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No. 8410-Dreziku 21, 1888.)
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THE CHINA MAIL
kerp the Executive poslod on the past of my sub. griffins are flyors. All being woll | complainant showed how relentlessly the dafundant had his were libellous, the said he did not know where the prisoner
ing me I placed my steam Lunch That the Portuguese imembers of the in such a position that the launches muet Sorvion aro well known to be in aither run astern of me or'run'into me. At position to obtain regvanto, etc, at a the samo time I Bow my whistle and waved cheaper rate than Britishers. my, cap to make them go astern of me. That it is the fashion to aneer at the The Pedro was the loading allo of the launch-
Portuguese, at many perhaps give er. She passed fastern of me. Tho
rasion for that pastime, but Ma pissed on aliend of me. When
number of members of that baw Blie
going
nationality here who cominand all rospect ahead of равн
I steamed slowly for their steady and long service. head, thus causing her to collide with on- That enrely some onethe Clerk of Coun. other launch which stopped her for samo cils. falling any higher fficial-might time. The Ubique was inside of the Hing
At that that time one of the com
history of tho poting boats droppeil 'out of the race and That it is fut fattori was in danger of being
g swamped. I stood by the beat until I considered it was out of danger. During the time that this happened the red burgos was flying. The first defendant in cox in charge of tho Hing Ma, the second is cox in elurge o of the Ubique, and the third ia cor in clerge of the Fedra. I charge ouch of them with being on the course while the barges was fying
case was remanded till the 27th, inst,
THE HONGKONG HIGH LEVEL TRAMWAY COMPANY. Ameoling of tho shareholders of this company was held in the Hongkong Hotel this forenoon. Mr J. de Sonnavillo pre alded and there were also present, Mestra J.
The
tho rintale.
taken the precaution
placo on record
attack Should he ·and commit a broich
had
without the consent of the other two. The above is a bare outline of the celebrate
Convention, but it gives the main foxtures of the instrument, which has been ratified❤ despite the most stromuoni efforts ofthe foreign commercial communities of China.
Shanghai Mercury.
OHANG OHI TUNG AND THE KWANGTUNG PILATES."
promiso to slop the now Dues for the mo, but of course he would not do anything control kis passions. The only thing the account which lao complainant admite was made payable to bearer, Irizos from their establishing theinserca 527 Lightues on Gap Rock, so sooni as it is to injure me. He was uni thu man to bear was to bring a suit for libol.. Bat & month! Eu did which his article was based, extreinely improbable. that the prisoner led into associations under regular chinfa
1
built; but another Pheroh any again forget all about the promise and the That the Regatta was apparently a succes-
record of it.
malicious grudge against a roans for life, Nobody could do aything against me evidence in his hands which might, if he so without evidonea, insinuating wished, injure mo and put me into trouble.
du was the one
310t kno
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whatever may happen you enn rely on my lying scoundrel, a meat blackguard and canefderable besting on the malice. The and Shanghai Bank, sald ho remembered doing nothing to Larai you. I felt very bit other such terms. He said that he would parties suemed to have been on friendly casting the cheque in question to a Porta torly against you last spring-ot without | take the $800 out of somebody, and then arms fa 1883. They had heard a great guess, bat bu could aut racollect who the cause I think-however all that's past and there was in the first of theau paragraphs deal about reflections on the racing charac parton was He knew the prisoner by gone, and I am not the man in churish the little remark about Mr Lubeck. After ter of the defendant, but the jury must not sight but did not know his name. He had life-long animosity, tp to injure anybody eight years, when she hair with a lot, the which had been put in on she had said poissner money avatar tizate but malinichaly. I mention this, so that you sent from the Colony, he brought up articles which had been put in on that sub- he could not remember the dates. He did need not be afraid to make whatever ar- this old case and spoke of Mr. Lubeck joet showed nothing. They wore put for not remember whether he paid the $1,000 rangements you think proper with any and of his connection with false evidence ward to show a course of libele by the oom-in question to the primer. ather person in Hongkong but I must that was said to be given in a manner that plainant, but they did not show anything have old "fiddle !"
Cross-examined by Mr Pollock, witness brust be damaging
the surt; and if they You will be glad to hear that at least two tion, AR to Mk Lubeck's reputa
remedy at the time. was employed.
AN ATTACK ON HOMOKONG, Persecuted people when they Perhaps the feat islter that had any boat. This closed the case for the prosccation, I shall be with them this journey,
him, Hitherto
The Viceroy at Canton requests that a ruleTM once went age.
