Question of Domicile.
IMPORTANT DÉCISION ON THE POINT.
HMOTION CHINAMEN DOMICILED IN „HONGKONG." ·
The important point, which was raised thin "other'day,"ns|to'whether a man; not being a resident, nor andng a place of business is the Colony, could be adjudged a bankrupt in Hongkongwe decided by Sir Francis Figgott (Chiul Justice) in the Supreme Court, last Monday,
His Lordship, is solving the polot; said:- The question raised in this case which concern the Biokruptcy jurisdiction of this cour Over Intelguurs ari of ins atmost importance. I have Elated at thim on one or two occasions but „„this: is the fist one which they have given rise in serious arrument and I shall deal with the maiter as faly as possible because a larger proportion of the trade of the Colony is done with Chinam carrying on business here, and in mine-tentis, of the bankruptcy petitions which come before the Court the debtor is Chinaman, and therefore, the fundamental principles on which English bankpuptcy juris- diction is band are involved in almost every case in which i have to deal. The import ance of the question arises from the fact that where a Chinaman trades as so many of them do in ther parts of the East as well as. Hoogkony it is almost impossible to localise the effect of Abankruptcy in this colony...... I do not thisl there can be much dispute as to the facts excipt as to one point to view of the law which I am going to lay down in this judgment the point is not really of first im portance beciuse ha is a Chinaman and I do apt ses much evidence that be ever traded generally though he appears to have incurred debts in the Odoay. It is however advisab & that I should express an opinion on the point. Was the debtor a nsident in Hongkong, who went dowa to Aamam to buy cinnamon which he then brought ip to the Colony to dispose of, or was he a résident in Annam who bought cinnamon them and brought it up to the Colony to dispose of Amt of opinion that the latter are the true facts; think it probable that he had done this on previous occasions but I do. not think that is material.
Having dealt with the general law his Lord. ship considered the facts of the case and in do "Jag so said—The debtor certainly was not domiciled, is the Colony and as 1 bare said on a previous occasion I do not suppose there are roo Chinames is the Colony who are domiciled here, as the larger number of these who reside here, all desire and intend to return to China whenever they have made canugh money or when commercial adversity compels tham.
Oo the question of residance his Lordship held that the debtor's occupation of the cubicle was temporary, that it was only to last till the business for which he came to the Colony was concluded, and be found great difficulty in 186- lng how a residence, which was immediately temporary, could at the rame 'time be des- cribed as an ordinary" Continuing, his "Lordship unid=The Important question 15
Was this a place of business in the Colony? What is required is not merely carrying on
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY DECEMBER 19 1908.
Bank Compradore's
Bankruptcy.
WEI LONG SHAN'S CASE.
APPLICATION TO RESCIND REOLIVING ORDER,
in the Bankruptcy Jurisdiction Court, ist Monday forenoon, as application was made to the Chief Justice to rescind Receiving Order in the matter of Wei Long shan or phrie Yaen Hing,
*** For little more than two years after my, 10- turn to Hongkong in 1882, i was without, any regular employment, boi l'assisted in collecting rants of property forming part of my late father's estate, and in 1885 joined the Eastern Exten sion and Great Northern Telegraph Companist is Hongkong as their compradore. In the year 1858, while acting as such' compradore, I ber assistant compradore to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank,
came
Swatow Opium Restrictions,
REPORTED REMOVAL.
NO OFFICIAL PROCLAMATION 163UED.
A
RACING GOSSIP.
+INTERESTING CHAT, BY QUR OWN
#CONTRIBUTOR., A
FLOUR RATE TO HONGKONG.
COMPLAINTS OF FUGET SOUND’MILLERS.
The Soatile, Pod 'ol Now, et saya (--- Taars was an unexpected tum in Oriental rains yası Now that the inübecription, griffies;havs ar, rived, or most of them, the duty falls upon a torday, when W. D. Benson, Agent for the of keeping maders of the Hongkong Telegraph Transpacific Tariff Bursan, announced that the posted on all matters
racibg.
