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SUPREME COURT.
Wednesday, August 51st,
IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1st, 1910.
After some discussion on the subject of the security and the Registrar having been called in to explain to their Lordships that he had asked for two sureties, the Chief Justice said the application was premature. The matter should have been mentioned in Chambers and a day
BEFORE HIS HONOUR SIR FRANCIS PIGGOTT fixed for the hearing.
(CHIEF JUSTICE).
A PROBLEM IN CHINESE SALTNERSHẾT.
:
Judgment was delivered in the action brought by the I On Marine and Fire Insurance Company against In Fang for 36,162.50, alleged to be money lent and interest. A point in the case was whether defondant was a partner in a certain firm for whom he alleged he acted. The defendant said he was a salesman, and the inference, said his Lordship, to be drawn was that he could not have signed as partner. But his conduct went to show that he was more than
salesman; he was occasionally in charge and he signed this document (promissory note) when in charge. The evidence was far too unsatisfactory for him to believe that it was all true. It did In conclusion he not carry plaintiff's case. referred to a
queation of law which was far too important not only to the defendant and to the Chinese of the Colony for him to do decide without hearing argument. A Ühiness partner or sole owner of a firm died and his family inherited his property, and the firm was carried on by the execator or some other person on behalf of the family. Wore the
Mr. Potter added that he did not understand the order in that way. Would their Lordships allow the matter to stand over.
NOTES FROM JAPAN.
́[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
Tokyo, August 14th.
GENERAL NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. |
THE TURY.
London, August 16th. The following is the latest betting on the St. Leger:-11 to 4 against Lamberg, 7 to 2 Neil Gow, 7 to 1 Bwynford, 7 to 1 Greenback, 10 to 1 Charlos O'Malley, 12 to 1 Winkipop.
London, August 10th. The jockey Plant was thrown while riding Blackstone at Kempton Park and seriously THE GREAT. FLOODS.
injured. The floods of 1910 will prove memorable in The latest betting on the St. Leger is 3 to the history of this country, and accustomed against Lamborg, 5 to 1 against Greenback, 11 the people are to inundations, there is ample to 2 against Swynford. 10 to 1 against Charles O'Malley, 100 to 8 against Rose Drop and evidenso that both Press and public have lost Winkipop, and 20 to 1 against Bronzine. The Chief Justice pointed out that the ques- their old-time indifference, amounting to fatal- tion of security was still before the Registrar., and are in a mood to demand protortion against a scourge which hitherto has been Thero is still time.
accepted as one of the necessary evils of life. It is clear to the enlightened Japanese of to-day that the appalling condition of one-quarter of
London, August 12th. the city of Tokyo at the present moment is the
Mr. Lloyd George, speshing at Bodnant, remalt of neglect of the most ordinary precau-Wales, referring to old age pensions, said he tions-the result of years of neglent, which is hoped within the year to introduce a scheme to now bring most severely felt by 500,000 poople provide for persons who broke down before of this city, many of whom we in a starving reaching the pensionable ago. They must settle with the House of Lords before they could take condition and all of whom are for the time being Welsh Disestablishment, Home Rule or WO. refugees without a derent shelter.
man's Suffrage. He urged women to show restraint not petulance.
Mr. Potter wanted to know where was this limit to be.
The Chief Justlos did not think there would be any diffinity. He thought they should try to take the case before the vacation. They must dismiss that application with costs.
Mr. Potter asked that it should not be
dismissed with costs. They had not got a penny out of this ease.
The Chief Justice replied that it would be costs of Court. Security to the satisfaction of the Registrar must be found by September 10th.
Mr. Portor said if that was not done he would ask their Lordships to dismiss the cake. Mr. Blade snid ko would consent to that,
· The order wis mailo necordingly.
LAI CHI CHIN AGAIN,
Re Tang Wong Shi, Lai Chi Chio, Mr. Slade moved for an order that the verdict obtained in the issue to determine whether tai Chi Chin wis
OLD AGE. PENSIONS.
A CHARITABLE UIQUEST,
FROFITING BY RIPERIENCE, In reflecting upon the present helpless condi
London, August 13th. tion of some millions of people throughout
The will of the late Mr. Arthur Lloyd, uawe Japan, the result of inundations, and the little paper owner, has been proved at £194,314. He that bau bean done in the past with a view to makes considerable bequests to newspaper chari- alf-protection against à visitation which is ties, and the residue of £120,000 in left for the for supporting hospitals, especially any institu almost as sure to arrive as the hot season, the purchase of open spaces and playing fields, and position of Holland to-day offers itself as a com- tions benefiting the employees of his firms. parison of the characters of two peoples. The
of Holland low-lying situation
exposed
members of the family, ownors of the property a partner in the Chuen Hing Steamship the country to dangers which the people
so carried on, partners by English law? Either party might move for judgment on the fucts as found.
