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A Chinese contemporary says it is reported TELEGRAMS.THE MANILA EXTRAUITION CASE. that H.E. Liang Tan Ten, the President of the
view to assimilating the war organisations of the various parts of the Empire. One of these suggestions was that the General St. of H. B. M. Office of Works in Shanghai, until Wat Wu Pa, has discussed with Prince Ching |
R. H. Bayou who was for many years in charge
succeeded by Mr.Marshall. Docessed, who was 75 years of age, died from the effects of an operation,
Mrs. Hamilton Wright, Bishop C. H. Brent, Dr. C. D. Tenney, and several others of the Opium Commission left Shanghai last Saturday for Haskow on route to Peking. The party intended, if possible, to make a brief stop at Nanking to visit the Viceroy.
Sir C. Clementi Smith, G.C.M.G., Dr. and
the question of making the Foreign Powers to hand back to the Chinese Government the con- trol of the foreign settlements in the various treaty ports.
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created on the recommendation of LORD ESTER's Committee, should be made Im perial in the widest sense. Mr. Haldane's object in putting forward this proposal for WATSON & CO. an interchange of General Staff officers throughout the Empire was that the General Staff should become: "an imperial school of military thought imbued with the same traditions, accustomed to look at military problems from the same point of view, and acquainted with the principles and theo- ries generally accepted at headquarters." WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS REUTER informed us about a month ago
that the Conndian Military authorities had his time and labour to the tutorage of the Lord-Lieutenant of Kent, and Mrs. J. Bills conferred with the General Staff and arrived Crown Prince of Korea, leaving Viscount Sone wife of one of the officials of the Association of Men of Kont and Kentish Men, the silken at an understanding as to the best means of in charge of the Residency-General,
White Ensign and Union Jack, presented by the ladies of Kent, and which the first command-
on gals days and if over the cruiser went into battle. By the exigencies of the service the Kent is now attached to Devonport for mauzing, instead of the Kentish ports of Sheerness and Chatham, with which she was previously associa- ted; but the career of the ship and of her first
just become Naval Advisor of Turkey was the first commanding officer of the cruiser Kent. It was Sir Douglas Gamble who received from the hands of the representatives of the county the allvar trophy for gunnery, which is kept on board the cruiser, and is inscribed annually with A Japances contemporary states that H.E. the name of the captain of the best gun detach- Prince Ite, Resident-General of Korea, who has ment, the mombers of which receive a prize of recently gone home, is not thought likely to£6, and it was Sir Douglas, also, who received of all her demands for autonomy in as well as for return to Seoul. His Excellency may devote from the Countess Stanhope, wife of the then Bosnia and Herzegovina
territorial compensation; promise to behave. peacefully and to ask Austria for economic concessions.
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randum was finally drawn up giving form (Tientsin, vacant by the death of Mr. Lennoxing officer of the Kent promised should be flown to the suggestions and establishing the General Staff on a broad Imperial basis by means of a system of exchanges. This will doubtless lead in tine, perhaps at an early date, to the readjustment of the Imperial military arrangements and the elimination from the present system of the differences. and distinctions which have grown up under conditions which time and development PER CASE 1 DOZ. QUARTS, have wholly changed. It will lead also, no doubt, to a binding obligation between the PRICE.
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by the territorial forces from different parts of the Empire are brought together in the field, complication and confusion shall be avoided. We believe that as a matter of fact, the Colonial Governments have in the
By kind permision of the Oficers, the band of the 132 Rajputs, under Bandmaster Coke, will play the following programme of music, at the King Edward Hotel, during dinner, to-night (Thursday) 4th inst, (weather permitting.) Mare... Au Secure," Valetankelfied," Selection., "Courry Hil”,
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The police of Yaumati are to be congratulated on the activity displayed in the capture of thres. housebreakers who were charged before Mr. J. H. Komp at the Magistracy yesterday. Thore has been a tall in the robbery business on the other side of the water since the busy time after Chinese New Year, probably due to the special vigilance of the police, and, while this continues
This intimation is regarded as some
what unnecessarily haughty in tone.
