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Suicide at Fea.
SECOND ENGINEER'S DEATH. , BHOOTS LIMSELF through the head.
Shipping men trading up and down the coast will learn with same regret of the death of Mr. David Mason Dickie, second engineer' of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Company's steamer Chrongsking, who committed suicide ain the 20th instant, while the vessel was ploughing her way to this part. It is needless to remark that the sad occurrence has cast a gloom over the ship.
What was the immediate cause for the rash act is at present wrapped in the cloak of mystery, which will, probably, never be solved. The Chengaking loft Tientsin on the 14th instant, bringing with her a number of time-expired soldiers of the Cameron Highlanders, and a cargo of general merchandise. Light monsoon and a calm sea was experienced during the trip.
To those on the Chrongshing Do unto ward incideal 'seemed likely to happen on board during the stemmer's voyaga down, and as far as Mr. Dickie, was concerned he appeared to be in his usual spirit. On Tuesday last, however, when everything was quiet on board, and while Captain V. Mc Clymont Liddell was on the bridge, a revolver shat sounded throughout the length and breadth of the ship. The grim tra, edy had been coaci ed. Attracted by the sound the captain and another officer proceeded to the second on- gineer's cabin, and, finding the door locked, an entrance was forcibly made. The sight that mat their eyes was a painful one indeed. Mr. Dickie, as we are informed, was lying an the settee, his face covered to blood, which
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY OCTOBER 24
SEIZURE OF A STEAMER.
POLICE FIND. ILLICIT CHANDU, IN CEMENT
CASKS.'
SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST THE SKIPPER.
The Singapore Police yesterday, reports the Strails Times of 14th inst, made what is regard ed as one of the biggest bauls of cocaine, m phia and chandu ever achieved at one time in Singapore.
Messrs. Wee Bio and Company's' sicamer Hong Moh arrived from Ame) and Swalew with 1678 passengers, and the police, it is stated, seired 418 botiles of cocaine, 398 packets of morphia aud 105 tahlils of opium, all found in the engine room. The vessel was seized and held till security was given.
Captain Bainbridge, oft the Hong Moh, ap- peared before the Senior Magistratë, Mr. J. 1. W. Arthur, this morning, to answer the charge of importing the chandu. Mr. G. B. Carver appeared for the Opium Farm, and Mr. E. M. Elliot for the defendant.
་།། The Pong Mok was to have sailed yesterday af.trooon,
but was detained in post pending the conclusion of the case.
Sergeant Mussel, who is attached to the Farm for search purposes, and, several chistings brought the chaudu, morphise and cocaine into the Court, wrapped in canvas. The mor- phia, which was about fiily pounds in weight" and, to ether with the cocaine, valued at $5,0 0, was the largest consignment ever captured in Singapore. It nearly filled a gunoy bag,
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CAPTAIN'S BURDEN.
The charge was of being master of a steamer used for the importation of cheado, la open- ing the car, Mr. Carver referred to the case al the Drestungsre, which had gone to the Court of Appeal and then to the Privy Council was flowing from his head and mouth. At his Head fissa and the how to everying out that the Caplaie to that reason. side lay a revolver with a cartridge missingable precaution had been taken to prevent the On examination it was found that life' was
use of the ship for this purpose, and secondly, extinct, and it was apparent from the wound
that no officer or member of the crew' WAS inflicted that he had placed the muzzle to the impl'cated in the importation. temple and pulled the trigger.
Lo the public mortuary.
With her flag at half-mast and the police pensant flying aloft, the Changshing steamed into the harbour last Wednesday evening. The police pinnace was soon alongside, and the mortal remains of the second officer were seat Mr. David Maton Dickie was thirty-three years of age, and a native of Scotland. He joined the Indo-China Steam Navigation Com pany in 1951, and was a most respected mem- ber of the shipping community, both here and at the Northern ports where he was well known, He was much liked, a popular "second, and a good friend. His tragic end will be felt with deep sorrow by those he leaves behind,
A TALE OF THE SEA.
LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS ON VERGE OF, STARVATION.
A story, that was brought to Shanghai by the passengers of the steamer Kingsing, which reached port on Thursday, shows that the life of a keeper of a lighthouse on the China coast is not a bed of roses by any meaus, says the Shanghai Times of 17th inst.
At about 4.4 m. on the morning of the 14th, while the Kingsing was proceeding down the coast, and opposite the island of Shaweishan, on which is a light-house, signals of distress were observed from that establishment. The ship was slowed down and when the signals were repeated she turned in toward the island and attempted to send a boat ashore, such a very heavy sea was running at the time that the Kinging had great difficulty in even approaching the island, and it required
STORY OF AN ARMED ROBBERY,
DEFENDANTS DISCHARGED:
THE RUCH OF THE ROAD.
