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HONGKONG HOTEL COLLAPSE.
INQUIRY REGARDING THE DEATHS.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 10mm, 1907.
Mr. Looker briefly addressed the jury) pointing out that in the evidelios there had been no reflection on the stability of the building.
Mr. Morrell followed with a few remarks, in
The meaning of Momoon is of course season. al, it is generally confined to the messons! capsins of the regular circulation brought about by the inteore heating in early summer of the interior of the Continent, which makes the seasonal wind roverse the regular cironlation. In these latitudes-30 to 40 Nthe regular wind
where, for thousands upon thousands of miles the name and traditions of Heldam have never penetrated and no made road has ever existed. The Itala skirted the endless line of the Great Wall, marching with of xible constancy over bill and dalo for leagne upon league of mighty battlements and towers.
The
The inquiry into the cause of death of a nativ. which be said that he could not see how the would be N. E., equiva'ant, in fact, to the Trade masbine dared the orossing over proliglorio who was killed in the collapso which occurred at / Jary oou'd arrive at sny other verdict than Wind in the North Albutio, and this would be bridges, and was dragged out of morasse
the old section of the Hongkong Hotel on the 1st altimp, was continued before Mr. F. A. Hazelabd and Messrs. J. D. Morrison, H. L. Mable and FE McHugh, jurors at the Magintracy yesterday afternoon.
Mr. G. F. Morrell, Crown Solicitor, appeared on behalf of the Goreramenti Deacon Mr. H. W. Looker (of Messrs. Locker and Deacon) represented the Hongkong Hotel Co., and Mr. M. J. D. Stephens watched The case on behalf of Merara, Kuhu and Komor
Mr-Th. Peikint, recalled-at-the-request-of Mr. Locker, said that when he call last week be would have put a needle through the shoring he most that if erecting the shoring he would hare pat in a cedis to support the car. What he would have done was that he would hars Taken away we courses of brick sufficient-te insert a needle. Witness explaing with detail how he would put the readle through the pillar. Underneath the needle was the prop.
waw propped up long as the shoring
it did not matter is proper anar
a needle or not. The wbother there was propping up was done as well as it
He did not see this neually done in Chica. pillars while they were being cut out and propped, Witness had only to go upon the reports of his inspector, as to the state of the pillars. It was necessary to put a needle in noy Form of shoring..
death by misadventure.
His Worship Enid if they were not prepared to return such a verdict the only other one open to the jury was one of negligence which must be go-grow a description as to automat to recklessness.
The jury found that this deceased met his
death by misadventure---
This closed the inquiry.
FUNNELS AND FLAGS.
ANOTHER DKLSESSION.
The American Consulate Generalreceived the following Typhorn Werninge from the Manila Observatory:-
At 9.0.m. Fester Ing-September Sib, 1907 at p.m., typhoon forming in about North of Guam."
So
.
FEA
His Worship-Under any circumstances you would have put in a needle?
Wituoas-Yes.
Mr. Looker Is your opinion as to what Comelitutes a proper shoring based on the practice in England or in the Colony
Witness-Both,
y
Mr. Morrell-May I ask for when friend appears, I understood he was appear ing for the Hotel Company and now he je
ross-examining for the architect?
Mr. Looker-You can impute what motive you like. I have already told she Court for whom I am appearing.
Mr. Morrell-I must objret to the conlion- milon of thie. The cross-examination has already been closed.
His Worship-Any more questions?
Mr. Loker-I have one or two questions to sek. Wiinees said that Chinare ahering wus universal in the Colony.
Is it any part of the duty of the Public Works Department to inspect the storing of buildings P-I believe, your Worship, shoring has to be done to the satisfaction of the Public Works Department.
The Chinese method of shoring has been adopted in the Colony for many years without the Public Works Department objecting P It was to use objecting,
You said you yourself expressed dissatisfaction mome months ago?—Ye
Mr. W. T. Edwards, P.W.D. varicer, said
that on 29th May last plans for certain altera. tions in the Hongkeng Hotel were approved
aboring which wae of the ordinary Chinese character. He examined the east wing which seemed in good condition.
