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The second defendant told the Court she had been buying eggs from the complainant for seventeen years, during which time she had never been dishonest, and had never cheated him. One day she met the "old man in the shop, and told him the first defendant wanted someone to support her. The old man had asked her to find a concubine for his son. She did not see any money pass hands, and did not know how much had been paid. She also sold eggs for the shop, and returned the proceeds to the old man, who said she was honest. He told her to say the know the first defendant, and if there was any trouble she woull not be implicated. She had done nothing wrong and had been straightforward all her life.
His Worship (to first defendant)—Your story is that the complainants knew all the while yon had a husband living ?—Yes.
Do you mean to say that the first witness would take you to his family boos", and have a -between when you had a husband living ?- was taken by the old man's son.
His Worship (to second defendant)-Yon were told that the son wanted a concubine, and take a married woman to the house. What have you got to say to that I told the old man i did not know the first defendant.
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long before he gets so far. The stories them- selves prove the cant saying wrong.
The first story, lending title to the lot, grips and holds sympathy, and he must be very an. impressionable who avoids feeling a thrill of satisfaction when the worm turns, and the bad skipper gets his awful deserts. The second, which has been published in London Opinion, makes the reader think how unnecessary the Kiplings really would be, if the men who really understand things could express them as Mr. Dalziel can. Fortunately for the scribblers, the men who know cannot always tell what they know, and men with the gift of expression get their chance as literary vicars of the others. The third yarn is racy, and holds the mirror up to a character many local readers must have met. The fourth "The Flaw in the Crank-Shaft," is a wonderful bit of work, of psychological interest, and not many writers could have made a story out of such material, yet we have a story of sustained interest, that timid passen- gers will not easily forget, whenever they see an engineer on deck looking less amiable than a "deck ornament." The fifth is another view of the trade that we would not willingly have missed, but perhaps only engineers will see the humour of it. The sixth opens discouragingly, with technical details that seem pointless, until suddenly the purpose of the author dawns on us, and we see, as through the vapour of the engine room, the pathetic human interest that as mere passengers we are blind to. The seventh tell of an anxions run to Hongkong. The eighth is a sensational story of a coolie ship, that beats Captain Kettle hol ow bis Own game. The ninth, telling of a Chinese coal-trimmer, is perhaps Blimsy; it does not strike us as equal to the rest; and the tenth, while distinctly in the author's own vein, has a motif less original than he usually treats us to. [mmediately following comes a masterpiece Any book written by a local man who has been "The Tale of a Tail-shaft," which may be well known and popular for sixteen years would specially recommended to all employers. The interest Hongkong readers; but in the case twelfth is a capital yarn of a run through the of In the First Watch, and other engine-room Port Arthur blockade, and the thirteenth a stories (London: T. Fisher Upwin) Mr. James purely humorous report of a modern Munchansen Dalziel offers a book of high intrinsic interest Closing the list is a morbid study of the obses. anywhere. It has peculiar interest for Farsion of a man who had gone through a ghastly Eastern readers; professional interest for sea experience at the back of Stonecutters in a faring men wherever they may be; bat beyond typhoon, to the detriment of his mental balance. that, and speaking quite impartially, these tour- It reminds us of Joseph Conrad's method teen stories have distinctly remarkable literary There is nothing amateurish merit.
His Worship stated that by her own admission the first defendant was proved to have a hus- band. He did not in the least lelieve her story, because if she had told the father her husband was living he woul! never have allowed her in the family house. There was a doubt about the second defendant, and as she was entitled to the benefit of it he would discharge ber, but warned her not to appear before him again. The first defendant would be imprisoned for four months.
MR. JAMES DALZIEL'S YARNS.
NEW BOOK OF LOCAL INTEREST.
The book is not a mere collection of short stories with no more connection than the ma- terial in which they are bound. There is A something-a je ne 8118 quoi-of con. tinuity about them that may have been fortuitous, but in all probability was tended by the author. Certainly they combine to prove one thesis of his, that the romance of the son is not dead.
