SUPREME COURT.
Tuesday, October 14th.
IN BUMMARY JURISDICTION.
Bronn Hrg Honour Ma. J. E. Kaur
(PUIGNE JUDOR)...
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBRE 152, Ins
As Yeo Koo (the addresse) is young and ignorant, I shall trouble you to teach her, Land request you to treat her moro kindly and shall be grateful for your unbounded kindness. I am luckily in good houith, and you need not worry yourself shoot mo.
To Yx Koo
Mado and sort by Tsang Shi.
Peacock and Phonix emg in harmony (Happy marriago.)
A CHINESE MARRIAGE CONTRAÇA The part heard action in which · Li Isang Shi, widow, is suing Toe Sain Cheong to recover: 81,000 damages was Continued. The writ of summons sets out that (1), plaintiff's claim is apona guarantee in writing dated the 11th day 10th moon of the first year of the Chinos Bepublic, whereby the defendnat pro mined that he would be responsible for the good of one, Ho Hin Ubau, otherwise Wai Che, the husband of Ah So, the daughter of the plaintiff, in that the said Bo Hin Chau would allow the plaintiff to sit her daughter at any time; (8), the marriage took place on the 17th day of the 10th moon, old era in the first your of the Chinese Repablic; (3), The plain- till went to the family house of the said Ho Hin Chau on the 21st June, 19, but was refused permission to ee her i generations. How happy i would be!. daughter.
Ho Yin Chou, your younger generation by marriage (son-in-law) rospectfully dilutes with hat off."
The statement in submitted to Mr. X, my rolation by marriage.
in hearon, and the marrisgo to be contracted It is believed that the union is prodestinate by human happiness, so that the marriage in the world by the husband and wife aro brought together in their predestined union. I am indeed very fortunate of having obtained your grost promise to give your intelligent daughter to me, a man of mediocre talents, as wife in my re-marriage (Inte wife being dead). D
Now, the lucky day has been fixed for articles prepared for the betrothal presents. taking ceremony of the marriage, but the are limited and not precious.
Further, you are requested to exouse me and accept such a trifling present, which for 100 years, and the prosperity of nost will form the scares of the happy marriage
?
After all, I shall nak the consent of my Mr. F. Mason appeared for the plain-deas (maternal) mother, and obliging for a
short address. tiff, and Me G. R. Haywood for the defondant
Mr. Mason ask permission to recall the plaintiff, and put in through her certain certified copies of doesments connected with the marriage," "
Mr. Haywood then cross-oxamined"! Did you receive any money for your doughter I have not seen my daughter, and she did not send me any.
Have you received any money from the husband-No, not from the husband.
Did not you receive $380 1-1 received $310, but I gave my daughter a big dowry, and in fact I did not get much. money out of the marriage-
→ Do you recognise that receipt (produced) ?--I have not wen "this document, and I don't know what it is.
I will tell you, it is a rewipt for $380 received from Ho His Cho-Did receive it?
Mr. Haywood-Possibly, I don't know who received it.
Witness-Who made that receipt did not.
Dated the lucky day, Tung Moon; in the first year of the Chineso Kapublic.
Blu Bi Chau bows us before, Male (husband born at Yae Bhi (horary oycle), on the 10th day second moon. Kan you years
Female (wife) born at The Shi (borary cycle), on the 14th day of the 6th mosn
Yau year. Tung
The song
of the happy marriage for 100.
The token of prosperity for five genera ions,
years.
THE PHILIPPINES. PRESIDENT WILSON'S MESSAGE.
PREPARATION FOR INDEPENDENCE.”
The following is the full text of the speech in which Mr. Burton Harrison, these Governor Goal of the Philip- Ipines, announced the President's policy
in regard to the Philippines:
Mr. Haywood-- a cross-examining you, you are not cross-examining me, That document says your daughter was given to the defendant as a concubine,
Witness--I did not give a receipt, That inust be forged
Do you know, as a matter of fact, that your daughter is a equcubine-It was agreed that my daughter was to be married to the defendant as a tin fong, not as a concubine. Had I known she wa to have heen married as a concubine, I would not have let her go for many, many dollars.⚫
Do you knew how don't know. I went up and would not see her. Were you very anxious that your daughter should. not go as a concabine-Certainly.
Citizens of the Philippine Islands The President of the United States hae. charged me to deliver to you the following message on behalf of the Government of our country: -
"We regard ourselves as trustees acting not for the advantage of the United States- but for the benefit of the people of the Philippine Islands.