Did you find a crack in pillar. Fo.4 No You visited the place again on July, 23rd?
Yes.
Did you exemine all the pillars again? Yes And you noticed no cracks? No..
ARRIVAL OF THE 8. "GUEREN
PROPOSED JAPANESE CANAL
the prevailing wind all the
tallar spad over the smooth verdure of the not for the short reversal brought were it cools and mules. Upon firmer ground the
brought about by the the short time in June and July when the Bancaran and Tartar cavalondes. But agai intense heating of the internal do erts during Mongoliau plains, to the amazement of Chinese stands nearly vertical. This is the active catise the scone was changed. They were now of what is properly called the Monsoon, the in the burning solitude of the fioli, one Borthe
therly and north-easterly winds of the other of the deadliest wildernesses is the world,
where
ainite abysinth of dust moands three quarters of the year do not need a special name: or if one should be applied it would be become a nightmare to the men with split more logisally spoken of the Trade Wind, lips, oboked pares, bloodshot byor and The Atlantic Trade Winds are of course some
tortured by thirst. They came to a fantastic 10 further south, but that is to be explained region of rocks and boulders, and sidet this weird ohacs the golden roofs of Badilhist by local conditiers.
temples were seen flashing lite a mirage upon the heights, Never can men fled with the spirits of the machine-age-and-etigaged upon an experiment which was nothing if not up to date, have fait more like beings up lifted by the powers of the air sad suspended in some middle sphere between dream and reality. Ag in the soune changed at last from deart to pasture, and the Mazeppas of the motor-car were pioneering their way across the fertile uplands, the brimming rivers and the swamps Mongolia. At Urga the rst of many triumphant receptions began, will
Chinese and
from Tartars Enesians,
awisting far and wide and amid the polyglot tumult of a wild and jostling cavalcade.
95
of Northern-
In the daye when mammoth ocean linera voyage of 1500 miles in all to reach Oak. Chinese Governor, with profoore, loo, tiu"
PEKING TO PARIS.
policy look the prestigo of the strangers unto himself, and, round the walls of a medieval Asiatic oily ascending the Itala in stute, drove in a motor-car such ns Kublai Khan or Marco Polo might bare looked upon in the theirteenth century.
The Japan Mail says:-There is renewed talk of cobstructing a canal from Turage on the north-west coast of Japan to Osaka. The tempting feat are of this solome is that the large water-way furnished by Lake Biwar would be utilized, and thas much labour would be saved Were this canal an accomplished fact the dialapce from Vladirestock to Osaka w.uld be abortened by 600 miles, for as the A-2.20 p.m.yesterday-Septemberth, 1947-water-route is concerned. From Vladivo at 1 pm. Depression, developing China Sea N. tock to Tauroga is 40 miles and the pro- pored canal would be 500 miles, the total W. of Luzon,"
journey being the 000, whereas it a vosal goes found by Bakan, she has to perform a of enarse such a canal would have
great strategioal value, since it would represent a path right across the wait the main island, thus bringing the Ses of Japan and the Pacific Ocean The canal would unication. into direct comÚT also facilitate travel to and from Europe via
But on entering Siberis Prices Borghesa and Siberis,
though so long as the railway to Touruga is available, it is probable that travellers
his compnsions were mistaken in imagining, that the worst of their troubles were at an end." prefer that latter to the comparatively The ic was only beginning. They endeavour- slow and pointeresting journey on the canal, ed to make their way along the southern shore From a commercial point of view, however, it is
of Lake Baikal, covered with sbaggy forest and served with deep gullies by the Roda which hard to see how ench an enterprian could pay. A very large traffic would be accesary, and
leng made it impossible to carry the Trans- whence is such a trafle to come? Nevertheless the scheme may be considered to have entered-Siberian Railway round this bund and swept sud of the imbankment again away leagura the field of practical contingencies.