THE IMPERIAL ARMY,
The mass in which the Philippines Govern- ment applied for the extradition to Manila of C. J. Merchant on a 'charge of larceny na a imiles of jewellery to the value of 650 poros same or for hearing before Mr. J. H. Kemp at th Magistracy yesterday,
Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, Crown Solicitor, made the application on behalf of the Philippine Government, and Mr. Leo d'Almeda e Castre (of Messrs. Goldring, Barlow and Morrell) appoured for the defendant.
he had received from Manila.
Mr. Bowley put in further depositions which
Mr. Abaada proceeded to state the facts of the case for the defence when his Worship asked if he intended to call the defondant.
Mr. Almada said bo did,
His Worship informed him that the defendahş should be called immediately after the closing of
the evidence for the prosecution,
Defezilant was then called and stated that Marchant. Fourteen yours ago defendant was in 1890 he had slopted the nawo of C. J. employed in Hongkong as Mr. Ruttonjece. assistant He started business at Manila some- time in the beginning of 1903 with a capital of 3,000 poses.
The firm ho started, the Anglo- American stores, dealt in first and second head furniture and did commission business business was a one, and witness The at Melbourne has decided to accept had toss you not a promptons the scheme for an Imperial General undertook any commission business which come After this he Staff with certain modifications giving
into his hands for a living. The complainant asked him if he had any carriages for sale, and the Commonwealth control over its he said he had two. She said she wanted one,
LONDON, March 2nd, Reuter is informed that the Cabinet
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PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION
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LONDON, March 3rd. The bye-election in the Central division of Glasgow necessitated by
And he sold her a four wheeled vistoria for 120 pesos. The complainant took him three small diamond rings and asked him to receive them as s deposit for the carriage, to agreed, and gave her a receipt for the rings. Then the complainant wanted to buy apisuo for her daughter, and witness took her to three different
places. She selected one which cost 650 pesos, and told witness to arrangs for the purchase which he subsequently did. He was told he
All the troops of the garrison paraded in front time. China was celebrated at Saigon on the 17th alt housebreakers are not likely to have a pleasant
of the status to the Admiral Regnult-de- Genouilly at 6 a.. At seven o'clock the yesterday the two defendants were caught in the (Liberal) has resulted in the return of and 25 posus monthly until the
was pail. Defendant informed complainant,
In one of the cuses that his Worship how the death of Sir Andrew M. Torrance wonki have to pay 100 pesos in advance
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past made every endeavour to assimilate Governor-General, and the Lieutenant Governor act of looting a store in Reclamation Street. Mr. Scott Dickson (Unionist and who told him who had no money, but ho the pattern of arms, stores and equipment arrived. The King of Luong Prabang, the They had gained admission to the shop by Tariff Reformor). The voting was as held her three diamond rings which were worth
governors of the province and the members of removing part of the lining of a flight of stairs,
the various Councils were also present, and from and had already made a large bundle of pro- follows:- the tribune witnessed a review of the troops.visions to walk off with when they were ar The Band played the "Marseillaise," and the prised by the police. After hearing the evidence guns thandered their salates.
Mr. Kemp sentenced cach of the defendants to two months' imprisonment with hard labour,
generally with those of the Imperial forces. That is se at least in the case of the Australian Colonies, and if it is not general- ly the case this new scheme will be of great value in socuring the desirel uniformity. We do not gather that the Colonial forces. are affected in any other way by this schema The Regular Army and its re-funds of the Hospitals:-- serves will continue to ho the nucleus
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sive wars the Imperial Army will consist, as in the South African campaign, of the Regular Army and its Reserver, augmented by such portion of Home and Colonial Terri- torial Forces as volunteer, while in times of peace the forces comprising the Imperial Army will prepare to hold themselves available for general service in war. Scientific prepara- tion is evidently being food at. ThoughTM" there was enormous value-material and moral-in the fortuitous rssemblage of the gallant men from all parte of the Empire on the battlefields of South Africa, yet the teaching of all military history is that ten men on whom you can rely at a given date and at a given place to do a certain thing are worth a hundred who are summoned and equipped at the moment the enemy is at the gate. The scheme seems to us to result in a considerable gain to the military strength of the Empire, and re- On February 26th, at Shanghai, to Mr. and presents a great step taken in the direction
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Nows has reached Japan of the death in Ger. many of Mr. A. Cestmana, founder of the Kobe firm of A. Cestmann & Co. Mr. Oestmann, the Japan Chronicle saya, was for many years. eno of the best-known and most highly respected members of the Kobe community. He was for Council and also held the office of President of some years a member of the former Municipal the Club Concordia. Perlaps no one in Kobe ever had so many arbitrations to decide as Mr. Oestmann, this being evidence of the peculiar respect and osteem in which he was held and the reliance placed on his absolute impartiality and porfect integrity. cognized as a serious lose to the foreign com
It was generally manity of Kobe, when in 1901, after thirty years' residence in the port, Mr. Oostman Hankow papers record the death of Mr. decided to make his home once more in Europe. Linton, formerly of Shanghai and for the past nine years secretary of the Hankow Club Bangkok friends will be glad to hear that Mr The Bangkok Times says:-"Their many
The commissioners appointed to revise the and Mrs. J. Stodart Kennedy are on their way commercial laws of China have decided to model East again. They left London last month for them on British law.
