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it had been wronged by the other. It can hardly be said that Germany either has given nemuratens that her motives are of any. higher inspiration; when asked by the other Powers to use her influence to induce one or & CO. the other of the irreconciliables to reison, or at least to state her desires, Germany has on each occasion shrugged her shoulders and announced her intention of allow ing Austria to go her own gait without Inter. ference. Now if this proceeded from auction of pure Irish household linens, lace
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THE HONGKONG PERJURY CASE.
COMMITTAL ORDER BESCINDED,
Yesterday's mail brought a report of the judgment given by the Judicial Committee in the case of the seven Chinamen who appealed to the King in Council from an order made by the Chief Justice of Hongkong (Sir Francis Piggott), committing them to prison for three months for contempt of court and perjury, contrary to an ordinance of the Colony. They were witnesson in a bankraptoy snit, in which the question at issue was whether one, Wong Ka Chuen, was a partner in the debtor firma or not. They gave evidence that he was. The jury found that he was not. After the verdict him and addressed them through an interpreter in the following terms:
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Before Mr. J. H. Kemp at the Magistracy yes today a native who was charged with wong Beerostion Ground was charged with being armed with a kaife with intent to commit a felony, He was found guilty, und sentenced to three months imprisonment with hard labour. Two small hoys appeared before Mr. Hazeland the Mantra Festerday on a charge, of hawking without a licence. Worship remarked that is whipping had proved no de terrent in the past he would impose a fine. Each of the defendants was fined $5, or seven days' imprisonment.
A zative who appeared before Mr. F. A. Haveland at the Magistracy yesterday on a charge of returning from banishment told his Worship that he came back to the Colony to get some alathing he left behind. sentenced to six months' imprisonment and four hours" storka.
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The return of visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum for the week ending the 28th March, 1909, shows that of non-Chinees there were 429 to the Library and 284 to the Museum and of Chinese 264 to the former and 3,277 to the latter. The Library was, therefore, used by 683 persons and the Museum by 3,561.
Germany is quite aware that one of the chiof difficulties in the way of the Dunl Monarchy is the status or the vote peoples ander its rule; Magyar and German pretty well understand one another, and both are fully conscious that any rupture of the common bond of self interet which holds them together would mean the destruc tion of both. They can safely growl at one another hetimes, secure in the reflection that after all self-interest is a stronger ground $52.00 of uniou than zentiment; but with her Slavonic subjects the case is for otherwise They have not risen to the sense of common interest, or common nationality, and to their winds, tickled with dreams of an impossible Panslavia, every dogradation to Austria meme a victory for the other. This is the ever present danger that the Dual Monarchy has to face, but to which she is momentarily quite oblivious. King PETER KARAGEORGE- WITCH may to onlookers seem but flimsy The owners of two passenger boats were pro- stuff out of which to make a bero, ceaded against before Commander Basil. R. H. but he is the best nt the moment, Taylor, B.N., at the Marino Magistrate's Court available. It is not a matter of everyday experience that a hero should come on the people desires him, but the unwise polley of Austria is going far to make King Perms the bero of the day, and Germany by suggestion rather than by open advice is doing her best to blow up the babble. Naturally none of the Powers exren to tell Austria straight out the A. S. WATSON & CO., true position of affairs; too candid friends
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belograms from Tainanfu to the N.-C. Daily News states that Sir J. H. Stewart Lockhart, Commissioner at Weibsiwel, who Governor of shantung, want and on the 20th inst by the highest officials. Half dozen foreigners were present. Sir Stewart Lockhart was accompanied by Mr. R. F Johnston, the District Officer at Weihaiwei,
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are apt to meet with unpleasant rebuffs when their advice becomes too particular; but Europe Fees that n war rashly com menced between Austria and Servia, would not unlikely an into a flame the general nascent antipathy between Teuton and Slav, i and as each mutually interpenetrates dis. triots whee the other predominates, a
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LONDON, March 28th.' A telegram from Belgrade states
out discussion the renunciation of the Crown Prince and the proclamation of the Prince Alexander as heir to the Throne.