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"Our best authors have said it [that it is]— all but one, and he is a Voice crying in the wilderness, and must needs label his splendid fancies 'matier of fact'. Romance aflost, we
learn, depends on the presence of so many yards of canvas, so many coils of Manila rope, so many feet of timber standing on end. Romance fled before that villain Steam; before Steam and her servitors, marine engineers--a sad race, a race of Gradgrinds, a race bred and fed on facts, facts of iron and steel: men wanting imagination, sooffers at tradition, undistin- guished in dress with an unseamanlike regard for their stomachs, and a fatal fondness for dying in beds of senile decay, Romance!
why, they tell you that to-day the ses herself is but a great, grey plain out by steamer routes as is the land by railways. They will not have it even that there are sea-soapes now. The sun that sets in Indian glory over the polished rail of the racing P. and O. is pale and poor beside the orb that flamed beyond John Company's lumbering stero. Tropic nights of magic are of the past. They are burned with Marryat and Michael Scott-and fog ave. I here are no more great galer, no more direful doldrums There are no more wrecks, fanderinge, strandings, derelicts, barratries, piracies, smugglings; no more treasure islands, phantown ships, desperadoes, deep-ses mysteries —no more: no, nor can be again, say those that ought to know.”
That pamage, from the final yarn, is very sffaoliyo irony, but the reader is really pervunded
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of the tales, and we have confidence in recom- mending this book to the notice of readers who enjoy a good story artistically constructed and dramatically told.
H. G. BROWN AND COMPANY, LIMITED,
IN LIQUIDATION.
The report of the liquidator for presentation at a general meeting of shareholders, to be held on 4th January, reads:
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operations, the men were thrown out of employ- ment and were quite unable to repay the ad- vanoes made to them by the Company. The sum available for distribution
ia
...
$3,795.89 And this I propose to deal with as follows:-
To distribute $1.60 per share on
6,00 shares
Leaving a balance of.....
3,600.00
144
$ 195.39
to meet incidental expenses, which I hope will meet with your approval
Dr.
J. WHIELEY,
Liquidator.
Hongkong, November 26th, 1907.
STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS TO THE 30TH
SEPTEMBER, 1907.
LIABILITIES.
Capital
6,000 shares each $50,00 paid
l{}.. Less amount of lat distribu-
tion of assets..
Less amount of final distribu-
$ 0.
$ 0.
300,000.00
30,000,00
270,000,00
tion of assets....................AK. 3,600,00 Sundry creditors...
11,044.27 Less amount of claims liquidated 11,044.27
ASSETS.
Cr. Hongkong and Shanghai Bank,
cash with Les amount of 1st distribu-
tion uncollected...
Less provision for final distri-
bution of assets
266,400.00
$266,400-00
$ c.
4,005.39
310.00
$3,795.39
3,600.00
$0.
195.39 266,204.61
$266,400.00
$ c. 12,150.00 8,388.99
Balance of profit and loss account.........
Dr.
LIQUIDATION ACCOUNT.
To brig Enrique," book value.. To sundry debtors
To claims liquidation, balance of To Banahian cutting, book value, balance of. 7,500.00 1,769.70 To liquidation expenses in the Philippine
Islands and Hongkong
8,889.09
$38,648.38
Cr.
By amount of purchase money collected...... 7,500,00 By interest
940.25 By balance carried to profit and loss
account..
.30,208.13
Dr.
PROFIT AND LOS ACCOUNT.
To balance as per last account...
To balance of liquidation A/c. brought
down
Cr.
By balance
The Liquidator now begs to present to Share- holders the Final Statement of the Company's By amount of claims liquidated Accounts made up to September 30th, 1907.
The amount at debit of Profit and Loss Account at the time the Company went into liquidation was
To this had to be added the amount that appeared in the Company's books as value of Goodwill...
The losses on winding up amount
to
$122,940.52
MACAO.
$38,648.38
0.
,247,040.75
30,208.13
$277,248.88
Or.
11,044.27 .266,204.61
$277,248.88
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
December 15,
DEATH OF ME. LAU CAU.
Lau Cau, who holds the principal Government monopolies, died suddenly at his residences this morning.
41,400.00
164,340.52
101,864.9
Mr.
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Brig Enrique."-Although the Spanish Authorities gave the Company's representative in Manila a written guarantee to indemnify the Company if this vessel was lost or damaged while in their hands, I have found it impossible to collect the Company's claim against the Spanish Government for the loss of this vessel. The vessel was taken by the Spanish dmiralty, filled with tones and sunk at the month of Bubig Bay, to prevent the entrance of the Ame- rican fleet.
Sundry Debtors consist entirely of advances to labourers and when the Company ceased
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ANOTHER DEATH.
The last mail from Portugal brought news of the death of our former harbour-master. Bear- Admiral Albano Alves Branco. He died at Lisbon on the 9th ult. It was only at the beginning of the year he left Maono where had a wide circle of friends.
A CORRECTION.
I find I was wrong in stating that the Government had forfeited $4,500 | belonging to the holder of the latest monopoly. What happened was that this sum was required to be depcsited by the Government as guarantos.
KAVAL
The Framok gunboat Vigilants in in harbour,