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THELEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
VACANCY.
A POPULAR CANDIDATE.
MR. MURRAY STEWART TO BE NOMINATED.
It is with much satisfaction that we have to briefy announce that there is every probabil ity of Mr. Murray Stewart, the popular and able chairman of the Hongkong breach of the China Association, being prevailed upon to accept nomination as representative of the Chamber of Commerce on the Legislative Council during Mr. Hewett's absence. Mr. Murray Stewart's candidature should be a most popular one.
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JAPANESE PRESS ON CHINA
AFFAIRS..
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY MARCH
FUN ON THE PEARL RIVER,
HOW THE "ALACRITY" WAS" WHIPPED BY.A RIVER STEAMEDAT,
THE AMENDING PUBLIC
HEALTH BILL,
CHINESE LAND-OWNERS IN CONFERENCE: An informal meeting of Chinese land awsers was held last Thursday afternoon at the invitation of the Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, and the Hon. Mr. Woi Yuk, I be object of the meeting was to consider the draft Billiuamend the ublic. Health and Building». Qrdinance read a'first time at the last meeting of Council. It was decided to request the Chinese Commercial Union to have the Bill translated into..Chinese to enable the Lhinese land owners to consider its provisions before discussion.
On the occasion of the recent visit of H.M.8, Alacrity, the Admiral's, despatch boat, to Canton an incident occurred which had its humorous sido, although it may not be appre. cinted by the gallant tars who were the sport of the ribald. Indeed, it is perfectly safe to say that in recounting the story the narrator would be wise to do so in the absence of any of the Alacrity's crew. The Alacrity, with Admiral Sir A. W. Moore on board, had left Canton for Hongkong and was well on the way to this port, when one of the river boats was sighted making great head-way in pursuit.
OPTUM IN SHANGHAI. Accompanied by a torpedo boat, the Alacrity was making easy progress down the Peart
After a considerable amount of irresponsible River, headless of competitors, but the river steamboat, incited apparently by the enthusiasm talk, of unrestrained denunciation of the of the Chinese passengers, came to the con- Shanghai community on the past of a few clusion that the Alacrity was bent on making well-meaning. Englishmen who dearly love 10 the pace to Hongkong,. Now, it should decry their countrymen overseas, it is to be be understood that one of His Majesty's feared, in our own midst a medus operandi men-of-war is extremely supercilious when would seem to have been arrived at on the question, "and subject of the closing of the opium dens in
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THAN DING OF THE 8.S." CHINGPING"
The Chefoc forming Past of 3rd inst. says: New was brought here early on Sunday morn ing by the ss. Sikiang of the wreck of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company's steamer Chipping commanded by Captain outh Watson.
From one of the passenger of the Sikiang we learn that when they were passing the S. E. was ashore requiring assitance. Capt. Helfer Promontory signals were flying that a steamer of the .. Siktang immediately altered his course, and proceeded to the stranded vase! which he found to be the Chingping badly ashore on a small island of rocks about five and a half miles to the south west of the S.E. Promontory.
was so great as to dislodge her folemast which was later on cut free and cast overboard. No confusion whatever prevailed, everyone re- mained on board until daylight when the pas
(1908.
PRICK OF A MISSIONARY'S LIFE. the abandoned object must accept the object
SPENSATION FOR THR. LOSS OF HUSHAND
AND FATHER.
IMPORTANT LEUAL DECISION.
sunk
The judgment is signed by Judge Ishikawa Sei, presiding, and Judges Fushimi Masao, Obain Nobuatsu, Kitasawa Hideo, and Ikeda
Takuzo.
