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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 301¤, 1313
THE EXTRADITION CASE.
defendant. There had been an applica tion by the plaintiff for summary judg
FOOTBALL NOTES. The 19 Army and Navy match will easily bear comparison with any previons one, whether viewed from
a social, financial, or playing standpoint. Added to this, the arrangements, in this capable hamis of Secretaries Wilson and Smith, were well thought out and carried through without a hitch, so that all connected With the fixture may congratulate them- selves thereon. Everybody who anybody connected with the Services attended, and the kindly interest of the Commander-in-Chief and the G.0.0 in Sir Francis contended it was perfectly coming cally and staying kule was much good evidence. The file was already in appreciated. · Every ship, and regiment evidence, and his Worship had to see as a
was represented and Commander Baillie- more question of fact, what defence the Hamilton and Captain Robertson stood fugitive had set up in his affidavit. sponsors for the H.K.F.A. in their His Worship-The fact that the defend-respective positions of Navy and Army him on the point of law which he (Sirant made a claim of right is evidence, I councillors Heads of Departments of
the Dockyard also showed their apprecin Francis) had raised. Ho thought it suppose.. would be convenient, in view of possible.
He has tion by their prosence on the grand-stand, proceedings thereafter, that he should got to establish it. You have it to this and pur fine tid game can never diminish. know a little more definitely what his extent at present, that he is defending in importance while it in
well Worship's findings were with regard to an action and that he has filed an patronised and conducted as this match the points of law, and therefore be pro-amdavit. posed to pata number of questions to the Magistrate, and he would ask his Worship
The hearing of the case in which the ment, and that was answered by the extradition of Chung Sau Nam to China defealant, and an affidavit was placed is sought was resumed before Mr. J. Ron the file, He produced a copy of the Wood at the Magistracy yesterday afidavit. A motion had been made by the Mr. Eldon Potter and Mr. F. C. Jenkin | defendant to dismiss, the action as frivol. (instructed by the Assistant Crownons and vexatious. An affidavit had been Solicitor, Mr. P. M. Hodgson, and Mr.filed by the witness on behalf of the R. F. C. Master, of Messrs. Johnson, defendant, Stokes & Master), appeared in support of Mr. Potter objected to the procedure. the extradition, and Sir Francis Piggott Any statement made in the form of and Mr. C. G. Alabaster (instructed by writing, unless it be given by the defend Mr. G. E. Hall Brutton and Mr. W. B.ant in the witness box, was not evidence Hind, of Messrs. Brutton & Hett) were in his favour. for the defence.
Sir Francis Piggott said the point they had arrived at at the last hearing was that he had closed his argument on the ques tion that there was no case, and that his Worship intimated that be was against
Mr. Porter-I do not think so. a
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that
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to answer them,
His Worship--I do not propose to
answer them.
Sir Francis said he must put them, at It was possible that they any rate. Mr.
would have to go to habem corpus, and then the defence must know exactly where they were, and what the Magistrate had found. It was quite within his Worship's province. He would put these questions. and his Worship could deal with them as he thought fit.
to them about two years ago. Everything was going on very well until, suddenly, Chinese speculatore and others began to buy land, as it was predicted they would do, in the intervening ground. between the site selected for the Cidade Carney and the occupied land further west; this caused the quite erroneous view. Following closely upon the articles that their site had been granted at too which appeared in this paper dealing cheap a price and the real difficulty then with the abnormally high rents of the hegan, and much correspondence ensued. Colony, and the urgent need of remedial He had always held that the two measures, a large deputation, thoroughly things necessary for the success of representative of the Portuguese com- the scheme Was the Government's munity, yesterday waited upon Mr. sympathy, and the absolute co-operation Montague Ede, as his office, in connec of all the Portuguese. That meeting was tion with the project formulated some amplo evidence that they were as much at one as they were two years ago, and Iwo years &ge for the creation of a Portuguess City on a site selected at he could not too strongly express bis The deputation was grateful thanks to them for so adhering Wongneicheong. introduced by Mr. M. E. Silva, chief to the scheme, and assisting him with clerk of the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank. their moral support. They had no idea
Mr. SILYA snid: The duty of how he appreciated their efforts in testify
ing to their unity of purpose as they had spokestoan to deputation, as rule, carries with it a sense of much done that day, particularly as he knew it When i was asked and had been a very busy day with all responsibility.
