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THE Salvation Army is organising a Canadian ['U. M. BATTLESHIP Vengeance arrived from beginning of the month of October 1991, the fl-e-had a fair chance of doing an extremely emigration scheme, and hopes to send out
Kobe this morning. about a thousand persons next May.
CHINESE property owners in Selangor are Baid to have been badly hit by the recent de- pression of the tin market. They are resorting
to mortgages on all sides,
The idea of having a Penang Chinamar as unofficial member of the Legislative Council is trotted out by the Suits Ecke, which seeks a public discussion of the subject.
It is rumoured that the Hon. W. J. Napier will lead for the plaintiff, in a libel suit against the Penang Gusette which will shortly come before the Supreme Court there.
THE fact that so large a part of lower Siam îs douded with water to an unusual depth, does not seem as a rule to have damaged the paddy crop. It has kept pace in growing with the
rise of the water; and the result should be an
unusually good crop. It is very possible, however, that the flood will be unusually late in failing, and in that case the difficulty already experienced in meaning and drying the ears will be general. The depth of the flood is said to be twe feel greater than the record of 1893, Many buffaloes are dying, because for some time now there has been no place for them to stay that is not under water. Over large tracts of the country the people are having to live as near the roofs of their houses as possible and
life is far from comfortable in such cases. A
PLARY plans to lift the Pole," is the heading number of people have been buried on the is an American paper. Another phase of Yan-railway embankment, as being the only place kec expansionism, an doubt; l'enry's Pole will available along the line at present, come in under the flag nicely to counteract the heat of Panama.
Supr. Melville, who for some years has had charge of the special department of Scotland Yard which deals with the safety of crowned THE British cruiser Thetis left for Manila heads during their visits to England, has to-day.
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SENOR Mnura has been selected by the King as the new Premier of Spain and he will attentpt to reorganise the ministry.
1 is said that His Majesty the King has approved the engagement of Prince Alexauder of Teck to Princess Alice of Albany.
SIR Conan Doyle has consented to contest Hawick Burghs at the next election as Unionist in opposition to Mr. Thomas Shaw, M.P.
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mine in Selangor possibly coming to grief, in addition to others similarly situated there.
YUAN Shih-kai, the Viceroy of Chi-li, has been designated by Imperial edict as the com mander-in-chief of the army and navy of China..
A GANG of masked robbers have Inated the bank at Randsfontein in British South Africa and made good their escape with £3,001. The police are in pursuit.
THE National Diet has met in Tokio. It is anticipated that definite information of the status of the negotiations between Japan and
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AN O. A. Lloyd wire states that it is reported from Paris that the first sixty million francs of the large new Russian loan will be floated within the next few days.
THE United States Minister is conferring with the Emperor of Korea in an effort to obtain his consent to make Wiju an open port. Thus far the matter is undetermined,
It is quite evident there are many spurious new dollars current in Singapore at the present moment. We (Straits Times) were shown one whose falseness the average man could only detect by the ring. In other respects it was a credit to the counterfeiter.
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AT the conclusion of Monday's sitting in the, Supão case the Assessor remarked that he was awaiting instructions from the Chinese authorities and in the event of those not coming to hand within a reasonable period, it would be the duty of the Court to dismiss the case. Two of the accused would be released in the inean while, as soon as the order, was drawn up. When the Mixed Court adjourned that morning two letters written in Chinese characters were handed the magistrates. They were not read and were thrown back to those who presented them. Shanghai Mercury,
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THE Saigon Opinion gives details of a circular just issued by the Government there to the effect that all officials who smoke opium to the extent of weakening their minds will be sent resympathetic, and think this hard, but the back to France, People in France are
Opinion points out that opium-smoking officials are utterly useless. The drug, our con St West Ridgeway, in laying down the reins temporary informs us, renders them listless and -of-office-in-Ceylon, has left Sir Henry Blake.aheedless, and-deprives them of all sense-of-heard-how-much interpretation to the agree legacy in the shape of a review of the adminis tration of the affairs of the island froin 1896-
1993, with notes on its general policy.
In the collection of precious stones secured on loan to be sent to the St. Louis Exhibition are several very valuable Ceylon gems, the most interesting of which is a yellow sapphire tent by a Ratnapura gem merchant and valued at Rs. 10,000. Neither D. F. de Silva's big blue sap- phire nor Macin Marikar's zco carat cat's-eye will be sent as they are considered to be ton
valuable.
