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would be a case of qualified privilege and the Court would rule accordingly. | Defendant was also at sea in his definition of malice. Malice in law and malice in aspore-entirely different things-and-it- the rule inlaw to presume malice in all libellous publications which are hot specially justified, As Oudras in his
TELEGRAMS.
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LONDON Max Mr. Stanhope's Volunteer Bill has been read a second time.
GERMANY.
Ture late Barghash Bin Saed, Sultan of Zanzibar, Iaves twenty-seven widows and 232 children. Enough has Bin Saed.
THE U. S. S.. Juntala, with Colonel Denby, United States Minister, on board, arrived at
VRSSRS. Adamson, Bell & Co, agents for the Canadian-Pacific Line, inform us that the steam ship Parthia attived-at-Yokohama on the roth" | Amoy on the 15th inst
ash, and left for this port vid Shanghai yester
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et for this afternoon, had to be postponed ACCORDING to Mr. Coghlan, the New South antil Monday at 4 pm, owing to unfavorable Wales Goverment Statistician, the following Sigures represent the comparative populations IN.S.W. and Victoria-New South Wales: Victoria: Males, 550,050) females, 486,060; total,
weather.
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und Slander" expresses it, malice in law merely denotes absence of legal excuse. The plaintiff is never called on to prove the existence of malice in law; the defendant has to show the existence of some legal
good.
THE SUEZ CANAL.
The Emperor rose to-day at eleven o'clock Says the Foochow Echo of the rath ins
the last few days, and the quality is said to be superior to that of last season, The teamen ssert that this season crop will be shorter than Last, and will not exceed 600,000 chests. If Lord Salisbury may be believed, Great
The Poite has accepted the Convention,
CHINESE IN AUSTRALIA
1,036,110,
Excuse.. Whether the charge made by All the Australian Colonies have now decided iritain, while using all possible influence to Gardens, to-morrow (Sunday), from 9 till 10 p.m.
The Bangkok Times against Mr. LavaGNINO was true or false is very difficult to determine from the printed report of the evidence adduced at the trial; plaintiff swore that the weighing machine. he sold
But to allow any more Chinese to land.
New Zealand for the present confines herself to proclaiming quarantine against Chinese parts TYPHOON AT LUZON.
reserve the peace of Europe, has been most to credit the Premier's public utterances--but energetically preparing for war. We are bound
what about the guns and long promised torpedo boats for the defence of Hongkong? They are.
By kind permission of Colonel Anderson and the officers of the and Northamptonshire Regiment, the Regimental Band will play in the Public The following will be the programme.
March........Frection".. Date"The Bat palindr
Selection...... "Airs from Vaise........Tendressa Selecion......" Futline"...
............Schales. Hostini. Codfrey Waldicufot Wallace.
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JOHN MOMAN, Bandmaster,
was his own, and although he did not courteously forwarded to is late last night byoming! No doubt; but so is the millennium. ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE RUSSELL, would appear
come unscathed through defendant's cross- examination, the evidence on the other side was anything but conclusive, and the result was that the Court found for the plaintiff, assessing damages at $300, with
costs,
Law has not inaptly been compared to a sieve it can very easily be seen through, buone can only succeed in getting through it with considerable difficulty and frequently
We should not have considered it worth -al-heavy-expense--That-at-least-has-been- while to specially refer to this case, which involves no important principle and is of particular public interest, had it not been for the unusual mode of procedure insisted on by the Jüdge of the Consular
the experience of Mr.T. LLOYD WILLIAMÈSE,
Editor and Proprietor of the Bangkok Times, in an action for libel brought against him by Mr. A. LavauNINO, which was recently
The following telegram from Manila was
Captain Moreu Spanish Consul at this port
"A typhoon is raging to the N.N.W.
Luzon,"
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
of
MONDAY next (Whit Monday) being a general holiday, there will be no issue of The Hongkong Telegraph..........