page for rate on flour to Hongkong had been reduced. It was brought to my notice the other day from $3.0 to $3 per ton of 2,000 pounder Talu *#1, have always regarded Hongkong as my In reference to the enforcement of the mean that some people had come to the cou change took effect at once, although there was no sailing for the Far East yesterday, except the home, and before, I left for Canton in April, polistic regulations, relating to opium, within clusion that the ponies were the best ever Nippon fosen Kaisha liner Tord Mary, whose 1995, I was living with my family in a European Swatow and the outlying prefectures, with the landed in the Colony. It was rather prema cargo was not affected or per bailt house in Cabe Road,
was resultant practical stoppage in the export of ture at the time to advance such an opinion, the owner of leasehold property valued at about opium from Hongkong to the Coast ports, on but that is only by the way. There are others,isunderstood that this sudden action. www. taken at the request of Pugal sound millere 5420,oco in Hongkong and I have sever in impeachabin information reaches on at a late however, whose opinions vary. The ponies, who have been complaining of poor business tended to abandon the domicile obtained by hour last Saturday afternoon, that the restrictive one expert was heard to remark, are
in the Orient. The suspicions of the millers Mr. John Hastings appeared on behalf of the reason of my birth in the British Colony of regulations are reported to have been removed, the ordinary stamp, but you can scarcely say have been aroused by the heavy shipments of Bank of Taiwan, Ltd. (judgment creditors). Hongkong "
This desired resalt must be traced to the that they are the best. The expert went on Mr. R. V. Atkinson, of Messrs. Deacon, Looker Continuing. Mr. Dennys stated that the deb prompt representations by the British Consul to say that is the time test was not, called for flour from Portland while the movement of this mod Deacon, represented the petitioning creditor never intended to relinquish hit domicile, General at Canton on behalf of the opium at Shanghai, the, ponies only being put to commodity from Faget sound bar bean^ax- tor, on whose petition the Receiving Order was and added that no was n ). P. in this Calony, merchants in Hongkong. We may take it canter for the injection of the judges for tremely light for months, mode. Mr. H. L. Dennys was for the debtor.
that the removal of the restrictions is the shipment, it was impossible to tell how the That the millers suspect that their combatt. and bis rams was still on the list,
Mr. Hastings absconding debtor? first step towards the abrogation of the rewould shape when they are half-trained. Therefore on the Columbia river aro (Laughter)
gulations, since no official proclamation of the fore, this year's carnival should be a very good Mr. Dennys-He is pos.
cancelment of the vexations regulations bus yot The Chief Justice observed that all natives, manning Chinese and Indians, have always the desire to return to their native land.
Mr. Hastings said that the whole question was that of domicile. The Receiving Order was made on the 5th November, and he asked that it be rescinded and the petition be dismiss- ed with costs. The debtor, he continued, was some years ago assistant compradore of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. Early in 1995 he got into difficulties. The Bank of Taiwan med him and got judgment for $20,000 hud costs. The debtor then absconded and stayed away for three years,
Mr. Dannys said that the debtor did not aba, cond,
Mr. Bastings-Whether be absconded or Dol, be fled or left the Calony. The debtor re- turned to the Colony some time last September to be served with the petition. Mr. Hastings then gave his grounds for saking for the rescinding, as under:-
(1)-That the debtor was not domiciled in this at the date of the presentation of the petition and that the Court had no juris diction to make a Receiving Order against him. (2)That the debtor has committed no act of bankruptcy on which a petition could be founded.
(3)-That after payment of the costs of the proceedings there will be no substantial assets for division among the creditors.
(4) That the petitioning creditor is in col- lusion with the debtor and that these proceed. inge are an abuse of the process of this honour- able Court,
Mr. Hastings then went one He said the first point to be considered was what was debtor's domicile, of origin, His friend (Mr. Dennys) had raised the point, that because o was born in Hongkong he was domiciled here. That was not so." A child born in Hongkong must take his father's domicile. The next point was: "Did he ever require a Hung. kong domicila i " He admitted that he bad family houses in Canton and Macao, and Mr. Hastings submitted that debtor did not want to be domiciled bere. Assuming that he was domiciled be abandoned it when he left the Colony in 1905. What debtor wanted the Court to do was an abuse.
His debts amounted to "$243,000. Debtor said that his friends subscribed $2,000 among themselves which was given to him and which harhanded in to the Official-Receiver-The-debtor had the audacity then to come and ask to be "white-washed" and to be permitted, to do business here again. What he had to pay his debts amounted exacily to sid on the pound Mr. Hastings submitted that there were no merils in his favour, and called for the petition to be dismissed; adding that because a man wat born in a pleca it did not give him the domicile.
