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WEST RIVER COLLISION
ACTION
VALUR OF EVIDENCE.
Mr. Alabaster addressed the Admiralty Court yesterday in the action in which the Standard Oil Company are being Burd for $100,000-dninger by the Sai Ha-Steamship-Company as the result of collision between the Standard Oil lighter Bull and the steamship Com
SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE.
The Hon. Treasurer and the Chaplain if St. Peter's Seamen's Church and Mis sion Fund acknowledge the receipt of the following subscriptions and donations- Mossrs. Jardine, Matheson &
Com Messrs. Butterfeld & Swire ... Hongkong and Shanghai Bank" Linien Insurance Co
Hon. Sir Paul Chater, C.MG. Messrs. Dodwell & Co Asiatic Petroicum Co., Ltd.
man & Ca, Alexander Ross & Co, Shewan, Tomes & Co., W. R. Loxhy & Co., and Nestle and Angle Swiss Milk Co.-$50 cach
pany's vessel, the Shri. Ca. "Mr. Alabas-Bishop of Victoria, Messrs. Gil- fer, who appears for the plaintiff Com- pany. pontended that there was, only cake of any one question in the pimportance, and he should have said the same even if the law and 101 heen
raised, and, that was the question whe sher the Rath was lighted at the time of the collision. The lighter crew all, suit shi waN. Well, all he could say was that if the Ruth was lighted then his lordship would have to find that those on board the Shui thu had been guilty of the grossest negligence, and that being so his lordship wand also have to fad that those on - lard. The Shui Ou and other dudlipetalent witnesses. called for other ships had come inte. That Court and committed Kilful' and' grossi, perjury; and perjury by a trust three European officers. He said that the Ruth was not lighted and he would prite il "apart altogether from the affirmative particulars which he would lay before his lordshi; in reviewing the evidence. There was also the fact that. if♫ to the main feature of their case the other side sought to set up a rase, which was a false une, his lendship brust reject- the story in its entirety. All the defens dant's witnesses on lights were Chinese. and employés of the Standard Oil. Com- pany, and they all knew that they would probably be dismissed if they did not put forward a story, and they all pat forward the story as to the two men on hoard, the Sinbads, and they were all pinned to that part of the story. If that part of the story was rejected his lard- ship woul' also have to reject the whole, because that was the essential part of the defendant's story. The lights on the -Ruth were certainly not lighted at 9.30 pun.. they were still out at 1.30 am.. And they were also mit at the time of the collision. He had nffirmative evi-
dence on three separate times that right.
His
Rear-Admiral and Mrs. Anstru
ther, Messrs. Douglas Lapraik & Co., und W. G. Humphreys,
$13rch Standard Oil Co., J.-Q.-J. Lijn,
Messrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co., David Sassoon & Co., Lane, Crawford & Co., A. S. Watson & Co., T. Hunter, B. A. T. Cd., Palmer & Turner, Deacon, Looker Beacon & Barston, Leigh & Orange. Bradley · & Co., Ltd, A. G. Gordon & Co., Drs. Jordan, Forsyth, Grene & Aubrey, Bank Line, Ltd., Thornser & Cie Hughes & Hough, Reiss & Co, Dennys & Bowley, and The U. and J.T. and E. L., Ltd. 825 each Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C.,
Messrs. D. Humphreys, Lio- stead & Davies, H. Wicking & Co., Vacuum Oil Co., Pene treath, Ray, W. T. Forther stone, and Mrs Con Leep. Chee20 ench.. Hon. Mr. W. Chatham, C.M.G.,
Hon Mr. Lau Chu Pak, and Mr. Needham-i vach Hongkong Cigar Co., Messrs. J. A. Lokmanoff, Botelho Bros. Colbourne Little, Dr. Noble, Wilkinson, Heywood & Clarke, Robinson Piano Co., G. K. Hall Brutton, A. R. Marty Clark & Co., de Singa & Cui, S.P.A., A. V. Apear, G. Res ker. W Bell, Percy Smith, Seth & Fleming, Lieut.-Comedy. PC-Honningbrey Dragon Cycle Co., and E. V. D. Parr. --810 each
Miss Fletcher, Victoria Dispen- sary, Messrs. G. Hastings, Sen- net Freres, Singer Sewing Machine Co., Victorin Print- ing. Press, J. M. Alves, A. B. Molder & Co... S. C. Ismail & Co., S. H. Roberts, S. For ster, and 4 Tack & Co.-No1 rach
“AN HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 12x8, 1916,
OUR SERGEANT MAJOR.