He was glad to be able consented to act in that capacity on ile of them. present occasion I felt conscious of the to say that he hoped that ere long great sense of responsibility devolving he would have some news for them. His upon me. I do not take it lightly. Our patel went through the representations touch a subject of suchent to the Secretary of State
the 19th November, and it Was pressing and vital importance to us as a
As 0 us section of a large community that I feel nearly time for a reply that, in urging our case upon your kind he received a reply he would communićalo attention and sympathetic consideration, it to them so that everyone present should
see how matters were progressing. we shall obtain from you a patient and Ede added: My principle in life, indulgent hearing. Our collected pre- | whenever I take up anything which I sence here to-day represents large think is good, as this is, is never to let proportion of the subscribers to, and i have succeeded. If I take more time than you are at present anticipating, others interested in, the scheme you have you will no doubt bear with me, know
quite
well designed and, now for the past two years, deavouring to the best of my ability to I aft en- strenuusly endeavoured to have carried bring the schemo to a successful and ont to provide that desirable and impera happy conclusion. He concluded by Lively needed house accommodation the remarking that he had always in view want of which we, as a community, have the health, wealth and moral welfare of
the Portuguese community,
and intensely felt now for some time. We thanked them heartily for the encourage are conscious of the fact that the largenessent they were giving him. They were of the project, coupled with the delicate certain of winning so long as they all pulled together. Of that there was no and difficult nature of the negotiations doubt. A little patience more, and he with Government and others in relation hoped he would then be able to announce thereto, makes its progress tedious and of to them that the scheme had gone through,
(Applause.) slow development. Hence it was that we were content at first with such reports of its advancement as they could be safely vouchsafed to us.. During the past few weeks, however, we have heard that some opponents to our scheme have spread a rumour that the subscribers to the scheme have become indifferent to its success or failure. This report we unhesitatingly state is false, and, in the opinion
allowed this deputation, if
to obtain wider currency and remain longer unrefuted, may be fraught with cunse quenoca prejudicial to the accomplishment of your scheme. We have, conceived two methods whereby we hope to successfully combat the insidious influences of these reports. The first is by the addressing of joint representations to heads of leading corporations and firms by whom we are employed invoking the aid of our respec ́tive employers' weighty influence in our hehal. These representations have been worded in identical terms, a copy of which I am instructed to hand you. In the cases of those among us who are less favourably placed and, therefore, naable to join in a corporate representation, we are still left with a recourse to the present deputation. Our appearance before you this afternoon 15, therefore, explained. I am charged with the duty of representing to you the intensified difliculty, which becomes more accentuated
of
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On behalf of the fifty old persons" present, Mr. Braga thanked Mr. Ede for receiving the deputation.
AN APPEAL TO EMPLOYERS,
Sir Francis Piggott then asked the following questions
(1.)–Do you hold that Chinese charges are unnecessary, and that sufficient prouf of Chinese law has been given?
(2.)- Do you hold that in law there was any property in the clieques in the Kwangtung Provincial Government as alleged?
(3.)-Dẹ you hold that the circumstances alleged bring the case within the English law of larceny 1
-(4.)~Do you hold that the circumstances alleged bring the case within the English If so, in what
The varions Portuguese employed by the big firms in the Colony are aloinw of embezzlement.? endeavouring to obtain the co-operation of their employers in order to make the capacity? scheme a success, These include those employed in the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Reiss & Co., Dodwell & Co, and many others. The letter, which is signed by the different employees, reads as follow
We, the undersigned, members of the Portuguesa staff of your firm (or corpora tion), who are subscribers to the Portuguese housing scheme, kindly designed by the Hon. Mr. Montague le, in our interest and to
benefit, regard with apprehension the persistent report that the scheme is to be abandoned for lack of Government support,
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considerable
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Sir Francis said the claim of right was
question of law-not of fact at all. It was whether the defendant was in fact raising a claim of right as defence to the action. The fugitive was setting up a claim of right to this money as against the plaintiff, that, as the plaintiff had no right, he was entitled to it.
