Intimation.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 1907.
what serious affray had occurred #Sam-chup,
in which a British surveying party employed in epanaction with the railway b
y had been amzulted by a gang of rowdica. We have no with in the slightest degree to magnify the importance of A. S. WATSON & CO., an unfortunate and unexpected occurrence, more especially as we must remain to the dark LIMITED.
for some time de to the real or alleged cause of the disturbance. But its significance is not to be glossed over, as if it were an ordinary every day event. To begin with, we may confidently assume that the surveying party did absolutely nothing which would run counter to the BY APPOINTMENT TO HIS EXCELLENCY THR opinions, beliefs, customs or habits of the
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Tux Commission of Belimitation of the new Franco-Siamese frontier expected to arrive shortly to Bangkok
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QUASTION OF FORGED CHOPS.
"DOTS" ON THE POMEGRANATE.“
› Mr. Reginald Harding appeared for the plain.
In the Summary Jurisdiction Cour, this morblag, before his Honour Mr. A. G. Wise, Chief Justice; Lam Wing, of to, Wellington Street, brought an action against the Pa Sang firm, of 14, Wing 1 ok Street, as endorses of one Hau Keo, to recover the sum of $50084, the mopal of principal and interest due under a promissory note for $500, made by the defend. antifirm, on August 21st, 1907, and payable to tau Kee on demand. Or in the alternative the plaintiff, as asignee, claimed $30s for money Library Museum,lent to the defendant firm. Non-Chiprannom 366 g its. people. Theo, again, the appearance of foreigo
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·144 surveyors is no new feature" at Sam-chun,
Total... $10 3,118 which stands on the border between British and Chinese territory. And on previous visits Tux Board of Directors of the Tayo. Kisan the engineers have been allowed to go un-Kaisha, we are informed, propose to pay a molested. What then aroused the writh of the dividend for the last half-year at the rate of 13 AMMONIA.people to such an extent that they assaulted a per cent. per annum, as before, by drawing Y150,0co on the reserve for the equalisation of dividend. The deficiency in the company's profit is said to be due to the construction of large ships, which have not yet brought in any return.
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Ax attempt is being made to fathom the reason why anyone attends public dianers. Charily will not do; speeches are, the universal pet aversion; good fellowship is out of the question when these gatherings are mostly composed of men who do not want to know one another. Must we fall back on the conclusion that the public dinner, is the", most liberal form of hospitality at the price to be obtained in London
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CANTON DAY BY DAY.
CANZON-HANKOW RAILWAY,
[From Our Own Correspondant.]
Canton, 25th September, 1907, The Vice-president of the Canton Hunkow
Railway Company, Mr. Wong Shiu-ping, sc. companied by the Engineer-in-chief, Tanisl Kwong, yesterday paid a call on H.E. the Viceroy, who bad a conversation with them lasting for some time. H.E. questioned rice president Wong minutely for some time as to the working of the management of the Com pany, and also interrogated Engineer-in-chief Kwang about the construction of the line,
On receipt of the telegram from the Minis. if Mr. R. A. Harding representing the detry of Communications and Post in regard to fendant frem.
the sanctioning of the appointment of Sir Chentung Linng Cheng as president of the Canton-Hankow Railway Company, Mr. Wong abtu-ping, the vice-president,, at once, wired to Shangbai, where Sir Chenwung is at present laying, requesting him to return to Canton at an early date to take up the important appoint
The special defence of wast of consideration was raised by the defendant.
Cro-eximined by Mr. R. A. Harding, the plaintiff and that. Hau Kee was a travelling rader, and on the 28th August last he went
me to the country.
Mr. R. A. Harding-I have tried to tracement: this man, your Lordship. We know nothing about him.
His Lordship-I don't think the other side koow much about him either.
Mr. R. A. Harding-We allege that the chop is a forgery.
:Mr. Reginald Harding-I don't see how you can allege forgery, and also raise the special defence: If it is a forgery there could be no consideration.