The Chief Justice-it alters the place of Jurisdiction.
Mr. Hastings-The mere fact that he lived here does not cotitie him to domicile. If a Frenchman, went to London with bis wife to start a business and they had a child, that does not give the child a domicile. The child would take his father's domicilet
The Chief Justice-The debtor is not here. Mr. Hastings-He won't be long here.. The Chief Justice-The bank has certain rights.
Mr. Atkinson returned that they had got judgment three years ago and hads dopo nothing since.
Mr. Dennys-The same desire is in the Englishman, also.
The Chief Justice-And Scotsmen, too, Ale. Dennys said that he was domiciled in England although he had been fourteen years in the Colony. He had never claimed to be as American citizen. The debtor, he said. "was domiciled in the Colony and he wanted it. .
At this stage Mr. Dennys handed to the court a document, purporting to be a certificate from the Governor of Hongkong and daled back many years, in which it was stated that
debtor was born in the Colony,
After perusing the document, the Chief Jestice summed it up as a "carious and dan gerous document."
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been issued. Hongkong, merchants are again to be congratulated on their initiative in securing adequate protection to British trade in the commoday with the Coast ports...
TWO JAPANESE STEAMERS WRBCKBD.
HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST.
A Chefoo dispatch to the dials dated No- vember 30th says The Nagata maru No, S, of which nothing had been heard since her de parture from Taisen, bay bees wrecked-off Shukwansho, about 20 miles east of Chafon. The steamer was practically smashed to pieces by the force of the storm which was encounter ed Only one Chinese out of all those on Mr. Dennys remarked that he had seen still board is known to have survived, after a mira funnier certificates when he was Crown Soliciculous escape, he having bees washed up on tor. One certificate stated that the applicant's shore. The remainder of those on board father was Dulch, his mother.Chloess, and be appear to have been drowned; of the yo pass was a Britisher, and the document signed by cogers only three were Japaneso." the American Consul! ·
After further discussion, his Lordship re- served his decision on the point.
"SHINANO MARU" BOFFEITED,
JAPANESE LINER IN A GALE,
With her master, Capt. K. Kawara, seriously ill, and bringing an account of severe encoun- ter with gales, the Nippon Yusen Kaisha line, steamship Shinans Alaru reached part at 7 o'clock last sight, reports the Seattle Port of 13th ult. Passenger and freight business on the Shinang was the smallest in many mouths. bar than a shipment of 700 bales of raw silk no important freight was brought to the Sound. Capt. Kawara was injured by being thrown against a' hatch covering during a heavy blow
Yokohama. It i shortly after leaving feared that ribs have been broken, And, affected by a severe cold, be possibilities of paeumonis are being considered. He voyage, but upon reaching Cape Flattery, early
was kept in his room practically all of the
yesterday morning, thick weather brought bim to the bridge to aid in navigating the snip. The exposure pioved unfavourable, leaving the parject in a rather serious condition upon arrival bere.
The Shinano Maru is the second arrival in
Seattle from the Orient since the inauguration, November 1, at the interstate commerce ruling affecting tariff on overseas freight. With both ships the cargoes have been but a minor fraction of the capacity. The situation strongly supports the contention of many informed shippers that with the carrying out of the new rate ruling, ocean trada would ba sadly demoralized,
- Fifty-six passengers were landed in Seattle from the Shinano Maru, The list included but nine cabin passengers.
A GRUESOME CEREMONY.
CREMATION of the boneS OF
1,031 PERSONS,
Tongkab, 27th Nov,
A Dew road, branching off the terminus of the principal street of Toagkab, has just bean opened to traffic. A great many youta ago a bit of land, along this road, was used as a burial ground and, as it was recently required by the public for other purposes, the bones 'were dug up, and the gruesome ceremony of cromating them was performed last Faiday, and witnessed by hundreds of people, mostly women.
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According to the story told by this survivar, the vessels engines were disabled during a heavy storm when approaching Chefeo at 4 o'clock on the morning of the 24th ult, and the steamer was carried on to the rocks, where she was wracked. Neither the steamer nor the carga was insured. ***
The Ginstismaru, which had left Antung, has also, it is ascertained, been wrecked off Wei-hai-wei, and all the passedgars, goo Chi nese, as well as the crew, appear to have gons down with the steamer, since no tidings have been received of any survivors. This vessel was insured, but not the cargo. The Nagala maru was a steamer of 360 tons and the Ginssi. mar. 487 fons.