|Hongkong, stopping in Paris and Cairo on the A Bund lot at Harkow commonly known middle of next month. Mr.
way. Hongkong will be reached about the as Geo. Clarke's lot, has passed into the hands
todart Kennedy has been appointed manager of the tramway of a Shanghai syndicate, the object presumably system in Hongkong." Mr. Gray Scott, who being to build an up-to-date hotel on the site.. has filled this position for the last five years, A Hankow contemporary states Mr. Taylor leaves for England next month. It is due to will return to that port in April to take charge Mr. Gray Soott to say that his management of of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank local
the tramway system has reflected the highest branch, and Mr. Wright will leave for Kobe in credit upon himself, and the Colony, we think, a similar capacity at that port.
is entitled to congratulate itself upon having a tram service which has been worked from its system yet established in the Far East. ineoption with groster satisfaction than any
stranded off Tries Island, was bought by the The wreck of the British steamer Adato, Yamashita Marine Engineering Office of Tokyo, at Y6,000 on the 17t1 ult,
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200 pesos. He could pay the amount and she would repay him later. At the time of the 7,298
negotiations about the piano the complainant 5,185. owed him 200 posok, This was in September, and she promised to pay in October,. On that. 2,113 month witness asked for the money, bat com- plainant said the American Beet ni zot anded as was expected. As she did not do any
Mr. Scott Dickson... Mr. Gibson Bowles
Unionist Majority [The Liberal Majority at the last
Election
In the other case the accused forced the door of the residenes of a Japanese at 145, May- donnell Road, while the inmates of the house were absent, gathered together everything of was 431.) value on the premises, and departed. When Chiness detective 203 stopped him in the street
WEI-HAI-WEI.
later and questioned him the defendant told him [FROM THE "CHUNG NGOI SAN PO, that be was taking the bundle to his master at Tsimshatsoi. The detective, not being altogether. satisfied with the story, took the defendant to the Yaumoti police station, and there he was detained pending inquiries. He had not been long in the police quarters when the Japanese
PELING, March 3rd, Prince Su has memorialised the
from whom the goods were stolen called to report his lose, and identified the bundle of goods as his property. His Worship found the defendant guilty, and sentenced him to six months' im- Prisonment with hard labour. THE HONGKONG PERJURY APPEAL. of Weihaiwei.
business with the carriage she asked him to wṣit till Christinaa. He again applied for payment at Christmas, and told her if she did not pay he would sell the rings and aue her for the difference. She promised to pay in a few days. On the afternoon of January 22 he went to her place and demanded the money, telling hor he was coming to Hongkong for his health, and to do a little business, She handed him a bag containing a pair of earrings and a ring, and
1 hrone asking that the Board of asked him to receive them as a deposit of 400 Foreign Affairs should be instructed, Defendant said he did not know what to negotiate with the British Minister,
the jewellery was worth, but he wanted his money. Sir John Jordan, for the redemption accompanied complainant to a pawnbrokers, who On the following morning witness -offered her 250 peace for her jewellery, but she declined to take it, and refused other offers. Ou
In the event of the negotiations being successful, this port could be utilised as a Chinese naval station:
TO CONTROL THE NAVY.
PERING, March 3rd.
HULL COURT DECISION REVERSED.