GHARRY-TRAM COLLISION.
The accessity for some stiantion to the ques What proved to be an abortive charge against tion of the rule of the road in Hongkong is ten men, who are employed as labourers on rendered apparent by the number of accidents some salt works at Tai O, as heard before which occur with vehicles using the roads and Mr. J. H. Kemp at the Police Court, lakin which a tram is generally involved.
After two hours of lengthy
When the trams commenced running colli- Thursday. evidence, it was found that there was hot siens with rickshas were of frequent occurence sufficient evidence to incriminate the defend. but as the car drivers acquired experience and ants, and they were accordingly discharged, the ricksha pullers came to realise that more to the surprise of all present in the court-room, rigid observance of the rule of the road was even, the defendants themselves. The com fendered necessary, if accidents were to be plainant id this case was Yap Ching King, who avoided the number of these has diminished charged the ten men with robbing him of some very considerably. $40-$20 from a box in his room, and anotherIt is not an accommon sight, however, to Sio from his person; and a farber, charge of see some of the cumbersome trucks at present" assault was also preferred against the men in use in the streets of the Colony being Davis Mr. E. J. Grist, of Messrs, Wilkinson and Grist, gated wearily along the tramway track, and appeared on behalf of the defendants.
when the approach of a car is impressed, by Wing Yu Mui, who is a widow living at Tai the incessant clanging of the warning gong O was the first to give evidence. She is upon the unwilling care of the coolies, the truck:
old woman somewhere near 'seventy is drawn to one side. years of age with a weakness to speak in high-pitched tune, Her shrieking voice brought opposition from the magistrate but even this did not prevent the old woman from forgetting her surroundings now and then, he said, that at about 2 p.m. on the 7th instant sho saw a number of man outsi le the 'complainant's house. Three of them estered the house, out of whom she was in a position to identify two immediately she saw what they were alter, she shrieked out Robbers" which resulted in the arrest of the alleged robbers.
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On leaving the concrete surface of the roads way the coolies find that they can no longer handle the load with ease and every effort is strained to regain the tram track and contione the journey until another interruption of a simi is kind takes place.
1908.
Moreover, he has done such admirable work in the suppression of opium that his removal will not be received with unmized satisfaction,
Germany has no question with Chlon. She has canted some stir by suddenly assuming. the protectorate of Turkish official subjects" in China, but of this you have been informed by cable. A Turkish officini is, in Peking at the presept moment, the Sheikh All Rira Effendi,
churian railway runs, Japan clalmi and exer- cisas full authority within the railway territory, treating it as simply an extension of the leased territory of Dainy and Port Arthur. She has No statement of claim, for losses susinad occupied farge areas wherein she not only by the Younan Railway owing to the suspension exercises administrative rights, bot claims of work during the disturbance, has yet boen jurisdiction over the subjects of all nations presented to China. In the meantime the Chinese Among other regulations promulgated by the are complaining that many Chinese are being. Japanse Railway ander "Company Order 14" arrested la Judo-China and interned
for the government of these territories is one "Revolutionaries who are really inoffensivo establishing the right of domiciliary search and people who have failed to pay the poll tax, Thore distrainment. Small wonder that the New-is wide, divergence in the statements of fact chwang Chamber of Commerce is alarmed at presented by both sides, and it will be welli euch a strange interpretation of the "Complete the present question leads to "a" reorganian" Evacuation of Manchuria," which leaves Man- tion of the conditions prevailing loa charia intersected throughout its greatest length frontier. Chimed is no consulter do betula by a strip of alian territory barring the com- but is adderstood to hope that after the settle mercial expansion of the sovereign power. mant of the prepat misunderstanding Consuls
