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and without the city walls, soldiers have been stationed, and they are capable of keeping things quiet and the people in order. The custom of taking revenge for private Injuries
Satta
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Francis (Piggott) "and the | mtafaction of the
ourt, befare whom Corpus,
Cr Justion Gomperte) in the court. the caseint Vicente Sette, the Filipino journalist le respect of whom ap
cation for extradition was made. The judgment has an important bearing on the mellet, of- extradition... and considerable
T.
seems also to have fallen into abey-interest has beer vanifested in the case the word of First Instance in the PJ of
tha
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For to the Secretary the requisition for his gl in bot been made with a low to by o punish him for an offence of political character. What are the facts of the
A of the pre- sont rade Who prisoner like been convicted
of abduction. He appealed |ance, and little of this comes to our The Chiel Justice, the
which, was upheld by agxinst the gnosistion
P.I. But, pend
LONDON, April 19 Ingthy judgment, id that the Supreme Court of ears at present. Indeed, the fury of of wit ng move to the Cart from ing the bearing of the appeal the prisoner
Renter's New York porn BRAND strong and wicked men has certainly the magistrate in very imperfect and he had been allowed bail, fled out al
reports that the Carpathia become less virulent even if it has not there ondition: they were supple- the Juridiction of the Philippines to mented by affidavits on behalf of the
Colory of
of Hongkong gone altogether. Recently Brother prisoner, and ounsel for the Crown seemed nor of curse suggested that abdue pier at 8.37 on Thursda
disposed, not marosannally, to abject to tion is a crise of politioal, char- members of the Senate Tso Tez T'IN came to Canton. I have say further elucidation of the depositions actor, nor is it alleged that she pri entrusted him with my confidruco
Magistrate – bad judicial duty to soner is in any danger, if he le surrendered, Investigation perfoam, and
take that wast
witeiras this
soutabos already pamed on him in respect and ordered him to convey these facts the deposition is use by down the offering any other punishment than the tended to board
And in many necessary for the Court. very The prisoner has been in Hongkong to and to you, gentlemen, that the niness
Zon: Magistrates, more y this Colony soma afficers the knowledge of the requisitioning Gov- of your hearts may be removed and no tha doties for a comparatively erament since Feb, 1910. Up to now they mittse arri dissipated. It may be again asserted short time, that it was absolutely until
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SAFEASHORE
bushands and pushed into the beat All this time
order, or any, attempt o rash, the basta: the There were no hysterical or sobbing The Fronem, and it was, exİ) nary: how
self-controllert everyone- tee of they realized that they
berin, tha sen, withi
wen, bik #apport.
the women and
(ed in the darka
the Come for the men, to enter
was effecret quietly
When I got away,
in be marsing cod
but there was no moon.
as cafu naa pood, and there was just e
the
Some delay occured in the docking of gentle heave, but it was utterly cold
enormous, outhned black aga Estarry sky, with every porthale:
have taken no steps to obtain his randi that things are generally being adhattery Ford of the evidence should be tig. It must therefore be inferred, that
taken
to the con this step has been taken, not in the in- down Wish: justed, though somewhat roughly, and bention mined by the
Radionor's counsel tarestes: of justice to punish Sotto For that the Crown had not furnished that
the crime of abduction · buð- in order pay the penalty of his there is peace and safety for law• { documenta of... constitutional abnoxious porrent opinions and of the vessel dwing to the taking off of
his criticisms of Gorerament policy in the Philippines This would be, in effect t punish him for a political crime and this for shined to the
abiding people. But if all able and virtuous men avond their own country and escape therefrom, then it is difficult_to_catablish_peace satis
arwah werd mid to be at to a full appreciation of the difficulties of the case, It's Lotos up and subject sa 10 they <did not any opinion on the ether the ticisms were instifiable or
in forbidden by the Act. I will saSTING.
Ferrand that t
it that every facility should be afforded antioning t
to get eveD, AS the
thirteen of the Titanic's life-boats.
The survivors began landing at 9.35 As they entered the street & dead silence fell upon the crowd and even the
with light. It was impossible to
are was anything wrong but for ominous tile of the bown where the water had a reached the lowest row
and to win renown for such the flash-light batteries of the At &am, she was Faz ne. J. G311, a daughter (Maureen), an achievement is almost an impos. to the production of important and materialoquial expression, goes, with Sotto targraphers for a moment censed their bom observed to be settling doua very rapid-
DEATH. Ra-Died this morning, wt. hin
residence No. 4, Chancery Lane, Atra-na Jon Vrzina Brauno. Funeral will pass the monume a Sunday about 12.15
p.7.
