THE HONGKONG THI
SATURDAYILMAYLOR 1908.
THE NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA, LTD.
hanol) ANNUAL REPORT.
LOTION FOR DAMAGES.
ELEBRATIO
5th Kast.
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Last Tuesday afternoon, the Chief Justica (Slr. Francis Figgott), delivered judgmentin the caseToday, the Italian-Courant celebrates the The report of the Director to the seven in which Captain Thomas Alexander Mitchell centerary of the founding of the Institalion, of tobath, ordinary anusal general meeting of sought to recover: Stojocolas, damages and which it is an important; brauchirip, view of shareholders, to be held at the offices of the 515175-40 special damages from John Lammy this fact, it will not be ent at the way to give
* long series of years; thaia that give the habit within a fixed time, or 1. Bank, Victoria Buildings, Hongkong, on Satur architect 1024 Bilder a brief outline of the origin of that admirable
The
¿popolarly known as AboɑSpanish:/default on, Mr. HE. Palinck, instructed by institution in Caipe Road whose existepre for
lose their posts, they are officials day, 16th inst., at NOOD, reads : V KA
To the shareholders, the National Bank of Mr. Steavenson, of Mestrs, Deacon, Looker and close on fity years in Hongkody present bat has been done more than once, and seven next in succession if they are hereditary Swindle. In the colugina of Truth of fo have their rank passed on to the Chios Limited, and
Deacon, appeared for the plaintiff... MRM W. Gentlemen—The directors now beg to sub. Slide, instructed by Mr J. Scott Harston or record of good done to the maximum number for eight years ago there was occasion, lakun, in nobles The complete prohibition in ten it to you the accounts and balance sheet for Mestani-Kwone, and Harston, was for the amongst the strays and wails of the Colony, the Singapore Free""Preis:10, warn the Straits years of the use of opium applied to the public
year ending 31st December, 1907, pagal
defendant, pulentuna
and the mainland,
taken by the anti-opium organizationa Britain. In China, at any rate, it in sub art, thufuli
officials and of the educated, who are desirous to aen dan earliest possible morgent paige brought in a successful termi
"IHE PALUH OF SAGHALIBN
PROFITS OF THE FISHING INDUSTRY,
¿ accounts, show that the, balance of in delivering judgment, the Chief Justice Mother Superior kindly supplied a few brief Colony. In one case il' was Mr. John Little!! pohorter time limit was fixed for Barelankangya
to
$71,203.00 brought forward from last year gether with $150,000 from general reserve fund have been required in addition to the working profit during the year to make full provision for bad and doubtful debts in 1907, and previous years, as foreshadowed in the chairman's speech "grkin will leave Strα,000 in general réserve fund / Plaintiff has obtained a decree of divorc 53h May, 1808, just a hundred years ago and in spite of the frequent exposures, the, in the right way. From the fact that the Can-lathe Taiyo, the Professor gives some lostrică?
Hit the annual general meeting held in 2006. and a balance of $10,213.09 to be carried for ward to next account.
The capital reserve fund which stood at $i$2,820 on the 31st December, 19:6, has been appropriated to the extent of $104,701.66 to be the last call of 440,653 (received at 3 to appear at 118 to the dollar in conformity
...
*
with the rest of the capital,
Mr. C. Ewens relires in rotation from the Hongkong Board; but, being eligible, offers himself for re-election,
The accounts at head office have been
audited by Mr. A. R. Lowe, Chartered, Ac-
J. SCOTT HARSTON, Chairman. Hỏngkong, 31st March, 1908,
· BALANCE SHEET 31ST DECEMBER, 1907. Ziablilites.
