Intimations.
BIRTHS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1905.
On July 21st, at Singapore, the wife of J. F. HODGINS, of a daughter.
On the 28th instant, at "Kurrabjeen," Peak Road, the wife of EDWARD SHELLIM, of a [784
son.
DEATHS.
On June 24th, at Rhyl, P. W. CASE, late
·FROPOSED RECLAMATION.,
AN IMPORTANT QUESTION,
| angol; he is given to sporadic attempts to ↑ N› COTIATIONS are still proceeding between | MACAO PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS, | APPLICATION IN BANKRUPTCY. have a good time; he is subjected to such the Government of India and Afr. Tang, the Chinese plenipotentiary for Tibet affairs, who discipline while at sea that he is liable to still remains in Calcutta. It is hoped that some "For several years past the subject of the re- The Chief Justice, Sir Francia Piggott, heard temporary fits of aberration when he gets final result may be arrived at before the Go-clamation of the foreshore from the Boa Vista ashore. But, withal, there is a knack invernment leave Simla.
Hotel to the Barra Fort is the inner harbour managing him, and apparently those in
at Macao engaged public attention from time to time. Repeatedly our Macao correspondent urged the expedisacy in the interest of the public health no less than to the benefit of the public exchequer, that the scheme should be
A. S. WATSON & CO., Commander P. and O., service, aged 62.
At Halifax, Yorkshire, on June 24, CHARLES charge of the new Seamen's Institute have representing Fitz-Gerald Bros. circus and me.
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E. CRAVEN, formerly of the Raffles institution, Singapore. Aged 45.
At Shanghai on July 22nd, JAMES CARROLL, Straits Trading Co. Aged 35.
Che Hongwung Celegraph
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1905.
THE SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE.
learned the art. He has his rights there, and he is treated as a man, not ordered hither and thither like an automaton. Commander Dawson's wish that the sailor who finds himself temporarily in Hongkong may enjoy
to the full ail the rights and pavileges to which he is entitled will be echoed by every one who has the slightest interest in the seafaring life. Unfortunately, people in Hongkong have a habit of talking more than performing. Perhaps the strong taken to heart, and as time passes the sailor and the seaman--for there sccrus to be
We have received a visit from Mr. Hal. George, nagerie which is at present performing in Singapore. He informs us that the circus is coming on to Hongkong and will open a season about the second week in August, AT noon to-day a woman reported to the Harbour authorities that her cargo boat, laden with coal, bumped on to the blades of the pro- peller of the German 1.8. Borneo, lying at the Kowloon wharf, and sustained a hole in her bottom, which caused her to sink on the spot. THE Medical Council of Russin has forbid-
carried into execution. During the administra tion of a former Governor, His Excellency Senhor Jord Horta e Costa, the project was not only considered but elaborated in its entirety by the Director of Public Works, Mr. A. Abrou Nuses, and by the Executive Council of Goy. ernment strongly recommended for adoption by the Contral Government in Lisbon. When the project and the report reached Portugal it
decessors had done. It was shelved. It appears now that, thanks to the energy of the present head of the Executive, Senhor Mon tenegro, the reclamation scheme has not only been revived, but it is very shortly to be put into execution. We are informed on the best authority that a commencement will be made with the works in about a fortnight's time.
When the Seamen's Institute on the Praya remarks of Commander Dawson will be den the importation of Dr. William's Pink Lille received the same fate that many of its pre-
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of those who organised the undertaking as to whether it would pay expenses. Indeed so little faith had they in the success of the Institute at the outset that it was agreed to pay the rent of the buildings out of the capital fund, if necessary; in order that it might have a fair chance. It was known and understood by all who have an interest in the merchant shipping men that the de
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distinction between the two although to a laudsman it is a distinction with no differ ence-will find his lot ashore sensibly proved and his status perceptibly raised in the eyes of the general public.
into that country on the ground that some specimens (alleged on behalf of the proprietary to be either forged or made up from the Ger man prescription), contained ato per cent of arsenic. imus inarriage arranged between Sir Alexander Swettentram, Governor of Jamaica, and Mary Emily, elder daughter of Mr. R. P. Copeland, D., Kibblestone Hall, Stone, Staffordshire, and granddaughter of the late Mr. W. T. Cope land, D., P., will take place on Aug. 30 at Kingston, Jamaica.