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"Every step we take will be taken witir a view to the ultimate independence of the islands and as a preparation for that independence, and we hope to move towards permanent interests of the islands will that end as rapidly as the safety and the permit, After each stop taken experience will guide as to the next,
The administration will take one step at once and will give to the native citizens of the islands a majority in the appointive com- mission and thus in the upper as well as in the lower house of the legislature a majority representation will be secured to them.
We do this in the confident hope and expectation that immediate proof will be
arrangement, of the political
niready come forward to represent and to load their people in affairs
If you were so anxious why didn't you given, in the action of the commission under go to Hoj Fung district and discover the now whother this man bad a kif fat or a fincapacity of thoes native citizens who have fong I had the defendant's own word and the words of the go betweens that my daughter was going to be married as his wife. An old women like me, advanad in age and not knowing where Hoi Fung was, could not travel. It would be impos sible for mo to make such inquiries.
the President of the United States. With This is the mange I bear to you from his sentiment and with his policy I am in complete accord. Within the scope of my affice, as Governor-General I shall do
promises, confident that we shall thereby hasten the coming of the day of your independence. For my own part I should not have accepted the responsibility of this great office merely for the honour, and the power which it confers. My only
Once you made an effort to get to Hoi Fung, and you managed to put there my utmost to aid in the fulfilment of sur It was clearly stated in the document of the three generations, and I went there according to the three generations, and I went there according to the address given me.
While you were in Hoi Fung wouldn't
it have been advisable to make inquiries motive in coming to you is to serve, an about your son-in-law-When I went well as in me lies, the people of the thore his father, an old man, threatened Philippine Islands, It is my greatest
to strike me, and was not at all pleased hope that I may become an instrument in with me. How could I stay there f--the further spread of democratic govora-
had to go.
Did you receive any presents while you were there --They did not even give me my passage back. Don't talk about presents.
ment.
Do You Feel Fit In the Mornings ?
In the morning when the white AN AWAKEAs in countries near tao desabor, he often fonia nadzo
• Chand fan whon ko went to bed.
ve foot bi ta, ta đến Ba
· Backsthes, and the steamy head of Kas kroplos provoko a general slag- nattom of the system. The juloss.
at the body are charged was impurities which the cosas of excretion the : aliaj
etc.-card (dxpol; kita : Musa Is sluggish, his blood. IREN -heated. He in at the meter the malignant disessed surgd fing hit:
Krüschen Salts
-hall-imam poonful of frischen'
· Born, taken in a tumbler of hot ważne hatoze the morning cup of
*l the unfailing remedy: Tkay cleanse the body of Impurities gently, “unzoly, patelessly whilst possessing won! Jerful sonic properties giving new Lisa and vitality to the countless maillions (of: sells of which the Burman body is composed,
Flamb, blood, bone, brkin amall marta, all are made up of cells and meng_aill requéren one or mors-of-
the constituents of hyp for its healthy life,
That is why doctors ng hurt and abroad recommend shia kungen remedy,
Krischen Baltu oversol say derangement of the organs nud fortify the body againri Dyson - try Enterio, Malaria, Prickly Heat and Dhobia's itak. Aa
a remedy for constipation--fa most "dreaded of evils is the ad white man in the troplos, dinggay -aza infallible.
Begin to-morrow morning with Krüschen Salts
tha day or so, you will feel bright as you would en a epdaug
montally
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WEATHER REPORT.
On the 14th số 10.30 Fremre ha de Curtmel slightly to moderatoly in all districts, ezept omar the Visayas, where it has inaronted alightly budget
At 6 am, this morning the typhoosa waa la about latitude. 17 Jag. B. and longitude 123) deg. E. travelling apparently NNW
Freak N. winds may be expected along the south oust of China, and orof the north-sark pralin of the H. Gia Đinh
Hongkong minfall for 24 hours smiling at 1.10 am, today, 0,00 incliai..
The format for the 24 hours andống té noon to-day in na follows:
Durelor
* Hongkong & Neighbourhood Formers CasaMON
FOREGANT
Mortherly gala,
trenia.
Benth court of China bolwenn JN.E. winda,
Hongkong and Lamooks: į
Bontà donat of Chins between (The simo M Hongkong and Hainam.. 17. No. 1.
• North winds, medovato; fno."
CHINA. COAST METŘOROLOGICAL
BEGISTER.
14ɛn Ooromm, 1913, a...
Vladrostook.
