THE WAR.
THE "CREWE HALL'S STORY.
HILD UP BY RUSSIANS..
Bombay 21st July,
The Ellerman line iteamer Exeter Hall just arrived at Bombay, and being one of the ships held up recently by the Russians in the Red Sea, the sea representative of the Times of India interviewed ber skipper, Captain W. Haughton, yesterday akermoor, and was able to gather some interesting details. The Crewe Hall had on board a general cargo of machin. ery, railway material and merchandise for Bom bay and Karachi. She was proceeding down the Red Sea during the night of last Monday week, when two steamers were noticed follow. ing her, one on either quarter. At daylight it proved that one of these was the Menelaus, a ship of the Alfred Holt line, with the familiar
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31904.
KAMBOO POLUS.
THE COURT'S DECIS ON,-~
A DISAGREEMENT,
At the Supreme Court this morning, the Chief Justice (Sir W. M. Goodman), and the Paisne Judge (Mr. T. Sercombe-Smith) delivered judgment, in the appeal case, between Wai Chung and Hung Hoi. In his judgment the Chief ustice said In this case the respondent was charged with carry ing a bamboo pale on the public footpath, at Praya East, on the 17th May, 1974, such bam- bon pole being calculated to annoy and incom- mode passengers thereon.
The charge was anade under sub-section 11 of section 2 of Ordinance No. 14 of 1815, row (n the new edition of the Ordinances), n'mbered as sub.
section 11 of section 3, of Ordinance No. 1 of 1845.
mischitt and advance the remedy and to sup- press
subile inventions and 'evasions for the continuance of the mischief, and pro privato commedo, and to add force and life to the cure and remedy, according to the true intent of the makers of the Act pro bono publico”
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some larger genur" but that rather subtle.f absurdity of supposing that the Legislature in- refinement is certainly not mentioned in any tended to interfere with the ordinary conco- of the reports of the case itself which I have mitants of walking on a footway; and I decline been able to discover. Assuming, however, to put that construction on the sub-section, that such distinction was present to the minds preferring the more sensible żjusdem generis of the five judges who decided the Queen v. construction adopted by the Magistrate, which There are certainly cases in which it has been Payne, the present case appears to me to show is also at least equally justified by the lan- hel that where a general wori fol ows parti.that the larger genus" intended here was guage used. He thought the Legislature pus cular and specific words of the same nature as "anything calculated to annoy or incommode." in the w de "lxurel, cask, but as a guide itself, the general word takes its inenning from The case of Skinner v. Shew (1893), Chan to the nature of the "other things" calcu them and is to be tresumed to be restricted to cery, p 413, seems also to me to be in poiat;lated to annoy of incommode, wire the the same genus as those words; or, in other do not think we desire much assistance from words "roll or carry" indicated that the things words, as comprehending only things of the the various cares relating to the question aimed at by the sub-section were things which same kind as those derignated by them ; unless,
"what is 'a place within the meaning of the it was usual to move either by rolling or by of course, there be something to show that a Betting Act, 1853 ? Some were over-roled by carrying. The concluding words of the sub. wider sense was intended."
the House of Lords in Powell The Kemp: section seemed to him to throw light on the Park Race Course Company, Limited, Appeal intention of the Legislature. Those words were Cases (1899), p 143, and the question of "user" "except for the purpose of housing them or of
house cases. greatly complicated the inquiry in the betting loading any cart or carringe on the other side of the foolway"; andth: y caused the sub-section to mean that, unless you were liousing a bariel, cask, butt or other thing etc., or loading them on any cart or carriage on the other side of the
I am quoting the language of Maxwell on the Interpretation of Statutes, p 469,
proposition by the words "unless et cetera
But it will be observed that he qualifies the
When we look at the case before us we find
That Ordinance is entitled "An Ordinance the words are not simply "any barrel, cask, to make provision for the Preservation of butt, or other thing, in which case some Good Order and Cleanliness and the Preven-qualification of the word "thing" would be required, but any barrel, cask, butt, or a her
tion of Nuisances within the Colony,"
blue funnel, while the other turned out to be and provides a pena ty for every person who thing calculated to annoy ar incommode the
the St. Petersburg, a second class armoured un protected cruiser of the Rssian Volunteer fleet, "You knew the St. Petersburg as soon as you saw her, din yn, Captain Haughton ?" asked the representative.
