with a party of palive on Satur, very preparation to day an arrested all the defendnuts. Home, avaried myself of the time still at my The British steamer Euphrates, which were hog shown and some were standing disposal for get sea-room At 9 pm. left Kobe on the 5th for Yokohama, at a long which is used for gambling, the larmetyt was at 746, and a storm arriving 9 pan. on the 7th, reports dis were also spread on the tour for the blow og feram N. 1.B.. The wind low having pussed an iron barque in ballast
Cambl-
with ehremanis violence, the sen was in dismosted ten miles, this side of Rock hunks &e, were found on the i mass. The adormer perated out the first prour, the horizon not to be distin Island, and by the descriptions given
thin a
wuteburena.
the 27th, the feroideter stond at 744, Neottish Murg foom Kobe bound to guished from the sky. At midnight on it is most probably the Fetish barque Jembermer, by A-hong, corn-borated as the wind verred to the right, ohout 1¦ Portland, she having lett Kobe several
Je ale said that
we were close to the centre, and days before the typhicon season set in.
Pou yourpose.
i wo th
pay-
only the first prisoner was midis ted cafum best there this is my the defect as the tuninger, the second as
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not who had dal a very narrow vacine, The Atornoy Glenorad said he found that I was fortmate &r ber that when
4710 14 Letter taką nuo the recond charge and be was on bail: ap the can | Addressing Mr Hagllar, the Chief Justice; at the did not buy children asia.
remarked that he did not suppose the ury had taken a very mental view of her
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GILR Hen, ed this rate wendt a marion
warning to lor and all the other hipree water to thas hig
are apucked, with the answers given by the piratical and within Admiralty jurisdiction of the floppo inpended on the do
Tho Jury found a special verdict in an awer to six questions put to them by his Chief Justice. The quastion Lordship the
jury:
1. Were the prisoners or either of them prament, and did they take part in the seiz ing of the Sun Yee Lee on August 15. (Yes, both were)
he was held by Dr Lushington in the Ma gellan piratea case, 16 Jurist, pago #145, 4" is unnecesary to determine, as the pics tinn was no raised.
this cas Me Hayilar replied that of e aree it did The suggestin male by thear Lord. mot, ships had been duly forwarded to the
and Hopp
his card to him (Me Haylies) with au intimation to that effe
The Chief Justice said the Hoppa card should now gn la tas Liovernor,
The Broad defridant was then dia
J. Bt.
sure the TS21 the 38th Salmout 2 nm, the wind was E.SE, the
b
When
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N.ITIS.
defendant was acting as
The cupluston 1 have arrived at on the ant be sent 1 Deen favourably received, dau of the US, ali euther day, maid go into the vase the same aà residents.
42. Had the prisoners or either of them main question relieves une from the duty any anthority from any officer fem-uf considering the question of “authority, peror of Chius, having authority to give and moreover the Jury to their answer to Bech authority, to seize the vessel when quo tion No. 5 have negatived a reache she was within the waters of Hongkong betref on the part of the porn they hadih u to vize the junk, and their (Neither of them had such authority.)
finding is conclusive.
3. Has it been proved to you that any officer had subberily to authorise or did without authority affect to authorise the printers or either of them to size the Pessel on the Colonial side of the Inner Channel, that is within the three mike Thai (No).
4. Was the site of seizure within the Pak Sha Wan Bay 7 (Yen)
This decision
renders unnecessary
It is
to nusider the form of the apreint verdict, and 1 pass in a brief considerati ti of the abjection esined by the learned Attorney General to the Court hearing the arment on the Special Verdict on the grid that
it Beny there was no conviction and taat it inconviction that an appeal
wal wall bu heard by Sect. 8 of Ord. 2 of 1869. tho undoubted right of a Jury to return a Special
"In this caro the answers Verdict. they returned whether sodicent or not in point of law were I took intended to: ant to Is consiction-and Althion.b
12h pør factor a verdict of guilty, I think that the it would have been butter formally to Court in acting in the spirit of the 8 h Beet, a'lowing the appen to proceed; the y Section having boen I bave un doubt in tended to give an appeal on all pointų reserved, in whatever way, at a Chiminal
6. Had the prisoners authority or did they reasonably believe that they had au thority to
to soiza Chinese vessels within Pak Sha Wan Bay! (They had no authority sud no reasonable belief that they had such nathority.)