Authorized Capital :--
99.915 ordinary shares of £7 BBC £699,475 Issued Capital (at is, Bd. to the $)
40,453 ordinary shares of
each Es paid up, £202,265 $1,427,180,00
1906 call of Lon 40453 shares at 2/1 to the - Şım
$380,734-34
contains an enclosure and a sub-enclosure,
CIRCULAR, RAGUNANE
Downing Brest, zud April, 1908. Sir, I have the honour to reles you to Mr. Chimberlain's Circular despatch of the 14th of August, 1897, on the subject of a fraud com monly known as the "Spanish Swindley which is practised by a gang of thieves in Spain, and to inform you that it is reported that the par petrators of these fraudulent practices are tura ing their attention to residents in the British Colonien
l'enclose for your information a copy of etter from the Foreign Office in which my attention has been called to the matter, and have to suggest that you should consider whether it in desirable to issue a warning to the public. She RACING
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient, bumble. Servant,
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of
To a representative of the Telegraph the work the swindle upon; some persons in this the officials testing good example to the public that an endeavour was being made to: in general) but, in view of the importance, of said This action in for, as it is called in law, facts relating to the institution Mag: to whom the letter was addressed, and the effective
}-if * the * measure were to become "Criminal Conversation, alleged to have been dalon, the Marchioness of Canossa, amem letter was forwarded to 15in office by a member them and the penalties for non-compliance According to Professor: Yokoyama of the committed by the defendant with the wife of ber of one
of the noblest houses of of the firm of Mesir John Little, and Co, to ware made heavier in their care. It was clearly Tokyo University, of all the concessions that the plaintiff in this Colony. The defendant Italy, was born to Verobs on the 8th May, make use of for the protection of the public recognized that if the officials themselves were Japan gained from Russia the feast thought of has raised a preliminary point of law. to the 1774 She founded the Institution of the Inspite of the many thousands of feuers this addicted to the vice there could be little hope one half of Baghahen island, lurze outro, bes effect that this Court has no jurisdiction to Sisters of Charity in her own country on the clever and unscrupulous gang have written, that they would be able to influence the people one of the nation's most lucrative possessions. entertain the action. As a matter of fact the
p-day During against, his wife in the Scotch Courts for the five convents where she placed Sisters who are to be found to be willing to part with their adopt the tousual course of repeating these Saghallen complied as the result of bis murway her lifetime, she opened game must be a paying on and silly people tral Government has found it necessary to live statistics regarding the shior ladual of adultery, but this has no bearing on the were willing to give themselves up to their money. The references to the swindle lately instructions at frequens intervals it may be la ing trip. According to him, many fishing point of law Dow mised. It is right for me good work She died on the roth April, bave not been many, but from the official ferred that the Throne is not altogether satisfied stations already existed along the coast of to add that the defendant was not a pasty 1835 at the age of sixty-ous years in the correspondence plated below, the British with the response which has been made. Pro- Saghalien about 150 years ago. And when to the proceedings In Scotland; therefore arst Convent which she founded, dedicated Ambassador, at Madrid has; reason to belleve bably a large percentage of the metropolitan this island was exchanged for the Kurla although I am bound to talk in this judge to St. Joseph, and gift of Napoleon that these rogues are again becoming active, officials are addictedtotha habitand it is doubtful Islands in 1875; the right of dibing was retain meal of the defendant's adult witeite. There are now in Italy 115 Convents, besides and are ng turning their attention to the whether considerable proportion of them do ind by Japan. Though hampered by/chpla plaintiff's wife, it must not be taken to
a large number in other places, Britise Colopless field for their clever not regard the recent Edict as something that convenience of working under toriga, regula have been proved so far at the Court 1860, six Sisters of Charity arrived in this rascalities in von they can afford to landre without any very serioas tions, the Japanese fishing industry. To the is concerned. Whether the plaintiff will be Colony and opened the Italian Convent in able to prove it, how far the judgment of the Caine Road. Since theo, the Sisters spread the subjoined copy of a circular Despatch from
The Hon'ble the Colonial Secretary forwards copsequences as far as they themselves are con island bad been increasing yourly Scotch Court will help him, injudication which their good work to Hankow, Macao, Timor, the Secretary of State for the Colonies regard that non-smokers have been chosen to pccupy Y20,800 in 1876 was increased etpay 134,000
cerned: It is, however, satisfactory to observe lever, slight facinations. The total produ may perhaps arise in the future, I have nothing India, Singapore and Malaccating the fraud above alluded to, as practised by, posts which recently have become vacant. Theia 1888, and to Y797,900 30-1897 Bat to do with them now. I cannot, however, avoid
There about 500 children to look Cottle, and Mr. E. A. M. Willismaalluding to it, because I cannot decide this after in the Convest in pour Who are gang of thieves in Spain. The despatch Decree of October 10, 1907 removing from their 1993 reached above one million mark
(of the firm of Morin, Lows Bingham).
