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SUPREME COURT. Wednesday, November 27th.
IN APPELLATE JURISDICTION.
BEFJEE THE FULL COURT.
In the matter of In Kai-shing sline Ja Chan, and in the matter of the Chinese Extradition
Ordinane, 1880.
crime.
The hearing of the motion was adjourned sine
die.
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION,.
BEFORE M. H. H. J. GOMPIRTZ (AUTING PUISNE JUDGE).
SEQUEL TO A PIRACY. His Lordship delivered judgment in the case in which Ip Taung-nia elaimed from Kwong Two-king the deliver, up of a junk now lying at Bhaukiwan, or in the alternative, $1000 damages. Mr. P. B. L. Bowley (of Mesirs, Donnys and Bowley) appeared for the plaintiff, *nd Mr. E. J. Grist (of Mesars Wilkinson and Grist) for the defendant,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28TH, 1907.
Or
HOME AND CHINA AFFAIRS. (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
London, October 25, A DULL WERK.
bluntly, it is very sadacious bluff, but it is; counted upon to be successful. It is further asserted that communications have passed bo- tw.en the President and one or more of the European Fowers concerning the situation in With the exception of Busncial disturbances China and the dangers that may be anticipated in America, following the slump of copper, in the near fetare, but which of the Powers in which various bank presidents had speculated have been consulted by the President cannot be heavily, there has been a dull week on this sido accortained," of the world. The American financial troubles
for it socn
MISSIONARIES,
There is a determined attempt just now to
became apparent that the firstTimes" has given an outline of missionary rus's of excitement in Wall Street was a rich diffinities and necessities, and to further impress mau's Harry, and the salsignent run on the these things on the minds of the members of New York Trust Companies was the fruit of religions bodies, there is to be a great meeting panic rather than necessity. Nevertheless it is next week in the Albert Hall, with simultaneone certain that inves ors generally will be made gatherings in various parts of the country. more shy on both sides of the Atlantic, and Six groot missionary socjoties are combining to Mr. Andrew Carnegis predicts that we are make this the greatest missionary meeting ever ourselves to feel the piuch before very long on held in this muuntry. It will first of all celebrate the centenary of the Christina missions in this side.
China, but it has beyond that the object of so stirring up attention that more men and money may be devoted to China in the immediats fature. The missionary lenders are convinced that at this crisis in the affairs of Chiun there in mom need than ever before for missionary effort, for they contend that the Oriental mind is just now in a peculiary open and receptiva condition.
·BALLOORING,
ANNOYING.
doctrine that where the goods are sold openly in a market in the ordinary course of business of such warket, the buyer scquires a good tillo. I propose to examine shortly the principles of the doctrine Market. Orert." There is no doubt that in England the rules of market overt apply only to a limited class of retail trans actions. The law in summarised in the note to Section 22 of Chalmer's Sale of Goods of, 3rd Sir Henry Berkeley, K.C., who was ins rusted edition, as follows: All shops in the city of by Mr. Otto Kong Bing, end who appeared for London aro market overt for the purposes of reacted a little on our own Stock Exchange draw attention to the work of missionaries in ths prisiper, said he understood his Lordabin their own trade, but a wharf in the city is not but not so much as might have been expected, Chins. Lord William Cecil in letters to thei proposed to fix the hearing of the motion he market overt, and a sale by sample is not within intended to move at some later date. The the custom because the whole transaction met on did not slate on its face the grounds take place ie the open market and not merely syon which it was made, but it was an appeal the formation of the contract. Bo, too, a ale generally against his Lordship'e decision. It of jewellery to a trades in his showroom is. not within the custom. Outside the city of was not aнus to state the grounds, but lo intended to movs practically on the sapo grouuds London-markets with the custom of market an has mysed for habeas corp. He prop sedert may exist either by gat or prescrip. seems that the oustom docs to ask the Full Court to congliter one fu thor tion-but it - ground, which was a sub-ground of the endnot apply to a market established by a lost ground, and that was that the evidence went to Aot. Now, the rules of market overt are based show that the requisition was toade with a view upon the custom of England; they do not apply. After that, the chief items of interest have to punish an offence other than an extradition in Scotland, nor in the United States of been the