THE Ben" liner Benvenue left Shanghai fox Hankow, to load new season's teas for London, at daylight on the 15th inst.
.^
Two, mariners 'out of collar,' to wit, James to be anxious to figure in local history as the Kennedy and John Sullivan, made their salaam "Flogging Judge:" We regard his Honour's before Mt. Sercombe-Smith at the Magistracy views on the use of the lash as quilo out of this forenoon at the instance of Mr. Moir, the harmony with the age in which we live, and his Superintendent of the Sail rs' Home, who accused public utterances from the Bench deploring his them of having been loaded wah fire-water and want of power to dog convicted kidnappers very disorderly at the Home last night, James especially as his quasi-threats were perfictly and John had to own to the soft impeachment, harmless-impolitic in the extreme, Repressive nd-his-Worship informed-them-that-they-would--measures to cope with the worst forms of crime cach contribute que Mexican dollar to Lister's are easily available without having resort to money box. They “anted up":"" THE following story of the Emperor of Brazil furnishes a good illustration of the character of
→→İTNERAL von Moirke was asked ngetung Kya" omething," replied the great strategist, who, what he thought of Boulanger. "He knows lent in seven languages, never wastes a word. FOR carrying arms, on the 19th inst., without Leung Achun was fired this morning by Mr. Sercombe Smith $100, with the alternative of six nonths hard labour, A Chinese lukong sald he found the defendant with a revolver loaded cartridges, a dagger, and a bag of powder having a all its chambers, and in nldition about 10
hole for the insertion of a fuse. Defendant deaded that he had just come from: Canton and was not aware that he was breaking the law, a statement which appeared somewhat too thin. Leung, of course, retired to the Hotel and
is armoury was confiscated for the benefit of he defences of the colony.
THE ancient Prussian custom of holding a "Black Drawing-room" after the monarch's death has, jaya London Life, been honored in the breach on this occasion. Formerly in Prussia, so soon is the king was dead all the Ministers of the crown, foreign Ministers, and the court generally, epaired in full dress to the palace. The first woms they entered were brilliantly lighted, “but”“ gradually, as they went through the different brutalities which are a disgrace to civilisation,
partments leading to the throne room, the THE New York Commercial Advertiser devotes fast being reached, it was found in semi-dark- lighting became.dimmer and dimmer, till, this an editorial to the relative merits of the blueness. Around the throne were grouped a series
tried in the British Consular Court for Siam Court. After the pleadings were read the WE read that Mr. J. C. Hall,' lately Acting that gifted monarch. The other day, at Cannes, eye, the gray eye, and the green eye, citing well-f waxwork figures, deeply veiled with black, The cause of action was a paragraph in Judge called upon the defendant to bring British Consul at Yokohama, will succeed Mr. the editor of a scientific French journal waited known literary works as authorities. While it representing the chief members of the new court,
our contemporary alleging that a certain weighing machine, sent to the defendant
forward evidence to prove the truth of his allegation against the plaintiff. Defendant
Geo. Jamieson at Shanghai as. Acting Assistant judge.
upon his Majesty with the request that he would contribute some articles on uniters connected
tries to be non-committal and wavers between and before these all the high dignitaries solemnly gray and blue as the desirable color, it does not passed, bowing themselves out backwards. The
LAVAGNING! ythe Bangkok Customs officials very properly protested against opening the WE hear that several landdips have occurred with his dominion." "Certainly," replied the hesitate to declare that "as a rife the green eye wisdom of dropping such grotesque mummery to be repaired, had been illegally sold by/ase, and contended that it was for the plain- owing to the excessive rains. A mass of earth/ Emperor; "but what rate of pay do you give ?" is not admired.". Anthony Trollope does not is scarcely open to question.
him to a storekeeper for 45 ficals. Thereff, who was suing for damages, to prove that could not be the least doubt that the imput-the paragraph was false and defamatory adion intended to be conveyed was that and that he had by its publication sustained LAVAGINO ha committed a criminal breach injury to the amountclaimed, This objection of trust by selling the property of the was over-ruled by the Court, and although Siamese Government, so that the position we are quite well aware that the Acting and responsibility of the Editor were clearly
Consul had precedents for this ruling, it enough defined, when legal proceedings appears to us that the ordinary and fairer course of calling on the plaintiff to establish wereinitiated. Lavaostsoclaimed damages for loss in business, and reputation to the his claim should have been adopted in this ase. In Wicking v. Fraser-Smith, tried in ustunt of $2000, and a defence was duly
not loose and fell this afternoon in front of the Masonic Club.