CRICKET. ";
MOSLEM RECREATION CLUB,4, LUSITANO RECREATION CLUB.
The retura match between the above teams took place on Sunday last and ended-in a win for the M. R.C.
Scores -
-M. R. C. Y.`Abbass, c & ̈b Cordeiro „monomangi Þ
Soonderam, run out.***. "A. G. Suffiad, run out
M. B. Suffind,cRora, b A. G. Britto.... J. M. Drer c Corveth, & Cordeiro...
S. E. Iamail, c & b Cordeiro........ H. Harteam, b Britto ................ A. 4. Abbass & Corveth, b Pereira. A. Kader, e Barros, b Pèrbira S. Hartesm, b Cordeiro A. M. Soffiad, not out.
Extras.
Totalit
L. R. C.
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P. da Rosa c Y. Abban b A. A. Abbası............. § F.H. Hyndmanc M. B. Suffiad b A. A. Abbass.i L. G. Cordeiro & b. A..A.. Abbass............ o It. A. Carvalho c A. Kader b M, B, Suffiad..... 9 J. Corveth run out ................................. A. V. Barros b.A. A. 'Abbası................... I
G. Britto b M. B. Suffind P.A. Yvanovich c & b A. A. Abbass....................... ✪ T. Pereira b A. A. Abbas
F. X. Britto c & b M.-B. Suffed.
A. J.V. Itibeiro pot out.
Extras..
Total
UNEMPLOYMENT IN JAPAN,
'PITIFUL, PLIGHT OF OPERATIVES.
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eat, so far as surprises are concerned.
of
some"
getting unfair advantage is an open incre. What this is no pad will state positively, but it has been intimated that rates on flour are being secretly cut from Portland. No direct charges of this nature have been laid before the Transpacific Tariff Borean, but by lonuando the assertion
been made.
enterely agree with the export. Ualike previous years, when all the ponies were supposed to do the mile in certain time; when some were able to "walk" the distance, meta-has phorically speaking, in no time; when others just managed to scrape through, there were whispers of discontent among drawers of the latter class of "moke," When I say "feeling of discontent" I do not mean it in the sansa many would take it but the more fortunate drawers were envied, and the unfortunate ones down-hearted,
While it is known that the reduction wan made to afford Fugst sound millen a Bren break, another, expected result is to head off the competition of tramp tonnage which is likely to enter the Gold at this season. “Onsṛtramp. steamer is now on the Sound loading for Japan. and the members of the tariff bureau are an xious to get all the business possible. Cargo has been light for months, and as the Oriental lines bave been deprived of overland freight" they are closely guarding what local merchan
disa is offered for transportation, gen
There can be no "discontent" this year. The panies were shipped en mass Their spend is only known to the animals themselves, and there are times when Under special tariff No. 1, affective October the animals, knowing their speed, refuse to 1. the rates on flour and wheat in, sacks to gire, their owners the advantage of it. But Yokohama, Kobe, Moji and Nagasaki is $3; that mostly depends on who is in the pigskin. to. Shanghai and Manila, 54; to Hongkong, The drawings this year were well carried out, $3.50, and to Amay, 54.50. The only change and drawers can now only depend on Luck-in the reduction of so cents in the rate to that frivolous creature-on whether their pories Hongkong. This schedule applies from Sext (will bring them bonours when the time arrives. tie, Tacoma, Everette, Victoria, Vancouver,"
New Westminiter, Astoria and Portland, The Training has commenced in dead earn lines which are party to the tariff agreement are est now. Several of the subs have been given the Canadian Pacific, Nippon Yusen Kaisha, the half-mile conter and three-quarter spins. Portland & Asiatic Steamship Company, China So far none have appeared to show out abora
Mutual, Ocean Steamship and Great Northern the average griffin, although a few exhibit Steamship companies and Weir steamship linas. signs of shaping well with more hard work.
One thing in favour of the bunch is that they have not been galloped to death either at the Northern settlement or here. Gansequently some of the fat or backward ones may, in time, develop into flyers. At this stage nobody cap say which is the best.
The old class “pogies have not yet arrived: They are expected about Christmas-time with the Darby ponies.