Japan bas many outstanding problems with may be permitted. China. Her policy since the war has not tes ded to inspire confidence. Negotiations for settlement of questions in dispate are suspend ed pending the arrival of the new Minister, Mr. Ijain, Chief among them is the dispute about the ownership of Chientao, a territory as large as many provinces, which adjoins the Recently Germany reminded. China of the porthern border of Korea, and has long been mining rights secured to Germany along the regarded as Chinese territory. Though long railway now under constraction from Tientsin occupied by Chios, it is now claimed by Japan through Shantung Province to the River to be really a portion of Korea, as having in Yangisze, opposite Nanking, Along the Shan- times long distant been a portion of Koren, tung section of the railway Germany can, ing It also occams, however, that when the trick contention which, if pressed, would justify convoke the terms of the Kinochao agreement, is drawn to one side, a portion of the enormous aiderable encroachments into Manchuria. The and claim a monopoly of misleg within a dist load falls into the street, s wheel breaks under Chinese official resides at Yon-chi-ting, a sub-ance of ten miles on nach side of the railway, the strain or the truck gets stuck last in the road- prefectural town west of Hunchun, on a tribat. At the present junclume the concession is of way, and an obstruction to tram traffic results are of the Tiumen. In the interests of Kera
importance, because of the existences close to the railway near the southern border of the It is not often that such occurrences Involve the Japnossa havo šlalioned a post 'st Liu tao- horse-drawn.vehicles, as they do not exist in
kou, some miles to the south of Yen-chi-ting, province of a valuable deposit of coal, from Yap Ching King, the 'complainant, spake to any large numbers in the Colony; they move
and await events. There seems little doubt that which supplies can be drawn for the railway,
BANA, AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP, SENA baving heard shouts of robbers. He went at a speed saare nearly that of a tramcar and Chica cza establish claim to this territory from
With America, the^enlations of China are towards his house to ascertain the cause are generally under fairly efficient control. tong dominion, and the solution expected bare of the uproar, when the men caught hold Lastevening, however, a ghurry (No. 4) was pro- is that Japan will admit this claim, but will in- unusually cordial, and the reception accorded ceeding along the Praya Easton thesouth side of sist upon retaining jurisdiction over the Koreans to the fleet si Amoy at the end of October will of him by the queue and knocked it up, we the road. When nearly opposite the French Con- who form a large proportion of the inhabitants be on an unprecedented scale. There was at with a on his head. When got be
one time a belief that the visit of the firet might was in an unconscious state, and the first thing vent car No. 19 approached, travelling towards of the region.
Other cases in Manchuria also await settle in some way assist China in her negotiations he was aware of was $ao gone from his pockets. East Point on the north tram track. So far as This afternoon, before the magistrate, Yap de- can be ascertained the pony suddenly took meat. The Yalu Timber Agreement is signed with Japan, "giving her face" and magnifying clared he could identify all the men.
fright and ran into the tram which was imme but certain differences regarding its application her prestige, and no doubt many Chinese still Arthe matter stood at present, at least till Some further evidence was taken from two diately brought to a standstill, but not before have still to be adjusted. The seizure of the hope for some vague and undefined assistance
of the defendants, when it was elicited that the the pany had fallen, the front of the car over-
Faabus Collieries is also.ao uostuled grievance which America has never dreamed oftendering. the Pivy Council was heard from, the burden of proving these two things was upon the Cap-whole trouble bed arises that the salt pans on hanging it as it lay. After some difficulty Beras is the question of posts and telegraphs. Really the unexampled honour shown the fleet tain. The long Mok was searched, yester which the men had been engaged changed hands, geant Fox who was assisted, by others, man- Foreigners are specially interested in the post is an acknowledgment of the action of the Pre- matter, because the disgraceful service of the sidest in relieving China of the payment of day morning, and too fahils of chandu, the and consequently there was an abundance of ill-aged to get the animal to its fest again; morphia and cocaine were found in cement feeling between those who had been discharged
Japanese Post Office, the delay and disappear the unexpended balance of the excessive Boxer indemnity secured by the United States casks on the top of the boilers is the engine and the new hands. Mr. Grist's contention
ance of letters entrusted to it, is a daily bitter- room. "la other parts of the vessel, five tabils
in the Protocol of, 1991. The further acknow- was that there was a fight of some soft, but
ness. The British Postal authorities fail to of chandu dross were found,
there was no evidence to show that the men
realise what we suffer from the deficiencien ladgment of the President's action, the annual were guilty of larceny, as there was no money
of the Japanese Post Office in Manchuria seading of Chinese students to America,is found on the defendials, with the exception of
Then there is the question of the Japanese one of the wisest things China over did. To occupation of buildings in Mukden and other Mr. Rockbill largely belongs the credit of a same Sz.