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an important application under a bankruptcy petition to-day. The trusted in bankruptcy claimed the return of two sums of monay amounting altogether to $8,000 which had been paid out of Court from an estate which, im mediately afterwards, was the subject of 1 bankruptcy petition.
Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.G, instructed by Mr. F. X. d'Almada'e Castro, appeared for the trusten in bankruptcy; Mr. H. F. Calthrop, instructed by Mr. Balley of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master, represented therespondents,
The application arose over certain facis which were stated in an affidavit filed by Mr. d'Almada, in the course of which it was atated that on the 5th April inst, on instructions from a creditor, he filed a bankruptcy petition against the Li Fung Bank carrying on business at 63 Deubam Strand. On the 6th April, application was made for service of the petition. On the 7th the acting Chief Justice, Sir Henty S. Berkalay, made an order for substituted service of the position.
Mr, d'Almada was originally the solicitor for a creditor called Wang Chai Dy, who pre sented a bankruptcy petition against the debt. ors of the Li Fung Bank. The matter camo before his Lordship or to the application for substitution of the service and that petition was granted. The Fuk On Insurance Company at that time was in this position: it had obtain ed judgment against the Li Fung Bank. They proceeded very expeditiously and obtained garnishee against Wo Kee Hung'in respect of Stoco and against Tan Fong Yue in respect of $5,000. These people, who had garnisheed in this matter, paid £3,000 and $5,000 respectively into Court on the 6th April. Then on the 7th April they m mediately-or shortly after the hearing of Mr. d'Almada's application for substituted service
The long length of fareshore to be reclaimed Includes all that portion from the present end of Prain Grands at the foot of the hill, where stands the Doa Vista Hotel, right along as far as the western extremity of Macao in Barra Fort. The work should not be difficult of The Royal Humane Society has awarded accomplishment. The water is shallow within silver medal to Eussof Novo, lascar in the the boundaries of the proposed reclamation: An important consideration is that earth for for gallantly jumping overboard in the shark-filling in is obtainable within easy reach of the infested sea at the Cape to the deliverance of sea by cutting down the hill at the back of the an Australian, and reicuing a comrade, who hotel and removing the little insanitary district had fallen from the vessel."
inhabited by the people supplying the labour for the cracker factory in Tanque Mainato,
When completed this reclaimation will afford a continuous spacious esplanade from, the Public Gardens at the one end to the Barra applied for payment of those sums which Fort at the other. It will add considerably to had been paid into Court. Mr. d'Almada said the limited building area along the waterfront You cannot get this money because there is in Macao, and some excellent residential sites this bankruptcy petition against the Li Fung will be available with frontage to the sea. This Bank." In mentioning that to the representa tar is reported that as the s.s. Taiping the most extensive that will be undertaken when he was giving notice to Mr. Dailey was important public work is probably one of tives of the Fuk On Company, Mr. d'Almada which has been in the harbour for several by the Portuguese Government,, and it reacting, in his official position as representative months past, got under way yesterday to premains to be seen how long it will be hurried for the trustee in bankruptcy. The important point was said Mr. Follock, in presenting the wcceed to Shanghai, it was discovered that she was so encrusted with barnacles that they had
case to the Chief Justice-that potica was given to Mr. Bailey of Johnson, Stokes and Master, the solicitors for the Fak On, of this petition, sums of money should be paid out.