6. Was the renal actually 6th lying within Pak Sha Wan Bay at the time, she was seized ↑ (Yes)."
The first point which cannot fail to attract the attention of any one acquainted
with the law relating to the crime if pay
Court
is the absence of the words "on the high Bess." I prasns the omission was inten tional to raise the question now before be
Piracy is defined to be the comm mitting those acts of robbury and depre- dation upon the bigh seas, which if com willed on land would have amounted to felooy there, 1 Hawkins' Pleas of the Crown, 100. Therefore it would generally be consider d necessary to allege that the
effence was committed on the bich als " to give the Admiralty Court Jurisdiction to try the fence,
trial.
A verdict of nequists must be entered a. behalf of both prisonar
KIDNAPPING A HERE.
Case No H. 14 which Wong Akin and than Amo, were charged with solasfully
Mr Hayllar sad th message came to him, in what was the ordinary way amongst they for taking away a Chinese, with the card."
The two primern, whore laim for dis charge soomed to have been forgotten or lost sight o during this conversation, were, then taken away.
CRIMINAL SESSIONS FOR OUT BER
(Before I
Lordships the Chief Justice Sir John Saule.) Monday, Oct. 18
THE BONORONG AND SHANOUAI BANK - TK CASE,
Case No. 4, ou the Calendar, Leung å fuk, charged with larceny as a servan dul, being employed by the Hongkong and was first called The charge wae that he
Shanghai Bank, and while in the endy of the sad Bank, ateal a uvo-tuilar note, the property of the said Corporation, un the 4th Aagua".
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Ir er at is said, on being interr anted to lay
1 Court, that he leek them but did nos não them. He begged the Court to have money on him.
The Court. Bugs ho ploed gailty or nat
The Altorsey Gotoral and there was ne point which he had rassed which was not | guiny ! dealt with in the judgment,
The Chief Justice reminded the warned
Attorues that he had not yet gives his judgment. His Lordship ther read the
following judgment :---
the
piracy alleged to have been committed within Tak Sha Was he word Wat is! Chinese means bay) being a surall bay ar
Fone cand le dat nt ste 1 them.
der the age
FURTHER DETAILS,
We now give from the Gazete, in continuation of the general description of the 20th and 30th the weather was the gale which we have already repro-
On the 1st October we
At !!
autor, the third as watchinan, the fifth barometer commenced to rise, and as banker. The house is a me honse and tried to get away as quickly as possible SEVERE GALE AT YOKOHAMA,
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se for the hurricane.. At Bain, the of the defendants live there, the churcol, and the first was remanded to the sixth, eighth, nuth and tenth. Strangers barometer bad sen to 74, at 4 a.m), to 7ath. We ersumed our course towards First defendant was present and was asking. E., the ship labouring heavily, who sentence will be given.
the players whether they staked on the renees or the middle.
Mr Wallon appeared for the defendants pretty fair. an off red bl
reckel Van Diemen at 6 p.n.: theduced from the issue of that paper of The first, second, third and fifth defend-sunset leaving us no doubt about the the 4th instant, these further details:- ands were ordered to enter into recognis weather that was in store for ua,
It would appear from accounts which ances with two sureties in $15 each to be of pn. we were north and south of Satano have reached us from various sources, go befasiour for three months, in default Misaki. The wind blew from N.E., the including our
btle, the other defendants were ship was in a very dangerous position, that the gale experienced here on Sun- native contemporaries, discharged.
the engine making 80 revolutions not day night really assumed the porpor- withstanding the state of the sea and ions of a typhoon in Tokio, as the loss che Achong, 25, & passage broker, was the gule. The slug trembled and received of life and property in the metropolis changed with being a auspicious character on terrible shocks, cut it was of paramount has been terrible. Even the window The h
Mr E C. Collett, sub-accountant, Char-1 m. we had advanced 15 unies, but it importance to get out of the Straits; at
frames of the engineering college, which fered Mercantile Bank, gave evidence that becane impossible to continue cur rate to be found in Tokio, were blown in. is one of the most substantial buildings
of 14 years with anunt tod prva the father of the child of ns pawasion, were also found guilty by the sam jus, and eutecco to this case ni was rerved.