sensational suit brought by Count America. They have been adopted in soran of von Moltke against Herr Maximilian Harden the States of the Australian Commonwealth in Berlin, and the contest for the International but bare never apparently been r·ro guised in | Cup for long distapos ballooning in Ateries, New South Wales. In this Colony they have In the latter the British competitors, Mr bann expressly annoted by Section 24 (1) of the Grillith Brower and Lieut. Barabason, had Sale of Goods Ordinance, 1896. The words of to descend prematurely owing to the illness the sub-80tion nee folter than those of the of the latter in the car, no they finísbed last oz corresponding, section of the English Act the list with German loading wall. The and, so far as material, are as follows - Where Americans have lost the cap, therefore, icon by Lieut, Lahm last year in lis flight from Paris goods are openly sold in a shop
to Whitby, and the distance 007ored has been market in this Colony in the ordicary course of the business of such shop or market more (bau doubled. It is wonderful how mush the attention is being paid to the conquest of the the buyer requires a good title to goods," Now it seems to me that the effect of air nowadays. The Brijah, German, French the section is to extend the rules of market and America Governments are interested in ovart in the widest sense to the whole Colony, military airships and balloons and innumerable It cannot be maintained. for example, that privats persons and syndicates are engaged in the word "markete" is to be construed in the produci g seroplanes. They really seem at last limted some of Section 71 of the Public Health toe making en tantial advances, and it may the contrary, well be that within a few years siṛahipa will be sa and Bail-ling Ordinatice: on
common over London as those handy but ex- the word must be given a broad general songs I prefer to suppose that the Legislature, re.tremely ugly and annoying things, the motor cognizing the position of the Colony as a great buses are on the streets. The facte se I find them in this cass are as trading mark, intended to give absolute security follows: The plaintiff, Jp Trang-nin, is a salt to spare baser in good faith without noties, sub fish dealer carrying on business at Chak Foject only in the case of a elen goods to the village, Yueng Kong district province of reverting to the owner of the property or the Kwanglong. He was the owner of two fish goods en conviction of the offander, I have iog junks which went out as usual to ab inext to inquire-Fiest-Do the provisions company on the 9th of the 7th moon (August of the section apply to a junk? Secondly-Wa 17, this year). (ne of these junks in respect this sale sale in open market? On the first of which this claim is brought had a raw point, it is true, as Mr. Bowley maintains, of eight wer, including the anatar Kong that there is no market erect for ships: but the Luk. When at son at about 3. am. next morn reasons for that doctrine olearly appear in the ing (18th August) ibe vessel was boarded osse by which it is established Cooper v. by armed pirates who overpowered the crew Gumz, 2 Chancery &ppeala 282. The case of and forced them into the hold taking posses. juok is not parallel to that of a ship, for there is no statutory provision limiting the transfer sion of her and navigating her to Ko Lau-an
of property in junks, and I am of opinion that uninhabited spat on the Chinese coast..
a junk falls within the definition of goods-. the orew w are put on shore at about 3 pm, onChattels personal other than things in motion the 1216 day of the 7th moon (August 20th), and money" given in Section 3 of the Sale The pirates then sailed off with the vasel and
of Goods Ordinancs. As to the second point, the brat in which they had come starTheI have no doubt that Shaukiwas is an open crow made their way home by land, arriving at
market for the sale of junks, and it seems clear Chak Poon the 20th of the moon (August 28th that the jeak was openly sold according to the where they reported to the owner. The plaintiff custom of that market. I am certainly bound tad in fact, received the news of the piracy of to Bud upon the evidence that the defendant this versal on the 11th of the moon (Angust bought in good faith and without notices of any 19th) from the junk which had been her consor defeat or meat of title on the part of the sellers, On August 20th be reported to the local authori. I, therefore, give judgment for the defendant tlen. On September 9th he went in company who will get his costs of this notion.
with the master to Kong Moon, thenos
The Acting Puisse Judge mid- I thought it better to give a written judgment in this case because it is a question that has over boon decided before, and it might be useful in the Bummary Court to have the reasons on record. on which 1 base my judgment.
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HONGKONG ODD VOLUMES SOCIETY.