ACCORDING to the Economiste Français, over £400,000,000 worth of wine has been lost to France through phylloxera-just double the war
indemnity after 1870 1
f
The German squadron composed of the corvette smart Sophie and Carola, entered the harbour and exchanged salutes with the port as we were going to press.
Hax Majesty's troopship Himalaya arrived at
The man of letters, though a little surprised, having named what he was in the habit of giving, Dom Pedro added, smiling: "Yes, that will do very well. You see, I would gladly write for nothing, but I am not at liberty to do. 10, as ever since I began writing 1, have given every penny I have earned by my brain to an orphan asylum in my capital,” THE New York Herald repints General Boulanger as saying to a Figaro, reporter, an being asked with what party be affiliated: "I am like this
Republic. All my hopes centred in my return to the Ministry. Now it is true that my friends in the State. Will you call me ambitious if 1 say I have not been able to avoid looking at the prospect? I have no liking for dragging my sword after me in time of peace. If we had war, every one knows I would take it up again. It is idiotic, though, to say Boulanger c'est la guerre !' Why should I think of war when neither France nor declare it, never." Germany wishes it? Prepare to wage it, yes;
appear among the authorities cited, for if he did the green eye would have found a decided champion. In his novel, "The Eustace Dia- monds," false, tricky and unprincipled Lizzie Eustace has "eyes blue and clear, bright as cerulean waters, while the author adds: "How
lew there are among women, few perhaps also among men, who know that the sweetest, softest, tenderest, truest eyes a woman can carry in her head are green in color.".
The Macao Independente, in commenting on the
so many petitions for the extradition of Chinese criminals? They simply mean that these armed, and in Large gangs, with a dell berate intention of plundering, setting fire to houses, murdering, etc. This does not reflect credit upon a great Power which boasts of its strength, its generals and its braves. Macao and Hongkong cannot be blamed for receiving those people on their return from their predatory expeditions, because they arrive in a pacific and surreptitious manner. Had, there been any police at the places where the crimes are com- our guests, as they would be soon exterminated:" mitted, these marauders could not come and be
Such is the language used by the preas of a colony which has just signed a treaty of extradi-
* SERIOUS FIRE IN QUEEN'S' ROAD WEST
EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPES.