again. Habit became clear that the aeroplane. when invented will have advantages. The old road, abandoned since the trains begon to run was found to be already covered by a tangle of young forest, and fiercely frenched by unbridled torrents. In other places the bighway iteelf bad become the long bed 11-ZER sitem. Redshirted mujika guided tha Travellers to fords to deep to to sitempied, or warned them on the ery brink of disaster against veaturing or bridges for rotter to be distinguished group of other Europeans; hardly
touched. "Upon one cocarion, izded, there was no warning, and when the bridge across a ravine one of whom believed in the possibility of the
way and the car with its occupants plunged pare what can only be described us a State entry of the journey had been reached. Everywhere feat he was attempting. On August 10th Leade
into the feed below the most dango ons moment ie the French capital, His reception was
tbe-mujik, whose stupidity and indolence are to the spothesis of the motorist and his art, por
much and so unde ervedly ab sed, was found to was any chariet in a Roman pageant ever batter
be not only infinitely hospitable: bpt infinitely two deserving of its lace by sssociation with an
of battle then was the Itala car of its neful in the skill and rapidity with which he triumphal progress through the boulevards
wil bew timber into any shape, from a Ing. house to a raft or a dug out boat One of the It h bad ensity succeeded in shaking off all com patitors and had made its name as immital as unforgettab'a pasages of the journey that of "Eclipss." 1 seemed as though it felt drive through the great Siberian forest-bell, and saw as well as throbbed and shope. The the Taigs, an intertangled wilderness there inextricably mingled with crowd on Saturday could have patted it, and growth sema The Goeben is a teszel of 9000 tons and has those whom it carried with a clenu swoop across decsy--a waste as awesome and dihospitable in its way as is Stanley's forest in the length of 500 feet, a beam of 58 feet and a depth two Continents bave learned to love it, as the
continent. Than out oboe moro of 39 fert. Her average speed is 15 knots, bat Arab his steed. In sixty-one days, Prince the opt where the flame of
forest fire girdle ou her trial trip she registered 172 knute. Borghese and his machine have pat a
was read on one occasion sweeping like a tra with their tyre-tracks round half the clrenit She has accommodation for 124. first, 114 of the globe, and they have accomplished an
welling wall--and onward over id and dead Upon the Urals, our motorists passed at 1 at second and 134 third class passengers, achievement which begga's imagination. In
The famous belisk upon to low ridge, not and cus of the attractions is the splendid pace, spaca and picturesqueness combined, no
it. As
in suggestive if geographical grmatiam for first class purwagers. "Hetides Journey hag ever equalled by. A great a ance, where the name of Anin could is road road H on one side and on the other the magic w ru weight lifting so massaging apparatus, higher, though not a much higher, average Bare But-it-wis-still-s for ory to the this contains jeal is on home, and when the speed, along a more monotonous route, and West. At the old Tartar capital of Kazan S
The Daily Telegraph says —
male the wover, the wants of the passenger as well as the shipper must be catered for The Norddeutscher Lyd fully realize this, and many improvemeuls have been made in their now steamer, the Gribes, which arrived Lore on her molda foyaga yesterday. Besides being equipped with machinery for the speedy. loading and unleading of cargo, there are many advantages passengers by the Geeben w. appreciate which are not in segue nu har resale. When our representative boarded Lue ste smer yesterday he was lown over thy Chief Officer Hartling who willbeknown to many in the Colony, having formerly keen in command of the steamers Taichione, the Pilanatok and the Wog Foi. Since the steamer's koel was Isid in the shipbuilding yards at Bremov, Mr.
Accompanied by our brilliant Corresponden', Bartling Eurerfütended her construction. The
whose despatches have been as unique in jour- steering gear of the Gecben is all worked on the waliem ak the adventuro in travel, Prince hydraulio system, and she is the first steamer Borghese has completed the motor-rueh from Peking to Faris Or June I be foff the Link built for the L'empsty with double gears in the presence of Sir Robert Harta da the stering room there are indicators by which the officer an dufy can find out whether the restol in answering ber helm, and he also knows whether the masthead and hide lights are korning, There lights'
electric and the clocks D buertl LJO also worked by electricity. There Jong Iremerade decks for first and second class passen gerr, while the cabins are large and airy," and the smoking retims and social hall are ranged with a view to producing the greatest possible comfort.