MEMOS FOR TO-DAY.
9pSmoking Concert at Engineers
Institute.
9.15 p.m. Peggy by Tandmann Opera
En as Theatre Royal.
sibility. I therefore pray you to re- member the villages of your ancestors and ask you to put your possessions and travelling necessities together and return to your native homes. This,
interest no
THE WAITING GLOWD.
documents. The Crown bad. one way or the other except to see that the his political
propaganda. Even then it bardment. treaty with the foreign power and the boons to tow that the section relied were carris nut. On the third paint His does not apply. The chi says nothing Lordship held that the Order-in-Council
whatever about collateral motiveandIdo hot was not proved to the magistrate and this see what this Court has to do with it All in his opinie wns casential beth for legal observed. He thought it was sufficiens to were a thousand relatives and friends of this court has to do in to see that the law in When the Carpathia arrived there and practical
point out that the defence set up was n t Dealing with the documents that been submitted by thá
on the pier conviction of Sotto,
พ.
bad
ly by the bows, the bridge being come pletely submerged. She slowly tiled --straight on end, with herstern vertically- opwards." The lights finshed and then went out altogether. Feard the mai
with a rattle and a groaning audible Ide chinery roaring down through the vessel.
miles. It was the most weint sound imaginable in mid woman. She remained bend, including Mr Morgan, Jun, and upright for a time, which I estimate as representatives of the Widener and about five minutes, with abo Thayer families, who came from Phils of her hall towering up
the sky" DA delphia by special trains. Automobiles Then, with a quiet, slanti came rushing up outside, bringing she disappeared, and there fell others.
indeed, is what the people are hopingment rulative, to theppine Govern. supported by legal evidence and that mere those on board assemble.
and grently desiring. For myself am not able sufficiently to say how angerly and sincerely. I pray for this I have indeed told you only a little of what is in my mind, and now venture to ask after your welfare, hoping that you are well, whether sitting or stand- 10.30a.m.-H. K. Corintling Yacht Clubing, and that your business is prosper
Closing Cruise.
ing a hundredfold."
MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW.
9.-Excurion to Macro.
MEMOS FOR MONDAY. Noon--Hongkong Schools'
Sports,
From many sources we gather there are evidences accumulating that the Athletic Governor-General is finding his task Very onerous; he apparently feels that
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His Lordship held that they were not The records started with a scaled document nathenticated according to English law. signed by the Governor of the Philippines and auded with a sealed certificate of the Chief Justice; ut in between there were
д
aleeta which were not:
certified to, and consequently sheets might A number of lave Leen extracted and extrageous sheets might have b
have been introduced. It was important that.
should ba cortified every
suggestions were insufficient.
THE CHIEF JUSTICESHIP.
We are oficially informed that His Majesty the King has approved the sypoint ment of Hon Mr William Rees Davies, K., to be Chief Justice of Hongkong on the retirement of Sir Francis T. Piggott, Kt, with effect from 1st May next,
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Women were wailing as the Carpathia was slowly warped to the dock.
THOUGHT FOR THE NEEDY:
with: the contention that the extradition w
was wanted -for political, res sons, his Lordship naked
Does this crime fall within the political provisions of F. M. & Monmouth has arrived at The Committee of the New York
A fugitive criminal was not to be Singapore and is expected here on the Stock Exchange brought to the pier a surrendered if the offence in respect of 25th inst. which his surrender was demanded was of
a
political character, or if he proved that
sum of twenty thousand dollars collected
ears the most appalling nose, ne being ever listened to hundreds of our fellow belaiza gling in the icy water, calling a cry which we knew confi:
A TIMELY RESCUE
An obelisk is to be erected in Haslay from the members for distributioners sighted. The transfer of the pas
the requisition for hust surrender had in
in Naval Cemetery in memory of the officers fact and men lost in the submarine A3.3. to Fuaish character. The offence in
him for an aftence of political
rin respect of
among needy survivors. There were many doctors and nurses in sitondance, also a comple of ambulances
-PASSENGER'S, GRAPHIC
STORY.