(M
ing on the case was
Mr Pollock, without calling evidence, pro- may lie established permitting exceptional, paragraph which ap to our system of *I hope you will win a lot of Races at Brandt) had
the complainant, but pouced in December 1888, in which his carded to address the jury Government, to be told the old Light Fonchow.. Chater's pentes: and Nickel's the last absolataty mawarrantable attack Lordship thought there was an insulting re- prisoner. Ho endeavoured to throw doubt conferred on officers who distinguish thom
behalf of tho and not merely ordinary rewards, to ba Does squeeze (which has been kept up came down on Saturday, Reaper, Sunlight, was too much for him. He (Mr Brandt) forenes to the defendant's mother, and on the evidence adduced with regard to the selves by capturing or and enforced for years and years after Hornpipo, Montcauma, Newmarket, ose had
boon doing 遁 Large business anything of that
that kind
killing robbers and the necessity had passed away), was an and about 6 oc? griffins.
recently as an operator in the share
But beyond naturally touched a handwriting on the cheque, by pointing out pirates in the Canton provises. It is claim unknown quantity to the Executive.
Yours in busto,
market. One of the first considera boring this perhaps a certain indirect what he considered differences in the fored by the Board of War that this favoue was immaterial, and the imuation of certain letters on the documenta ought only to be granted for services ran That the remission of these Dues has been
R. FRANIR-SMITE," tious must be as to his credit. If portauce of the esso was coulised to the produced and the same lettors on the cheque, dered in military campsigne; but any such quito a revelation to the Acting Colonial you have listened to that letter, 31r his credit was gono he was done for, action of Brandtv. Grimble, the article in He submitted that this raised a doubt limitation, so far as the Canton pròvinca
sore point for many years, seansed to be
What was he to do smarting under such an the complainant's newspaper which follow which the jury were entitled to give the concerned, is considered by the Viceroy ox Brandt went on, you will find that although Scorotary; and in the matter of this souched in very friendly terms, it throws
od that, and the letter which was the prison or the benefit of. He also comment ceedingly datrimonial to the public in- standing grievance he forgat more than out a hidden threat. It says that I have of the peace by attacking the mau, za most subject of the present prosecution. In this ed on the fact that the name of the prisoner forest. The memorialist nesorts that his That Meera MacEwen and Ryrie have of my been feeling fury angry againet
got encinics and that there were remonts people who had spoken about the matter case Braudt. Grimble they had heard read was writton into the cheque, a thing which
racing being objected to
said they would have done. That was eui- He (cho sirely gainst his principles. He
the account of the case in the China Mail was entirely unnecessary, as the cheque difficulty in dealing with pirates writer) had
was Hongkong and Macao, where they are form. haw the case of Brandt would do this, a thing which would only ten They oullet blckmail in all unprotected or two might pass before tho suit was 2. Grimble struck the jury, but it seemed to orisinate himself. On the second and places along the coast, and at times carry too might be ruined, his crodis a repuls- fur that article. It seemed that Grimble over, and he asked with some confidence for tract immense suma na rantoms. Thus they brought to hearing, and his budiness moan. tim there was not much in tto account third charges there was no evidenco what off wealthy persons, from whom they ex- tion atterly destroyed. Ho therefore wrote land a balance of 93,000 which he kept in a verdict of not guilty."
bave funds, with which they bribe the police, the letter to vindicate himself, and as his I to cover expected losses on Brandt's cane had been cited as a sample of the way shares, and Brandt having another transac
The Acting Attorney General briefly provide themselves with to have culminated this your in actual him Sound Fiotin, the race pony which lany, he thought the vindication was a public month, wanted him to carry
replied. Murray Bain, A. G. Apcar, and M. S. Perry,
of the next
compensation to the familical even pay His Lordship reviewed the evidence at
of each of their The Chairman-The roport has been in That to have the training of months thrown had just achievad u grant ancoese in
wanted. Now this pony, I
tain a permanent organisation, and they ca your hands for some time and may be taken
his Lordship said libel appeared, while he was sunneling from of his own would not consent to aid thought the jury.
he not be prevented from outaiuitig szinĖ, VUʊ» na rond. You wil seo that the receipts for
when they spectatoze is 1
ปวด
came eels, and supplies. The numerous grecks 1 refused $3,000 in Shangling for. ad
attack. Had he had any malicious in the shores and paid himself out of the to compare the writing on the your have been $20,030; and, if
young sports.
the choque and indentations of the dust are the con tako into consideration the great misfortune That chief among sinners was one of whom of any sum of money that he is will-who asked him what he had done in the of following what was perhaps his strict would conru to the conclusion that there ing in fusta of well-armed junks, and then
hic Without the slightest mention tention, instead of showing it to his friends money he had on hand. Brandt, instead with that on tho other dugnments,stant acone of their dreaded barbarily. Saite, that overlook the tramway iine from the better things might have been expected. inz
He did not know that he was left them to be sold by Grimble and they believed the evidence of bir and Mrs afraid to engage in action with the Imperial the public was a Nã
keeping quiet as to uvidence he.inzi tradenst
I saw tlirong Fatlishing the libel. He thought he was commenced an action for the balance. Robinson, there could bo little doubt that farets. Even when the latter are victorious, nuates as hos against me.