FINE FLAVOUR mand for an institute to which the seamen last evening on the question of the Chinese wight enter feeling that they were in their boycott appear to have raised some mis- own home and habitation was urgent but conception as to the purport which the whether it would pay was another question. article was intended in convey. It has been MELLOWNESS An earlier institute on somewhat similar represented to us that the spirit and tone of lines had to be closed for lack of support. the article gave room for the assumption that But the indefatigable friends of the mer-the attitude of this journal is inimicable to chant sailors-anong whom the Rev. J. 11. the stand the Chinese have taken up in re- France occupies the leading place-deter; gard to the Exclusion Treaty which no mined that come what might they would right-thinking individual can impartially fail to endorse. On several occasions which we have dealt with the question we have upheld the admirable feeling of the Chinese in opposing the measure so derogatory to the general, and personal interest of their nationals, and far is it from our, mind that at this stage, when better counsel appears to be prevailing with the United States Govenment, that should lend ourselves as the exponent of any party against the best interests
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and a most gratifying result has to be re corded. fustead of having to draw upon the capital fund, the Committee in charge of the new Seamen's Institute have actually been able to lay a trifle past for a rainy day. That fact shows conclusively that, the man- agement of the Institute has bees excellent but it also shows that the new Institute is, in hackneyed parlance, meeting a felt want,
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A. S. WATSON & CO. At the opening of the Institute, in the early of the Chinese people. We admire their days of May last we referred to the lack of spirit of national pride, and that it places of a decent character open to the may permeate the higher and lower ordinary seamag. There is, of course, the orders of the people throughout the length Sailors and soldiers Institute ih Arsenal and breadth of the country is the hope of Street, but that is to all intents and purposes every well-wisher of China's teeming millions, a Service allair. The merchant shipping whose industry, sobriety and thrift merit man has really no claim to its generosity every.consideration from the Powers in all that is to say, he cannot claim a bed there if their legislation calculated to affect the he wants it. Presumably he may attend the people of the Middle Kingdom. (32
religious meetings, but he is in the position of one who has no focus standi. There is the Kowloon Institute, where only four or five beds are available and they are usually occupied. Then there is the Sailors' Home, which is a boarding house pure and simple, and does not take in what 154 Day
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der William Dawson, R.S., writing to us from the Missions to Scamen Office, in London, remarked in the course of a letter, which we published yesterday, that he had often known sailors' rights and privileges to be robbed in the must barefaced manner, and as one of the trustees of the Kowloon Institute he protested against any such at teasp being allowed to pass in respect of that Institute. He also commented on the allegation we made that at the Sailors and Soldiers Institute the merchant seamen is treated as a civilian. Well these are the facts, that the Sailors and Soldiers Institute is not meant for the merchant shipping man. Ex gratia he may be admitted, but it is a pure act of condescension. At the Kowloon Institute he may enjoy a concert once a week. It is true, and the fact should be stated, that there are meetings on three other nights and of course from early morning till late in the evening the reading room and billiard table are open to the sailors. But if he wards any really moocent and exhilitating
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LOCAL AND GENERAL...
THE Bandana Opera Company, opened a
short season at the Theatre Royal, last evening.
MR. R. Braun, the genial barbour master of Konginoon, is expected to return to the West River port from Japan early.next month.
THE island which began to appear to the south of japan in November last, and rose to a height of 480 ft., is now only to it, above the sea, and is gradually disappearing,
A WIRE from Hanoi, printed in the home par pers, says that negotiations have been in pro- gress for some time with a French firm at Bai- phong for assistance in raising the French cruiser Sully. Admirat de Jonquieres is to re: place Admiral Bayle in Along Bay,
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Duking a heavy squail at Samshui last Friday the British gunboat oorhen dragged her moorings and drifted, against the curreni, on to Messrs. Butterßeki & Swire's hulk which was at anchor in the river. No damage was done, and within a few minutes the gunboat was back again at her old moorings.
The inaniiage arranged between Ewen Allan, eldest son of Sir Ewen Cameron, K. C..G., and Lady Cameron, and Rachel Margaret, elder daughter of the late Alexander Geddes, of Blairmore, Hually, Aberdeenshire, and of Mrs. Geddes, was to have taken, place on July 21 in the Parish Church of Glass, Aberdeenshire.