no passengers in the ghary and in view of pocities evacuated by our allies; of the bridge policy that, above all others, will make for sible danger under such circumstances it would across the Yalu at Antung, and other solid friendship and will be of far-reaching im- be wall if it were niade obligatory upon carri things Above all is the veto upos Chinese portance throughout the Empire. To America age owners to carry an allendant to take the railway constraction Dorth of Hsiamintun. also belongs the credit of originating the pony's head at times of possible danger,
Ia China itself there is the important ques Opiam Inquiry Commission, which will mest After all it must be admitted that the car tion of the right of residence in the interior in Shanghai on January rat. Her chief rapra. drivers are as a body an exceptionally efficient away from the treaty posts of such large num sentative will be Bishop Brent, who was a staff of men, and the ordinary travellar must •bers of Japanens; the frequent abuse of pass- member also of the Philippine Opium Com. The story of another godown robbery was have often observed how exceedingly trying ports the religious question and the propaga mission. England will be represented, among investigated in the Police Court, last Wednesday, their duties are rendered by the careless, not tion of Reformed Buddhism. Then there is a others, by our commercial Attaché in Chics, the first police magistrate (Mr. J. H. Kemp) on only of coolies in charge of other wheeled question that is bound to become of increasing Sir Alexander Hosis, who will bring to the onference a knowledge of the subject that the bench. Three coolies were charged with vehicles, but also the apparent stupidity of na-importance-Damely, the registration in Fub- entering the ground floor of 9, Taze Mee Alley
Live pedestrians,
klen Province, abreast of the Japancao' posses-will not be surpassed by any other 'delegate. : The path of a car is restricted by the rails
sion of Formosa, of Chinese as Tapaders sub- To continue the survey. Of the minor nod stealing six bales of paper, valued at São and a large quantity of tea leaves, worth $65.
upon which it runs and it is provided for pas jects, on the ground that they or their ancestors Pawers Belgium has the largest stake” in' were natives of the Island of Formosa The China, but her interests are purely commercial. Inspector Robertson, of No. 7 Police Station,senger traffic which invariably should receive sppeared for the prosecution. Mr. R. F. C. preference. The comparative immunity from difficulty is similar to one that formerly caused She is interested in the redemption of the Pak accidents of an serious moment which the com- fricties in Siam, where France used to registering Hankow Railway, a work mainly due to Master acted for the defence..
a French protégés, not only the natives, but the Belgian enterprise. She is also interested in the pany enjoys is a matter for congratulation not only to the company itself but to the com-descendants of the anciens habitants of the dispute regarding the Chinese Engineering and munity which it serves with marked efficiency territory cast of the Mekong, which in 1893 had Mining Company, the bitlk of the shams of the
"passed inte her possession.~
company being.bald in Belgium, the mining Of trade questions with lapan, the most im staff being exclusively Belgian, and most of the portant for foreigners in China is the infringe-orders being placed in Belgium; whilst it is a. ment of trade-marks, the forgery of foreign: Belgian, the Chevalier de Wouters, whicse bank notes, and the importation into China of evidence, if it should ever be given at Tha OUTSTANDING QUESTIONS.
Japanese imitations of Chinese provincial notes. Hague, will have material effect in assisting DR. MORRISON'S VIEWS,
Fortunately, since the publication in the the Tribunal to understand the solidity of Financial and Commercial Supplement of the Chinese opposition. The Peking correspondent of the Times
This adfortunate dispute is of same standing, MacDonald's important dispatch of January and has already appeared before the British letter in the London journal, from which we 18th, wherein the Ambassador declared that in law Couils. Added interest is given to it by make the following extracts
* a ball-bour's walk in Tokyote-can-find-ten--the-bslief-that-China-now desires to carry. For some time past observers have been able to twenty imitated British trade-marks," much. her case before the Judicial. Tribunal of The to record a sensible improvement in the con› dutt of the foreign affairs of China. The
attention has been given to the matter Hague. It is a complicated case, for the improvement dates from the acceptance by the
and there are signs of an awakening of transaction which is the subject of dispate wa's Viceroy Yuan Shih-kai el a seat in the Ministry trade-marks-is-not-aerious, but the importation Belgian, though it is England that has to conscience. Imitation by Chinese of British effected by a Gamman, an American, and of Foreign Affairs, and from the promotion of Liang Tan-yen, a graduate of Vale, to a Vice- imitations of British trade-marks is very serious tared as a British compasy, and has two British
on a large scale into China of Japanean bear the opprobrium, for the company is regis Presidency ofthe Ministry. The Viceroy brought indeed, and requires quite as tronchant critic military officers on the active list as its general
Sergeant Mussel gave evidence of the dis- covery, saying that he boarded the Hong Moh. which was within harbour limits, at 7 a, yesterday. She was a versel of 7,550 tons registered -tonnage.
He arved pa, inission
to search the vestel, which was granted, fo. lore going on board, he had searched the reventie officers to see that they had no chandu in their pursession. On entering the engine room, he observed some
rement
rels, which he found to conta'n two paper ra cels, in one of which were seven large tins of chandu sad in the other six small tips. To
other barrels were found other packages,
Mr. Elliot objected to any meation of these packages, as they did not form part of the charge.