As to the prospects of the coming races can say, although the time is yet far off, that they are oxceedingly rosy, and all sporting men hope they will remain so.
RIDING BOY,
ROBBERY AT CHUEN-WAN.
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INTERNATIONAL OPIUM. CONFERENCE.
gum
"Our plan is to absolutely stop the importa tion and probibit the manufacture of prepared opium and by placing the traffic in gum opium brought in for medicinal purposes under rigid laws and the supervision of the Internal Re venue department to check the improper · the drug."
זו.
use of
It is not generally known but it is the fact that a letter written by Bishop Brent to Presi dent Roosevelt more than a year ago led to the calling of the conference which will meet at Shanghai on February 1.
Dr. Hamilton Wright is not Hamilton M. Wright who wrote a handbook on the Philip pines, but a medical man and scientist of Washington who has given many years of study to the opium question, and scientific. questions arising particularly in the tropics and the Orient,
AMERICAN DELEGATE INTERVIEWED.
Dr. Hamilton Wright of the United States,. Mr. H. A. Beth is believed to have drawn a Commission to the International Opium. Con- good one," while Mr. Humphreys big grey is ference at Shanghal has already begun an in believed to possess good points. He is a well-vestigation of the opium question in the Philip shaped posy. The Wayfoong Mers, as usual, pines and when Bishop Brent, the bead of the. have drawn a funny-looking specimen. He Commission returns to Manila, it is probable is very goose rumped, and as far as I have that the two will make a tour of the southern soon be bas a-rooted disinclination for the islands for a further and more complete ta Courre. Mr. C. H. Rogé was also lucky enough vesligation of the subject. Dr. Wright brings to "puli” a decent one,"
The news that the United States-governmeni -proposes-to-completely clean-its own hands in the oplum, business by enacting a law at the business but a place of business, which meaps
forthcoming session of Congress that will pre- a place, where the debtor does business,
vant the importation of prepared opinu for Coming nay more closely to the facts of this case one point is quite clear if a person merely
smoking purposes and the manufacture of employs a commission agent consigning his
smoking opium within the United States.
"At the prevent time," sald Dr. Wright in an goods to him for sale, that does not make the
interview with a representative of the Manila commission agent's premises bis client's place
7imes on and inst., “we are regularly import of business. It is also clear that the cubicle
ing 145,000 pounds of prepared opium into the was not a place of business per 46. The ari-
United States every year and it is estimated dence is very slander as to business traos
that the smugglers get in 62,000 pounds annual- acted thers; if there had been many transac
ly. Besides that, 500,000 pounds” of tlook, in fact any business dono ibara, the owour
opium is Ranually brought in ostensibly of the house would certainly have given much
ARREST OF FOUR SUSPECTS.
for medicinal purposes but we have, qx= more evidence of people coming thers. The
pert opinion that not nearly that mach only place of business which the debtor could have had were the premises of the Kwang Mo,
Credit must be given to Detective-Sergeant is needed legitimantely. We have been maki
where the cliepts met him and concluded their
Wilden, of the Water Police Station, who enc-lug a very searching investigation during Mr. Atkinson objected to the whole proceed-
ceeded in arresting four men oo suspicion of the last year and it is very clear that the bargains.
ings. Firstly, he took objection to the men
baving taken part in an armed robbery, at gas of the drug is constantly increasing. Our The vital point to consider therefore is this ner in which the application was brought, and
Chuen wan at the beginning of this month. lower order of Immoral men and women and ➡Must the place of business belong or be unsaid it should have been an appeal. Mr. Hast
Chuon-wan le a village on the mainland the negroes in the north are using it in increas der the control of the debtor? On this point 1 | ings; he said, was, asking to reverse an order
situate not faraway from Seeton and a few hours' ing numbers. am far from clear. The key to the subject is already made. His second objectlon was that
steam from Hongkong. The reader will re that remark of Lord Justice Brett inre ec- the polition should not hava been brought until
member that on the evening of the first Sunday quard; the extension of the bankruptcy Juris the debtor's conduct bad been inquired into-
of this month a gang of about fourteen man diction to foreigners is made on account of the until his public examination had been conclude "bold" they have on the country, and the quesed. It was necessary for the Taiwan Bank,
forced an entry into a shop (No. 20) by pulling down the back door. Five of the man werd tion to be answered in each case of doubt is: is making this petition, to show whether some
armed, some carrying revolvers and some "Has the debtor in question a 'hold' on the onus would be imposed on them, or whether
2 choppers, two held lighted torches, and the country?" A "bold on the country" means, something would be taken from them. How
remainder were there to collect the booty, while I imagine, something which is visible to other could they recover anything when debtor had
the others stood, guard, and were empty persons who trade in the country which in- only $2,000? Their object, he said, was to get
handed. The shop people numbered about daces them to give the debtor credit ..... the Receiving Order reversed, then put the
36 four men in all, sud they were driven into a What I think is the meaning of the phrase debtor into gaol, and then squeere" his
coraet and told to keep still, otherwise they shold on the country is that it is such a brothers to pay.
