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to the wall on the
(and a violent
but he did not
was not puerile.
who lost in a lifetim
Elba that
prince". William Reen-
Tempire Consolation he tried
Sad but found none.
Cours this mor
begin in a case in
John
to
Owen Hughes
trade and perso
his Wilhelm Arth
Will this be the fate of successor? It is assured is the world in the firm of that a nature, rain, ennning, Blled || with desire for the immense, the inlaite, but lacking all judgment will meet with deplorable shipwreck There is a story told that when Nero did (he died quoting Homer) met
the
The China Mail.vering the world. He had not the black wickedness of Domitian, HONGZONG, WEDNESDAT, DE, 11, 1918, love of evil for the sake of evil, nor was he a extravagant prodigal of Caligula'a type, he was a conscientious romanticist, an emperor of comic opera, a melomanise trembling for the
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NERO.
a
spplanse of the gallery and making
earth trembled,” ar. if it were rant
Wieler Co-and-Menam. Harry Wicking & Co. liquidators of the men tale of Messrs. Sander Wieler & Co., brought action against Chin claiming a sum of $85,000 for dam Wab, compradore of the said firm,
ages, losses, and expenses moured by breach of a compradors.
the great The Hon. AE H Sharp
by
the
terms of
Asiatana Comeradore bà liable for all losses; dimages ses incurred; bythe ärm under agreement;
stated that was expressly stipulated by the autost, that w,the compra-
liable only for Supt. dazdagon anda papounds an demanded by formal nocion
dore should
election One Step
3-Balect
open, and the souls of all those whom sted by the Hon. Mr. Barved on them by the arm. No de he had slain came and hurled them- E. Pollock, K.C (inst
mund, as required by the compradora' Agreement, was made upon the defan selves upon him”. When the life .-J. Gedge), are for the placas dent prior to the cazbrasle of War that parallels his so chsely shafiffs, while Mr. Eldpe Potter and or at all under ancham agreement.
Mr. C G Alabaster, O.B.E. (la- The defendant admits that, be Band come to its end, what an endless tracted by Mr C D Wilkinson), atented the mortgage referred to by procession of ghosts will arise if that appeared for the defendente way of security for the performatics of parallel is maintained.
The claim was to the effect that his obligations under the Compradore's oz April 26, 1919, by a compradore Agreement. The defendant, denied ugreecaent. Messrs. Sander, Wieler that during the respective periods of & Co., a German firms, carrying on employment of Chin Sum Chean, business as marchants and cornmis Leung E Lau and Ho Pak Lam, the sión agents in Hongkong and aleem incurred, lesien, damages and ax- where, engaged Sum Chuen and Pentes to the extent of $99,358.50 or Leung E. Lauas compradore and account at all and that they ware not liable for any low They assistant compradore respectively admitted that since the appointment In terms of inter alia, they being of Mr. J. O. Hughes on, August
LOCAL AND GENERAL
No case of communicable diseases was reported during the 48 hours ended
the 1 th instant..
As will be seen from our advertising columna, the ss. "Sui Fong the engines and boiler of which are being sold by saction by Meurs. Hughes and Hough ca Thursday, is now in Harbour. A launch to convey intending purchasers will leave Blake Pier at 1030 am on the | day of the sale.
included:H and a larga Fietaber
mories:
Thoughts
they might You've Got to do it to countrymen on their Make Chins DresȚA.
ma
8.-W. Malta The Bing Bars are heretheless it is surely an 18-Two Step Every little white laws of war ich
Tho building was beautifully decoratet noted, simp and wore great praise from those pre used to sacă barbari out After dinner the guests laringed in French fam gramme of the dance dancing, the following being the pro- and MORA 11-Lancorker Girl. In the footfight. It's a Bird
Smile Gold and Silver.
ed anxiety on their ace
A BOLT
other resson for There is, perhaps, the forced evacation, which however, would but aggravate the offence
bars and fus heres General told us that, like Nayon, the Hoken Silver town was probably wired may paces: Inpational with time fuse to delay the
Ron Br
Destiny.
Altogether the evening WAS BLATONE
"SERVICES ENTERTAIN-
MENT FUND.
