THE CHINA MAIL.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4 190
SEE
CALL
transport the
POWELL'S
NEW SHIPMENT
OF
BABY JARRIAGES,
PERAMBULATORS,
MOUTRIES'
FOR
· from tha
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ng ever
ING HONGAU
ortant Action In the
ned when they
for permission to drivs a new
of the railway WYUD
Shihniugow in order to properly pu, and the concession granted in April, derein the Lungwangtung seam, that 1004 was only ratified at Feking into Chinese company had been formed December of that year
three years previously to work this site Under the terms of the concession. In other words, their claim had been
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The Piano says our contemporary arrangements "jumped. No wonder then, in the
GO CARTS 36 Years.
with Sun Canopies and Rain
Hooda
NOW ON SHOW AT
Alexandra
Buildings,
FIRST FLOOR.
& Co.,
A S. WATSON
Ltd.
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
WATSON'S
E
VERY OLD LIQUEUR SCOTCH
WHISKY
A Blend of the Finest Pure Malt Whiskies distilled in
Scotland
OF
were made with the Pacfa Company to face of so much persistant obstruction act as middlemen in the acquisition of that the Company, which had been Chinese, director land, and the concessionaires waro em-forced to engage a powered to mine for cost and iron and assistant at Chunking, to whom it throughout the subprefecture of King had to pay outrageous salaries for doing
the
the
Mr Bounce Paray-Smith Is Inuidator
finasmuch as wind manufactuTE:
(to be cond'aubad," an auɛadomi milling of four and van toe
with power derived from the plant and machiner
Heary
MW Blade (mate
Hastings and Hastingswere
and Mr Duncan MaNeill, of Shangha Mã 0. Go Alabaster (instructed by, Descon, of Musara Dereon, “Looker and Deacon, appeared for the defendants
Tor
Service: Jor
August 3
the Japanse official
the position of Honorary
General
bean “howly
An action was commenced before Chief Justice (Sir F. Piggotty and are Judge (Me Justice Gompe thing is Full Court, to-day, bet the Hongkong Milling Co., Ltd., of which
Sir Henry Berkeley, in the course of a painting) and Meases Arnhold Karberg lengthy opening, said it was their intention to call evidence to the quality of the loo and Co. (defondants). The plaintifs manufactured, and also to produce before sum of $100,000 damage their Lorishipa particular blocks of the le for alleged breach of warranty. by made. Proceeding, Sir Henry stated thabat HONOURING THE DEAD. claimed the defendants under an agreement dated the flour mille the plaintif had a large copply
tho purposes of milling, and
and it therefore ("Independens News Agency's Service to 23rd March, 1907. The plaintiffs also of water, the more than was necessary for
the Olina Mard.) The statement of claim was to the affect
Tokyo, August 3 that under the agreement mentioned the defendants agreed to sell and the plaintif an ico-making capacity of 4 bons per day of hours as therein described for the
claimed their costs in the auit..
nemurrod to the active mind of the late Mis Ronnie, he manager, that this water right bo-utilised to great advantage in the making of os. Accordingly he approached Co.. some Mesara Jardino, Ma' beson, and
The Army and Navy will jointly take De part next November in the ceremony of
captives who died at Nagamaki during
Experience, pei: An Anglo-Chinese Company was nothing, recived to shut down the Company to Buy an ice-making plant, with time in September, 1007, and in the countering the remains of the Russian
Satisfaction
Guaranteed
to
S. MOUTRIE & CO., LD.
Hongkong. April 16, 1907.
2 PEDDER STREIT:
PHONE
No.
536.
CHEAP SALE
20%
OFF EVERYTHING.
679
mines.
Wa continue the story in the words mige 90,40 marks, German currency, and the defendants agreed for that price to of our contemporary
in
of that month they practically arrived at of the
signed an agreement, which was Bailly October Altar saying that, to
to speak of los
of the quality and purity manufacturer by the late wat
the Hongkong Los Company was to speak of the standard o
Equality, office. Sir Henry
NEWS OF THE DAY.
whatever thist the docament contained soy : Two Selosgettos Inva:boon, discharged
Speaking at the inaugural banquet of
cent of the net profits after paying into procure just treatment for the the Hongkong Ice Co. Ltd. The do deposited in the cold storage, rooms of the African to place, kje war experience at the
the word applied to ios. Does it mean melting
Sis Henry-Well, not exactly, I think.