would be all » slaughtered, Of course the position which will induce people by mason of It to give a person credit. It seems to me
fokle obeyed, and while four men stood over ibem, swinging their weapons about throat that if a man is doing business such as cop. clading bargains for the sale of bis goods at a
On the brow of a hillock, about half-a-mile
edingly, the others ransacked the premises collecting & farge quantity of clothing, place where he may be seen doing it then
from Tongkah town, an strap shed, about 30 others may not unreasonably suppose that he
feet long, 20 feet wide and is feet high,” was Referring to the factory operatives thrown stores, and a sum of money, altogether total has business to do and that is the place where
erected, on the floor of which firewood soaked out of employment in consequence of the pre-ling about Sgo. They then made away with he does it and on the strength of that people
with kerosine oil, was strewn. On the top of vailing trade depression, the. Osakit the booty: Almost at the same time nine other booligans, who no doubt belonged to the may give him credit they do theo loai
this ware piled boxes upog boxes-ten boxes, poluts out that cotton-spinning companies in orixinal gang, were playing havoc with another place becomes for the purpose of bankruptcy
silk boxes, coment casks: ot-containing this.country, numbering 39 in all, with capite shop (No. 30) a little distance down the road. law his "place of business." This stems to
human bones. There were over a hundred alaggregating Y86,500,000 and having 1,600,000 They were armed with similar weapons and be a reasonable distinction to draw between
boxes, and the excavators' account showed that spindles among them, are reduced to a very carried out thair nefarious, work in precisely ♦ the case where a man sende goods to be
they had dug up the banes of 1,031 persons. stying position on account of the depression of the same manner as above stated. After told on commission leaving the harisers The Chief Justice said be thought the act of On-the-ground around these orewood was trade with China and at home The total terrorizing the shop toda they made good their antirely in the hands of the commission bankruptcy was good and that debtor was stacked,
ber of operatives employed at spinning mills ia agent and one who intermeddles in the eyer domiciled.
In front of the huge pile square tables were January-inst was 16,671 males and 68,592 escape with clothing, jewellery and money to of the business world with the making of Mr. Dennys (for the debtor) gave the placed side by side, da which were spread females. At the end of June the number had. - * As we have stated before; four suspects the bargains. It is therefore the fact that grounds mentioned above, to rescind the Siamese and Chinese viands of every descrip bean reduced by about 14,900. The number there are other creditors, which brings the case Receiving Order. He asked his Lordship tion, all the fruits procurable at this season of was further reduced by the end of October last, within the purview of the bankruptcy jurisdicto say that the Court had already exercis the year, and various kinds of wines and spirits, when male operatives numbered 14,835 and tion of the court: whether they can justify their ad its discretion in the matter, by grant. At 11 o'clock the pricats arrived to Chicesofemale operatires 54,893: The sale of wag claims is another matter with which I have noting the Receiving Order, and he thought that and some forty Siamese-who, after some pre- however, remained almost unchanged, the now to deal. I am therefore of opinion that the $2,000 debior had hooded in was a fair fiminary preparations, started chanting prayers males being paid between 40 and 50, sen nach this court has jurisdiction to entertain this peti sum, and the Court could not go behind the on either side of the tables, whilst sitting, per day and the females between 24 mod 30 sen on an average, a little higher than last spring. tion and that the opposition must be rejected. Receiving Order so granted, With regard to standing or lounging, near by, were Bistoese In view of the uncertainty of this question the first ground of the motion, if his friend and Chinese women, old and young, with Meanwhile thousands of discharged operatives which has been raised I do not reject it with (Mr. Hastings) succeeded in getting his Lord sprinkling of men, each holding a small seeking employment do not know where to ship to hold that debtor was not domiciled in packet in his or her baud containing turn for living. The pruning-kaile of dis-
Japan "papore sinto that the shipping com- the Colony it would be quite right for the pair of red candles, a roll of joss sticks missal has not only been applied to spioning bination that existed between the Japanese, Court to rescind the Order, but as the and a pad of jou paper. Some attended for operatives, but also to those engaged in skip. Liritib, American and Italish steamship com
139th nitimo, says the report; (a) youth named question of $2,000 had already been consider, the purpose of acquiring " marit " (2 kamboon): building, who have suffered severely. A simi-panies on the lapad ludia service came to a ed the Court could not go back on it.