WRS..
Well conducted it undoubtedly was, and
the selection Committees have reason to pat themselves on the back on tik: Some few wisdom of their choices. players of distinction were left severely alone because they did not possess the temperament so necessary in exhibition games such as this of being able to control their feelings even under provocation. This may be taken as implying a compli ment to the twenty-two players selected. and as such it is intended. The results quite justified the care taken in the picking and leaving Through the whole game not one foul which could be described as dirty was perpetrated, and beyond uno case of a heavy, yet apparently fair, charge by an Army back and one or two minor trips there was never any necessity for official interference by Mr. Eager.
INTIMATIONS
SKIN TROUBLE KEPT CHILDREN AWAKE
Herself and Four Children a Mass of Sores. Discharge Like Water Before Scabs Formed. Cured Cuticura Soap and Ointment,
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trouble kept the children awake, many nights. The dischargo was like water ber fore the scabs formed. It was like a scald, It would blister up and then break and then spread. Myself and four children were a mass of hores. It was terrible,
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**I tried all kinds of ointment: each seemed to make it itch and initamo it more. I sent a sample of Cutleuca Soap and Oatment. The result was soothing, bu ...I got à box of Cutleurà Olstment and Séan. We on free from oven a pimple now, thanks to Cuticura Soap and Olntment. They cured us completely." (Signed) Ärs. Eliza Jones, May 28, 1012
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Mr. Potter said the claims must be band-fde, and how he could prove that by merely saying that the fugitive had made a claim of right he could not see. His Worship could not go into the adavit and ser whether it was bona-fide, He did not object to the affidavit going in as evidence that a claim of right had been set up, but he did object to his This is eminently satisfactory MAPPIN&WEBB, Worship being asked to say in any shape and as it should be, and I put a good- or form whether the claim was a good det mark against every individual
performer, one or not. The Magistrate had no right to read the affidavit at all, and therefore it could not carry, them a stop further....... His Worship, after long argument between Counsel decided to admit the affidavit for the sole purpose of showing that a claim of right had been set up, and not as evidence of the fugitive's intention.
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER
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NEW CONSIGNMENTS
PRINCE'S
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The game itself was well worth watch- ing, and this is not always true of social functions. Pessimista and "cold water. pourers" had eroaked about "10-0 for. the Army," and had indulged in other similar fancies of their addled brains, and yet the Fates were not willing to STERLING SILVER WARE. back them up. Indeed, up to a point, the Navy men had as much of the game as the wearers of the D.C.L.I. colours, and The hearing was adjourned till this I for one think that, bar the unfortunate ́afternoon, at 2.15.
accident to Frost, the Army would never have emerged successful from the fray The Blues rapidly tumbled to each other's styleouf play, and when I say that, prior to their lining out on Friday, some.of their players had never even seen others of their own side, the greatness of the bandicap needs no emphasis. Moreover, the cars had the support of the greater part of the big crowd, and this has to be counted in when weighing the chances of such a match. The sympathies of erst while non-partisans invariably go to the supposedly weaker side, and this fact was demonstrated when Reed get the equalising second goal for the Naval contingent. The volume of the cheering which greeted the feat far exceeded any thing else heard in the match and the new lease of life which cane to the sailors
RESERVES.
(5)As to the fifth ebarge, do you hold that in law the fugitive was entrusted with the cheques by, or on behalf of, the Kwangtung Provincial Government, and that he fraudulently converted them to The following are the results of the his own use as against the Kwangtung 3rd, 4th and 6th shoots fired at King's Provincial Government, as such Govern Park Range on the 26th, 27th and 28th ment existed prior to the rebellion In inst. other words, do you hold that the case falls within Section 62, of Ordinance
of 1800
Mr. Petter-I think it is absolutely improper-I use the word in a legal sense for Counsel to put a question to Judgo.
Dicember 26th.