Mr. Carver replied that he would not press the point,⠀
CRCSS EXAMINATION. Witness explained where the chandu..drosS was found, and handed in all the exhibits.
The magistrate discharged the mo with a
caution.
VIGILANT POKİS,
A GODOWN RORCERY, DETECTED BY THEM.
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The complainant, Ho Kwang, is a merchant Cross-examined by Mr. Elliol, witness said carrying on basiness at 227, Queen's Road that he went on board the steamer on the me-West, No.-9. Tize Mee. Alley is rented by vious ernoon. He showed the Captain plan showing a spot where he expected to find morphin, not chandu: He went to the top of the boilers and searched the casks. These was nothing there. The place shown in the plen was below the boilers. searched the revenue officers on that occasion. He had also He brdered the head man to place a revenue
him as a godown. Early in the morning of the 13th instant, two of his fatis saw a number of men loading a truck with goods which was being removed from their godown. Soon things began to happen. After a fierce struggle they making good their escape. Later Sergeant succeeded in detaining one man, the others
Brendan discovered the whereabouts of two
There were no casualties and the damage appears to have been confined to scratched paint work on the panel of the car and a lightning arrester" removed from its fixing below the car presumably from a kick of the pony. The shaft of the gharry was destroyed and the harness ripped. Fortunately, there were
CHINA AND HER FOREIGN RELATIONS.
a great deal of time and manoeuvring to get close officer at the (angway, bu: did not put one others, who were also arrested, The loaded | under date August 27th sends a remarkabin 3 Times of April 10th of extracts from Sir Claude
enough to attempt to communicate But after a while the boat was finally got off, manned by four Chinese and a foreign officer, and its crew landed on the island, and here they learned the reason why they had been signalled. The lighthouse keeper stated that he and those along with him, some 8 10 in number, were ea- tirely without food and on the verge of starva tion. He said, alao, they had not had any communication with, the mainland for 54 days. It was quite clear to the landing party that the island party were suffering from lack of nourishment, and as quickly as the boat could return to the ship, and report the nature of the rouble a boatload of supplies were sent to the island. The boat was then reboisted on board and the Kinguing proceeded on her way to this port.
there himsell--Ha-made every effort to findtruck was taken to the police station. chandu that day, but found bone. He was Witnesses were examined, and the case was searching for about three and a half hours. He
four men in charge of the engine room, and for that leason the room was left open.
one of the revenue officers. Er was not trán. It was a mistake on his part not to have shown the Captain the tia of chandu dross which was
remanded.
After we had gone to press last Wednesday Mr. J. H. Kemp (first police magistrate) gave his decision in the care in which three coolice were charged with entering the ground floor of 9. Tsie Mee Alley and stealing six, bales of paper, valued at $10 and a larga, quantity of tea leaves, worth $65 His Worship sentenced
each: The third man was discharged."
The four were revenue officers. He went back net morning, and found the lies in the barrels, They were not there when the ship arrived. It was easy to put them there in the dark. 11 was true that his nten were there to prevent it.
Witness did tell the Captain that he had found three extra ting. He was told that by two of the accused to four months' hard labour tothe Wai-wa-putherequisite strength of characom as the traffic has received at the hands | managers, though they, of course, are in no
ter, prestige, and influcoce among his contem-of the-chairman_of_the_Chian Association and pararies, while Liang Top-yen has supported jbe
other authorities. Viceroy with a knowledge, rarely equalled among his countrymen, of Chinese and English. The result has been excellent. Complaints aro now rarely beard of unanswered dispatches or of exasperating evasion and trickery. China at prescat as free from international complica tions as most other Powers, a result the more striking when one remembers that only eight Fears ago her Metropolitan Province was in the throes of armed conflict with all the world.
found.
You know it is there extra five tabila that
make all the difference, said Mr. Elliot Yes.
A reporter far the Shanghat Times visited
AN ADJOURNMENT, the office of the Coast Inspecter and en. deavoured to ascertain what information that
Evidence was given by chiniings who took. part in the search, and the Farm's Tester stated department could furnish regarding the incident, but while the reporter was very courteously that the chandu was Amoy chandu: received, the official with whom he talked det value-was-$310 by the Singapore selling clined to make a statement for publication, price. When asked if he would give the name of the lighthouse-keeper, he said that he thought it would serve no purpose to do so.