THX visit of the Prince and Princess Arisugawa
has revealed that there is a very much larger Japanese colony in London than most people probably imagine. According to one authority there are more than 300 Japanese men (without counting women) pursuing various businesses in London, quite a number of whom are pro- fessional wrestlers.
From The Yellow Dragon for July we leais that on the 30. June there were 1,278 names on the annual roll of Queen's College, or less than in the first hall of the previous year. combined with the fact that the monthly als tendances are better than last year, this is evi- dence of a further improvement in regularity of attendance."
penetrated to the engine room, blocking up the
on to completion once a start is made Macso has earned an unenviable notoriety for dilatoriness in its public enterprises in the past. It has generally relegated to the Greek
and anchored in Junk Bay, preparatory to going Kalends works of public utility and pressing before the Court made the order that these two
urgency, as witness the harbour dredging scheme. But with the projected reclamation" we have reason to believe that the Administra.
main inlel. The ship was at once taken over
into dock where she will have her bottom cleaned and the pipes cleared.. FOLLOWING is the programme of music to be pelormed by the Band of the End Bat., (Royaltion is in real earnest, and a public under- West Kent Regt.) on the New Parade Ground, taking of no small magnitude for Macan may be completed sooner than most people will on Monday next, from 5 to 6.30 pm. --
generally concede for that colony. March of Triumph "Entry of the Gladiators...Fucik Overture. - ****
...." Raymond “....................Thomas. Tale." Wiener Khoter" Fans Auf Den Alpen " *... • Mersarit. Suite No..........." Peer Grity..Citie Synopis (1) Morning (2) Death of Are.
(3) Anitra's Dance.
Strain
ta Tange of the Frugs in the Hatts of the Mountain King... selection from........... lalunthe"..................Sullivan.
God save the King.
By kind permission of Col. W. G. B. Western, c, and Officers, the Band of the and Bal., The Queen's Own" (Royal West Kent Regt.) will play the following programme of music, during dinner, at the Hongkong Hotel, lo morrow, 29th inst.
March Dater Dem Siegeshaner. Has Overture 19....... "Jessonla
Spolit Selection from..."Rip Van Winkle
Plaquette ....Gang) Valse............" Epigramme".
..Wagner Grand March front..Tannbaser Reminisces of „.” Att Nailous ".. American Sketch..."Desen South"
Gul save the King.
..F. Godfrey Kiyddleton
HONGKONG SMALL DEBT COURT.
There was comparatively little of interest at the llongbong Small Debt Coart to-day. His. Hunnur Mr. A. G. Wise, Puisne Judge pre sided, and there was the usual crowded attend. ance of lawyers and litigants, Most of the cases were postponed till some day next week.
DOUBLE OR QUITS.
One of the cases was that in which a Chinese cook sued his master S. M. Gidley for $11.80 being wages for the month of June. Last week the case was adjourned in order that the de- fendant might bring a cross-action, suing his former servani for leaving without notice.
"Have you served him with a summons now?" asked the judge,
"No," said Mr. Gidley, "I couldn't find him."
"Well, he's in Court now. The bailiff can serve him here."
REFERENCE is occasionally made to the insa nitary condition of the city, but a strenuous effort was made by a couple of coalies to-day to remove that reproach, from the vicinity of To the amarement of the cook, he was pre- Beaconsfield Arcade at any rate. They were
sented with a piece of foolscap containing a carrying a fifty-gallon barrel of Jeyes' Fluid up | claim, for $11 odd for leaving without notice. the steps towards the Sanitary Board office when The spectators in Court, not being the victims, the barrel was allowed in drop. The contents laughed. The judge asked the couk what he wandered down the stairs like a miniature Nia had to say, gara and for some time afterwards it might have been thought an infirmary for the incur- ables existed there. But whatever else could te said it was certainly beyond question that the place had been thoroughly deodorised for a good many days to come. i was the irony cf fortune that the rain fell in buckets shortly afterwards.