did not give him the pony. I detine hits to do his character. He was charged here with tween the partics appeared to be continud garis the other fur counto the ovideron
criminal libel, He-hal-been-25 years into whether the rate abould be taken at the was put a strong hia worst. Ever since that time he has
wounded. By or w
By constant employment of the troops and day or a few days afterwards, this
and the unsparing use of rewardia jury retired, and after an absence the memorialist has put down brigaudere jure me or hold me up to ridicula sual proseculins and had never had any
ch he had ailored the malicious attack made my name forward in most damaging dicata bituself ho would have been simply of bringing forward my name. Ele put on him to pass without attempting to vin- way-tried to ridicule me and imputed dis
I have put in a large and I have a grant many more heint
of pap
papers tairing most chusive referencor they cannot be take
taken in uvidence in this case. There is one thing, however, in large lot to which I must refer. That is ber 1988, in which in deliberately calls me the article which appeared on 31st Decem
prize fighter. I do not know how a prize fighter may he looked upon in England.
ful equatic demonstration,
he
Anderson, A. K. Wylie, Cressy Kwena, Geo. That the Launch nuisance, however, seems Bat lo would not do anything if I gave share businesa waz carried on in the Co-tion with him for the and this lab over ́ounsiderablo longti. In regard to the as are killed. They are able to main
you
obstruction.
you,
is rather rough on our ardent
max through the stupidity of thanghtloss | Lal, Ho had won the Champ duty to wrote the latter on the tight the and settle then but Grimble for reasons į handwriting,
диду
crewe
Jandslip during the rain storia of May last, That Dickens, through Mr Bumblo, vaid pay, he demands of me the pony Pratter he might have spread his lutter course and taking over the shares, was ati extraordinary resemblanco; and if selves carrying repeating rifles they are not tory. Had not this misfortune taken place That the train of that philosophIt's apu- the letter at once and did not reply. Id duine a right and proper thing to vindicate That action was tried and the questiou be to prisonce two counts the eviderico any officers and mon are sure to be killed
I think you will consider the return estisfac
the amount collected would have been much
catimals
the loss at $7,000 and
308
that the ro
thegms is constantly verified wherever the public cotgregate
manfully was the Britials supmom bott, a dinner.
larger. 1
I must also tell ceipts compared with those of last year show
The
to auch a
fully convinced that that is not too That the reward of those who struggled so bean doing his worst, endeavoring to in the East and had always fought ehy of cristian what the understanding of of ton minutes returned a unanimous, ver and robbery in inland district a large increas for every month. I consider Tha: the musle at said dinner was described boneter thero was tho alightest chance thing of the Hort brought against him, the parties had boon: The decision was in diet of 'guilty on the first and third degree that only two or three CALOS, ÁTO
good.
that the prospects of the Company are very The amount of building going
and perhaps one of the hotels will-bo
on at the Peak must benefit the Company, Tha, un promise of amendment, the honest motives and dishonorable conduct, one for and would not have been able to that the article which appeared in comprisoner was a very young man, but he
finished next your. You will find that the Company owes the General Managers the aum of $20,000, and I think it very ad
here-ton-
Ca80
I
monpirates
favour of Brandt. There was no reason charges and not grilty on the second bourd of now, where a hundred would be by an old carmudgeon as more emphatic
nion; and his own opinion cortainly was, why I (Elin Lordship) should hide his opi- charge. than melodious.
The prisoner offered no statement.
formerly. Bot round Canton and on the Bis curmudgeon's name is suppressed.
Lordship, in peasing sentence, said coast the cld insecurity still provsile. The
provitice had show his face at Home. That Master and his crew so to be con-
detain the jury, lung. but would briefly Brandt, and that the
always an unfortunate reputa- plainant'
a direct the paper did
Contain Phillippo said he did not propose to personal attack the
Οτι
claracter of had committed a very surious crinc.
tion with
regard to piracy. Some saventy gratulated upon their capital rowing ia
was a eritse which called for a severa son-
years ago sixteen hundred robbers ur of Brandt the International.
to death wero put to
in twe visable that an increase of capital should be That whatever explanations the pawky Lordship will doubtless tell you that answer some of the allegations made by the Y. Grimble difl, not afford--any cause teuca, hat in consideration of the prisoner's
twelve months by the defendant, and show them that he had or justification for that attack, Precact-
then Governor.(neral. The regulations routh his Landship would make the punish-framed at that time show state of off-its totally failed in his plea. The defendant. ing to rand the article, his lordship mid mens as light as Ire could, in the hope thint which would have scomed bonible in denied that the letes was in any way libel that of course a tions emtract was always the prisonus might repent and try to live other province; but now, indust, things not given the jury any good explanation of would not advise the jury to stack too santenes was imprisonment for eighteen pirates fought with those whom they plan- lose against Mr: Fraser-Snaith, but he had more or less a gambling contract, and he koostly when he came out of gaol. The nre even get worse. Whereas then the what he meant by saying Mr. Fraser Susith mach importance to that expression. The mothe
made, as the row. Hope that is coming ont and the new carriages that will have to be constructed will have to be provided for.