Cross-examined by Mr. Elliot, witness said that the large tins weighed about 14 jahils cach, including both the chandu and tips. The later weighed ytabile.
THE MOJI DOCKYARD.
FOREIGN ENTERPRISE AND ALLEGED JAPANESE OPPOSITION,
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RUSSIA.
Speaking broadly, one may say that China has no foreign question on her hands of any magnitude, though she bas questions of some importance with Japan, Russia, France, and Portugal, and of lesser importance with the other Powers. Russian activity is dormant pending the arrival of M. Korostovets the new Russian Minister, who succeeds the lamented Pokotiloff.
THE "TATBU-MARU," Such are briefly the main questions that China has to arrange with Japan, the “Great Eastern Nation." Next in order comes the dis pute with the "Great Westers Nation," as Por tagal is termed, aver the delimitation of the boundaries of Macao. The case is one of con siderable interest. 12 bus assumed its present importance since the seizure of the Japanese -stramer-Forsumaru sehen running arms into. Macao. China was.compelled to make ada. quate reparation and apology for the affront to the Japanese flag. But, apart from this, there was the controversy whether the vessel wa seized in the territorial waters of China, as China declared, or of Portugal, as was coo- tended the Portuguese.
way responsible for what_occurred_gpars be- fore they joined the company. It is to be hoped that the dispute may be arranged with- out recourse to The Hague. The case while it continues blocks the way of other conces; sions. Chinese constantly cite it as the reason why mining lawa have been drafted so as to exclude foreign participation in mining enter. priss in China.
Did you weigh the chandy?—Yes, with the A FARMER'S REGRET,
tins.
You have no weighed the chaudu.alone? No. This is the regulation Amoy tin. They -The Trip That DID NOT COME OFF. are always the same.
Re-examined by Mr Cawver the Tester said Remanded from last Thursday, the case in that Amoy tias varied somewhat in weight, which a trader named Lo Sau Sing, residing at depending on whether the tins were single or 25, Connaught Road West, sued the Ying Tak double and upon the thickness of the tin. Loong firm, Californian merchants, of 206, Those made of thick tin might weigh as much Des Voeux Road, to recover $152, money alleged 85 4 tahils and 7 chees. These were medium bay for the site of the dockyard, when the the greatest Powers,' ‚At present it is only igued in order to secure the adhesion the Mackay Treaty is always thor to remind
to have been deposited with the defendant, was continued this afternoon (zand inst.), in the Supreme Court, before Mr. Justice Gompertz.
Mr. J. H. Gardiner (of Messrs. Brutton and Hett) appeared for the plaintiff. Mr. G. E. Mor rall (of Messrs. Goldring, Barlow and Morrell) represented the defence.
sized lios,
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The Maiste said that he thought the chaou should be sent to the Goverment An alyst to be weighed accurately.N
Mr. Elliot suggested that the ship was being detained of tremendous loss to the Company.
An adjournment was taken till this after- noon, the chaudu to be weighed in the mean- time by the Government Apalyst.
Under bis guidance thëre is no reason to doubt that Russia and China will resume their traditional friendship. Coter minous with Chica throughout such an immense distance, Russia must. always bulk in the counsels in Teking as
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RELATIONS WITH GREAT BRITAIN. though she has every reason to be dissatisfied England has no serious question with Chios, Withhehopeless confusion of Chicosa currency with the anatisfactory condition of Chivasa mining regulations, with the multiplication of likin barriers, the arbitrary interference with in- land trade, and disregard of transit passen. She bas, in fact, many ressons to complain that so many provisions of the Mackay Treaty, devised: By the Protocol of Lisbon, signed on March for the improvement of commercial interconris, 20th, 1887, China confirmed the perpetual remain a dead letter; and it is being a ques occupation and government of Macko and its tion whether some remonstrance should not dependencies by Portuguesa possession." The be addressed to the Chinese Government to Protocol was signed on behalf of China by M. abolish enzuchs and domestic slavery and re. traction of guilt by, torlara' is still universal J. D. Campbell, the representative of the Chi-organize the administration of justice. Ex- Dese Maritime Customs in London. It was
pl throughout the Empire, though Article ra of Macio to the Hongkong Opium Convention of September 11th, 1886. Later in the year the the world that "Chink having expressed a treaty arising from the Protocol was signed in strong desire to reform ber judicial system and bring it into accord with that of Western Peking, but the Chinese refused to insert the words and its dependaacies The treaty was Rations Great Britain' agrees to give every Various concessions are the subject of signed on December 1st, 1887, with this omis Assistance to such reform.”
