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spirits improve in quality, BEG spirits imported in case do not. Our onstomers got the benefit of that increment in value, as we charge nothing for it. We cordially lavite one customers to pay a visit of
satisfy themselves that the above
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1,000,000; a. To pay a dividend of eight. per cent. on the capital paid up.
The Peking Gazette commenting on the
Minister Peking, as a Privy Coun "A devoted friend an cillor, says:
taken or imprisoned, or be disscised of subjects of England," The last Parlia his freehold or liberties or free custome, ment of this reign won a victory by pass-tor's Offico, Chiness Maritimo CustoMS, or be outlawed or exiled, or any other-ing an Act deolaring monopólies to bo Shanghai, has now received an official wise damaged... but by lawful judg- unlawful. The dispute was unwisely notification from the Infantry Record ment of his peers or by the law of the continued by OHARLES I.,. with the cense Office, Hounslow, to the effect that his son, land."
This stipulation established the quence that Parliament, by exercising the Pte. . E. Rateliffe, of the Royal Weat supremacy of the fixed principles of the power of the purse, forced him to sign Konts, was dangerously wounded in stands for Excellent, and anyone law over the will of the monarch, and, as tho Petition of Right, pledging himself action, and on May 4th was at the Rawal who driuksoar E FORT, E further safeguard, set up a perpetual never to raise money without their Pindi Base Hospital, suffering front &
popular tribunal to check the official consent, never again to imprison persons gun-shot wound in the hond. SHERRY, E
Our Macao correspondent, writing of tho WHISKY | judges, should they be tempted to merifice for refusing to pay illegal taxes, not to billet soldiers upon private individuals, the liberties and privileges of the subject. or E BRANDY can be in
Besides prohibiting all denials and delays and not to subject the people to martini strike of ricslia puliers in that Colony, no doubt that the letter E of justice, the Charter-BLACKSTONE points document us anything more
law. It was his failure to regard this reported in our issue of yesterday, men- tions that a number of visitors from than signifies excellence of a high order at Westminster in order that suitors sorap of paper" that brought him to the Hongkong who went to Macas for the A very important principle was Feast of St. Antony were much incon- and good value for money. By might no longer be harassed with follow re-affirmed in the reign of CHARLES 11. by venienced by the strike on Sunday, the Since the baying in balk from the very best ing the KING's person in all his pro- the passing of the Habeas Corpus Act, weather being wet and war.
gresses, and, at the same time, brought firms, and bottling ourselves, we are the trial of issues home to the very doors which secured to every prisoner the right advent of ricshas the "chair " has prae- to be tried within a certain time after tically disappeared from the Colony. able to give our customers better of the freeholders by directing Assizes to be arrest, instead of being left to languish There are but four now in the whole of taken in the proper counties and establish in a dungeon indefinitely, and provided Macno. ing annual circuits. It regulated, also, the that, if once set free, he could not be
tribunals of justice, the County Court, This, of course, merely restored to the Sheriff's tura and Court-leet.
According to a telegram subject the ancient constitutional safe was to be condemned on
guards of which the weakness of the received, states a contemporary, the fol- aspersions, but only on the evidence of
judges and the bad faith of despotic lowing resolutions were proposed at the general meeting of shareholders in Paris witnesses, and in all cases fines were to
inonarchs had deprived him. bo proportioned to the magnitude of the clause to which reference has more than and unanimously passed:-1, To write offeree, while even the villein or rustic once been made in this Colony provided the statutory reserve to form special off all constitution expenses; 2. Besides
was not to be deprived of his necessary that no inhabitant of England (unless by
reserve fund and credit same with Fre chattels To ensure that these concessions his own consent, or in case he should have were not ignored a copy of the Charter committed a capital offence in the pines was sent to every Cathedral with an order to which he is deported) should be sent that it was to be read publicly twice a prisoner to Scotland' or to any place A special general meeting of the Shang- year, and it was ratified-no-fewer than beyond the seas, within or without the hai branch of the Overseas Club is to be thirty-nine times. Nevertheless, there British Dominions. The power of grant held on Wednesday, 23rd June, to discuss
many attempts by monarchs ng supplies having been established, the and if thought fit pass the following res aiming at absolute power, to ignore its right also of appropriating them was tution proposed by Mr. E.... Little, and provisions, but these attempts, though often assumed by the Convention Assembly secunded by Mr. E. F. Mackay :-" Be aitended by temporary success, recoiled that invited WILLIAM OF ORANGE to the solved that merabers of the Shanghai, ultimately upon the heads of those rash throne, and it was during the reign of branch of the Overseas Club urge the enough to make them, and were followed WILLIAM and MARY that the first Ministry Government to tako immediate steps by further curtailments of the royal or Cabinet was formed, the members being prevent trading with the enemy in Ching prerogative. The doctrine of the divine chosen from the lending representatives on lines similar to those prevailing right of Kings" never