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bound to occur. Some of our politi cians in the same way have doubted the benefit of so much education in India . It is possible to regard the decay of superstitious religion in 7/16d; the same way. It held the wretches. in order. We approach, gropingly,
GOCAL AND GENERAL,
To-day's dollar is worth 38. 6
the point. The crown of educa- Today's return shows four tion is the cultivation
cases of plague.
of the sense of humour. The humour of our goldiers in the war has been remarked on. It may be noted here at 4 p.m. to-morrow,
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The Kowloop Bowling Green Clab tennis team have withdrawn from the Hongkong Tennis League.
at once that it is that humour which gaves out country from Bolshevism. The Russians take themselves very seriously. Their belated education (checked and thwarted by authority) has established the habit of earnest propagandism. Nothing is more cruel than habit, fer when a man has once taught himself to attitudioire before the distorted mirror of his The "Chuen On" arrived from own self-importance, nothing can Hoihow yesterday evening with 4,000 save him from becoming 2 odd packages of cargo and 221 live crank.. It is too late to pigs for Hongkong. educate him further.
He
is beyond the stage where humour
are:
Two new engines ordered from America from the Hoogkong Fire Brigade arrived by the ss. "West Cajoot" on Saturday.
MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1919.
posal that money should be found securities among the members they
SHANGHAI SHARE.
BROKERS' ASSOCIATION. by meribers. Finding he had no are disposed of by the bare fact that support Mr. Joseph seems to have the members would not find the tacitly acquiesced in the wish of money, even if they had it in a liquid INTERESTING JUDGEMENT. the majority of those present. The form. It was suggested that there securities of the Association were was a duty on the chairman to find accordingly handed to Almeida for out who was interested, the extent An important case was decided on the purpose of his raising money of their interest and then rate theat Jane 16 when Judge Sir Havilland de on them suficient to Sausmarer delivered judgment in liabilities. Owing
meet his for the purposes of contribution. E The C. M. 8.a. "China" is due the case of the Shanghat Share offices of Mr. Vida, another mem had been put forward besides being to the good don't agree, but if such a proposition brokers Association . Mr. J. A.ber, this was done and the securities open to the same objection that there Hayes, in which the defendant was were handed by Almeida to him, and was no means of compelling pay- Yesterday the time ball, at Kowalleged to have procured the mis he has them safe in his bank. Owing ment, there was the fatal argument loon, fell ten seconds too late on application, and misapplied securities to the fact that the committee for the of the danger of delay, and I would. account of electrical defects.
of the plaintiff association by placing current year has advertised in the point out that it would have been. the same ultra vires the Memorandum newspapers to say that they are not open to the Association which nos and Articles of Association of-the negotiable they cannot be dealt with, plaintiff.company. in the possession but there is not the least justification this same rating at leisure after the makes this suggestion to have had and control of F. J. Almeida, then a for the suggestion that it was in fact settlement and then collected enough. member of the Association for his necessary for the Association to to redeem the securities. No! the claimed that Tis. 1,500 of the funds of The next day, the 20th, a letter the accuracy of the personal use. the company had also been dealt with indemnifying the director was signed opinion that there was no money to The plaintiffs also protect their property in this way. hole conduct of these men points to defendant's in a like manner. The defendant was by all the members except a Mr. be got out of any of them. If, then, at the time Chairman of the Associa Fredericks tion and it was claimed that in acting other.
and apparently one there was no help was it worth while as he had he had committed a breach
to use the funds of the Association of trust.
There is one other fact which is and that depends first on whether of great importance, namely, that the default of ore member, even The Judge said: The facts are money was exceedingly tight into the extent of Tis. 8,000 would simple enough though it is not Shanghai at this time; and it is very have been a serious matter to takogether easy to apply the law to improbable tha: but for Mr. Vida's many of the members as to affect
them.