The reserves Bland adjourned till Thure kay
(Before His Honor the Prisne Judge, F
Salon, Esp)
THEFT ARM A WRECK.
In this on Wong Apsu ant 8 others ware charged with bangs camion calu- abonet 240 mand is wast, vaine $120, t.e property of Hathi, in or of a park.
Mr MacKean pe segmund for the Attorney Generad
Jury was cut ised of bears #1 C. Mcs, i. Sabonerge, Max Fiqur, l. Parker, G. F. Krail, A. J. Gumes, บ. 0 sud.. Sespucars.
puic
The ficle:f the case have been before the chefore, whe. the co was trad
Facetracy They wo 15 la M-11
The progretor said in lama juuk fr this arb dr on the led typis aber f ant vn kee dat had wealzer, was rank and to pat b
eating the retur vy o heju TV, at Clean Wai, dear
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STALLERES
TRANSACTION.
the 4th sortint, he paid the roof speed unless we risked breaking the Seven hundred and forty-two antive nyelange of a balance draft for gion to
an who d
se lacages
w
རྩྭ A man who god his name engine and thus lose all Impe; cebulldings, including barracks, maga
the person in chicol the speed to 55 revolutions and zines, storehouses and offices belonging whose favor it was drawn. Do the 1300 (continued my route Eastward; the wond or 17th, mother man calling himselt Aluang and the waves were getting more fierce, nunalilated. Twenty-six persons were To the Government, were completely exte with the second of exchange request-
we were constantly enveloped in rain.
killed and eighty-five severely wounded, peat. The bill chepped in Chi
seawater and wind, and could distinguish and it seems probate that nfl casualties the back. It was
have not yet been reported. wrongly endorsed and he refused És pay, either son nor eky. We had met a the hat then went away, and shortly after fariens typhoon, and the centre of it was back with another who called ning up us; the harometer was still tok such measures as the This was ut course fased curcumstances required; it was a terrible as the first had been paid. The but was night, we had no ien whither we were
ared to the mark was defing, and wight at any moment 11 Hrs morning Cur defendant presented
- crushel on the neighboring const A:
Tags | Na Kat who wished to stand
the
Tue Carl. What does my say the Lɔ en lønn, the crow escapate to the stead of exchange. The volapra-ebreak on the 2nd, which did not at them su yet that he did not shor
The master of kuo junk reportant thei Does e protend that he haị 1 » ibu San-ki-wan Police Stan u and a
berum med As was it m
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In the amp the information againsy right to take them, of what
1 be proner repeated that he took them! charge of the wre is of the junk. Tas pri- Leonares, ka the abeo of the maker of the The next thing to bo obseg ved is that the foror Li Sni Tong and F. k Atuk laut did not use them.
His Lordsan: That is a plea of not guity jack, kreived at the son of the wreck in a On the suggestion of the Court, as tike akna um, and in all of tho Bates stolen were Rissus notes or inc
strames tt f and 426 fich plete notes, cay of the signatures bore Isterwards forged, the Indiemant was
amondent to 90 på cos of paper purport, to co livedullae Buton of the iongkong umi
Bank bring that
Information contains an allegation that tho offence was committed within the jurisdiction
of
Queen upon the den Fee Lee junk then lyin
in
Pak Sha Wan Bay, which is aamali bay on the coast of the island of Hongkong, in their neighbourhood of the Fa Tow Chow Custom
station.
The Jury having found as a fact in the special verdict that the jonk was lying in a Lay the Court of Appeal is precluded from
whether Pak Sha Wan is a bay Enquiriog
aides, excopt al
the
in
agh Count
the Admiralty and iu the peace of the well within the headlands on each ande
the entrance to the bay in Hongkong.