ALondoner named Beesley stated that thie vorige from Queenstown by the
A passenger on the Carpathis Wayu I that sixteen lifebosts from tan Litanis
sengers was a pitiablenight. Ropes were tied to the waists of the adulta, ind babies were placed in bage and hoisted to the deck. - Some of the hosts duction and be had been onvicted Bay, has been added to the list of places Sotto's surrender was demanded was th. St. Mary's Anglican Church, CauSTAY
not half-fult and others were much therefore of the classe did not licensed for the solemnization of marriages,
with people--some in evening apply in the "cine But the fugitive V
and others in night other aid that he had been twice prosecuted The Government Gazette contains a
blankets. All were harried to the lo despatch from the Secretary of State to the
and given a hot breakfast. They had Acts 1870 to 1906 apply to Greece. Colonies notifying that the Extradition Titanic was quiet and uneventful. Thbeen in the boats four or five hours in & most biting wird." There was 710 weather was very fine and calm, but demonstration, not a sob being heart very cold, particularly on the last day All seemed tuned by the shock of Be mys- I had been in my berth the experience. Divine: Barvice was about ten minutes when, at about 10.15, beld after breakfash. Four survivors I felt a slight jar, and then, soon after died soon after reaching the dock of
of the Carpathia. seond one, but it was insufficient to cause the slightest anxiety. However, the engines were stopped immédiately.
he is losing the sympathy of the best people of Cauton. Only yesterday the papers reported that, owing to certain arbitrary alterations in the number of officials employed in. Can ton, which changes were distasteful of Governesené fiziale, upon the conduct of <ficiair, to the general official mind, with the and that except once, what he was fine
he was acquitted. He said also that exception of the military and naval as publishing in Hongkong a paper called
A Chinamon yesterday alighted from a heads of departinents, all the Chef's do the Philippine Republic, in which Lo had
d articles calling for the immediate tram-car while in motion nese Marisy Bureaux had resigned en masse.
It stablishment the Philippine Republic.
There
could be no doubt that there. Barracks and received such injuries that is certainly no soft cushion on which suficient political atmosphers about his he had to be removed to hospital.
viitings to
a to wake him a person obnoxious to CHAN KWING-MING sits, and there is whit little wonder that he condescends to write personally to the experienced
of
$575 $5.
INFLUENCE OF BUSINESS MEN ON GOVERNMENT.
DURING recent years in England the legislative programme of the Radical party has been condemned because it has tended, it is averred, to drive capital out of the country, to businessmen of Hongkong to Astuse, but for the purpose of the present Hospital. No Bunday work in permitted. I first thought we had lost a propellor According to the story of snother
be invested in other lands where them to return to Canton, that they there is less interference with the may give an impetus to the declining
the Philippine Government. Something Tenders are being invited for the was said about this involving a charge of election of an operating theatre, workshop wale Fidea against stray very fully gone into is Orton store-rooms, ste, at the Government Civil
7 gone into in OrtomTMH.
i
eneo ic was suflicient to my that
the had started,
motive it would have to say so. I, and if it thought there was a
ANOTHER ACCOUNT,
New regulations afecting native craft and went on dock in my dressing 80 passenger, the Titanic orashed into been made by the Hongkong Govern. I found that only a few people had come the feeberg almoet immediately after
-GRANTEDISPLAY fruits of his investments without be him in matters which, apparently, he After reviewing the evidentment under the Merchant Shipping Ordin-Up, Emilarly dressed, to inquire the sighting it quarter of a mile away
or
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the treaty authorised the enquiry which would have to du ta tedy tend the Court have
to grapple with
put for Gazette costeation, his Lordship said it looked as ward by the prisnner support of this
especially in view of the fact that the wax un the face of it, that it was BD;
in
capitalist and where he can enjoy the trade, and at the same time advise
these are set out in the Government course of the jar, but they were in po ance
Simultaneously, the click of wisa dries. I saw a game of cards operated on the bridge, stoppe
engines and closed the bulkhand ing subjected to the rigorous scrutiny is not quite competent to manage
à meeting of the Licensing Board is | taking place in the smoking room, and | Captalo, on the bridg», summoned of some one or other whose nim is to himself. Whether these gentlemen
from To Ping Kwong for the transfer to anything. It seems they felt more of ordered the hosts to be lowered The fixed for May 1st to consider an application I went inside to inquire if they knew passengers to don life preservers, and