Befors I propose the adoptium of the report the passing of the accounts I shall bo to answer any questions.
and
glad
Scotchmen atay give, they were beaters fairly and squarely, and weto never in
the rece
i rece.
That sonsational telegrams are by no means ancommon factors in manipulating Stock
Exchanges.
His
a
in
ed
his position as an editor to gratify
No questione being asked, the Chairman That so far the suppressio eori, suggestio He may be considered a public man; but Private anite. Fto also called him a wholing of the article was the allegation Ella |
proposed the adoption of the report and
accounts.
futai telegrama have not been much in voguo here; but wo are progressing.
Mr Murray Bain seconded. and the mio. This considerable boom has taken place despised. Andar of a boast HAD to be The defandant pleaded that the words were unless the price rose.
Lion was corried.
Mr Ewens proposed the re-election of the present consalting committee Hon. P. Rytic and Messes J. Anderson and B. Layton.
Air Wylio seconded and the motion was
carried.
Mr Foury proposed the re-election of fr
Lyall as auditor.
Mr Aptar second and the motion was carried.
'FRAGRANT WATERS' MURMUR That the Acting Colonial Secretary has at
statement of the relations between the Crown Agents and the Colony.
der for certain materials could not bu
That this
my mother,
in Sugare cipated large demand for Germany, That it is well known fruit cannot be that I did not know who my mother was preserved with Best, and to carry out I think, it is a most infamous, a trust Cane Sugars.
30 to the letter,
This conclu lod the Sessions.
RATIFICATION OF THE CHEFOO TELEGRAPH CONVENTION.:
THE TRUÑO-LI YAMAN'S ANSWER TO COL. DENRY.
his plans tho Kaiser will require to use cowardly suggestion to make with regard to the letter in the paper, it was the defendant her the article to whioa it reforred informed Cel. Denby, the U. S. Ministeriore Thandindeed they did unite in
That he has stated he quite aces the value of the fruits of peace, which is will strive to preserve,"
1
That unfortunately in these degenerale days the fruits of yeuse' are generally strangely belboge.
That the ratification of the Telegraph Con
vention means cheap telegrunts for fourteen years to come.
to the prosaic 2. past. That the latest novelty in washable Dulis."
trott.
wash will now be amply ravengeà.
DRÓWNIE.
Thero is another libel/fcienda of Mr. Fraaar Smith. They had tifiable, and the jury must look at Fature Extension and Great Northern, the names of several of which, 193-
hing to
thing like $7,500 coming against me might Although he
Bidrell, may tell
pro
itsalf. Wo
their
́EDEKİ •
Criminal was not triumphant. Be asked the jury if the ease Brandt. Grimble become tispel som erroneous impressions,conrage, and there is a storm of bullets and
to show
dered, now they often kill iufiat lossen when Brandt bought the shares he had not
uport
the officers and men sont
against theat Then they resisted the the remolcst chance of taking them up the eyes of continental nations, a prize sale reviler, but again had not proved that.
polies and Fossed fighter is on tho
A man who did
their fellows; now when robbers are cap. tured, their rendition is officially demanded true in substance and in fact. The learned that would be fairly comparable to a calis me a
a prize fighter, He Iran admitted in cross-examination counsel said the defendant had totally welsher; but Grimble had $3,000 in hand,
by the Hoogkong Government. Then it w
twea with him, I told him of failed in proving that and had said nothing and he would ask them whether they
considered a gravo matter that an offender in consequanco of the anti- that while it in that articlo hostetrant all se to publication being for the public thought, from the facts proved in the one!
shouki ciamis theso aots of piracy or he at good. As to Mr. Fraser-Smith pot giving of Brandt Y Grimble,
We are at last in a position to speak larga for two or three years; now there are Brandt had the defendant un opp rtunity of inserting us clunes of Lating the shares up authoritively on the above much-diser sand then who have excaped justies for ten years they must consider subject. The Faung-li Yamon has sifficially and have been guilty of a hundred crimes various times during three years, and with because the very next day he wout out tonu attack on the defendant. The lang into between Shang Tuotal, ou behalf of in Hungkong and. Macho are members of a man who had boon living at his fible at who did not give fr. Fraser Smith adance,
at Poking, that the arrangeacat catered swore
bands, but now almost all the pirates whom he was on intimate terms. In: various public plases mud thera publiated age of the letter was very strong, but the Chinese Telegraph Administration, and the Trial Society, and are formed into onima- nus a buxar. In fact, I do not know and read the letter to gautleren who wore strong language wa Bonetimes is Messrs. Judd and Beruingren for the what boxing is. dated 23rd February 1886.
hoard a good deal about provocation. Fro- the It was just
with After such Bubstance.