Mr. R. A. Harding—It is additional. Cheong Fat Chun, swore, said that plaintiff borrowed $500 from him and handed it over to a friend. The friend took out a piece of paper
Cheung Li Shi spoke as to depositing money with the defendant firm. Sibe produced a bill given in receipt of a deposit,
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a menace to all peaceable communities in the districy and a nuisance which the Chinese au- thorities should long ago have disciplined and controlled. It will thus. be recognised that inhabited as Sam-chun is by a lawless and overbearing population, the slightest incident is trailed as an occasion for an uproar, and it speaks volumes for the diplomacy of the British railway representatives who, have visited the market-town in the past that no exhibition of 'anti-foreign feeling has occurred. We may also take it for granted that only the forbear ance and wisdom of the party attacked the other day, kept the nascent emeute within bounds. The fact of the matter is, Sam,
chun should never have been left in the
A. S. WATSON & CO., hands of the Chinese when Great Britain was, delimiting her territory on the mainland, The line, of demarcation should have brought the town and river of Sam-cbus well within the jurisdiction of British authority and then there would have been an end once sad for ever to all the affrays, tormolis, uprizings and disturb. ancer which-are-endemic In-Sam-chun. In
CHEMISTS, DRUGGISTS AND PERFUMERS. THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY. Hongkong, 7th September, 1907,
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The Hongkong (elegraph HONG KONG, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1907.
BRITISH ANIKKVENTION RÉ-
QUIRED AT SAM-CHUN.
Among the many difficulties which have to be overcome by enlightened, opinion in China nope, atlains such "dimensions as that which conflicts with the, superstitious beliefs of the people. The construction of railways, together with the introduction of telegraphic communi- cation, has inv crinbly, been hindered by the caprice of the ignorant body of the community, even despite the advice of the elders and "covosellors. Occasionally the action of the people in manifesting their objection to the new-fangled notions brought from the ends of the earth has been quietly engineered and guided by those who had an eye to. business
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MESSES. Jardine, Matheson & Co. inform us, with reference to the statement, which appeared. yesterday to the effect that one of the survey parties on the Chinese section of the Caston Kowloon Railway had bad trouble with villagers, that there was a slight distur- bance owing to some survey flags having been placed close to a grave, and some mud was thrown, but do serious damage was done, The survey work has not in any way been interrupted.
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NGAL LEUNG SING, a fireman, residing at 26, Jardine's Bazaar, was convicted by Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne, at the Police Court, to-day, for theft. Ngai was prosecuted by H.-J. Gray Scott for stealing a piece of leather belting, valued at 51, the property of the Tramway Company, The evidence went to show that Ngai removed
the belting from the machine room yesterday
while the other workmen were at tiffin, and was proceeding to leave the premises when he was seen and arrested, His Worship passed sentence of fifteen days' hard labour."
Owing to the recent disastrous conflagration and the general fiosocial depression, the Nisshu Fire Insurance Company is reported
Moi Heung, the manager of the de- fendant firm, was next called... He stated that there were many differences between the chop on the promissory note (produced) and the оде CO the bill produced by the female witness-Cheung. Li Shi. He denied that the chop on the promissory note belonged to his firm. There were six dots on each pomegranate on his chop, he explained, but there were only three dots on the other chop.
His Lordship-There might be eight or nine
This drove the witness into detalls. He os. It is all a question of ink. pointed out the differences in drawings and the lipes on the two cheps.
witness declared that the other chop was a bogus one.
Cross-examined by Mr. Reginald Harding,
Li Hong Mi, the Court, interpreter, went to the witness-box. After examining both chops closely he also stated that there were many differences between the two chops, which he detailed.
By Mr. R. A. Harding-On the chops that were alleged to be bogus there were only three
other. He was of opinion that the impressions -were not made with the same chops.
