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"SERVICE,
AN EDITON'S JAUNT,
FROM SEOUL TO SHANGHAI
VON A WARSHIP.
"NË 'BETHELL'S ""IMPRISONMENT” TO JE
SERVED AT SHANGHAI.
[From Our Own Corrispondant.]
Shanghai, 241b June,
2.55 p.m H.M.S. Chin brought Mr. F. Bethell, late Editor and proprietor of the Auras Daily News, and former Editor of Korean vernacular papers, to Shanghal to day, in order that be may serve his sentence of three weeks' imprison ment, which was imported by the British Court in Korea on the charge that be had incited the 'natives to sedition contrary to the terms of
His Majesty's Order in Council.
Mr.
Beibell will be held during the term of bis sentence as a first-class misdemeanant in
the British Consular Gaol at Shanghai,
THE YUNNAN AFFAIR.
INDADE
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ZRAZORS VSIBILITY
SECONDARVÄEWIFE'S CLAIM, Some very Interesting particulars wern ad- duced; la the Supreme Court, this forenoon,
when the action, brought by a widow named To Kau, of iz, Caine Road, against Mr. H. | Percy (Amlib, a chastered accountant of this Colony, was heard before the Chief Justice, Sir Francis Piggott -
- It appears that the defendant was at one time administrator of the estate of ons Tong Ping E, and the plaintiff is now seeking (r) 10) restrain him from declaring that 260 shares in 'be Central Stores, Limited, did not form past (of the ustale; (2) volofunction restraiolag the defendant from representing to the Directors that the said shares formed part of the estate, and (3) that an account of the dividends and interests should be made 'up and paid to the plaintiff with damages.
of Messrs. Ewens and Harston, appeared for Mr. M, W. Slade, instructed by Mr. Hodgson, the plaintiff. The Hoo, Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C; ins ucted by Mr. Crowther Smith, of Messra, d'Almadi and Smith, acted for the defence, The Central Stores, Limited, co-defendants, were not represented. Mr. Slade stated that they were neutral in the matter; that there was Do dispute between them and the plaintiff, and that they had agreed to abide by the decision of
The Court.
Mr. Slade read the statement of claim, as
· follows ¡-Tre plaintiff was one of the second. ary wives of Tong Fing E, deceased, and resides at 23, Caine Road..
The defendant, Horace Percy Smith, is the administrator with the will nonexed of the estate of Tong Fing Fand the defendants, the Central Stores, Limited, are a company having their Mi-registered office at 16, Bank Buildings.
FRENCH DEMANDS,"
[By aourtesy "of the "Sheung "Pu")
Peking, 23rd June. The demands formulated by the French nister in Peking, in connection with the Yan Dan frontier Incident, are as follows:-
The deceased, Tong Ping E, in April, 1905 and up to the date of his death. 30th January -Dismissal of H.E. Sik Liang, Viceroy | 19 6, was the registered owner of 260 shares'
in the defendant company.
of Yunnan, 2.-Compensation for losses, sustained by
...the Yunoan- Anoam Railway. 3-Indemnity of $200,000 for the relatives
of the deceased soldiers. 4.-Concession for a railway from Taiyuan, in Shan-si Province, 10 Si-pan, in
Shen-si.
In the mouth of April, 1955, Tong Ping E gave the shares to the plaintiff and executed blank Transfers and delivered them, together with the certificates for the shares, to the plaintiff
The defendant claims the shares as portion" of the estate of the deceased and has represent ed to the defendant company that the shaves 'belong to the estate of the deceased and not to
The Waiwupu resists the demands as firmly the plaintiff."
al ever.
U.S. BATTLESHIP PLEET.
THE WELCOME COMMISSIONER.
(By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."]
Peking, 23rd June, Some time ago the Waiwupu proposed to delegate Vice-President Leung Tus-je to
Amoy to welcome the American Fleet.
As urgent business detains His Excellency at the Capital, Tantai Mak Funkin will be deputed instead. CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT.
The plaintiff bas forwarded the transfers duly filled in with the name of the plaintiff to the defendant company and requested to be regin. terad as the owner, but the defendant company ia consequence of the 'representation of the defendant refused to 'register the plaintiff as
owner.
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and provis
Stre
There was, however, no mention that paper, as the family know that the shares
belonged to the plaintiff at deceased's death
Mr. Pollock maintained that the division paper was concocted for the case He said that Mr. Slade was laying stress on a document
·which had not been mentioned in the statement of claim at all; :
Mr. Slade smiled.