The Rev. E. G. E. Hastings Eng Hot Tassurer Services Ent
the
(as long as a week
BL Quertas
日
for echoes of the outer sent, solitude. Wo bad, been
to harry through our task, not to the public buildings, not to touch and generally to look out for trape- zień two small groups of French passing on four of inspe koos no more than we
We regret to learn that Mr. Denman held liable to the firm for all losses, 22, 1917, Plaintiff demanded payment Faller is seriously indispond. He is at dumages and expenses incurred by of the amount but they denied having the Peak Hospital, and it is not ex-the firm under the compradore committed default under the agree 12-Waltz
18-Fox Trot pected that he will be able to attend to agreement, and the defendunt, underment. They stated that after the out-
14-Two Step any of his ordinary daties until the end consideration of his engagement by break of war no proceedings could be wait of the month."
the firm, was answerable to the firm brought against them. By the firm under 14One Step You' of surety to the extent of $65,000, the agreement. The Defendants fur 17-Walt For the convenience of guests,
for due performance by them and the stated that the agreement at the 18-Lane the Chinese staff of their various outbreak of war, became impossible and 1-a Stop
20. Waltz... attending the Police Reserve Fancy duties under the compradore agree-intercourse with the Erm, and that the that it was illegal for them to have Deers Dance on Friday evening, specialment Further, by a deed of chargement was dissolved, and damages, sumes and it is hoped that at night's empty, for this reco Tram to the Peak will run at 1 am of the same date, the defendant loss, or expenses incurred after the enjoyable ereving is only the precursor it is empty now, and a special Ferry to Kowloon at 1.15 mortgaged to Mr. A. W. A. Becker, & outbreak of war, the "frm was not of many more,
partner in the firm and on behalf of the responsible for. The liquidators had arm, certain property registered in the collected more than the sum required Land Office as section 8. of section A of for paying off the creditors,
ther liquidation the reclamation of Marine Lot No. 71E
process. by way of security. During the re There could therefore be so cause for spective periods of employment of Chin aution against them. The partners of Sum Chues, Leung E Lan and Ho Pak the firm were many subjects and the Lam by the firm, the latter entered plaintiffs claim could not extend to with the assent of the three persons, goods, imports, and merchandias coming into contracts and engagements in con- from the German Empire. They prayed sequenos, of which the hem had inquered / that act on be dismissed with costs. Aloger, damages, and expanses to tha The Intelligence Bureau et Canton extent of $99,368.50 for biel Ho Pak Mr. Sharpe said the firm had states that a telegram has been received Lam and the personal representatives uered losses amounting to $99,000 from the Premier of the de farto Govern of Chin Sum Cheer and Leung E Lau, consequence of default by Chinese ment at Peking Chien-Neng had now deceased, were habler tap ont dealers in contracts for which the dressed to the Feven Administrative break of war between Great Britain compradore and assistant compra- Directors of the Military Government at and Germany, FL the Governor dore were liable. It was a pre-war Mesars tantop, stating that Peking agrees to M the King permitted all Germans entered it on April 28th, 1912,
at representative in the Colony of contract, as the agreement had been N. ModyPoole hold a Peace Conference and suggests residing in the Colony to reman at and defendant wse liable to s surety further suggests that the Conference be keep their offices and in cases of firms, guarantee. They had entered into that each side send ten delegates. It large uninterned and permitted them to of $85,000 under the terms of the held at Nanking instead of Shanghai, as their firms, open and to carry on their mortgage, given by defendant proposed by the Military Government business in the Colony whether on their security, and the hiquidators of the
own behalf or on behalf of persons not frm were entitled to resident. In the Colony, without any His Lords break or interruption se had", beep carried on price to the outbreak of war was given by the surety as a guar FET On August 28, 1914, HE in accord
The full
Mr. A. De ance with the authority received from Sharpe Teg the Secretary of State for the Colonie terms of the guarantee are shown in Shanghai Issued a licebas to certain firms in the the compradorse agreement. The Colony including Meases Banderie-chum against the surety arose out of
disposing of ther stocks then in the tracts being prior to April 1st, 1914, for and Co, allowing them to carry on the contracts for the import and sale
Colony, and goods due to arrive which because the compradore & agreement had been ordered before the outbreak expired on that dato and under the of war, subject to certain conditions
the gallery tremble. The despots TOBACCO CULTIVATIO N. of the past, terrible and grave, had ant these debauches of perverse entheticism
Some wesku ago a leading American newspaper published a letter from Swedish reader recalling that when the. Kaiser, soon after his accession, visited Oscar II. of Sweden a that shrewd and observant King was asked what he thought of William, Oscar replied. "The Kaiser another Nero. If this is passed by
THE HARVESTING AND THE
CURING OF THE PLANT, It was not enough.