"Ob, yes;" was the reply. "I knew the vessel, because i had seen her when she was a new ship, going on her trial trip. That was on the Tyne in 1891"
The caplain went on to say that he thought it was a curious thing that the cruiser should be in the Red Sea, and he was expecting to see her stop, "never thinking she would step us, you know." The cruiser was flying the Russian naval ensign, white with a blue diagonal cross, and was painted just in the same way as any other Russian warship. The St. Peter burg. Captain Haughton remembered, was a ship with a pominal speed of 19 knots, and while they were still speculating as to what she wanted, she steamed across the laws of both merchantines, and ran up the signal to stop. Captain Haughton took no novce, thinking the signal must be meant for the blue funnel boat." Then she came right straight for me," said the Captain; "and I was just going to hoist the answering pennant when she fired a
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The section in question deals with. nuisances,
commits any of the offences specified in its various sub-sections,
Sub-section 11 sets out the offence thas:- "Upun any public footway, rolls or carries any barrel, cask, butt, or other thing calculated to annoy or incommode the passengers thereon, except for the purpose of housing it or of load ing any cart or carriage on the other side of the footway."
Now, the Magistrate bound, as facts, that the pole, a large, heavy, bamboo carrying pole, was carried on the respondent's shoulder ai 5.45 p.m., on May 17th, on the public footway at Praya East, that it was carried in, such a way as to obstruct the foolway and to be calculated
passengers."
Is there not then here something to show that a wider sense is intended for "other thing" than merely something ejusdem generis with a barrel, cask, or batt? It is to include anything reasonably calculated to annoy and incommode reasonable passengers on a public footway. That is the meaning I place upon
the words.
I must confess that I am not alarmed at the prospect of my decision causing hardship to law-abiding citizens. If my interpretation leaves the terms of the prohibition somewhat footway, you must not roll or carry such clastic, we may, surely, attribute some measure things on a public footway. The words "hous of common sense to the Executive as well as ing" and "loading" must, he thought, refer to to the Magistrates and Judges. In this case, things which it was usual to house or load, and for instance, the Magistrate feeling a doubt to his mind afforded a further indication of the very naturally left the matter for the decision intention of the Legislature that the sub-section of this Court. If people are, hereafter, impro-ained indy at things which it was customary either to take into a shop or godown perly harassed by prosecutions for carrying, on the public footway, things not reasonably cal culated to annoy or incommode reasonable people, having regard to the conditions of modern life and to all the circumstances of the case, take it the Magistrate would very pro- perly refuse to convict and, if he thought it necessary, would censure the course adopted by the police or prosecutor. He would regard the spirit as well as the letter of the Ordinance. If not, legislation would be called for. For example, to notice one or two instances men-
should be calculated to annoy any reasonable properly carried by a volunteer along a footpath
for stage, or to take out of a shop or godown to load on a can or carriage the other site of the footway. It seemed plain that a bamboo carrying pole was not an article which it was usual either t store in a shop or
godown or to load on a cant or cantage. He did not house lus amb ella, un did a workman house his implements of trade it such things
It may be well if we look at the probable origin of the Untiuance in que-tion. It was passed on 26th December, 1845. It was intended to put a stop to various nuisances, and sub- section 1 was intended to prevent pas. sengers on public footways from being annoyed and incommoded by the rolling or carrying, to annoy and incommode passengers thereon, on such foot-paths, of casks, barrels, and other tioned in argument. I do not see why a rife in conclusion said:-For the reasons given,
and that it was not being cared for the pur pose of being housed, or for the purpose of being loaded on any cart or carriage on the other side of the footway.