timely assistance it would have been the existence of the Association. I. On the 20th December, 1919, the possible to raise the sum of Tishave seen most of the members in three-monthly settlement of
the 6,500 on the Ass.sciation securities, the witness-box and I have heard plaintiff association had to be made. which seem to have been worth legs what they have had to say. I have On the 19th Mr. D'Almeida, a mèm than Tls. 9,000. To put Almeida's also the opinion of more than one ber, informed the defendant that he settlement through Tls. 8,000 were that the crisis would have been very would probably be unable to make wanted and the remaining Tis. 1,500 severe; bearing in mind the facts as h's settlement. The defendant told were raised by using a sum in cash to the scarcity of money generally him it was a matter between him belonging to the Association which and in particular, as it would seem, and his creditors and that he had was awaiting investment. better go to the Room" occupied well to emphasize the fact that these think the defendant's view of the It is as in the pockets of the members X by the Association and get them arrangements had to be made in state of affairs was pretty accurate. together and see what could be done. great haste if the settlement was to whatever might be his view as to Mr. D'Almeida was known to the go through.. defendant as an honourable man I now come to the meeting; from was his duty to do his best to save and that he was so has, been con- the minutes it appears that the it; this he did, but in their method. firmed by more than one of the defendant's motives in making the he and his brother directors, who plaintiffs witness. A little later, suggestion that apparently realizing the improbab-should use the securities was that
the Association were present, acted altre vires....... ility of these people helping them the good name of the Association Association has brought this action. Under these circumstances. the selves, he telephoned to Almeida should be secured. He said that against the defendant for damages Staff Sgt. F. B. Wain, R.A.0.C. at the room to ask what they had "as the failure of the member in for breach of trust. The only defence- of the local garrison has been ap-done, the answer was that they had question to meet his obligations which I have to consider is a claint pointed to the managership of the done nothing and were waiting for would reflect on the good name and by the defendant to be relieved under Sailors' and Soldiers" Home, Arsenal him to come and help them. And credit of the other members and the section 258 of the Hongkong Com- Street.
there. sure enough, he found them confidence of the public would have panies Ordinance 1911, which is sitting helpless round a table. He in the Association as a body of identical with the corresponding Crowded houses were the order reminded them that "if they did share brokers, he thought it expedient section of the Companies During the Shanghai disorders aat Rostock's Circus during the week not get a move on they would be that steps should be
Act, policeman killed 2 man. At the end. The Company has a wonderful in the "soup." Nothing occurred safeguard the interests of the on the ground that he acted honestly to from liability for his breach of trust inquest a British official said he was show and is having an extremely to any of them, but the defendant association"; and later "entirely justified" which is pro-successful season.
as a body andreasonably and that he ought bably correct. He also said: "I
thought of something and said the Association must see "what if someone were to find some settlement through with the least that each case has to be dealt with the fairly to be excused. It seems clear trust that this and other unfortunate
The "Shinfoo" "Tean," incidents will serve as a warning to Cajcot", "Kaho" "Fushiki Maru".
securities!" West
a suggestion which possible harm to itself and to all on its own facts, and for that reason all classes of the community of the "Loongsang".
received with acclamation. its members." I have not the least I have had to consider those of the dangers that lurk in such demon and "Teucer" "Haiyang", are late defendant should help these men the sole motive of the defendant. It not pretend to have dealt with air Maru Now it may well be asked why the hesitation in finding that this was present case at length, though I do strations as we have recently wit shipping arrivals.
and why they should expect help has beeasuggested that as it was to his the of him. He was certainly under no interest that the settlement should go plaintiffs. Of the honesty of the de- minor contentions of the
had been for some time chairman consciously regarding his own in Whether he acted reasonably is an- "chligation to do so, but he was and through he was consciously or un- fendant I have absolutely no doubt of the plaintiff Association, and he terests. I don't think this idea other matter and has to be weighed seems to have helped it before and entered any one's head until it was in another scale. It is a matter of to have exerted himself for the good put there by Mr. Fredericks. He has appreciation of facts and it is a of the members in their business been very active in the case and from question as to whether the defendant from time to time. 1 have no doubt his demeanour it is pretty clear that has judged them rightly. I have
can come to his rescue. We are The "West Cajoot" one of the quite serious in suggesting that the vessels, arrived here at 7.30 on American Shipping Board's new crown of education is the develop- ment of that humour which prevents
Saturday evening. a man from taking himself seriously, that humour which makes it possible for him to express ideas as the cockshy man sets up bis dummies. Martyrs and Bolsheviks mercly incompletely educated: persons.. who betray their Artiñcer Eng, C. R. Barter, R. N. legotism while they sincerely believe was appointed to H.M.S. "Espiegle that they safer for the truth. The one of the ships for the China
the opinion of
average man Squadron, on April 22. is for the average man the true Ltd opinion, the truth, because it is his. The conclusion seems to set a moral value on the cynical, the insincere, and the frivolous, and will probably be hotly denied by good mer. We can best maintain its truth, therefore, by refusing to stand up for it. It is our own, but we do not take it seriously Thus in paradox and in practice we establish the precept. We send our little pig to the slaughterer in order to save its bacon.
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TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE."
Hongkong, MoNDay, Jise 23, 1010.