W251 am of opinion that this ay is
Cot this Colony rmanicipal juriaction {witch
CAB usu purposes of bi-in
bu sated an of the same pharacter as an Eng ish any)
The crime
charged was found by the jury to have boun cumricted withnj that bay. The information was flied in, and the prisoners wore tried taereus iu thị Court in ite Vic Adourdity Juisition, the proper sense of the word. Dr Ibris which is of the same dacter an Iust of definca a "bay" to be an
to be an opening in the deed it is a brats and where the water is shut in on all
is nedlass A truiralty in Englant. The Pak Sta War, at the entranos. It is needless to remark that this is not
rate this bay, is not an estuary of 1000th of a this is not a very accurate
had been khor such tidal rivor. description
bays are many
are quite open to the
might come with the sta estuary or mouth I imagius, 418 sen; some, like Pak Nba Wan, mere indentations in the shore between two exception in the statute of Hotard, to points, more or less projected; but the which, the exception not being applicable
I next not further refor. Much of the Ind
covered by water
ater onclosed by su iroa- ginary line drawn from one point to the argument addressed lens was drawn fe
rit, bulways been held to be within the English Law authoritas un the ques in
ví Admiralty Jurisdiction. I adopt and Jurist t on English Admiralty Jurisdic tion as being the most terey descript know of the Crunaal Jurisdiction 483 aged in England a
Luutra
as to the Acts in quo. That juradiation to or us
Thi
The following jury was empanelled an ven :—Blessie J. C. (16,bei, G. Ragni, R. A. Francieea, U. A. sia Cruz, V. D. DE neuterg, L. A Baptist, had John Just dil take less, he steal this..
Pride thou said volontanly that be
Ibis Web acospted as a „dea of guilty, and ka Lutdship nul buying had an oppor melly i looking to the papers, sold his would
Joer ve sentence
Pas pria ber being onlied upon to say whether he had anything to say why best ou niz, said he euce should not be praesed had already made bis statement lucis bis Localehip
nd Lolors kin. ie tous the
The Chief Justice: Did you give them
the baby fat we them.
territory by which it is surrounded, except language of au einent Amorica Bay body i
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and
duder
ant utfent committed on within the ob
the eb and flow of the tide, to
not
Prísunar. I gave them to Leung Sing Nam.
11.
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pic a they at the mask to carried away the GI OG
Da res ips of information of the, spector swanson purated and overtook in pristics 10 deva launch and forthwith acres and them
The propers pleaded nut quity, and said they had laudes Ju the fosch at the scene of the wreck to gatver shells and that tinding the same is the water, and lear ing that the bisherman was not himself the arner of the junk, they desined to give it
11 Jury relutuod a wraptorous verding of guilty against all the prisoners.
Sontor.c resor fod.
LAJVARNY From The Industr
PREVERS CONSCION.
The occund ease on the natender was thea takno op,- Apo, charyed with stealing a
of the bath brought the bill to witnes and ask and asked Lak kick the man out her pre-differ from the night, the corre up- Witness referred the preached, the ship labouring epormously; Frating twite. matter to the tunager, who ordered the man during the whole day the wind increas to be given tot ettatody, The bill had been
turt
The
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andepastel together again, since it, the barometer was slowly but con- was first presented. The endorsement the tatly falling; at 8 pm. it was still t on the back of it and be smudged ever; the night was terrible; at midnight and three-eent the Ipponeter stood at 7-49, at 4 a. at if been bitterated.
740, år 8 a.m. at 738. at 10 at 7:7 with in the defendant, the thess stated that variations of millimeters. The state the all can
Caine Treat
utilitavia.
of the sea and the storn dely descrip The assistant compradore of the Bank to; the wind veering to the North, corroborated the love evidence.
Case remanded fili
Friday.
STEALING A PASSAGE TN KET.
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the havometer rising, the typhoon chang- el its course and lenging us. At noon the wind was N. E., the barometer rose to You Alu, a uruker, and Chen Asau, a 740; at Up.m. Die gusts of wind which inken, were charged with the Thett of hitherto been uninterrupted, became
chet to Petang worth $7.
Alter les contiuus, the baronieter stood at the case for the prosecution had been 713; at p.m. the weather cleared up. and the best detendant had called some nvidence, he was discharged and made witness in the casu,
The Mainichi Shimbun publishes the flowing table of the dievction and velocity of the wind and readings of the barometer-
'Firac-
Wik
Velocity Direction in miles,
14.0 .. 22.G
Midnight of the 3rd to.I a.m. W
In 201
5
N.
IN.W. ... 60.1 W.X.W. 25,6 WN.W. 24.6
N.W... 14.1
KAROMETER.
Time.
