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is that the unfortunate Chinese in Hongkong many of them subjects of Her Majesty were regarded by some of our countrymen as brutes rather than men with like feelings with ourselves. The Colonists of other than Chinese descent were, however, dissatisfied with the Governor's ac- tion in this matter, and held indignation meeting from which the Chinese of wealth and standing retired on masse-where speeches. were made, some of which would have done credit to a Grand Inquisi-
tor.
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A petition was framed and sent to Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, demanding a Commission of Inquiry into the Governor's administration, and the re-imposition of the flogging ordi- nances. The reply was very brief, and to the point. It informed the petitioners that, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, they would be much better employed in assisting than in endeavouring to thwart the Governor in his administration, and that there was no reason to appoint any Commission of Inquiry. From that time, up to the present, Sir John Hennessy Has had to encounter hos- tility of a more than usually bitter and unscrupulous character, from some of his own countrymen. His policy is very clear and well defined, and, I submit, a wise and patriotic one. It is that the subjects of the Queen of Chinese descent, as well as subjects of the Emperor of China residing in Hongkong, shall stand before the Law and the Executive in
The visitors to the City Hall Museum for the week ending 23rd October, were European, 127; Chinese, 1,832,
verniment House, Maono, on the Sist There will be a reception at the Go- instant, on the occasion of the birthday of His Majesty D. Luiz I,
The British bark Kassa, which has
just arrived in harbour, has come down dock, undergoing repairs. from Whampoa, where she has been in
announces another catastrophe at sea: A telegram from Loudon yesterday
The Koning Nederlanden foun·lerod nt soa, October 5th in lat. 5 deg South, long 64 deg. East. A boat load of 34 has been picked up, who proceded to go. There are no tilings of the romaining 175 "
We are for ned by the Superinten dont at the Telograph Company that the Manila badline, which was blown down by a storia some days ago has now been repaired. and telegraphic communication with Manila restored.
To-day Queen Victoria will have reigned exactly the same time as Queen Elizabeth of blessed memory. Good Queen bless ascended the English November 17th, 1558, and died March throne, suoc aeding her sister Mary, on 24th, 1608. Queen Victoria succeeded William IV. on June 20th, 1837.
SUPREME COURT..
SUMMARY JURISDICTION. Moore v. Whitehead, $216,64. This notion, which was a claim for $216.64, on a promissory note given by the defendant to the plaintiff, as a guarantee in connection with a series of Race Lotteries held at the Cosmo. politan Club last February, was heard yesterday before Mr. James Russell, Acting Paisno Judge. Mr. William Wotton of Messrs. Brereton and Wotton, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. E. Sharp, of Messrs. Sharp, Teller, and Johnson for the defendant.
W.-P. Moore, who said he was Treasurer of the late Cosmopolitan Clab. Mr. Whitehead was a member of the Club. The promissory note shown was given by Mr. Whitehead to witness. The whole of the writing
on the note was thoro when witness: got it. The gentlemen, including Mr. Whitehead, gave accurity in $200 each for the management of race sweeps. These sweeps were for the 1881- races. Two lodged $200 in cash, and Mr. Whitehead gave a promissory note. These three were to manage the sweeps, and pay the Club so muoli and receive so much for themselves; the no-sweeps were to be farmed out.
Mr. Wotton explained that the tion was on a promissory note, dated 28th January, 1881, given by Mr. Whitehead to Mr. Moore. No especial defence bad boon fløt
consideration, whatever it meant, was Mr. Sharp said, that inasmuch as stated in the particulars, it was for Mr. Warton to show that it was good consideration.
Mr. Wotton thought the note was prima facis consideration.
Mr. Russell-You don't admit this, Mr. Sharp?
Mr. Sharp said it was entirely for the other side to prove it..
His Lordship here read a portion of the ninates of a meeting held by the Club when the Chairman objected to the farining out of the sweeps, ne it gambling house, and remarked he was would convert the Club into a bona fide afraid it had not turned out a bona fide gainbling house, -
Witness could not say that these. three gentleman had conducted the the Club auything, He did not know sweeps properly. They had not paid.
money, but they at least had it in their whether they had collected all the hands. The $600 was to be paid so that three parties should be allowed to manage the sweep. The Club expect-. · Mr. Sharp said he was entirely ined something beyond this. Witness
It was a most ex-object was to get hold of $600.
His Lordship said they had got $400,
His Lordship asked what they called
the document..
the dark about it. traordinary thing.
His Lordship said the embarassing
The Görinaa brig B. H. Sternken, part of the thing was the rider which And that was all they were likely to
the British bark Velocity, and the American steamer Sea Gull, will be
docked at Kooloon this afternoon. They could not dock the Velocity as arranged at Sam-shiu-po yesterday. The Raja. litan Dock yesterday, and the Spanish
had been stuck on at the end of the note (which was to the effect that the
money was a deposit for the safe con- ducting of the business of the Club). He would treat this as surplusage, and
Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not precisely the same position as Euro.nattianuhar caine out of the Cosmopo- take the note as a promise to pay a
ordered for a fized period will be continued untit countertrianded.