The third fire within the last seven days broke out about eight o'clock Inst night,in a Chinese shop in Queen's Road West. The build- ing is situated at a bend some half mile beyond the Fire Brigade Station, and was admirably idapted, both from its position in the centre of he nest of high buildings and the "jerry" nature
blade," throwing his knife on the table, "Why repeated requests made by the Carton Govern-of-the-block, to facilitate the spread of the flames. entered. Plendings were filed, but as they Hongkong before Mr. Justice RuSSELL Singapore from Plyninuih vía Colomba, with must-I-go-to the right or the left. It was oor 1~~ment for the rendition of Ghinese prisoners, has The Government Brigade, under Superintendent have not been published we are unabati September, 1881, Mr. HAYLLAR, Q.c., for military and naval reliefs on the ith Inst. She who first thought of the Presidency of the the following What can be the meaning of Wodehouse, and the Volunteer Brigade, directed by Mr. Mallory, arrived in a very short time, to form any reliable idea as to their the plaintiff, contended that as publication was to leave for the Cape yesterday. character. The Consular Court consisted had been admitted, and the only point to be Tue Hollanders are methodic people. The hold out to me the prospect of the first magistracy criminals enter into Chinese territory well escaping in time. From front and rear water but the adjoining four houses to the left were already burning, the inmates only just of Mr. E. H. FRENCH, Acting Consul,quired into was the truth of the alleged King of Holland is enrolled among the electors
connections were quickly laid to the floating and assisted by Messrs. E. J. SMITH and M. libel, that it was for the defendant to classified as "Occupation-King. Residence,
other engines, and every effort made to prevent 12 Were Assessors, plaintiff being-
Legin the object of the learned counsel. Noordeinde 68., Taxation, 6978, 179,"
the spread of the fire, with such success that cf course, being to have the last word with THE sale by auction of the Glass Works at
body of men mounted the walls to direct the represented by counsel, whilst defendant
by nine o'clock it was practically in hand. conducted his own case.. Mr. WILLIAMESK
the jury. Mr. FRANcis, for the defendant, West Point, which was advertised to take place
jets on the smoking shell, when the outer wail of was singularly unhappy in his line of did not contest the point, and as a matter this afternoon, had to be indefinitely postponed
Nos. 47 and 49. fell, although the fire had not reached shere. A Chinese fireman was on the defence, and apparently entirely miscon-of fact the defendant's case was first owing to the inclemency of the weather... ceived his legal position. He also made opened. But in another sult of an almost MR. Justice Manisty thinks that there should be
of, and Assistant Foreman Phelps was in the attic when the building collapsed. The China. man shouted "Save life" all the way down, But Jan unfortunate blunder in objecting to the similar character, Bulgin v." Fraser-Smith. a special court to try betting cases. We thinks Assessors on very frivolous grounds. But tried before the same judge in June, so too, and go one better by suggesting that
escaped in a marvellous way, being entirely un with the roof following him, and dropped upon jured, notrithstanding the great drop. Phelps was, notwithstanding all this it appears to us
1883, the procedure was entirely changed, special judges would also be an improvement.
a way, even more fortunate. He fell inside, that he has good reason for complaint Mr. FRANCIS opening the case for the plain- AN Emergency meeting of St. John Lodge,
the wreck of the lower rooms. He says he never at, the treatment he received at the till, and we certainly think that this mode No. 6:8, S.C., will be held in Freemasons' Hall,
travelled so quickly in his life. The rafters hands of the Court. The issue was a of procedure should have obtained in Zetland Street, on Monday, the 21st instant, at
held him down, and he could see the flames very simple one, and presented no real the Consular Court at Bangkok. But the 50 for 9pm. precisely. Visiting brethren are
sverbead, but after he had been in the smoke cordially invited.
debris fall on him, he was safely extricated. He difficulties, legal or otherwise. A public Acting Consul in at once calling on the
on him a few times by way afvariety to having the defendant to prove the truth of the alleged | ART Dealer-I can't see why you should object Craigrants, and further, is quite well aware that numbers of the two sexes, prevails, nevertheless said he could feel something soft underneath, but newspaper bad imputed in plain language that the plaintiff had misappropriated a libel, showed plainly enough that as to that picture of spring, Mr. Comstock. The Australia have received definite telegraphic cach land has its peculiar, apparently constant in the exclement no search was made. Fireman the worst kind. Publication was admitted inind had already been made up. And it's a glaring untruth. Where are her umbrella, & A. Co's steamer Tannadice and the China of women in the north than in the states of to be removed to the Hospital: He is not in a weighing machine; prima facir a libel of regards the legal merits of the case his figure certainly is draped, Comstock-Yes, but instructions not to ship any more Chinese characteristic sexual composition. In Europe also on the top at the time, received a severo Beeton, of the Government Brigade, who was Within the past few days the there anciently was and still is a greater excess cut on the head, besides minor injuries, and had and overshoes-to say nothing of a chest Navigation Co's Chingitu have left for the proiector?"