Mr
Slade-In is the effect on ice of water.
service of the Empire
During a police raid, on a secret society.
to be formed with a capital of Ta. 500,000, in Tis. 100 shares, to be sub- scribed for equally by British and Chinese marchants. The Company was 1 When the mince were cloeody and deliver the said plant; ab the plaintifasid tuhou Zhe agreement between the the attitude of the local oficials made it Company's premises and to erect and com parties was signed there was no suggestion pay the Facfa Company 2 per cent plain that the company must expect plots the same with all proper, richer terms, than those agreed to. In fact from Holloway prison after having ware of the gross output as rent for the continued opposition, it became clear to and applimen. By the agreement then suggestion on those lines was made mathemselves for avo days, h
the directors that the only solution to defendants guaranteed that the plant the action was brought and the defents mining property, and also to pay the their difficulties would be the repurchase would manufacture ice of the same clear-pat in. It seemed to have been a mere
of the concession by the Chinese
After thought of the pleader in Chinese Government a royalty of 5 per fohn Jordan and the British and quality as the ice at the date Bir Haury stated that some 9,000 lbs. the British Empire Club in London, Dr cant on the gross output, and 26 per Consula in Seechuan were unable of the agreement being manufactured by worth of the ice made by the plant was Smuts expressed his readiness, soo
Company. Certain ambiguities in the fondant supplied the plant but it did Hongkong Les Company, where it still tercat at the rate of $per cent on shares original concession, with might have not manufacture ice of the clearness and could be sean
Mr MeNaill-Is it rotting away had the promoter and quality warranted, but produced Sir Henry-My friend suggests that it is. The period within which work was to be been avoided
of the enterprise had leas implicit conas entirely different aud an inferior rotting in the cellars of the Hongkong THE CITY OF PARIB, begun was fixed at three years, and the fidence in Chinese good faith, afforded quality of ice. By s agreement, of foe Co, bas it is nut in cellars, but the abuala Lumpur on July 26, four Chinese weakest point in the concession and the pretexts to them for refusing to carry out which the defendants were aware, made cold storage room, and ics only rots when were killed and many wounded. Inspector Cullen and a Chinese detective were badly the plain intention of the concession batreon the plaintiff company and Jardino,
it is brought into contact with airs
The Chief Justice I have never heard cat dacing the fight. Twenty-five arrests one which eventually encompassed the Endless negotiations took place between Matheon and Co., the plaintiff company
were made. Chungking and Shanghai, Shanghai company's downfall, was the provision and Peking and Feking and Chungking, agreed to sell and Jardine, biathosen and
The Daily Necs learns from the high- that the Anglo Chinese Company could and eventually the question resolved Co, to buy for a period of six years sil not acquire land mined by Chinese mh. itself into what sum should be paid as surplus ice, manufactured by the plaintif which may be of about the same tem est quarters that, if Me Churchill's warning compensation for cancelling the conceas company over and above such quantity porature as the ice, which este into the with regard to a General Election is jects, unless the workings had been on The Company's auditors after as might be required for their own een lee and makes it more liable to melt when realised, the slection will take place late though investigation, recommended that sumption, such surplus not to exceed 6,300 exposed to air. Ies melts much faster in
***; in the Autumn. abandoned for thirty years... The con- s. 403,666 would be a fair figure tons per annum at the price of five eighthstar Sir Henry sad plan
Proceeding, plaintifs pension was to be for a term of fifty at which to take over the concessio of a cont per pound, which price would nut could not turn outice; what they Zoroastrian club bogs to acknowledge with to do with whether the machinery The Hon. Secretary of the Parsons Tls. 75,000 of this sum being put years, and provision was made for down as the estimated res due have given large profits to the plaintiff could of
warranty was made that this particular ice many thanks roosiph of a lot of two hundred the construction and improvement of to being without the milway for any over and above the costs of manu bad to establish was the fact that
two years. The King Ho Company ature, and by this agreement the plaintif cald be turned out. If the machinery could and twenty English at Gujrati books, to roads and waterways, and the building the Company which had jumped the company grood that the ice to be so not produce the ice which the defendants the value of newly five hundred dollars,
this proposal, and eventually, on the be in quality purity and clearness equal fendants must stand the casequences. of coal. Article 1 of the non-recommendation of Sir John Fordan, to the ice then being made by the Hongfendants, to strike cat the special damago
who expressed his conviction that kong Ice Cutipany. Owing to the breach paragraphe in the statement of claim. Le Nauraji Maneckji Wadia, C.LE nothing would be gained by holding by the defendants of the warranty the made this application on the ground that pei Ting Coal and Iron Mining Co. will out, Ths. 200,000 was accepted for the plaintiff Company has been unable to per the plaintiffs has not said that they would only surviving son and heir of the labe Bal be a source of revenue to the Chinese company's property, exclusive of the form their contract with Jardine, Matheson prore what they ought to prove that Motla Bai Wadie, a philanthropis Parsee
of coal and realizable assets. In
was that the defendant knew that the Isdy, of Bombay, died at Bombay, on July Government the latter shall do all in its view of the assurances of the British and Co., and have lost the profits which Jardins contract contained a warranty as 21, at the age of 79, through old age and power to protect and assist the said Minister the directors had no alterna- they would have made thereby and, have to the clearness and quality of the ice.