Mr. Potter-I move for judgment. His Lordship-I must have the facts argued.
THE LAW OF INTEREST.
The sotion in which the Imperial Bank of China whe plaintiff and Leung Shia Kong defendant, was mentioned by hia Lordship, who said that the difficulty was with regard to estoppel. The
Company, late of 53, Bonham Strand, tried before the Chief Justice and commen jury, be sat aside on the ground that the verdict waa against the weight of evidence.
Mr. Blado said this was an application for a new trial, and the ground of the application was the verdict, which was a bare majority verdict was against the weight of evidence. The wajority was four to three. Counsel then dealt with the subject of juries at home and un- address when the Court adjourned
for their own preservation had to guard againrt, and the consequence of steady industry and intelligence in a prosperous country oficiently protected from the ravages of these The Hollanders' experience has produced a race of engineers who will always be able to preserve their country against its greatest enemy. Japan has suffered infinitely more from the ravages of rivers, but the Japanese have not profited by their experience. Had they not been so prous
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THE FESTIVAL OF EMPIRE.
London, August 13th. Active proparations are being resumed for the Festival of Empire in 1911. The arrange. ments are on an even moro elaborate soils than previously, and strenuous efforts are being made to reader the festival fitting for Coronation year, when so many from the overseas Domin lons will be visiting England.
A scheme supported by the High Commis- singer is being carried out to erect models of the Parliament buildings of the Dominions two-thirds of the votnal size, in which the colonial exhibits will be housed.
The Indian section will be supervised by a committee approved by Lord Morley, who has the subject.
AIRMEN FETED IN PARIS,
London, August 17th Router talographs from Paris that the finish of the aeroplane race was made the occasion of a grast sporting fête. Thousande waited all night
long.
M. le Blane was the first to arrive from Amiens. He passed over the Eiffel Tower and downplaned amid feastie excitement. He received an ovation.
of 1,200 feet.
Mr. Aabran came in next, flying at a height
Both aviators were carried shoulder Eigh in triumphant procession.
London, August 18th. Altogether M. Lo Blane makes £5,000 out of the frontier racs and M. Auburn £520.
DISASTRE TO A POLAR EXPEDITION SHIP.
London, August 18th. Rentor wires from Copenhagen that the pioner Mickelson's deportalab tha explorer Mirkelson's expedition ship Alabama saak last winter. The crow were saved and wintered on Shannon Island. They will be taken off in the motor boat of the polar yacht. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE BRUBBELS FIRE,
London, August 18th.
Boator wires from Brussels that the Civil Court has grouted the application of the British Government for the appointment of experts to take an inventory of the value of the British exhibits and ascertain the cases of the disaster.
The Belgian Government and the Exbibition
Company opposed the application, contending that it was a matter for the Consular Courts.
THE WORLD'S SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP.
London, August 18th,
In the Sealing Championship, to-day, Arnst bent Barry by two lengths on the Zambesi.
DEFENCES OF AUSTRALIA,
London, August 18th. Reuter wires from Melbourne, tlist, in the
Benate, Mr. Pearce moved the second roading of the Defence Bill, the provisions of which are based on the recommendations of Lord Kitchener. It is hoped that it will be brought into force on the 1st January, 1911.
Naval defence will be provided for in a separate
_argument_was that the respondent's conduct op animons vardiots, and had not concluded his in the past to the fandistic view of things, the appointed Sir Thomas Holderness to advies on month for Esquimoult to-out-as-a-training- ship ·
to the time that the money ought to have been paid confirmed the view which appellaute took of the law as to interest. The difficulty was that the time had elapsed when the order ought to have been complied with, and the respon- dent went on endeavouring to get the interest paid on his coats. If that interest had been paid they would not have assented to the in- terim order for loave to appeal being made absolute. His Lordship confessed that he had· some don't as to whether that was possible. That point must be made clear.
Mr. Blade argued that his clients could not waive, even if they intended, their right to Interest
Mr. Alabaster said the other sido bal waived and could waive their right to interest.