THE POETS AND WAR.
It is an interesting pastime, amid our present anxieties, to spend a few minutes upon the Sortes Poetarum. The passion for historic parallels is strong in the hu
A gallant man's our Sergeant Major,
Not many more like him, I'll wager; And when you hear him drill recruits,
You wonder they survive, poor brutes. When he says Left!" they turn to right;
He barks as though he's going to hiteman breast, and the oracles of the poets, When he says Right!" they turn to left, though they offer us no insight into the
Of mense they seem to be bereft To pulp they are reduced, maybe,
veiled future, help, at all events, to unf cover the veiled pist By Sergeant Major's tyranny. 106 When he says Slope!" they simply
quake,
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COMFORTS FOR THE TROOPS,
The following comforts, etc., for our troops from Our Little Bit Workers Society, Kowloon, were forwarded last week by courtesy of Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co, ;---
To Colonel Gordon Hall, RAM AD.M.S., Світл District, Abbasia, Cairo:
60 pairs socks, 2 pairs bed socks, 10 suita pyjamas, 4 dozen khaki hand kerchiefs, 34 khaki collars, and 262 bandages.
and three separate ships, and they were all positive on the point. They (the saints), had called the only indepen: dent witnesses ou lights, and the only
· European-witnesses op lights. If on that evidence it was held that the. Puth was lighted at the time of the collision, then God help anybody who tried to prove slut ship was not lighted when a
To Miss Vivian, Maurice Hostel, 52, Chinaman, on board said she was.
Herbert St, Hoxton N.Two parcels lordships would have to decide if the of clothing.. To Mrs. Europear witnesses called by them had
Lefroy, Vice Presidenr, S.S.F.A.. Hoxton Branch, Maurice here-bought and had-committed-deliber-Hoad, Hoxton, N. One parcel cloth die perjury, or whether they were telling. ing the truth, And their evidence, it; should be remembered, was positive, not negative, and they were independent witnesses. Another thing, the defen- dants had not explained why, the Shui Or collided with them if they had the lights burning,
Fearing what force remark he'll mak When, after having paused a while.
He shouts out Hup in vicious style What are ye doin', No. 31
Ye're feeling all, it seems to me; How many times have I told you "To keep your eyes of Nu. 21 Ha don't want any help from you, "An' you can't show him what to do
What are ye laughing at, funny face Your own drill's just a blank disgrace." So, one by one, they get it hot,
Till be has blackguarded the lot. They're sick to death of förming fours Whate'er they do he simply roarz; Their numbers they forget, pour chaps,
Encounter nothing but mishaps; But from this tyrant once they're clear
They're quite content with mtgs of bear,
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INTERESTING PILOTAGECASE,
A JUDGMENT DELIVERED AT
SHANGHAL.
The war ha's brought as inte, closer touch with the great poetry of our own land. There are few poets who have not known the anxieties of a great war, and tordny way recognise more readily, and feel piore deeply, the influence of these anxieties upon their thought. Even Tennyson, the poet of the Long Peace, was the inheritor of the traditions of the generation that had known, the Long War, and he himself lived through the period of the campaign in the Crimes and the critica) days of the Indian Mutiny; and the names of Wellington, of Balaclava, and of "Luck- now belong to his most popular and fami liar verse.
Almost any port will serve for the pur- pose if we have any luck in our chanes opening of his book. No words could be more appropriate to our present conflict than those which Barbour puts into Bruce's mouth on the field-of "Bannnck- burn. Bruce tells his soldiers that they are fighting for wives and childten, for country and for freedorn, while the enemy are fighting for Inst of power; he des nounces their brutal methods of fighting, and he urges the Scots to set stoutness
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against felony" Then. Milton gives us LIGHT IN WEIGHT-BRIGHT AS SILVER-DO NOT RUST lines perhaps more appropriate at an earlier stage of the war; and they thrill In H.B.M's Police Court, Shanghai.s in spite of the mouth into which they ara put.. What though the fold be, on the 29th ult, Mr Justice Skinner Tast is asked, "all is not lost there Turner, Assistant Jadge, delivered judgin still courage never to submit or pent in the case in which the Indo-China ield 4 bappier chance may bring us to the chorus of Samson Agullister," Stearn Navigation Cup Ltd.
ohich sings of the invincible might grant- charged at the instance of the Woosing nd to quell the mighty of the earth, the Hankow Pilot Association with having,
u Derember 1st, 1915, committed a breach Por," and so subdar brute fores
and violence" of the Lower Yangtze Pilote” · Regula- ions in the matter of the employment of Shao Yuenchin to pilot the str. Eser from Woosung to Hankow and back.