abandoned, But, continues the Judgment, while the legal meaning of Article 544,18 that the object can be abandoned at any time, not pecessarily at the end of a voyage, it must be. understood that the object offered is in the same state as it was at the end of the voyaga The lengthy litigation regarding the respon. when the objection was incurred. When the sibility of a Japanese steamship company for object of abandonment is not in the same state the drowning of passengers came to an end
as at the end of the voyage, and has become || (unless there is again no appeal to the Court of
usaless for further service, as in this case, if Cassation) on the 22nd February, when judg-uch change in its condition be due to the inent was delivered in the Osaka Appeal Court, working of natural laws, then the appellant | This was an appeal from the decision of the
company cannot free itself from its liability by abandoning the vessel. Judging by the ex Osnica Chibo Baibaasho, delivered as long ago as ter, of Lancaster, l'ennsylvania, USA, was a March 13th, 1906. The Rev. H. G. Appenzelplanations given the judgment of the Osaka Chiho Baibansho, by which the appellants were missionaty wpricing is Koren. He was on
ordered to pay to each respondent a sum of board the O..K. umagawa-mark journeying each respondent (Y22170), which is admited
YE 0x0 within the limit of damages suffered by, by the appellants, together with legal interest They approached to within two hundred along the coast, when that steamer came into collision with the Kogawa-mars, also balong-
from the date on which this action was in yards of the ill-fated vessel and look framing to the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, par
stituted, is a proper decision, and the appeal share the passengers, consisting of foreigner Chemulpo, the Kumagawa beleg
must be dismissed as groundless. and 13 Chinese, as well as 153 bags of mails all and the feverend: gupileman being amcbx the drowned. Sult was brought against destined for Chinwangtao. From the passen- ger on the Chingping it, was learnt that the the Osaka Shoten Keisha by Mrs. Appenzeller and her four children claiming damages for vessel struck at about midnight on the
the loss of husband and father, and the deci. 27th February during a fog, the sea was calm
sion of the Chiko Saibansko, or Court of Fust instance, was that the Osaka Shosen Kaisha should pay Y8,000 10 het of the plainufis Y40,000 in all). In bringing the suit counsel for the plaintiffs urged that the death of the missionary was due to negligence on the part of the capiain of the Kumagawa-mai, who was a servant of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, The missionary at the time of his death was in receipt of an annual salary of $1,úgo from the Methodist Mignon, and as, according to the law of averages, he would have lived 244 years longer, the plamiiffs fined an amount equal to the salary which would nave been due to him, amounting to Y80,850. In addi tion they each claimed Y6,0.0 damages as per sonal redress for their bereavement. In giving judgment, it may be remembered, the Osaka Chino Sabansho pointed out that from the ex- hibis put in by the plaintiffs it was clear that they were entitled to receiva some money from the mission after the death of Mr. Appenzeller. It was also clear that the plaintiffs had been living apart from the deceased, who if he buil lived would have required some part of the salary claimed for his own maintenance. Tubing the 44th since the origin of the Com view of these facis, the damages asked for werc regarded by the Court as excessive but in cop tioners, who were now widowed or fatherless, and the conditions of life in America, the Court deemed it proper that compensation should be The Osaka Shoise Kaisha appealed against this judgment, and un July 19th, 19.6, the granted at the fate of Y800s for each plaintiff,
Osaka Appeal Court quashed the decision and
The vessel is in a sheltered position from all northerly winds, but is liable to fare badly should a gale come up from another direction. The alter part of the vessel is afinat in about seven fathoms of water and it is feared that she may break free and founder, should any bad weather be experienced,
Mr. F. J. Curtis, Lloyd's agent, left here on Sunday evening on the ss. Shibata Maru lo commence salvage operations and the Chinese torpado-crulzer Feiying was despatched yester day to the scene of the disaster. We also hear that the $.4.5. Arcene has been sent from Tsingtau to render assistance.
REGIMENTAL INSPECTION.
While desirous that Japan should do nothing to deserve criticism from England and America in regard to her conduct in Manchuria, the
would subtless consider it infra dig. Settlement. It is true that no arrange-but there was a heavy swell. When the vessel Kokumin views the suspicious feeling, if there to enter into race competition, More.ment can be considered final until it has first struck it was at high tide and the impact. be any in the Englishmen and Americans over, the officers knowing their strength in coived the formal sanction of Ratepayers at over lapan's superior advantages in Manchuria emergencies, and regardless of anything but their annual meeting a fortnight hence; but it as owing to a short-sighted understanding of official orders, are not compelled by force of legitimate to hope that a scheme which their own interests. So far Japan has not
cucumstances or the exigencies of trade to commends itself to the Council and to thin made much advance in her railway and other make sport in order to show what their vesepresentatives of a large section of those whsengers and mails were conveyed to the main- enterprises across the sea, but even at the sel can do. But it is otherwise with a river have consistently advocated the abolition land where they remained until picked up by present stage of activity, it is as undeniable
boat. There is a fine healthy rivalry on the opium will meet with general approval of the Sikiang. fact that since leasing by japan of the Liaotong
siver which induces every shipmaster to get March 20. The basis of the unde sanding is that a reduction of 25 per cent in the number Peninsula and since the railway, and mining ahead of his competitors at all hazards and
of licensed opium houses should be made on were started by her the importation of English there must occasionally be some exciting in-
July 1, to be followed by similar reductions at and American goods has beer steadily increas-cidents,, on the eighty-mile ran, when two or ing. It is only by successful advancement of