EN PABBANT,
We have a dull time in London in every way, for though there are a great number of woll known people in town there are no social doings of importance, and there are of course, no political matters on in London, except some sort of nervous propagnoda consequent of the feeling that the conflict between the Lords and Commons will produtos a general election sooner than most people suspect.
The leading hotele are full; and I notice on the list of the Ritz the name of Mr. Van Buren of Hongkong.. A great many people, however, are starting this week for Egypt, to which desirable winter location there are beiter travel facilities than ever before.
BIG LINEE.'
The latest now Conarder, the "Maarekimin,” was brought round from the Tyne to the Mersey this week. On the way round Soot. and the carried some five hundred invited guests and all. speak with enthusiasm of her powers and equipment. Indeed, when she starts on her first journey to the United States in December ako is expected to bast the "Lusitanis," for while the "Lusitania” at ber best. can only do twenty-five knots the “ Mauretania”. cau manage twenty-sis. These things have a bearing on Far Eastern affairs, for if there was
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MISSION WORK IN KOREA.
BY THE BRY, LOAD WILLIAM',
GASCOYNE CECIL.
LTD.
- WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
12, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
MAD WITH ITCHING
SMARTING ECZEMA
Shocking Humour on Arms, Hands, and Body-When Scratched Pimples Became Bleeding Sores ** -Could Not Sleep from Itching -Suffered Five Months.
CURED IN A FORTNIGHT
BY CUTICURA REMEDIES
"I was fleet affected on the arms and hands and between the fingers, and then nearly all over the body. It first broke out in armall pimples which filled with water. Sometirnos It was matter, and they itched so much that I could not Bleep aight or day. As soon as I got warm in bed the itching was dreadful. I could not help scratching, and then they would bleed until they were like Bores. It was like this over five months, I had a physician after 1 bad it for weoks and he told me it was a skin -- disease called eczema. He told ine to have a bath in hot soda wator every day, or twice a day, for three weeks, and he said I would be well by then. I did it for a fortnight, no more, for it Dearly sent me mad with the smarting of it, I sried lots of things after that which cost me pounds. It is now over eight months since I first bad it, and now I have not one spot on me.
The initial error that is constantly made about mission work is really one which is com won to ali mankind. There is always a tendency to generalize sud to conclude that people who live in the same quarter of the world and are of the same colour bava identical characteristics. For instance, in China we and the Russians GTA regarded as two tribes of the same nation, and Chan Ka Shop, the Chinese chargé d'affaires many old residents in China regret the downfall in London, has been put to a good deal of of Ruesis, on the ground that it weakens the annoyance because of the Chinese Exclusion prestige of England. A similar generalisation laws in the United States. He left here on the is mede about mission work in the East, China, Japan, and Korea are to many a white man as
TAN "Cedric for a trip to America. A cablegram closely allied as Engain and. England seem to be was sent to the Chinese officials there, but it was to the yell w man, but are in reality as separata The Koreans are, it is late in arriving, sud so be was unexpected. Hess our great democracy is from the old explained his identity in fluent English and ulcerscy of Russia.
aless nre ; ta poorer clane prastically believe showed his official papere, but the officials of the true, followers of Confucl-that is, the edugat- Immigration Department held him up till a in nothing but in fetish worship, sand can st Chinese faaetionary ozme along to speak for the present day be seen offering libations under every green tree," Kores has a little bit of the tone of old chin. The old top-kuef, his bona-fides.