Certain letbars read by Sir Henry might goporal debility. The decessed was be tive but to accept this, which, it is suffered other heavy damages. The plain show that defendants knew that ics had loved to be the wealthiest Parere and has company with a view to obtaining the hoped, will enable them to return a tiffs claimed as damages the cost of the been sold to Metra Jardine, Matheson and left, as his sole heir, his widow Bai Hours best results; the property of the Com-little over 70 per cent of capital to plant, together with the expenses incurred Co. but defendants clearly did not know Bai.
shareholders. The latter confirmed the
that the ice should be of particular quality pany, as well de its general staff and directors' action at the extraordinary in aresting an ice factory and store, less that it was a term of the dardine contract
The steamer Tjipannas, of the Dutch Mr Siede The law is that if you make Jara-China-Japan line, has met with ma tion from the local oficials. Should Chinese mining enterprize in Western hea workmen shall receive full legal protec- general meeting held on Tuesday. the estimated value of the ice making and clearnose.
Thus ends the history of the first Angle plant. They also claimed their loss of
a contract with a man and notify him in fortune. She struck on a roof mear The amended statement of defence said substance that you are making that contract Muntos, a port in the island of Banky, Chins.
the sursement to sell the ice plant was with him for the purpose of fulfilling disputes arise they shall be decided by
intended by the parties to contain only another contract that you have made, and the other day, and sprang a leak. Much thoes tamms which were contained in certain he fails to carry out the terms of the water entered into the tank and into hold the local authorities in nocordance with Chinese law, and foreigners of bud faith, obstruction and flagrant written correspondence which had passed contract, in consoquence of which you can No. 1. The water was kept down by between the parties prior to the said agrement. The stication of the dafuot carry out your contract with the third
the damages therefrom.
at Batavia on July 22. dents was not drawn, at the time of the then he is liable for all losses and continual pumping until the vessel arrived #guing of the agreement, to the inclusion
The Chief Justice said his view of the in the agreement of any term or terms matter was that the latters read showed different to the terms contained in the there was a knowledge by defendants of the written correspondence. The defendinte contract, and that, in itself, was sufficient aizned the agreement in the honest mnia- Mr McNeill-Not a knowledge of the
The Chief Justice That is what I The Court rejected defendants applica
The case was ultimately adjourned.
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CHINA MAIL, LIMITED.
General Memoranda,
FSDAY, Angusi 6 :—
of railwaya to facilitate the trans- ] Shihningow'claim) refused to entertain sold to Jardino, Matheson and Co., should | warranted that it could prodnce, then, de- very kindly presented by Mr S. D. Setra
port
cession read as follows: As the Kiang
shall not be permitted to strike or
ill-treat Chinese workmen."
Almost from the otteet difficulties confronted the Company. First of all
stock
Seldom have we read a worse story
disregard of properly covenanted rights The case is a very bad procedent and when its details pre fully appreciated in England and America will de mach to
Mr Alabaster applied, on behalf of de-as a donation to the club..
The Board of Trado fidé awarded a
2.30.p.m.-Auction of Household Furni- Chinese so-called patriots objected to the prevent the introduction of the much talon belief that the agreemcat contained contract knowledge, that there was Kohsichang, in recognition of his services
tare, &c. at Mr G. P. Lammert's Balds term "concession" in the Company's needed foreign capital into China, in effect no terms other than those whigh contract.
TOODE
10a.m.- Auction of Navala Victualling GENUINE AGE 2.30 p., Auction of Household Furai
AND
FINE MELLOW
FLAVOUR
PER DOZEN
$16.50.
Robert Porter & Co.'s
BULL DOG
BRAND
Guinness Stout
IN PINTS AND SPLITS.