M. P. FOR HONGKONG.
Sir John Anderson, who is bearded and wise, has ventured to suggest that the system under which import ant Crown Colonies have no other
State is out of date and will have to
A DANGEROUS,
DEMONSTRATION.
nessed. for such occasions are in variably utilized by the loafer class and I refer not only to the pilfer ing loafers of our streets but also to the political loafers of every descrip tion who infest these Settlements to further their own nefarious ends, with the inevitable result of the effusion of blood." The error of
JURORS' GRIEVANCE.
The "Fuku Maru", a Japanese coaler brought 6,057 tons of coal this morning from Mike, consigned to the Mitsai Bussan Kaisha.
The "Haiyang" (Capt. W. Pas sage) from Penang June 14 arrived this morning with 1,000 tons of general cargo consigned to the China Siam Co...
"Fuku
(Capt. Leask) left Manila June 20,
The Indo-China "Loongsang and arrived here at 7.30 this morning with 1,980 tons of general cargo and 135 bags of mat for Hongkong.
them.
One of Messrs. Lowe, Bingham
was
The Hon. Sergio Osmena, speaker Read our note to-day on "Coconut arrived in the Colony on the 16th of the Philippine Assembly who representative or voice in Parliament and lots of fun. Should Hongkong Shies," and say if it is matter for inst., on board U. S. Transport! than that of the Colonial Secretary of the China Mail can be coaxed into matters much what the China Mailed to Manila on Friday after paying decide to send a Labour Member,wonder that we should think it never
Merritt" on a pleasure trip. return- be altered. He ought to know, if naming the man, providing Hong says. Hard words break no borres, visits to Canton and Macac Anybody should. Sir John governed kong is willing to make up the and good advice is wasted. the Straits Settlements, and has been difference between £400 a year and since pulling strings at the Colonial
his present income. office. He says the present system; is not "as powerful and influential as it ought to be." He notes that colonies like ours are taxed for inyerial purposes, but they have
COCONUT SHIES.
To-day the
jurymen were in
anything.
6.
taken
the usefulness of the Association it
of
it do? We think not. Petitions to this was emphasized by the news. and Matthews staff, Lieut. E. F. that for his intervention on this he has been actuated by animosity to dealt with the different aspects of the IRONSIDE-On June 14, at Shang. Parliament against the views of our Demonstrations,"" Any sort of a
paper headline, The Danger of Hardman, M.C.C. who has been a occasion Mr. D'Almeida would have the defendant. throughout. In view case as they emerged in my state- prisoner in German hands has return-defaulted on the next day, and that of the attack on the defendant's ment of the facts and I have come Fai, to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. representative therein would look human congregation has its dangers.ed to the Shanghai office of his firm. there would have been a good deal honesty of purpose I had better refer to the conclusion that the action of
very odd, and they would be sometimes
of trouble but for him, for it is shortly to the contention as to his the committee was reasonable. forthcoming in such a case. So you
The British official's argument has see, while it is very easy and obvious no more force than a warning not $5 and two of $1, in his mouth. f Association would have effected Almeida failed,
A thief put three notes, one of certain that no other member of the interest, which that, if Mr. The defendant is therefore entitled
the and right to say that Sir John ple have died there. As a practical When caught, bis
to go to bed. because so many pec.
defendant to the relief asked unless for some mouth Anderson's proposal is a good one, it
would have had to go into the other reason he ought not to be Well, the defendant's idea was to market to find shares which Almeida relieved. There are three reasons is easier to assent to it than to think policy of deterrence, revolver bullets but the rascal' swallowed the others. use some securities of the Association could not deliver and that he would given, that he misrepresented the
opened, and the $5 note recovered, of a method of giving it effect. We han such crations. The police have He has six weeks in which to digest and he went off to get legal advice. about this time ruled a good deal ference to the meaning of the legal
would be more solid arguments
to raise money to meet the difficulty, have to pay the market rate, which position to the members with Te-" must find out how the parliamentary to fire in the air, it seems, even representatives of the French Colonies are chosen. Can anyone This isn't fair to
It had occurred to him that the rules higher than it did when he bought. opinion and the safety of the pledged when their own lives are in danger,
and articles of the Association would The defendant's arswet is that there securities, that he failed to look tell us? Sir John described them as
them. Why A Chinese was remanded this allow this use of the funds. These were no prices on the settlement day, after "Independent, which they wouldn't be so squeamish over the lives of morning on an application from rules are as follows
the interests that if on the top of a failure he had Association after the securities had the be if "elected by the sort of "wire-rioters and so reckless in attacking Mr. G. R. Haywood, on a charge of 3(b) to promote and protect the to pick up shares he could probably been handed over, and that he left ¦pullers" we have. So far as we can. British official puzzles us continually, valued at over $3,000, Mr. Hay
the liberty of the subject? The illicit possession of 70 taels of opium interests of its members in bave got them at a much better the plaintiffs in the lurch by retiring.. see at present, when the thing comes
their dealings as stock and figure than that suggested as the from membership on December 31. off we must have a wider suffrage
wood (defending) applied for bail share brokers. but was refused.