for instance, is worn, which gives the reason for their quaiot hit with its faint resemblance to our tall bat. The dress, however is quito different. TheKoreana wear white the mourn- ing colour of the Chinese, and have an almost Western prejudice against acknowledging the fact that women bave legs, and one misses the bald blue-botronsered Agures of the Chinese women, and their deformed feet. But if the Koreans differ from the Chinese, they do so far mers from their old enemies and present masters, the Japanese. Never were two nations more nasympathetic to one another. To take
"I was reading the paper one Sunday and saw of a case cured by Cuticură, and my father advised me to get some. I only one point, and a point on which the
Chinore ideal of got two shilling tablets of Cuticura Soap. Когнала дета Western will sympathise with the Japaness. The
first and one box of Cuticura Ointment, and this contrastsThat is all the Cuticure. Ointment I had. permet cleanliness, unfavourably with that of Japer, which indeed, but I had five tablets of Cuticura Scap.in maken English cleanliness scam inadequate by all. I had a bath every morning and night for a month and in a week ali the. comparison. But I might take another point,
scabs came off and leftsmall purple spots, and one which has a more direct bearing on
and in a fortnight every one was grime Now it is all new skin and no one woud missions. The Koresna ara essentially a decent
think how dreadful it wE, people; I do not that their
Bay
decancy mesas any exceptional parity of tone in morale ny but it more than does the Mahomedan decency, is, at any rate, more sympathetic with our Wea tern ideas, and their desenoy is tried by the very liberal idese that characterize the Japanese on this point. A missionary was summoned by his congregation as they left the charob to look at Japanese performing his ablations in the garb of Adam in full view of all the world, and they asked indignantly how they could love a nation that allowed such doings. One has only to walk
The down the streets of Seoul to realize how great
contrast these two uations form. Koresus, with their white grass-cloth robas. And their women with green silk coats thrown over their heads half concealing their features,
E their boys with their bair done in two plaite
The success of Mr. Marseni in sanding messages across the Atlantic is not, I am informed by the London manager, to mark the end of his sims. He is busy with other plans, and within a short tims a powerful alation will be opened in Italy. Gradually the earth will Le girdled with wireless stations, and it will be possible to send messages to the Far East by this means st for loss cost than is at present charged by the cable compauier. In that regard it will be a great boor, oues it gets iuto good working order. At present there are delays, but the Marooni poople put them down to the land wirer, for the messages have to be sent from Galway by the postal telegraphe.
ALLEGED ORIENTAL DISORS.
Seuiety is alway busy with now fade, and I hear that the latest is for Urien tal dishes. Chi nese and Japanese dishes are, all the rage, and the ultra smart womes are competing with each other in giving the most dainty and expensive form of these luzaries. At present I believe, "rosgloaves à la Chiasies" have the, victory,
END OF YOLUNTEERS.
48 YEARS' EXISTENCE CLOSED, With the close of the offcial year (Oct. 313. the Volunteers, formed in 1858, practically come to an end. In a few months the Territorial Force will have come into being as The Imperial Army of the Second Line," with those the Territorial Force forming its magleas Daring the interreguam tbe mori band
need these two vessels are bound under Govern. members of the expiring force whe sleet to you like a girl's, elothed in red or pink, maka aj
ment subsidy to be available as suxiliary fast vesels for the transport of troops. Thus if, we some are convinced, trouble broke out in China The annual report for 1967 mentions the in the next few years, these would be the grey- lectures by The Honourable Stephen W, hounds to bring out the man in a hurry. Nickerson, M.A., on "Money and Civilis. Journalists with a fine eye for the effect of tion," Mr. Frank Browae on Radian," the tables of ostentations have been reckesing out Reverend T. W. Posto, oz The Morrison how long it would take to laud, men at Hong Centenary," "The Honourable J. B. Batter en kong and elsewhere, but until the "Mauretania” has shown the best she can do on,000au travel "New South Wales," and by Mr. Le Souef on “Wild Life in Australis." The ananal generalit premature to put down figures as represent- ing the maximum speed to be expected on such mesting will be held at Mr. H. E. Pollock' office on Monday next. The accounts, sudited an enterprise. by Mr. W. King, show that the your's receipts were $154 and the payments out $122. There is a balanon in bank of $117,
CREW.
NØRE SILLY, RUMOUE,"
of the purchase, the defendant put an advertise-ly with the ailors in order to reloase de Chin Asiatic waters by a preponderating zara
but show
"I am thankful to you, as I might have gone on for months in torture: now I can sleep from night till morning. and never wake.. Mm. Caves, Long St. Hanslope, June 21, 1006."
CUTICURA TREATMENT
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bright and gay erond to kok apon, in their faces little strength of charseter; the decency and brutality, their lack of justice and Japanese, with their darker kimonos, or in their absence of mercy, all show to the unffering Western dress and short hair, wear that look Koreans the beauty of a religion which can of strength and determination which is such teach men the higher life. a characteristic of the race.