This morning Mr. John Hays appeared before Mr. Hazeland to prosecute a large number of
residents at Wongreichong for araintaining in
*I simply asked him for my wages and he kicked me out."
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S. M. Gidley entered the box and was ask- ed "Why did the cook leave?"
"Because he said his father was dead and he
wanted to go to see him."
Did you strike him)-No. Then the cook's story was heard. Did he strike you?—Yes, he slapped me Iwice.
What about your father being dead?-1
never spoke about my father being dend, I only
asked for my wages,
Judgment was given for the plaintiff with.
costs in each action.
the
Colloquially speaking they were quits, but cook is still wondering how it happened.
A MINT TO LAWYERS
sanitary premises and disobeying the order of Government to quit the said premisses. Mr. Otto Kong Sing appeared for the defendants, and said that while he pleaded guilty on behalf of his clients he must point out to his Worship that they had lived in the houses for a large A case in which negligence is alleged as the number of years, and it was a difficult matter ground of a claim was submitted.
His Lordship said that he did not know for so many people to find other quarters at
whether it was on the rules and regulations, once. He would ask for an extension of time but there was another process which might be to enable the defendants to find suitable quart adopted in such cases. They could apply the ers. Mr. Hays said he did not know whether rules of the Admiralty law. It was a very. Government would consent to such extension.simple procedure and he thought it might be Mr. Otto Kong Sing then asked for a short considered by the lawyers in Court. adjournment, in order that the matter might be aid before Goverment. Mr. Hays consented to this, and said be would at once communicate with the Government, and the case was ad journed till Wednesday next.
A GENIAL DEFENDANT One lady, who was the defendant in an ac- tinn, heard her name called and marched up smiling to face his Lordship, "Your case is postponed." She bowed and smiled again. "Come back on Tuesday," his Lordship said. She curtsey ed. "And bring all your witnesses." She left the Court smiling.
water to which he has an inalienable right of admission, to which he may say to himself "This is my institution and so long as I remain respectable no one can remove ine from it" he has to travel a long way to find it. We take it that the new Seamen's Institute was designed to meet such a want.
YUEN To, whose extradition was sought by the But prior to its opening, the seaman was Chinese authorities for being concerned in an driven to the shady public house and the armed robbery in Chinese territory in July of numerous haunts of vice which exist in last year, was committed to Victoria Gaol for Hongkong for the special benefit of Jack fifteen days, during which he will be at liberty ashore. If it happened that he "raised his to apply for a writ of habeas corpus, failing wrist" once too often be found himself before which at the expiration of that period he will the Magistrate and he might think himself be handed over to the Chinese authorities. lucky if he got off with fourteen days' impriI will be remembered that last Saturday, as sonment. If he was homeless and without the result of a collision between the steam a slip still he was liable to find himself launch Balley, and the cutter of the U.S.S. before the Magistrate, as witness the poor Cellae, in which an American sailor nearly fellows who were found wandering in the log his life, the certificate of the coxswain of First Assistant ofthe Hongkong Observatory: Chinamen were concerned. The sum in dis- hills around Happy Valley the other day was sent to the launch to get his certificate, risen in S. China, particularly over the SE. coast. balf-dead through. starvation. Without but did not do so, and the following day was doubt Hongkong is the hardest place found by P. U. Douglas Foley, who rescued for the sailor without the sailor-in charge of the Daily, which he was a ship. It is hard enough for landsmen, steering at the time.-Mr. Murphy, of Messrs. but the sailor who knows no trade and has W. S. Bailey and Co. told the Magistrate this probably no recommendations is almost morning that he was unaware the defendant was on the launch, as, on account of his certi- certain to go under. It is all the more neficate being suspended, he had engaged a new cessary then that his friends should extend coxswain. His Worship fined the defendant a helping hand to him. As a rule he is no Į $15 or one month.
Co., in the East
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Hongkong, 15th June, 1901.
the Bailey was suspended for two months. He
THE WEATHER.
The following report is from Mr. F. G. Figg, On the 28th 12.20 p. The barometer has After passing near Foochow yesterday after noon, the depression has apparently continued to move Northwards.