proceed to painted by both Goverments shell the delimitation of the boundaries which shall be determined by a special convention, Twenty years have passed, and the demais tion of the boundaries has never been proceed
the Kiang, Pal Concession in Szechuan pro vince, and the Anbui' Mining Concession at Ta-tung gear to Wu-bu. Ja the latter case, a
A Tokyo dispatch to the Asaki states that Mr.-C.-Loones, he arrived in Tokyo on the Ist instant from Paris, left for the South on-the- altersoon of the 7th instant by rail. His jour. ney to the outh, adds the dispatch, is to inves tigate the construction of a dockyard at Maji projected by two French companies. Mr. Loosen is to visit. Kokubo - bay, Mojí, and obtain information from an engineer concern ing the geological features and the depth of water where the dockyard is to be constructed. At first it was planned to construct the dock yard on an elaborate scale at an estimated cost of Y20,000,000. The plan was, how- ever, amended, and the estimate cut down to V700,000 One-half of the amount was paid up, and land purchased on the beach at Kokubo
financial crisis occurred abroad and affected Japan, and the construction of the dockyard in North Manchuria that her interests clash had to be postponed. Of late the financial with those of China. In what are called the "Railway Settlements at Harbia and other situation in Europe hasmuch improved, and the prospects for the construction of the dockyard points along the Russian Manchurian Railway became hopeful. The ceremony of inauguration large tracts of territory have been purchased of the undertaking was accordingly held on the by the Russian Failway Company; and accord 3rd instant, and the sea front at Kobuko bay to? lng to Article VI. of the Railway Contract of sion, It stipulated that "Commissioners #P" negotiation' with the Chinese, among others the extent of 10,000 tsubo was awarded to Mr, the 8th September, 1895, "La société auss lo droit absolu et exclusif de l'administration de Mizuno, of Kure. The work is expected to
cas lerrains Under this clause the railway be completed in five or six months. When the operations for reclamation are completed, claims and exercises full Jurisdiction and ad- a dock 570 feet in length will be constructed, ministrative authority. "Foreigners, as well and if the dockyard proves a success, he works Russing and. Chinese subjects, who may will be extended. Learning of the Meji Dock acquire the right to reside, hold property, and yard scheme, anys our Japanese contemporary, carry on business within the precincts of the the Mitsu Hishi Company, which was has territory of the railway" must sign AD agree scheme on foot to constract a dockyard, pur meat attested by their Consuls that they will chased, in the name of a certain Mr. Ono, land (1) obey all police, building, sanitary, and at various important points in Tanoura and trade regulations in force or subsequently to Kokubo, with a view of checking the under be promulgated; (b) pay all taxes and dues taking of the French capitalists, and has the imposed at the will of the administration or prevented the latter from any possibility of ac municipality; (c) forfait or abandon all right to quinng land in Tanours for the extension of have recourse, legal or national, to any redress held that the Captain was none the less their dockyard-Japan Chronicle, Awliness for the defence testified that when liable. The fact that the chabdu found did |· he first met the plaintiff be spoke of going not equal-row-tahils, which ba_now_admitg to Balion Cruz, Witness saw plaintiff giveted, did not clear the accused, The Ordinance his passage money to one Cheng Bai Ying, the merely said that the discovery of 100 tabils was father of the managing partner of the defendant to be held as prima facie evidence of its im firm. Soon after plaintiff had been refused portation. When less than too tabils was dis passage Cheng Sal Ying died The money covered, it was merely necessary for sufficient was not banded to anyone connected with the proof of the importation to be given in evidence. Mr. Elliet contended that when the total was defendant firm,
less than 103 tahils, the onus rested upon the prosecution to prove that there was complicity. on the part of the Captain or crew. This had not been proved..
THE “KONG HOH” RELEASED, CAPTAIN. BAINBRIDGE. ACQUITTED ON CHANDU CHARGE,
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In this case the reader will remember the plaintiff, who was termed a "ignoraut" man from the interior of China, came down to Hong- kong to take passage for Balina Cruz. He had a faw friends in the Colony, among whom was the managing partner of the defendant firm. The Straits Times 61.15th inst. says Mr. J. Plaintiff was alleged to have deposited S163 8 W. Arthur, the Fourth Magistrate, conclud- in the defendant firm for his passage ticketed, yesterday afternoon, the case against Cap The price of the ticket amounted to $180 taia Bainbridge, of the local meamer Hong Noh, and a plaintiff was short of Sto a friend who was charged with being master of a ship made up the balance for him. The ticket was used for the importation of chaudu, abtained and plaintiff proceeded on board the M. F. M. Elliot, who appeared for the Cap. Bwi Sang. He was placed under a medical ain, said that the Government Analyst had examination, but failed to pass, the doctor ow- found that the chandu weighed 9.49 tabila and ing to defective eye-sight. The ticket was the dross 3.33 thails, making a total of 98:43 returned to the defendants, and plaintiff drew inla portios of the money, but the remainder heMr. G. S. Carver, for the Opium. Farm,
asid he never gol.