some were present because they were not quite tar fate has also prestaken those employed in close on September, 16 by the withdrawal of the Matsuura Tokujira, aged 19, employed by a le support of the domicile question, Mr. sure whether they had set some remote suces the manufacture of matches and knitted goods Austrian and the Italian steamship companies do, went into the wood on the instruction of marchant in Tokachi province, in tha HokkaiL Hastings read parts of debtor's declaration, at for whose bones were there; but not one pre-in dyeing, weaving, taking hamp-rope, and As a result of repeated conferences held his master to cut timber. According to custom The decline in silver, which was quoted yea, given below: "i am the son of the late Weisent could say for certain that, included in the other manufacturing industries. It is very hard London between the delegates of the steamship in a district beset by wild animals in the shapa: tenday (3rd inst) at zad, per os, according to Kwong, who for many years was compradore lot, were the bones of his or her ancestor i
rithe for so large a number of poor operatives to be companies concerned, says a vernacular paper,
of bears and angles, the youth carried agua for London advices, is seriously affecting the trade in Hongkong to the Chartered Mercantile cemetery having been sued so very long ago, thrown out of employment now that the winter new agreement was entered into, the NY, K. sell-protection. He had just entered the wood By 3 o'clock the priests had diuished their is coming on. Fortunately, society is not so and the P. &c.D. Company having agreed to a when a shadow suddenly appeared above his with Chies, says the Japan Chronicle, Japanese Bank of India, J.ondon and China (as it was marebnées engaged in the trade are becoming then called). Wes Kwong died la Hongkong prayers, and then huge piles of jose paper and cruel as might be supposed. Trained opera certain concession as to the pool the far head, and on glancing up begrawe an eagle seriously alarmed. A vernacular contempora in the year 1878 or thereabouts, leaving a farge sticks were burnt and crackers fired, alter which tires and even unskilled labourers are finding agreement has a retrospective effect dating which was apparently about to attack him. observes" that the low price of silver amount of leasehold property in Hongkong, the food, etc. were distributed among the beg- employment in various directions Goram back to Sept. 16, when the old agreement Without besitation be mised his gun and fred; hai Caused a congestion of goods on the He left behind him a widow (in Chinese called gars, who, clustering in small groups lazily ment works are attracting the unemployed to a terminated. According to the new arrangemcot hitting the bird, which, fell: heavilyst to the market in Chios, and Chinese marchants Tin Feng) name Wei Ng Shi, by whom he smoking cigars or cigarette ends, had been wall- large extent, and employment is belag found at the N, Y, K. and the FF & O. Company havo to
ground. Under the impression that the maglo in Robe are hesitating to purchase stacks, had three children, namely, Wei Wahing since the morning, like flocks of values the Military and Naval Arsenale, the Printing make thirtysis voyages instead of the foriye was dead the youth ran up to secure it, when basbass being almost at a standstill. Ai Cheong, Wel Ah Tsat and Wei Ah Shap, over the body of a dead buffalo, which was Bureau, the Imperial. Mint, and the tobacco eight voyages prescribed under the old agree the present period of the year in Chima, The said Wei Wak Cheong is still living in being skinned by a couple of mas, and which factorios. While many Government works ment, while the Austrian Lloyd and the Italian suddenly the gigantic bird word up and made a whed labourers, are returning from the North Hongkong, but the anid Wej Ah Teat and Wei they dared not, as yet, approachvoste dai ffod, 'carried out at once,Far instance, large to the maste
have been postponed, certain parts must be vessels continue to make seventeen voyage on and having no time to aim, he used the batt
dash for the youth. Unable to’usade the attack. and the now, your is rapidly approaching, sales. Ab Shap died several years ago. Wel Kwong, A little after 4 o'clock, the hoge;
