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1841.
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sage, printed in another column, we learn that the plaintiffs succeeded in the principal issue, and were awarded costs of the suit. This result is not surprising in presence of the evidence, which did not appear to have established any locum standi for the defence in the action. Supplementing his carlier
* SOME anecdotes of the late Mr. Chisholm | UP to the isth ult. plague had openly existed Ansley, one time Attorney General In Hong in Rangoon for a week and unfortunately, though the cases are still few and far between kong, are given on the third page,
they were continuing. Up to that dats,'iblity""; one had been reported, and of these no less than twenty-one had proved fatal},
A CABLE has been received, Intimating the Prop:ietor of the Englishman, at Naples, death of Mr. J.O'B. Saunders, C.IE, Managing
wire our London correspondent iclegraphs. THE Headmaster of Harrow is inviting Old,ollege, Cambridge University, the other day,
that it was held by the learned Judge that the terms of the memorandum of agreement, dated the 19th February, 1901, had not been performed and' that unless they be complied with within a reason- able period of time the Court should do what it could to restore to the plaintiffs the mines and property belonging to the com- pany. Among the important provisions of this document was that for the appointment "Single Cipio, Dally, za umn: Weekly, twenty of Chang-yen-mao as Director-General for
The mies par quarter mil per jetiseih, proportional The daily laue is delivers) 'free when than weldrow is accesibilo to mowerger. n cuple sent by on additional $1.80 per quorur in ciarged forstage.
The postage the weekly issue to any part of the
wacht in 30 cents per qualer,
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ruary, the wife of A. FRASER BLAIR, of At No. 9, Hare Street, Calcutta, on Fat Feb daughter.
MARRIAGE.
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On the 25th February, at St. Andrew's Ca. thedral, Singapore, by the Rev. H. C. Izard, Tom Erskine GATE, of Santubong, Sarawak, and son of the late Robert Gate of Dewsbury, Yorkshire, to Helen May, 3rd daughter of J. J. W. Saville of Leeds, Yorkshire.
life and the inclusion of a Chinese Board of
registered inondon, according to the Directors. When the company had been
opening statement. of counsel for the plaintiffs, the articles of association of the English (that is, the new company) only provided for a nominal Chinese Board which could be dismissed at the defendants' pleasure, and contained no provisions for the appointment of Chang-yen-mao as Director-General for life. Mr. Levett, the
he Honghong Telegraph counsel, submitted that it was plain the
HONGKONG, Thursday, March 2, 1905.
CHINESE ENGINEERING
AND MINING CO. -
Within the past week we have reproduced a series of reports from the columns of the London and China Express in connection with an important case brought by His Excellency Chang-yun-mao and the Chinese Engineering and Mining Co., of Tientsin, VERY FINE OLD VINTAGE MANY against Mr. Charles Algernon Moreing, Bewick, Morcing and Co., and the Chinese Engineering and Mining Co., Ltd. This action presented many interesting and amusing incidents before the Chancery Court
YEARS IN BOTTLE.
LIMITED,
A CHOICE AFTER-DINNER WINE. Į of London, and is one of considerable inter- national importance, and fraught with a great deal of political significance. Briefly summarising the circunstances which gave rise to this casus celebre, it may be A. S. WATSON & CO., stated that the Kaiping mines, as the original Chinese Engineering and Mining Co. was generally known in China, situated not far distant from Tientsin, were working WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. for thirty years or more under the direction of Mr. Kinder, an English engineer. Li Hung Chang, the Viceroy of the province, and Chang-yen-mao-whose career has not been free front an element of romance (32 some years ago caused the mines to be taken over by a Chinese company, at the head of which was Tong King Sing, the greatest Chinese merchant of modern times, The latest Western methods were introduc- ed, and a railway was constructed to the treaty port of Chingwantao, on the Yellow
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defendants' agents deliberately deceived the
Harrovians to contribute towards a fund for the purchase of two hundred and fifty acres on the east side of Harrow Hill, costing £75,000.
THE troopship Dußerín, designed by Sir Ed ward Reed for the Royal Indian Marine, has left Messrs. Vickers, Sons, and Maxim's yard tar tambay. The Dußerin is claimed to be the largest troopship yet constructed,
A WAR Game will be played at the Head Quarters office, on the 7th inst. commencing at
tery, will be the Commanders of the opposing and Major L. H. Parry, Royal Garrison Aril- 2pm. Lieut. Col. A. E. Aitken, 19th Infantry,
forces.