Colonies without a single Chinese passenger on certainly a phenomenon his brains are evidently board. The man who edits the evening rag is composed either of mud or sawdust the former,
truth of the libel that he lost what was a
nost uncertain case for the plaintiff. We are also inclined to question the Acting Consul's refusal to file certain documentary evidence proffered by the defendunt. "Mr. WILLIAMESE, Wecontend, had a perfect right to put in any letters or papers bearing on the sult. In the question of damages also, there would seem to be very little doubt that defendant was unfairly dealt with LAVAGNING, who is a warking mechanic, claimed $2000 and actually obtained $300, although it is absolutely certain that the
SEVEN men were charged at the Police Court this morning with gambling at 37, High Street Mr. Sercombe-Smith, after hearing evidence, convicted the accused and fined the two first defendants $50 each, and the others fifty cents exch.
THE China Mail supposes that Chinese passengers willing to pay the poll-tax or provided with genuine certificates may leave this with the hope of gaining entrance to the Colonies. And yet during the past three weeks our contemporary has published telegrams to the effect that the whole of the Australasian Colonies
tion with China,
SAYS Popular Monthly Science-Although
have combined to entirely exclude Chinese over the whole earth a general equality in the the agents of the steamers running from here to
passengers.
for choice,
We call this interesting little legal romance from the Sydney Bulletin:-There is heard in Queens land the sound of a deadbeat, blaspheming by the shores of the solemn sea. He was a young Englishman with a pa, and when, a few months
In
and steam a while, and had had the hose playing.
Middle Europe and the east, in some of which dangerous condition. A few of the Volunteer Europe as a whole the number of women is very the women are in the minority. Through definitely in excess of that of the men, and the great after the Napoleonic wars then the excess appears to be increasing. It was very numbers gradually tended toward equality and nearly reached it (1847 to 1850, 1,009 to 1,000); then they diverged again, and stood, in 1870, 7,037 to 1,000. The phase of increased difference
THE Editor of the China Mail, in predicting the breaking loose of a real typhoon, laments Doberck's pamphlet on "The Law of Storms." paragraph from a London Erm of solicitors appear to be the result partly of the enormous that he is not the fortunate possessor of Dr. | 189, the pa went to claim his halo, he received a are generally observable after wars, and latterly Driver Ehlers, of the Government Brigade, was It is a sad pity. But is there no philanthropic stating that a legacy of 67000 awaited him, and emigration which has taken place to other supporter of the evening paper in the colony the money would arrive by return. He sent the and in Australia and Africa, on the other hands if he would kindly forward his receipt for same quarters of the earth. In America as a whole, sufficiently generous to sport fifty cents in order receipt, and the other week the old man's estate whither this emigration with its preponderance to enlighten this person's crass ignorance on arrived in the shape of a draft for £260. The of males is tending, the men are in excess, and such a seasonable topic? If we have any more of "Brownie's" typhoons, we shall seriously the letter, in which they wept bitter tears over the excess is increasing from the constant arrival
the fact that the costs had absorbed the other of new parties of immigrants. Nevertheless, public to open a subscription in order to provide detailed: bill of costs because they loathed the a candid and considerate action upon their part which filed that young man with suppressed gratitude. He is going home shortly to thank them in person.
the oracle with one of Dr. Doberck's invaluable
little books.
17 is reported that one of the scholars at the Italian Convent, Caine Road, has died from an attack of cholera or choleraic diarrhica, sopposed
London solicitors accompanied this with a regret.
