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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
FITY THE POOR LANDLORD:
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19 1908.
NGS THE PEAN TRAGEDY,
STATAMENTS MADE BY THE ACCUBED..
The three men who are accused of murder- ing a shopkeeper (Ku Tung) at the Peak on the 22nd-ullo, under circumstances already reported in these columns, were brought up os remand at the Police Court, this afternoon.
Mr. 1. R. Wood presided. Detective Ser-* weant Terrell and Sergeant McKay (of Mount Gough Police Station) again conducted the case for the police, while Mr. R. D. Atkinson (of Mr. Deacon, Locker and Deacon) represent
ed the defence..
detective stated that he boarded a junk, which More evidence of arrest was given, A Chinese was moored outside Salt Fish Lane, the other day. The junk was about to leave for Hei Fung.. On proceeding to the hold he found the third defendant alter there. A large-sized dagger was found at bis side,
would be used at once, and orders given that it must pass current at a certain value. But like a great many other reforms which seemed admirabicion paperthese declarations came to, nothing. If anything happened S. WATSON & CO., at all it was to render still more chaotic the varying currency of the country and to enrich the moneychangers and the native banks at the expense of the ordinary indivis dual who was obliged to have recourse to their indulgence. There is not the slightest, doubt that the task of establishing the cut rency of China on a sound and uniform basis is one of almost colossal magnitude, CHEMISTS & DRUGGISTS, especially when it is remembered that the great majority of the population knows little &c., &c.
of and cares nothing for the exigencies of HY APPOINTMENT TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE rade or international questions in which China is concerned. Not only that, but in every other provnice the currency stands on a foundation of its own, the outcome of cus
establishment of a national tael or dollar which shall be of a standard value through out the Empire is therefore a thing incom- chronic, and lingering coughs and colds,prehensible to them and an object of suspi. and he found the water pouring through his don't possess. But what is to become of men were all cautioned, and asked if they had Rellevas, hoarseness, sore throat, tickling glon, involving as it would the overthrown
fall prevalent ideas and the virtual sugges- tion that micestral ways must be consigned to the limbo of the past. The Chinese TABLETS.Government is therefore faced with an ex- remely intricate work, requiring the greatest diplomatic skill and finesse, when it sets Speedily relieves influeairs, cold in the out to convince the villagers of the interior bead, ingezing, &c.
GOVERNOR and, HoustHOLD.
Mackay treaty will be enforced is as for cary. That a cause of action therefore..oc- off as ever, if not farther. In conclusion,curred inthe circumstances, we have no doubt we might note that if the Chinese Govern on another famillar principle which deals ment adopted a uniform tael the solation of with accumulations of water on your property how to improve the Hongkong subsidiary which amount to a non-natural use, of it." currency might be within, sight,
Of course that led His Lordship into a dir- sertation on what constituted structural de fects, and he found that the appellants hadn't the ghost of a leg to stand on. Householders in Hongkong, both occlMoreover, he gave the common-sense view piers and owners must have read yesterday of the matter in the following terms: "And with no lide interest and attention the the practical result of our decision is the judgment of the Appeal Court in the land-common sense one that if landlords demise lord and tenant case, which was a sequel to rooms, or flats, or floors, covered by a roof, the last typhoon. Briefly, Mr. Goldring, it is their duty to see that all parts of that solicitor, sued the Humphreys Eitate and roof, with its appurtenances, are in good and Finance Company, his landlord, for $500, working order, without any correlative duty being damages suffered by him in con- being thrown on the tenant to warn them or sequence of the company failing to keep give them notice of their being out of repair. his premises in, a proper state of repair. The landlord's duty arises out of their rela 11 appeared that after the storm on the tionship to the tenant if there is no covenant,
ceiling of his verandab was showing signs of After all, if you are not entitled to a roof dampness, but there was no leakage. Two when you hire a house you are certainly days later there was another heavy rainstorm not required by law to pay for the thing you roof and verandal and causing damage to those venturesome people who when pro-any statements to make. his personal effects, What the effects were cessions and ceremonies are in vogue, we are not told nor is it necessary "we promptly climb up unasked? If you are a should know. The lower Court presumably landlord, probably the simplest way out of estimated the damage for itself when it gave the difficulty would be push them over judgment in favour of the plaintiff to the gently, so that there could be no cause for amount stated. An appeal was made by the an action for assault., landlord company to the Full Court and the judginent delivered yesterday by the Chief Justice was of sufficient'importance tobequot-
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The Peking Debacle.