LADY CURZON and children sailed for India in the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Arabia on Loth ult. Lord Curzon has resigned the Wardenship of the Cinque Ponts, and the Prince, of Wales succeeds him. Walmer Castle, will no longer be the official residence.
GENERAL, THEPOFF, the Governor-General of
THERE was a pleasing ceremony in St. John's
E. Mayor, who has been Protoient of Latin when a presentation was made to the Rev. John since 1872. The occasion was the professor's eightieth bir.bday, for he was born at Badde- grima, Ceylon, in:18zs, “
To mark the twentieth anniversary of Gen. Gordon's murder the status of the distinguish. ed soldier in Trafalgaraq, was decorated with wreaths, including offerings from the Gordon Boys' Home, the Ragged School Union, and
the Chinese Legation in London, which always. honors thus the memory of "Chinese Gordon."
TELEGRAM.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SERVICE,
CHINESE ENGINEERING
MINING CO. CASE.
JUDGMENT FOR PLAINTIFFS
QUESTION OF DAMAGES RESGRVED.“
CHANG-YEN÷MAD'S GOOD FAITH
UNIMPEACHED.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]·
London, 1st March, 1905, 12.16 p..
In the action brought by Ilis Excellency Chang-yen-nao and the Chinese Engineering and Mining Co., of Tientsin,
Algernon Minst Mr. Charles.
the city, received on the 18th ulto, a summons THE proprietor of a certain prominent hotel in from the Court, calling upon him to appear at the Magiuracy "on the 2nd February, 1905," to answer to the charge of over-crowding in his servants' quarters He wondered whether the "5" should read "6", and why he was given eleven months' notice to appear to answer to the charge. Finally he resolved to take the advice of one of their Worships at the Magis- P tracy, and did so this morning, with the result and Mining Co., Ltd., judgment has that the case was allowed to continue, but as the, defendant pleaded ignorance of overcrowd.
been
for the plaintiffs wlio principal issue of
Bewick, Moreing
and Co., and the Chinese Engineering
plaintiffs, who claimed that the memoran- St Petersburg, has decided to hand over to the ing, and undertook to put a stop to it, he was delivere
common hangman Maxim Gorky and four other leaders of the movement. This is the astounding message which "Vorwaerts" has received from a trusted cortepondent in Liberal circles at St. Petersburg.
FROM the Bench of the High Court to the hend of a province is a somewhat novel experience for an Indian civilian. It falls to the lot of Sir Herbert Thirkell While, the successor of Sir Hugh Barnes, at Rangon. Sir Herbert is an old Dulwich boy, who entered the 1.C.S. from Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1877. He was posted to Burma, and there his whale official career has been spent-with no small honour.'
fined the nominal sum of $1.
the action.
THIBET MISSION SENSATION. The plaintiffs are also entit'ed to
costs..
LATER.
the
CHARGED WITH
COLONEL YOUNGHUSB.NO
DISOBEDIENCE.
Dispatches relative to the Thibet expedition. issued by the Government, disclose an extra ordinary conflat of opinion betw.en the British Government and Col. Younghusband, the political head of the "mission." The latter is roundly, charged with disobeying his ins tractions, and the agreement he concluded was materially modified.
The difficulty arose over the indemnity. The Government's instructions were that the amount
to be paid by the Thibetans should he limited
dum of agreement in question was binding on the defendants as well as the order for carrying into effect its provisions It was submitted that, in the event of this view being held to be binding the plaintiff's claimed a declaration that the indenture of transfer and conveyance of the mines and property had been obtained by the fraudulent representation and fraud of the defendants or their agents, and ought to be set aside, or, in other words, a declaration that the defendants were not entitled to retain the benefit of the indenture except upon the condition of making good to the plaintiffs the obligations imposed by the memoran- dum. From the evidence adduced in the THE gold production of Australasia for the case, as far as we have been able to see from year 1901 is approximately stated to be to a sum which the Thibetans could pay in I the reports printed in our columns, it was 4.194,822 fine ounces, of a value of about three years, occupation of the Chuntbi Valley clear that the defendant company had not complied with the conditions of this essential agreement in their entirety. The ruling of the Court could not be other than that whose result is announced in our special wire. The Bench has declared that the agreement has not been performed, and that if its terms and conditions...pre not complied with the Court will order the restoration to the Chinese of the whole of the Company's mines and properties in Chingwantao. Were the question not fraught with considerable interests which fine of $o was inflicted. The defendant might give rise to international complications objected to this and said he would appeal, as by reason of the position of the shareholders he believed there were other steamers without in the concern, the decision of Mr. Justice proper ral-funges! That, apparently, was his Joyce would be a matter affecting the posi-only ground for a rehearing of the case, tion of the two parties concerned. But the position of the shareholders, whether regis-
57,828,000, as against 1,795,237 fine ounces, of a value of about £18,250,001 for 1913 The falling off has been principally in West Australia, where a decrease of 81,971 oz is shown, and in Queensland, where the decrease is 43.629 oz.