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chance on such a quest: his niartial verse It is scarcely possible to open Scott by is too firmly seated in the memory, and His worship said: I have already about one crowded hour of glorious instinct brings us to the famous lines held that these Pilotage Regulations are life." lines which recall Sir Phillip Syd- binding on British employers of pilotsney's noble words about Chevy Chase," as well as on British pilots. Mr. Wright never heard the old song of Ferey for the defendants now argues that they Are Hniited to enses, where a British on- ployer is dealing with a British pilot. Ile urges that that must be so as to adopt any other construction would have the result that H.B.M. Minikoor would be really attempting to legislate for Chinese and other communities, which he has power to do, and that, therefore, he Regulations would be stra: vires,: Now this construction must apply to bath sides if correct, it means that a British by the Regulations and also that a employer of a foreign pilot is not bound
British pilot is not bound by them when
dealing with a foreign exaployer. The
in
The Grent War has brought us no such sillusionment as the great French war rought to Burns and to Wordsworth, and the latter's Prelude" as little of a definite relation to to-day. But the Son- nets, written in the most desperate crisis of the Napoleonic epoch, preach the doc
trine of determination to which this country has now made as honturable a respons: as hundred years ago.
The
sonnet in which Wordsworth lamented the submission of the Tyrolese might have
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other construction urged by the and look for the triumph to come. The plainants, on the other hand, means that British employers of pilots and British story of the King of the Belgians may bread into his Pulogy of the King of the market, for each of them is bound by a fixed tariff for all the world. And in effect it would come to this, that British employers would have to employ British pilots, and British pilots would only be able to work for British en- players.
Sweden, who was throned in the hearts of men since his Kingly name and State have perished by his choice, the choice of "a great servant of a righteous cause.
Our own--War, with all the mentories" of heroic enduranics which it will bring There is no preamble in these Regula-any-heritage of great poetry. The strug- to posterity, does not seem likely to yield- tions stating, definitely the object with gle with Spain has Shakespeare, the Civil which they were enacted: one can only War has Milton, the Napoleonic War bas gather that from the Regulations them Scott and Wordsworth. But the conflict selves, and I see no reason alter the with Louis XIV. has no English poet. view I expressed before, that they were unless it be Addison, whose poem on Elery passed in the interest of both British eneira, with its fameus simile of the Augel, ployers and British pilots. In a place is nowadays neither often read nor great- like Shanghai with its great shipping ly appreciated. And the great posts of interests, one might well expect that the the eighteenth century left. Clive and question of pilotage fees would be the Plassey, Wolfe and Quebec severely subject of international agreement: there
alone. It is not every great war that has must be pilots of many nationalities hero
its great poet; but the great poet who and in this case we know of a British has written of one war has writter of all pilot and a Chinese pilot. And this ex-
wars. Singapore Free Press. Judgment was delivered in the Sup-pretation is fulfilled when one looks at reme Court, Singapore, a few days ago, the regulations in force for various ports, in a case heard at the last Court of I need only refer to one: the Regulations
CHINESE MARRIAGES.
JUDGMENT IN AN IMPORTANT LOCAL CASE.
The Chief Justice--Their contention is Appeal in November and December of for the Port of Ningpo, published at that your men, were asleep, or something. last year. The case was that of Ngai Kingpo on July 29th, 1913 (No: 21 of
Low Shia alias. Low Hong Sian. Low 1913).
can be no doubt bat what you did not see any lights.
who
BRITISH Z. GERMAN MACHINERY.
The following comparison of the merits. of German and British machinery is con- tained in a Consular report on the trade of Finland, just issued:-German goods have very much improved in quality dur- branches are beginning to compare ng the last few years, and in any
regards machinery British machinery
Mr. Alabaster And I do not see how which reserved judgment after a hearing Powers and are then etated.to be binding Frems to be, almost too strongly made and
THE YANGTZE INSURANCE CASE.
SUMMONSES DISMISSED.