д altack
kaden, after I had commenced business hera, vocation was no excuse whatever. If he the
has been tioned by retort courteous could scarcely Telegraph Compaates, respectively, has t had started
tioned by the memorialist, Twenty-ßva hocas and Was trying (the learned eunsel) murdered a man, he be expected,
by the Tamir, They have alan years ago the Canton Government obtained As to the ples of just-informed Col. Denby that the information the Emperor's sanction for my best to get on.
Could ant
put forward anything in mitiga tiction, he said the fary had to considor un which his remonstrance was based was reneurde; but the state of things is very It is very dificult
exceptional last given us a very clear and conceito That those whe hoped to forward their is a zumal dulicate thing, and a slight jury fint rovocation is of great value, slanderer and coward was justified by the ac.. the communication to the effect that it was topunity which criminals socuro st Ho
for a young beginner to get on. His credis un of that.
whether the charge of deliberately lying on his His Lordship No doubt; I shall tell the and of being a wholesale reviler, malicious erroneous, and they add a test postscript to much more serious now, an account of the billet.deux by viro will stili hare to stick outaiders that I have an action fur that if the retort was a fair ono, under the ticle attacking the defendant, If it showed 1 customary that propriotors, and not consu. kong and Macao by hribing the police That the question remains, whether ten- That the youthful owners will find a wild be quite sufficient to ruin' my proapele.Gircunstances the defendant would be en- that he was a wholesale raviler the charge Yamen's message. The much-abused instry. hole they pay heavy lees. Raterning to mers, should as tarifs. So much for the by staining the astrices of lawyers, to joy its submitting them to that opera information fres that he received this titled to & verdict of not guilty..
of cowardice might come as a natural se Mr Phillippo (continuing his argument) quoues, without their taking into account
maut has at last been ratified, and Mr. Judd the subject of the officers comployed against obtained at hatier figures from private That, tho horrors of the Saturday night well-known antagonist of mine. The antly out of Grimbles case, but he only get the complainant going to Macao, Than, as pocket to be delivered greemont in his as every one in the world knows, an it one inspired by Air Bidwell, who was a The defendast said he came triumphant what Mr Brauch wished to bring out but is by this time well on his way to England, these pirates, the memetistist nascris that,
with a copy of the ratified firms direct, on here or the spot.
merit he makes in thas paragraph that the when the chain was fur $501, so that to whether it was for the
Public
which take place are nothing less at hosd-quarlars in beaelit. That, if I mistake not, Singapore tried
Crown Prosecutur was
the nature of the regular battles. Unless they be out-bum- taktin
was alluded Londen. Now, as to as a typical what local enterprise could do in this
coding against me in respect to this mating with great confidence fra verdict
agreement it might
are glad to be able hered, the pirates fight will desperate matter, and it would be interesting to
FILE simply damning. It ruined me in His Iardship, in sumining up, said that a matter of public benefit to
that the to A great many ways. I had to feel in coo. cases of this nature wore often subjects of ordinary, business of the Hongkong Stock widely believed, regarding ita object and cannon balls dying shout: On this accom discover what success attended the ex-
sequence of that more than I can tell you. conversation untside. io neked the jury Exchange was not what the complainant acops. Firab of all, we think there has and for various other reasons which he periment.
Now I come to this infamous libel on the is dispel from their minds augthing that alleged it to he. If they took that view of heat a slight mistaro in the title by which details at lougth, the Viceroy hopes that That, even admitting the Crown Agent M: Brawit appeared for himself, but was the article of that date sentence by sen- find their attention to the evidence given much to call it a
9th October, Mr Brandt then went over they might have heard outside and to con- the case and considered the article justified the agreement between the companies was the Emperae will grant his request.
Referred to the Board. R spatem to be nil that is claired for it, instructed by hir II. L Denuys. The prose Lance with a view of showing that it was an in-court. It was exceedingly
necessary in
TO THE DESPA Person cured of Dain- there is no roll-founded reason for re-cution was adminally in the name of the miterly unwarrantable attack. With referea avionics of this soft comparativent le latter was in substines and in Lameco trae public business arrangement
Queen, last the real rosecutor was Bir Ro- ence to the passage charging the
between companies to complun. small
and consolidate
nes and toises in the head of '23 yearf' by acch considerations. Iie beseft that it should be published,
position in
standing by a simple ready, will send "a the Hongkong Telegraph, for whom Mir said it was a gambling case, ho said that he Lordship, then proceeded to point out the
this part of the Phillippo, instructed by Mr Webber, ap- had complainant know it because he was was essential was the publication of the
nted by diplomats on behalf of the three applies to Nicholson, 21, Bedford Square, shown it was not a gambling caso, and peared.