THE Russian General Ragdasavitch has offered the sum of $515,000 to purchase the relics of St. Nicholas, which are worshipped throughout Russia. They are now the property of the famous cathedral a Bari, Italy, which was visited by the Czar in 1892. The authenticity of the relics is disputed, Venice claiming to have the bones of St. Nicholas. The Russians, however, believe the relics at Hari to be genuine.
time. a view of this exposure, says the Straits Times, our iccal reformers may well denuand why some similar circular is not forthwith issued by the Government of these Settlements, Can it be that our local revenues depend to such an extent upon the income derived from the Opium Farm that the high officials fear to protect themselves and their subordmates, from the dominance of "dopt." lest they thereby offend the Farmer?
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payments due from the said firm for work good and profitable business with an un- done on the said steamships were much in atinted capital. Accordingly he took three arrear and the defendant was informed by Chinese into partnership. They. bad pre- the said Chan Yuk Shang that the said Tsol viously, worked with him having been part- Leung lo deceased had agreed to advance to
ners in the shipping business (subsequently. head firm the money, necessary 10 complete Mr. Henry Piry ordered the two small steam- the said steamships if a formal agreement to ships-for they were much larger than launches" build the said launches were entered into by to be built for the firm for the express pur the defendant, and the defendant thereupon pose of carrying opium from Hongkong to agreed to enter into such a format agreement Kwan houwan. The vessels were of stinflow with the said Tsoi Heung Po deceased. Com draught, with no hurricano deck, and capable menting on the last paragraph, Mr. Slade said of plying upon the open sea. Mr. Viry it appeared in tre evidence that, although they then. wellt
to Kwanchouwan; leaving in- commenced to build the launches in February shuctions with two of his partners and, and April, there was no-written agreement at in July. Mr. S.D. Piry came to Hongkong from all, the only specifications being drawn up by Shanghai where he had been engaged as priv the builder and not signed, by any of the ate secretary to the then Commissioner for parties. It was then arranged that a formal Foreign Affairs or Commerce, who had been the agreement should be entered into. and Tsoi taotai, and who was Tsoi Hurg Po's brother. eng lo thereupon agreed to advance the 'pon arriving in Hongkong, Mr. Piry suggest monty, necessary to complete the steamships.ed it was unsatisfactory going on with the Proceeding, in read from the statement of launches with ut any written agreement be delence: (8.)-The defendant accordingly exe- tween the partners, so that one was subsequently cured the agreement set out in paragraph 7 of drawn up and signed, while proper balance the statement of claira, but says he did not sheets and a report on the business weic pre- understand the menning of the recitals in the pared. Among the assets of the shipping said agreement or that he was making an company the two steamers in course of agreement with the said Tani Heung Pe per construction, for which advances had been Heung Po deceased that the said agree tioned, thus showing that were owned by sonally, and was informed by the said Tsai made amounting to $56,oco, were men-
ment was a mere matter of form. Mr. the firm. Later on, it was found the firm Slade said his Lordship would hear what To had undertaken more work than could be ac Shing had to say about that, having already complished with their capital, and in order to raise additional funds it became necessary to ment To Shing bad had. From what had been mortgage one of the steamer, Accordingly, a stated it appeared the draft was never read over mortgage for $15,000 was effected upon the to him, and when the agreement was drawn up larger of the two ships with the firm of Ming and completed it was then read over once. Tak. Of this sum, $5,500 was used for paying "How many Englishmen," asked Counsel, the builder of the ships, and the remainder was could understand an English legal document used, as far as could be traced, for the gen- read over to them once? I believe it is almost eral purposes of Piry and Co.'s business. But impossible for a man, not a lawyer, to follow they continued to be pressed for money, and the meaning and the effect of a legal document the partners were urged to put more capital read over once to him." To Shing would say into the concern to enable it to be carried on. that no draft of the agreement was handed to About this time it appears they had con- THE Admiralty have directed three new
bim to settle, and as far as the recitals were sidetable trouble with Chan Yuk Shang armoured cruisers of the first-class to be built concerned he did not know really what their Some time in August or September he removed for the Royal Navy by contract, to bear the meaning was. (Reading) (9)—The said Chan all the books of the firm-including a partner- names of Achilles, Gochrane and Natal. Yuk Shang and the said Troi Heung Toship died and Mr. Heary Firy's copy of They have been designed by Mr. P. Watts, deceased had no authority from the said firm the present memorandum-out of the office. Director of Naval Construction, and will have
of H. Piry and Company to transfer the owner. Mr. Peary Piry then revoked Chan Yuk a length of 480 ft., and a displacement of 13 550 ship of the said steamship from the said firm to Shang's power of attorney, and told him he tons. The engines will show a capacity 23 500
the said Tsai, Heung Po deceased. Counsel said would not have him as manager of the firm hp, to give a speed of 22.33 knots. The
he was prepared to prove that and should prove any longer. Befors that revocation, however, Achilles will be built at Newcastle, by Messrs.
