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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22ND, 1881.
for dealing in lotteries," and pro- ceeds to make a good deal of comic capital out of its supposed discovery. Now we have no objection whatever to our contemporary plagiarising our ideas even without acknowledgment, so long as a legitimate and generally
useful aim is intended with the ideas so filched and not acknowledged. But we do strongly object to the China Mail palming off our literary property as a result of its own clever perception and profound re- Deliveries in Town and Harbour from search, and then turning round and
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utilising our knowledge, whatever it may be worth, as a means of abusing Governor Hennessy, who had about as much to do with the matter at issue as he had with the vagaries of our departed friend, the Comnet. "In connection with this case," observes the evening luminary, a correspon dent (Walker?) draws our attention to a case reported in a home paper to hand by the mail. The "case " is so amusing that we reprint it for general information":-
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John Brown, a man about forty, was charged at the Brenied Petty Sessions with lawfully "Roping a cartain place to exercise, koop open; show or expose certain cards containing numbers of prizes and blanks, and to garry on a certam gang or lottery.' According to the evid- ence of the polies the defendant was sla- tional in the Marker-place at New Brent- ford before a stand on which were ex- hibited a number of articles' called prizes. mostly Dutch piesures and vases. He had in his hand a handle of cards, and folding them out he said, "Now, will any lady or gentleman have the lucky one? These cards are Id. each, ar seven for 61, and they contain the names of the prizes," He then preten led to shuffle the cards, but carefully kept those emtaining die names of the prizes between is thumb and finger, while he placed the bank cards at the bottom. To the first person who came he gave a carl with prizes on, and there
was a mish of people for more cards, when
he would give out the blanks. He sold nine dozen cards, and only three persons had prizes. Defendant denied that he did anything of the kiul. Fined £5, or two months in default.
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the Act, and as it was proved that he had sold the tickets, whether honestly or dishonostly does not affect our argument, conviction was bound to follow.
As Mr. Pang Atak was treated with exceeding leniency, considering
that six weeks' hard labour as a rogue and vagabond would most certainly have been his fate and his deserts, had the Magistrate taken a correct view of his offence, we are
this injured gentleman's hard fate, not likely to hear anything about excepting from prudish philanthro- pists of the China Mail type:" It may be, however, the attention of the authorities having been directed through this case to the so-called unsatisfactory and imperfect word- ing of our Gambling Ordinance, that steps will in time be taken to remedy what is apparently a serious defect. The China Mail, for reasons better known and understood within the sacred portals of the Editor's sanctum than anywhere else, com- ments on the subject in the follow- ing strain :-----
The whole law and the attitude of the Police and the Government towards tho
borgo question of public gambling and lot- taries is acatisfactory in the extreme, The judgments given, both by the Acting Chief Justice and the Acting Puisno Judge, show conclusively that the ordi- nances on the subject have been loosely drawn, and are dificult to follow or under- aivocal mecossity for a careful revision stand clearly, and that thore exists un-
Bas this, we presume, we are not likely to get until a new Governor arrives, from whose administration some really sound practical legislation may be expected.
of the same.
LOCAL AND GENERAL The M. M. Co.'s steamship Folga 'came out of the Cosmopolitan Dock this morning.
A meeting of the Victoria Lodge of Freemasons will be held this afternoon at six o'clock precisely.
The spirit of assassination would appear to bo rampant in the United States. It is reported that two Stato Governors have recently narrowly escaped the fate of General Garfield. AU these would be murderers cannot surely be lunatics! If so, there appears
It is rumoured in Portuguese circles the present Portuguese Consul-General in Shanghai that Mr. José Loureiro, at Hongkong, will succeed Senhor Pinto Busto as Consul in Shanghai.
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A meeting of subscribers to tho Subscription Grifin movoment in con- nection with the Hongkong Raco Meeting of 1882, will be held at the offices of Messrs. Russoll & Co. to. morrow afternoon.
Wo read in a lato homo paper that a Russian student who recently made desperate attempt a suicide, confessed
to be a consistent method in their before he died that the lot had fallen madness.
on him to murdor the Czar. He re-
noon.
ment.
rators.
An official telegram from Mr. Bing-vealed the names of 20 of the conspi- him, United States Minister at Tokio, announcing the death of President The American ship Titan, Captain Garfield was received yesterday after Norris, which arrived here this morning Minute guns were then fired, from Newcastle, N.S.W., reports:-First and ILE. the Administrator imame part of the passage had strong southerly. diately afterwards paid the customary wind; middle part, light winds and official visit to the American Consulate, many enlins. Experienced on the 5th to offer the condolences of the Governinst, the tail end of a typhoon. In China Sea had light S. and N.E. winds. In the face of the frightful weather
The O. and O. Steamship Company's they have had at home this summer, stonmer Belgiz, Captain Davison, ar- which, according to lato telegramsrived at her moorings from outside published in yesterday's issue, threatens to destroy the whole of the crops, it is this morning and reports: -Left San Francisco, August 23rd at 3.04 p.m, and some consolation to hear that the potato crop in Ireland promises to be a plen-experienced moderate winds and fine tiful one. The Emerald Isle has quite ama on the 12th inst. at 7.57 p.m., weather throughout. Arrived at Yoko- enough in the shape of interual troubles to contend against at present, without
the addition of famine.