One paint that 2nd legal points involved.
stions, but by business men acting in the Inden, W. O., England. That the agitation in favour of increased The Defendant, in addressing the jury for in Court himself. He contended that the libel,
interarts of the companies they represented. and the
and extout defence, anid that has pleaded not guilty complainant's comparing him with a wil the publication might be a
In this respect it could hardly be any more salaries for oficials is good from a public ffo farther pleaded that he was privileged sher was infamuna and cowardly,
mattor for
entitled to the term Convention than could point of view; and from an official stand-in writing the letter and publishing it, and in die letter, and as to the remark that it that the libel was maliciously published alleged their consideration. It must be shown
wet le local steamship. the agreement between point is most excellent.
that he letter was jostibed inasmuch as it should not go unpunished, he had proved They had heard the word privileged used.
companies for the maintenance of ship That tho celimate given, over the signature was true in betance and in fact. fo that, by issuing a eric against him. Honleo There were certain cases where the pub-
ping tales
tates and for the purpose of pro- must also show that the publication was contended that he bad proved that the Fe-lication of
Teeting themselves against competition. of Mr Mitchell Innes, of what setary for the public benclit, most difficult fegraph was a vito paper. He had only put oases in which alice must be proved and Lucio Petnica de Campus, lately a clerk in exploit the local waters with fresh atesers, At the monthly Criminal Sessions day, from outsiders who might be inclined to married officer ought to receive, ant thing to do in his case. Ilo had shown in one or two what he may spend, might bo described
papers, but he had heaps of not assumed. The one about tho
• Boulevard legitimato interest to protect had a the employ of Me ars Hughes and Ezra, Wa hava not yet seen a copy of the'. us reasonable or unreasonable, according toy a great many libsilaus para. them.
agree sich na of privilege, and where v mat is percharnbrokers, was changed with forgery and ment which has just been endorsed by the to the style of living adopted.
writings extending graphis and
over des come-up-me-loves ' many years. He chief difficulty was to me decent paper would print. No de-tacked be orcasion is to far privileged Coldwell, appeared for the prisoner, the interests of foreign
aby Mr Clunes Government, and which wa, in
residents in
in China, team of light Coolies in uniform. Pasage cause in respect to many of them his mouth and no respectable family would tolerate a
any fair defence of his character will ples of Lot guilty was tendered. The fol and if
If the avidence showed that towing gentlemen were aworn in a jury Feist relations with this country, have all
and of people at home who have Home, two Children, Doctors' Fees, elő.,
was shut. He was in the position of an paper that did so. and Savings, might be said to border on
accused criminal and could not go into the plainant's vindlielive spirit ho referred to character the Jaw world net anstine that Showan, R. Hamilton, V. C. Remario, however, in a short in to lay tefors our As a proof of the com- the object was the vindication of a mare Mussa F. W Kock, J. W. Croket, W. along consistently opposed. We hope, the confines of the Inxurious. The it will, of course, to imperative for box to refute the most damaging; infamous the following paragraph which appeared in he had inaliciously Bibulled. When to came L. K. Davis, and C. d. llyndman.
and
nd insulting
remarks made against hin a recent isaud of the Ion kang Telegraph consider the unturo of the article whils
reders the text of the famous
mous agreement, every officer, in order to justify his chim during
The Acting Attorney General (Hon. Ato which there can be now no objection to ata. Ho nuver theng
afer Cisputed yenta
The libel actior, J. M. Guedes, prorrinter was the inducement to write the letter be J. Lonch) said the prisoner was indicted publishing as it is the foil produce bia helpmeet and the two
letur of the Progresso, vsiaus LA. Läheck, w
on three counts, first with forging
accompli. But would tell the jury itt dhe pecasion was eer- children.
1 present chargo was
enre agreeably surprised to learn, as we On Loudon- on 13th Septemde opia an entirely reliable authority, that
THE SMITH-BRANDT LIBEL CASE, The following is a fuller report of the concluding part of this trial :-
the expressions used in the letter, thy would generally known, for it wasntention
their
Birting change or refurin at every turn,bert Fraser Smith, editor and propriolor of hot with having deliberately lied when he bg imunities that jy should not fact true, and that it was for the public strengthen world, and was not pegi daxription of it free to any Person who
seeing that the Colony only aseke to deal
with its own.
the
That a me of the items of Life Insuranco, a that they were actually libula, bu- cont newspaper would revel in such fili, tinkanty đa
CATÁR,
greater the pension claimed.
the person of one officer inust not be
contimed if salaries are to be raised all
and
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a little overdran the requirements of comfort in a hot climate, That certain officials are underpaid, but to
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SUPREME COURT. IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS. (Before Mr. Pieiding Clarke, Acting Chief Justice.) Saturday, December 21.