Massra. Brutton and Hett, the solicitors for the bankruptcy proceedings in connection with the appellants in the perjury cass arising out of the Lai Hing Bank, have been telegraphically informed that the Privy Council has upheld the appeal and reversed the decision of the Full
In another memorial Prince Su and the perjury was alleged to have been com requests that the Viceroys and Go- Court. The proceedings commenced in 1905,
mitted on the hearing of the trial of an issue to
THE ABSCONDING BANK SHROFF.
January 25th Le again demanded his money and complainant handed him her jewellery and said he could pawn it for 300 pesos. Defendant pawned the jewellery on February 3rd, and informed complainant, who said “All right" Defendant called on complainant twice after- wards, but as she was ont he wrote to her daughter stating tint he was leaving Manila for a few days. He had not loft altogether.
Cross-examined, defendant said he would
return to Manila after a few days' rest. He
was not prepared to return by the 8.6. Rubi ca Friday.
After questioning the defendant farther,
the time of the Court to proceed further with the ease, as there was a direct conflict of evi- dence.
Mr. H. Ruttonjoe was then exiled and stated that defendant, who had been in bis employ - some item years ago, was an honest man.
Mr. Bowley-Didn't you tell Sergeant that the defendant was a man of no character? Wilden, in the presence of Sergeant Laveney....
decide whether Wong Ka Chean (since deal) veriors of the different provinces was a partner in the Lai Hing firm at the time should be granted the title of Vice- of its bankruptcy. Not only was it decided that Presidents of the Admiralty, and Wong Ka Chean was not a partner, but the should have power to control the Mr. Bowley said he thought it was only wasting Chief Justice held that the witnesses who gave evidence against Wong Ka Choun wore guilty Navy. of perjury snit committed them to prison for three months straightway, with the exception of one who had left the Court before the iss was decided. These men were prominent Chin-1 es merchants, and their summary arrest created Court was moved and the men were liberated no little sensation in the community. The Full after serving a fortnight, but the appeal went against the appellants, who, however, obtained leave to take it to the Privy Council. As al-Woosung Houd that morning. ready reported in the Daily Presa a few days ago, the case came before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on February 3rd, when Lord Macnaghten, Lord Atkinson, Lord Collins and Sir Arthur Wilson heard the appeal. Mr. B. H. Sharp, K.C., appeared for the appellante, there being no appearance for the other side. Judgment was then reserved, but it has now been delivered, to the effect already
Chan Hang Kin, Chan Yam, Tsang Hang The names of the Chinese merchants are
Wan, Sai Ho, Lan Sing Kia, Chu Kai Un, and Ng Iu Ting,
nationality in the modern and political, rather than the racial sense of the term; is a growing and permanent characteristic
With regard to the financial difficulties of of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and
Mosers. Holliday, Wiss & Co., a London con- Five coolies appeared before Mr. J. H. Kemp temporary gives the liabilities at £250,000. It is South Africa, and this sentiment, it is at the Magistracy yesterday on a charge of understood the difficulties have been largely stated, patent, is already strong enough to wreck cutting down trees on Crown land at Pokfulam, brought about by failure of dealers in Shanghai any scheme of Imperial organisation which The first three defendants were found guilty, to act up to their engagements, and the conse seems to antagoniso it. The desire for ad each was sentenced to three months' im- quent losses for interest and other charges. imperial union exists as strongly in the prisonment. The other two defendants were Mach sympathy is felt for the members of the
discharged. Colonies as in the Motherland, and the
firm, which for many years has held a high discussion which has taken place during the
Defone Mr. J. R. Wood at the Magistracy name in Far Eastera trade. The actual trade yesterday the case concluded in which the cook
liabilities are said not to be very heavy. A Jast six years on the subject of impérial of the steamer Manila was charged with secrot private meeting of the creditors, convened by federation is now beginning to take shape ing a quantity of opium on board,
At the Mixed Court in Shanghai, on the 26th ult., Yang Kwei-lang alias Pah Sang was
money being the property of the Hongkong charged with abscending from Hongkong with a large sum of money on June 3, 1905, the and Shanghai Banking Corporation. that he arrested the accused in a house in Dot. Sub-Inspector Vaughan told the Court
was alleged to have been stolen was $52,200,
It was stated that the amount of money which
antil Blonday.