Reading
p. on the 3rd,
29.530
29.428
12 might
29.167
28.764
20.887
29.600
3 at the 4th
12
The following observations of the reading of the barometer on Sunday night were taken on bourdi a German schooner in this harbour,
Midnight Bu 89 16 Wind S. 12.15.
29.10
1240
99 09
11
12.50
28.99
1.20
26.87
1.45
20.82
I
1.55
28.87
21
"
28.59
28.73
98.84
11
29.00 Wind N. W.
the sun shone and we obtained an ob- servation. The weather became tine, und we procended slowly on our route
2.24 He was towards N.E.; during the night we got a strong breeze from NE, but the weather was pretty fair.
Ас под
Met dezendant was convicted, and ad- matted having bou in Gaol before wentuneed to be imprisoned with hard lamur
for six months and to be exposed in the stocks
stik jacket from the þorðan of Chan A, unite the furlour Office for three hours. the 4th we sighted Ocsima, and at
the 16th September last not guilty.
Hu pleaded
the ludi been twice previously convictes
an ensiklCTIONINI
aka was haud 50 crate to obs
nm, on the oth we arrived at Yoko- Gama. The steamer was much strained
2.50
21
3 00
3.00.
4.22
5.09
20.18 Fair, detached clouds
starlight.
29.26
The gole of Suuday night does not appear to have causal serious damage to growing crops, a matter for con. gratulation.
the law of the Colony, unless the learned within the budy of the county for greal many fucts of much izoportalice is the fund pursued the mint, the 11E FATAL ACCIDENT TO SENOR address by the passengers. Due tribute gasts which reached their maximum
the
It will not be necessary to enter st in Admiralty does not <Xbrud Court to show that he was not the guilty adi, tawar, the friend who ave
A very
arinluk
The Court is said
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The Chief Justice: And the whole c mercial world in set in trouble with refer enes to this matter.
The Prisoner stated again voluntarily that Leung King am told him to do this; Lit
was at his lustigation that he did it. The Chief Justice asked whether this man was praseul.
Cha
committed,
him in
a
Police Intelligence. (Before the Hon., M. h. Touchy.) Monday, Oct. 18,
ENURIZLEMENT,
GARAY. (S. C. D. Newa
Chung Ating, a water woolie, for unatching appeals tol to have eutered his minimeter with direction of wind ut time, from a newly-arrived passenger troma binga- pare the suru of $9 wrapped up in a band- kerchief, was sent to go for a tenth, the first and last fourteen days in solitary con- fement and the rest with hun labour.
N. by W.
N. N. E.
at the moutby the fattes terra
The complainant's pridence showed he
by this exceptionally laborious voyage, It must then be taken that the Sun Yee
was stung euatting with a friend nader the The Chief Justice, Then you used them verandas su the Frye West, the cheering the public foot-path and ordered to but has suffered no damage of conse Lee juuk was lying in waters within the te
Prisoner. It was to who asked me to do of hat month, and had the silk jacket 1) uit deliur and a halt amends to a con-
quence." sitory of the Leland of Hongkong, when
this, and told me to do
stal.de whose rustoria he bad forn, in default thrown over his arro when the prof the fest tice hours neprisident with
The Captain of the Menzalrh, for the At Miyanoshita the rain fall in asized by the prisoners, and if up, their
Tha Attorney ffon.e would not be piracy, jure gentium,
Gultural was gulle will who had best sanding ci so beside the hard labour, of the ectod a week's further consummate alality and courageus soli-torrente from seven p.m. to midnight, that his Lordship should rovente cuisinant, eustched the jacket from him heri lubeur. but an offence
citude of which he constantly gave when it abated somewhat The direc- Tence against the Municipal law,
and look into the facta. Ibere were & and rab away. Complament and bie
proof during the recent labourious and tion of the first part of the gale appeared but were unable Attorney General dan show that the Ad-
which in this Colony the word Colony must casa cuntatued in the depositione and pri
| dangerous voyage, was presented with un to be from E.S.E., blowing in violent to overtake him. in the 18.6 miralty have a concurrent jurisdiction in whi
In England the jurisoner's statement,
couplaluant accompanied by a constable OE of piracy jure gentium committed bo substituted).
diction of the Sheriff is co-exter
in co-extensive with within the waters of this Colony.