The matter was not pursued further.
MITCHELL. ?. LEMM,
His Lordship said there was ono point in this case which was still open; and it could be mentioned on Monday when the Full Court sst. It was whether respondent-wished execution stayed, or the opposite. The order was open as they loft it. Meanwhile there was a judgment | in Chambers, and if any action was desired to be taken on that judgment it would have to come up on that date. Mr. Binde said he had not Been the judgment.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
shikataganai spirit, they would have guarded their country and utilised the tremendous flow of water which takes place every year after the rains, instead of allowing it to take its own A meeting of the Legislative Council la oniled | course and sprend destruction far and wide, for this afternoon.
The Hon. Mr. M. Stewart has given notice of his intention to ask the following questions:-
1. Is it the case thak, on the 16th instant, a respectable Chinese, in possession of a small quantity of a certain medicated malt extract, was arrested, and taken to the Harbogr Office, and there detained until the importing firm, from whom he had purchased it, was able to produce a letter from the Superintendent of Imports and Exporte, saying that the said
extract was not dutiable?
THE SITUATION OF TOKYO. There is no other city la Japan which is so exposed to these annual floods as Tokyo. The surrounding country for a radius of thirty miles in practically flat, and traversed by several rivers, which are nearly dry for a great part of the year in the summer season, and attalu formidable proportions. At the present moment the country between Tokyo and Yokohama is under water as a result of the bureting of the banks of the Tama River, but the damage done hero is in- significant compared to that to the north of the city. Fifteen miles beyond the northern limits of Tokyo in the Tore River; now fall to overflowing. Here it is about three times as wide as the Thames at London Bridge, and its bed, owing to the silting up of gravel from the mountains, in-on-a-level with the surrounding country. The river is confined by embankments of great The orders of the day are:
thickness, but already these have given way in First reading of * Bill entitled,
"Anplaces, and the water is rushing over the inter-! Ordinance to provide for the formation of a vening plain towards the city and sò adding to Volunteer Reserve."
the fury of the floods. But the great danger
2. Will the Government direct that all revenue officers armed with powers of arrest shall be kept informed of the decisions of the Superintenden of Imports and Exports na to what liquors are datiable and what are uct?
3. Will the Government direct that in the avant of any new decision to impose duty, or in case of a decision to sxeinpt being reversed, commitments entered into previously shall be unaffected?
THE “TERBA-'NOVA,"
London, August 15th. Router wires from Cape Town that the Antarctic vessel Terra Nova arrived with all well on board. She was delayed by magnetic observation.
HYSTERIOUS DISEASE.
London, August 15th. Peuter wires from Valladolid, Spain, that on unknown disease has broken out in an asylum. Death takes place a few minutes from the first symptoms. Five have died within two days, but post-mortem examination failed to reveni the cause. The only external sign is a red pot on the face and neck and it is believed to
be due to an insect sting,
OBITUART,
London, August 15th, The deaths are announced of Earl Amherst and Bir Fleetwood Edwards,
London, August 16th. The death is announced of the Scottish Judge Lord Parsona.
London, August 19th, The death is announced of Sir Honry Harben, Chairman of the Prudential Assurance Com pony, and Dr. King, Dean" of Lincoln."
WIGS ON THE GREEN IN BANTRY.
London, August 15th.
TEETOTAL WARSHIP FOR CANADA.
London, August 1901. The cruiser Rainboro has sailed from Ports-
for the Canadian Navy. It is manned by a rof- unteer crew, with staff Instructers. The cape are inscribed H. M. C. 8.". The grog tub has been abolished and it is the Brat testotal war. ship to leave England. Special allowances and luxuries, however, are provided,
"NOT OUT" BUT, RETIRES.
London, August 19t]. The Daily Mail correspondent at Now York telegraphs that the wheat and cotton king, Patton, has definitely retired from the Block Exchange.
ZEPPELIN TOURS,
Ton don, August 23rd, The Zeppelin airship "Baden Badon" has started a service of tours to day.
THE EMPIRE'S NEEDS.
ME, BALFOUR'S PLEA FOR COLONIAL PREFERENCE.
In view of the Colonial Conferese meat year, Mr. Balfour last month raised a disönsalon on
Colonial Preference in the House of Commons.