H. Kaight A. H. Bishop
A. J. J. Brock
K. McLennan
J. Lyon
J. Hutchings
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J. D. Danly
T. Hamilton
His Worship-I think the right position for mo to take up is not to answer these questions until you have finished your
case.
Since we signified our written adhesion to the scheme, the difficulty of securing suitable housing accommodation for the class of residents to which we belong has become even more greatly intensified than before. There is apparently no relief within sight for such n state of affairs.
Every month's delay brings greater hardship on us, and unless the scheme which Mr. Ede has in hand materialises at an early date, we enter-
Sir Francis-These questions arise out tain grave fears that any scheme for of my submission that there was no case ameliorating our condition will be outside in law. They are absolutely in accordance the sphere of practical accomplishment.
We have considered it advisable, in the with the principles of law which I have present distressing ereumstances, approach you with a view to securing the weight of your great influence in furtherance of the scheme, and, if thought fit, to make such urgent representations to Government, from day to day, of our obtaining with a view to removing whatever obstacle suitable housing accommodation within is in the way of the sucessful materialis- our limited means, Houses are becom-tion of the Portuguese Housing Scheme,
We desire to record our grateful recogni. up unchecked, tion of any service you may render us in ing scareer, rents sear and We
left with two the måtter. alternatives-neither of which tends to the physical or moral well-being of the! community. We are compelled, first to resort is overcrowded dwellings; and, Secondly, through force of circumstance,
are
MUTINY ON BOARD A FISHING JUNK.
MASTER'S WIFE AND SON MURDERED,
Information has reached the authorities
o'clock, on the 18th December, when the
contendel cover the whole case. I think that now is the time to answer them. At the close of the plaintiffs' case I submit | certain points of law, each and all of which destroy the plaintiffs" casé absolutely law, and therefore the defendant is entitled to his discharge.
Mr. Potter No Magistrate need give reasons for his decisions.
Sir Francis-I agree, of course, that reasons need not be given, but your Worship chould give a decision on each of the prints. Tam not asking for more than that.
His Worship said he would place on the- record that he declined to answer the questions natil Eir Francis had finished
his case.
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CUTLERY.
From the
SOLE AGENTS:
boded ill for their opponents. Then came CHS. J. GAUPP
the pure accident which led to Frost's retirement, and the military again took up the running, came again, and came to stay. I regret to hear that possibly Frost will be enforcedly out of harness for the remainder of the season, and this is bad news for his Bervice companions generally. It may be some consolation, to him now to know that he was regarded in the quarters that count as the best man on the field, bar none, and that we all wish "him speedy recovery and further honours
in the New Year.
Kelly's there goals were A," and the honour of doing the hat trick, in this important match goes to a deserving man, Davies justified has selection if only by the way he sung the ball about to Mosley,
& CO.,
ALEXANDRA
BUILDINGS,
CHATER ROAD
CALDBECK,
Green, and Kelly, He evidently has MACGREGOR&C»
played in company where the higher garte is practised. Captain" Green pleased me. He knew beforehand that his Pidis, Oram, the Hampshire skipper, would see that he was properly shadowed and rendered innocnons, so he astutely drew all the opposition he could to him- self and left Kelly & Co. elear to do the damage. Those critics who judge a man's usefulness by the number of goals he scores should remark this point. Artillery winger was starved and there
The
(ESTABLISHED 1864).
fore ineffective, and Moseley was good LUXURIES FOR
in parts. List and Tregilgas worked hard
in the middle line, and overshadowed Ferrigan, who was cumbersome. Coxon
was better than Fife, whe never seemed comfortable, probably missing Baillie
Reed, Oram, and Adams were the pick NEW YEAR of the Navy attack-with Frost, of course, and Heitzmann dil a lot of hard work well in goal.
inhabit premises that were never designed and are wholly unfitted for our of a mutiny on board a fishing junk off habitation. In either of these cases the Ping Hoi, during which the wife of the resultant consequence is the same...