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Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 25TH OCTOBER, 1881.
transport Lagaspi wont in to complete her ropairs.
peans, and that they shall be subject to no disability or exceptional regu- lation for which strong and con- vincing reasons cannot be shown. With regard to a paragraph publish. When it is remembered that the Chi-ed in the London and China Express nese in the Colony number about recently, which we reproduced, rela- 180,000 against about 2,000 Euro- ting how two men belonging to the péans and Americans, that they pay
new gunboats had been decapitated We have very much pleasure in about nine-five per cent. of the total for going on shore without leave while placing before our readers the sub-taxation, that among them, as I can story is not only not true, but that it at Plymouth, we are assured that the joined lotter, which under the head- testify, are men of the highest pro- absolutely a fabrication, as nothing ing "Flogging in Hongkong" ap- bity, wealth, and public spirit, the happened in England which could have pears in the London Echo of Sep gratitude with which the successive given rise to such a canard. tomber 6th. We shall for the pre-acts of the Governor's policy were sent reserve our comments on the received can well be imagined,
is
With further reference to the loss of the Brisbane reported in our yester day's issue, we are informed by the agents at this port, Messrs. Gibb, Li- telegram inquiring about the cargo, vingaton & Co., that, in reply to their the following reply was received yes. terday afternoon; Port Darwin, Oct. 24th, 450 tons saved." There can, therefore, be little doubt that salving proceedings must have been interrup ted by unfavourable weather, as under
certain sum of money, on acertain day.
get.
getting about $1,800, had only got Witness said the Club, instead of $550. The books were in Fakeera's possession. He would no doubt de- liver them up; but he could not make
head nor tail of them. There had been
After some conversation it was alti-three or four ledgers made up, and mately agreed that Mr. Sharp should things were somewhat mixed, stato his defence, Mr. Wotton waiving his right to notice of special defence.
Mr. Sharp said, his defence was (1st) that there was no valuable con- sideration; (2nd) illegality, and that plaintiff and defendant were partners Whitehead never took upon himself in the matter; and (Srd) that Mr. the management of the concern at all. It was managed really by the Treasurer, the Secretary, and the Olerk. More over, Whitehead's losses were "con- siderable by the transaction. The circumstances of the case were these, Shortly before the races last year the officers of the Cosmopolitan Club who were elected annually, and were on
subject so impartially dealt with, Only a few months ago, on the and content ourselves with expres fourth anniversary of His Excellen- sing our satisfaction that His Ex-cy's arrival in Hongkong, an address cellency the Governor's policy is ap of congratulation from the principal
that occasion Mr. Moore, Treasurer; parently better understood, and far Chinese merchants of the Colony
Mr. Fukeera, President; and Mr. more appreciated at home, than has
was presented to him in Government
Whiteliead, bo believed was Secretary ever been the case in our circum-House. Making every allowance for
although he did nothing, Fukoera scribed community. The following Oriental metaphor, the documents
really managing the whole thing is the communication:"In his in- showed clearly that the Chinese
met together and agreed to have a teresting letter in your issue of the Ist warmly appreciated the beneficial
series of sweeps. In order that the instant, on Flogging in Hongkong measures introduced by the Governor. ordinary circumstances, the whole of Club should be in position to pay up Mr. P. A. Taylor has touched but The chief problem before any re- the cargo could easily have been safely anything that they lost, the officers of lightly on the opposition encountered presentative of the Queen in Hong-landed in much less than twelve days, the Club agreed to pay down $200 by Governor Sir J. Pope Hennessy kong is to reconcile to our rule the the time the steamer lay on the reaf each. Fukesra and Xavier the clerk, in his endeavour to limit the use of tens of thousands of Chinese who comparatively uninjured. The cargo paid $200 in cash each. Whitehead the lash on Chinese criminals. Soon reside there for trade, and on whom salved would no doubt be that con- said he could not do that, but he would after his arrival in the Colony, dur the commercial prosperity of the signed to Port Darwin, of which there give a promissory note. The Club ing a visit of inspection to the gaol Colony depends; and so to order our
was a fairly large quantity on board; won on the transaction, but unforinu- in Victoria, he was struck by the in-government that the Chinese autho- however, we shall doubtless have toately they had been unable to collect bumane manner in which the purities on the mainland shall have no of the Menmuir, expected here about had been shut up and Mr. Whitehead walt for full particulars until the arrival all the outstanding claims. The Club nishment of flogging was carried out. reason to complain that the island November 6th. In papers laid before Parliament he is a den of refuge for offenders against has himself described, in graphic Chinese law. Sir John Hennessy language, the manner in which pri- has endeavoured to solve the problem soners were placed on low diet, such by just and even-handed treatment as rice and water, for some days of the Chinese, and I am much mis- previous to the infliction of the lash, taken if the approbation of disinte- to prepare the bodies of the poor rested public men, such as Mr. P. A, wretches, as it were, for the punish- Taylor, will not console him for much ment. He also describes in all its factious local opposition. On another sickening detail the condition in occasion I may ask your permission which he found some of the convicts to mention the practical results of who had been flogged several times in succession. Pending reference to the Secretary of State, his Excellency took on himself the responsibility of suspending all flogging."