INTERIM DEND
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from our
HONGKONG SIKEBI INDEX
Ouuids the few who have attempted to com pila bewildering sets of statistica, and bring order out of chaos in that line, there can be few who have any conception of the labodous Arthur and conscientious work which.... M Chapman, the Government Assesor, has com- mitted to his index to the streets, berd, and lots of Victoria and surrounding the city. The lodex bas its third edition, which is not to he
From the present outlook of affairs it appears, considering its value to all who are that the general public and the shareholders terested in land and house properly, in the generally seem in be satisfied with the appoint Colony. It is difficult to suggest, in what meat of Sir Chenlung as president of the Com. respect the lodex might be improved, althoug paay, as they are assured that there will there is a possibility that if information regard be a strong man at the 'hand of affairs, whilst ing the extent of the various lots, the ground the timidity of the nominated president, Mt. reat, the date of fears and even the name of Lo, lo not taking up the office, convinces his the owner could be given without unduly electors of his not being a proper man in the taxing the resources of the compiler the Index would be rendered more human in appearance, proper place. On the other hand, a large num ber of shareholders are taking steps against the It may be that an attempt to incorporate such vice-president, Wang Shiu-plog, since alleged information would prove a Sisyphean task, and irregularities are said to have been discovered even if possible of accomplishment be regarded as immaterial by a majority, of the subscri- in the taking of the ballot in the election of
bera. The Index, come $25 and in that_ this gentleman.
respect at least „we feel compalent to suggest Expectant magistrale, Chan show-pang, a
that Mr. Chapman is making a mistake. There translator in the Canton Bureau of Foreign are hundreds of minor landed proprietors in Affairs, has received a despatch from the and around Hongkong who would be pleased Ministry of Communications and Post at to decorate their business zoons with a copy Peking transferring him to that Ministry at the of the Index if they could obtain it at a r Capital for duty. Chan has tendered his reduced price, but in these days of adveralty, atd signation from his picical past and will soon leave for his new pust:
TRAN: NER,
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ANTIMONY FOR SALE. The Canton Iprenu - f Agriculture, Industry
and Commerce has now on hand a large quan- tity of antimony ore, which is the product of the antimony mines in the district of Kav. Kong, The Bureau has issued a notification javiting teaders for the purchase of these ciuda ores and has fixed the rsi day of the 9th moon as the final day for acceptance of tenders, and also the day on which the tenders will be opened.
THE RECENT RISING,
tight money $10 is a consideration and even the landed gentry of Hongkong are bewailing their hard luck. If the Index could be placed. on the market profitably at Sio, we feel sure
the subscription list would swell enormously to the satisfaction of all concerned. The Index is printed on clear type, on good paper,, by Messrs. Noronha & Co, Hongkong.
PANCOUVER,
BOARD OF TRADE'S REPORT,
to be in serious insuble. According to tire dots of the pomegranates and nne det, on the outbreak and is going to report fully to the From the statement addressed to the members
carmena pembelianna by a bivaranku 170mm on the 9th instant, many drafts drawn
By Mr. Reginald Harding-Although he paptirs were not the same the key pattern on one chop was quite different from the other: The impressions were not from the same chops. Mr. Reginald Harding applied for an ad- jourament. —
His Lordship-I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that I cannot give a verdict in your favour unless you produce Hau Kee. Your client knows where he is.
Mr. Reginald Harding-1 will endeavour to get the man. I quite recognise that I cannot
succeed without Hau Kee's presence.
His Lordship-Yes; but I don't say you are going to succeed if he is here,
The case was then adjuri^,
'FISHERMAN'S WIFE AND A COIL OF WIRE.
WU TING FANG RE-APPOINTED,
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The close connection' which exists between HE. Viceroy Chang, soon after his arrival Vancouver and Hongkong, mainly as the re- here, minutely inquired from the Acting suit of the excellent service maintained by the Viceroy Wu as to the present state of affairs-in-Empress boats, lends added intareat to a report the circuit of Yumchow and Limchow, and has which in itself would attract attention on its personally perused all the telegraphic bod own meriti-the annual report of the Van. other correspondence to and from these places couver Board of Trade. The functions of the concerning the recent iesurrection. H.E. Board, which will attain its majority next year, Viceroy Chang has gathered together all the are to conserve and advance the interests of necessary particulars in connection with the that rapidly growing port and business centre.