WATSON
LIMITED,
MONDAY, August. ---
Storas, at H.M. Naval Establishmenta.
tare, &c, at No. & Queen's Road Gen. tral, (Central House). Transfer Books of Hongkong & Wham-
to 25nd
August, inclusire,
title and eventually at the cost of much What confidence would the foreign. time and considerable expense the name investor have in Chinese good faith was changed to the Kiangpei Ting Coal after this? The men who have raised
were contained in the written correspon-
dance. There waun duty cast upon plaintifs meant. to draw the attention of the defendants to
the fact that the plaintiffs or their solicitors tion. had inserted in the agreement a term.or terms which had not been mentioned, dis-
and Iron-mining Co., Ltd. The next the dry of China for the Chinese,"cussed or agreed to during the preliminary
move of its enemies was to circulate false rumours that the concession had been cancelled; after which they man-
and are actively employed in preventing the sincere co-operation of Chinese and foreign investors in developing the almost untouched mineral wealth of the empire, are doing irreparable harm their country if they only knew it,
negotiations: The plaintifs were estopped
piece of plate to Captain Carl Ladwig Rosinfeky, master of the German steamship
in rescuing the survivors of the shipwrooked crew of the British steamship Charter house, of Singapore, which foundered in.. Hainan Straits during a typhoon, on Sep. |tember:29, 1906.
by their conduct and breach of the duty BANDMANN UPERA COMPANY. Mr Louis T. Grant, well-know from setting up or relying on any term
electrical engineer and planter, has been terms not contained in the willen en or pondence. In answer to the statement ·Booking has now opened at Messrs arrested at Manila and charged with unlaw. Past they had warranted that the plant Morris and Co'er for the short sonson fully importing 210 kilos of prepared opium would manufactura ies of the same clearness which, the Bandmann: Company of Merry and 11 kilos of occaine, of the total value
quality as the Hongkong Lao. Co defendsats said the warranty was not Little Maids intend to spend with us before of pesos, 20.500 on or about the 28th July. He was enlarged on bail of passe 5,000. included in the written correspondence. Le visiting Manila. The opening night is Other arreats are expected in connection. was an express term or condition of the
pos Dock Co., Ld., close from this date Register of Shares of the Hongkong and Thanghai Banking Corporation cloas from this data to 21st Aug. inclusiva Gooda per Tonkin unclaimed after this aged to secure an official order that all
data at noon will be subjach to rent
capital must be deposited in a Chinese and landing charges, TUESDAY, August 10:-
bank. These things being adjusted. Unfortunately these men seem to be agreement that the warranty should be good August 11th when A Waltz Dream will with this discovery of opium in a boiler
2.15 p.m.-Mesking, of His Majestys Justices of the Pesce at the Magistracy, Goods per Caledonia not cleared at
p.m. on this date subject to rent.
WEDNESDAY, August 11:-*
-
Mr Wase, a prominent banker of Sze chuen, who had acted as Mr Liria's
compradore and manager of the Com pany, was ordered to proceed to the Chungting Tactai's Yamen and pro- duce 'all documents connected with
to
all-powerful at present and the country's
prospects go from bad to worse...
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
and
fox, twelve months from the date at which be presented, Since the company were sent over from Hongkong
the plant should be taken over in fall here last some alterations have been effect- working order by the servants of the od in the dress circle of the Theatre Royal plaintiff Company.... defendants now
The
said that the term or condition of the enabling better view of the stage to be agreement had not been fulfilled. The obtained.
plant had not been taken over in fall working order or at all by the servants
67
THE TACOMA MARU.
The 5.8. Tacoma Maru, with which the
which laken over in fall working order byD
the defendante denied, the plant had DON'T neglect giving every cut, wound Trans-Pacific service, left Hongkong on
p.m.-Performance at the City Hall, Goods per Bengloe undelivered after
this data subject to rent. SATURDAY, August 21 :-----
Commander Basil Taylor, R.N., Har the plaintiff Company. Alternatively if DON'T IGNORE SLIGHT INJURIES. Osaka Shosen Kalsha Inagurated their botir-master of Hongkong, left the Noon-Mesting of The Hongkong and
Shanghai Banking Corporation, as the the purchase and lease of the Colony to-day to join Mrs. Taylor and their the plaintiffs, no attempt had been made poison may appear and an ogly sear of even Tacoma, Wash, (in posta) and arrived, a or braise prompt attention. Blood the 3rd July last on her maiden voyage to City Hall
mines and land since the commenco, daughters la Japan
* by the plaintiff Company or its servants the loss of limb resalt, Chamberlain A
between the taking over, and the date of Pain Balms Is an antiseptic, heal it wound her destination on Saturday afternoon, the August 28 Meeting of Hongkong & Wham-ments of operations. Upon Mr WANG
writ to manufacture any ice with the -H. M. 8. Tumar way towed over to the plane The defendante did not admitaphaly and all danger is avoided by its use Slat July, two days earlier than her pos Dock Co., Ltd., at Co.'s Office.