more of the river leviathans come together, intervals of six months, leading to the closin
of all opium houses in the. Settlement before Japanese undertakings, in Manchuria that the
For the average passenger demands that the
the end of two years. While holding out the principles of the open door and equal, oppor-
vessel by which be travels must be recognised tunity can be actualized. If Kogland and
as the greyhound of the estuary and, in this prospect of even more rapid suppression, the America then be as warm as they were
Council is unwilling to bind more clo.ely sup: cold weather especially, finds bis blood grow. port of those principles, they should help warm as the chances of being overtakenby or successive administrations without a direct mandate from Ratepayers. If, as there advancing Japanese interests and reap the fruits ol, labour together with her: Not that overtaking another steambant recede or in-
crease. The Aloggily, however, held on her seemt no reason to doubt, that mandate is the paper is satisfied with the present state of peaceful way undisturbed while, from what we forthcoming at the approaching meeting, the Japanese interests in Manchuria. Her inten
can learn, the do-coming steamer was seething work of closing down the oplum houses can tion of developing South Manchuria into the
with animation, as the thick black smoke proceed with such rapidity as is consonant with world's highway, she has to encounter rivalry
the word equity" advisedly, although it is t of the Russian line and is threatened with poured from her funnel, Of course there equity and administrative exigencies. We use could be but one result-the racing craft fresh rivalry from Chinese line, Agriculture overhauled the Alacrity, and, as she passed fashionable to regard opium house keepers and forestry are yet untouched. The colliery the Admiral, the Chinese passengers enjoyed being entitled to any of that consideration
has perforce to be meted out to their counter-General Broadwand C.B., accompanied by Lieut..sideration of the unhappy position of the peti holds out a prospect of slow growth. Com themselves to the height of their heart's desire merce and industry must be left to international by howling sarcastic remarks at the sailors parts in ather countries, the proprietota el These people have competition. It-falls to two friends like Eng- land and America to give the Japanese their regarding the snail-like pace of the despatch public-houses or bas,
bout. Not that the man-of-war's men could witherto been plying a trade, as legitimate as and oo less nedifying than the retailing ul sympathetic encouragement. Meanwhile, the paper cautions Japanese officials, civil and understand what was being said, but the tone military, against abuses of their official im of the passengers who crowded the rails of the alcoholic drinks; and while it may be in ker
river bost admitted of but one construction.ng with Chinese measures to close down the r portance by misguided loyalty to their country's And what was worse, to naka their meaning business arbitrarily, we believe it to be mea
consonant with British equity, when there cr interests, while the foreign merchants, on the clear, the Chinese from Canton secured by other hand, are asked to refain from mislead some unknown diplomacy some cables-leagin be no question of compensation t give then ing their nationals and governments by giving of hawser, which was jeeringly thrown over. 19 obtain other means of livelihood. Here ton them misconstruction on the conduct of in board, and the crew of the Alacrity were good-we find the strongest justification for gradu 'dividual Japanese,
humuuredly invited to accept a tow-to Hogg suppression instead of total abolition stone Long. Can anybody realise the scuro, he and the same time. There will be a smalier silent contumely which the men of the des. tumber of people thrown simultaneously upon patch boat heaped of the land fubbers who their own resources (which are more likely to make for evil than for good), with less disloca dared to insult the pride of the river? Their
tion of the ordered routine of Seulement life: wrath, all the more bitter because it was
f the scheme thus approved by the Council restrained, kept boiling over, and deep must
should be tatified by the Ratepayers Meet have been the epithets cast on the waters by the jack Tars, doomed to impotent silence. ing. the Shanghai Missionary Association But what a picnic there would have been had will have reason to congratulate. itself on they been allowed full scope to return. jibe for having evolved a via media between the jibe, to show what a real sailor can do when it advocates of total abolition instanter and those who would allow the evil complained of comes to giving expression to the most modern
to suppress itself. The Association was the brand of copper-lined, brimstone-bottomed first body of public opinion so give a practical nickel-plated, straight-from-the-nether regions
turn to the foreign campaign against opiti, specimens.of what an adept can do in the way of condemned denunciation. However, that and it deserves credit for having broken away was impossible under the circumstances. All from the extremists who refuse to give a
heed to administrative considerations. It is the jolly tars could do was to gaze serenely on the horizon, as if they were oblivious to all from the latter that public, spealers in Eng that was in progress, and look as if they were land have drawn their inspiration when claim ruminating on the pleasures of their last triping before an audience as unenlightened as
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AMERICO-JAPANESE RELATIONS IN
MANCHURIA, Although the voice of complaint against the Japanese monopoly of tradal interests in South Manchuria has often been heard, the Nichi' Nicht in a more aware of, concrete facts substantiating such complaints than it can now believe that Washington Government is taking The matter is as serious a manner as to be .exchanging informal actes on the-subject with other Powers. The very absence of material
At 9.50 am. on the 12th inst., 14.E. Major
E. H' Bonham, A.D.C., arrived at the Marray Bar- Tacks Parade Ground to inspect the 3rd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. There was a general ment, the Band playing ineanwhile: H.E addressed a few words to the Offi er Com mute, after which, H.E. inspected the Regi-
manding, add praised the men on their smart
appearance. The men were in marching order.