idea of putting the heir to any further, expense
hard at work, when suddenly some of the Brigade, under Mr. H. F. Hayllar, the Govern
inner walls fell. They got out-how, even ment Inspector of Buildings, were meanwhile
reman who was at the bottom stepped inside they cannot say. Mr. Hayllar had his leg
as the walls fell, and, as they fell outwards, injured, but otherwise they were unhurt. A Chinese
escaped, akhough, until his reappearance some minutes afterwards, it was believed that he had become a victim. And it is not certain yet that
struck by some falling debris, and although someone is not buried under the ruins there,
uninjured bodily received a shock to the system left, a few of the regular firemen remaining to fire had been got under the Volunteer Brigade which temporarily incapacitated him. When the play on the ruins, One of the men, named Wyllie, heard a moaning, and on the wreck being hastily cleared from the spot Volunteer Fireman R. P. Dipple (clerk at Messrs, Butterfield and Swire's) was found, three or four feet below. white, black or red races, or their mixtures, was an escape of the "miraculous" kind, the as a whole, and this whether we regard the in the first fall, some three hours before. His beams having happened to form an arch over his body, keeping off the materials which formed ter. Mr. Dipple's back was badly hurt; and his the walls. It was his body which Phelps had arm was held firmly zoong the rubbish. How he was missed when the Volunteers left appears very strange. On being taken to the Hospital, bones broken, although terribly shaken No Mr. Dipple was fortunately found to have. no other casualties occurred, at least so far as is The remaining walls were to be pulled known at present down this afternoon, under Mr. Hayilar's super-
and therefore the only possible valid it was unfortunate that Mr. WILLIAMESE defence that could be arged was the truth failed to understand this pretty broad of the libel. Could it have been shown hint, as it was only by Insufficient use of that Lavasino had, as alleged, been guilty the evidence at his disposal as to the of defrauding the Siamese Government, a verdict for the defendant was inevitable; the matter was undoubtedly one of general interest, and moreover it has been clearly laid downthat no damages are recoverable for a criminal act. Therefore had Mr. WILLIAMESE succeeded in proving that the weighing machine was the property of the Japanese Customs and that plaintiff had actually sold the article under the circumstances. stated, the decision of the Court must have been in his favor. All that was urged by defendant as to the assumed rights of newspapers, the absence defamatory paragraph in the Bangkok consider the advisability of appealing to the 6740. They added that they did not furnish a near approach to equality prevails over the earth He was almost unconscious, having been buried of express malice, his own bond fides In Times never-did-him-damage to a tent believing the truth of the paragraph, part of the latter amount, He stated on the application of the special provisions oath that previous to the publication of the of Lord CAMPBELL'S Act, etc., had reallyibal he made a monthly profit at his trade,
A WASHERMAN and a chair-coolie appeared this morning in the Police Court, Mr. Sercombe nothing to do with the matter; and after paying all expenses, of from 300 to 350 defendant's paradoxical proposition that sicals, and that afterwards, in consequence
By last advices from Batavis, (says the Straits Smith prealding, to answer the charge of being "the case for the Court to decide was not of his having been defamed, his profits for to have been brought on by drinking Impure Times a sensational criminal case was proceed-concerned with others not in custody in cutting water. If the cause of death is as stated, which ing before the Court of Justice there. One of and wounding ons Weng Sam at Tank Land on whether the scale was really stolen the month only totalled 30 ficals. And yet
we have no reason to doubt; it should prove a | the two defendants is Oscar Hatfield, an
the 18th Inst. Chim Ch'ong, a bricklayer, property, but whether he, as a journalist, in the face of an audacious statement like warning to parents to exercise great care as to American cifren, and Consul for the United and that on that day at 11am, he saw 20 or 30 was justified in publishing what he did, this, the Assessors considered that LAVAGNIKO what their children eat and drink during a season States st. Daendels & Co, of which bis fellow with iron bars, bamboos, swords, and the people, including the two defendants, armed and whether malice had been proved," was entitled to 8300 and costs, The when that most formidable of human scourges frm of J. & defendants with revolvers, walking up the lane was altogether untenable. The truth or mercenary motives of the plaintiff should is always to be feared. And It behoves the defendant, Fokko Alting Ducloux, was partner at and going for, every Chlachew man they met Vision The Inmates of the houses destroyed falsehood of the libel was the only material not have escapad the observation of the Sanitary Board to remember that for some time thetime. The firm was managed by four partner Complainant belonged to thaf tribe and was Now $5, 53, and 51, and very little left in Nos, saved nothing, everything being destroyed in point to be decided. Generally speaking, Assessors, and the fact that he never gave part cholera has been prevalent at Singapore, one of whom was away then in Europe. Duciouz, a newspaper, has no more right than any the Editor of the Times any opportunity of Bangkok, Saigon, and other places in constant runs the indictment, not satisfied with the accordingly beaten. He, saw