all
are
back jumping. There are twenty life boats or the Goeben, and with the up-to-date machinery provided these can be lowered from the davils fr put up again by | two men. Two of these are alwaya kept in readiness in case of accidents as that they may betowered overboard expeditiously. The vessel carries a crew of 210 souls, and an al rm bell in the obart room congeots with their quarters, so that if necessary as officer bas only to touch a button to call all the ship's compsay to quarters
31r. Looker-You want to see that this work was being carried out in accordance with the plans. You are not concerned with the rest of the building? Ne. Only with the work being. arrol on.
Witness The plans sbor-yo'work-to-be ear. ried out in the first six pillars counting from the Queen's Road end.
Mr. A.-Shelton Hooper said he was secretary of the Hongkong-Land-Favestment-Coy, He
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ORDER IN COUNCIL.
1 FLATING 10 THE CHINA AND CONWA (AMENDMENT) CBDER IN COUNCIL, 1997. Buckingham Palace the 11th February 199997.
The following Order in Council was to be posted at H. B. Eupreme Court, Shanghai, on Thursday, September 5th :---
At the Court at Buckingham Pelaez, the 11th day of February, 1907..
PRESENT.-
The King's most Excellent Majely in Council.
Whereas by Trenty, grart, usage; sufferance, and other lawful mesor, His Majesty the King bas jurisdiction within the dominions of the Emperor of China and Emperor of Cores..
Now, therefore, His Majesty, by virtue and in exorcise
of the powers in this behalf by The Fereigu Jurisdiction Act, 1880” er otherwise iu His Majeely vested, is pleased by and witli the advice of his Privy Council to order, muil it is hereby ordered, as follow
1. his Order may be cited as "The_Chinu and Corea (Amendment) Order in Couse, 1907, and shall be read as one with The Chius and Corea Order in Council, 1904, hereinafter referred to is the "Principal Order."
2. (1) Where one or more commissioned Consular officers are stationed in a COD. {* sular district nesigned to another commissioned Contular ofloor, the Minister may, if he think
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12, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
RASH FOLLOWED
A VACCINATION
Little Girl's Whole Body Covered→
Watery Matter Formed, ens.
Could Not Rest Night or ---Suffered Three Years-At Last
USED CUTICURA AND
THAT CURED HER
My little girl had rashes coming on her at times the nettle rash, sirice, she had vaccination on her arm. They would rise at times and she would co nothing but scratch them until they bied. Sho' could ne rest at night of day when they wers on hot. It was a pilty to are for. I spent a lot with doctors and could not goi, rict of the rash, so one of the neighbors told me to try Cuticura. The rastes, were all over her except the face. You know they' were hard like a stone first, and then they would fill with water, and them turn into a great seah. She suffered with the ailment for three years and Ointment, and they did ekarrit. Wo bathed her twice a day with Cutieura, Soap and we used our "bo.of Cutiara Owlment. The doctor gave medicine for a while hill it did no wood; and wo left the doctor and used Culieura, and that did cure her? I am very mach pleased to tell you of the cure, and Car contred the Cuticura Remedies to wyprybody, and wish I had known about the sooner, Evan John Thomise, Penailta Terrace, Ystrad Mynach, vla Cardiff, Wales, Feb. 1, 1905,'
fit, appoint such commissioned Consular officere used Cuticura, rap and Cuticura or fears to whom no district is assigned to be additional Judge or additional Judges of the Previne'el Court of the district.
(2) Where an officet is zo appointed Le sha'? hear and determine such matters, civil and erimize, being within, the jurisdiction of a Provincial Court, as, the Conanlar foe tu whom the district is sasigned, with the enaction; of the Judge of the Supreme Court, directe.