THE CAMPOS FOKÚRBY CASE.
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to receive this Salary of £101,790. to that he did writo and forward at HB. tried before the Pirughese Consul attainly privileged one that it was an chique for $10 0,
was not ashamed of it. I thought the That no mention is made of an increase prosocation was an shumous one, such a Shanghai on the 10th unil 13th inst. L. attack upon a men's character and that hef ber, purporting to be drawn on the one of the immediate results of the ratifi- proportionate to the growth of the family tremendous uno that to write a simple letter beck was found guilty and sentenced to was entitled to vindicate blusalt, even if in ingkang und Shanghai Bank by Lucie cation of the agreement will be the lower- That the provision which is secured by showed Berera self-control.
of that sort, although it wasstrongly-vorded,
three days' imprisonment, with the option doing so he made reflections on the careter Robinson second, with obtaining 61,000 ing of the rates of telegraphing from all oficials under the Penzion Fund is not
He solely of paying 200 veis per day and full costs of quer for the jisty to enaider whether the contents and on that cheque, on 16th parts of China to Europe: to a uniform
It was for jury the September; and third, with asing a forged figure of 8 per word. Thie, of two daya trial, having previously with- mautioned by the gentlemon who thus wished by that means to vindicate his own drawn the libellons statements cranplained ever ex
exceeded the occasion, Then the cheque knowing it to forged. The make co ahangs in the rate from Hongkong, On Faris appraise the value of their own services.
character because he knee of no other im- of. If we mistake not 3r. Libeck was defendant took as his ebend or rather alter circumstances of the case w re as follow. Ausoy, Fouchow, or Shanghai, at cach of mediato remedy. That the greater the salary drawn, the war Suith) hadattempted to mate him cal printing establishment of Do Souzi & sit in efoot If I fail in the plon of not } what later, the panner was in 17 d.
That man (alluding to
at one time a partner in the well known native defance the ples of justification. He Utah the middle of September, or some
which
places the ralo is at present $2 a But in all the other ports and That the custom cf multiplying offices in
u a man whom even the police wosid Bofenes in the suit in which At the Gey, Ir the longth of saying that this that sterk it a salary of $5 a month. Me very material difference in the cost of tela. On New York-
At worse than a highway cobber and thief, And
em loy of Messrs Hughes and Ezra as a inland stations the redaction will make a nd appeared a witness touch, ne a nuan wore than the lowest cri- tiual, as a man whom the people were tendan. This rensinds is that the semier should be published. In a criusinal prosee the same offct, but charge of a safe is thuis 33.40 a sword; Chegue and Tientsin is that it was for the public adatga tint it N. J. Robinson, who was book-keeper in mphing At present the rate from Peking That the labourer is worthy of his hie,
justified in tearing to pieces. Thers asser 15.50 still studs to tao debit of friend ention a libel was not kes a libel because it flies, in which it appared that linkept 82.31; Hankow, 32:8; Tchang, 82.38: On Bombay dipay ought to be commensurato with
i had been diffused all over the world | Wicking in war books over that little was true. In a civ. Hotion if a libat wir elegin-Look Containing somu cheques | Pakli, 32. 8;Swalow, 82 34; but the rate i position, his surroundings, and his and the complainant refused to
trup there was no
Aigated columns to him to refute them. I would
wife. About the by his ability.
went to Japan, S word, which will make a materia That at the came time the Committee of not onter fato the legal questions in carriage of justice in Hongkong that was Cation the greater tha trath, the greater 17th September, the prisoner went or froin each of these places will be reduced to
was sometim
used to bu libel. 1960 Le It was in unnection will this case laid down that no justifie tia, could to the knowledge of Mr R binson that a Shanghai, Fachow, nor Any gain any
ou leave, On 24th Septembhor volved, ng
it camo fio was not well-versed
©ifference in favour of customers. Neither officials hare, I venture to think, justes low, and his Lordship would instrust to the honours of self wor- pleaded in a criniiuul promecution, clicque ur 1,000 had been rashed, which thing so far ; but we are assur i that it is On Shanghai S
that Mr. Joo, J. Francis-rint then entitled them fully in that respect. Ile would the of buil
wo but tho
legislaturo in its wisdom had now we debited to his wife's recon. Ho intended in a little time the rate from each the prophets, Wo merely give them a start history of the thy of bring muked y
decided that the frail might be material, examined the cheque ex Do Ssaid the learned this trut did hot at:ount chequo had been taken from of these places will also be reduced, by care. In December 1883 he received from shall win hards
But the proof o will only speak the to increase the pay of every officer altogether the plaintiff a letter which had beso tratie; but he may forgot all lo hasil said to a complete defence. It must be shową quizy obtained the cheque from the baryees, and that ere long we may look for Gold Leaf, 100 f...
from this circumstances which my dosed and read, in Court-The following and lie for this other side: Confration is that the publication the jury for a verdjot fill up in other handwriting, and that wish to see the parts which are the chief B1.5 rato, All this, which is authentic, modify or govera usch casu would be a
is the lotter, which is marked prévute :~~).
b- The dicque ven one nighted by his wife and is
His wife and mistake.