Mesirs: Deloitte, Pleader, Griffiths & Co, question without dealing with one aspect entirely under the charge of the Sisters Of both of which are given below
ficas a number of high dignitaries and princes, and it was then Y1,192,400. In 1906) (thei who had failed to break off the opium babit | first year of the Japanese possession): theg Chartered Accountants, audited the Loados of the case, in order to clear the ground of these; sixty are able to pay their fees. Some a curious, and so far as I know, novel, point of the rest are able to support themselves with
within the limit of the prescribed: tima, harvest was even' greater, the total product than Accounts.
Your Obadiant Servantų--
of law which I mentioned during the argument their needle-work, beautiful examples of which
indicates the determination of the Throne to exceeding V1,000,000, and in 1937 (the barring"} enforce obedience on the part of the officials, industry alone was valued above (123,000,000, Strictly speaking, it lies outside the scope of
sro iurned out dally, and are in every way
This Decree also granted, as an extra- and the prospects are very hopeful the argument on the point of law actually raised, superior and artistic work. There is also a
ordinary act of mercy, a further extension of The varieties of fish caught in Sagbadien Bad therefore cannot be said to have been school at Kowloon What is admirable and
three months to officials to get rid of the waters are vary few barring almon-trout, felly argued. But if either party is dissatisfied deserving of every support, is that the Sisters with my opinion on this question it may be bave been able to run the Convent for
of the allotted time, Prince Ching and H.E. flounders and miscellaneous fish form quite an opium habit. Soon after the expiration salmon, and, codfish are the staple products: raised for re-argument should the case for any long time without any regular fandr. In time hereafter come on for hearing. I deal this respect, they have been greatly handie
ceived in special audience by the Empress ring, salmon-tront, and salmon are caught near Chang Chib-tung, Secretary of State, ware ru-ipsignificant section. Of these varieties, hor- with it now in order to clear my own mind of capped in their charitable work. It is true
Dowager, by whom they were instructed to the shore, and the coast is divided into a num a question which' might perhaps impade a that aid is received now and then, but this in
ascertain who had obeyed the Imperial com ber of fishing, sections, which, era lat to tka, clear appreciation of what is as complicated by no means to be regularly depended upon. tangle of legislation as I ever caMO ACTORS,
mand. 'At the same time it was reported that highest bidder.” Where competition in high, the The donations, prompted by private charity, of
those officials who had been unable to free licence is dearly bought, but sometimes it payi The procesdingą, familiarly known as the
which the Convent has been the receplants,
hemselves from the habit were to be dealt with very well and vice versa. The Japanese Goy action for criminal conversation, are no more
are gratefully acknowledged, and the Super
in strict accordance with the opium regulations ernment received Y547,048 in 1900 and than a common law action for a tort: adultery foress, in mentioning the fact to our represen- with a man's wife is a wrongful act farative, desired to emphasize the Convent's
approved by the Throne. Taoui Wang Hauch- |-Y848,574 in 1907 from the licences, and from trêng has been appointed by the Acting Viceroy | this: cão de imagined the wide extent which an action for damages lies at the appreciation of Hongkong's individual bone- suit of the husband for the damage suffered volence. In spite of the fact that no steady
of Chihli (H.D. Yang Shib-boiang) Director of the fishing industry. This, is well, by him-per quod consortium amisit. It is income can be relied upon, the Sisters
the Tientsio Anti-Opium Bureau to ascertain | the catch of herrings. In 1894, (be a transitory action; that is, it may be have managed to get an as regards the
which officials are to be dealt wlib under this was 8,700 kažu, in 1898, 57,500 keku, în condemnation. brought in any Court without whose juris
TAGS 188,400 kožu, and 10, 1900- 143,000 *087* Institution, which certainly reflects great The Officer Administering diction the defendant may be found; the