PRINCE CHING DEAD.
YUAN SIIIII-KAI IN THE ASCENDANCY.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Shanghai, 19th November,
2.40 p.m.
Three representatives from each of the Foreign Legations were invited
WATSON'S BALSAM OF ANISEED, tom, convenience or local expediency. The 28th July, the tenant discovered that the it arises out of the covenant if there is one of the 17th instant the third defendant was to witness the Iving in state of
$0.50 and $1.00.
A reliable reready for all severe, acute,
in the throat, and difficulty in breathing,
„WATSON'S COLD CURE
$0.60.
WATSON'S COUGH LOZENGES,
$0.75, "
For alleviation of bronchitis, boarseness,
LOCAL AND GENERAL.........
ed inextense. It affects, as we have indicated,THE Philippine Government telegraphs the every individual in the Colony who is an U. S. Consulate: "No cases cholars yesterday owner of property or holds the lesser part of (Wednesday)."
tenant, for it may be taken for granted that TWENTY-FOUR subscription griffies have been
Sergeant McKay said that on the afternoon to the Palace in Peking on Saturday! identified among a gang of ten others.
This closed the case for this prosecution: Mr. Atkinson said that in the case of the second
defendant he would reserve his defence, The,
Their late Majesties the Emperor and Emprese Dowager of China
The Doyen of the Diplomatio Corps, on behalf of his colleagues, The final defendant said that on the day in question he was his. to the tram station to falch his master, eign Powers with the Chinese Gov- way expressed the condolences of the For When he got as far as jardine's house ha saw a number of Jardine's coplies fighting.ernment and people on the death of He remained there for four or five minutes watching the fight. Then his foki came up
Their Imperial Majesties. and he went along to meet his master, who came up by the 1215 tram. At 12.20 bawas master at home, he went back to Jardine's carrying him home. After be deposited bis house to see the result of the fight. A cook saw him and called z lutong. De (defendant) ran home, and was arrested by Policeman'
be alarmed but to go with the policeman. The officer took him to where the dead. body was lying and thence to the police station. He was accompanied all the way by the cook, who accused him of killing the deceased.
coughs, asilima, colds, and disorders of the larger issues at stake out of consideration one result of this decision will be a drastic re-shipped per sa: Kwang Sang and may be ex- Farqabarson. His master told him not to
the throat and lunks.
WATSON'S
WILD CHERRY COUGH SYRUP,
that any chauger introduced are necessarily for the better. When the Council or Com
hitsion which was appointed by the Chinese Government to inquire into and report on the uniform national currency scheme came to frame their views they ingeniously left
and brought the matter down to a question of dollars r. taels, invoking, at the same Lime, the spirit of the people in their right to stand aloof from other nations. Well, if China wishes to abide by the tael and its sulmidiary fractions nobody has any desire to offer the slightest objection but it is pure sophistry and ignorance to work, into financial report such high-falutin? nonsense as the following which appears in the report to the Imperial Government: "From the point of view of national digauly it seems lo us that we ought to try and stand alone, and For colds in the Clest, bronchitis, core that we cannot afford to throw away our sovereign rights in order to gratify the wishes of others; while from the point of view of ÀS. WATSON & CO., the people we should follow a course suitable to the greater number, and not change a
$0.75,
Highly recommended.