market rate, that in any case he than we have now. We will have
The income and property of could have borrowed the shares the withdrawal from the Associa- Taking the three in reverse order, to have Primrose Leagues, Liberal
the Association whencesoever wanted and that in the end it was tion Associations, Conservative Clubs,
derived shall be applied solely improbable that he would have been defendant. Ought he then to have was no new idea of the and an IL P., and rival candidates
towards the promotion of the a loser to any considerable extent. embarked on this loan if he was not objects of the Association as I have no doubt that this is a fair going to carry the business through? set forth in this Memorandum view of his position, though perhaps of Association :-:
cannot see why he was "not entitl a somewhat sanguine one. Now I think that this opinion of The next suggestion is that the of his successors in office. His ow
ed to leave the matter in the hands his was a very natural one and there defendant improperly concealed or term would in any event have is a good deal to be said for it, but mistated the purport of Mr.come to an end on the election of a attendance at ten, the hour for which Its advisable to have an upto Mr. McNeill, his present counsel, McNeill's opinion and led those new committee in the new year they were summoned, The case date directory on your desk. A little gave him in writing a clear. opinion present to think that it was legal and he left nothing: uncompleted stated at 10.30. The jurymen who paragraph in the China Mail the that that was not the case. The to use the funds of the Association which could not have been com- were not wanted were released at other day described Mr. N. L. Railton opinion then suggested that if such in the way proposed. Although it pleted by his successors equally welt 10.45, abou: 40 minutes later than as a partner in Messrs. Lewis and a step was in the view of the does not appear on the minutes the as by himself. All that he under Truth is never more than relative, they might have been, had proper Railton whereas Mr. Railton is the committee absolutely essential to the evidence is quite clear that he read took to have done in the minutes and until they have, the kingdom be taken into account. Watch the then. is representation of their own choice, and the point of view should always consideration been shown toward proprietor of the firm which publishes existence of the Association they the opinion, and that he handed it was done before the end of the tes
the well-known "China Directory."
should obtain the approval-of all round for members to read for and the refusal of Almeida to sign will never hear openly of what they busy proprietor of 3 coconut shy,
members or as many as possible and themselves.. Great reliance has the documents presented to him was would wish to say or suggest or ask and you might say there was never a
Yesterday afternoon, the funeral Ret an indemnity signed by them been put upon the minutes, which not expected. He had the letter for themselves." This is a handsome more pitiable case. He sets up his
took place of a Portuguese lad named against all consequences of applying on a cursory reading seem to bear of the 24th December written and admission for an ex-Governor to carefully painted dummies, only to
Souza, the only son of Mr. Souza of with this the defendant returned, got out that the fact that there was an to whose character and honesty the securities as proposed Armed out this view. But it is pointed from his knowledge of Almeida, as make, and the Lönder and China have them shied at by louts with
the Star Ferry Company. The boy's the secretary and with him a list of indemnity required sufficiently em some of the plaintiffs' witnesses Express says. the suggestion pennies to pay. That the oftener
demise was attributed to a chill caught securities and proceeded to get his phasized the principal fact that the agree with him, there was no rea would be fittingly taken up by such they are knocked down the better
last week. The interment took place committee together; all four mem- directors were acting altra vires, son to expect that he would not badies as the
Royal Colonial he likes it, and that he is in reality
at the Happy Valley and was well-bers then in Shanghai were at hand, and that the meaning of the fulfil his promises to redeem and Institute, the China. Association to be envied, is another point of
attended. (Hongkong branch) and the Straits view, and nearer the truth of the [To the Editor of the "CHINA MAIL.") tributes were received.
Mary beautiful floral only one who was in Hongkong was minutes though not clear is that restore Settlements Association. That is jast matter. The presentation of ideas
absent. One of them, Mr. Meyer, though it was illegal to use the securities they had leat him. Indeed, to the plaintifs the the difficulty. These bodies (or two
was interested in Almeida's settle securities as proposed, the Associa there is no evidence that this will thirds of them) have been accustom d case, and between the prosperous pro-
The Yokohama Specie Bank for 9, Queen's Gardens, Hongkong. the half-year to December 31, had nature of whose interest I shall have perty if the members consented several Portuguese members of the
ment besides the defendant, to the tion could still so use its own pro- not be done." in the past to pose as representing priecor of the coconut shy and the
June 23, 1919.