If the promulgation of Decrees may be re- while in 1997 the catch reached 240,000 kolay credit on their capacity for devising wayi place of commission of the adultery is imma-
garded as indicative of the determination of One koku (about five bushels) is a customary and means. Sotely, such a good cause de terial, though as a matter of fact the adultery in serves more sympathy and active help than is
ihe Throne to eradicals the evil, the outlook way of misasuring the amount of herrings.. Fat 52,912,616.00 this case was alleged to have been committed is now given. It is time that the public, as a
at the present time is certainly a hopeful one, is pressed, from the firb,, and, the residuam, 48,118.34 this Colony; but beyond the fact that it makes whole, and not a small proportion of it, should
On April 7-yet another Decree, couched in which is sold as fertiliser, is measured by be 150,000,00, this Colony the convenient forum, the question wake to a sense of what is essentially their
smoking, officials, were promulgated. Those weighs a litle less than 16 tops, and the pa vigorous terms and referring specially to opium bushel. One hundred koks of this residenti 175,880,00 in irrelevant. Before the Divorce Act abolish duty to their fellow-creatures.
ad the action for criminal conversation in Eng-
io authority are exhorted again to use their ber of herrings is from 250,000 10 550,090, Qua 1,544,621,87 land, the action could have been brought there,
best efforts to assist the Throne in stamping hundred koku of the herringe is sold at bar
tween Y1,700 and 72,000, and 240,000" "koku out the evil throughout the Empire and to stop the habit amongst themselves, should they also priced at,Ÿ3,600,000, the, iptal, number of fab The fish he slaves of the drug. As an evidence of the amounting to about 700 millions Throne's earpest desire to carry out the prohibi come near the ahorn for spawning, and, Jhe tion Edictaalready issued, Prince Kong, the As- season begins on the West coast 10 April, and op the East coast in May, in June, by #98- sistant Grand Secretary, Lu Ch'asalin and other high officials are appointed Special Imperial son is practically over, and in July no fan are Commissioners of Opium Prohibition. These to be sepp per the shore. The West coak i Imperial commanded a better Ophiog ground for herringe iban the select competens physicians from all over the East Coast, and in some Bahing sections from Empire and at once to establish hospitalsons thousand to five thousand koku wen where those who are addicted to the habit may caught along a stretch of coast of ope be attended to The heads of all yamens in larger quantity of salmon trout is caught the Capital, who may know for certain of sub-Sagbalien than pore salmon, but ordinates who still continue to smoke oplam, fah are of the same family, un dirijection are commanded to denounce such persons to tween them is made in the pratistics. - Tổ the Throne for punishment, The hospitals amount, which was as follows, ato shows the will be open for the reception of all soch cases, yearly increase with slight fluctuation,-1894, All officials, both high and low, will be allow 12,100 koku). 1898, 18,300 LOAN 29036, 31,700 'ed to ask permission to enter, and passes will boku, 1906, 49,500 kali,and 1997,340,000 be issued to those who have, get rid of Roku (100,000 representing salmon-tropt® and the habit. They will then be allowed to resume 40,000 salmos). One hundred koru of salmon their official duties, Heads of yambos are to and salmon-trout weighs 10 tops, and the pum." be held responsible for their subordinates in ber of fitb.to, that weight is about 12,000 l this matter and in the case of any remissness salmon-trout and 5,000 in salmon, realising per hundred to; Y1,300 for salmon-trout, and in this duty the Imperial Commissioners will
¥1,8:0 for salmon, all properly saltod. In 1947 be required to denounce them in order that as
13,000,000 salmon-trout and 2,400,000, sulmon adequate punishment may be meled out. The funds necessary for the work are to be provided were caught off Sagbalion, For PRAKRIDE from the local opium faxes. The sum of Tis. then fish scend the river, and the suhigeki 30,000 is to be placed at once at the service of from June till the middle of July, The EU
const provides a better fishery for salmon thas the Commissioners whilst Tim. 60,000 provided for annual expenses.ve
the West coast, and in some section five
Add transfer from
capital fund reseiva to adjust ax, to 15.