(3) Where su (fficer is so appointed under this Article he may sit at the same time and place the Consluar oficer to whom the dis- trict is assigned or in a different place, aud esch sitting shall be deemed a sitting of thя
·Provincial Court of the distriat.
for
8. The following Article shall be onbelituted
Article 69 of the Provincial Order Any act which, if done in the United King dem, or in a British Possession, would be an offence against any of the following Statutes of the Imperiallarliament or Order in Council, that is to say -
(a) The Merchandize Marks Act, 1987." (b) The Pat
Deaigas, and Trade-marks
(c) The Trade Marks Act 1905." Acts, 1883 to
(d) Any Statute amending or substituted for any of the above mentioned Statutes.
() Aby Act, Statute, or Order in Council for the time,bing relating to copyright, or to inventiars, designs, or trademarks of which a copy is kept exhibited in the public offices of
reasonable
2007or.
INSTANT RELIEF
From Eczema in a Single Application of Cuticura.
The great Skin Cure, preceded by a warm bath with Cuticura Soap. This treat- ment, when followed in the severer forms with mild doses of Cuticura Resolvent Pilig, affords instant relief, permits rest and sleep, and points t› a speedy cura In the most torturing and disfiguring of itching, berning, and senly humours, ec zetoas, rashra, and inflaminations of skin- Taïl scalp, from infancy to age. A singlu set is often sufficient to cure, Cuticura Remedies are guaranteed absolutely pure under United States Food and Drugs Act.
Beld throughout the word. Depute: London.27. Charterhose su Fars, 2. Rag de to Pais; Austin- Lin it. Towns & sydney 20a, 3, -Paul, Uni gulia kirvə tiple-Wing DANZANI JAMN, Maruya, 1. Toki Re Ferrein (Apleks), Morrow South Atrira, Leroon, Ex. Cape Town,etc. DRA "Fother brug & Chem. Top, Srie Frups., Fotos. Posteirce, Cubeira 3. te pu
Did you keo.sxy lighting I did. I∙ERW⋅ a 100 second class passengers, as well as carrying bare been written ju vlrange circumstances, and of telegraphy without wires, and it has been Where such・an serangamant is in force which he asn most conveniently bosant through
very vivid flash of lighting right over the Queen's Statue,
Did itxtend over the direction of the hotel It was farther back than Lane Crawfords' in the direction of the hotel. ̈
is a sister ship to the "City of was built recently at
Belfast.
5 9ft breadth 57it, and depth 36ft..
is
handing in of a despatch as suddenly presented
the Minister may issue a notification to that theresf.
tion
and on inepealing the place he noticed shoring rider takes his seat and the electric current is with greater couf ri in a duller fashion. But it stretch of hard road raised false hopes the Consulates at Shanghai and Seoul, and is:
to combine the swiftress of it torpet-boat-It was the first made highway seen siner leaving ander pillars sight and nine. He examined the wifebed en'le is treated to an exhibition of destroyer going thirty Fools with the Peking, but it soon enried in a maze of village theraopen for inspection by any persou at all
of the bunting saddle, and more then i
times; shall, if done by British tracks, and the travellars did not re-enter_the_ and excitement of the chase, while watching, es
hard, the various pageant Nijei Novgored, where the famous fair he whether such act is done in relation to any pro Court may make an erd prohibiting the
world of continuous roada-until they rerched subject in Chirs or Coras, be punisusblo as-s
grave offence against the Principal Order, seditious matter after giving aush security, the time and the car flew of this malti-coloured planet flash by like a vast kaleidoscope from the ends of Asis to the been for hundreds of years a venite of inter party or sight of a British subject, or of a Company from carrying on business wi bin the
enotinental time. Needless to tell how he.