found acceptance of bath Houses of Parliament instead of Great Britain and the Overseas domite amongst the English people, accustomed from the members of the Privy Council ions." from Saxon days to the election of their and others whom the monarch saw t ruler and to the conduct of national to summon. At the same time the Liberty ipspection to our wine vaalts, and affairs by the Witanagemote, and this fact of the Press was secured by the expiration appearance in the Birthday Hours L JOHN, HENRY 111, EDWARD II., RICHARD of the Act forbidding unlicensed printing of the name of Sir John Jordan, H.B. II., CHARLES I., and JAMES I learned Popular representative Government was to their cost. Ever CROMWELL, though given a further impetus by the Reform strong enough to seize and hold the reins Bills of 1832 and 1887 and by the well-wisher of this country, it is a specifi of power as the champion of popular Franchise and Redistribution Bills of pleasure to Chinese to learn of the cof
tinued confidence his Government repo rights, went in fear of his life during the 1884, while the old claim of the House of
in Sir John Jordan, and his unobtrusivel latter years of his Dictatorship, and his Commons to be supremo in matters of work in fostering friendly relation son, who succeeded him, was soon glad finance was reaffirmed by the Parliament between Great Britain and China is to abandon the uncoval contest. Act of 1911 Thus we see, in the words heartily appreciated by Chinese us by hig
Thatimah Freedom, relighted ave! of TENNYSON, how hundred years ago, was never again extinguished Though, at times its flame burnt low when caught by the fierce cross- currents of civil strife, it was never allowed to burn dunly for long and was steadily borne onward. Fifty years after the signing of the Great Charter, SIMON DEATH, OLIVER-Dr. A. E. OLIVER, at Haukow, DE MONTFORT, as leader of the still rebel-
June 7th ba
lious barons, convened a Parliament, which was the beginning of our presont House of Commons, two knights from each shire and two deputies from each amount to $1,518.79. city and borough being sumaroned, iu Mr. J. II. Bone, of Messrs. Jardine, ment, London, before coming out to the addition the peers and prelates, to Matheson & Co's Hongking office, is East to engage in rubber planting. take part in its deliberations. In the shortly preceeding Home. Mr. Bone, A Chinese hit upon a very clever útver- next reign, as a consequence of having who is a
member of the Hongkong rising dodge in a matshed theatre in exacted, money illegally for the proscení | Volunteer Corps, hopes to " do his bit" Yaumati. In the middle of a perforta- tion of his wars against Semtland and at the Front.
ance he strode on to the stage, and pinned France, EDWARD 1, was obliged to confirm
on the curtain, a large advertising hill. Ir is. seven aundred years ago 10-day the Charter and add to it a new clause since Magna Charta was signed. Yet securing the nation for the future from
Police are stationed at these theatres to closely are the past and the present taxation without the entsent of Parlia
stop any unnoyances, and this man was Vader Häny IV. the Commons,
promptly arrested by a lukong.
resented Chinese
this interwoven in our national life that it ment.
unfortunato termination to his stunt," and smacked can with truth be affirmed that we owe who had assembled in a separate Chamber
the dutiful constable across the face) A₺ [GIGINGS.
FFICES in ALEXANDRA BUILD to the armed Barons who forced the is the time of EDWARD III., clained
Kino's hand at Bunnyinede on June the exclusive right of originating money Seven cases of plague were notified in the Magistracy yesterday, the defendant Apply
15th, 1215, sons of the fundamental Bills; the liberty of discussing all public the Colony last week, two being imported was fined $10. A. S. WATSON & Co., LTD. liberties upon the possession of which we questions without the KINO's interferenes cases. All were fatal, the victims being Hongkong, 29th May, 1918
pride ourselves to-day. Indeed, it is only and freedom from arrest daring their Chinese. The other cases of communi- Among the passengers who left Japan TO LET
a few months ago that LORD Ponoon attendance at Parliament--a privilege cable disease reported last week were thre, on board the P.M. str. Koren, on her fash ssfully invoked the provisions of the which the Lord Chief Justice upheld four of enterie fever (one Japanese and two voyage to San Francisco, were Mrs.. Great Charter when opposing a clause in centuries later in the famous case of Chinese), one case of small pox and one Meyer-Waldeck, wife of the last German Governor-General of Tsingtao, and ber the Defence of the Realm Act that JouN WILKES. They asserted their right of diphtheria. ferred upon the authorities power to try to withhold supplies io the reign of
if the German Military Attaché and fil- three children; Mrs. Pappenheim, widow Civilians by Court Martial, and, as a Hexy VIII. by declining to vote more
buster who was murdered in Mongolia consequence, obliged the Government to than half the sum asked for by WOLSEY
recently, and lifteen ather Germans in the introdues an amendment restoring in behalf of his royal master, and they THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST, British subjects their inalienable right showed their independence when the to be tried by a jury in the Civil Courts. Cardinal evinced a desire-to-argue thu Based on the Charter granted by HENRY matter by respectfully informing him that TO LET
L., which drew its inspiration from "the" was the rule of the Boise never to General of Formoss, which he had held PPICES in Sr. Groz's BUILDING good old laws of EDWARD THE CONFESSOR,'"
reason except among themselves,' They Brand Floor, Overlocking Hapbost Magna Charte, holds a conspicuous place stantly refused to permit ELitauern` to mediate possession.