Fresh S. and SW, winds may be expected in the Formosa Channel and the N. part of the China Sea,
Forecast-Moderate SW. to S. winds; equal
ly, thundershowers.
WANTED HIS COSTS
There was an action on the list in which two pute was slated to be $150.76. The plaintiff was represented by a lawyer, who calmly observed-"We've received $too on account.”
Then I'll give you judgment for $90.70 and costs," said His Lordship rapidly turning to the next case.
"But I wanted judgment for $150 70 and
costs."
"You got $100 on account, didn't you?" "Yes, but the expenses, my Lord?" Returns from the North are lacking thisOh that will be all right! Judgment for morning.
Telegraphic communication between the Observatory and Hongkong is interrupted;
$370 and costs on the other scale."
The lawyer looked pleased and his brethren of the robe smiled audibly,...
On the following morning, the &h of April, these sums of money were paid out of Court. The point of the trustee in bankruptcy was
this: Inasmuch as the Fuk On Company did not complete their attachment of these two sums of money by actual receipt of the same until after they had received from their solicitors notice of a bankruptcy petition, Mr. Wakeman as Trustee in Bankruptcy was entitled to come before this Court and to ask his Lordship that these qums of money should be paid by the Fuk-On Company to him as trustee for the general benefit of the creditors.
The Chief Justice- don't quite follow you. You say notice was given to the judge who
made the order.
Mr. Pollock-That was informal.
The Chief Justice-So & does not come as an appeal to the Court.
Mr. Pollock-Not at all. This is a separate application in bankruptcy, They conleaded, he continued, that if the creditor before actual receipt of the money had received notice of the presentation of a bankruptcy petition, or if in fact there was a receiving order, the creditor was not entilled to obtain the benent of that execution.
Mr. Calthrop said the money had been paid*- into Court by the garnishees, and it was only upon their application to bave it paid out that they heard of a petition in bankruptcy being presented.
His Lordship-Was it sfterwards or before? Mr. Calthrop-It was heard in Chambers." The learned-acting Chief Justice had this notice before him at the time.
Bis Lordship-It was immaterial to him.. He could not have refused the order as he was not acting under the Bankruptcy Ordinance.
Mr. Calthrop-Oh yes, he could. When he knew there had been a petition in bankruptcy he could bave refused.
His lordship-It was not a case of bank. ruptcy.
Mr. Calthrop-No, but he might have known what was coming on. It is a principle of law that money which has been paid out under an brder of the Court cannot be recovered back.
His Lordship-Where did you get that from? Mr. Calthrop said it was Merryalf & Hamp lon...
His Lordship-Give me a quotation.
Mr. Calthrop The heading is—“Where mo- Hey has been paid by the plaintiff to the de- fendant under the compulsion of legal process which it is afterwards discovered not to be due.
the plaintiff cannot recover it back on an ac- tion for money received.”
His Lordship-That is a very different pro.. position from this.
Mr. Calthrop proceeded to argue that other proceedings should have been taken for the return of this money. · As long as the money had been paid out under an order it could not be re-called.
His Lordship remarked in the course of argument-What I cannot understand is why there has been so much delay,
Mfr. Pollock said the opinion of counsel had ~ to be taken, and after all there had not been such a very long time wasted,
His Lordship-It is some months, three months now, since the order was made.
Mr. Calthrop proceeded to cite authorities on
subject of his contentions. judgment was restived,
the
SHIPPING AND MAILS.
MAILS DUE..
Indian (Namsane), 30th lost, Australian (Taiyuan) 31st inst."
· German (Prins Sigismund) 31st losti German (Prins Bitel Friedrich) 31st inst Americas (Doric) tet prox............ German (Scharnhorst) 1st prox.
· Canadian ('Empress of India) 14th prox The Imperial German Mallas. Prina Eltsi Friedrich carrying the German Mall with dates from Berlis of the 4th last, left Singapore this. morning, at gam, and may be expected kerg on gist insių, ki moon,