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Mr. Morrell submitted that his case.
se a purely a personal one, and had nothing to do with the defendant shop.
Mr. Gardiner contended that Cheng Bai Ying "had chop' similar to that of the Ying Ta
Lang firm, Why should he have such a chop if he had no condection with that firm) he
Baked He thought the defendant firm liable.
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THE CHIENTAO-CONFLICT: !
A REASSURING, VERSION,"
or compensation in the event of the adminis tration decreeing the forfeiters of ble lease, the suspension or closure of his business, and the demolition, at his expense, of any buildings created by him, for non-compliance by the lessen or tenant under the railway with any regulation,
JAPAN.
ed with--that is now the difficulty.
There have been occasions since the Tets weary incident when the dispute might have become complicated but for the friendly inter- position of the British Legation, At present" negotiations in Peking are stispended ponding the arrival of the new governor of Mateo, Liant. enant-Colonel.A. Recadas, when delegates appointed by him and by the Legation in Pa- king will meet the representatives of the Vice- roy of Canton and proceed to the delimitation.
considerable portion of the shares are held by Japanese. Participation was, in the first place, offered to the Chinese, who declined, the offer just as they declined to participate in the South Manchurian Railway Company,
The blocking of goods traficon the Shangkaj-
Nasking Railway, in the interests of compating Post traffic, affects China mainly, for she is responsible for the's per cent. Interest on the capital and has herself to make good the deff clancy, lo the case of the Hangchow Ningpe consideration, and benevolence that has:mist Railway England has treated Chins/withia with little requittal Of minor questions, bas of considerable, interest has to deal with the raising of the status of the diplomatic repre sentative of India in Kasbgaria, where the British agent, & mort-capable and trustworthy. official, has long had to occupy, a position of much inferiority to that of the Russian Coumi. General, though one interests there are :) of considerabla. importance. DONNE
THE YUNNAN FRONTIER, With France China has no question of any importance except that arising from the Yun- nan frontier incident. The negotiations are following a normal-course, Chian-bas-pald the indemnity of 250,000 fixaca, and is engaged in inquiring into the culpability of the culprits. Her reply regarding more Tokio, October 16, As Russia claims and exercises these rights ample recognition of the rights of the two
Finally, we have good reason: to be satisfad In regard to the fighting at Chientan on the in the North, so Japan claims and exercisca Anglo-French mining companies in Yunnan
is not regarded as satisfactory, for it simply with the increasing authority of the British rath instant, the unofficial Japanean version is similar rights in the South, where she has he to the effect that Chinese soldiers obstructed coma heir to all rights and privileges secured refers back to the original agreements, the Legation and the remarkable spread of the some Koreans who were constracting barracks by Russia onder her original railway agree.avation of which has boan'a chief ground of knowledge of English, leading to, higher for the Japanese gendarmeria. The gendarmer monts. In the exercise of there rights Japan complaint. And the Viceroy has not yet baon national efficiency, as wall as to tranck Muller Mr. Carver was quito prepared to admit that interfered. Eventually both gendarmes and forbids the Imperial railways of North China removed. Reports reaching Poking from for latercourse with the peopley official and chara there bad bean no complicity on the part of the Chinese soldier received reinforcements until from entering the Chinese city Mukden, and, elggers in the Province, other than the Franch with At the Walewa pa beside the Minimal Captains acquitted the Captains and obseo hours, but the incident the spacese railway At Kwaschéngiss, of the action of the Viceroy during the recent English spanking secretárias, med lerar a altoise whopping they numbered twenty and sixty respectively interdicts the Chinese railway from crossing officials interested in his removal, speak highly. Liang Ton-you, there is a highly trained MAE of was subsequently sotiled amicably. Two or Tishling, Mukdar, Liao-yana and other large troubles in repelling the raid and preventing try in Poking has now competent interpretuen * Three Japanese were wounded.—N, G.D; News," cities of Manchuria past which her Souk Mase the extension of the movement into the laterfor, versed in foIS ER WATK
The Magistrate
that she might sail that argolog,
His Lordship gave judgment for the defend. | ordered; the immediate 'release of the steamer