The Magistrate, however, refused to convict because, in his opinion, the general word "thing" following the specific words "barrel, cask, or Lutt" takes its meaning from them articles of the same genus. and must be presumed to be restricted to
It was argued before the Magistrate on be-
things calculated to annoy and incommude such passengers. It appears to me that sub- section 1, as well as some of the other sub-sections of the section in question, wère
takes from the Metropolitan Police Act, 2 & 3 Victoria, C. 47, section 4, passed in 1839. Sub section 8 of that section renders. liable to penalty-
a
"Every person who shall roll or canly any cask, tub, hoop, or wheel, or any ladder, plank, pole, show board, or placard, upon any foci- half of prosecution, and again before this.
way, except for the purpose of loading or un- Court, that the general purpose of the Ordin-loading any cart or carriage, or of crossing the ance was, inter alia, to prohibit nuisances on
footway." the lootway, and that the words "or other
It seems to me that the Hongkong draftsman
don requirements but not prove sufficiently exhaustive in this Colony, after specifying casks, &c., used general words intended a co-
person. It is done every day in London, nor do
see why an umbrella of reasonable di- against the rain, should be held to incommode mensions carried, on a wet day for protection people who are not selfish and unreasonable. If the Ordinance we are discussing had been passed after November, 1897, I do not think any difficulty could have arisen, because sec. tion 18 of the Interpretation Ordinance, 1897, expressly provides that in Ordinances there- after passed the words "or", "other", and tion appears, be construed disjunctively, and
"similar" or some equivalent expression is added.
The words "calculated to annoy" rather im ply that someone has to do the calculation or
"otherwise ", shall, unless the contrary inten-
blank cartridge. We hove to and immediately thing" were not limited in their meaning by instead of giving a list, which might suit Lon-not as implying similarity, unless the word
a boat put off from the St. Petersburg. The boat had a gun in her bows, and contained two officers and twenty men, the officers being
armed with swords and revolvers, and the men
were taken home of an vening. His Hon. our proceeded to deal with the cases which were brought up during the argument and
Magistrate was right, and that the words
have come to
the conclusion that the
"barrel, cask, batt Of other thing cal- culated," etc. must be construed to mean
culated" etc., and not to mean " barrel, cask, "barrel, cask, butt, or other like thing, cal-
butt, or any other thing whatsoever calculated"
etc. 1 think that the former construction
is nut only more. reasonable than the latter
construction, but is also beyond doubt more in
consonance with the whole language of the
sub-section. I also think that the latter con-
having revolvers. To officers came on board, the passengers thereon," (ie., on the footway} | ver everything calculated to cause passengers settle what things come within the category, imprisonment, a far larger number of persons
And while the junior stayed on deck, taking stock and keeping his eyes lifting generally, the senior officer accompanied the Captain to his chart room, and overhauled the ship's papers,"
The Crewe Hall had no manifest of cargo on
board, and this was a point the Russian officer could not understand; so he requested Captain Haughton to proceed on board the cruiser to explain matters to her commander. "It is very seldom," said Captain Haughton, parentheti cally; "that ships coming out have a manifest. You know it isn't ready when they start gene rally, and is sent on by mail." When Captain Haughton went on board the cruiser he found all hands at their stations and the guns man. ned. cabin and there the Crewe Hail's papers were overhauled a second time. Captain, Haughton was submitted to a close cross-examination
The captain inv.ted him into his private
about the nature of his cargo and a Russian
officer drew his attention to the fact that his bills of health included "all ports beyond the seas." Captain Haughton had to explain that that was the case in all bills of health.
After being kept altogether about two hours and a half, he was taken back to his own ship, but was told to wait for a signal from the cruiser before proceeding. The Russians then had a consultation presumably, and after a few minutes allowed the Crewe Hall to proceed, turning their attention next to the Mencinus.
"How did the Russian officers behave to you?" asked the interviewer.
Captain Haughton replied:-"They were thorough gentlemen."
Before being sent back to his own ship he was asked by the Russians if he had any com pliants to make as to the way he had been treated, and he told them he had nothing to complain about but the detention. While the officers were on board the Crewe Hal, they bad their own signalling officer with them, and were constantly signalling to the'cruiser from the Crews Hall's bridge.
the specific words buried, cask, or butt," which precede them, because they must be read with the words "calculated to annoy or incommode
which immediately follow them, and that the "genus" contemplated by the Ordinance con sists of anything whatsoever so calculated to annoy and incommode. It was also argued that the exception as to housing or loading did not limit the meaning of the general words.