WATSON'S MBROCATION,
throat, &
$0.60.
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vision of the terms of the agreement entered into between the owner and, the tenant. We may say at once that the appeal was dismissed. and the judgment of the lower court upheld. tory,
It
were suspected of being there to commit
to sleep:
has to be noted that according to the Two coolies were each given a week's imprison Puisné Judge's finding no structural defectment for being found in an unoccupied bouse is alleged and it appears that the damage in Queen's Road West this morning. They was caused by water which had accumulated felony. Their excuse was that they went there in large quantity, on the roof owing to the gutter pipes becoming blocked, They were found to be choked with rubbish and grass. leaves of trees, and "black matter" and also with plaster from the wall. The pipes were apparently cleared without difficulty by the plaintiff's coulic who was set up on the roof, and the accumulated water there upon escap ed. The agreement, upon which the original claim hinged, said distinctly that the land,
A COOLIE was charged in the Police Court, 10 day, with being is possession of a quantity of cartridges without a permit. Defendant said that he had bought the ammunition for a friend in Macao. He was fined $5, and the cartridges
were forfeited.
In the evening on sath lust, at ghaom a strong earikquake was felt in the Visayas Islands, the
A CONTRACTOR'S CLAIM,
AN OLD MAN'S AFFAIRE.
afternoon, Mr. Justice Gomperix presiding, a In the Court of Summary Jensdiction this somewhat complicated case was heard, when Li Tak Chun, a contractor of 19, Wellington Street, sued H. S. Cooper, a Parice merchant carrying on business at 77, Wyndham Street, to recover the sum of Str1.39 for work done in colour washing and repairs to some houses in Mosque Street. Mr. P. W. Goldring, of Messrs. Goldring, Barlow and Morrell, appeared for the plaintiff, while Mr. Quo Kong sing represented
The second defendant explained that he was
foki to the first defendant. He was on his
way to bonow some money when he saw the
fight, he said, near Jardine's house, between Jardine's coolies. While he was looking on he was struck on the head with a back. The wound bled freely, some of the blood, soiling his trousers. He bad two pairs of trousers on at the time. He took off the blood-stained one" and hang it on a pole to dry. He got thirty cents from his friend, and while he was sitting there waiting for the trousers to dry a police man came up and arrested bim
The third defendant said: "I arrived here
4.15 p.m. Prince Ching died at noon yester day (Wednesday).
[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."]
Peking, 19th November, Prince Ching died yesterday between ong and three o'clock in the afternoon.
Yuan Shih-kai is all powerful in Peking.
18th. November,
5. P
All is quiet within the Palace and the Offices of the Grand Councillors.
Wild rumours are now subsiding. The reports concerning the fleeing of Yuan Shil kai to the British Legation and the attempt to set Prince Pu-jun upon the Throne are untrue.
Later.
Upon the announcement of the death of
Waiwupu delegated an Official to proceed to the members of the Diplomatic Corps with an assurance that full protection will be afforded the Foreign Legations.
Prince Chun, the Regent, is attending to the affairs of State at the office of the Cabinet and confers with the widow of the late Em peror once every day.
away in the country for seven months. He begged leave to return to Tibet forthwith, was brought before the Court and charged
The Central Government urged the Pontif with having arms without a licence. On that to defer his departure, which he has agreed charge he appeared before Mr. Wood twice
:8 ppi.
Cach occasion was discharged. To bis surprise he was then arrested for murder. It
was two years ago since he was in-Mr. Gres-
son's employ, and, according to a police officer, it was Mr. Greason coolie who killed
the man,
Celegraph nodal cu caries out quietly and would crops. That is Messast sircet (NOA, a dos 19). The balance have bean commited the first defendant was
The Hongtang Celegraph
ant was called to the witness stand and exam.
The Coin-How many persons took part in ' the fight you sAW?
to do.
A
The Grand Councillors have approached the Prince Regent to take up his quarters in the Imperial Palace. His Royal Highness cannot acquiesce in the request for the present.