The Chief Justice-That is criticism., Mr. Pollock argued that the only way for the administrator to protect the property of infauts was to get the order of the Court. I fapte could not do it, but when they came of age they could wue the admial trator It was a serious point of view for the infants,
The Chief Justice-Everything is serious in business.
too, there is od Pharma
PRISONI
DNESDAY JUNE 24 1908,
PRISON LIFE.
VICE RIA GAOLA
Soldom it is that we bave to report a prisoner
escape from the Victoria Gaul, dus, probably to the strict watch that is kept by the gaolers. To-dy, however, we Lave to announce that such a thing has happened. REOPENE
On the 9th jostant, coolie ran up to a Chinese woman, who was standing on the Canton steamers wharf and snatch ad from her hand a bag containing about Sagh worth of jewellary Be
Balore the woman had bad time to raise an alarm the thief. had disappeared in the crowd The pol'ce were, of courie, informed, and after
an hour's search the thief was located by Detective Sergeant Murphy on board a mention of these shates.
Me Pollock-is the will,
steamer, having a quiet conversation with a chum. At his side was found the woman's The statement of defence was that the ex-handbag which had been forced open, but the pression "secondary wife," as used by the jewels were intact. The thief-Chan Ming plaintiff, -was a contradiction in term, and that was removed to headquarters, where he was a man could only have one lawfüł wife. The recognised as kaving returned from banish defence, therefore, denied that the plaintiff meet. That same day he was taken before & was the lawful wife of Tong Plug E, de Magistrale, and, pleading guilty to two charges ceased. They did not admit either that Tong-theft, and returning from banishment--he Ping E at any info gave plaintiff any shares, was sentenced to nine months' hard labour, or that, he at any time executed any blank A
At about six o'clock on Monday evening. transfers, or that any had been delivered with when the roll call-if that is the proper term- or without cartificates. Decented simply sent was called in the gaol, Chan Ming was nowhere in a claim to the shares and dividend to the to be found. A search for him caded fruitless. Central Stores, Limited, through their solicitors, i fy, and it is believed that under the guise of a on the ground that under Clausen 15 and 39 of dust cart coolie he was successful in passing the Articles of Association of the defendant the warder at the gate. That he had an company the administrator of a deceased re-accomplice, who brought in the clothes for him. gistered shareholder was the only person re- is not denied. However that may be, Chan is cognised a harleg any title to the shares of free and maybe is enjoying himself in Canton the deceased, The Central Stores did not admit the claim, oor did they send any dividend to this defendant, who in making such a claim was acting in the Interests of the legatees under the will of Tong Ping E, some of whom are infants.
The case wis adjourned..
RAUB CRUSHING: Messrs. E, S. Kadoorie and Ca, inform us that they are in receipt of telegraphic advices from Singapore informing them that the result of the crashing of the Raub Australian Gold Mining Co., Ltd. for the past period of four weeks, yielded 99; or gold, from 5.712 tops
stane.
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ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT,
Mr. H. L. Denny", of The Crown Solicitor's office, appeared for the prosecution. Mr. Otto Kong Sing represented the defendaar, who denied the allegallon.
VANCOUVER CHINAMAN ON TRIAL. After many adjournments, lasting several Dividends have since 3.tb lanuary, 1906, weeke, the hearing of the charge against Chau been drelated and paid by the defendant com- Quin, who is accused of embezzling a sum of Pany, but the plaintiff has not received any money within the jurisdiction of Pritish Col- sums paid or payable in respect of these shares.umbia, was concluded in the Police Court, this lo proceeding to outline the particulars of afternoon, before Mr. J. Hemp (first police the case, Mr. Blade stated that he would prove magistrate). from the evidence that Tong Ping E, deceased, died leaving property for the plaintiff, wt a was now suei g under her maiden Dame-To Kau. The deceased had a lawful wife and three concubines, the plaintiff being No. 2-concu- Mr. Dennys banded to the Court the bine. Tong Ping E lived with the plaintiff for depositions which a rived by the 1st mail over twenty-nine years. Ten months before from Vancouver. "From them it was gathered his deuh he gave plaintiff to shates in the hat one Chau Mew war the prosecutor. In Centr. Stores, Limited
Tong Ping Ehis evidence he alleged, that accused. mis- executed the transfers and signed his name appropriated the sum of $1,200 (gold) in his A petition by the Chinese residing in the
on them, either in the presence of a witness, or absence. Straite Settlements, praying for Constitui onal the signature was written fi ́st and some person Government, has been forwarded to the called in later to prove that it was his signature --Ministry-of--Agriculture-Commerce-and-la-Mr. Slade was not sure how it was done. The dustry, for transmission to the imperial shares, he said, was given to plaintiff as pro
A STRAITS PETITION.