Low-limits of the Order, and may make such other shores next our own-that is a feat more an-
Itals and its ocupants were publicly welcomed foreigner or Lative, or otherwise
orders as to the Court may seem just. - The expected and exhilarating than tho mind of a
at Moscow, at 8.-Petersburg, and after spend
Provided:-
Conri may also declare all the property of the Jules Verns had ever conceived. The performing forty-one days in measuring the gigantic ance may be repeated, but until we have passed dominions of the Tsar-at Berlin. It would this Order for an act which would sa offenes forfeited to His Majesty the King, and shall (1) That no person shall be punished under Company wi hin the limits of the Order to be from the age of automobilism to that of seroplanes it cannot in the nature of things be premature at in oral though the issuance against any Act, Statuto, or Order in Council, dispose of it, subject to wiy general or special be surpassed. There is no other belt of the Ts'e the technical moral though influence
the exhibition of which is required by aragraph, directions of the Secretary of States; as it thicke Eurasian doub's Continent which could be uper future modes of traße in many unfamiliar Acourel at the Bamo puce even in the Itala pars of the world will be real and notable. But (t) above, unless such exhibition had commenced f
not less than one month before the act took place, we paunot conclude without congestalatiu
(4)-Mater calculated to excite tumult or or unless the person offending is proved to have diarder, or to excite sumity between His A fog signal erected at Caps Duroch (abontier, and so essier route seuld be tikes, apo Prince Borghese, upon is aabievement, and had express notice of such Act, Statute, or Order Majesty'a' subjects and the Gavrament of
the other hand, with the same continuous ind fascinating change of soane. Our contexopo-Italy pod of physical and intellectual enters that
upon the same who are retiring, in every
China or the Government of Corea, or the an
noknowledged that
(2) That a prosecution by or on behalf of a thorities or subjects of any Power in antly with raries on both sides of the Atlantic reprise, the ancient boncur of her name Marco
prossentor who is not a British subjet shall His Majesty, being within the limits of this the mist case, and al others in the next, are. Pole, the Venelian, was the first of adventurers not be entertained, unless either (a) an arrange: Order, or between the Goreramant of Caine
to make his way on foot and horseback from
is in force between His Majesty's Government and its subjects or the Government of Corea and a debt to our representative, the famous under Messrs. Barclay, Carle, and Co., shipbuilders, Italian war correspondent, Signor Barsini. He
Western Europe to Paking. In the last few and the Government of the State or Power to its subjects, shall be deemed to be seditione Glasgow, launched on August 10 their naw
years the Duke of Abruza, by bis Pelar which the prosecutor belong, or (b) the Court has been whirled round half the earth in the remembered the evening of the 1st August when steamer, the City of Paris, the latest sir driven with splendid nerve and resolution pedition and mountaineering adventures from
(4)-Jurisdiction under this Article sball nut there was a collapse in the Hongkong Hotel.addition to the fee of the Ellermaa Cily by his ostryman. H's perch has been the the volcanic peak of St. Else, ¡u Alaska to the is satisfied that effectual provision axista, for the 21ter within the meaning of this Articlē,
Lize. The "City of Paris" which is the largest, tope
He has made it as remark. Dewy summit of Raweiz ri, in Equatorial punishment in Consular or other Courts in Chian be exercioat sxcept by the Supreme Court.
or Cores of similar acts omitted by the of an oil tank,
6. The following Article shall be subtituted About 20 minutes to six he was in the he remel yet built for the Ellerman Lins, is of to a view-pciat, as though it were the flying & frion, has vindicated the physical prowess of subjects of such State or Power in relation to for Article 84 of the Principal Order!-- kong Club repr window overlocking · the
the Italiau race. Marconi bas been the
pioneer 9,000 tons grose, and about 9,000 1.b.p. She trunk in the Arabian Nights. His messages
or affecting the interests of British subjects.
Where any person is deported to any place to Queen's Staine
will have accommodation for 300 first class and
Hongkong
and it is necessary to laud and of cargo. The Duw often trat smilted by strange means. At the reserved for Prince Borghese to reveal the Full capacity for 1000 tons d rossel, which will, with the exception of a beginning of the journey, Chinese telegraph meaning of the motor esr and the fal pos
clerks in remote offices, never called upon to sibilities of locomotion without rails. The effect, and the Court shall taka jadicial_no19-tranship-bim at fongkong-be-shall, on-his- to India,
arrivi there, be delivered, with the warrant whole world will ring to-day with that ory more
4. No action shall be brought for the protes-anter which he is deported, ists the custody of mail steamers, be the largest run." which send a message bifore, were startled by the welcome to their ears than personat praise:
of any copyright, trade-mark, patent, or Her length
as though it were an Olympian missive brought Well done, Itala, spondidly done but above ail design by any person who is not a British Magistrate of Police of Ilongkong, who on the the vessel at sea in that. The speed down literally by a god pian missive brought Well done, Lisle The hall is divided into separate watertight operators in pigtaile did their duty with im compartments by seven balkhearts, and to passive feature, and transmitted the unknown the unknown with exemplary pandaality, as provide further immunity from danger through though the apprecedented ordeal more part of collision or stranding a compete inner bottom the daily routine of their lives.