The whole matter depended upon the Chan Yuk Shang, on the 3rd September, igol.. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., the Cochrane validity of the agreement, and its binding had written to To Shing telling him to transfer at Govan (N.B.), by the Fairfield Shipbuilding effect depended entirely upon the authority the vessels out of his own name into the name Company; and the Notal at Barrow-in-Furness,
to Chan Yuk Shang to transfer the steamer to of Piry and. Co., in the books of the Harbour by Messrs. Vickers, Sons, and Maxim. Each his partner, Tse Ching Po. If he had Office. Counsel thea proceeded to deal with ship is to mount six 9.2 in, and ten 6 in.
no authority then Tse Ching Fo had not the further facts of the case, and after the breechloading guns, and twenty-eight quick-title. (Reading) (10.)-In the alternative adjournment dealt at great length on the legal firers. Four new 25-knot Scouts are also to be
the defendant says that if the legal owner aspect of the question involved. built for the Royal Navy, and are to be named ship was transferred by the said agreement to The case was again adjourned. the Attentive, Foresight, Putral, and Skir. the said Tsoi Heung Po, whi h the defendant misher. They will each be equipped with ten
denies, the said ownership was transferred by 12-pounder quickfiring guns. The Attentive way of mortgage only for the sums to be ad- will be built at Newcastle, the Foresight at
vanced by the said Taoi Ileung Po deceased Govan, the Patrol at Birkenhead, and the
for the completion of the said steamships and Skirmisher at Barrow-in-Furness.
that the said Tsoi Heung, Po deceased received far more than the amount advanced by him by the sale of one of the said steamships for the sum of $66,400 as hereinafter mentioned. Proceeding, Counsel said the arrangement R. E made by the firm with Tsoi Heung Po was that he should advance the monies necessary for the completion of the steamships and should have a mortgage upon the vessels as security for the repayment of those sums. But he went behind the bucks of the parties, and took the agreement in bis own nume as being the owner of the vessels. It was ad- misted by Piry and Co. that they knew of the agreement a very few days after it had been ground of the former Club which will be re- The match will be played at 2.15 p.m. on the put through, but they did not imagine that Tsoi presented by-R. Basa, A. O, Brawn, J. D. Heung Po would play them false.
Kinnaird, J. L. Stuart, E, Ford, R. Pestonji, His Lordship pointed out that the difficulty. H. Harteam, R. Houghton, L. A. Rose, F. to be overcome by Mr. Slade was that the Rapp and J. Craik, The other league matches action was not between Piry and Tsoi will be H. K. C. C. "A. v. Civil Service. Heuog Po, although, as two, ho might argue one was acting as "RITA" is poking her pen into the "smart" In placing his case before the Court, Mr. principal for the work and held the ship in set, and recently in the Gentlewomen she Stade said he thought the defence was fairly, trust for the firm. But the action was between criticises the language heard at restaurants, in and fully set up in the pleadings. Plaintiff the representative of the deceased man and the stalls of the theatres, the grand stands of claimed under an agreement with the defend the shipbuilder making an agreement with race-courses, and the fashionable women's ant, and the main defence was that, although | him. clubs. She has picked up a small vocabulary of the document was in Tsoi Heuog Po's own Mr. Slade maintained it was not a question "smart" slang. "Two-est" means "dearest," name, yet it was not made by him on his own of claim, but one of property, and he intended and "diskie" is "disgusting," A Koyal person- behalf, but as a partner, trustee, or agent in proving that the vessel belonged to Firy and age is called a "man-man," with, no doubt, Piry and Company. The matter, however, was Co and never became the property of Tsoi a glance at Mr. Shaw's superman. Things that very clearly set out in the statement of defence, Heung Po, who was agent for the firm. are expensive are "exple," teagown is a the third paragraph of which stated:-The A lengthy legal argument then ensued "teagle" and the meaning of a "nightie" defendant says that some time in January 1991;garding the point, Mr. Slade maintaining that scarcely needs the explanation. Bat "Rita"
one Henry Piry, a member of the firm of Hi an undisclosed principal as soon as he dis- shrinks from the interpretation of "undies" Piry and Company, in which firm Tani Heung closed himself could sue and enforce his rights, and "cossies," placing opposite only a mark of Po deceased, the said Chan Yuk Shang and one
The Hon. Pollock denied that the launches interrogation.