OSAKA JOSHEN KAISHA,
The Osaka Appeal Court upheld this con. tention of the defendants, and quashing the previous judgment ordered the Osaka Shosen
It may be added that the hearing of this casn was first opened in the Osaka Chiho Saibansho as far back as September 18th, 1905, and judg ment in that Court was given on March 13th, 900 the hearing of the anpeal was commen- ced in the Osaka Appeal Court on July 5th, gud, judgment belog given on July 19th in the same year. As appeal was fled in the Supreme Court on August 25th of the same year, and it was hoard on February 27th, 1907, judgment being given on March 6th, by which the case was sent back to the Osaka Appeal Court to be re-tried, with the result stated above. The case does not necessarily. end here, for the decision of the Osaka Court
just given may be taken on appeal to the Supreme Court, which may again refer it to another Court for re-trial.—Japan Chronicle, SHANGHAI GAS COMPANY, LD.
ANNUAL REPORT.
We have received from Messe Gibb, L vingston & Co. a copy of the report for 1907,
pany:-
The directors have pleasure in presenting the conual report and statement of accounts for 1907. The progress of the Company con tinues satisfactory. The profit bo working ac- count for the year amounts to Tle. 243,567.06, which sum has been transferred to proft and loss account.
The pet profit for the year is Ti..246,951.3). The balance al credit of profit and loss ac
4990.19 carried forward after appropriation of count, after crediting the account with Tis. the profits for 1906, and deducting the amount of interim dividend at the rate of 7% (TK
839) paid on toth July last, amounts to T. 173,102.52 of which sum the directors, re- commend appropriation as follows:- To pay a final divi-
dend for the year" 1907 00 24,000 shares at 8%(mak ing 15% for the year) Tls, 4.00 per
preciation of Land and Buildings...Tia. 3,573.46
Depreciation of Manufacturing
and Distributing Plant
the Osaka Bhosen Kaisha admitted all the facts dismissed the claim. In making the appeal anvanced by the plaintiffs, and the justice of the claim, but said they were prepared to abandon the Kumagawa maru, lying at the As our readers will be aware, says the Japan bottom of the sea, off hulpo, to the plaintiffs, Chronicle, the Osaka Shosen Kaisha hasa and thus free themselves from liability, accord scheme on foot to open a regular steamshiping to Article 544 of the Commercial Code, service between Japan and America. Six which saya-
"A shipowner can free himself from liability steamers for the new line, each of 9,000 tons, are being built, three at the Mitsu Bishi Yard, or acts of the master done within the limits of Nagasaki, and three at the Kawasaki Yard, legal authority, or for damage to other persons Kobe, The Osaka Shosen Kaisha has approach caused by the acts of the mastor or another ed existing railway companies, in America mariner in the performance of their duties, by To Write off for De with termini on the Pacific cost in order that a abandoning at the end of the voyage-to a special railway connection should be made, but creditor the ship, the freight, nod all claims for. l were found to bave such connections al- damages or commission which bavo accrued rendy, and were not in a position to accept the to him in relation to the ship; unless he proposal. It appears, however, that the Chicago, himself is in fault.
Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company bas decided to extend its line to Tacoma on the Pacific coast, and has already commenced the work of constraction. In order to maka & con nection with steamship services, negotiations have been entered into with the Osaka Shosen themselves that Shanghal must be dead.Kaisha, and the Vice-President of the American because it had not abolished its opium pose of consulting with Mr. Sakahashi, Pres to the scheme. The first questions to be agreed houses with the same meteoric sapidity that trient of the Osaka Shosen Kaishi, tu regard characterized the shutting down of the dens in the native city. In view of these aspersions upon between the two companies are the Asiatic we feel obliged to emphasize the fact that the terminus of the steamship service, whether this policy of the Council has beep practically the should be Hongkong, Shanghai, or Tairen, the only line of action possible in the circum tale of freight, and what quantity of freight each company would-be able to guarantee. cach company will begin preparations for opening the new connection between America and the Orient. There are so many lines now running across the Pacific that when this new petition will arise. service is opened it is expected that keen com-
off for W Depreciation of Furniture *****
their interests be violated by Japan'a mono-asliore, or wondering what the, naxt menu to all moral, and humanitarian instincts, railway company is now in Kobe for the pure appealed from this decision to the Suprema To carry forward to
facts discredits both rumours. Had there Bxisted any solid evidence of the exclusive purpose of Japan the paper can not believe ihat America would be exchanging views with other Powers before dealing directly with Japan on the matter. The paper attaches, ba the contrary, greater credence to the report that America would give moral support to England, Germany and other l'owers in case polistic policy. But that contingency. it be lieves is only possible on the condition that the Japanese exclusiveness is up established fact, So long therefore as Japan adheres to the principles of the open-door and equal opport- unity in Manchuria, and refrains from any act positively injurious to the interests of England, Germany and other Powers the paper would not expect any such protest from them with the moral backing of Americs. The current complaints are as a matter of factiaceable either to gross misunderstanding or jealousy.
THE SINNINTUN-FIKUMEN HAILWAY.
would contain; The river steamboat gaily forged ahead, the only regret of the passengers being that they hadn't a brass band and some bunches of crackers aboard. The Alacrity and the torpedo-boat, which could have given the passenger steamer fits in the way of speed, pursued their placid course like the labourer who used to slowly plod his homewa d way.
VOLUNTEER, CUMPS ORDERS.
ALC UNITS.
THE "DIRECTORY AND CHRONICLE"
By and by the hawser was drawn abeard, amid 'stances obtaining in this Settlement, unless it the faintly heard howls of the triumphant Chi-were to adopt the alternative mentioned below,When these questions have beso agreed upon, nese and presently the vessels were out of which we advocated at the opening of the speaking distance, whereupon the incident was Campaign. The closing down of the dens in at an end. Now, what some people would like the pative city on June 22 was almost the first ta know is-What did the Admiral think about indication that a semblance of enforcement was While the Nichi Nichi hapes and believes it at all, or was His Excellency so immersed in to be given outside the immediate influence of Peking to the Opium Regulations. It was, that the Government is exhausting all means international affairs that he never heard of it?
therefore, in the normal course of events that ne within its reach is convincing the Chinese au»!
action should be taken in this Seulement be thorities of the unjustifiability of the proposed
yond refusing fresh licences until the next construction of a rival line to the South Man.
Ratepayers' meeting. churian Railway, the paper cannot rest assured that the effects of the representations made by Japan will not be finally reaped until the Chi pese Government itself shows a conviction of the justice of the Japanese claims against viola. tion of its interests which have been secured by preferential rights, and gives bona fide as surances of its giving up the scheme. It is not enough that the Eritish Government does not insist upon the fights of an English syndicate concerned with the case. So long as the Chi nest Government remains as obdurate, in its purpose as at present, it would resort to any other means and ways for realizing an object which can but end in loss of amity between the two nations concerned,
Parade.-At headquarters at 5.30 p.m. og Monday the 16th instant, for-infantry drill. Serpt, Downes, 3rd Middlesex Regi, will
allend.
ARTILLERY UNITS
Parade. A headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, the 17th instant, for Maxim gun drill. Sergt. Basford, R.G., will attend.
Tatade. At readquarters at 5-30 pm Wednesday, the 18th instant for Maxim gun drill. Sergt. Cook, R.C.A., will attend.
Parade. At headquarters at 5.30 pm, on Friday, the 20th instant, for Maxim gun drill. Sergt. Bassford, R.GA, will attend.
Note: Rifle with slings attached should be brought on these parades to practise alleging and aestinging arms.—
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ENGINEER COMPANY. Parade-At West Fort, Kowloon, at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, the 18th instant, for technical instructions.
"TAIKOO DETACHMENT.
די
AFTER FORTY-SIX VEARS.