The Gallery representative of the Daily Graphio writes as follows:
3
ITCHING ECZEMA
WAS INTOLERABLE
Eruption Spread Over Face and Body Shamefully Disfigured→→ Had to Tie Hands and Feet and Bandage Face to Stop Agonized Scratching-Even Specialists
THOUGHT IT INCURABLE BUT CUTICURA CURED HER
“Boyun thros years agoʻl suffered from s alight rash which grew gradually to such & pitch that it developed into weeping oczema, So bad was 1, the direase spreading over my fars" and whole body, that I would only go out wearing a veil no extremely thick thai my features were unrecognisable and I myself could hardly see. In addition to this every night, on account of the terrible stching and sores, my hands had to be bound up and then tightly tied behind my back and as even then go intolerable was the agony, that I would scratch where possibly with my feet and rub my face against the bed clothes; my parents had eventually to firmly tie my feet together and bind a silk handker- chie! all over my face.
"I mention the facts with reluc- tance but they show the condition to which I was reduced. This went on for nearly two years in spite of apocialista and treatments at two hospítala, bus all gave me up as lagurable. I was then advised to trỳ Cuticura and, being des- perate, did so. I slept botter the Best night, and persevering, the itching grad- ually grow less, and the soreo disag- prated. Now I am free from blemish, Tid of the ithaome bandages and cas dispense with a veil. My oure in no wonderful and complate that I feel I should like others to know of this and, though you will quite approoiats from the above facts my not disclosing my name, I hope that you will see fit to publlab this lotter for the benefit of them. I am now only twenty, so you will understand what my cure means to me by Gm, Grand P rads, Eastbourne, Eng., Aug. 27, 1900.”
• Cullours la the midst scopomṣcal treptenens kao for the skin, soup, hair sad bonds, et infants, shildren and aduěta. A tablet of Cutleurs Hosp stā mypox of Cuticima. Ointment are often mufficient in wire. Bold throughout the world. Depota: London, 37, Charterhouse 8. Paris. 10. Itue de la Chɛstimon d'Auling Australia, R. Towes & Co., Sydney; Inék, B. E. Paul, Cakulta; Japan, Maruya, Lid), Tokki B. Afrin, Lennon, Ltd.. Cape Town, ere: U. H. AN Potter Drea & Chem, Corp., Bila Props, Boston, ON #Fost-free, 32-page Cultrum Bock, a completa Guide to the Care of the Skin and Scalp and the Das Viaczards of their Diaese.
During 1908-9, of the import trade into Canada 52 per cent, was from the United States (who, of course, had the advantage of proximity), 30 per cent from the United Kingdom, and per cent, from British colonies and possessions, leaving only 12 per cent, divided between France, Germany, and all other countries,
At the present moment the actual site of fants was that Canada's general tariff applied to Germany; her intermediate tariff to France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, and (on certain specified artlolos) the United States; and her preferential tariff to the United King rernit of Canada's fiscal freedom had not been in dom and the Colonies alone. Therefore, the
any degree prejudicial to the United Kingdom,
He wasnot aware of any domand put forward by the Colònies to change our Racal system. "What does reciprocity mean, trauslated lato concreto. terms? On what commodities are you going to patyour import duties in order to get reciprocity?'' asked Mr. Asquith of the Opposition. Corn?
First reading of a Bill entitled, "Anaatioipated from the Tonegawa lies at a point speechos. The platform was bombarded and pristion Bill, restricteding of the Appro. Somebody says corn. Here I think there is a
His Lordship thought any action taken on Ordinance to amend the Pharmacy Amendment that should come up later and then the Court | Ordinance, 1910.""
should sotion.
should deal with it. The respondent has to First reading of a Bill entitled, "An decide whether he wants it stayed or not. ItOrdinance to amend the Malicious Damage
bokas on after the habeas corpus. Amendment Ordinance, 1910,"
First reading of « Bill entitled, “An Ozdi- nance to further amend the Law relating to Dangerous Gooda."
BEFORE THE FULL COUNT]-
A PREMATURE APPLICATION,
In the appeal by Ng Tak Teng against the decision in the action which he brought against Wong Cheung Cho, Mr. Potter, who appeared for the respondent, asked that the action be dismissal for want of prosecution.
Mr. Blade took a preliminary objection, but their Lordships decided first to hear the facts
from Mr. Potter.
Second reading of the Bill entitled, "An Ordinance to amend the Magistrates Amendment Ordinance, 1903."