Tse Ching Po were also partners, ordered the were, in any sense, the property of Piry and defendant to build two steamships for the said Co,, and even though agreements could prove A CHANGSHA, capital of Hunan province, dis firm at the prices of about $18,000 and $30,000, up to the hill that they were it was no defence patch received at Shanghai states that an effort respectively, and directed the defendant to settle to the action as defendant was bound to carry is to be made by malcontents of that province all d-tails with the said Chan Yuk Shang out the contract. to restore the Ming, of last Chinese dynasty (4)-The defendant accordingly prepared sreci-
Mr. Slade then proceeded to deal with the previous to the present Muachu one, which fications for the two ships whereby he offered facts of the case. He said that in the beginning ousted it during the seventeenth century, and to complete the work set forth in the said spe- of 1951, Mr. Henry Piry was trading on his own that a secret society has been formed called the cifications in nine and eight months from th account in Hongkong, as Piry and Company, Kuangfu Hui, or Society for the Restoration of respective dates of the said specifications on but it was impossible for any evidence to be the Light; that is to say, the members wish the payment of the sums of $48,000 and $30,000 adduced showing whether he had any partners Ming, or Brilliant Dynasty, to be restored. respectively, and the said specifications were with him or not. It was believed he had not, Already the society has a membership of nearly finally agreed to by the said firm of H.-Piry and During the close of 1900 he obtained from the two thousand, although only a couple of months Company on or about the joth February and French Government in Indo-China, the monopo old, so disgusted are the p-ople in many of the the 27th April, 1901, respectively. (5.)-Shortlyly of supplying salt and sulphur in Kwanchou provinces at the weakness and procrastinating after the first of the said specifications was policy of the Manchus. The chief of the agreed to, the defendant commenced to build society is a man of the surname of Chu-the the said steamships and was paid in various surname of the Ming dynasty Imperial flouse sums and at various times between the and he claims to be a lineal descendant of the 27th February and the 5th October, 1901, Emperors whose dynasty he wishes to restore. by the said firm and out of the monies of the It is further alleged that unlike many other said firm the sum of $51,410 in respect of the existing secret societies in the Empile, the work done on the said steamships. The majority of the members of the new socfely are defendant denies that the said sums were all
MORE than forty years have passed since the first team of English cricketers went out to Australia. One of its members, William Caffyn (Surrey), is still in the land of the living, and a couple of years ago be published his reminis. cences under the title of "Seventy-One, Not Out." The bringing out of the first "All Eog land Eleven" to Australin in 1861 was a private speculation on the part of alessrs. Spiers and Pond, who were then the proprietors of a popular restaurant in the main thoroughfare of Melbournej and had drawn certain shrewd. deductions from the crowds they saw on the local cricket grounds..
A WELL-KNOWN Russian traveller who has just arrived in London from the Far East, by way of Canada, tells the correspondent of a home paper that an erroneous idea seems to be entertained there as to the progress of the Siberian railroad. Over fourteen hundred miles of line have yet to be constructed, and
there are several breaks presenting such
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THE CLAIM FOR $40,000.
CASE FOR THE DEFENCE.
The further hearing of the case in which Tso Cheupy Shi, a widow, residing at 162 Queen's Road West, suing as executrix of Tsoi Heung Po, deceased, is proceeding against To Shing, a trader, of 22 Peel Street, to recover the sum of $28,coo money received, and Sizce damages, was proceeded with before the Chief Justice (Sir W. M. Goodman) at the Supreme Court this morning,
enormous engineering difficulties that it will take years to link them up. Moreover, be
The Hon. H. E. Pollock, K.C., instructed by adds, it is evident to an expert that, owing to the severity of the climate and the amateur way
Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, of Messrs. Dennys and in which the work has been done, much of the Bawley, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. M. line in Central Siberia will have to be entirely. Slade, instructed by Mr. C. 2. H. Beavis, of Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, represented
relaid.