'IMPERIAL EDÍCTS.
November 15th.
tradition of the country for the convenience lords would "keep the roof and all exterior Centre of which lies near the southern part of on the 3th October-that is to say, the the Emperor and the Empress Dowager, the
Panay Island; during the night and this mori day the junk, 'on' which I was found, came of open ports or trading ports. This is as walls of the said premises in a proper tenning some minor after-shocks were felt., Itin. On the 31st the police came on board much a fundamental principle for our autable sinic of repair and amendment, Attems that there was a secondary, centre neat and searched the vessel. They examined the [33. guldance, in making the enactment to their own coals,"
"The question now arose Surigao. On the art inst, morning, at ab 58m, licence of the beat. I was arrested. The relison of the police visit was to see that `day, as it will be an essential factor for whether the landlord (that is to say, the 8h 45m and th 34m the seismographs at the future success of the measure itself."company) was responsible for carrying out Maaila registered also, seismic disturbances the number of arms on board was noted on the licence. When questioned about the All commencampa" hitonded or publication in If the Chinese prefer a currency based on repairs of which he had not received from a distant centre situated probably at a
The TONGKONG TELEGRAPH bond be the tael well and good, but at least let there notice, and it appears to be sound law distance of about zo,coo Km, from the Aratma 1. spoke in a very loud tone and they addressed to The Altare, den Home Boad, nudbe a common standard so that those dealing that in those cases where the landlord
chipelago.
anested me, for, I thought at the time, creating a disturbance. The police asked me with the country and having extensive stakes agrees to be responsible for, the, repairs he
why i made such a noise sad wanted to know there may know where they stand. An is entitled to reasonable no ice by the tenant
everything about me. I told them I was
The Dalai Lama, upon hearing of the objection is dragged forth, only for the pur. And the reason for that is quite clear: in
formerly employed by Mr. Gresson, and that death of the Emperor and Empress Dowager, pose that it may be knocked down again, the majority of instances where repairs are
I had returned from the country." He was that, to nationalise the tael as against the necessary they are not likely to meet the eye dollar, would tend to increase the cost of of the landlord whereas the tenant has N RATES (IN ADVANCR).
living, but as the common people deal mostly them staring him in the face every day. Bar per annum
in cash the suggestion is seen to be absurd Moreover, he would be a genial and some WEEKLY-13 per autom
on the face of In the case of Siam, what soft-headed tenant who would permit -The rules per quarter and per mensem, proportional.
Thì daily lana in delivered free when the adilpéus in:
when that country resolved to put her his landlord to poke and pry about his pre- socomble to inessenger. coples sont by posan currency on a gold basis, there was mises, at any hour of the day what he might additions! $1.50 per quarter in charged for postage..great fear for a time that the peasantry and take the idea into his head. But in this "The postage wn the weekly issue to any part of the labouring class, being unable to understand case, the point was that it was the roof that
why they should receive seven ticals a month had been damaged and, speaking for our-the defendant. •.
Mr. Davidson said that he had reserved the in place of the ten to which they had been selves, we should have thought that if there
The plaintiff, an old, hearded contractor, defence with regard to the second defendant. As accustomed, would create trouble at the out- was one place, about the house which the said he carried on business at 69, Wellington regarded the first defendant he would endeavour Jupati proposed to withdraw the Legation' set. But nothing happened and the con- landlord would not be likely to visit Street. He spoke to having entered into a to prove an alibi. He would attempt to prove Guards before the end of this (Chinese) year version of the currency from the silver to a would naturally be the roof. That is the contract with the defendant for five houses in that at the time the murder was supposed to but in view of the death of the Emperor and almost without remark. Of course, the no law at all. Now what do you lease when due to him was 525. On the 24th October last, taking his master home for tiffic. The defend. Empress Dowager the contemplated with be sent a bill for $86.30 to defendant's office. HONGKONG, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 19, 1958: Conditions in Sianas well as in Singapore you lease a flat? So far as we can make out witness admitted that there was no written con. ined. He told the same story as already given carried out yet,
drawal of the Japanese troops will not be -are very different from those prevailing in the only thing the tenant has a right to use MORḤ LIGHT ON CHINA'S.