The Court remanded the scoused in onstody
THE RESIDENCY-GENERAL IN KOREA.
SEARCHING QUESTIONS IN THE DIET. Mr. Otake Kwamoli, a Yuslinkwai member in the Lower House, has given notice to put
Residency-General in the naministration of the the following questions to the Government
(1) What is the fundamental policy of the
tectorate of Korea?
pr
Witness-Oh, no.
jail to await the order of His Excellency the His Worship committed the defoudant to
Governor.
THE OPIUM COMMISSION.. The fourteenth and final Session of the International Opfam Commission took place at the Falace Hotel, Shanghai, on the 26th ult.
The Resolutions which had been already adopted were presented in their revisedt forni by the Committee appointed for the pur- Pose, and were finally passed by the Com- mission. They will be referred by the various who will decide on their publication as they may Delegations to their re pective Governments, see fit.
The full minutes of the proceedings, together (2) Owing to the lack of control, local ad- with the Reports on the Opium Question, ministration in Korea is in an extremely de handed in by the various Delegations, will BANDMANN COMEDY COMPANY,
moralised condition. What course does the Residency General intel to take to remedy appear later in printed form, and will form
valuable record of the work of the International
• A Night Out" has indeed been well described the situation P a screamingly funny farcical comedy and we ently considers it a pressing, peed in the handed in their Report, the Right Hon. Sir (3) Prince Ito, the Resident-General, appar
Opium ommission.
Aftor the Committee on Trade Statistics had
His WorMessrs. Sale & Co., solicitors, Manchester, was can think of no better term, for judging by the reformation of Korea to cause ill-digested laws Cecil Clementi Smith moved that a cordial vote in some tangible form. We publish to-day ship held the offence proved, und ordered, the held on the 2nd ult. at the Queen's Hotel unrestrained manner in which the audience gave and ordinances which are unsuited to present of thanks be offered to the Right Reverend a telegram reporting that with certain defendant to pay a fine of $500, the alternativ Manchester. In the absence of accounts from way to its amusing aituations the description is conditions to be isened in order to give a varnish Bishop Brent for the dignity, impartiality, and
modifications the Commonwealth has ac-
cepted the scheme creating an Imperial
being six months' imprisonment,
of civilisation to Kores. What is the result of the Shanghai and Manila house, which it was
not an exaggerated conception.
this policy?
ability with which he had discharged the daties stated ware on the way, nothing was submitted Pinglet, a master builder, and invested it with Korea is said to have become extremely lax. Is mission. In replying, the President congra-
Mr. Thomas Sydney took the part of Joseph (4) The discipline of the Japanese officials in of President of the International Upium Cons At the Magistracy yesterday before Mr. J. R. to the meeting in the nature of a reliable his customary humourons style which the it possible in this way for them to become modolstated the House not only that in the findings. General Staff The Dominion of Canada bas Wood an unemployed house boy was arraigned statement of affairs. The liabilities were stated audience greatly apprelated. Miss Florence, for the Korean official
reached all the Resolutions were adopted new. also accepted the scheme. It is the outcome on the charge of stealing a knife from the cook to be £256,0. chiedy to be or one other decided success, to which the interpretation the Residency. General have been buying up or carrying the problem a stage nearer its final
Hamer sa Marcelle Faillard's wife, scored an house of No. 1 Folice Station. The defendanting appointed a committee of five of the of the character of Paillard by Mr. Vano con menacing journalista or newspaper correspon
(5) There are reports that the authorities of con, but that they had not wholly failed in of certain suggestions made at the Imperial called to see a friend, and seeing what appeared creditors to investigate the position of the siderably contributed. The part of Angelique dents in Korea, and restricting the freedom of Conference two years ago in London, by to be a good opportunity pocketed a knife, He business, and to report to a subsequent meeting Pinglet's wife was in the capable hands of Miss speech or writing so as to hide the true state of expression to the sense of high appreciation in H.E. Tsunejiro Miyaoka, having given the Secretary of State for War, with a was sent to jail for fourteen days.
which the committes will call together. Lucy Beaumont, and the rest of the caste were affairs in Korea. Is there any truth in this ? which the Commision hold the services rendered
Japan Chronicle.
by the Secretarise, the proceedings terminated.
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taken by the other talented artista,
solution.
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