Kekadats...... Tokio
29.93
Nagasaki
29.89
Kagoshima" *** Oskima ne
29.86
29.81
29.75
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23.83
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Bonia Is.-- .**T! Chefoo Weslurred Hankow Lokang
Kinking Changsha
Shanghai Gutzlaff
Sharp Peak
Swatow Taihoku
ALROT
Taichu
Tainan
Koshun
Pescadores
Moso Wuchow Hoihow
Pakhoi
29.95 61 100
Hour.
Faronister
HISH111832981 LISTELLERINTIS Temperature.
Humidity
Direction.
Weather.
4898881888 885
THREEFST EN81 138 4118 HAHA.
76186
297774
Canton
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29,83
29.81
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Phulien
6.29
Tourno
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974
Aparmi Manila Legaspi
$29.52
29.61
29,67
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To every democrat, government reste) only upon the consent of the governed and we do not maintain that self-govern- THE
Do you consider you suffered damage ment is the peculiar property of our to the extent of 8900 through not being nation, or that democratic institutions allowed to see you daughter-I have are the exclusive privilege of our race, only one daughter. I am not allowed On the other hand we do not believe that to see her, and I am advancing in ago we can endow you with the capacity for and cannot beg on the street.
self-government. That you must have
So you suffered 2000 damages. Sup-acquired for yourselves. The opportunity posing you were to get that amount you of demonstrating it lice before you now would go to Hoi Fung to-morrow, and in an ever-widening Beld.
INTERESTING CHINESE
KLO
if you were refused admission to see your As for ourselves, we conidently expect daughter you could get another $990 of you that dignity of bearing and that damagest-That is not ao. It is only for self-restraint which are the outward once, it cannot be for ever.
evidences of daily increasing national Further evidence was taken, and the consciousness. In promising you hearing adjourned until Friday.
behalf of the administration immediate control of both branches of your legisla ture I remind you, however, that for the present we are responsible to the world for your welfare and for your progress. Until your independence is complete wa shall demand of you unremitting recogni-| tion of our sovereignty,
You are row on trial before an inter- national tribunal that is as wide to the world. We who appear before this august court in the light of your advocates are proud of the privilege that. has fallen to us and we do not ehun tho
DOCUMENTS.
TRANSLATIONS BEFORE THE COVEK,
The following translations of Chinese documents were produced in the Summary Court yesterday during the bearing of the Chinese marriage contract case
.
Having separated from each other, and there have been many changes, I love you so dearly that no words can describo it.
It is to state that your mother returned home in the fith moon, she was taken dangerously ill, insensible and spitting blood. I went back to Canton for medical treat meat, which brought back my health, and how I am all right.
responsibilities of our role which is with- out a parallel in history. We shall eagerly await convincing proof that you are capable of establishing a stable government of your own, Such a govern- ment may not necessarily denote an entire reproduction of our-own institutions but one which guarantees to its citizens com- plete security of life, of liberty, and of property. We now invite you to sharë treat you well in your husband's) house with us responsibility for such a govern- As the weather is cold now, you had better ment here. Every Filipino may best pat on more clothes from time to time, and serve his country who serves us in this take more rice and toa day and night. Then cadeavour; and to that end I call every your happiness would be perfect. The good citizen of these islands and all who husband has trented you so kindly, and hardwell therein whether of dative or foreign parents are really grateful.
birth for assistance and support.
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CHILY OFFICE-LUDGATE CIRCUS, LONDON, E.C Hongkong, Zies May, 1913.
T. F. CLAKTON, Director. I BAROMETER, "roduced to 32 degresa Fabrealit on the level of the sea in tuales, tenths and hundredtka.
"S'EMPERATUSE, in the shadó, in degrees
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3 HDRIDITY, in percentage of starting the humidity of air saturated with moisture being · TỪ,
4 DIRECTION OF WIND, to two painia,
6 Fonca or "WIND, nocording to Beefort Sale: -S STATE OF WHATER, b Blue aky, detached cland, d ärissling rain, f fog, g gloomy, h hall, Ughtning, o oressat, p peasing showers, geguali. rrain, a mow, thander, viability, 'w dow (wet)
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Hongkong Observatory, October 14th:
Barometer.
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SHIPPING IN PORT.