The Chief Justice said, if the prisoner went to search for the man who
is paid in the address to the zend aad intensity at 19:40 am. on the 4th, an man who had com- bere it to co-extensive with the had any state out to make exonerating mitted the theft, and met the prizones iu
ability of the officers, the excellent dis aneroid barometer thes recording 20.85 I am bound to
to hold that the timself or any proof to bring before the the street, mediately recognising him
We regret to have to record the deathscipline of the ship and the good services equal to about 28.20 at sea level. At length on the well-worn subject of Ad-
of than c
by drowning of Senor Alberto de Garay at the brave crow. miralty Jurisdiction.
12.52 the wind fell and an absolute calm time of
the body of this Colony, therefore party in the case, he woull bo glad to hear to be as old as the
Edward 1st,
Cosal for Spain at Shanghai, which The Gaele, which left Hongkong on without any rain intervened, lasting and in the time of Edward 3rd exercised not to within the locus in quo, Fak Na it
Captain Deshe, in reply to his Lordship, with cumplainant when the robbery was occurred yesterday (11th) shortly before the 28th deprember at daylight, antil 1.20, where the wind changed to Wan Bay, which is within the body of this
identified the prisoner the Jurisdiction over maritimolony. I concur wide
nour. Ho had been paying a visit to the
N.W. and blew in tremendous squalls porta, within the ebb and flow of the russed by intirely in the onclusinstated that there were still some 200 notus Pulice Court, picking him out from a m causes and torts, iojurles, and offences in
brother Judge, Me Junting not got hold of.
ber of other prisoners. Two previous cou-Spanish curvette Fiona Maria de Moline, ports:
Had fine weather to Lamock Island, until about 2 a.m. when the_barometer Suowden, that up in the finding of the ju tide, in British seas or on the high rea, in answer to the sixth question submitted
victions were read against the prisoner, onu
and was landing from a sapan at the bus high confused sea, and strong S. W. rose and the gale abated. During the fo: f looy, and uns at the Magistracy. Mingboug Roud jetty, in front the Piracy jure gentian, the chiefeat offeno0" as Sir Leoline Jonkins remarked in bis to them, this Court is bound to enter a
The Jury found the prisoner guilty. American Consulate, when he missed his current. On the 27th September, bar lull the needle of an exceedingly sensi- verdist of not guilty, the real meaning of
Sentence was reserved, charge to the jarg at a Session of Ad- which is that the Court holds that it has no
footing and fell into the river, which is weather ugly and threatening: 4 p.m. tremulous, but its reading at its lowest ameter falling rapidly, wind N. W, tive aneroid barometer was visibly miralty, was peculiarly within the Jucledlo. which
juriediation sitting in Aduro
in Admiralty to
vry deep at the place. The sampan-zan, wind commenced to haul to the North, point remained steady (26.85) from tion of
the Court.
try
tead of rendering him assistance, y at 6 pin. lay to for 12 hours; the wind 12.40 to 1.50 a.m. when the change took Its encroachments on the domain of the prisoners upon this information. Inasmuch
boned away as lust as he could, and the having gone to the S.E. and barometer place. Common Law led we are told to the this Court Led no jurisdiction in the
Loung King Nam stepped forward.
unfortunate gentleman's own autoo, who rising, proceeded full speed.
The rivers, as usual, were mach atatatea 13th, Hich. 2nd, ch. 5th, and 15th, matter, it cannot judiorally constier any
The Captain Superintendiat of Felice
was waiting for him with his carriage at L. 2ad, ch. 8. The first of these statutes con question of fact or law afecting these
The following is the reading of bar-swollen, and all the bridges have been fined the Jurisdiction of the Admiralty to prisoners, and therefore none of the other stated, in reply to his Lordship, that scoud-
the jetty, acted equally foolishly. It
carried away. The Odawara river which The second gu alions raised before it, to the ousidering to the statement of the prisoner he was things done
ons upon the ses
entirely incompetent. sa accomplice. B. was a witness in the
that he could render his master assistance,
was crossed on plank bridges at 3 p. m. runs thus,-"It is declared, ordained and tion of which it
on Sunday had widened into two exten- established that of all manner of contracts, The facts as to the locus in quo and decision
The Chief Justice said he would have to
for he immediately drove off to inform and of all her in the case of the Franconia (R. e. Kehn, L.