| #1*1.5104,701,66
$485.436.00
Capital reserve fusd................................. Reserve fundingoisse-verso Notes in circulation....................... ( Fixed deposits, current Accounts
foans, &c.
Bills for collection and branch
balances. Draftaj acceptances and endorse
ments (bills re-discounted)... Balance of profit and loss account
Aurels.
Cash on hand and at Bankers... Money at call and at short notice... Gaverðment securities, ££50,000
at 1/91)
·Bills receivable, losos and ad?:
Avances Bills for collection receivable
and branch balances
'PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT.
Year ending 31st December, 1907. Charger, directors fees, salaries, etc. $108,476.50 Provision for bad and doubtful
debts, etc. (after deducting grose" earnings" for the year eading 31st December, 1907)... 102,593.40 Balance, to be carried forward to
next account openin
10,223.09
ELGIN.
The Government of
(Enclosure in Circular dated 2nd April, 1908)
Foreign Office, March 11th, 1908,! rey, to transmit to you, herewith, copy of a Siram directed by Secretary, Sir E, despatch from His Majesty's Ambassador at Madrid, to whom your letter No. so17/1908.of
although the adultery was committed in Hong.
THE PEKING FIRES)
thö.21st ultimo was referred... 1,804.21 kong. Now the divorce in this case was de
Asktated by Sir M.de Bunseb, the case in creed in Scotland: I have not the Scotch Act
Writing on the 18th ult, the Peking corres question is clearly an instance of what is known **2,675.43 before me, but for the purpose of what I am pondent of the N. G. D. Noor' says : - lo view As the "Spanish Swindle." This fraud, which 10,223.00 gelug to say I am going to assume that the of the somewhat startling statements circulated is practised by a gang of Spanish tklovos, is divorce was decreed in England under with regard to the outbreak of fires in Peking, almost invariably carried out on the following $5.758,938.94 the Divorce Act of 1875. Now that 'almost the first question put by à visitor to the lines : an individual purporting to act as the Act by section 59 destroyed the action for Capital these days has reference to this sub-axecutor of some person who has recently died 348.833.96. criminal conversation in England and, subuti ject. As so frequently happens, calm consider in a Spanish prison, writes to the intended go,cocoo tuted for itapower for the Divorce Court to award ation of the incidents leads to less sensational victim stating that, the deceased prisoner. has damages againni a co-respondent on the same ideas than those which found too easy expres left a sum of money to his relative-the in- $51,724.12 principle as they would have been awarded in sion in the columns of the Tientsin Press, it tended victim-on the condition that the latter Theaction for criminal conversation, either on the is true that a series of fires in repid succession will adopt and care for his orphan child. But 3,160,937.20
parition for divorce or on a position limited brought the average of these outbreaks far before the money and child can be sout, it is no to such act either of which petitions is to be above the normal figure even at this season of cassary that the executor should receives sum of 407.443.56
served on the wife and on the alleged adulterer the year; moreover, there can be no doubt that money-generally between Fifty pounds and with power to this court to dispense with service the Chinese anthonties became alarmed, that Dus hundred pounds-in order to defray the or to direct the method of service. There seems $5,158,938.94
a special investigation into the causes of these legal expenses connected with the prisoner's to me to have been very few cases in which
fires has been instituted and ibat a reward bar will. Needless to say, once the money has been the co-respondent has been abroad and
been offered for luformation leading to the ar- sent, nothing more is heard of. the alleged so far as can gather from books it is
