A. S. WATSON & Co. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS,
GENERAL CHEMISTS,
AND
Manufacturers of the following AERATED WATERS, viz: SODA, TONIC, SARSAPARILLA, AND POTASH, LEMONADE, GINGERADE, RASPBERRYADE, AND PHOSPHORIC CHAMPAGNE.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1881.
connection with the suit, the result, and extraordinary verdict of the jury have however ceased to be a nine days wonder, excepting to those in- timately associated with the case. Everybody knows what took place before the hearing of the action; we now propose to let a little light in on what has transpired since a verdict for the plaintiff was entered. A few days after the trial Messrs. Deliveries in Town and Harbour from Stephons and Holmes, the eminently respectable firm of solicitors who re- presented the valuable interests of the deeply injured Wicking, for warded as through our legal adviser a most formidable looking document styled, in legal phrase, Plaintiff's costs of suit. We have a penchant for giving publicity to documents and communications of every de- scription likely to interest or amuse our readers, and as this production of Messrs. Stephens and Holmes is unique in its startling originality,
SAIPS MEDICIENE CHESTS REFFITED, PASSENGER SHIPS SUPPLIED.
Prompt Attention given to Coast Orders.
CANTON DISPENSARY,
THE DISPENSARY,
HONGKONG DISPENSARY,
HONGKONG. SHANGHAI PHARMACY,
SHANGHAL
CANTON,
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THE
Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 17TH SEPTEMBER, 1881.
FRANCIS BACON, Lord Verulam and Viscount St. Albans, who attained
We had been advised that costs in the Summary Jurisdiction Court were regulated in accordance with a fixed scale. That we believe is the invariable rule. Our surprise there- fore on surveying the puzzling mass of figures which the busy pens of Messrs. Stephens and Holmes had set out in battle array, reaching a grand total of $941.10 can be better imagined than described. We care- fully went over the elaborate details of what to us was a new experience, and after a hasty glance at the figures were forced to the comclusion that Messrs. Stephens and Holmes might possibly be very excellent lawyers, but that it was a positive certainty they were not accurate accountants. There was only a mistake of $200 ia the addition. That of course was a mere trifle, so we proceeded with our investigation.
We have neither time nor space to wade through the whole of the items and contains a fund of valuable and
in this extraordinary document; but recherché information, which has only to be known to be thoroughly are compelled to briefly point out as a matter of duty to ourselves wo appreciated, we publish the instru-certain charges, which, under any
mont in extenso.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG, SUMMARY JURISDICTION, Suit No. 770 of 1831. Plaintiff-Barry Wicking, Defendant-Roburi Fraser-Smith.
PLAINTIFF'S GOSIS OF SUIT.
stractions to sue on un article appouring in Hongkong Telegraph of Zaul August, si wished to progced in an action of libel against defendant and taking notes of your oyklenco...
the Lord Chancellorship of England August --Attending you, taking in in the year 1619, was undoubtedly one of the most talented and remark- able mon of his time. It must also be honestly stated that a more na- scrupulous blackguard never dis- graced the judicial bench, and his confession, elicited at the parliamen- tary enquiry appointed in 1621 to investigate his conduct, of twenty-
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three specific acts of judicial corrup- Attending Judge in Chambers applying tion, which led to his committal to the Tower of London, and to his being fined the sum of £110,000, form a most extraordinary chapter in the legal history of the country. Lord Bacon, the title by which he is generally known, was the author of a series of works of extraordinary merit, his literary and scientific labors being conspicuous by the light of a powerful intellect which, it is said, towered above that of all other men. Lord Bacon's writings embra- ced all kinds of subjects, from juris- prudence-which, we read, he treated not as a mere lawyer, but as legislator and philosopher-to mora- lity and medicine. In one of his famous works, his Lordship made use of a phrase which has justly be come a prized maxim in English literature. Speaking of the law, Lord Bacon said, "I wish that every man knew as much law as would enable him to keep out of it." Any person who has had the slight- est connection with English law, and English lawyers will justly appreciate the words of wisdom contained in the above pithy sentence. We speak feelingly on the subject, from recent personal experience.