inhistory both by reason of its compara- Apply to
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tive completeness and because it was Brant monopolies, and compelled her to The first Parlia Hongkong, 3rd December, 1914.
yield to their wishes. wrung from a reluctant monarch by a
ment of JAMES I. reminded him plainly TO LET
class who had hitherto been the willing that no laws could be made or alterad sioner at Tientsin, will be Deputy Com. that Mr. Robert Love, familiarly known agats of the Crown in suppressing Saxon without their consent; the second went a customs. Though many of its provisions step further and declined to vote supplies relate to feudal exactions now so long until all their grievances we redressed; obsolete that the rastriants upon them and the third protested loudly against cease to be intelligible, there remain Lis illegal devices for raising revenue important clauses, which, if every subse-without their aid by re-introducing Po village has reported to the police that quent law were swept away, would still feudal customs. When HIS MAJESTY told arthed robbers visited "ber home recently getting up and about and from what one
2 and 3, MINDEN VILLAS, Kowloon,
For farther particulars wae Time Tables, which-Boomed Horses with Tannis Courts. winy be had on appliestion at all Stations and at
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By Order,
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THE ADMINISTRATION,
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BIRTH. OLLIA. On June 8th, at Shanghai Vic- torin Nursing Home, to Mr. and Mis J.-N. OLLA, daughter..
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The Daily Press.
HONGHONG, JUNE 16TH, 1916,
LOOKING BACKWARDS.
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. Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precident.”
ern waisilayman !
Old Singapore friends vili deeply syn pathise with Mrs. Grigor Taylor, vidut
A mail for Europe e Siberia closes of the late Mr. W. Grigor Taylor, whe to-day at 3 p.m.
Ahout eighty-motor-cars registered in Tientsin.
are now
for so many years resided in Singapore ny chic manager of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, in the death of he eldest son, Mr. George Grigor Taylor a The total donations and subscriptions Seremban Hospital from black - water received up to date for the Territorials' fever. Mr. G. Grigor Taylor was former- Entertainment Fund in Hongkongly in the Telegraph Company's Headquar- ters at Electra. House, Finsbury Paye-
The marriage took place at All Saints Church, Kobe, recently of Miss Gladys Ford Woolley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alf. Woolley, of Kobe, to Mr. E. H. Murphy, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
The Hiperor of Japna has presented General Sakuma with a gift of Y.30,000 and at the same time the General has been awarded a searly life pession of V.1,500, -General-Sakuma-recently resigħed,-on- account of age, his pest as Governor
If
The
first-class and fifty-five in the intermediate
class. The majority were said to bo medical officers and attendants who were at Tsingtao during the siege, but were for nearly ten years..
released by the Japanese authorities. During the absence of Mr. Nelson | None of them were allowed to land while
the ship was in Japanese waters.
1. Bryant on fifteen months' home leave, to date from July 1st, Mr. J. H. H. Houston, at present Deputy Commis missioner at Shanghai. Mr. Bryant leaves Shanghai with his family by the R. M. S. Monteagle on July 6th..
A Chinese widow residing in the Cheung
A Singapore contemporary observes
to his many friends throughout the East as The Colonel," has fallen on hard times of late. Since December he has been under treatment in Yokohama Hospital for a poisoned foot which resulted in the foot having to be amputated. He is now
THE Undersigned will sell at a Clearsnes 0 LET. the Sonik-West portion of the preserve the bold features that distinguish them that they had no right to meddle in and stole nearly $100 worth of property, knows of him will turn up again soon as FIRST FLOOR, including Treasury a free from a despotic monarchy. "All affairs of Stats and only wed their nothing, jewellery, etc. One of the lively as over."The Colone)" was dead on Ground Floor, lately in occupation of the that has since been obtained," privileges to the grace of his anetstors robbers struck her with a chopper, while and buried some years ago in consequenc
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HALLAM, "is little more than a confirma and himself, the House of Commons others tied and gagged her daughter-in
law.
The latter's husband secreted him The outstanding retorted that freedom of speech and the tion or commentary," feature of the document is that which privileges of Parliament are the undoubt. self under the bed, and escaped molesta Stipulates that No. Freeman shall bee birthright and inheritance of the tion.
of a small-pox attack at Manila, but came up to time, and has done so again, though he has been hard hit by his illness, which has left him practically at the end of his His friends wilt wish him a
resources. turn of tuek,