15 miles due North of Tokyo, where the river is held up by what is called the Gongendo em. bankment and sluice. This is being watched axiously through day and night. Wow it to give way the whole volume of the Tone would be divided and married right over the low-lying parts of Tokyo, destroying-everything-in-its- path. One of the tributaries of the Tone runs through the city, and there are besides several ather rivers all of which are now above their embankments. The authorities are helpless. They can only await the time when the waters will abate, and are now engaged with the aid of the troops in distributing relief,
streets.
of Police. police made several charges. A hundre
TEREST IN THE LABOUR WORLD.
London, August 15th. Considerable anxisty regarding unrest in the labour world prevails throughout Europe. Ship building and railway trouble is threatening in Great Britain. The shipbuilding strike in Germany is assuming ever increasing propor tions. The railwaymen in France are fighting for a minimum wage on all lines, while there is s most sorious outlook at Bilbao in connection
is long since anything was heard of Colonial Preference in the House of Commons. To-day however, it was the s subject of a debate which at A fieroo fight took place at Bantry, yesterday, owing to three Members of Parliament, sapties was lively. Mr. Balfour, who raised the porters of Mr. Redmond, attempting to deliver question on the second
to the limits of little rift in the Protectionist luts."
Bo Mr. Asquith proceeded to make one of the the members fled. Forty persons were injured, the question, but Mr. Asquith carried the matter
further and virorously attacked Tariff Reform. familiar Free Trade versus Tariff Reform indinding the Chief
Mr. Balfour desired the House to take into its speeches, Mr. Balfour sat by him, impassive, constables got the Members of Parliament most sexions consideration the present position Wam Colonial corn to come in free? Mr. Asquith saly into the train hers was subsequently of this country in relation to the whole problem asked. ("Wait and see, shunted the Oppor
As far back as 1843 antion back benches.) There was one of the pundits much fighting between the two partice in the of Colonial Prefersace.
appeal was made by Canada for some fiscal of the Tariff Commission-high priest, Grand arrangement between the Dominion and the Lams-could he answer? Mother Country, That expression
opinion
If no duty on Colonial corn, how about the had been consistently repeated by Colonial
overy statesman of worth siuve. All had spoken with British farmer P They could not have it both one voice; all had pressed on the other way. Were they going to discriminate were Country one policy; and the Mother Constry they going to give Preference to Canada be
cause it way a food exporting country, and refuse slons had stood in the way of that polley being it to South Africa, which sent us raw materials ? carried out.
Really the question of Preference was as The views of those great Colonial statesmen were not merely commercial. They had in vier nebuloss, as fall of practical inconsistencies and the idea of Empire: The majority of the absurdities, to-day as it was in 1903. He would
Jiks to Cabinet of 1903 (Lord Ritchie, then Chancellor to see inter-Imperial Free Trade, but
Colonial opinion Ied The gravest festure of these troubles is the of the Exchequer, was entirely opposed to it) was not possible as long as I need not detail the scenes of misery in growing disposition of the men to reject the | would have established Preference with Canal them to practise Protection for native industries.
Cheap food and cheap raw material were separably connected with ene's a visitation. advise of the leaders. There are indications of and other Colonies, bet at that time public lutely essential to us, and wo
were abso ecald Committee on the Bill entitled, "Az Ordi. The poor are the saferers and those high trade movements for getting out of the hands opinion was not sufficiently matured for a divide to impose could never have been kept tog
taxes
res which would enhance their cost. ed Cabinet to take that great and novel ster, of the organisation which have hitherto con-
In 1906 renewed expression was A iven to the
ther, or be what it is to-day--Empire bound not trolled and dirested them,
Colonial sppeal for Preference without result, ther
so much by musterial as moral and social ties although it was admitted that the unreciprocal and loyal affection and sympathy-if they wors
from Downing
Strest preference which Canada gave to this country
to insist and been of great advantage to us. The renit
be the fiscal policy of the bat hold They was that Canada bad to deal as an isolated unit with all the great commercial countries of the gave the Dominions complete fiscal antonomy
and the handicap which that involved was price this country was glad to pay for Empire, That policy destino fa sund the Cage for the fullest local development of the whole.
Canada did to-day, Australia and the
He (Mr. Balfour) looked would have to do. forward with absolute certainly to seeing the advantages of Preference which we now enjoyed whittled away until the most-favoured-nation clause became the shadow of a shade, and finally vanished altogether away.
Second reading of the Bill entitled "An Ordinance to secure the better training of Mid. wires and to regulate their practice."