rest of any culprit. Some arrests have already legacy. an uncertain question whether the court has been made, but the results of the official in- The swindlers have for several years past found easy victions in various countries, in- jurisdiction over the co-respondent whenquiry are not yet known. Meanwhile, anƐSX) ever it has jurisdiction over the respondent or planation, can be offered with some degree of cluding Great Britain, and although numerous whether that is subject to the same rules as other certainty, which tends to throw light upon some cases are brought to the notice of the Spanish actions against persons abroad that is to say
of these episodes. Whatever may prove to Government, it has never yet been possible to that the case must be brought within Order X have been the origin of the fire that destroyed, obtain a conviction of the offenders, rule g (c) as relinf against parties domiciled or the Industrial. Exhibition, it is more than As it now appears that the thieves are turn usually resident in England. But I will as- | probable that the result of that conflagrationing their attention to the subject of British S121,393.09 some still on the hypothesis of the divorce pro- drew attention in the public minds to the Colonies, Sir E. Grey desires me to suggest, ceedings having been in England, that the dam. | possibilities of fire insurance as a profitable in- for the Earl of Elgin's approval, that the pre- $71,295.093ges could have been pronounced against the restment. How many of the succeeding fires valence of these fraudulent practices should be cfendant assuming to have been guilty of adutare atibutable to arson-for-the purpose of braight to the notice of the various Colonial ******* 150,000.00 tery. With regard to section 33 it is to be obter, defrauding insurance companies will, perhaps, Governments, who could then, if they saw fit, ved in the first place that it by no means meets never be known. Other explanations are forth issue a warning to the public through the the wholecase which results from the abolition of coming for two out of the twelve. In the case medium of the press, as has been done on the action by section $9. For an action for of the Lama Temple it is more than probable several occasions in the United Kingdom, criminal converantion could prior to 1857 have that the fire had very close connection with
I am, &c,, been brought in England for adultery committed the disappearance of some of the treasures
W. LANGLEY, abroad between parties over whom the Court of stored there. Many objets d'art of Imperial Divorce has now no jurisdiction. Secondly, and antecedents find their way into the marker that this is material to the present action, I do not cinnot cast the blame for their passage from think it can be said that section 53 gives the hand to hand upon the doings of 1900. The Divorce Coin an exclusive jurisdiction to custody kopt upon a larga: number of the Pronounce a divorce. I assume for the pur. Imperial store-houses is exceedingly-law-and- pose of what I am saying that the Scotch it requires but little of the Ingenuity of which Divorce Court has jurisdiction similar the Chinese are capable to explain the loss of to that of the English Divorce Court some of theie conicais by such a fire as that Now as the Scotch Court had jurisdiction to which recently broke out in the Lama Temple pronounce divorce in this case, the competence A more elaborate explanations of soother fire in af this Court to entertain this action given in the story told of a Peking resident must depend on the fact that the Scotch who received information that he was going Court had not exclusive jurisdiction in the to be arrested on the charge of having be. This is a familiar type of what is called a matter of damages against the courtpendant, as I say in order that I may consider this ques section 59 of the English Divorce Act nor any tion at all f.must assume this. Again neither corresponding section in the Scotch Divorce Act has any application to the Colonies
After quoting the early Ordinances on the The Chief Justice found in favour of the de- fondant on the ground that the action was outwith the jurisdiction of the Court in Hongkong
Balance brought forward from last
Amount transferred from reservo
fund
-5221,293.09
On 1st January, 19.8, the Capital and Re-
serve. Funds will stand,as follows:- Capital (at 18. 8d. to
the 5)...........£142,718, 0,0 $2,913,616,00,
Capital Reserve. Food (at 28.84.. to the 5) Reserve Fund (at
4,999.17.348,118.34
119) to the S)... 13.593.15.0.