Amor, British atr., 1,354, J. B. Harris,
19th October-Shanghai 9th October, General Butterfield & Swire. ARIAKI MABU, Japanese str., 9,193, §. Bato, 8th October-Saigon 3rd Octo ber, Rico-Mitsui Busaso Krisha ATAKA MARU, Japanma str., 2,596, Noge
chi, 8th October-Chingwantao 30th September, -Ocal--Mitsuí.“. Busana Kaisa
CANTON MABU, Japani33 F, 1,097, E
Fuji, 12th October Moji sth October, Con-Mitsui Bishi Goshi Kwaisha. CHILDAR, Norwegian str., 1,102, N
Hjonth, 11th Cutober-MacLSELT Ind October, Bugar and Battan. - Asgaard, Thoreson & Co. CHIYO MARU, Japanese atr., 5,432, W. W Greene, 8th October San Francis 11th September, Maila and General. Toyo Kinen Kaisha
Cows, British etr., 2,158, Cooper, 8
October-Woosung 5th October, Ba last-Aristie Petroleum Co. 42 FAUBANG, British str. 1410, H.
Walker 10th October-Samarang 1000 September, Sugar-Jaraine, Mathas
than son & Co. 15
HAITANG, British str., 1,362, A.1. Hodgins, 8th October-Fooobow October, General-Douglas Lapraf & Co.
HororONG, French str. 739, Marguerita IIth October Hoihow 10th October, General & B. Marty.
29.60
29.83
29.79
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84
74
53
68
Wiad Dirsotion...
East North
58 SE
Farée,
1
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Weather Bain
0
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Highest open air Temperature on 13tk... 84. Lowest open air Texaporature on 13th... 74
HONGKONG TIDE TABLE
Treek
From 15th to Rial October, 1913.
HIGH WATER
Height
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ft. in
H'kong.
H'Long
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Мева
Time.
Tina
Wed: 15 m
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6
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19 10 a 7 :
2.9
9:28 54
4-4 34532 436
15
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21
Fri. 17 10 465
9.497.5 Batur 18 m 11.24 |
10 13 7 8. 19 0 184 9 60 21 10:41 7 8 5 4316 4.1 *Mon 20 (1 54 x 4 4 [m. § 56
11.89 of 7-8 4 364 3 TO 21
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KHONGWAI, German str., 1,115, R. Pet
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October-Bangkok 1st October, Riz
Aagaard, Thoresen & Co.
KWANGLER, Chinese str., 1,468, MaArthur, 10th October Shanghai 7th October General-Chines
KWEILIN, British atr., 1,207, Forsyth, 106.
October-Newchwang 2nd October Genocal-Butterfeld & Swire. KYODO HARU, Japanese str., 1,83
Morisaki, 5th October-Newchwang 29th September, Coal-Mitsui Busi Kaisha. LANDEAT SCHIEF, German stz., 1015. A. Struve, 10th October--Saigon 5th October, Rice-Biomsson & Co.
LAOMEDON British str., 4,208, 1. D. Owen, 17th October-Singapore th October, General. – Butterfield Swire
MANCHURIA, American str., 13,838, A Dixon, 11th October-San Francis 10th September, Geroral-Pacifi
Mail 8.8, Co.
Mexico Mano, Jap. atz., 3,769, N. Kohn yachi, 4th Oct-Shanghai 1st October, General-Osaka Shosen Kaisha." PREUMPENE, British str., W. O. Bird, 42 October-Saigon 29th September General.Chinese.
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October-Manila 9th October, Gen oral-Ehowin, Tomes & Co.
SANDEI MARU, Japanese str., 3,700, T.
Noma, 12th October-Japan 7th Octo ber, Flour and General. Nippon Yuson Kaisha..
SIKIANG, French str., 615, J. Pannier, 7th October-Haiphong 4th October, General Menagerien Maritimes, SINGAN, British str. 1,700, G. Morse, 11th October Weilaiwei 7th October, General.--Butterfeld & Swire. SOSKU MAZU, Japanese str., 1,110, A Struve, 10th October-wałow 9th October, General. Osaka Shosen Kaisha.
TRIGONIA, Dutch str., 1,070, Groendyk, lak October-Palembang 24th September, Bulk Oil.-Asiatic Petroleum Co. TRIUM, German str., 739, Langschwager, 7th October-Hoihow 6th October, General-Jebsen & Co.
WAISHING, British etr., 1,170, Holmwood,
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30th September-Manila 27th Septem ber, General-Shewan, Tomes & Co.
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
The LG.M. str. Prins Sigismund loft Manila on the 13th October, at 7 pm, and may expected here to day, daylight.
The CP.R. str. Empress of Asta left Nagasaki on the 18th October, at 6 p.m., and is due to arrive at Kobe on the 18th October, at 6 p.m.
The H.A.Latr. Hoerde left Moji on the 13th October, p.m.,, and may be ex pected hem on or about the 18th October,
The E. & A. str. Empire left Sydney on the 12th October, for this port vin Queensland Porta, Port Darwin and Manila, and may be expected to arrive here on or about the 6th November.
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