Ellis.
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British article. A local firm recently Food profit, at a cheaper price than the bought two steam ergines, one of British and the other of German make. work very well. The German ougire in however, a uch more economical, of a bet. |- ter and tore modern design, excellen workmanship and a lower price. British machine will probably last longer but will get more and more out of d-te desigus every year that passes. When the German machine is ready to be rerarped, it is reckoned to be about the right time to buy a new machine of modern design.
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Mr. Alabaster asked his lordship to Chee Neo and the points involved were These contain pilotage charges; and examine the probabilities of such a hapof the greatest importance to the Chinese note that they are made and published perang. Would the people on the bridge, to be a child of it is one in under Art. 155 of 21 0/0/being for the
have been the late Low Kim therefore put forward as When coming down one of the most dan Pong by a secondary wife. The Chief peace, order and good government" of gerous channels in the West River, 80 stance that the plaintiff had failed to they are cractly what one might expect
Justice found in the Court of first in- British subjecta. And I also note that 1ợ sleep 1. The iden was absurd.
prove her case and from that judgment The Chief Justice-It seerns that there appeal was had to a Court consisting of they are made by the Minister after 4p-favourably with British goods, especially Justices Ebden, Earnshaw and Edmonds Proval by the Chinese Covernment and by the Representatives of the Treaty ran into seven days. The counsel else we can prove that, there were no Roland Braddell and Mr. V. D. Knowles, Pilotage Regulations and there la no concerned were for the appellant. Mr. upon all British subjects, This formula. not found in the Lower Yangtze Tights on the Shạt On: except that we for the respondent Hon. Sir. Evelyn evidence in front of me to show that other rn into the Ruth.
The hearing was adjourned.
Mr. Braddell contended that the mar
Governments have adopted this scale of riage of the plaintiff's mother with thefees or any other scale of fees. But there late Low Kim Pong was a valid one by is nothing to prevent them doing so; and presumption of law from repute and then, if Mr. Ellis's contention is right, cobabitation. He contended that the malit be that a British employer would Chinese were playgamous and that the be committing an offence if he paid & famous Six Widow's case concluded that foreign pilot the only rate which that point, but it was unnecessary to prove that pilot could take, and a fortiga pilot In H.B.M.'s Police Court, Shanghai. fart as the Court must take notice of it. I would be committing au offence if he Mr. S. H. McKean, on behalf of the Sir Evelyn Ellis on the other hand con- accepted the only rate, which a British Crown, in the case against the Yangtszetended that in every case it had to be employer could-pay. Such a possibility Insurance Association, Ltd., asked, leave proved that the Chinese were polygamous is so startling a result of the construction less economical compared with fresh to withdraw seventeen summonses issued and that marriages with secondary wives urged by the complainants that a Court against the defendants by the Court ar ere valid, as these were matter of would rightly scive against it. unless the instigation of the Crown. He made foreign law. He further contended that driven thereto by clear and unmistake his application in view of the judgment the appellant had failed to prove her abfe language. And that is the more so recently delivered in regard to one case.
when it is remembered that the legisla annons by the Full Court and on in Justices. Earnshawand Edmondtion under construction is penal-in its structions by the British authorities and leki that the appellant scoreded the Crown Advocate.
and that a marriage should be presumed nature. In this case, however, there is
Sone time back a doctor on active servic; Mr. R. N. Macleod, for the defendants, under the circumstances of the case, another construction which does no viol said he naturally did not object to the Justice Ebden diesented air the ground ance to the language of the Regulations, write home one sentence in a let'er which application, but he believed that the only that the evidence showed Low
does not lead to the startling result it was not easy to forget; it was to the Kim above-mentioned, and does not lay theseffect that the Fase Towns in France were order which could be made was a dis Pong's marriage to have been bigamous Regulations open to the suggestion taat full of ladies of distinction who were all missal of the complaint. The rules did All three judges in very voluminous not provide for withdrawal, and as the judgments held that the Six Widows they are ultra vires. That is the cou wanting to do good, but every'o 'c of th m Crown was not ready to go on with the case concluded the matter and that it was struction urged by the defendants, and was a seathing criticism, but at the same BEG to announce that their preparation SANATOGEN, FORMAMENT, etc. charges, there was only one thing to be not necessary to prove in each case that though the language of Clause 1 is very done to discharge them all.
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sent somewhat unsatisfactory.
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