1-Yan Silb-kai is appointed Fresident of is füted, divided by numerous partitions into. The result of this rad other sucessses nchier the Waiwap.
3-Grand coretary Chang Chib-trug and separate water ballast tanks. Bron task in ad in the most unlikely places hins bean & socios capable of being illed or emptis independently of despatches not only as continuous, vibrant
President Yuan Shib-kai are appointed members to that the trim ar draught of the vessel can be
of the Grand Council and actual
a biographic film, but as vivid as 69
3.- Lu Hai-hana, the President of the edjusted at any time to suit the conditions of the biograph would be it it could be done in colour.
To ad quately summarise and praise Prince Waiwapo, is appointed Associate Comptroller CHINA MERCHANTS" STEAM NAVIGATION Borghese's Robletemout, we should have to of Customs with the rank of a President of a The Beard of Commaniextious will despatch shower superlatives; but the rain of spithets, Board, retiring from the post of the President How can you tell?-You can tell when set deputies to the Yangtse regions to increase like the barsting of a skyrocket, would be more of the Waiwapu.
4-Chin Chun-halang is appointed Sub- the share capital of the China Merebants' Steam glittering than laminating. Following upon Expositor of the HarlinyuAD.
the account which our readers have had from Navigation Company seas to extend the lines day to day, any attempt to reol the main iD-
Japanese Self Taught is one of Messrs. It might be miles off -No you can tell of the company, and the same Board has ordered sidents without losing the very lite of the
the Paiyarg and Nanying Squadrons to proceed motor-ride is rather like trying to gild the light E. Mariborough and Co's excellent, and simple to Europe and America to have more imicing sing streak or to paint the end of a rai how. Our
language manuals.
meses collognia What do you mean by yards You can see It is reported that on Aug. 21st, an Engisthrough to escribes elsewhero how, in the pro- by Mr. W.). S. Shard, who resided 27 years punishment, be ordered in give security forced a respecting probate or administration,
AN ENGLISH YOUTH ADRIFT IN QUELPART: Correpondent, who has been an impresionist Japanese, and the system is Thimm's, edited atley liar man aged 20 arrived at Quelpurt after drifling grees of the Itala car through the boulevarde, in Japan. It is cheaper than most of the
mat vols, costing only two shillings, and anyone about from sea to sea. Under protection of the the minds of its occupants were involuntarily Japanese potice in that island he was sent to the re-travelling the whole journey as in the mastering its contents would get along very
weil in
(2)- Where any printed or written newspaper Residency at Mokpo which supported him until sllence, the swift fusion, the fatalistic abran a Japanese conversation, provided the Aug. 26th, when he was taken on board the donment of a dreams. For days the restaurants
were not too recnadite. Hers and Embjects steamer Risogous Mera, The sarl sab- on the Boulevard das Italians will remind them
there the Editor) as provided pitfalls for he or other publication containing editions matter the limits of the Order by a Company registered quently luft Mokpo for Nagsenki en route for of the "khangs or inns of Northern China acwcomer. The J-panese for minuto is gives is printed, published, or offered for sale within as ippan in the vocabulary, and an intelligent in the United Kingdom or in a British posson Shanghai..