1nefit. He would ask
kongs andreassuring, casy, and absolution easier still, was te That the lower grades of. Colonial servants
Tha." Hongkong Telegraph.” explanation of this prodistion, which proved upon the question of malice-whether the handwriting was the handwriting of the o-ntres of telegraphic businos derive a to have received ecant attention phone who keep no chuir-coolies, or are
Hongkong, 10th December, 1883. true to the letter. We lost when we ought defendant was gulity or not guilty, and pisoner. Tim cheqin was an endorsed little more tangible advartago along with Boat Brandt-As you donutless have to have you, but don'k demir yet of that of justification was proved. Autory Gunes), would not be able to Chinese Telegraphic Administration the
He (the Acting 11.M
the alber nover seen with o four-in-shaft team. already heart, I got out of my libel case $313,50-ninnt of damages and dusts,
the ples That a warried Bubbie' with $43 per with 1ying coloure!
great deal had been introduced into the deduce to who receipts from all the other ports and i'laud,
produc Mr Brandt also ref rred to antior arcasm, that lead not been proved to be actually cashed the clergue, but he would station month has to give up the struggle sud *I shall be glad to havé old “Fiddly” às
Lace Fory graph which appeared on 15th Septembar terial at all. In saying that he did not out go Home after ten years' servico because scon after Fouchow Races na you like. he receives ng allowance for quarters would be well to lat him have at least a 1880, in which, in making some square; the least refection n the defendant, prodice the evidzies of the Enuk shroff,ake Shawal, Anicy, and Flucher for tho
two Foreign about the Duck and Stabiat panes, was sure that fliey must all foul that to a bat mide somo memorandum at the time ages of t
who was notablo
to recogulae the prior share, until he becomes au Acting Sergeant.forinight's rest after his arrival, orusidor he said, Pathans "Drawuis volunteered great.extent his romarka were exceedingly that the cheque was called by a Portu- for at damage or its land lines oroes That for $15 per month-just pas-third of
of ing the time he
he has been in trading
What his pay-he can get one room to live
You can let me have one Tony 12-hand
| 1
isht exceedingly clever atable showing the amount of you think it good enough but you waist closely hain h that user-to-be forgotten vise rather of eaving the time of the the asno evidenos de le gavo before the Ompany in the agreement, which is to run etites waste ned altboigh-bo (his Lordship) guel Tobintan gavo satanially and Eastern ExtennerCOL. 27 the Northem!
3. was had to stop him once or twice, it was with decency and perchance comfort which decide that for yourself.” If you are beru I can or ought to be extracted from a style should in consideration of one half of the libel suit, icking Fruser Smith de jury than of
flow much d' chi-defendant's gen rul onduct of the case,
reflection on Basting
on the Alagitrate.
for fui-teen years from the time it was cauers and falas evidence sout us? Oulyn Tare wore ruin expresions in the latter Robins ruid 6700, of the 81,0 18 All farther infirmed that the Fu is nothing in it,
Cross-estated
by Mr Pulick, Ardraws up so ten years trille813.50, and we have not forgten which is defendant had felt that he was overdraft. I.net to Mr Innes' table at tthewhon required--nless of course you bad
With had made good the bish will preciade i special reasons for riding something in
vallud upon to justify individually. That I have no desire to laveigh against your own stable-presuming you bave .គ
call on hits to do is Be was able frena lore from the Catechistual advice, to be content stable.
rond lowo that Mr Smith thought to Like B each one in the aplicre where Frovideros
to explo why the prisoner should ba. There has been some ink about your Me Murray Din to b Bronia whole latter. The relations of the parties name in the clique sung that it was mad has placed him, but the official agent of coming down here and I have heat the BeoRuss Me Murray Bain, Me Brodt al bon proved, and if evuras now that payable to bazter, and s Providence in Downing Street should be ugly word al jection and more than went on, had given evliendo against the they were considering the question of maliga Mrs. Robinson alin rated the state outled upon to divide the spoil in fair once. You hire some enemies hers, but complainant, he (Mr Smai:lf) had consistent by would them to bear in mind that iteul alie mada at the Bingistracy, proportious
without evidonou they can do nothing-audly abused him ever since, calling him a the quration of provocation might have a Chul Sui Ping stuff in the Hongkong
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