the Chumbi Valley for that period..
Mr. Justice Joyce held that
terms of the memorandum of agree- neat, dated the 19th February, 1001, have not been performed and that, unless they be complied with within a reasonable period of time, the Court. should do what may be necessary to restore the mines and property to the plaintiffs.
for that period to be the security. In spite of this Cok Younghusband concluded an agree
The question of damages is reserv- ment fixing the idemnity at £50,00%, payable ed until it is seen what result arises. in ambit instalments, with occupation of in connection with the present judg
The Secretary for India telegraphed to the ment.. Viceroy expressing - strong disapproval, and It is not shown that H. E. Chang- yon-mao is guilty of any breach of good faith.
CAPTAIN 8. Sicht, master of the German authorising the reduction of the idemnity from steamer Kowloon, was summoned for not main-75 to 25 lakhs of rupees. Culonel Young taining prop ral-flunges on his mooring husband deprecated the reduction; but the ropes, while moored alongside the wharf. Secretary of Stato emphatically declared that wing to sickness the captain was unable tone the agreement had been framed in dis- attend Court, but the chief officer appeared in obedience to express instructions the Govern his behalf. The charge was proved and a ment could not accept it. The idemnity was ultimately reduced to 15 lakhs, payable in three
This evening at 9 o'clock sharp in the lectare
years.
THE "REGISTRATION OF MEDI- GAL PRACTITIONERS.
As a Medical Ordinance is just now befare aur own Legislative Council-it may be of interest to mention that the Ceylon Legislative Council recently went into Committed to dis cuss "An Ordinance to provide for the Regis trition of Medical Practitioners in Ceylon." The Times of Ceylon referred to the meeting
Sea, where wharves, &c. were also erected.tered as such or as holders of "bearer hall of the Union Church, Mr. George Grimble Then came thn Boxer outbreak and the scrips," remains to be defined before it can invasion of North China by the international actually be ascertained in what relation the forces, and to protect the mines--not from latter will stand in regard to the decision if and will be illustrated by the following musical langed. Foreign nations, in pursuit of their considered to be sufficient to be charged for
the Bosers but really from the Russians the defendant company refuse to abide by the property was transferred to an English the order of Court and comply with the terms company in which there was a large Belgian of the document of February, 1901, which element. The conditions under which this conveyed and assigned the property to the transfer was made were in issue in the English company. As far as it can be at action just concluded. Chang-yen-mao present judged there seems to be no other
and the former Chinese company declared option than to abide in good faith by the terms
will deliver à lecture on "Mendelssohn, life and works." The lecture is open to the public programme:Piano solo, Capriccio Brilliante, Mr. Emil Danenberg; baritone solo, On the Wings of Song will take thee," Mr. Frank Austen; cello solo, ist Movement frem Sonata No. 2 Mr. Koenigs and Trio, (violin, cello, and piano), "Finale to Sonata in D Minor, Messis: Harlow, Koenig and Grimble.
