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CHINESE ENGINEERING AND MINING CO.
JUDGMENT,
DEADLIER THAN LYDDITE.
in. the French army.
A NEW EXPLOSIVE FOR, THE - NEW GUNS.
The new field guns-when we get them- are not likely to be ineffectiva owing to the Following is a summarised account of the want of projectiles. At Woolwich they are judgment delivered by Mr. Justice Joyce in experimenting with two new shells for the this account, the full text of which we intend 18 pounder quick-firing field gun. One is printing in subsequent issues. The plaintiffs improved high explosive shell, and the were his Excellency Chang Yen-Mao and theater is a "smoke" shell of the type used Chinese Engineering and Mining Company of
At present, the smallest lyddite shell in Tientsin, and they sought as against the
our army is the famous 4.7 projectile, and defendants, Mr. Charles Algernon Morcing, as it is practically impossible to detonate Mesars. Hewick; Moreing, and Co., and the lyddite in small quantities, our chemists are Chinese Engineering and Mining Company striving to invent a different explosive for the (Limited), a declaration that a memorandum, held shells. The Germans have a bigh dated February 19, 1901, signed by Mr. Herbert explosive shell which will burst into a little C. Houver, the Chevalier de Wouters, Chang cloud of steel fragments, and is specially Yen-Mao, and Mr. Gustav Detring was bind-designed to blow a ghastly hole in a mass of: ng on all the defendants, and for an order men likiden in a shelter trench; but our new for the carrying into effect of the provisions of explosive is expected to be much more power- such memorandum. The memorandum pro-ful than this; in fact, it may eventually dispince vided for the appointment of Chang-a highlyddite right throughout our service, Chinese official-as director general of the The "smoke" shells are filled with a I defendant company for life, and for the con- chemical mixture which emits great masses uitation of a Chinese board of the company of dark noxious smoke when the projectile The plaintiff, shortly after the memorandum bursts. It does not appear probable that the had been signed, was placed in charge of the noxious effects will be at all formidable, and, inission despatched to Berlin to offer the bearing in mind the customs of civilised wars apologies of the Emperor of China to the Emperor William for the murder of the Ger, man Minister at Peking during the Boxer rising.
His lordship, in giving judgment, said his Excellency Chang was the director general of all the mines in the provinces of Chi-li and Jchol, and director general of the Chinese com. pany. An agreement of July 30, 1900, between the parties contained an undertaking by the def nd nt company to assume the liabilities of the Chinese company, and to indemnify it therefrom. As to the vature, extent, and enormous value of the property comprised in the transfer there was no question. The trans fer of the property was the outcome of a pro-
fare, perfection in this respect is perhaps scarcely desirable-there is a limit to be fixed to the horrors of war.
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"It isn't every man who will wash up, and attend the hear, when he returns tired from work." These were the words of an Englsh woman, in a chat with a representative of Northern Gossip, "and," she added, "my hus- band did more than that; he even washed my face, for I was too ill and weak to do it myself. "had gradually sunk into a state of general debility, and for over nine years I suffered from various ailments as a result--suffered, in fact,
a transformation of the Chinese campany into an tracted discussion, and negotiation for the Anglo-Chinese company, to be formed in Eng-antil my cure by Dr. Williams' pink pills. land so as to afford better protection for the Eventually the troubles developed into a bad property of the compary in the disturbed state skin disease. I became so run down and help. of the country during the lloxer rising, and al-
less that I could not do anything in the way of. so to secure foreign capital for the development housework. I could eat nothing solid, nor of the mines. There were to be two boards of could I obtain a good night's sleep. My hus directors, one in China and one in London, the band called in a good doctor, and oh, the in inagement of the property in China being in bottles of medicine I took! Shortly after the the China board, and Ching was to be director birth of my faile girl, a friend called one day THE WISE MANKeneral, in general charge of affairs.