150,000.00 £260,321.12.3 $3,110,734.34
SANDAKAN COAL.
The Sandakae comespondent of the Singa pore Free Press writes on 20th off. We have had a good-sized, modern-day tramp" in here for cord and Sandakala" quitted herself on
patting on the occasion. We understand the steamer was to go to the Cowie Harbour loading place, on Sebatik Island, near Tawap, but as she turned up her and defa bado hurt The Mimoan, the name of the vessel, is British 3,466 tons gross, and 2,198 nett; and was under the com- mand of Capt. G. B. Bose. She Arrived on the 'gth,¿from" Manila, and left on the 15th; for Saigon, there to load rice for Dankirk. We hear she took some)yno.tonë af bunkere bere ́in the meantime, which, considering that the ves- noi arrived without fair warning, and having re- gard to the fact that nearly every ton had to be trimmed, and, that by men uiterly unsc eastomed to such work,must be considered thoroughly satisfactory, Balog absolutely light the towered, away above the coal wharf, and this, owing to the fact that she had no col passing porte, meant a very considerable lift to kan labourers Talking about this coal, the Various users of it all speak in very flattering thawn of the quality of what is now being supplied to steamies. The proof of the pad- ding is in theating, and the eating In this case is growing apace. We hear the
the American Bapean of Navigation
theta was time to go to Tawao,
THE COTION YARN:LOITHRY ::
SCHEME.
A report bas been circulated of late that the
scheme promoted by the Japan, Cotton Spin. ners Association,for,the, provision of prizes by means of Intiery to purchasers of Japanese yarn in China was to be abandoned, bot this port would seem to be erropeaus, for the lelast, information is that, the sale of Japanees TAE with prize tickets opened in Shang: bai on the 1st of March, and lay to be closed at the end of April, when the drawing will take place. The Japan Celion Spioners Association denies as entirely
unfounded the report that the issue of the prize tickets has been stopped. The Associ
trayed. State secrets to foreigners. Heils said to have decided upon a hurried flight with such the time; but fearing that his movements of his household goods as he could collect in in broad daylight would attract attention, ba dispatched a imaty servant to set fire to his neighbour's house. The plan socceeded so and his belongings without arousing spepicion well that the man was able to remove himsoll and to make good: his escape before the warrant for his arrest could be executed.
For the rest of the conflagrations,}}{re=" malus only to be said that such Press legenda aThe Ectel des Wagons Lits and the Rail. way Offices Ablaze are traceable to the per fervid Imagination of an overzealous con tributor to a Tientsin journal. Both buildings Hotal had its appearance rather of a practical are intact. The blondering attempt in the joke than of the deliberate device of a practical Incendiary.
GULF
The monthly competition for the Captain's Cup was held at Happy Valley between May 2nd and May 4th. The following Cards were
W. Ironside
on declares the bar oot only no intention. Gilt
I to cont here in faturys, of course she will not spending the scheme on its own cars, but
take very much, but every little helps, and the
wp can get to come here for
pointak hes been said, by Abe authorities sog gesting its abandonment The Assoc
are likely to do business pared, on the 1st Mar
lines in this district); Vīnsbe
Let 'em all.comaltig,
sad of, the yarn with chances to
balotter under the same.coDritio
|
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
(Sub-Enclosure in Circular dated and -April, 1908)
**
to he
That some of the highest oficiala, who bava been for a long time addicted to the habit, are finding it difficult to free themselves is evidenced by the case of H. E. Lu, Pao chung, President of the Board of Censorate, who, on being requested recently to resign his important post on account of his opium-amok ing proclivities, asked the Throns to permit him to resign permanently, as, in spite of all his efforts, he had been unable to break off the practice. Only a short time has elapsed since the Vice-President of the same Board and also|| the Vice-President of the Law Reform Com. Madrid, March and, rgoß.”“
mittee, both confirmed opjam smokers, died in receipt of your despatch No, 6, in this series of Those and similar cases have caused the suria Sir, I have the honour to acknowledge the consequence of having had to give up the habit the 26th eftimo, enclosing correspondence from Rency of the Regulations to be somewhat a Mr. H. respecting the daughter of an relaxed. Those smokers who are past the age' alleged relative of his, who is stated to have of fifty, instead of sixty years, for instance, died recently in prison at Madrid are to be allowed to contious smoking whilst those who have been addicted to the habit for "Spanish Swindle case. In accordance with ten years may continue to smoke in diminishing the practice of the Embassy in these cares Government, with the request that efforts may Correspondence respecting the Opium, Qut) am bringing it to the notice of the Spanish antity during the ten years allowed the be made to trace the writer of the letters to Mstion in Chins recently presented to both Hand bring him to justice.