master of the junk and her son, aged were mardered in a must physical deterioration, which we regard about 20,
Sir Francis then called evidence. with grave concern as a factor that may brutal manner, and their bodies cast into
The first witness was Chan Po, formerly possibly, by slow degrees, lead to moral the sea degeneration. From both these we would From the statements of one of the fokis manager of the Government Mint at
Canton, who said he was in his office. Inin escape; and for both of them your employed on the junk, it seems that the scheme-it carried out in all its decails-junk, whose registered number is 149 during the middle of this year. He was H.A, left Aberdeen Harbour in com-
there in July and August, when Chan will provide he remedy, My co-sub-pany with the sister junk, to go on a scribers to the scheme feel constrained to fishing cruise. Nothing untoward was Kwing Ming was Governor. On the 18th
The majority of the members of the beg of you to believe that, fer from observed, apparently, until about five July, the Tutuh issued a Declaration of
COMEDY OF TWO BISHOPS.
committee for the proposed Interport abandoning our adlicsim to your project. two junks approached each other for the Independence of the Province of Kwang-
match with Shanghai, were present, and we are anxiously awaiting the announce purpose of hauling in tackle. Then, tung. Notions were posted up in the As I stood outside its door the other doubtless took notes for future use when ment of the Government sanction of your ber of the crew on his junk seized the
according to the foki's statements, a na- market places in Canton and in the day," says a writer concerning the Athen the SF.A signify their intention of besposals, and unhesitatingly assure you armas carried by the junk as protection villages in the interior. Witness then um Club, I saw a bishop-a humble making the trip. Of course, only Service saffragan-drive up in a hansom and bid players were on show, and this will have of our cordial suppert in order to ensure against pirates, and also a number of proceeded to relate the history of the the (unpaid) cabman wait while he went he remembered. A suggestion made
choppers, and attacked the master. Revolution ia Kwangtung.
Linto the club. A minute or two later out during the game is worth following up, for it the success we earnestly hope you wounding him rather severely on the hend
Mr. W. B. Hind was then called as a
came a real bishop, who guileless got that one or two practice games, with the will achieve. For your kindly interest, and arnis. They cowed the other sen-
into the waiting hansom, and being mis-civilians and Services intermixed, ought for your patient hearing and for your men, and battened them down in the hold. witness by Sir Francis. He deposed that taken by the cabman for his original fare to be played before the great event comes The best playing beam must be tenacity of purpose in the face of sen. The wife of the master and her son were he was in charge of these proceedings for was straightway driven off. Then issued off. ingly overwhelming difficulty we cordially murdered. The mutineers then proceed. Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton and of a civil the suffragan, whose inquiries for his cab chosen, and no other consideration can
ed on a tour of pillage, stealing $170 from the master's cabin, and all the cloth action, brought tu recover sums of money led to his being informed by a second can be entertained by the selectors in the
man that it had been taken by by another performance of their duties.) Mr. EDE, in reply to the address, saiding they could collect, afterwards sailing in respect of which these criminal pro-gent, in leggin's
the two junks to the vicinity of Yuengceedings were brought. He had besti Piqued at this ribald allusion to the This word sees the close of 1913 and of that it was an unbounded relief and joy Kong, where they arrived on the morning instructed by the fugitive, in consequence encoe But as he replaced his purse in the new regime. In Thursday's columns episcopal garb, the suffragan turned on the first, half of the season-the first under They had all of the 24th inst. They towed ashore in perhaps heard of some of the difficulties the junks dinghies, and decamped. The of which he was defending this action. his pocket I marked the frown passed will be found all league tables up-to-date, crew managed to escape from their im He had prepared documents which had into a smile of satisfauting when he and also a review of the doings of the which bad been encountered in re-
prisonment and sailed the junks to been filed in this action on behalf of the realised how the wind was tempered to three months. ference to that scheme which he outlined Aberdeen Harbour, arriving on Sunday.
the shorn lamb.!
Ixo.
thank you.
to him to see them there.
THE
SEASON.
CALDBECK'S COCKTAILS.
V.O.S. WHISKY.
Dow's
HUNTING PORT
BENEDICTINE (D.Q.M.)
AQUARIUS SODA.
CLUB CIGARETTES.
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