The Russian Press continues to publish bitter attacks on Russian diplomacy and rumours are current of the impending resignation of M. Iavolsky, the Minister for Foreign Affairs,
LONDON, March 29th.
It is announced at Vienna that the. Austrian Government has accepted Sir Edward Gray's modified pro- posals regarding the working of the Seivian note of submission.
An agreement has also been reached with a view to the recognition by the Powers of the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
A MILITARY SENSATION AT
·MALTA.
LONDON, March 28th. Reuter's correspondent at Malta states that an inquiry will be opened at Malta after the return of the Duke of Connaught into the system of smug- gling opium hashish from Austria via Malta into Egypt as military stores.
Several arrests of non-commissioned officers and soldiers have been made, and it is stated that an officer is implicated.
AN ARMY CAUSE CELEBRE.
LONDON, March 29th. Lieutenant Woods, late of the 2nd Grenadier Guards, is claiming £75,000 in an action for wrongful dismissal.
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An enquiry was held in Chelsea barracks on the 19th November, 1907 to investigate.com plaints made by Lieutenant Woods garding alleged unjust treatment in certain reports of the War Office. The case was re-opened in December last, and writs were served on Mr. Haldane, General Lyttelton, and others, then members of the Army Council, on the ground that they exceeded their powers in requiring the officer's resignation.]
[FROM THE "CHUNG NGGI BAN FO."] UNEXPLORED ISLANDS.
PEKING, March 29th. The Peking Government intends to
A story of the extraordinary impudence of the Chinese thief was told to the Hunghom Police on Sunday. On the night in question a number of natives entered the cable station near the Decks where the four caules belonging respectively to the Military Authorities, the Colonial Government, the Eastern Telegraph Co. and the Telephone Co are landed. They out off pieces of the cables and removed certain apparatus which entailed the interruption of the different services. After packing up all for a rest after their apparently sat down exertions. A lakoog on duty in the vicinity, happening to pass the station at the time, in saw by the dim light a native smoking noticed that the door was open, and on looking cigarette. His question as to what the man was doing there caused a stampede, all the thiovas dashing for the door. The constable held on to one man, and he will probably he charged shortly. The telephone service to and though the Telephone Company was uble Kowloon was interrupted all day yesterday to offset temporary repairs to their cable it will probably be a week before the mischief done in completely repaired.
ARMED ROBBERY ON THE RAILWAY.
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On Sunday night the police received telephone message from Cheungshni, a border villags near Samchan, reporting a "hold up of the police employed m the Canton section of the line. The report, made by Mr. Fraser, the district engiuser on the Chinese section, stated that on the night of the 27th instart the rail- way police were attacked by a band of about eight or mine armed robbers, The police at the time were returning from the village of Lilong, about eleven miles distant, where they had carried a sum of money.. Two of the constabulary were wounded, and two were elieved of their rifles. The Police at Cheung. shui beliovo that the robbers have crossed into
British territory, but investigations in the reason of the fact that the men attacked can territory will be considerably hampered by give no desciption of any of the robbers,
THE PRATAS.
Interest in these hitherto practically unknown islands is by no means abated, though it is tolerably certain that the differences between
Chins and Japan will be amicably settled. The some eighteen months is about 170 miles south island on which Japanese hars been settled for east of Hongkong. It is barely two miles long and about three quarters of a mile broad, rises about forty feet above water and is really nothing more than a sandy bed on a foundation of coral Coral is found all round the lagoon and the approaches to the island, which have not been surveyed for about forty or fifty years are dangerous to navigation. When the hinese craiser Kenpan proceeded there with Com modore Lin and Captain Wu, it was discovered that there were about 150 Japanese on the island. They had made a track across the island, kad lighters at work, and also had a steam lanach. The Japanese were apparently finding their undertaking very remunerative.