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COMMERCIAL PROSPECTS,
Speaking at the Colonial Club on British commercial prospects in the Far East, Sir Ed. ward Sassoon declared that we were not con fronted by impossible problems, but our supre macy of former your no longer went unchal of 7th February in detail. The fee of Rs. 5 was world-politics, as they understood them, now registration. In the draft Ordinance before disputed every inch of the ground on which we used easily to be first. In railway matters our is $50. The Council of the Malaya Branch of our own Legislative Council-the suggested feu concessions were on rich territo ies, but as re- the British Medical Association bas; we believe, gards shipping we should have to wake up to communicated the views of medical men here. the altered necessities of the case. Our most to the Government. formidable competitors would, probably be the healed discussion took place in Ceylon as Americans, and that was in a way fortunate, as in the Far East the two countries saw pretty as well as of air qualified perrons, who under. to the probable position of native practitioners,
A
that among the conditions of transfer was one under which Chang-yen-mao appears to have IT is wonderful, says the S. F. Press, what well eye to eye. Reference had been made to take to practise medicine, The Ceylon Ordi-
preserve their hold
In
And this the other day, in a Ceylon paper "The French cruiser Sully is badly ashore along the Bay of Tongking. The crew has
been taken off."
gious. (Hear, bear.)
SHIPPING AND MAILS.
nance is generally on the lines of the law in England, which experience has shown to be aseless in the prevention of quackery. Native practitioners, who carry on medical work ac cording to ancient systems, are rightly exempt- ed both in the proposed Siraits and Ceylon Ordinances.
providing that there should be a Chinese yielded to the surrender of the rights and confusion a want of precise geographical know- board of directors in North China, of which properties of the mines to the new company, ledge will work with the sub-editorial depart spheres of interest. He feared that in that re- ment of newspapers. "Along By "or Baie spect the partition of China took place some Chang-yea-mao should be the head, as which will thus admit of a Chinese board of d'Along is always a stumper. It is of course, years ago. We then got the Yang-tse Valley, well as an English board in London.
directors and re-establish Chang-yen-mao in the French naval anc' orage in the Gulf though Germany insisted on an effective oc- this way the Chinese would, it is said, his position as Director-General for life. The Tonkin. The Daily Afuil could make nothing cup,ition, A few gunboals on the river would on the property. subserviency of the company to the Chinese of this in a wire from Singapore, a couple of Germans were acquiring all sorts of conces have sufficed, but we did nothing, nad now the Messrs. Bewick and Moreing are the originat will undoubtedly take place as the result of years ago, and turned it into "along the Bay sions in that territory. We had shown too. concessionaires and promoters of the new
the legal decision and the position of the
ich self-effacement in the Far East, 100 The position of qualified British medcial. or English company, acting through M. foreign shareholders will thus be one of
much waiting on events as shaped by men in a ritish Colony is simply absurd. Hoover as their agent, while M. de Wouters curious anomaly, In either case foreign
o hers, Hear, hear) Some sort of Palmerpart from the illegal assumption of the me represented the Belgian shareholders in the shareholders must be the losers; for no
stonian mailed list was required; so dical title of "Dr. Surgeon or Physician, new company. The English company did English capital will be forthcoming in a We are informed by the President of the
that when we got concessions they should be any dresser or compounder may Blart prac not deny that an arrangement such as this concern wherein a Chinese official, however Masonic Quadri: Club, that it has been decid understand the underlying motives of nur pn.
aspec ed. One could not always, however, tice, and prescribe powerful drugs, at his
own sweet wil He was made at the time Chang-yen-mao ex-bigh his rank, holds the reins as the ed to hold the fifth of these mest popular ticy in the Far East. For instance, whit la
may not handle ecuted the conveyance of the ninet, but manager-in-chief. And to deprive Chang of dances on the 9th instant, instead of on the Bathie for our having scat asserted that their agent who accepted it had that office would mean the restitution of the third as usual, to suit the convenience of many tied out of Fort Arthur? We had everythin, no authority to do so, and that the property mines and property to the original Chinese of the guests. Always popular, this dance is was theks already without any such condi- company. The European shareholders expected to exceed all the previous ones in to expect from Japanese progress in those re- .....14.40 tion by reason of a contract previously made would thus be jumping from the frying. every detail, and every effort is being made to by Mr. Detring, Commissioner of Customs pan into the fire. However much we may Secretary, Mr. Higby, and the indefatigable this end by the calamittee, and the energetic at Tientsin, acting under Chang's power of regret the attitude assumed in the prelimin Mr. Harry Wolle. Arrangements are also on attorney. There were other points as to ary negotiations by the principals concerned foot to give a smoking concert a week later, or whether certain share issues and allotments in effecting the purchase and transfer of the on the 17th inst; and for this a most attractive were in accordance with the contracts be. Kaiping mines from Chang-yen-man we can programme of songs, music, recitations, aud tween the parties, but the main issue is that not but welcome the decision of the tribunal costume sketches is already in course of which we have just pointed out. When in this case, the first of its kind in a British preparation. things began to settle down after the Boxer Court, which must raise the uprightness and trouble, Yuan Shih Kai became Viceroy of integrity of our Bench still higher in the estimation of the Chinese Government and Chib-li and Li Hong Chang died.