Second reading of the fill entitled, "An Ordinance to amend the Kollet Island Ordi- nance, 1698,"
Mr. Potter stated that the appeal of the plaiq-, tiff was from the decision of the Chief Justice.nance to provide for the segregation and treat On the 4th July last the appollant was ordered mout of lepers." to give security and on the 13th July the appeal •Second reading of the Bill entitled, "An came on for hoaring. The appellant did not then Ordinance to amend the Tramway Ordinance, find security and Counsel asked that the case be 1902" distniased. It was brought before their Lord- ships notice that the appollent had not put up- the security, and as it was stated that the man was in Singapore trying to raise the money their Lordships gave him a month in which to get the money. The Court said the matter might be mentioned in Chambers,
Mr. Blade said that was his objection. The mattor should have been mentioned in Chambers, instead of making them incur the costs of Counsel when they wore prepared with sureties.
Mr. Potter replied that the earsties were not satisfactory to the Registrar. The Registrar had refused to accept one.
Mr. Slade said that two suretion were not
necessary.
Mr. Potter replied that they were entitled
to two.
Mr. Patior and that the plaintiff had not put up security, and the only process left to Counsel was to ask for the notion to be dismissed for
*Will not be proceeded with at this meeting.
DOUBLE INCOME-TAX
A GRIEVANCE DISCUSSED WITH MM. LLOYD GEORGE.
A deputation from public companies whose head ofloss are in England but whose enter prises are wholly carried on in British posse sions abroad waited upon the Chancellor of the Exoher recently to lay before him the
of question double
payment of Income-tax shareholders.
Sir Edward Sassoon, who introduced the said they represented joint stock
(THE REMEDY.
in authority are the guilty parties. It Bruat be remembered that Japan is not in experienced in the matter of floods, which cause more damage yearly than all the sarth- quakes and fires put together. Art it is strange that while the country in so advanced in the study of the cause and remedy for earthquakes, there should be no national movement for the prevention of floods--which involves morely labour-whose causes are apparent to all In skilful hands the conservation of rivers could actually be made & productive onterprise. The shallow beda, filled with the gravel of centuries so that in the cousse of time the bed of the river has risen above the level of the surround. ing country, would be deepened, the embank ments strengthened, and land reclaimed with the excavated material.. i.
with a strike in favour of shorter hours.
BCOAE CULTIVATION IN KENT.
London, August 15th. In connection with the cultivation of beet sugar in Suaser and Kent arrangemente ars being made for a engar factory in Tunbridge Wells district.
CANADIAN DEFENCES.
London, August 16th. Brigadier General Colin Mackenzie has been appointed First Military Advisor to the Canadian Forces.
A BOTAL TRIBUTE TO THE LATE MISS XIGHTINGALE.
world
It was impossible we could go on in the days when we had he say primary and see market after market taken from us, without our being able to strike a diplomatic blow in our own de-
London, Augnet 16th. The King and Queen have telegraphed to the relatives of Miss Florence Nightingale deeply regretting the sad news of her desta. Her untiring and devoted services to British soldiers in the Crimes will never be forgotten. To her fence,
The Empire
OTHER SPEAKERS.
that
not
consent
the
The two leaders, had occupied less than an hour between them: For three hours and a half longer the debate went on in a small House. Mr. Mackinder maintained that the Government by thoir policy were driving the Colonies away from us." Mr. J. M. Robertson said that both Canadian and German progress was due not to tariffs, but to their natural resources.
capital of something like £25,000,000. They and in sitimate profit. It is this sort of deputation, shareholders and debenture would result in an annual saving to the people splendid organisation of trained nurses,"
The enterprise would cost millions, but it striking example wo practically owe our present that, apart from encouraging a policy which corn, and that a 1s, duty on had never raised the
desirous of laying before the Chancellor
were
the
An old
FLYING OVER THE CHANNEL.
London, August 17th, Beuter wires from Calais that M. Moisant started for London this morning, in a strong breeze and is flying well.
A later telegram reports that he passed Calais
Dover, and before 2 o'clock was approaching intending to proceed to London in one flight. anbeequently crossed the Chaunel, passed Ashford, following the railway to London.
M. Latham, who is at present at Amiens, intends to fly to London via Boulogns.
Later.
His complaint against the Government would tend to make each separats part of the Empire consider itself a part of the Empire, they had discouraged the great policy of Prefer- ence. That policy ought to become, and might still become, the common property of all British statesinan as it was of all. Colonial statesmen.