INTERPOETSPORT.
The witnesses have, to my mind been guilty of the most flagrant conspiracy to defraud the They have each one been gality of the most corrupt periary, and in sloped partner virtue of the provisions of the law which em- powers mo to deal at once with such cases, I commit each of them to prison for three months without hard labour."
The
That order was subsequently confirmed by the Chief Justice himself and Mr. Justice appellants, ofter serving ten days' imprisonment, rors released on bail pending this appeal. Wise sitting in the Supreme Court,
Lord Collins, in giving their lordships" jug- ment, said that while they thought the language used by the Chief Justice was sufficiently. specifle to make the appellants aware of the charge made against them, they considered the Chief Justico should before sentencing them have given them an opportunity of adducing reasons against summary measures being taken. The giving of such an opportunity was essential in cases of committal for contempt of court, which was a criminal offence and a fortiori in 5 case of perjury. Their lordships would advies his Majesty to reverse the judgments of the Supreme Court and Chief Justice Piggott and
Mr. E. II. Sharp, K.C. (Hongkong), and Mr. to rescind the committal order. There would be
Mackin (instructed by Messa. Langlois and Co.) appeared for the appellants.
The case was argued before Lord Atkinson, Lord Collins, Eir Andrew Scable, and Sir Arthur Wilson.
no order as to costs,
RIVAL CLAIMS TO A PEERAGE.
ROMANCE OF A DANCER'S SON,
The legal struggle has been recommenced before the Madrid Assise Court between the two claimants to the estates, titles, and privileges of Lord Sackvile, the well-known diplomatist, who died in September last.
The two claimants are Mr. Lionel Edward Baskville-West, nephew of Lord Backville, and Mr. Ernest Henri Jean Baptiste West, the eldest son of Lord Sackville and a Spanish dancer, The points which the court has to con
sider are, according to Reuter telegram from Lord Sackville lived for several years with a pretty Spanish ballet-girl named Josephine Madrid, as follows: Fapita Duran, who always passed as his lawful wife, and by whom he had three sons and thres daughters. These he recognised and declared legitimate, to interest of the case resides
in what The whole parports to be a contract of marriage prior to the cohabitation of Josephine Duran with Lord Sackville, according to which contract Josephine Duran was wedded to a Spanish dancer named Gabriel Oliys, which would render null and void the declaration of the legitimacy of the issue of Josephine Duran and Lord Sackville.
The contract, the existence of which is pleaded by Mr. Lionel Edward Sackville-West, nephew of the late Peer, as establishing his right to moceed to the fille, was preserved in the Charch of San Millan, formerly San Cayetano, in Madrid, where the alleged marriage of Josephine Duran and Gabriel Oliva took place on January 10, 1851.
Copies of the contract were delivered for the use of conspis in the case in 1896 and in 1900, but none of these copies made any mention of erasures and insertions which were subsequently, in 1901, discovered on the marriage registers in the cares of an inquiry.
We understand that the Swatow sports men are practising hard to give the visiting team from Hongkong good games at football and
The Madrid court will have to pronounce cricket and possibly also at tennis. Mr. H. Donaldson, the captain of the Swatow football as to the validity or nullity of the document. eloren, is in Hongkong at present, and when Over a hundred witnesses, including five seen by our representative as to the prospects handwriting exports, have been cited by the
contesting parties, the Easter meating between the interport The proceedings, telegraphs & Madrid cor-
On Marob 3rd, at Dundee, Scotland, the wita / Jet false pride or silly sentimest interferes 1907 and the result should be extremely send officers to examine all the islands teams, modestly expressed the opinion that respondent, are expected to last at least six days.
of the late Joux A. Ross, the Chartered Bank, whenever matters are brought to a point;
of a son.
On March 24th, at Shanghai, the wife of A. I. and unfortunately hitherto it has been the
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HONGKONG, MARCH 30TH 1909.