The question the Court has to decide, on this appeat, is whether the words or other thing calculated to annoy or incomninde the pas sengers on the footway" as used in the sub- section ought to be so construed as to include the bamboo pole, which has been found by the Magis rate to be so carried as to annoy and incommode passengers.
It is clear that unless the words must be so
limited by the preceding words as to mean enly things ejusdem generis with a barrel, cask, or butt, (but meaning a large cask) they include the bamboo pole in question.
flow then must this Ordinance be construed? It is a penal statute but, severtheless, it must be construed so as to carry out the intention of the Legislature. At one time, no doubt, penal statutes were construed very strictly. 1 quite agree with the following passages in Sir P. B. Maxwell's work on the Interpretation of Statutes. They occur at pp. 307-369 of the third edition of his book, and are as follows-"The rule which requires that penal and some other statutes shall be construed strictly, was more rigorously applied in former times, wisen ile number of capital offences was very large when it was stift punishable with death to cut down a cherry-tree in an orchard, or to be seen for a month in the company of gypsies, or for a soldier or sailor to beg and wander with- bat a pass. But it has lost much of its force and importance in recent times, since it has become more and more generally recognised that the paramount duty of the judicial interpreter is to put upon the language if the Legislature, honestly and faithfully, it plain and rational meming, and to promote its object"
on the foot path to be annoyed and incom- moded.
Of course, if he did not use apt words to carry out his intention the Legislature alone can amend them, but, giving fair meaning to the words, is not the intention of the Legislature clearly enough expressed?
I will take a decided case which seems to me to be very inuch in point.
Section 37 of the Prison Act 1865 made every.
tate the escape of any prisoner conveys or one guilty of felony who "with intent to facili
causes to be conveyed into any prison any mask, dress or other disguise, or any letter, or any other article or thing." A prisoner was con- victed of conveying a 'crowbar' into a prison and it is clear that, if the words," other article. or thing" must be construed as meaning only
things ejusdem generis with masks or letters,
"It substitutes the more general words 'any article or thing, and Baron Pigott added:
intended to embrace more things than were "Clearly showing thereby that the Legislature included under the old Act"
The conviction was upheld, Pollock C. B. saying: "We are all of opinion that a er wbar is included under the words or other article or thing. That was the case of the Queen 7. Payne, Crown Cases Reserved, p. 27, decided in ·866.
and I think we may trust to the common sense of the Magistrates in such cases.
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above ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby struction strains the language in order to ex-informed that their Goods are being lauded at tend the remedy to a nuisance not yet legis- their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong tated against. If I may properly say so, whilst and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, on the one hand I regret that a bamboo pole is risk and expense.
Limited, at Kowloon and stored at Consignees not within the legal purview of the sub-section, yet on the other hand it is satisfactory to know that my conclusion exempts from liability to arrest without warrant and to fine, in default,
carrying on the footway articles which, though calculated to auboy or incommode, are articles In the result, I hold that the bamboo of every day necessity and convenience. For pole, in this case, comes within the words of there is no getting away from the fact that the the sub-section and that there should have been construction contended for by the appellant. a conviction. I express my views with some though only affecting in the particular instance diffidence, as I understand Mr. Justice Smith a person carrying a bamboo pole, must, by bas come to a different conclusion. However, force of the ratio decidendi, sweep into the by section 24 of Ordinance No. 3 of 1873 (new | sub-section that larger class of persons already
Chief Justice has a double or casting vote. edition) where, on an appeal, there is a differ- indicated. I have only to add that it was very ence of opinion between the two judges the unfortunate that no one appeared at the hear- ing of the appeal to argue on behalf of the respondent. The appeal ought, in my opinion, to be dismissed with costs.
The appeal will, therefore, be allowed, but in the circumstances there will be no order as to
costs.