eople 49 and 47 One man said that he lost $500 In communication with this post, in deta legitimate: profits of the business, must needs attacked and, beaten, one of was noler. The basements of the houses were uned member of the outside public to print explaining, or apologising, but at once
embark in produce and mining speculations until cut with a word in the right arm, and
upper rooms being let to private a libellous statement that is false and rushed into court, ought to have had due SAYS London Radical papers-We have a bo tacurred liabilities which he met by accept was now. In the
bance shop, No. 53 a bookbinder's, and No. 51 a pork unjustified; there are some special matters weight in assessing damages, ODGERS curious way of dealing with Government officials. ances, to which he affixed the signature of the fem without his partners knowledge. The Java
continued with much violence up to Pin butcher's. The fire broke out in No. 55, but in held to be What are termed privileged says that in all cases before actually issuing Aman first commits a fault i a role of censure Bank; the Chartered Bank of India, Australia when witness went with the police to Square, what manner and from what cause is not known communications, some of which are abso. I a writ, plaintiff's solicitor should write is moved in the House of Commons. His and China, and the Chartered: Mercantile Street and there pointed out the two defendants. It is supposed to be through that commonest of
colleagues, of course, defend him but he is Bank of India, London and Chinny were taken Another wincas afterwards cashtered, Their he receives some th to the amount of 170,000 guilders. The the above, stating that defend title or a place. Marriott, the political renegade in defrauding these banks on condition of getting evidence tends to show that Hatheld aided him who represents the lodging-house keepers of half the gains. To carry out the scheme, Hat: left; he Brighton, is the latest instance of this process. Geld came down to Singapore where he was It was found imposible to retain him as Judge joined by Ducloux Under the false pretence badly Advocate General after the recent exposure of that the firm held a tin mine in the neighbour
hood, they raised 300,000 guilders from the his conduct in connection with the Khediye, Hongkong and Shanghal Bank, the Chartered And now they have made him a kaight. It is Mercantile Bank and the Netherlands Trading odd to effect how the times have altered. The Company here. The indictment generally ch
the prisoners with fraudulently obta honourable Now even a Marriott is d
by forged acceptances, one of which amount #50,000 guilders. Dacloox pleads not guilty Halsed was partly confesadi.
lutely privileged and others qualified by: to defendant, demanding an apology i nad circumstances. But no absolute privilege threatening proceedings, and the fairness can hedge in a newspaper uditor who of this course, especially in newspaper plainly writes down a person as a thief; libols, which are in many cases the result Although under certain conditions a libel of an oversight, is clearly apparent. How. of this nature might come under the ever, our colleague of the Bangkok Timer head of qualified privilege. For instance, has had his baptism in the Law of Libe), assuming that this weighing machine and although it has been a somewhat episode was a matter of material interest to expensive and unpleasant experience, we the Bangkok community, and the allegation feel assured that the ultimate results will as to the thot was shown to be true, that I prove beneficial,
order of külghthood used to be r
To this poor fashion must
the most
In their
pirate
shops was a chemists and jeweller's
accidente, the breaking of a kemsene lamp...
berated
One of the residents in No. 55, Mr. Ng Man volvers
Kwan, an old and well-known resident, estimates their his lord at $6,000. The ground floor property to be was insured for $12,000 with the Straits Fire Insurance Co." who and also accepted risks on Nos to the amount of $5,000RKXEM The construction of the bulldings that collapse was almost criminally faulty, and certainly ca fotoarchinging by the Government." especially after the frequent accidents
which have occur
nply thin partitions could not be call: (posed almosts Awater