Finally there are gross profits for the half-year, includ the Crown Colonies concerned, successful publisher there should be
3,104,002 Dear Sir,-As a result of the panto ing and to volunteer their version of ne appreciable difference.
and would indentify the directors. Association and they were in a yen forward, of Three mime" Aladdin" the sum of $1,176.05 78.865.016 yen, and the net profit four other members who were in the them in their ambiguous form the through his Censul, than the defen- At this meeting were also present When pressed as to why he signed better position to influence Aimeida what the Colony would wish to say balls a penny, gents. Three balls a has been handed over to the Naval 5,421,563 yen. The directors propose room, as it was thought desirable to defendant said that they were only dant would have been, yet they or suggest or ask." I they are penny. encouraged to take up this sugges
and Dockyard Branch of the Minister that 700,000 yen be added to the In taking into account the pointing Children's League.
reserve fund (1,000,000 yen last possible. A full minute was taken the new year, when he was no to reproach the defendant for neg- have the support of as many as brought to him for signature after have done nothing. It seems fatuous tion, which is one that really should of view, especially as applied to be acted upon, they will want to ideas, has it ever occurred to you
Yours faithfully,
year), and recommend a dividend at of the meeting by the secretary, Mr. longer a member of the Associa lecting to do in a week what they nominate the Member later on, and that the Srst point of view
the rate of 12 per cent. per annum, Marques, a Portugese gentleman with tion, and that at that time he have not attempted to do in six we will not be much better off. How egotism? The average man (which
as previously announced, carrying a good knowledge of English, and thought the whole affair was a months. These considerations seem forward 3,201,563 yen. should we select our Member when includes the average journalist) is
they were subsequently signed by the derstood and arranged; he we are allowed one? By a piebiscite like the proud parents of a first baby. CHAMBERLAIN'S PAIN BALM.
defendant as chairman and the pointed to the fact that though Mr.jection of the plaintiffs. The first I also to me also to answer the second ob of adult citizens? We can picture He. thinks his ideas are of valuc
secretary. They do not seem to have Marques was a pretty good English shall dispose of by saying what I the scorn and contempt and an- because it is he who happens to touch of rheumatism, or a twinge A DISHONEST SERVANT. perfectly clear and that is that the that his minutes would be clear happenings.
been confirmed. There is one thing scholar it could not be expected think to be the true story of these noyance with which a proposal to have them. The root cause of all i Chamberlain's Pain Calm drives a way of pouralgia. whatever the troubis this effect would be received. Then fanaticism is egotism. Education that the pain stooce sad cures the ecmplaint
only way to raise money to prevent as they would be if kept by an if not so, how? By that enlightened does not go far enough is manure quickly. First application gives relief hold a servant-boy who occasionally the securities of the Association, Mr.
MA. F. Raven had in his house. Almelda's default was by pledging Englishman.
When we are told that there are corps the Justices of the Peace? We for it. Herbert Spencer saw that. When a bottle of it is kept in the house augmented his salary beyond a legiti-Joseph, it is true,
There remains the question, which business in Shanghai and that taking about sixty stockbrokers carrying on suppose Barkis would be willing, but The world is full of injustice and the pia of barns and acalds may be
offered
to has been contested more strongly them as a whole those belonging to what about the People, the majority? unfairness, and always will be, and promptly relieved, cuts and bruises Saturday he sold two stove covers contribute some
mate amount by, "extras." On subscribe Tls, 500 and Mr. Burr to than any other, whether there was this Association, eighteen in number By the Legislative Council? Or the thought that in the case of the reduced. I fact, for the household ills belonging to bis master to a marine about Tls, 2,000, against which per in respect of so small a default as of their profession, it is not dificult
quickly healed nad swellings promptly
securities. worth any real need to use the securities seem to have been at the wrong end nominated by the Governor? Our proletariat it would be better to let MP. must be elected. The House of the inevitable resentment smoulder family should be provided with. For result of which be was fined $5. His borrowed. No one else supported better ways, but in so far as they to believe that they would now and
it is just such an ambrocation as every hawker, an old customer of his, as a haps Tis. 1,000 could have been Tia. 8,000. It was argued there were Commons could not include a not inarticulately at the plough tail was le By All Chemists and Storekeepers colleague in crime was fined $10. Mr. Joseph's very reasonable pro-consisted in raising money without
in a newspaper should be a parallel.
ís
CORRESPONDENCE.
EXCELLENT RESULT OF EXCELLENT SHOW.
N. NEIGHBOUR.
to return.
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