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Meanwhile Mr. I would be well ad similar communications which he may receive vised, either, to pay no further attention to lathe future, or to place the matter in the hands of the police, with a view to its being followed up
I have, &c,
The Right Honourable,
M. DE BUNSEN,
Sir Edward Grey, Bart, M.P., &c. --Singapore, Fru Pria.
BS, "NBIL MACLEOD"
RENOVATED IN HONGKONG,
Ons of the most important, arrivals this morning, says the Acandla Times of 29th all was that of the new! Erenovated steamer, Vell fasised of the Cardimki Thirsteamer MARGING 1t one time was well known in the inter-island, CAPTAIN'S CUP.
trade and of late has bend at Hongkong whers | 87-125 756 she underwent a thorough overhaul, so much FRAM Forbit she is practically, a new boat in the 55 60 Sagine room DERTLY rything is new and/ 28111 82 boiler bera been ot be masls are new,
for the total abolition of opium,' In the
information as to how Article IX of the Regul Houses of Parliament, there is some interesting.
provinces. In Szechuan, whence cames peusi ations has been carried out in the different derably more than one-half of the opiom pro duced in China, the Article is practically a dead
tundred and Wes one thousand,
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been caught along a coast-line of one vi, (near the Ochopaka river).
Before the island became a japanEES POS, session, cod fishing was quite an insignificant fodustry, but since then increasing zambers beste have beep epgaged in the fishing 1906, yrg"bosis, with 2,700 men recel licences. The fishing is done, far out in the offing, and no fishing sections are marked out Each boat, however, mast abiain a licence, I 1966, about 3,700,000 cnd, priced at 1272,000, were caught, which increased 30:1907 6,600,000 fish, valued at Y339,000. Flogader
to the value of six thousand yen were plig to the value of thiny thousand yen and whale caught in 1907, making the total product of Island in the, fish indestry), Dr. Yokoyaina,would arem, ou his statinics, to have FSAP gratulating Japan to harire, such Gish industry in one of his p possessions ima
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letter, The Ista Viceroy, it is trae, issued an or which was exacnied by the West der to all civiland military officials throughout|| at 32. U Lok Lang, last Sunday. the province fixing a limit of air montba în of officers left No. 7 Police Station to, which to give up the practics, oplam smokert? house which is kapwa. in the meantime to report themselves to their den, Eslornabojarniv superior officials in order that their names" | "the, watchman emp might be entered on a black list. - No oficialų | hiylog, been informe however, reported themselves, but, several police, rushed up th potoriously loveterate smokers wore retained the police are comiz in office. There are, no doubt, laxsuces of thinly me on the firm officials, ip different parts of the Empire, who|| Immediately proceeded have given up the habit; and of others who in a burry, havamada efforts to do so; also of officials who, for the verand hava bene distaiseed but they are few and far the adjoining between. In all Government colleges, schools one of the and Industrial institutions the prohibition is ers sternlyrenforced, "whilst the military,amelais, are also very strict about it, at least: ASŭfar-Ra the national army is concerned; bat it may be doubted whether the suma enargy is displayed) in the case of the provin "satisfactory, to potice that the, desire of the
king along