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The agreement of July 35, 1900, purporteil to be a grant and assignment upon terms by Mr. Detring, as agent of alte Chinese company, in Hoover, who was agent of the Moreings, upon trust on all property of the Chinese com pany, and it was provided that Hoover should hld the property as trustee for the contemplat- ed new company. Chung objected to execute the transfer when it was submitted to him, because it did not contain any statement of the arrangements for which he had stipulated with respect to the constitution and management of the new company. The document did not appear to Chang adequately to protect his Co. vernment or the Chinese shareholders and in
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cellency and the agents of the defendants there were long and heated discussion, extend- ing over four days, and Hoover admitted that he went so far as to use various threats to h's Excellency. Ultimately his Excellency was indured, with difficulty, to accede to a proposal that the terms on account if the absence of which from the transfer he refused to Lexecute that document should be embodied in another document called the memorandum, and under that arrangement his Excellency was assured that the memorandum was the ruling document, that it would be binding, and would be carried into effect,
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when I was feeling even worse than usual, and she said, 'Why don't you try Dr. Williams' pink pills?'
"I did begin to take the pills, and one boîtie "ffected a very great improvement. As I par severed my appetite came back, and I could sleep in comfort. The skin disease disappear. ed, and I rapidly became healthy and strong.
"My little girl Dera, too, who has suffered from weakness, has very greatly benefited by aking the pills. What Dora wanted and 1 wanted was pure new blood, and I'm sure that Dr. Williams' pink pills make new blood "
Mrs. Milburn is now active enough to attend berself to her home at 79 Budale-road, South
Benwell, Newcastle, England, but thousands of other women are in difficulty with health and home, and to these her appeal is addressed.
Women should not suffer. Ang nia, heart- palpitations, breathlessness, indigestion, lan- guor, depressed spirits, and hysteria, have yielded in cases innumerable to Dr. Williams pink pilts, while men find them equaly in- valuable for rheumatism, sciatica, kidney dis ease, disorderer! liver, early decay, and paraly Bis. Tut only the genuine pills can cure, those so easily recognized by the full name, The.
Upon the faith and in reliance of that assur ance his Excellency was induced to affix his seal to the transfer, and the memorandon was It appeared, to his lordship that the execution and sernis of the memorandum formed not only the material but an essential part of the consideration for the transfer. The terms of the niemorandum LEVY HERMANOS. ad not been observed or performed, but the
Williams' pink pills for pale people, printed on company had taken possession of the property DIAM
of the company, and it appeared that Houver, every wrapper. Substitutes are useless. on March 2, 1901, took possession of some of any difficulty is experienced, for two shillings the title-deeds of the property by main and ninepence for one bottle, or thirteen and In the circumstances, to allow the pine for six bottles, Dr. Williams' medicine defendant company, while they insisted co., Holbam-viaduct, London, will forward on retaining the benefits of the transfer, to pills identical to those that made Mrs. Milburn escape from the obligations of the memoran a happy and contented wife, well enough to do dum upon any such pretence as that Hoover her own washing-up.
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THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFAC- TURING COMPANY, LIMITED.
'HE TWENTY-FIRST ORDINARY
TANNUAL MEETING OF SHARE HOLDERS in the Company, will be held in the Company's Offices, St. George's Building. No. 6, Connaught Road, Victoria, on SATUR DAY, the 8th April, 1905, at 11. 8.bf., for the purpose of receiving Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General. Managers for the year ending 31st December, 1904, lecinring In Dividend and electing a Consulting Com.
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SHEWAN, TOMES & Co, General Managers. Jongkong, 25th March, 1905.
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Chang and Detring-his lordship could not help suspecting it was somewhat 10 the disappointment of the defendants-came to this country for the trial. His Lordship said te could not directly order the specific prformance of the memorandum, but he would declare that the memorandum was bind-¦ 4 months' sight L/C. ing against the defendants, and that the defen- 6 months' sight L/C,
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