bim from R. X. Uschmaan of the publicau s slice therefrom a super-tax for the will rise to his fait remuing to be seen, Jhad been allowed to remain here peng licence of the Station Hotal, Kowloon the jar than
e first boat contained mostly tales, we shrewdly suspect that they will the period of extradition, and the State
they were the frat to reach the deck, Looking though the window, I saw hat when the rush of women prefer to remain in Hongkong, where dividuxi hal to enforce rights, even vindicand Tacomas por as Robert Dollar and and I thought we had grazed it, with a rals strictly observed. - The
The cargo shipped from Vancouver a huge iceberg pass close to the ship, children began, w: men first was the ing into the truthfulness or otherwise they can live witlicat the woyment, had the right to get the man to put Harpagus, destined for this port, is being glancing blow: None of us had any con- drew the revolvers, but in most case
tively. In thin ense the Fhilippine Gove of this repeated assertion." We are, that, is incident to, it not absolutely netion unless the vindictiveness was seals:- Hansng, Panama baru, Ischia ception that the ship was pierced below they were not usu
use of the Government. We are not interested at the moment in examin-
for six years; but there, was do
right that the ordinary in-
Gover
A LAST HYMN
"As the last of the bonis
VCAUSI OF SIZINGE
sieved that
his into prison for his offence of transhipped at Kobe to the following however, interested in a recent letter sent by the Governor-General of Can-
inherent in the local government of political This being so he hesitated to and Muttra
water by a submerged part of the ico- any that the case come within the clause of Cantou to-day; and though there may the Trasty. He besitsted first because the Two men were this morning charged thought of disaster trin- to Chinese capitalists and in-
berg, and the game went on without tential business people of Hongkong be something in an appeal to con- political vindictivenrag is not absolutely with being in possession of 105 tios of
convincing, and, secondly, because there a
Eretired to my cabin and The Governor-General, it appears, has science, there will also rise in the was another case
was the case They
came more dearly opium on board the La Prinz Waldems the ship went, on agalir. urged them, in the interests of busi. minds of the more thoughtful the Lordship remarked that the brus imprisonment, the eplum being cuttle later, hearing pac
ked that the Court was were fined 8500 each, of three months
ogain news and the well-being of the knowledge of the extreme difficulty of left in the dark an
relations between the Philippines with fiscated med MLA province of Kwangtung, to return to doing anything substantial in the the United States. Mir Anderson's
upstairs. I went out on deck again and the provincial city and take their present time of transition,
statement was he would pomt out that it had not gone Mr. Ribeiro, a very old and
challenged, but The death occurred this morning of found everyone wanting to know why
the engines had;
No doubt share in the burdens that are apparent.
Iar enough. The plain meaning of what it
Alcep: by the JUDDY WETO wakened seemed to the Court that he said, was respected member of the Portuguese sadden stopping of the
the boils challenged by the Crown as not being the community. The late Mr Ribeiro was over noticed a list, from the of the fine-cold. plain massing. If that plain mening was 10 years in the employ of Mesars Jardine, hows, and musgined that of the correct then the requisition had been made Matheson, and Co, and retired from active front compartments had filled and rere in the wrong her If were not the business life 2 for years ago. He have right view they had to evidence before
again gent them to kupport contention of the I was not mere bechunity and yeste Crown. That evidence, was indi the Court had Philippines had been what they side the express termos
Prices Moderately proving somewhat too heavy for His
Inspection Invited
Wm. Powell, Id.
Excellency to bear alone. It may not be naise to run over the letter, "which shows clearly enough that the Governor-Gereral needs support and sympathy, though much of the langt age, especially in the original, very highflown and out of harmony with the stricter canons of taste.
“For a long time I have heard of
Bijou Scenic Theatre, your repitation, and the thoughts of
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
The appointinent of Mr hsn Kai-ming a viember of the Banitary Boark for period of three years.is gazetted.
Fout C. V-Barimahire, B. G A hun been seconded for service ne St Officer of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps Mr. G. Price, formerly of Minare Dodwell and Co., and later connected with the Foreign Board of Trade in Yokelme bas died of typhoid fever.
An uld resident of Japa
my mind, ever increasingly, have gone out towards you Hongkong and the 3 Pearl River are separated and free having Intercourse is somewhat diffenit. In forty years Canton affairs are generally
JATEST (GAZETTE AND GRAPHIO and emny rejoice that things are
per who had been
some
• your past, and a BATH Testy to the new have been made adjusting the
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