But bebind thia somewhat natural turning to
sacond
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to rolete
Maoag and theroe Dame to Hong- kong where on September 24th, he found the
Volunteer nite will maintain a nominal ex- missing reass) at anchor at Shaukiwan, and
istence in a condition of sngpended animation. reported to the Harbour police. The delivery
There is good reason for believing that when up of the junk was demanded by plaintiff's
the general, returns compiled from those solicitor, but defendant was willing to
of units, are complated, they will reveal the
Bat in nothing is there a greater difference Christianity, there has appeared a comply on being ratified by se plaintiff's
Volunteers on the last day of their ultimate
Jear to have been stronger between the thres nations than in the way they phenomenon closely connected with it, but solicitor and on receiving from plaintiff the
official than at any time in their history, with the are receiving mistions. The Koreans are wholly different from it, and one which should amount of the purobase money with interest and
possible exception of two years during the accepting Christianity with an enthusiasm and fill the breast of avery missionary in China with South African War, when the number of 52 earnestness which renders the success of hope; for if a like swakening should be experi all his expenses. This notion was then com-
in Chios and Japan as nothing by euced there we might expect to see it Christian Volunteers was abnormally swollen.
comparison, I had an interview with that grant in the moar future. I had better tell the sting manced Tha defendant, Kwerg Te-king, is
One of the conditions of the new Territorial statesman Prince Ito, who has bean aptly as it was told to me by one of the prime setors Taoist priest living at Shaukiwap. He has
Force concerning which apprehension is felt by ribed by the German Emperor as the There is in the north of Korea a town called Volunteers is that which enjoins that its there a paper business and he also deala in jaoks which be ours for reasle On
battalions shall each be a thousand strong. Bismarok of the East. He gave me an interest. Pyong Yang, which is chiefly remarkable as if unconscious. testimony to the spread of being the soone of the first Chinees defeat in the 2nd of September he saw the vessel, in respect of which he is now sad, at anchor
hope to maintain such an establishment, and the factor in Touching Ubias affairs, by the ry, Mr There are but few existing battalions that conldity, when he spoke of itna su important the Japanese-Chinese war, and in that town
majority of corps will bare to suffer smalgama at Shapkiwao twenty or thirty chrung from
correspondent of the "Morning Post," who is tion with others, process in which their identity, the missionaries would be most careful in not ordinary even if rather successful missions. the abere, with a bambor cross consplonously
aid to be close to the President, takes new will probably he lost. What are known as the allowing the wonderful Christian movement in They had a practice, and an excellent one it is, alsas" corps in the Volunteer Service will be Korea to be need as a cloak for a political con-of summoning all their converts from the exhibited on the port side. This is the ans
spiracy. I assured him that all the missionaries country round to come for ten days in spring tomary manner at Shauliway of giving notice 400 CHINESE BESIEGE A BRITISH view of the reason for the dispatch of the
American battleship feet to the Pacific. He Tery bard bit in this way.
In the course of years several Volunteer corps I had met were most desirous of pesos, and were to receive further instruction in the faith, for for even pointing out to the Koreans that they the ignorance of professing Christians is at all that a junk is for sale. 1aving inspected the
writes." I am informed that the real motive of have novumulated a good deal of mess gear and
would be far happier under the enlightened rule times a great diflenty to the missionaries verzal he entered into negotiations for her pr
A telegram from Santa Crt, Mexico, states the President in despatobing a squadron from pl to, as well as furaitare and fittings, for
of men like Prince Ito than under the corrupt. This meeting was purely educational; there chare with one Kwen Shire, alios O Kvaa, the that about 400 Chinese attacked the crew of the the Atlantis to the Pacific is not primarily mess-rooms and quarters. In several casem precautions have been taken to ensure the
Government of the Korean Emperor which had were no moving bymas, so emotional speeches. apparent owner, who produced to him ber
The mission chiefly concerned was a Frosby.. preceded it. What he feared, he replied, was English stessabip "Woolwich," lying in dook Hongkong licence as a fiabing jack which was
not that the missionaries should be disloyal to tarian mission conducted by Americans whose at that port, because the said ry officers "gainst the Japanese, but because of a belief protection of this private property, and in some arrangements have been made to fabilit-
I Scotch origin was obvious, not only in regular and in order. The 9th Eeptember bay detained 20 of their countrymen board the that events in China will soon demonstrate the
wisdom of the United States being represented ste its ultimate disposal. It is not considered Japan, but that they should be deceived. ing been agreed se the date for the completionship for reasons of health.