Central Government on the matter.
at the annual meeting, it appears that the Pep- On assuming charge, H.E. Viceroy Changvince has had a most prosperous year, and the gave lefographic instructions to the officials financial position is satisfactory. Reference is at Yumchow ordering them to tako the neces" made to a variety of subjects, but where in the sary steps to suppress the bandits without loss statement of Vancouver's trade with the Fax of time. H.E. also expressed his satisfaction East? One would bave imagined that a trade. with the untiring energy of Commander Kwok which is extending every day and is likely to -and his troops by whom the city of Pong-Shing increase as new lives of railway are brought
was relieved from the rebels.
into Vancouver would have been considered wonhy of remark at a gathering representative of the trade and commerce of the chief Pacific port of the Dóminion, but so far as we can see not a lids is devoted to the subject. Even the question of the arrival of Indian, Japaness and Chinese immigrants, which has filled the Van. couver papers for weeks and months, engaged „the attention of Ottawa and London, and threa The taps, plugi, etc. of the different fire britened to become an international affair in gades of the city are not of the same size and tabooed. These omissions are serious defects it is feared that these are also different from in a report which professes to cover the opera the fire plugs to be laid by the Canton Water tions of the Board of Trade for a year, :01: works Company in the different streets of the course, it may be that the Vancouver mår- city, which in case of emergency might prove chants do not consider it within their province useless. The Company has issued a notifica 10 deal with such pettifogging questions as tion to the general public and the different fire overseas trade, especially that with China and brigades informing them that the fire plugs of the Orient generally, and if that should be the the proposed type is four inches in diameter case then there is nothing more to be said on and are all of uniform size throughout the city the subject. Incorporated in the report is a and request the different fire brigades to pre.descripuos of the natural wealth of British. sent their taps and plugs at the Company's Columbia. There are some very fine photo. office for inspection and, if found necessary, to graphic illustrations of scenes in and around change and alter some of them for the purpose Vancouver, and the brochure is a credit to the of securing uniformity, so that the Company, printers, the News-Advertiser. in case of emergency, can co-operate with the fire-fighters,
A Peking telegram received to-day states that an Impérial Decree has been issued appointing H.E. Wa Tjog-fang again as the Minister for Chisa to the United States of America in place of the ex-Minister, Sir Cheung Liang Cheng.. **
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flourishing market town, the store-house for the by the Company were dishonoured. The products of that fertile district which in course Company's total risks at Hakodate werd of time will be tapped by the railway, and the Y302,coo. The Jij states that the Company distributing point for goods seat from Hong is now making investigations relative to the kong. Aferail'what does China want with Sam-
amount which must be paid at once. The Board of Directors of the Company beld chun? Naturally the Cantos suthorities would
a meeting on the 8th instant, for the purpose plaintively declare that without the unruly, of considering the means to pay off the in- dissipated ne'er-do-well of a town one ofsurances, but no decision was arrived at.. the brightest jewels
of the Province would be lost to the Imperial Government, MESSRS, Hughes and Hough, Government trut it is doubtful if they could be regard. nuctioneers, this afternoon, put up for sale by ed as entirely disingenuous. Sam-chun as leasehold property, comprising all that piece or public auction, at their sales rooms, the valuable
stands is an excrescence and should be treated parcel of ground tituale at Victoria and regis- as such. Let Great Britain firmly declare thattered in the Land Office as Section No. 1 of Bam-chun is part nad parcel of the New
Section "A" of Inland Lat, No. 103. Together Territory, install guards and police, deny with the messuages thereon known as No. 269, the rights of others to collect likia Queen's Road Central. Term 979 years. Bid. ding opened at $9,nóo, quickly followed by two and convert the place into a respectable out-
F100 bids. Then $500 became the highest post of British interess. It must come to that bid. The property eventually was bought by in the future and the fanaticism begot by ignor. Isho^er, or Inter, for we cannot tolerate an Mr. Tai Cheé Ilo, a Des Vœux Road merchant, A young Chinese woman, with her hair done ance has been used to serve the purpose of Alsatia at the junction of the British and Chin- for 17,100. Messrs. Jobuson, Stokes and up á la Shanghai and adorned with several the schemer. Accordingly, when it was de ese sections of the Kowlobo-Canton railway Master were the solicitors for the mortgagee. gold hair ornaments, was charged this morning, before Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne, by Inspector termined to construct a railway between Kow and if Sam-chon is brought within abe scope