Kaisha to abandon the wrecked steamer to plaintiffs, but ordered them to surrender mil The plaintifs (the family of the deceased) rights on any insurance money for that vessel,
Court, which upheld the appeal, and on March below, sending the case back to the Osaka G 150%, quashed the decision of the Csak Appeal Court to be re-tried, As a result of the re-trial the Osaka Appeal Court has now. dismissed the appeal and upheld the decision of the Osaka Chiko saibansho, awarding Y8,000 to each plaintiff
Osaka
sum
67,328,54
396.85
-Th, 96,000,00
•Tli, 70,498.85 6,603.65
new Account.....
•Consumption. Private Consumption has in-
creased 38,488,200 cubic feet, er 4,44 per cent.
hai been 1,412,000 cubic feet, or 14,05 per cent, The increase in Gas used for Public Lighting
for power was 8,909,700 cubic feet, or 21.51 per Gas Engines-The number of Gas Engines us is 102, while the increase in Gas used. cent
a
Coal. There were Tons 4,013-19-0 more car- bonized than in 1906 and 47,497,400° cubic feet! more Gas was produced.
Residuals The Coal used during the year.
being nearly altogether Japanese, which yields Coke selling at a lower price than Australian, the return for Coke was less than last year al- though a greater quantity was sold... Thera was no demand for Pitch, but Tar and Sulphate. of Ammonia were wall taken up.
Fittings: The Fittings Department "con- tinues to yield a fair profil on the Capital. employed.
+
Capital-46 New shares, the balance of last issue, have been sold by the Directors and rank for dividend of 1907, but not having been paid for until after the 31st December, the additing to Capital account does not appear in the Balance Sheet
Directorate, Mr. P. F. Lavers having re- signed his seat on the Board on his leaving for England, the Directors invited Mr. E. E. Clark- to fill the vacancy. Mr. Clark's appointment requires confirmation at the Ordinary General
Association, Mr. E. Jenner Hogg retires, but being eligible offers himself for re-election. Meeting. In accordance with the Articles of
"Audit,Owing to the indsposition of Mr. W. U. Anderson, the accounts have been au dited by Mr. H. W. G. Hayter, Mr. W. H.
Anderson offers "himself for re-election,:
In giving reasons for its judgment, the Osaka Appeal Court, points out that in the proceeding of the appeal the Shosen Kaisha did not protest against the contention of the response (the family waru, owned by the appellant company, through of the deceased) that the second was delinquency on the part of her claw came into collision with the steamer Kogawa-mart off Osei Island, Korea, and sank, or that Mr. Ap pebzeler, the husband and,father of the res pondents, who was a passenger on the wrecked In a matter of this nature it is well to fare"
scammer, was drowned, cor was it contested honestly all the facts of the case. We approve,
that each of the plaintiffs' held the right of of the move vivemuli as outlined above, not
claiming against the appellant company on lolly moral grounds, but for purely self
We thoroughly envy the writer whose task of Y6,co as compensation for the personal TEASONS. The anti-opium crusade has hie, it was forty-six years ago to draw attention for loss sustained by the death of the husband and allowed to run off at a tangent, until it become the first time to the merits and invaluable quali; father, together with the sum of Y16,170 as necessary for this community solely in the ing
ties of the Directory and Chronicle which is damages-Y22,170 in all. In considering the telesis of peace and smooth_gover..ment i
contemporary, the Hongkong Daily Presa. the abandonment of sleamers, &c, with, the accept the lead given to it nod to se down annually issued from the office of our esteemed question of the legality or otherwise of the opium houses with as little delay as Were it not that it might seem hackneyed, we object of freeing the appellsats from the liability claimed, the Court finds that onxible Dorlerno-one-lay-too-flattering unction.
custom stale the infinite variety of its useful. no other provision is made in the Com. to his soul for the step. If those who have might remark, that age cannot wither nor brought it about have not actually done a dis
ness. To most people engaged in the com mercial Code beyond those stated in Ar service to China, they have at least lost no apportunity of doing her a service. For Chronicle is a perpetual source of in for abandonment. Bat it is quite plain from mercial life of the Far East, the Directory ticle 545 respecting the limit of the time own part we would fain ste the smoking of spiration, and instruction, and from the news Article 544, which contains the proviso" at the opium abolished throughout the country a paper writer's point of view it is probably the end of voyage, &c, that the ship and other consider that in this as in other reformis it was most essential publication which comes to property must be in the same stata at the end the duty of foreigners to aid China as far possible in her tas". But in abolishing eniam igien his burdens. Of course, the Directory of the voyage as at the time the obligation was houses in Shanghai are we really influenced bis no light-weight; it is not one of those Incurred. The steamer Kumagawa maru,
A THIBE'S DOWNFALLONTANA the desire to help China or by considerations of pamphlets which can be carried about in the which the appellant offered to abandon in June 1903 and was abandoned for the first time. "British prestige" and the world's opinion? waistcoat pocket, for as a weighty tome it has favour of the respondents in this case, sank in not is equal in this part of the world.