for him to drive chariota in the circus,
in How many of those who grow
to bawl himself hoarse in public, to tobacco, take the trouble implied tour the provincos a singer."...
caring it, described in the columns of a A few years ago Mr. Chesterton, in home paper reently received? It
antee 2
wledge with "contribut
Dinner Fund up to 11th Bt Paul Chater [MEN ·Stabb
*E Jomph' and
D
Go
Mr. G. B. Layton.
M. S. Sass Mr. Nata M. C. H Brooke
MRACE Thor
mortgage Mr.TM Leite
MARC
s
their businesses for the purpose of of goods by Chinese dealers, all con-
Previously acknowled
as a mere epithet applied to one who a defenée"óf.the Kaiser's Nero-like :-After barreanng the plant and subject to the concurrence of the 4greement he was not liable for any PARTNER IN VICTORIA CAFE
banks concerned, which concurrence was obtained in pursuines of this permission and of the license, and until the appointment of the plaintiffs Mer
bent entered into, alter that I
The gave it.
Ostobar
for goods and
by the dealers - ind
since been likened to Attila and posturings he must now be beartily would be exported to the sun until it is Genghis Khan, a mistake is made: shamed of what he thes wrote wilted so that it can be handled with this was early in William's reign, and declared that "the German Emperor ut injury. It should then be conveyed nobody could foresee in him the world is a poet, and, therefore, he succeds." to the curing harn with as little delay FL Wicking & Co, as Liquidaters of the devastator of 1914. It was zo bat admitted"It is true, if the possible. There are four different the business of the hema of Meren under wo epithet, it was a character sketch ins matter is at all important that the methods of curing, (1) by means of Sander, Wieler, and Co, they continued ve
open-fire heat, (2) finecaring, (3) after the outbreak of war to carry on phrase, and it is well worth thinking German Emperor is not a good poet inn-caring, and (4) air suring. Fice the contracts and engagem
their business in Hongkong, includin about when we come, as now, to place. The German Emperor fails uring consists of placing the tobacco Chicas, exactly as before the the responsibility for the world's ridiculously, if that is all that is in in the curing house and vancing the since the appointment of the liquidators,
numerable wars dunng the past question, in almost every one of the sit to 90 degrees F for two or three they have carried on the basins
gout any break or interrupti four and a half year. Eagan in his artistic occupations to which he bours. The beat is then increased to chace with the ordimase prov
Antichrist calls News not the addresses himself, he is neither a first 125 degrees, or even higher if the Test for the winding up afstby maddest or most wicked, but the rate critic, nor a first-rate musician, will stand it, and after letting the heat Allen Enemies and with the in sairest and most ridiculous sovereign or first-rate painter, or a first stop at the degree for a few minutes the Governor through the Colonial Thom ever the hazard of events has rate poet Now it turns out that the fires are damped and the best Secratary These brincamen brought into the foreground of the matter was indeed "important." gradually reduced to 90 degrees. The best carried out with
He was a minor poet, a bad hemania of variety is important when fermentation or sweating process which actor, an amateur artist of every kind, the mad can, Nero or William, site on developing the aroma of
of William IIa throne. Of both of them it may be is then stacker in hent The world has waited nearly umeteen said, as Reach said of one of them hastad rooms covered up with canvas
for the character to be the demon of perverted histrionism and after
histor
very prote
tely reproduced.
sign follows in undertaken for
AK-Fessived from time to time from
of
short, time fermentation an eridenced by's rise in tempe learned had taken possession of him. The ghea The temperature held bot ries ago hat such first years Willian reign-did not be, allowed; te go beyond 180 deg
shadow the apotheons of this
METAL to prevent which the
time to ther did the first Some thres
assent of Ho Paz Lum and a men
of tas Compradores DepartmeN L
his direction had made entled in the bol of the un
midations cone
ress of
ed by HTF
of the
of the
CHARGED
we hare so oft Was more, extraordinary not to be able to find out how its have endured the long imp
here they now AKO
I dwell upon this because if t war that
of the pensi
DAMAGE BY
get to Nogon, and "to stroyed
beak the only relia
the ruins, stew OKE