The mob stormed the vessel and fought Boros
should be regarded by one of the foremost states- and demeanour. Except for the scent ons the pornersion of the Territorial Army,
men of the world as of such importance in Kores would have thought oneself in the presence of likely that much of this will and its way into thought it was most important that Christianity their names, but in every line of their faces force. Mr. Roosevelt, I am informed, has been
Bome corps hays in addition, considerable men, who were confined upon the lower deck.
mosa fonde, and even well-stocked cellars. The as to constitute s political factor, and perhaps representatives of the cold and canny race that The Orientals were winning the battle, driv advised that the death of the Dowager Empresa
political danger. The bitter bumiliation lives in our northern kingdom, and I three or four months will witness, a ing the crew before them by sheer foros of may occur at any time. With her death suit of conviviality and entertaining in through which that proud but small reos of dilate on this point because it is essential to number, when the gendarmes and troops, who domestic and international complications may
good deni
Koreans is now passing has produced, not separate the phenomenen I am going to Volunteer mess-rooms, and it is evident that
for an earnest searching Berme from those emotional manifestations of religion had been called out by the oity officials, made a
posterity in the shape of the Territorial Army naturhich will at once saire the wound of with which most of us are conversant under the will have to provide its own mess stores. thing
bumbled them off.
*Territorialist” is to be a younger
pride and lend on the nation to-name of revival meetings, and which, perhaps, The new
wards recovering its ancient dignity. Caris-I may add, most of us distrust. The meetings man than bis predecessor, the Volunteer. Mr.
tianity has filled these two wants and is held on the first seven days were commonplace. "the administrative entity of China”—to between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four, the phrase invented by the late Booretary Hayam
heart, which reminds one of nothing so much as and at the end of the week to all appearance the spirit of St. Augustine in the "De Civitats the meetings might be expected to go on -and any disturbines of "the administrative
WEATHER BEPORT.
on the Dai,
Like him, gee in the downfall and as they always had done till they closed"
they entity of China" might result in closing the
But just at the end, to the open doer of commerce and do great damage to
degradation of their race a higher call, and like tenth day. him, through the dark cloud of an earthly surprise of the missionary who was conducting American commercial interests, present and
servitude, they catch a glimpse of the bright the meeting, one of the Korean men arowa light of eternal liberty. I do not say that all and expressed, a desire to speak, a Bom Koreans are animated by such lofty motivas-I thing was on his mind which laid so heavily
ager sit still. peak only of the nobler spirits many are still his consciones that he could no los content with the foeble, weapons of this world This caused a feeling of snnoyance to the
assassina-conductor .of the
for in the and soil their sozle with intrigue and asasins. poudre of an intercaption, but he thought it Army of Rightooneness, which, I am told, under wiser to give the man leave to unbanden his the guise of a missionary society, encourages consolenes. The sin. turned out to be merely rebellion against the Japanese roka. Their a feeling of animosity and injury on account of benmaare only songe & of bloodshed,
fancied slight whick be had received a year their "prayers! at an incentive to useless strife Bat the very go from the missionary. To-settle his doubt fact that they have chosen this gaiss for the missionary wared him that he forgave their dark projects shows how wide and him for his ill-temper, and then began to say real the turning to Christianity is throughout a prayer. He reached only the words "My the land. Perhaps there is no better foil Father" when with a rush a power from with
which against
the Christian life on show out seemed to take hold of the meeting. The itselt than the excesses of a heather soldiery, Europeus described its manifestations as I am not for a moment blaming the Japanese torrifying Nearly everybody present as soldiery, but they bave only the ideair of seized with the most-poignant-reuse-of-mental- heathen race: They understand what outrage augnish; before each one his own sing and patriotism mean as well as evor any Roman seemed to be rising is condemnation of his life, soldiers did, but like them their virtue is searly Some were springing to their feet pleading for aynonymans with these qualities, and their in
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ment, in the form of Exhibit 2, in three Chinese newspapers, and this advertisement remained in these papers from the 4th to the 9th day of September. Finally, the purobasa WAS OOG- pleted on September 9th, in the offios of de fendant's solicitors-Meesra Wilkinson and Grist a bill of male being executed and the
Fasty attack upon the marauders and drove enene. CHINA'S IMMSDIATE FUTURA
Several of the brow on the "Woolwich" (saya There is a possibility of the disruption of the
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sum of $950 being paid over as purchase the "Chronicle" have been dangerously in-Empire, or, at the lesst, of the destruction of Hildane wants him to train for four years scepted with the earnestness of a saddened The usual syllabus of instruction was followed,
A NEWSPAPER- HOAXED.