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yer face while it picks yer pocket, Attending at office of Hongkong Telegraphs and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it." The talented Attending receipt from Acting Registrar of creator of Sir Pertinax MacSycophant must surely have personally encoun- tered the mysterious vicissitudes of that extraordinary jumble of incon- gruous absurdities yelept the Law of Libel, or had an intimate acquaint ance with some other victim of legal rapacity. Practical experiences must in time make a sage of the most stupid "of and although some kinds of experiences prove rather expensive, it is indeed seldom that they fail to make some description of a return for the original cost. We have lately had some very practical and very expensive legal experiences, and having paid for them in current coin of the realm, we intend in the inte- rests, and for the benefit of our clients and constituents, the readers of this journal, to utilise them to the best of our knowledge and ability The recent libel case Wicking versus Fraser-Smith must still be green in local memories. The proceedings in
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The Gorman Government have ro- cently had a narrow escape from being involved in a trouble almost similar to England's Alabama imbroglio. Two steamers, the Diogenes and Socrates wero constructed at Kiol, and were on the eve of boing launched when Govern- ment received information that they
were intended for war purposos, and had been built for the Peruvian Go- verument, An embargo was at once
There is certainly a vast difference between $914.10 and $351.10, which, in the ordinary walks of life would demand some explanation, but then lawyers, and their acts are privileged. laid on the steamers, and the launch As a matter of fact, we consider the costs allowed
was delayed. excessive; however, the affair has
The following interosting official been settled, and if our legal expe-mail:-The Chief John Dann bas sent news from the Cape reached us by last riences prove useful as a guide and ju a report from Zululand dated the caution to the public we shall rest 31st ultimo, to the effect that on the perfectly satisfied. Most people can provious morning at daybreak he sent truly say in the words of wise Will down somo of Umlandela's men to Shakespeare (King Henry VI):- watch Sitimela. That chief advanced "Botweon two hawks, which flies the higher pitch, from his kraal and fell upon the party, Butwoon two dogs, which bath tito docpor mouth, killing some of them. Dunn thon called Batwoun two horses, which doth boar him best,
upon his men to attack Sitimela. In Betwoon two girls, which bath the merrior yo ?
I have, perhaps, some shallow spirit of judgment: the fight that ensued the enemy was
But in theso nieo sharp quillots of the law, Good faith, I am no wiser thng z daw."
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The P. & O. S. N. Co.'s steamship Sunda undocked at Aberdeen this morning, and the Galley of Lorie will mudock at Sam-shui po during the after
noon.
Kowloon this evening.
The steamship Ocean goes to
four o'clock this afternoon..
We would remind intending sub- scribers to the Subscription Griffin mo- verment for our next Race-Mecting, that tho list will be finally closed this evening at seven o'clock. Application for subscriptions must be sent to Lieut. Friend, RE, Clerk of the Course, before that hour.
circumstances and at all costs, we would have declined to recognise, On August 6th a charge of one dollar is set down for attending printer for and obtaining papers of 2nd August." On August, 15th Mr. Virgil Favro, for several years another two dollars are charged for known in this Colony as proprietor of attending at office of Telegraph the Hôtel de l'Univers, diod last even, and obtaining same, and cutting outing at his residence in Staunton Street, and fixing same for purpose of Brief." The funeral will lewe the house at On August 18th for "attending at 25.0 office of Hongkong Telegraph obtain-
ing paper
of 25th July," one more dollar helps to swell the grand total. Our office is directly opposite that of Messra. Stephens and Holmes, about twenty yards separating the two places, so that these gentlemen evi- 20dently wanted to be well paid for 200.00 their labours, such as they were. The performance in the Botanic 10 As a matter of fact, however, Mr. Gardens last evening of the Band of 4.00 Stephcas, who represented his firm the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers drew 20 throughout the proceedings, never a large concourse of promonaders. The once personally visited the office of band performed a programme of light 200 the Telegraph nor were any news-music, under the conduct of Mr. Wal 200 papers legitimately supplied to him by any member of our staff. We 8.00 particularly direct attention to the 1.09 following item:-"Attending receiv- ing of plaintiff a letter of apology by 1.00 R. Fraser-Smith to Robert Smith for
using his name in article-$1.00." With reference to this we can only say that when Messrs. Stephens and Holmes wrote that Mr. Fraser-Smith had given a letter of apology to Mr. Robert Smith, they were guilty of writing what was untrue.
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All these are only trifling errors, 2.09 and may easily enough be attributed to carelessness; but errors, trifling or otherwise, should not appear in a document of this character. Mr. T. C. Hayllar would have had a good time of it, if Messrs. Stephens and Holmes could have had their way. On August 6th there appears an item "Paid $25," but it does not specify to whom it was paid, nor for what. We presume it was a fee to the 2.00learned counsel. On August 11th 1.90 Mr. Hayllar is credited with "Brief fee $200;" on the 12th with $50; on the 22nd $25; and as on the 1.00 26th and 27th he would appear to' have been greatly troubled with thirst, he is set down for $100 each 2.00 day as a "refresher." We leave our 200 readers to study the above interest- 2009ing document in its various aspects, literary curiosity of a kind which we strongly advise them to steer clear of at all hazards. And now for the next step.
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completely routed, his kraals burnt, and his cattle cantured. When the report was sent off, Dann's non were atill in pursuit of the rebels, who were the hands of their conquerors. It was likely to meet with but little mercy at
not known whathor Sitimela himself had been killed or had escaped.