aive and rapid streams impassable on Madanie do Garay of the occurrence, who ihinge rising within the bodies of counties, R. 2 £1.) were entirely different from those look into the fag. Er suer would be
Monday, and over which travellera had modiately returned with kím
w the i do not, however, brought up later on in ce Sessioce for
to be ferried in boats yesterday. The as well by land as by water, and also of in the case before us.
place. In the meantime ame of the wreck of the a, the Admirals Court shall wonder that arguments used by the learned sent nos.
substantial looking bridge over the in that caso were cited of
om neh vide The notes were handed over by the Capt.
officers and crew of the Donu Maria de have no matter of cognizance power or to us, for lary differed so widely as to afford Superintendent of Police, by urder of the
T. A. Pinero, 22, of Demerara, redman Molina had arrived and were making
Banri-gawa is in ruins, resembling, on a jurisdiation." It goes on to enact that
unemployed, was wharged with vigreby efforts by means of drags to recover the
small scale, the Tay bridge. This river these matters shall be tried and determined weapons to each party, questions d
also, must now be crossed in boats. The Constable testifying that on Saturday the lawa of the land, and not by the rided and actually set at reat by that deu Admira, but it reserves the existing Juris- sion was of a very limited character
evening defendant came to the charge room budy, but up to a late hour last night
Along the Tokaido, several large and diction of
in oases of mayhem But the discussion Admiral
up jridio
Cure No. 5 was next caled in which and gave himself up stating that he had no they had beca unsuccessful. Senor de
ancient trees succumbed to the pressure reat ships being questions of great difficulty. In the contro. Using and Chan Alip were charged with home and no means of supporting himself, Luray had been in Shanghai six years, and morder happening in
of the wind, breaking off, nearly all in and hovering in the mainstream of great verey the conclusions of aavan most eminent being in possession of counterfeit coin with and also that defendant was in guol all last and his death will be universally regret
the same place, about twenty feet from istent to after the same, This is the ABS week for some offence, the defendant could | ted, rivers below the bridges of the same rivers. Judges wore balanced by the contrary con
He was thirty-six years of age, Ship in starboard quadrant of typhoon, the ground. The growing crops. show In the main streams of great rivers below olusions arrived at by six other most emia which was tried only the other day in which only plead that he had no placa to sleep.
and had been eighteen years in the storm having veered to southward of little signs of the storin, and if an and eat Judges, and the actual decision was certain "Mexican dollsra” were found in Mr Seth was instructed to write to the bridges, the Admiralty in the body of practically that of a majority of une le red the possession of the defendants whicha Wo. Superintendent of the Guel, requesting him service of the Spanish Government, ship'e position. Had cloudy weather to opinion can be formed of the condition rotains, even is waters within the body of Judge. The arguments thus elicited from a merely icons of copper silvered over. The to give the man board and lodging for having served in the United States and the islands. Sept. 30th, 11.15 p.m. the of the inland districts by comparison
county, according to the opinion of Brott
Feru previous to his arrival in Shanghai. south-east end of Tokaro Sima bore with that of the lowlands bordering the LJ. in the Franconia case, a concurrent very rich mine of profound juridiost learn facts and the evidence will be fresh in our Jorindiation with the Common law Court extending from p. 63 to 237 of the above
Courting and nicely balanced legat argument, readers' mieds.
Is was only a few days ago that he tele north dietant 4 miles; wind N.E, with a ges and exposed to the south-east, the The first defendant said the coine were Over auch offences, which it may often Report, caroful loading of theto args sold to bin by people; he took out the
the death of the Spanish Minister at October 1st, wind steady from NE with graphed to his Government the news of vary heavy swell from the eastward. loss suffered by farmers is a mere trifle. served, are not piracy though to often ments will satisfy the student how mitch copper and sold it to the dealers in old
Peking, which our readers are well aware steady barometer until midnight, when that that place was visited by a terrible A correspondent from Kobe informs us Decompanying and aggravating that orime.
despatch dated June 6th, 1877, Loid may be said of 5 th sides of important copper.
doubt the most
was no less sad and untimely than bis the wind commenced to haul to the galo on the night of the 3rd, which did Carnarvon quotes the opinion of the law questions, and how open
The second defendant said the charge. officer of the Crown given with
oarefully arrived at conclusious are. The was faiss
eastward, and the barometer to fall, sea an immense amount of damage. The the decision in the Franconia case, Q.v. sass of the Franconis taken at a whole Both pleas were taken as not guilty.