EXCITING CHASK AT WEST POINT: It has been very easy to join in the cry about Avery year sees it adding to the number of in April 1906, while in February 1907 it was the blot on the British escutcheon, the disgraits pages, until now it approaches the 18.0 abandoned in favour ofthe respondents. Thus
An exciting chase" starting from the top RP. mark,
Is information is brought up some years elapsed between the foundering of would have been far harder to face the to a foreiga settlement.rus on British lines;
to date, and from, all that we have seen the steamer and its actual abandonment by the Hill Road, down as far as the waterfront, taunts and to have said to China: "Weare its statistical records are entirely to be owners. According to evidence given by through Franch Street, and into Des Voeux anxious to help you to be rid of the opinn relied upon. It is possible that here and there Yoshida Une, an expert witness in this case, Road West where it ended, took place at day- when a steamer has been lying at the bottom break to-day between a 'lukong and a suspicious slips may have ccurred, but after several curie, and we will, therefore, only touch the opium houses in the Selement when you have weeks' use we must confess that we bave failed of the sea for several years, all the woodwork character. The lukong, it appears, was standing made distinct headway in your work of sup.
to find way. Perhaps the only section in which will become sotten and decayed and absolutely on duty at the top of Hill Road at about, fix pression throughout the empire. The houses there may be omissions is that devoted to useless, while steel work, the boilers, and other d'clock waiting to be relieved when he saw in Shanghai will remain as a visible token of "Foreign residents, but that was only to elaborate fitings, sails and rigging, &c, would man come out of a side lane carrying a bundja China's disgrare, as a stimulus for 'te Gove
do also be useless for practical purposes. The which was slung over his shoulder. Becoming be expected, and, after all, people mest to use in eradicating the vice." Those. not always turn to that section in the first Court therefore concludes that at the time suspicious he called on the man to stop, while who have read the reports of our Correspondents instance when they desire to discover where the appellaots offered to abandon the he burried up to him. The man with the bundle from all parts of China will know that the sp-individuals are to be found., But Thr umagawa maru, the property in the ship refused to hear and continued along, perhaps pression of opium is by no means making the headway that might be claimed for it from the apart, there are many names which will be must have been useless, and that being so, the a trifle faster. The Lukong gave chase, and experience of a few big centres. To reach the missed, names of those who have retired from steamer could not be in the state at the end of the race opened. Round comers through side Empire at farge Ching needs a definite stima. the commercial life of the Far East, either to voyage contemplated by the Article in the lanes the parties raced until Des Voeux Road spend their days in the enjoyment of life in the Commercial Code, The proposed abandon was reached again when the coolie, ander los constantly applied. Such a stimulus will homeland, after a period of faithful service, or meat was therefore insufficient to free the ap estimating the distance between the sidewalk now have been removed, and if we'do not re di
to sleep the sleep of the just in the country of pellant company from its liabilities in this case, and the sbaits of a ricksha, inpped, over the the signs of the times amiss. & corresponding their adoption. The section which deals with This conclusion rendered it unnecessary for fatter, and went sprawling into the street. Ha set-back will bave been given to the abolition treaties, Orders in Council and all the rest of the Court to decide the qucation as to the remained there panting and puting cntil the of opium-smoking in China at large. But the diplomatic arrangements, continues to expand, abandonment to the respondents of the com- arrival of the Tukang who removed him, and the closing of the "dens in Shanghai may well and should prove of nie to those who have pany's claim against Toda Takemaro (Master bundle, to No. 7 Police Station. The bundle form the subject of congratulatory speeches
a discovery in loss of the steamer, as offered by the company ed jacket, a cotton Jacket, Abed curtain, should practical politics he introduced to dis to be such a mass of curious and interesting Dealing in further detail with the arguments handkerchief and womapy, silk coat. turh such comfortable complacency 7 N.C.D. information on things Oriental that the rea er advanced, the judgment says:-The appellants After much questioning the coolie p anti-opiam dinner in England, and why Casual pernaal of the Directory discovers to Kumagawa-maru) for damages for the was found to contain one blanke-allena-