[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."]·
Peking, 23rd June.,
Government.
PERING-HANKOW RAILWAY
BUYING BACK THE ROAD.
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vision for her. She retained the shares in her possession for some time, until the end of 905, when she returned them to the deceased prior to leaving for Shanghai. Plaintiff and the deceased had been living in Hongkong. While sho was in Shanghai décensed was in Hong kong. The reason why she returned - thu {By courtesy of the "Sheung Po.")
abares to her busband before proceeding to Peting, a3rd June.
the North, Mr. Slade observed, was because It has been resolved by the Ministry of Posts certain formula had to be gone through in the and Communications to buy back the Fekingping E went to the interior, apparently taking near future. During plainti@'s absence Tong
Hankow Railway
the shares along with him and shortly after be The proposal will rece've serious considera- died quite unexpectedly. Soon after hearing
tion.
{{inter*x,\ Chinese Spamen in the United "Kingdom.
LONDON, 22nd June, The language regulations, in reference to Chinese peamen referred to by Mr. Churchill on the 13th instant, have been issued, and the Board of Trade is communicating with the Colonial Office in reference to facilities for providing natives of the Colonies and protectorates, especially the Straits and Hongkong, with birth certificatemala.
Russia,
St. Petersburg reports that the Financial Committee of the Council of the Empire have re-inserted, in the budget, the credit of eleven million roubles for, new battleships dfiginally rejected by the Puma.
Later.
A New Steamship Service, Victoria and New South Wales are about to invite tenders for a steamship service to Shanghai.
The Macedonian Question. Sir Edward Grey, replying to Mr. H. F. Lynch, Liberal Memberfor Ripon, said that. Great Britain and Rumi are in agreement on the question of Macedonian affairs, but that the other Powers had not yet been con wulted.
Another Bomb Outrage in India.
Bombe thrown
Bengal train, compartment
of her husband's demise plaintiff proceeded to the country, and the other wives, who knew of this share transaction, told her that nothing had been left for her under the will as Tong Ping E bad stated that he had given her those shares. Plaintiff returned to. Hoogkong and ook her 'certificates to the offices, of Messrs. Ewens and Harston, her solicitors, where she signed them in blank. Namor and addresses' were later filled in by Mr. Sio Tak Fan. The shares were later.seat-up-for-registration, and
refused.
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After examining the depositions, his Worship remarked that they contained nothing to show that the accompanying books were not special ly made io show defalcations.
Mr. Knging stated that there were two men keeping prosecutor's books. The accused was one of them, but he knew nothing of any defalcations.
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Mr. Dennys-These accounts were alleged to have been kept by the him.
His Worship-There is nothing to show that in the depositions.
Mr. Kong Sing-If this man is guilty of this charge it is so very, very easy for them to get mo e evidence against him in Vancouver.
Mr. Dennys-l iubmit it is not.
Mr. Kong Sing remarked that the evidence could not be upheld by any Court. He said that accused was a partneria the Sun Tai firm, in Vancouver. The only, other partner ran a gambling house and he (defendant) was put in charge of the Sun Tai firm. Was it likely, Mr. Kong Sing asked, that defendant's part per would allow him to leave without ex amining the Sun Tai's books? The defendant was willing to go back to Vancouver, but he did not want to be sent back with that stain on his character. He would have to go back in time as he wanted to see his co-partner-(the prosecutor) with regard to his share in the Sun Tai business.
His Worship' said he could not convict on the evidence, di
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STEAM TO SHANGHAI HE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Steamship.