its people. Yuan inquired into the position of these valuable mines, and found that they had passed clean away from China into the hands of an English company. He there- upon called on Chang, as the person res- THE condition of Prince Eitel Friedrich con- ponsible, to get them back; hence the action. tinues dangerous, says, a wife of 30th Janu" After, occupying the attention of Mr. Justice ary. The patient coughs up blood and seems
in considerable paini Joyce for a number of days, His Excellency Chang-yen-mao has succeeded in obtaining judgment against the defendants in the action, Mr. Charles Algernon Moreing: Bewick, Morcing and Co., and the Chinese 154 years.. Miss-Scott, the bride, was on the reader will find some excellent browsing in its The Apcar Co.'ssà Lightning from Calcuit British degrees, our Government should also: Engineering and Mining Co., fe, the new company. From the brief telegraphic mer
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Hongkong, 8th December, 1904.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
marriage of an elderly couple has taken place near Boston, Lincolnshire, the combined ages of the contracting parties amounting to
verge of Ba years and the bridegroom, Mr. Virgin, was 75.
regoric, w ich is comparatively n less drug, but he may dole cut strych- nine, digitaline, atropine, or other powerful alkaloids. Paregoric, however, comes within The purview of the Opium Ordinance. The qualified man from Europe has had to go through a scientific training during five years it least, But medical men do not ask that their interests should be protected. They only desire the protection of the public. Natives here cannot understand the difference between the position of a qualified man and that, of a European quack In formet years a good number of the fatter have come here and gone kaway many thousand dollars richer than when The "Ben" Lino s.s. Dancleuch from An-they arrived. But the main point of the Straits werp and London left, Singapore on the 28th ult. for this post,
MAILS. DUE
Australian (Chingta) 4th insi. American (Manchuria) 5th inst. Indian (Lightning) 6th inst." Indián (Sufsang) 14th inst.
The M. M. Co.'s as. Tourane, with the next French Mail, will leave Saigon to-morrow at 11 am, for this port.
M. James William Norton Kyshe, formerly Magistrate and Registrarat Malacca, and more recently Registrar of the Hongkong Supreme Court from which post he retired some time ago, has published with Messrs. Sweet and "Maxwell (ros. 6d. "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations. A short critical note in a home paper thus refers to Mr. Norion Kyshe's work: "Selected dicta of English chancellors and judges from the earliest periods to the present The C.. P. R. Co.'s 5.5. Empress of India time, and dedicated to the Lord Chief Justice. left. Vancouver, B.C., for Hongkong vin usual A composition of this kind entails a vast deal | ports of call on 1st inst., at a p.m.
Medical Ordinance is that it aims at giving. reciprocity to those countries which 'recognite the degrees, diplomas or licenses of British Schools. H.Z. the Governor is quite alive to the necessity of protecting, our Imperial ip The CN. Co's 5.5 Chingin from Australian erests. Now a man with a British qualifica. Ports left Manila on 1st inst., p.m., and is duction cannot earn his living as a medical man here on 4th fast, at daylight,
wi hout obtaining a local qualification in Dutch, German, or French territory. Yet in the Straits, and other Eastern Crown Colonies, men with continental degrees may settle down and compete with British practitioner. We think is only right that if Dunch or GermREN Colonies in the Far East refuse to recognise
refuse to allow foreigners to practise in our Colony,--S, F. Prem
of research and coilation, and in this case it The H. A. L ́s.s. Wulfa from New York left has been done with an eye to humour as well Manila for this part on ist inst, at noon, and as legal acumen and authority. Even the lay may be expected here on 4th inst
pages, and its value as a book of reference cannot possibly be gainsaid, "-- S. E. Pressi.
fefi Singapore for this port yesterday morning, and may be expected here on 6th lost.
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