citals and of his ride in protecting bigself, W/Walle of goods usually increase, but with silver at its while he was alive; had four concubines, PA. and, assisted by the wind, the attaps, poles bacco factories are being built in Tokyo and
doing so the trigger cafight in kim cloths An prosal tale, the shipment of Japanese goods⠀⠀ "I am the son of Wei Kwang, by his first planks, firewood and hones, ware consumed in Osaka, and the construction of these is provid
the weapon irent off, the chargeʻsatsting, the shows no profit, so that, the trade with China is concubine Wal Fung Shi. was born one big blaze. The host was intense, and foring employment, Moreover, the latter prefar
Get Abdoman, and he fall mortally wounded.NeTh Mikuri at a standstill fade vede in Hongkong, and educated in the a while the blue sky was contained from view. Government works to private factories, as they
MALOFFICIAL JAKKOUNICARERTAMA Kodi report of the gen etteasted the attention eliike. The Fain, marks; has farther, doclined. The Hongkong Government Central School, which by the smoke, bet it soon clasted, and what feel more secure at the former the extension-
Dogs Dude master, who lost no time in proceeding to cloning, quotations on the Osaka ära, Eke afterwardedztwas converted into the remsland of 1,031 persons-infants and bables, of the northam, factory of the Osaka Tobacc cheage on the ist instant as compared with present. Queen's College, After leaving boys and girls, lads and lasses, mee and so. Works has been completed, and the announce Friday, the 25th December, and Saturday, the spot The youth; as corried: Ba 1closing rates on the 36th ultimo, were a school I want to Shanghai forboat man, young or old, pretty or ugly were remont calling for over soo workers was quickly the 25th December 1958, and Friday, the fat succumbed shonly afer What beca We read out three yours and then returned to Hongkong duced to subes The ashes were collected in responded to by operatives recently thrown out January, and Saturday, the and January, 190g, engin is not mentioned in the report,
Dec. Now, Where I married a Chinese lady who was' a boxes the next morning by a couple of Chiness, of employment. The wages paid at the tobacco will be kept as public solidays in the Colanyike, MA A. FROGMSKY 106.60. Brush subject, aks having best bom in Hong, Coolier and will be interred in a tomb factory arm [zearly, the bamoras at conton The Follestadagistrates Department la ex All Imperial Rascript,
20095 kong subeoquantly returned to Shanghai The Eskolaren la connection will be spinaler mills, but when two months have claded from the operation of the Fable Idea arough Ch 04 where I remalosd for about one year when I cammonly use paid out of privata sabecriptions felspeed during which; the workers will learn | Holidays Ordinance, 1873, on Saturday, the with to ens reached for heard of my fülber's death sod I then returned" | mibed by one of the // Kumaan.) or hadman the bariness payment in to be made by piece" 26th day of December, 1908 and Saturday the 'the coun
Innland of by time = {aken Chronicle sizes and day of fanbury{3909)
.costs.
The Receiving Order was granted.
THE DECLINE of silver.
EFFECT OF DECLINE ON TRADE.
The Chief Justice, in reply, said that there was much difficulty in enforcing a British judg. ment in China. The sooner that difficulty was Mr. Atkinson-But there is the British Con. qui there to help?
removed the better...
the value of Sigo:
have been arremed, the Police believing that they were connected with the robbery. They were arraigned in the Police Court. last Saturs day meroing and the case was remanded for a
a
THE JAPAN-INDIA STEAMSHIP. PAGE SERVICE.”
CHRISTMAS HOL
NEW ORDINANCES.
·GOVERNOR'S ABSENT,
His Excellency tho' Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf o His Majesty the King, to the following Or dinances passed by the Legislativa Copocil :-- An Ordinance to amend The Fire. Insurance Companies Ordinance 1908; an Ordinance.to amend The Interpretation Ordinance 1897 and to remove an ambiguity in the construction of the same; and an Ordinance to amend The Companies Ordinance: 186527
FIGHT
1 WITH AN BAGLE.
STRANGE STORY. FROM THE HOKKAIDO. An extraordinary occurrence is reported from the Hokkaido by a vernacular paper. On the