four years of Sir John Hennessy's administration in a Colony which is the entrepôt for British trade to the value of nearly one hundred millions sterling,
That institution, Reuter, will no doubt continue to flourish and carry on its business in its own way until united action is taken by the numerous Cham. bers of Commerce who pour large sums annually into the Baron's coffers for the stale, irregular, and frequently worthless items of news doled out. Here is a good sample. This morning a telegrain arrived in this Colony, dated London 23rd, as follows: The Land League has issued a matifesto ex- horting the tenant-farmers to pay no rent until the Government abandons the system of terrorism." The follow- ing telegram, appears in the N. 0. The result of lengthened considera-
Daily News of the 20th instant- tion by Sir Michael Hicks-Beach and
London, 19th October."The Land Lord Kimberley is mentioned by The Daily Telegraph of the 8th alto. League have issued a manifesto exhort. Mr. Taylor. It is now ordered that states that the Minin, Russian man-of- ing tenant-farmors to pay no ront until no criminal in Hongkong is to be war, Captain Mazinoff, flagship of Ad.coercion is abandoned." Thus, we re- sentenced to the lash, except in cases miral Stakelborg, anchored at Spithead coive a contemporary, published nearly where such punishment could be on that, date and salated the flag of a thousand miles away, containing this inflicted in England. Most of your Admiral Ryder, Commander-in-Chief. item of news before Reuter thinks it The salute being returned from the worth while to despatch it to Hong- readers, I doubt not, will be astonish- Duke of Wellington, Admiral Ryder kong. We must admit that the tele- od to learn that this dreadful punish-paid an ofHoist visit to the Russianship, gram received in Hongkong-contains ment could be ordered by the prison and subsequently Admiral Stakelberg, few more words, and as the extra sen official for offences of a most trivial accompanied by Mr. B. M'Choane, tence is of such intense interest we description against prison discipline: Bassian Consul at this port, landed, give it:-"The transfer of the League Indeed, the impression left by the witnessing before doing so, a walrus to Liverpool is declared to be prema- Parliamentary papers on the subject hunt at the Portsmouth Police Regatta. ture."
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bad been denied nocess to the books. He had made every effort to collect the debts so that the accounts should be settled. Whitehead drew two or three winning ponnies, and if the accounts were settled he would be a winner of about $300 besides the $200 for which he had given the promissory note. Whether Mr. Moore, in coming to stractions from the late Committee or Court suing him for this, had any in- not he did not know, nor did he know whether he was still Treasurer of the Club, which had been defunct for a long time, and he contended that this was simply a deposit in order that the Club might pay up any sweeps it lost. The Judge observed that the Club did not appear to have got much
Cross-examined-Witness said he was trying to wind up the affair. He had placed the accounts in the hands. of a solicitor. One or two of the shareholders put the matter into his hands. The accounts were first in the but they gave them up. They were hands of Messrs. Stephen and Holmes,
now in the hands of Mr. Wotton. Witness believed that Mr. Whitehead drew two or three winning ponies, but could not say whether Whitehead had won $400 or $500. If all the ont- atanding debts wore collected he did not know whether Whitehead was a winner or not.
If Whitehead were to be believed, he had won. White- a director.
head was not paid as He was elected manager and was sup- posed to manage the Club. His duties as manager would be to look after the boys, give out the liqagrs, and see that things went on smoothly. You would find the words "no gambling allowed" in all Club, rules, Witness did not know that sweeps could be altogether called gambling. The case of Xavier v. Fakeera had nothing to do with the present suit. Whitehead was equally responsible with the others. Witness was not treasurer of the sweep. He was suing for $200 for the Cosmopo. litan Clab. Mc. Sharp had better ask Mr. Whitehead who was treasurer of the aweep. Mr. Whitehead and witness were of course equal partners in the Club only witness hold two shares and Whitehead one. Could not say whether Whitehead was responsiblo for the outstanding debs or not. $150 had been paid by Fukeora to Tai Sing to whom the Club was indebted.
His Lordship said he was quite satis fied that the $600 was nothing more nor less than a guarantee to the Olab.
that they should get profits out of the affair. Moore by his own statement wished to secure $600 for the Clab out of this gambling transaction. The $600 was to be paid by Takeera, Xavier, and Whitehead, in cash. Moore unfortunately took this promissory note from Whitehead. The money was clearly given for an illegal considera- tion, therefore the action would be Mr. Sharp-No I would call your dismissed. He Lordship was not sare Lordship's attention to a case of the that Whitohend had acted altogether. same kind which your Lordship decidina proper manner. As to the matter. ed some time ago, when it was held of costs, he would allow that to stand that the affair savoured of illegality over, for the present, as something
money out of the business.
and gambling,
Mr. Wotton remarked that he thought it was simply a dodge of the defendant in not giving notice of a special defence.
Mr. Sharp-Oh, Mr. Wotton; I am not in the habit of dodging. Mr. Wotton then called
more might be heard about the affair.
le-his comedy of “Time works won.. ders," Douglas Jerrold says, "Women are all alike, when they're maids they're aa mild as milk. Once make'em wives, and they lean their backs against their marriage certificates and defy you."