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is spt to prolong bis study of the introductory (Danks Shosen Kaisha) maintained that the gave the name of Trangal, admitted, stealibe narratives which precede the various settle abandonment need not necessarily be made at the stuff fram 5. Hill Road, having ments and cities where the foreigner Eas the end of the voyage, but could be carried house by scaling the call at the rear at the settled down to work, No praise can be too out at any time, and that it would naturally buildings gran, inmatch of the high for the admirable manner in which the follow as a logical conclusion that aven if the discovered their lars when the police call compilers have performed their lask, and woohjeet abandoned at the sad af, be toyage inform them of the robbery.TRETMAS delal-imprisonment used to be exhibited hearily congratulate the Hongkong. Dally, muy natale, Jhe same, minte stat the time sentenced, at the Palice Coop, able KNOCK TAM Fretz as the publishers of toli, the commercial ufabandenment, having main walls best pade mesues of the Far Easte
arabject to wese and tear the receiver"; of ['fa the stocks for four bounes
Parade. At Taikoo, at 5.30 p.m. on Thurs, day, the 19th instant, for Maxim guo drill Rifles, with slings to be taken on parade, Sergt. Cook, R.G.A., will attend.
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The Jiji regrets that the obstinate attitude of China is receiving great encouragement from the opinion of the foreigners who have personal interest involved in the success of the rival line, which denounces the Japanese objec tion as unjust and as signalling its desires of monopolizing organs of transportation'in Bouth Manchuria in contradiction to the principles of open door and equal opportunity that it bad formerly upheld. While such an opinion would prove strong encouragement to the Chinese Government, it can not fail at the same time to be injurious to the general welfare and in- ternational amity, even between the two allied nations. Far from desiring exclusive owner. It is notified for information, that the fourth ship of transportation organs in Bouth Man-shoot of the series of monthly competitions will churia, Japan aims simply by the present pro-ake place at Tai Hang Range on Sunday next, "lest at maintaining the right obtained by con- the rith instant, at 9.30a.m. tract and to protect the interest of the South Manchuria based on ibat right. The eliciting by Japan of a declaration Tom Chios, at the time of making of the treaty on Manchurian affairs in 1904, that the latter will not attemp construction of a mais or branch line in the vicinity of the South Manchurian that would be parallel with it, is not a solitary case in the history of treaty-making with China. The English company obtained the pledge from the. Chinese Foreign Office in connection with the Chiulang Kwangchow railway to the effect that the rights secured by the contract shall not be transferable to other sations or nationale thap the English or Chinese, nor shall the Chinese Government confer the same rights on other
so the injury of the said line. The paper view national, nor shall it contract other railways xbese ferns not only exhaustive in "guarding the Ruglish interest but formulated with greater foresight in refraining from limiting ival lines to parallel ones as in the Chico Japanalo contract. It is on, the strength of such an example that the paper feels confident the interested Englishmen would show up Tess fair attitude and intelligence than their Own Government toward the Joker of to proper guarding by Japad of its interests,
JOINED
Mr. F. L. Shaw joined the Corps on the 4th March, 1908, assigned Corps No, 1,0.6 and posted to the Right No. 2 Company.
RESIONED
Gunner F. T. Chappa is permitted to resign with effect from the 6th March, 1908,
Gunner F. A. Brown is permitted to resign with effect from the 9th March, 1908,
ORDERLY OFFICER,
For week ending Saturday, 21st March, Lieut. W. M. Scott,
C, O C.8 INSPECTION, Parade.At headquarters at 2.45 pm bu Saturday, the 21st instant,
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helmet with badge, waist belt with sidearm
Dress Marching Order Khaki, khaki pouches, bandoller, coat in cost straps, mess tin and cover, rifle and sling, water boitle, haversacks patties and black boots, 4 s.
Modals will be worn by those in possession THE superintendent of the Cable Co. Labuan, informs the British North Horgan Herald that of same, and
Note: Every member of the Corps must be the Storm Warning Service salicen itsed by present at this parade unless prevented by the Hongkong Observatory were to be re-intro sickness, or stress of businest, in which raje dnced, and that notices would be sent, reguler: sdical certificate or letter from employer "ty for Rudat and bandakan, commencing on stating cassa must be provided.
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