very high and confused, ship standing | boat-house and gymnasium were blown Kohn, L. RQB, Div., 90, and L. R. would seem to tend to increase doubts as to
The Attorney General raid the defend- Leong Akwai, a boatanen, for stealing a THREE TYPHOONS BETWEEN to eastward to get sea room. As soon as down, and the fitting abop of Messrs He 65.
the what is law rather than to absorb the darkanta were charged under 50. 11 of piece of wood, worth 50 cents, was sentenced "the Asya Admiralty
HONGKONG AND YOKOHAMA. Ez. D. P. tants to nots of piracy fure Resa of doubt in the light of Law.
possible brought ship up on starboard Kirby & Co.'s engine works canted so Juridiction
Ordiaanse 10 of 1866 with boiug la posto fourteen days' hard labour,
The Japan papers, to hand to-day, tack, engines going at a spoed to keep badly as to throw the shafting out of gentium commlited by Chiners upon Ubi- Mr Hayllar said he had recived a message ion of false and counterfeit Dese extra fauces ferro, but beyond Colonial from the Hoppe, with his card, to the
give fuller details than we have yet had ship's head to sea, ship in the starboard line altogether. Ohno suffered consider
The Franch semicircle of a typhoon, that was moving ably. The roofs of the station, shops waters, within and
thros miles of the Chieffout that the suggestion their Lordships | **
Li Ashan and Chai Mon, for throwing of the recckt typhoons. nese territory. It e
textends also to all acts bad mede at afforiner sitting would be very little dificully in coming to a on night soil into the streets were fined $1 mail steamer Henzalch arrived at 8 p.. to the N.W. and not far from axis line; and paper mill were blown off, and other committed by foreignoms." High seas are favourably receive,
clusion. The evidence was very simple. eash, with the alternative of soven days' on Tuesday, the 5th inst. She expe from noon October 1st to noon Oct. 2nd, damage too numerous to particiarize waS defined to be raba fauces terra, or outside
The Puisne Judge said the Attornoy he prisoners, the jury would be told, imprisonment. of the bays, for that is what it means, and General had been about to make a remark
rienced rough weather during the wind had shifted from N.E. to E. S. E. done by the gale. were found in prosession of esin which
nusenge, und was in the neighbourhood and remained steady; at 1 am, on the The rainfall in Tokio on Sunday beyond low water mark, that is to say on before the Chief Justice delivered his judy was undoubtedly counterfeit coin. The
of three typhoons: the first shortly 2nd, the barometer commenced to fall night, between the hours of twelve and after leaving port, the second in the rapidly, and fell from 29.04 until 10 there, is reported by the native press to vicinity of Formosa, not the third off aus, when it showed 26.16, wind blow-have been 4.085 inches, or 1.366 in. per
by
of the
оден
view to
Jadges
The
opened
indeed.
unit, to Mr Cohen of the Bank.
THE CUNYSHTELT COIN CASE.
with intens to utter and put off the same. With regard to the possession there would
1
week.
A DESTITUTE.
TREFT OF A TABLE,
a
Li Akai, for the laroeuy of a table value $1, from a ourpenters' shop in Lower Lascar Raw, was sent to gual for three weeks with hard labour.
LARCENY OF WOOD..
STREET NUISANCE.
A MENDICANT.
―
quistion as to what their intent was, whai Tsang Ain admitted mondiosney on the ile open doet. This is quite in a dance mask. The Court would be glad to hear they intended to do with it, was somewhes 17th and stated that he was very sick and with doodled cases. It was held in Rugina | him now.
own,
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Noon 29.42, Wind N.W
4 p.m. 15
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5
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Morning 26th Sept.
1 am. 20.49
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N.E. N.E. by E. E. by Ň Eust.
← Cunningham, 28 L. J. M C. 179, that The Attorney General said he had simply wore difficult. What they aaid before they had no maner. He was discharged and the An American subject was liable to be con- been about to remark that one point to Magistrate was eimply that they intended Magistrate ordered that the Directors of the the Japanese const on the 3rd instant. ing with irricane force, and heavy hour.