A statement appeared in a London weekly a short time back to the effect that Mr. Robert Javling intends rotir-
ing from the turf at the close of the Wo are glad to ob-
present seas011. serve, however, in the last number of
Truth to hand, that the above state- ment is entirely unfounded, The Eng
lish turf could ill afford to lose such a!
straigtharward and princely patron of the national sport as the wealthy
Setch cominoner.
and sailed from thence on the 15th at
6,30 am, and had moderato winds and fine weather.
Mossrs. Douglas Lapraik & Co.'s steamer Hailong, which has been undergoing extensive repairs by the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Limited, for the last four months, It will be admitted, we presume,
leaves Kowloon Dock this morning to that we are just as anxious as our
The Iily, it will be remembered, tako her usual place on thecoast service. comtemporary that difference or
any misunderstanding which may exist
was "piled up" outside Amoy last as to the extension, definition, mean-
April, and after undergoing temporary ing, or application of any of our
repairs at the Amoy Dock was towed local Ordinances, should be put right
down to Hongkong to be put in repair. If we may judge from latest reports The whole of the work has been com- without delay. It is to the general from America the electric light is mak.pleted in a most satisfactory manner, interests of the public that our whole ing giant strides in public favour. Mr. creditable alike to all concerned. Cap- code of laws should be so simply Bison has just satisfactorily completed tain F. Ashton will temporarily assume worded as to be within the compre- a contract to light 500 houses in a dis- command of the Hailong. hension of the meanest capacity.trict of New York with the improved Now, we contend that the assortion electric light. Now that what wore at of our contemporary to the effect one time considered insuperable diffi- that "the whole law and the attitude
culties have been removed, it is not of the Police and the Government very long odds against Hongkong towards the large question of public boing lit up with electricity within the gambling and lotteries is unsatis Dext two years. Holders of the Gas factory in the extreme" is not borne Company's shares please note. out by facts; in short, it is one of those offensive sonile generalities, which, on analysis, actually contain not a particle of reason. Our laws, like all others, arc doubtless suscep- tible of some improvements; but the pablis generally will believe from that surest of tests, practical experi cuce, that, taken as a whole, they
remain au honorable monument to
Oun energetic and enterprising even- The above case differs from the local ing contemporary, with its large and
on we referred to, because Mr. John efficient staff of short-hand writers, is
Brown was proved to have been guilty of nothing if not original. However, cheatings but the decision there as hore to use the elegant language, to which would soon to be that selling a card or the Mail has an exclusive right in lottery ticket on the street, is keeping this colony, there seems to us to place or agency for the sale of such cards or tickets a refined reasoning that our be something irregular or slightly mind fails to grasp. However, we shall mixed" in the most recent man be glad to receive instruction on the point. œuvre of the evening print to con- We are not surprised at the in- coct an original paragraph for the capability of our contemporary's delectation of its numerous readers. mind to grasp the refined reasoning On the 4th instant we facetiously al- which decides that a stand erected luded to the case of a Chinaman, in the public street for the illegal Pang Atak, who on the previous day sale of lottery tickets is to all intents had been convicted at the Police and purposes a "place or agency Court by Mr. H. E. Wodehouse, of for the disposal of such tickets with- the offence of keeping an agency for ia the meaning of the Act. Nor can the sale of Tsz Fa lottery tickets, and anyone wonder th the China sentenced to seven days' imprison- is open to receive instruction on the ment. It appeared to us at the time point. We should indeed be sur- that the prisoner, who was caught in prised if the mind of the evening flagrante delicto selling the tickets in journal, or what serves the purpose Market-street to all comers, might of that useful function, showed suffi- have escaped conviction on technical cient capacity to understand any grounds, so far as the Gambling thing that involved the slightest Ordinance is concerned, had he been amount of mental research or in- defended by a solicitor, although as tellectual power; however, as instruc- a rogue and vagabond he would most tion is humbly solicited, we gladly certainly have been amenable to give a benighted brother the benefit punishment. Without wishing to of our limited experience. The reflect in any way on the manner in cases of Mr. John Brown and Mr. which our magistrates perform their Pang Atak are practically identical duties, we think that the application in many rospects, although there is of sound common sense, in prefer one important legal difference which ence to a too slavish adherence to any person with the least motiu the strict letter of the law, would, in of common sense and the slightest many cases, obviate rather serious practical acquaintance with the sub- difficulties, and we commend our lect could not possibly have over suggestion to the serious considera- jooked. Mr. Brown and Mr. Atak tion of Dr. Stewart and Mr. Wode were both selling lottery tickets house. The very sensible observation against the law, and in the public of the celebrated Sir John Powell (in street. We have already said that, Coggs v. Bernard 2 Ld. Raym. 911) on the ground that he had no stall "Let us consider the reason of the or fixture of any description, the case. For nothing is law that is not Hongkong criminal might have suc- reason,"
might be advantageously ceeded, through a defect in the word taken as a text by all dispensers of ing of the Ordinance, in escaping public justice, whether legally edu- the consequences of his acts, so far cated or otherwise.