proceeding to the Yamen, after taking Kowloon Dock this morning by the David that the ice-plant did not manufac. or mais by all chemists and steracespera scheduled date. the British Consul's advice, he was at Gilles to undergo cleaning and repairs quality as the ice mancfactured by the ture ice of the same clearness or once rented and his documents im The last time she was in dock over a top Hongkong Ira Company, Ltd. Defendants pounded on the plea that he had been and a half of shells were removed from these alleged that no far or complete tzikl
Tainar's bottom HONGKONG, WLONERDAY, AUCUIT 4, 1908, party to the illegal acquirement by s foreigner of interest in mining in Ching.
The China Jlnil.
FIASCO.
The death of Mr H. H. Burniston, pay
had been made of the plant, and that owing be the sation of the plaintiffs or their berrants the defendants were not permitted to run the plant for a full wesk as required part of plaintiffs to perform their contract by the agreement. Any inability on the
owing to any breach, by the defendants of their alleged warranty, but had been owing to the wrongful nation of Jardine, Mathe son, and Coin refusing to seept the los manufactured by the plant. Further, the defendants said that such fasbility (if 203) had been owing to the fact that the plain- life had pub it out of their power to earn Sub-Lieut. M E Highton has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant, with of the fact that on or shout, March the plaintif Company had
VICHY WATERS.
gous Complaints Mixes well with Wine and Spirits May be drunk freely by the healthy on the principle that Prevention is better than cure.
AN ANGLO-CHINESE CONCESSION Six weeks the unlucky WANG languish master-in-chief, hea (taken place at St.
ed in prison and it was not till the Comers, Regent's Park, Southampton, with Jazdine, Matheson and Co not CELESTINS -For Gout and Diabetes, Vesical and Analo- 00,
the age of seventy-sight. He served in the pany had paid a fine of Tis 5,000 that China war of 1807-50, when he rendered Ir is not a pleasent story which the he was released. After this the con- grout, saintance at the capture of the Feito Forte and was specially mentioned in North China Daily News relates in ponstruction of the narrow-guage railway Admiral Sir M. Bercour's despatches. he involved the unlucky Company jus nection with the demise of the Klang back of roubles. First the Chinese
the large profits referred to by an HOSPITAL Particularly useful in cases of difficult diges Concessions, Ltd., a joint-stock company registered af, Hongkong in March, 1905. objected to the survey of the line unleas seniority of May 30, and remppointed to 18th, 1908, reiting to do and
"AGEXANDRA BUILDINGS..
VICTORIA
CINEMATOGRAPH
This enterprize was started by the late
Mr ARCHIBALD Line, the British pioneer
in Western China, in 1808, when he PREMIER HALL OF HONGKONG made arrangements to work the Ki
TO-NIGHT I Pei Mines in Sochuan in gen
TO-NIGHT
DEBUT
of the Celebrated' Australian Artisted, PHILLIPS AÍSTERS.
STERS LEE,
EISTERS COLEM
FILMS
cooperation with local officials. Until 1905, Mr Lance worked the
out friction and to the centual
himself and the
tion dyspepsia and gastralgia, and also for delicate Constituents.
Eplaints:
and Splits:
spection party selected by the Kent. Sub Lients. J. N. Tuf and deliver, to the Chartered Bank of India,
w the actual pegging
J. W. O. Dalgleish have been appointed to Anstralia and China & mortgage of the the King Alfred. Lieutenant B... G. premises wherein the plant was then being GRANDE GRILLE-Renowned Specific for Liver Com route; then complications are as to Burton, Royal Marine Light Inf, has been parance of the agreement the plaintin
erected, and by reason of the fact that. the ply of the necessary plant uted to the Terrible for passage to Chins comply, and its office." liquidator on or
#Station, for da postalis and 1907, the Chinees clared that they
Company
PROPER TREATMENT FOR DIBENTERY-AND-DIARRHOEA.
1d2s great mortality from dysentery Esos diarrhoea is dom÷to a lack of treatment at the first singes of the disen Chamberlain's Callos Cholers. Remedy is a reliable and affective medicine
ágerpus
about July 9th 1906, bad sougoed by my NOTE-Supplied in Cases or Single Bottles
of samtenge, the premises together
ténements, erections.
Bank by the morts were now - enge
ktate
te, Pinta
H. Price & Co. Ltd.
lentral
Hongkong, Mies 1909