MENACING THE EMPIRE.
Mr. Chaplin said that a 28. duty on foreign corn was equal to a 1s. duty on all our imported price of bread to the people. Replying to Mr. farmer came in, he would like to see the produce Asquith's question as to where the English of some of the corn duty devoted to the benefit of agriculture.
Mr.
Bowles looked upon the discussion as "the last dying groan of this financial heresy of Tariff Reforma."
By not encouraging that policy they were
Cotons Elesly came to loggerbeade with Mr. commercial interests. If it was not adopted, had to rise often in order to correct Colone) waskaning and risking their great trading and Balfour. The latter got impatient after having they would find that the Colonies would make Seely's interpretation of his speech. Colonel their own comunsrcial treaties with no reference Seely twitted Mr. Balfour with having sband- to this country or
that they had the Empirs as a whole,
Bud
held dear.
M. Endham, on re-starting from Amions, ¦ domestic policy as compelled to frame their oned the principle of Free Trade which, he once
unita, and not as part
“I never held it dear,” protested Mr. Balfour
the grionuous of the shareholders in respect of expenditure, however, which has noter bon for the payment of Income-tax appreciated by the Japanese. In the past The Chief Justice remarked that the proper both in this pantry and in the possession in their poverty, and the absence of commercial course was to have raised the question in the results of the Finance Aot of last year which the enterprises were carried on. When
enterprise of any sort, has no doubt been à Chambers.
Mr. Potter said that security had not been difficult to squire capital in this country for ditions are vastly different to-day. In the came home to poople it would be increasingly weighty argument against any outlay, but con-
He
given.
enterprises abroad, The Chief Justico stated that objection had
Mr. Lloyd-George said this was
flooded districts of Tokyo there are many which had best raised annually large mills, as substantial and as valuable as rievance been taken. He could deal with that point.
ment between the countries concerned, but until time being must stop and whose trade with might be, he suggested, some arrange anything in England, whose output for the there was some such arrangement the Mother- China mast anffer in consequenos, Proporcided with a tree and smashed, his aeroplane of one great Empire. That would be the worst country could not be called spon to surrender tionately the economic atutas of the whole f. Latham was unhurt. the tax. When the greater proportion of out
possible service, not merely to the commerce and capital
obtained W0.9
this country,
Great people has risen. They no longer live, meta- 31. Moisant is an American from Chicago.
the Colonies by notadopting a policy of Britain most, at
thome vast Imperial interests of which the
preferance. The Colonies in their prescut adult protection of the Empire.
stage must have tresty-making power; if that He steered by the same time, he thought it hard that the washing, but are people with trade interests at but he carried two life-belts, and was not Mother Country was the guardian,
MB. ASQUITH'S EEFLY.
treaty-making power was exercised by them British investor who flasted the undertakings
ings home and abroad. Hence the necessity for acquainted with the route
compass and escountered a storm of wind and
Mr. Aiquith took up the challenge readily while we held aloof from all cominercial rele rain in mid-Channel.
enough. He thought the question had too long tions, then the two things in conjunction tended Ho crossed the Channel in half-an-hour. The been allowed to slumber. He acknowledged that towards disseverance rather than unification. machine is a Bleriot, with a Gnome engine, and the Preference granted to British goods by "Surely the signs of dissererancs shoukl he carried a mechanic throughout. To uocesa Canada had been beneficial to British goods. Į begin to appear," replied Colonel Seely, "but fally landed at Tilmanstone, though numbed But every artificial restriction to free indow was the exact opposite is the case. So the duel with cold.
unded,
want of prosecution,
without rising this time. Mr. Balfour alee
offending
to be dismissed for want of prosecution. The taxation for they rate, get some chare of phorically speaking, by taking in inch others' No tags were in attendance during the fight anafactures of the Mother Country, but to protested that he did not suggest we were
The Chief Justice did not think it was a case
day in oùe month on original summons if neces Bary,"
mattor zhould have been mentioned in Chambers. His note was, “case to be mentioned and fix a through which the Colonies thrived should be their protection, apart from all humanitarian called upon to pay a double tax, and he promised points of view. It is most probable that the to take the matter into consideration if there disasters which are afflicting Tokyo at the on "pportunity. He suggested that the present moment will mark an epook in the Imperial Conference might afford such an opportunity.
Mr. Potter said there could be no hearing unless the security wore forthcoming.
economic history of this country.
i
pro tanto a diminution.