This victory will no doubt put an end to a rebellion which looked formidable, and will exercise a wholesome throughout Zululand.
effect
A large number of suits came on for hearing before Mr. Justice Russell in Summary Jurisdiction yesterday, but none of them were of any general im- portance. Mr. McBroen, whose name has been before the public somewhat fre quently of late, was defendant in two suits, and in each case had a verdict given against him. Mrs. Snelling, a lady not altogether unknown in the colony, objected to paying Mr. Tam Aaung the sumof $10, cost of a screen supplied, on the ground that the screen was not made according to order, and the judge therefore allowed the case to lie over until Friday, so that an independent professional opinion could be obtained
as to the actual value of the article in dispute. Mr. A. Hahn made another appearance at the instance of Mrs. No- lace, who mado, on this occasion, his lan, who claimed. $19.73 for value of first public appearance in Hongkong. goods supplied. Mr. Russell explain- The British steamer Glencoe, Captained to the plaintiff that as defendant Gulland, from Foochow reports: had been adjudged a bankrupt, her Loft Foochow at noon, 14th inst. with best course would be to withdraw the frosh gale and heavy rain, which had summons, prove her claim against increased to a violent gate from E.N.E. Hahn to the Registrar, and attend the to S.W.; at 6 am, 15th instant, the
meeting of creditors. Amow, the well known Chinese boat-builder, sued gale moderated and since then bad moderate S. W. winds and fine Mr. Reeves, Chiof Engineer of the steamship Conquest for $1,000 in con- weather,
nection with the hull of steam launch which he lately constructed to the order of the defendant. This case was ad journed for fourteen days, until the re. Lau Hing, the portrait painter, figured turn of the defendant from Haiphong-
as plaintiff in a couple of actions -- brought to recover value of paintings of ships supplied to defendants, both of which were allowed to stand over un- til Monday.
The United States Foreign Dapart ment is said to have under considera- country can be used as a base of ope- tion tho question as to how far the rations by revolutionary societies and individuals in their war against osta- blished Governments. Hartman has left New York. His friends, a tele- gram says, "think him safer in Canada, as the feeling against Nihilism and dynamite is on the increass."
the Vaccination Acts was issued recently A Parliamentary return relating to
in London; and it shows a rather startling serios of facts. This return embraces the whole period since the Vaccination Act was passed in 1887, until July, 1879. The number of persons fined for non-compliance with the Act amounts to 6,189, while 138 were imprisoned, 20 of whom remained in prison over 14 days and under 30; and 118 suffered 14 days or a less term of imprisonment.
Proceedings at the Police Court ting, unimportant character. Dr Stew- yesterday were of the usual uninteres- art sentenced. Ua Atai, the coolie who injured hituself a few days ago by jumping out of a window when the to a fue of $10, or three weeks impri police made a raid on a gambling den, sonment in default. Ip Ai, another coolie was found guilty of stealing two dollars from the person of Isoi Awan, a boatman, outside the Harbour Mas- ters' Office, and having been previously convicted, was now relegated to the The result of the St. Leger, which secluded privileges of Victoria Gaol appeared in our columns yesterday, for the next six months. Mr. Wong was exactly what might have been Ayuu, another gentleman of the coolie anticipated from latest home news. class, who had been in goal on no less The nost donghty opponent of tho than eight previous occasions, was sent American-bred Derby winner Iroquois, back for another four months, for Of course we naturally strongly his Two Thousand Guineas conqueror having mado a slight mistake as to 5.0 object to being overcharged by law- Peregrine, was under a cloud, having the ownership of four pieces of iron yers, or anybody else, and after a deli-gono amiss during training, so that the valued at eight dollars. Mossrs Green- road was pretty well cleared for the stang and Tean, natives of the Father- 100.00 berate study of Messrs. Stephens and
success of the foreigner. However, land, and described as a merchant and 0.00 Holmes's handiwork, we instructed we must give bonor whore it is due and waiter rospectively, were charged with our legal adviser to fight the matter heartily congratulate the Americans on having assaulted Joseph Greenborg,a out to the end. Mr. Francis accord-
their handsome victory. There can bonerchant, on the 15th inst. Mr. Green- little doubt that Iroquois stands forth berg, it appours, is a chivalrous young ingly fought the matter out, and the
as the best colt of his year, and second gentleman of ardent temperament, and result will be learned from the fol- only to Mr. Crawford's invincible filly whilst passing along that aristocratic lowing amended bill of costs, which,. Thobais. We hope however before the portion of our colony of which Cochrane ond of the season to got some good line Stroot is a centro, he was induced by 1. we submit, forms such a glaring con-
of the Yankoo's real form, when pitted the flattering solicitations of some fair trast to the original document as to against the bost of our English Cup charmers to enter what he very vulgarly soojustify the above comments.
horses at weight for age.
termed a house of ill-fame. Unfortu
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