China, because in the former country the in that dat is the floor, for the Chief Justice the contracting parties. He had only received
Tract but merely a verbal agreement between above.
CURRENCY POSITION.
foreign banks are practically masters of the says he is clearly of opinion that it is a Sto on account, the rest of the money 'not situation; whereas in China every Viceroy lease of the interior only; that it gives no having been paid to him.. Plaintiff denied that While the present unsettled condition of who has a mint under his control is a self- right to the lessee as against the landlord. he had agreed to do the work for nothing. Imperial affairs in China precludes the constituted financier possessed of arbitrary to use, except by legal necessity, either the Questioned as to the date when the work wis notion that any radical changes in the and extensive powers. And it is always to outside walls or the roof or anything ap-started, witness said that it commenced in direction of financial reform may be"antici- the interest of the Master of the Mint to see purtaining thereto." This is a fine piece of March. pated for some time to come, it is always that the institution is kept at full swing for business. Once upon a time when people said that he finished the work in Mosque Street Cross-examined by Mr. Kong Siop, plaintiff Interesting to read the complacent decrees the greater the output the greater the profit, were commiserating an unfortunate waif towards the end of August, at the end of which and reports which emanate from the Minis- and the greater the contribution, to they would say: Poor fellow! He hasn't he gave a feceipt for $135 in fall settlement tries-at-Peking on this subjectThe unini Peking the greater the chance of even roof to his head." If they had only of the contract. He received $100 and the tiated might be inclined to think that once promotion. In one paragraph the Council known it; half of the sympathising crowd-was balkoce of 515 was promised to be refunded to Did you hear what the cause of the fight the decree had been circulated the question settled the fate of the dollar so far as not entitled to a roof over their own heads. him until some work of a minor nature at the }, was? --No, had been settled for all time, and reforms they were concerned: "As regards the The answer to the question, why isn't the defendant's office was completed, to which Do you know the cook who called the police would begin right away, How far that is national dollar coined by the Board of tenant entitled to the use of the roof over the plaintiff agreed Out of this 515, Sɛjo when he saw you ?—I did not then, but I know from being the fact those who know their Finance the year before last, as an ex- him? is that if he were, and being of a bold, plaintiff himself applied for the contract to be Mr. Halworthy asid that the first defendant
was paid to a carpenter on office account. him now. China are but too well aware, On this periment, the intention was to make. use enterprising disposition, he might efect awarded to bim but did not offer to repair was employed in his service as chair coolie. question of finance in particular the Chinese of this coin temporarily, as being known sky-sign on the roof illuminating the heavens defendant's office for nothing in consideration Ife instructed his ceofits to meet him at the have dallied until the patience of saints to the people and easy to catablish. But if for miles around with the thrilling announce of the contract being given to him. He had a tram station at 12.30 might well have been deemed to be less a uniform currency is to be sought, the ment that the A.D.C, or some other popular partner named Ching Wa Cheung. He lost or 12.30 car be caught. When he arrived at weak and tired. Bis- Melasty is therefore It was either the iz sleep..or cat and is consequently feeling vary than a virtue. It was in 190s that the standard can only be fixed after far-reaching affair was on duty to-night. That would money in the contract to the extent of Spoo, the Peak be found the chair and thres mon very auxious about his health and commanda Mackay treaty was passed, and in one of its investigation, and the present memorialists never do. And now, perhaps the reader Plaintiff denied that it was his partner who waiting for bim. The first defendant was one all Tartar Generals, Viceroys and Governors articles the Chinese Government explicitly have formed the conclusion, after carefully can see how it is that although under had prompted him to take proceedings, of them. He did not appear to him to have to send the best physicians whether of official agreed to proceed immediately to consoli-weighing all considerations, that the long most conditions the tenant has to give notice for a cosalderable time.