A PRIVATE letter from Peking states that the Macdonald, of Shau-ki-wan Police * Lat on, with loon and Canton fears were entertained that
of British influence, before the railway has
health of the Emperor is exceedingly good in the farceny of a coil of telephone wire, with in- 'some of the natives in the interior might reached the town, and before a start is made spite of the rumours that have been industrious-sulators attached, the property of the Crown,
ce in the innovation an insult to the sacred with the construction of the great bridge across ly spread about to the contrary. There are, The accured-Cheung Chat Kin, the wife of god, of the soil. It is wonderful, by the the river, so much the beer. The step has to however, indications that His Majesty is get the owner of fishing junk No. 6,929it-aid way, how useful an auxiliary feng-shud is, to be taken so it might as well be laken at once. ting impatient at the restraint that has been that the wire was given her by a conductor of the discontented, the money-grabbers and it will prove as advantageous and beneficial to in consequence of which his Majesty's enemies
placed upon him since the coup d'état of 1898, tramcar,
The tramcar conductor was called' and be the speculators. A parcel of land which China, as it will to Great Britain, or rather may be considering measures to deprte him, denied this. When his car arrived at the ter may not be worth a song as it staude becomes | Bongkeng, and it is unlikely that any olber by giving out that he is incapacitated from minus at Shau-ki-wan yesterday afternoon, he the special domain of the land genius im- power will have a word to say on the subject, reigning further through chronic illness. We said, he found the coil of wire lying on one of mediately anybody suggests that it may have for it is not a case of annexation of new terri further. learn from a reliable source, that the the, seats. Thinking it belonged to the Ro some valus. But this quality attaching to the tory or an instance of Britain's faculty for land-good health of His Majesty has been confirmed cused, who was a passenger on the car, he sail disappears very rapidly should the ex- grabbing on any excuse, but a simple desire to by a foreign doctor, who when asked to diag called her attention to it. She picked up the Chan Cheung Hung was sent to hospital by Shing, went to the pawnbroker's shop and ̈
nose His Majesty's condition, declared that proptintor be the Chinese Government, or the reduce wayward, and dangerous-centre of there is nothing in the least the matter with the Viceroy of the Province. There was no sug- disturbance to pence and tranquillity. As for Emperor, so that he (the Doctor) could not gestion of feng-shut when Viceroy Shum or ex- the assault on the British surveying party we prescribe for him unless li be that His Majesty Minister Chang projected their railway scheme shall in 1l probability never know the origin. should, perhaps, drink an extra bowl or two of to Amay via Whampoa; the people, were of it. We will be regaled with tales of feng-shut | cow's milk.-N. C. D. Neina, brusquely ordered to give up their land with by the pessents; of anti-monarchical rebels by the best grace possible, for if they failed to do the authorities; and of reactionaries by the re so they would suffer the consequences. It has formers. Whatever the alleged cause of the beas the policy of the Hongkong Government outbreak, it should have the effect of opening. is directing the operations of the Kowloon the eyes of the Government of Hongkong to section of the line to Canton to propitiate and the extreme danger of allowing Sam-chup to conciliate the native Chinese residing in the remain outwith, British Jurisdiction, a menace New Territory in every possible way in order to the prestig› of British administration. that trouble might be averted and the question
of geomantic influences avoided. So carefully
bas that policy-base-pursued that with but one or two exceptions, when rapacious squatters sought to invest their property with a Actitious valus by attributing to the soil supernatural virtues, there has been 00 clash between the natives and the Philistines, Yesterday, however, we received private information to the effect that a somo-
it it officially gazetted that Ms. W. H. Denison,
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FISHMONGER CONVICTED OF ASSAULT,,
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SEXORANT AR18, of Kennedy Town Polica Station, placed a coolie before Mr. Meiboproe, this maming, in the Police Count, an charges of being in unlawful possession of one white silk coat and a pair of rubber boots, and for Sunday morning last, a street coolie named West Faint. Yegelday, the recused, Leung giving false particulars to a pawnbroker at:
coll and walked away. A few ainutes later & Inspector Gourlay suffering from, what was offered the silk cost in paro, The pawnbroker telephone man called for the wire. Witsest-thon believed to be-a-supiured spleen, The sccepted the article and asked for Loung's told him who had it, and accused was arrested man, it appeared, went to a fishmonger's stall name and address. Leung, apparently, had His Wonbip sentenced her to one week's (No. 57) in the Wanchai Market and called for forgollen his same and where he lived. This three cents' worth of fish. This was handed aroused the pawnbroker's suspicions and ha imprisonment.