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may take stock of the pas tion. It seem obvious that the Chinese will not be able to either raise the requisits fuads or to provide the ex- pert knowledge to construct the great Canion- ankew trunk line. When the Hongkong Government loaded the money requisite to hay out, the original. American and other voo cession tires of this line, one of the terms was that if the Chiness desired, or required, foreign capital or assistance that appeal would be made to British capitalists. It is obvious to all, who have bren, watching events and doings on that line that sooner or later this appeal will have to be made. Another less defipite pro mise has been made for financing and can struct ing the Bankow-Ichang line, which, we may anticipate, will also be made in due course. It will be evident to all who have been watching the Chinese railway question that China has not yet arrived at the stage, despite enthusiasm and newly-awakened patriotism, when she can either undertake the finance or constraction of the lines she requires in the country. Rail ways have become very popular, and their advantages appreciated, wherever they have No Fire tosurance will be effected by me is
—any case-whatever---- been, constructed. Ching, it is true, has been
Damaged Packages must be left in the making backing-Kalgan line. We may Godowas for examination by the Consignee's perhaps here note incidentally that the pro-and the Company's representative at an longation of this lise to Klachta, and so to appointed bour. Izkutek, would bring about a revolution in the possibilities of mail and passenger times be twren Europe, and China. Roughly, the.rail; way distance to Central Europe would be rather better than half the mileage of the sen route. Somewhere withis the time of 10 10.13 days it would then be possible to traverse from North or South of China, to almost any capital Fin Europe, proceeding via the Kelgan-Kiachin- | Irkutskʻline, and then over the Siberias Reil- way to Moscow, and thence connect with the other European lines. But, to resume, Ching
be Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Com has obtained the funds for the Peking-Kalgan line from the surplus earnings of the Imperial with a capital of 800,000 in shares of 100 pany of Hongkong was registered on May 13, Railways of North China, and the line has been sach The objects of the company are to constructed by men who have gained their adopt an agreement with John Swire and Sou knowledge of construction work of the and to carry on at Hongkong the business same line. We believe we zie quite cor rect in assening that the trace for the line of dock-owners, mechanical and marine en- was run by the foreign engineers of the vineers. The signatories are:-Sir Edwin D North China lloe, though they have bad,no Lawrence, Bart, 13, Cariton House terrace, part in she actual work. From this exception 5.WR. D. Hole 1, India buildings, Liver- we choot infty, however, that China has yet pool; C. C. Scott, Greenock: W. J. Thompson, reached the stage when she can undertake the 38, Mincing-lane, E.C.; Joha Swire, &, Billiter work, that is waiting to be dine in several parts square, EC.; G. Warren Swits, 8, Billiter of the Empire Sta most, perforce, seek foreign square, E.G. H. Scott. 8, Billiter-square
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Mr. Deanys wanted another adjournment to aid, and the meas and nuddin that has been EC., each of whom take one share. There SEA
the exact date he confessed he did not know, About that time, Counsel went on to remark,
a family meeting" was held and a division paper was drawn up by the lawful wife alloy. ing deceased's estate to all the members of the telegraph to Vancouver for more evidence." family. There were three sons-all infants ; Mr. Kong Sing asked for defendant's dis us by the first wife and this other two by No charge, adding that the people on the other a concubine. The paper was drawn up in as de bad not made out their case... They bad formal way in the presence of all of the family, dealt with the mailer in a very las manner, the elders of the clan, and the oldest men in The defendant was accordingly dischargéð,
CANTON DAY BY DAY.
CONSULAR VISITA
[From Our Own Correspondant;}
Canton, 23rd June. At to o'clock this morning, H.E, the Viceroy So, received the Japanese Consul at Canton, RAILWAY CO,'S CALLATIONE
the village.
Mr. Pollock here intervened. Ha abjected to the Inter statement, as, he said, the family agreement was not relevant to the case.
Mr. Slade-I will show you how it is relevant. Mr. Pollock praised his obfaction,
The Chief Justice said he could not decide the point at that surge, He did not know if it was relevant or cot, fast
made, the large sums squandered or wasted is no initial public issue. Messrs. John Swire for very small results on the Cantan-Hankow and Sons, of London, ale wiemi managers, line, will be sa object lesson to her in such and Butterfield and Swire sawenis in Hong- matters. Many more line", besides those we kong The registered office of the company is have indicated as being near at hand, await at 8. Billier-aquare, E.C.. construction in Chins, as the value of existing US.
lings in borne more fully joto the minds of THE usual announcement of the customary both officials, and people, in their construcé | interim dividend on the P. and O. stock has tion the foreigner with his money and expert | been made. From the half-yearly report, knowledge may assist without any derogation, which at this sasson is not accompanied by of national right or the infringement of the figures, shareholders will gather that the re- popular cry of China for the Chinese... A cen- venue returns for the period in question were sortium of the two interests is not only feasible, well maintained, and that, the higher cost of | but désirable, for the attainment of the ends | fuel increased expenditure. The passenger China naturally desires Sho, cannot, or will business coffered from the American financial Contiuning, Mr. Blade said that before his
noty Provide the money herself, Officials who crisid and the poor Egyptian sosson, although dasih Tong Ping E informed his family how | The Canton-Blankow Rallway Company has can get 15 per cent, or more out of the pawns to some extent the falling "off, lo those property would be disposed. A atatement received a letter from the leading members of shops are pot going to subscribe to 5 per cent directions was companiated for by an advance by a deceased man, Counsel said with some the railway shareholders in Hongkong, in which railway bonds; merchants, banken, or others in the Australian passenger receipts. Ap emphasis, is evidence against bla representa; they Isformed the Company that they can, by with capital will not entrust their money to rently the sedinte outlook, for fright tives. A statement made by a man evidence", "no means, be
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