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the defendant
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A SPECIAL cablegram to the Times of India dated Sydney, November 23rd, says: The "match between Warner's team and New South Wales was concluded at 2-30 p.m. to-day, the Englishmen winning casily. The colonials first innings had realised 108, and the English team responded with 319, leaving the former
South Wales could only run up 20, thus lasing report that several leaders of the Kwangsi as alleged in the statement of claim. (6.)-The by an innings and 10 runs. For Warner's rebels, who have been investing the Imperial team, the bowling analysis in New South claims of the Chief of the Kwangfa Hui, are Wales's second innings was: Braund, 2 wickets satisfied that he is what he claims and are pre- for 13 runs; Bosanquest, 4 wickets for 60 rubs; paring to cross over into the Honan borders to Hirst, a wickets for 36 runs; and Arnold, 2 his assistance. This, it is believed, will greatly 13556 wickets for 62 Kuns."
complicate the crisis in the South
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CRICKET,
The following is the League table up to date :-
Clubs: Played Won Lost. Drawn. Points. A. O. C. .......... 6 5
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A League match will take place to-morrow, 12th inst., between the Craigengower Eleven and the Parsee team.
R. E. v. H.M.S. “Tamar."
The following will play for the Parsees:-R. B. Cooper, J.-A. Chinoy, K. D. Mistry, J. M. Master, B. K. Mehta, J. N. Mehta, D. R. Captain, JD. Noria, J. H. Ruttonji, M. D. Vania, and N. Bejonjee.
FOOTBALL,
To-morrow afternoon, on the Happy Valley the Hongkong Football Club will play H.M.S. Amphitrite. Kick-off at four o'clock. The following will play for the Club-F. H. Kew, goal; H. C. Austen and E. F. Ancott, backs;, H. C. Gray, G. P. Macdonald and J. M. For- rester, halves; W. H. Williams, W. A. Brent, C. R. S. Cooper, R. A. Whitamore and J. W. Danby, forwards,
SHIPPING AND MAILS.
MAILS DUE Tacoma (Victoria) 13th inst." American (Korea) 14th inst,
· French (Annam) 19th inst. Indian (Catherine Apcar) 15th inst, Canadian (Tartar) 17th inst Canadian (Empress of China) 21st, inst Indian (Namsang) 22nd inst, 19;;" American (Gaelic) 24th inst. Australian (Taiyuan) 27th inst.. American (Hongkong Maru) 31st inst.""
The A. A. Co's sis. Arara, is due here on 18th inst, from Manila
wan, one of the territories leased by the Chinese Government to the French for a period of 99 years. He had also applied for, and re- celved an intimation that his tender.had been' accepted, for the two opium farms of Kwan- chouwan-one for the retailing of opium, which had been granted to him for one year from a date carly, in February, and the other for siz years from the same date. Previously he had
goods from Hongkong in launches and junks flying the French flag. The junks were re gistered as French vessels and he used them for carrying goods to Canton and elsewhere, The PR. in China. Upon phisining, the opium farms Nagasaki at 8 he desired to increase his capital in order again at that his operations might be extended's for, the
THE Bear to drink in the 'trop
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201 to get to avoid an innings' defeat New well off and educated men. There is also a received by him from the said Chan Yuk Shang been engaged in a shipping business-shipple The NY, K. s. Rakala Maru European
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THE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer made in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL-
defendant denies that in any of the transactions in the statement of claims, mentioned the said Chan Yak Shang was acting as agent for the said Tsoi Heung l'o except in so far as the said Chan Yok Shang was agent for the said firm of H. Piry and Company, )—In the HE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer made in the tropice, MIGUEL
The T. K. K. &s. Rosetta Margaleft Manila this morning, and is expected bere on 13th in
Line) left Singapore for this port on rith inst., and is expected to arrive here on 16th inst
1.5. Tartar, arrived at 11th inst, and leaves ame day, for Shanghai where
tropack is the Béra JAN MIGUSK