We hear that Mr. Chaloner Grenville A labas ter barrister-at-law, son of the late Sir Chalenor Alabaster, British Consal-General in Canton, has resigned the Secretaryship of the Chins Association. He was to be married on the 27th February, and to sail on the 13th March for Hongkong in the P. & O. stemmer. Somali. Ho intends practing at the Bar in the Colony, Mr. Harold Chatterton Wilcox (formerly partner in Mesas. Turner & Co., Hongkong), has been appointed Acting Secretary to the Chlus Association in London.
near the Provinces of Fukien and Kwantung to ascertain whether they are fit for cultivation, with the object of encouraging settlement there.
CHINESE ON THE RAND.
PEKING, March 29th. The Board of Foreign Affairs is consulting with the British Minister, Sir John Jordan, regarding the ill- treatment of Chinese coolies in South Africa
ense that Austria has been in each instance the chief offender. Austria, of course, stands not to lose in the case of a conflict; and it is quite possible that feeling this to be the case she has become the more rigid in refreing all accommodation. Germany has probably more influence with the Im perial House of the Haj sburgs than all the other Governments in Europe, and there is little doubt that a word of caution, which from the other Powers would be looked upon
The Kowloon Rowling Green Chb held its as an impertinence, from Germany would be
annual meeting at the lab House yesterday FAW 1eople in Europe will be found to accepted in a friendly spirit. The word, afternoon. Ar W. Rasuell was elected pre-
RAILWAYS IN CHINA. eulogise as a type of wisdom or political however, does not come, but instead tirade ident. There was an equal number of votes sagacity King PETES of Sorvin, or his about susceptibilities, and a hint that she for r. D. Gow and Mr. D. Farrey as vice-
PEKING, March 29th. precious son and beir Prince Gsoner, dues not like to place herself at cross por-presidents, and the chairman (Mr. S. W. Bo
The Board of Communications Almost as few will be found to land poses with her ally; consequently the bertson) gave his casting vote in favors the political insight of the Archduke atmosphere, which but a couple of weeks of Mr. Gow. The other office bearers elected. FERDINAND OF ERTE, who has been ago was un loubtedly brightening, since were: Mr. T. Ramsay, hon. secretary, Mr. ports that during last year the Peking E: L, Hughes, hon treasurer, and Messrs. D. Fentien Railway made a profit of trying his 'prentice hand in guiding the has been rendered more murky than ever, Harvey, R. Nye, T. Petrie, G. L. Daneon Taels 3,300,000, the Peking-Hankow destinies of Austria, while with regard but the telegram we publish this morolog Davidson, A. J. Milroy, and J. Monagh,
Railway made
profit of Taels to the Imperial Minister, Baron
3,100,000; and the Pingchiu Railway AZHRENTHAL be has been sailing as close happi y gives the best promise we have yet committee.
had of a settlement of this protracted
made a profit of Taels 1,000,000. quarrel.
The To
von
to the wind as was possible in the case of
a minister high in the confidence of his Sovereign. However in the end affairs
Mr. F. A. Hazeland presided over the small Court at the Magistracy yesterday. Inspector An advertisement reminds intending com- Hebertson placed a native before him for
meating on pril 10th close to-day.
correspondent adds, maintain that the marriage Swatow would be satisfied. If they managed to Dr. Lionel Sackville-West's counsel, the secure a draw at football, while they hoped to contract is authentic and socuse three men- do well at cricket, inpecially as the Swatow con Rophou, Sanchez, and Anton of having made tingent includes three Australian cricketers the erasures, which throw do we sentenced to who are quite in their element when they are demand that the three men be sentenced to in flannels. In foot they are the mainstay of eight years' imprisonment and a fine of £20
each. the team The visitors may also anticipate some keen rabbers at tennis. The men from Hongkong may rely upon having a good time at the hands of their Swatow hosts.