as this particular section is concern- On the 17th instant the China Mailed. Mr. John Brown, on the contrary, discovers (three days after tho sub- had not a shadow of a chance of ject had been exhaustively, if some- escaping. Ho had a stand from what flippantly, treated in our colums) which he carried on his business, and that according to Ordinance there as it has boon already decided, and actually did exist a doubt whether confirmed on appeal, as any lawyer with a head, sonotintos without a houd, the public street, used for selling in the colony can testify, that a stool sometimos with a tail, sometimes with lottery tickets, could be legally de- and an umbrella constitute a place out a tail, and sometimes without fined as "an office, agency or place or agoncy," within the meaning of either load or tail ?—A wig.
A portion of the building opposite the Stag Hotel, at which a number of men have been at work for some time past demolishing the structure, came down suddenly last evening with a great crash. The police were sat on the spot, and muder the superintendenco and with their assistance the débris was soon cleared away from the street. Although it was currently reported that several people were buried in the rains, we are glad to say that such was not the caso, and so far as we can learu uo lives were fost.
A Now Club, composed chiefly of membors belonging to the naval” and military services, has Intely been. established at Queen's Road East, under the designation of the Wanchai Club. A meeting was held last night, at which a large number of members at- managing committee, and drawing tended, for the purposes of electing "Pa code of rules. It was decided to Rooms on Monday evening, the 26th hold a Quadrille party at the Club inst., commencing at nine o'clock.
It is reported that Mr. Chester Holcombo, the U.S. Chargé d'Affaires at Peking, who is now at home on leave, has resigned his office and is alvocating himself as a candidate for Minister of the U.S. to China. It is probable that Nicholas J. Hanuen, Esq., Crown Advocate, will shortly come out again to Shanghai in the capacity of Acting Chief Justice of
Westoby, from Coast Ports, reports :-~-~~- The British stoner Namba, Captain Left Foochow on 17th, Amoy 19th, and M's Supreme Court in China and Swatow 20th inst., and experienced Japan.We regret to hear of the death moderate southerly winds to Swatow, of M. Elmond Serrays, late Minister from thence to part light northerly for Belginn to China. M. Serrays, winds and smooth son. Steamers at died at Naples on the 8th July, of Foochow -Diomed, Kwangtung, Sin typhus fever, in the fifty-fourth year Nancing, and Tannadice; at Amoy of his age. Foochow Herald. Carisbrooke and Naples; steamers Dia- |- menle and Tamsui left the same day at and Marlborough. The bark Caroline Swatow-Chintung, Fopchow, Tientsin, Behn was towed from Pagoda Anchor:
age out to sea.
It has been currently reported for tion, having for its object what can some time past that a powerful agita. only be described as a total revolution
their compilers. For reasons which we propose going into at length some other time, we totally disagree with the judgments delivered by Acting Chief Justice Snowden, and Mr. Justice Russell, in the Manila Lottery Ticket case, nor are we disposed to blindly concede that the Gambling Ordinance is so loosely worded as has bean asserted, although we admit that a revision of the whole of the law bearing on the subject, consi- dering the altered character of the times, might be advisable. We do also protest, and that most emphati cally, against the imputations of the China Mail that Governor Hennessy
in the Government of the country, bas is in any way responsible for any
lately been gaining ground in Japan. inefficiency which may exist in the The Land Leaguera exchequer The draft of a proposed Constitution Gambling Ordinances. The question standing in sore need of replenishing, for the Empire, which has been com- has never been raised until within those patriotic gentlemen have made a piled for private oirculation, appears the past few weeks, so that it is strong appeal to their supporters in the Japan Weekly Mail of the 10th difficult to see ou what sound and
funds. This sort of mendioaney has, inst., and is a document of great in- honest grounds Sir John Pope IIeu-
unfortunately, never been brought portance. We also read that the within the law, although we reallyCouncillors and Secretaries of the nessy is to be held responsible for what may, or may not, be radical
cannot see why begging appeals from Legislative Section in the Council of a gang of noody and unscrupulous State have lately been examining the defects. Meanness can scarcely adventurors should be tolerated whilst Constitutional Laws of several Buro. descend much lower than our con
tho anime sort of thing from some half-pean natious, doubtless in view of temporary's resolute policy of scan-starved wretch on behalf of his miser- coming events. dalous insinuations and contemptible able wife and family would at onco enuondoes.
lead to a criminal prosecution. Tho laws of England form a cheerful study for a person with an evenly balanced miud." Tho laws are supposol to affect equally the rich and the poor, the insignificant and the groat, the poor and the easunt. Of course, it is all cant and humbug, but it is the law.
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"My dear Murphy," said an Irish. me to his friend," why did you betray the secret that I told you?"-" Is it betraying you call it ? Sure, when I found I wasn't able to keep it myself, didn't I do well to tell it to somebody that could ??