I desire to add, although of course, this is no
part of my judgment, that I consider that the
coolie in this case has had quite sufficient
punishment owing to the loss of time he has
Magistracy, especially as there appears, hither- incurred in attending this appeal and taking in-
to account his enforced attendance at the
10, to have been some doubt as to whether what he did was forbidden by law.
ÇANION NOTES.
FATAL FRACAS,
{From a Correspondent.)
Canton, 3rd August. For some titne past trouble bas been brewing between the cargo boat people and the tax collec tors at this port, and on Sunday evening there was a facas between them in which two Chinese on the one side and an Indian and a Chinaman on the other were killed. Un making inquiries I find that the authorities have revised the tax
on cargo boats, which previously was at the rate of to cents per cheung equal to about to it. Chinese measurement, but now they wish to charge by English measurement, which means the boat people will have to pay on 2 ft. more per cheung. This they are resenting and have congregated at the entrance of Fati Creek and are prepared to give armed resistance. Serious trouble is expected. All rice boats and ordinary, local cargo-boats have ceased work and gone to their fellows.
TROUBLE ON THE LINE.
Last evening the U. S. gunboat Calico left port suddenly and steamed away up, the upper reaches. Ou inquiry I find that a riot occurred on the railway between Americans and Chinese, and it is reported that one Chinaman was killed and two wounded.
they would not include a crowbar. The point
Judges for Crown Cases Reserved. First, the was reserved for the consideration of the
point about 'ejusdem generis' was taken on argument before five judges who composed the Court, and then another point was taken by the prisoner's counsel, namely, that the former Pri-
MR. JUSTICE SMITH'S OPINION. son's Act, 4 George IV, c. 64. Section 43, used
The Puisne Judge pointed out that the Court the words "mask, viz or other disguise, fastru- was invited to decide that every person who ment or arms, proper to facilitate the escape rolls or carries on the footway anything cal of any prisoners, whereas the word "instru-culated to annoy or incommode a passenger meni," which clearly includes a "crowbar," was thereon is liable to summary arrest and to a omitted in the Act under which the prisoner fine not exceeding five pounds, or, in default was accused, and which repealed the former to imprisonment with hard labour for three section; whereupon Chief Baron Pollock ob- months. The offence is that of rolling or carry. served :---
ing certain things calculated to annoy or in commade. A rifle when carried on a footway is, be id, undoubtedly a thing calculated to
ated get the person wins carries it in an anno incominode, though ordinarily foler-
entirely inoffensive way will be liable, if the construction now sought to be placed on the sub-section prevails, to arrest and fine or imprisonment notwithstanding that he was "It does not a low the unposition of a re-
not carrying it in such a manner as to annoy stricted weaning on the words, wherever any
or incommode. The same as regards a part- doubt can be suggested, for the purpose of with
manteau, a seamstress's stool, a tiffin basket, a drawing from the operation of the statute a
In the case we are decirling the draftsman milliner's box, an inbrella, a big hat, and The reporter asked Captain Haughton if he
case which falls both within its scope and the evidently substituted general words for the stores of articles daily carried on the toolway; had any idea why he was sto-ped by the Rus-fair sense of its language. This would he to
more detailed list set out in the Metropolitan all these are calculated to annoy or incommode sians, and he said their afficers informed him defeat, not 10: remote, the object of the Legis Police Act and I take the same view of passengers on the footway, though each one that they were on the lookout for something | Tature, to misread the statute and misunder-
the result as the judges did in the Queen of them any perchance be so carried in a
The story that Marshal Suh had been liberat- on a certain ship. They would not say what it stand its purpose. court is not at liberty to Payne. I think that the Legislature meant particular instatice as not actually to annoy or ed and was to be sent South to retrieve his was they wanted, and they were slopping every put limitations on general words which are not
to protect passengers using the footpath being incommode passengers. In my judgment, character by suppressing the rebellion in "likely" ship that came by.