where everybody's dizing table and sleeping s
10. Any person desirous of levying a distress the sion, the Court may, after notice fo WHAT IS THE MONSOON?
berth in the top of the store-just as the sindent, seeing on another pare that five
for rent may apply to the Court to appoint a Mr. T. W. Kingsmill; writes to the Shanghai
to their last rations, began to have insistent in jumping at the amazing combinations of
Company to give security te abstain from such thereupon, unt upon the applicant-giving wish my opinion as an expert, I will do my their weather reports persistently speak of the visions of dinners at the Savoy. Think what go ippon or 'itenten ippan' for 'go-fun printing, publishing, or offering for sale in sufficient sicurity to sparar for Boy miscentnot Some of the trapslalinne are dangerously free future. If the Company fail to give security on the part of such bailiff, appoint a person to beet for you.
northerly or north-easterly winds prevailing our motorists have reen in the interval. Vibration is caused by electric lifts in mostliere in the winter season as a monsoon, or the When the profile of Peking, with its heavy. The student might wish to say, in joking or if the Company is shown to have again out as built to lory such dietro
This book advises printed, published, or offered for sale suols monicon; but in this correct? I hardly think ramparts and pagodus, had disappeared in the way don't talk nonsense."
(Cetinued on page 5). him to say Baka in-ne', which would probably newspaper or other publication containing Buildings Yes,
so, for these latitudes at least,
distance, they plunged at once into a region surprise some of his Japanese noganiniances,
Did it strike you as being an ordinary flash.
ar an extraordinary one?It was particularly sīvid. "As a matter of fact I onlled the attention of the Public Works Department to it as a possible explanation....
Mr. Morrell How much further back was the dash from Lane Crawfords' building.
Witzese-I cannot say.
Could you say in what particular place it struck —Well, within a certain area;^-
it on your horizon,
Ok, it was on the horizon ?—Yes.
within a distance. As far as the width is
concerned you can fell within yards.
between two pointe,
You cannot tell how far away it was 4......--No. You-know-that-an-electric-lift has recently
been installed in the botalf-Yog
You think an electrio, lift in the building would cause vibration I am not so expert.
You are an expert, aren't you -Yes. I am a civil-engineer,
of
service.
COMPANY.
kuota.
to
great
IMPORTANT PEKING APPOINTMENTS.
...
It
in
Power,
Babject, unless either (a) an arrangement is in receipt of the person deported and of the force between His Maj sty's Government and warrant, shall detain him, and shall farth with the Government of the State or Power to which report be ease to the Governor of Hongkong. the plaintiff belongs, or (b) the Court is satisfied who shall by warrant, cause the person 80 that effectual provision exists, for the protection deported to be detinet in custo ly until a in Consular or other Courts in China ur Cores convenient oportuits cecars for sending him of the rights and interests of British subjects to the place to which he has been deported, and a copyright, trade-marks, patents, and designs hall then send him to that place. infringed by the subjects of such State or 7. Where a case is stated under Article 85 of the Principal. Ouder the Judgo shall have power, Where such an arrangement, is in forge the gate where the case has been stated by himself, Minister may issues notification to that effect, to order that it shall be heard and determined and the Con t shall take judicial notice thereof. in the manner provided by Article 96 by himself
5. The following Article shall take effect alone, instead of by the fall Court. instead of Article 75 of the Principal Order ;- 8. The following Artic'e shall be substituted
Every person subject to the criminal for Article 1 8 of the Principal Order jurisdiction of the Cort whe prints, publishes, If any person usted execator in a will takes or offers for sale any pripted or written possession of, sed administers or otherwise dosls of the deceased, newspaper or other publication containing with any part of the property seditious matter shall be guilty of a grave and does not obtain probate within ons month offence against the Principal Order, and my, after the death or after the termination of any in addition to, or in lien of any other
shall be liable to pay double the amount of good čekaviour, and in default theroot, or on a suy fees chargeable on obtaining probate, and farther conviction for the like pffence, he may be absil also be liable to a fice not exceeding one
handred pounds. be ordered to be deported
9. Article 12 of the Principal Order shall b
"hundred pounds for the sum of fifty pounds
therein mentioned.
mended by the substitution of the sum of one
Give us your opinion as an expert-If you Mercury: I notice that Piocswei Fatbare Barrison in the siege of Chitral, when brongitis either go or tenten', would be justified Company, and on proof of the facts, require the bailiff-to-levy-auch-distress and the Coart-may-
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