THE BURNS-JOHNSON FIGHT An old story, was renewed at the City Hall fast night when the fight for the World's Cham pionship was again fought on cinematograph film. There was a good attendance, and the frequent applaase testified to the appreciation of the audience. The pictures thrown on the screen were excellent, there being scarcely, a flicker to mar their worth. From the training re-grounds of both competitors the audience, were carried to the scene outside the Stadium at the wildly excited crowd. Then the principals
Sydney. The next view was insida, showing
The case was mentioned in the English law courts last year, when Mr. Ernest West, whose legitimacy is in issue, asked for the appointment of a receiver of the splendid Sack- ville estates at Sevenoaks pending the result of his claim. Mr. Lionel Edward Shokville-West was the defendant. The appeal for & receiver ship was refused, Counsel stated during the case that the gross rent of the estates was over £7,000 a year, and that there were valuable hair. loome; and that the Duke of Saxe-Coburg- Goths, the Prince Consort's brother, had been the claimant's godfather sta
It was also stated that the claimant was sent to school in France in 1877, and that in 1881 Lord Back ville entered him as his son at Stony hurst College, in Lancashire.
INDIAN EMIGRATION TO THE CROWN COLONIES.
The Sometary of State for the Colonies, with in the arena, and the first four rounds of the the concurrence of the Secretary of State for combat. Reading and witnessing an event are India, has nominated a committee to consider :-- two different things, and this fact will be readily (a) The general question of emigration from admitted by those who followed the great fight India to the Crown Colonies. on the cinematograph films last night. Six of the rounds were missed, but the Bight was renewed in the eleventh and continued until the
to the white man and saw a coloured man claim
(5) The particular Calories in which Indian immigration may be most usefully encouraged.
(c) The general advantages to be reaped in
(7(1): by India itself,
may turn out, it is at least certain petitors that the entries for the V.R.C. Athletic snatching a pookat handkerchief from a woman 300,000; 6 Railway lost Taels fourteenth, the round which proved so disastrous each case,
that the four between them have been keeping Europe in a state of flurry and excitemen during the last six months; yet
the Chingtai Railway lost the championship of the world for the first time (2) by each particulse Colony.
More of the at West Point His Worship convicted the Taels 000; and the Shanghai-Ningpo in history. One case of diphtheria (Chinese) and one case defendant on a charge of disorderly conduct and of smallpox (Indian) were reported in the colony imposed a fine of $25, the alternative being sir Railway lost Teels 900.
during last week
weeks' imprisonment. Another native appeared before the same Magistrate charged with spit for what cause neither themselves nor any one elso have been able to show any
The plague return for the week ending 27th ting on the jocket of a female. On the evidence justification whatever. Austria and Servia March gives a total of five casos, four of which his Worship hell the offence proved, remarked bave teen in fact, for the last six or eight provel fatal. This brings the number from that the practice was an abominable one, and fined the defondant $50 or two months hard mouths engaged in a game of growling and Jary 1st up to 19 cases and 17 deaths. showing their teeth at one another across Mr. He Kom Tong has been appointed a labour. Hesbo warned the offender that if he the River Danube; yet when either has member of the Sauitary Board He is a pro-appeared before him again on a similar offence teen asked the foundation of all the excite-minent Chinese citizen and has identified himself he would get the full penalty, six months ment, and a civil request made to formulate with all good works in the interest of the colony. imprisonment.
Tr addition to the main feature gramme other amusing films wors shows, and the applause of the audience was ample testimony of their appreciation Most present, however, out, and would have willingly dispensed with the outside films produced.
The commite will be composed as follows. The Lord Sanderson, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., 18.0.
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The bronze statue of the Princess of Wales would have preferred to see the fight through Sir James John Diggas La Touche, K.C.8.1,2
excuted by Mr. Geo. E. Wade, to the order of Mr. H. N. Mody, bas boen brought to Hong kong in the P. & O. B. N. Co.'s stemmer Nubid which arrived on Saturday, We learn from a London correspondent who saw it before it was packed that the status is an excellent likeness of Her Royal Highness, and is the first statue
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