jured, Troops are on guard over the vessel, sa money. In my opinion the plaintiff has es it in feared that the Chinamon will return to tablished that the junk, the subject of this clair, renew the battle. is the vessel of the possession of which he was forcibly deprived by an not of piracy on the, morning of the 18th August, It cannot be maintained that he has in any way so conducted himself as to make it inequitable for him to Essert bis claim of ownership. It was urged by Mr. Grist that had the plaintif, come at once to Hongkong and Macao, the only places where a
· stolen junk can be disposed of, he would have been able to forestall the ssle to the defendant. Iges no reason however, why the plaintiff should not bara waited as, in fact, bedid wait for a rea-
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report
Or the 27th at 1210 p.m.-The barometer The Cablenews-American of Manila, publishes the following special and exclusive informa. Prospective. The President, I am informed, has risen slightly over . Clins, and fallen tion:-"The British have seized and are rapidly believes that the nation which is represented by moderately over the Loochons fortifying Pedro Blanco, which holds a com- the largest natal foroa in time of emergeny Yangtze. Pressare
The anticyclone area is still central to the manding position on the fairway of trade between will command the greatest gospoof, not only North, of the Upper Tangone and the Loe
and Northern Chiza. The sathori- Hongkong and
chose, and over the S, part of the China Sea
Gradianta are steeper over the China cosa, and strong monsoon will continue to prevail in Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending the Formosa Channel, and the China Bes.
tica are maintaining sorecy about this matter. from the Chinese themeves but from any other From its dominant position it is a valuable nation that might seek to profit by the disturbed conditions. While it is tras that, the naval acquisition for Great Brilsis and of strategical varas thius's hostile attitude-toward- further foreign enorosohment apen her terrivent is not primarily against Japan, the senable time to get direct tidings of the vessel tory and her newly established motto China President, it is assorted, has been led to believe at 10 am, to-day, 6.00 inches.
for the Chinese, is hanging like a black cloud that it would be unwise in osse an emergency
from bis crew. In any case it is not contended that over further empire-building or fortifying arises to permit Japan to be all dominating, sa The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon the hots are such as would support a ples of schemes."
To anyone who bre seen Pedre Blanco the that would be injurious to American political today is as follows: estoppel, The plaintiff's claim then is founded
hosz is transparent, and the iden of this rook and sommercial interests, and, as a matter of Hongkong, & Neighbourhood fresh or stroug; upen the general rule of law that go one can transfer a better title than he himself possesses being a valuable acquisition for Great Britain probaation and to obeckmate any ambitions de-
and asks for the possession of the junk, or, in default, for her fall value in money,
The defense is shortly " Market Overt," that is to say, defendant claims the benefit of the
d of great strategical value" is highly-signs-on-the part of Japan; the fleet-has-been- amusing. Pedro Blanco faa rock and nothing ordered to the Pacific, but not as the first move more or rather, approuching it from the in war against Japan or any other Power. North, It appears as two rocke. The summit
It is, according to my informant, a diplomatio! of thereck is white.
rather than warlike move, or, to put it more
Formos Channel....
South coast of Chins between Hongkong and Lamocks. South coast of China between Hongkong and Hainan...
N. winds,
teir
N.E. winds,
Sameas No. 1. Same as No. 1.
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