called for by the sense, if the objects, or the annoyed and incommoded by obstructions he added, it is foreign to the point to say Kwangsi, proves to be untrue. It originated m schiefs of the enactment, and no construction
cansed by the rolling of casks, or the carriage that we must rely on the discretion of the in a memoral addressed to the Throne by B is admissible which would sanction an evasion of bulky or improper things for which the only police or the magistrates out to arrest
Censor named Heu Yueh recommending that suitable place would be the roadway. It seems or convict a person for carrying, eg, a this measure be adopted. The Censor has Indeed, this seems to me to be simply a return
to me strange to hold that such protection must dripping umbrella on a fuotway. We cannot been sent back to his original Yamen for his to the sound principles of common sense en. be limited tɔ cases where the cause of the ob- decite a point of construction, relying on the pains as he in incapable of holding the res- unciated by Coke three hundred and twenty struction is a thing like a cask, or in the same discretion of the police or the magistrates to ponsible post of Censor, as proved by his ignor. years ago. In Heydon's case, A.D. 1584, report genus as a cask. Are coolias to be allowed to mitigate the effect of our decision. It being ance and stupidity. The Edict refusing the a regular yachtlike appearance, and her painted at page 13 of volume 2 of Coke's Reports, carry targp bundles of bambon scaffolding plain that the only alternative is that con- request states that "Sub Yuanchun, better and enamel and brass-work were kept beautiful parts I and IV., he says that the Barons of poles, along the footpath, in Queen's Road for struction which brings a large percentage of known to foreigners as Marshal Suh, was form ly. She had a lovely saloon upholstered in the Exchequer resolved "that for the sure and instance? Looking at the wording of the Orper ons within the meshes of the law for every erly Commander-in-Chief of Kwangsi and of the green-figured p'ush, and decorated in while and true interpretation of all statutes in general; Sedinance I do not believe the Legislature in-day acts of necessity and convenience, is this Tongking frontier defences, and as he was gold. At the end of the saloon were large they penal or beneficial, restrictive or enlarging tended the restricted meaning suggested. It Cour going to impute to the Legislature an chiefly to blame for the insurrection in Kwang- portraits of the Tsar and Tsari sa. The vessel of the common law four things are to be dis
seems rather to me that, after forbidding the intention to make liable to arrest and fine or si, which arouse from corruption due to lack of `appeared to be well armed and had a big crowd cerned and considered:-
rolling or carrying of barrels and casks on the imprisonment a large body of persons carrying discipline and ignorance on Maishal Suh's of men on board."
footway, the Legislature proceeded to also for things which are both a necessity and a con part, it is necessary that he should be punished bid the rolling or carrying of any other thing,venience of life, when the words of the enact for the same, But in consideration of hir which would cause reasonable people to be ment are equally capable of a construction former service) and 10 show our Imperial kind- annoyed and incommoded in their proper use which limits the offences to offencesioness towards thilitary officers we have already of the footpath.
respect of certain specific articles which it is reduced his punishment in some degree." I am aware that one leamed judge, in 1868, in not a necessity of convenience of life to Vader the reduced punishment Marabal Suh other case, said with reference to the case of roll or carry along a footway except under cir will be banished instead of beheaded, and it was the Queen 2. Payne, that it fell within the cumstances provided for by the law. I hold hoped this might be the case. Whether he will rule that if the particular words exhaust therefore that the construction which we are be banished by proxy or in his own person we whole genus the general word must refer to invited to pot on this sub-section leads to the | cannot say,—P, 6a Tế Times
The Crewe Hall was stopped about roo miles N. W. of Jibutil. Probably the Russians had colliers with them.
·
The representative asked what impression. Capt. Haughton had formed of the St. Peters. burg from his visit aboard her. "She is a magnificent ship," was the answer. "She had
Then the tales we sometimes hear of Rus sian ships being in a dirty state are not true of the St. Petersburg, Captain Haughton
of an Act"
1st. What was the common law before the making of the Act?
2nd. What was the mischief and defect for which the common law did not provide?
3rd. What remedy the Parliament hath re Oh, no; she was as clean as any yacht solved and appointed to cure the disease of the would be."
Commonwealth; and 4Everything as smart as you would find it oo'a Bitish man-of-war?"
"Yes, quite," said Captain Haughton,
4th. The true reason of the remedy; and then the office of all the judges is always to | make such construction as shall suppress the
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