and returned the fish to the stail holder remarking that it was only worth two cents "Did you come here to buy, or to raise trouble?" bawled the fishmonger, coming from behind his counter. "You people," he con
the pair of boots, and he was locked up,
Sequel: Fourteen days' hard.
SHIPPING AND MAILS.
As the convic'ed woman' was being fed into to him in a paper bag. The coolio weighed 'called in the polico. "Leung was. Goable to in- the Prisoners' Waiting Room, Mr. Andrew G. the contents, found a deficiency in the weight, form the police how be came by the coat and In the Marine Court, to-day, Mr. R. Unsorib, Jackson, of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master, of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and appeared in Court, Pe had been instructed Godown Company, told the Harbour Master, to appear on behalf of the womas. When told Comdr. Basil Taylor, R. M., of the inconvenience that the woman had pleaded guilty and was he was put to yesterday, while the steamer sentenced, Mr. Jackson pleaded for a fine
Sueule wascoming alongsideone of the wharves. ⠀ instead of imprisonment for his cliant,' To do this be prosecuted the coxswains of the His Worship-I haven't the power to impose sieam launches Sing Lee, Wing Fat; Kwong a fine in such cases. Ying and Chuen Hing for making fast to the Mr. Jackson said the Court could use is Su vid while under way. Mr. Unsworth said own discretion. What does a woman in her that the launches made fast to the steamer, position want with a "piece of wire?" be
His Worship-Have you ever done any sling, Mr. Jackson? —No, but I hope to,
Well, have you seen a junk?—Yes. Haven't you seen the wire used on them?
Foreign_Secretary in tha. Fösign_Office_in_as she was approaching the wharf, Bysodon asked, men es Tokio, has been granted a gift. of Y10,000 ing they not only impeded the navigation of in addition to'atife pension of Y840 in conjunc- the ship, but they also obstructed the running of lion with the First Order of Merit and the lines from wharf to abip and endangered both General Cordon of the Rising Sun, in recogn! the ship and the wharf. The master of the tion of valuable services rendered to, the Sing Ler denied being made fast to the Barvic Japanese Government is connection with the | at all. He was lying alongside the wharf dis- Russo-Japanese war. Mr. Steveau, Adviser on charging passengers. The others had nothing Foreign Affaire to the Korean Government, to say, The Sing Lee's coxswain was dis- ons also been granted a gift of Y10,000. charged. The others paid Sgo each.
Yes
'Well, that's the very thing they want, After further discussion, his Worship bound the accused over in the sum of Stoo to come up for judgment when
tinued, "come and order three cònts' worth of
Roods and expect to pay two cents for it. That won't do here." And with that the 6shmonger.} picked up a weight and knocked down the coolie with it. A hue and cry was raised by the people in the market; several policemen
sushed to the spol, and the coolle was removed to hospital, while his supposed assailant was placed under lock and key, The coolie remained in hospital until yesterday when he was discharged, and later in the day he pre- sealed bimself at the Police Court to prosecute the fishmonger for assault He proved his case, and Mr. Melbourps fined the accused 5:0. He was also ordered to pay one dollar compensation to the gooils
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