By Mr. Goldring-The repairs were going on been excited. The three coolies took him to rank or not in their respective provinces za date and arrange the currency of the Empire established use of the tael and its fractions in this case he was absolved ? To make
bis house-51 Mount Kellott-which took Paking to attend His Majesty at once, Special so that at length a uniform national currency the mace, candareen and wil-can hardly things, perfectly clear we quote the Chief stand. Of these, Au Chun, who said he lived had been is his employ for about three months reator His Majesty ip health and the Tartar "Three other witnantes were called to the about quarter of an hour. The first defendant | Honours will be bestowed on those who can might be established. It would be unfair, be altered or abolished,” Questions are Justice. "As there was
was to demise of that in the basement of defendant's-offiée, caused and his conduct was very satisfactory at Ganesals, Viceroys and Governors who recócá perhaps, to allege that up to the pre- discussed as to the fineness of the coin and part of the promises which were out of repair, agme merriment by saying he was a cook and The Court Is the second defendant one of mended them will be handsomely rewarded. scut nothing has been done to give effect such-like futile matters which do not arise at the doctrine of notice cannot apply, for the a broker, and seemed to be ignorant of his on your coolies?—No," He was a substitute for
An Imperial Decree has this day bean inned that agreement, for the simple reason the moment, but we find na definite recomatraple reason that the lessor can go on the conscious humour. Abdul Rahim, Moham two days. I was not responsible for his pay, giving Prince Chun, the Regent, precedan that from time to time, we have seen the mendation that an immediate start should roof to inspect, and the lessee cannot. He medan architect, also gavo evidence... The other coolie who butt hil. Tot paid him, over all other Imperial' Princes and Miniatura Authorities at the various Mints making be made with the proposal to reforut, the would certainly in law be as much a trespas Goldring and the presiding judge as to the absentes
There was some discussion between Mr. When you saw your chair that day be wis the of Skate. the bold assertion that at length they currency of the country, nothing but windy ser as the lessor in the case put by Baronation of costs. Counsel asked for, Way of Witness asked, where the absentee was and
overy An Imparial Dacres has been issued confer had found a solution of the question, generalitics which might have been, framed Bramwell in Makin v. Watkinson. The align, which was refused, and that a uniform dollar which would re-by a pedlar of cheap goods. So that the reason for the rule as to notice fall, forudgument was entered for the defendant had a bipkan hand.
hs'was told that thâm, had been a fight and he place the existing coin-whatever it might be | dawn of the day when the terms of the the lessor 'may know that ropaics are necesita corta
The keszeg conlaned
Defendant-About six Hok-los and ten Punti
man.
Who won?—I saw the cooliss of Jardine's
driven away.
1:
* Did you take part in 185,fight 7 –No.
You saw your clansmen driven off and you
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A Decree was this day issued by Hor Majesty the Empress Dowager appointing Tsal Feng (Prince" Chân), Regent and.com- manding that Prince Chun's son. Pa Yi be brought up and educated in the Imperial Palace..
Novembar 35th, took no part ?--I had to go to fetch may mastering that His Majesty the Emperor has been An Imperial Decree has been issued sunounce Were there many spectators? No. I was indisposed since the Automa of last year and the.only.000,.————
that the physicians sent to Peking to attend His Majesty by the Tartar Generals, Viceroys and Governors in: obedience to the Imperial) Command have lailed to effect a cure. Farber- morn His Majesty's condition bas lately base como very critical. The Imperial patient
has no appetite for food, la suffering from severe attack of indigestion, has caugh and fever and paralyala in the legs, cannot
ring the Degree of Ku Rm (M.A.) on-a number of returned military, stádants and pointing them Captains and Lieutenants of