The Hongkong Telegraph.
NEW SERIES No. 6041
CONTENTS
Births Marriages and Deaths.
Leading Artioles
When Shipmasters are Argus-eyed. The Steward's Perquisites.
A Distinguished Civil Servant!
Hongkong-Manila.
The Delimitation of Macao,
Telegram:
Opium Smokers.
HE, Hsu Shi-change,
Chinese in Java.
Japan and Chins.
British Naval Instructors.
Chinese Abroad.
Anti-Opium Campaign. Canton-Hankow Railway.
China and the Foreign Praze. Macao Canton Railway.
Chinese in Harbin, ·
Railway Construction.
Rallway Returou.
Chinese in South Africa.
Viceroy Tuan Fangi
Provincial Finances. Mining.
Propased Railway,
Constitutional Government.
Army and Ammunition,
Naval Reorganisation)
Pratas Island Affair.
Shanghai Selement Extension.. Naval Docks,
Russia in Manchuria. Delimitation of Macao.
Ministry of Finaate.
Lotteries.
.Fortifications...
Duties on Cigarn.
Meetings —
"Legislative Council,
Volunteer Reserve Association, The Shanghai and Hongkem Wharf C6, Ltd, Kulangsa (Amoy) Municipal Council.
· Legal Intelligends :—
Aljana's Bankruptcy.
✅Faulty Party Will.
Polloe:
The Post Office Prosecution.
A Chinaman's Extrádition.
Well-merited Punishment.
Miscellaneous Articles and Reports:-
Delimitation of Macao.
The Hongkong Observatory. Departure of the U.S. Fleet: Norddeutscher Lloyd..
Hongkong University Scheme. The Sanitary Board *Prates island Affair.
Slaughter House for Shau-ki-wan, Portuguese Naval Visitors. Sanitary Board Secretaryship, Hongkong Volunteer Corps. Rate in European Houses, Miike Harbour Works. Chinese Tartar General,
Great Britain nod Wei-hai-wel.
Disease among Cattle.
Hangkong Schools' Athletic Sports.
Sailors' and Soldiers' Home.
The Chian Tinders"rösurance Co, Ltd:
China in the Commons,
Property Sale,
Russo-Japanese War Claims.
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The Hongkong Telegraph
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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 2; 1909.
WHEN SHIPMASTERS ARE:
ARGUS-EYED,
(27th March,).
master the vicarious, sufferer
SUPPLEMENT!
(ESTABLISHED 1881)
FRIDAY, APRIL 2. 1909.
a
A DISTINGUISHED CIVIL SERVANT.
五拜藏
魏二月四英港香
sense to deal with but how" often is the co- verse the case? Even a $500. fine is a heavy burden on a shipmaster but from what passed in.Court there seems little doubt but that the Norddeutscher Lloyd will assume the burden and exonérate their captain from all the consequences which he was called, upon to bear as the result of the foolish action of subordinate member of his crew. ship captains become Argus-eyed then per hape they may succeed in observing all the conditions of the law relating to the imbe a matter of great regret. It is no exagQmission should not be made of the fact portation of opium. Up till now, Nature has obviously failed in her duty towards those who have selected the sea as a profession.
When
forte.vears of service as CODECÍA HONGKONG-MANILA:
I PER ANNUM. SINGLE CORTE
hoges was calculated to breed suspicion ocupied the position of first-class steward, proceeded on leave on half pay, returning atitude which their to assume id Nevertheless there is the law, as ironbound bebefore he was promoted from second-class three years after He employed the best Portugal in this long-standing and and precise as the mind of man can make his takings were by no means insigolf part of his time while on leave in reading Law question/The news comes from i Arif the difficulties of navigating a great cart He confessed that on one voyage he and in June, 1893, was called to the Bar at today that the ministers of the liner, appeasing the petulance of pernackity had made as little ne 13, but he always Lincoln's loo. He bad short respite of Foreign Office have been busy for somas passengers, and maintaining that regularity reckoned on averaging a respectable sum one month from incessant work in 1894, days past, looking up the archives for all of routine essential to safe running and strictal, as a matter of fact, ho admitted that he being appointed Acting Deputy Land ancient documents and treaties relating to discipline were not enough; the captain is made £10, £30, £40 and even £50 extraOfficer towards the end of that year. When the Portuguese settlement on the lield responsible for, matters which in the in the year. His record was 94 in tips on the New Territories were ceded to the British of Southern China Thin display, majority of cases must be outside his ken two voyages. Who would not be a ship's Government under the Kowloon Conven on the part of the Ministry of Foreign Affair Who would be a shipmaster in these days, steward at that exte? For handing round the tion, one of the most difficult problems was is not to be wondered at when it in recalled when he has to be a navigator, society enter soap and cleaning out the cabins the steward the settlement of the land question In that only the other day did His Imperial tainer, bon vivant, lawyer, instructor in the wiose evidence was not disputed seems to conjunction with the late Mr. Bruce Shep- Highness the Prince Regent instruct by After a lengthy examination in the Sings:liable to all the pains and penalties of the 300 per andum and all found. The continuously in the investigation of ton to have everything in trim preparatory to principles of first aid, magistrate, parion, bre made anything between too and herd, Me Seth, worked laboriously and telegram, Viceroy Chang Jen-chun of Cau pore Police Court, the skipper of the German Mail sicamer Prinsess Alice was convicted law for the millest breach of the regulations jury was so impressed by the witness state the extremely delicate task of having to the commencement of the business of the on the charge of being the "master of a of any of the numerous ports of call-not went that they awarded the plaintiff the adapt the primitive views of the Chinese Delimitation Commission upon the arrival ship used for the importation of oplum, for glory or renown, or monetary reward handsome sum of £3,000 by way of damages landed proprietors and village squatters to of General Machado in Hongkong. It ha and fined $500. This is by no means the but simply in the course of duty? The gainst the callway company. All we would the can order of things. The elaborate joint bean, hinted that the recent visit to Linbou first occasion on which we have deemed itscullery boy holds a happier position and is my lathat it is a good thing the jury did report which was submitted to Government of the Chinese Minister accredited to necessary to animadvert on the extreme less liable to the slings and arrows of out not take into consideration the amount of by Messrs. Shepherd and Seth established France had for its object the settlement of stringency of the law which makes a ship-rageous fortune, while his reward is proper beartbreaking strain which had been borne the basis of the new system of land tenure the contentious points affecting the Macao for the lionately greater. The sympathy of the by immature youths who had pawned their in the New Ferritories. After the great Boundary question Report has it also misdeeds of others and imposes upon him general public will certainly go out to any common-sense in order to gratify their pride plague in Hongkong, when another big that that visit bad resulted practically in a responsibilities which would tax the wit of a master mariner who finds himself in difficul- by increasing the "spontaneous" gratuities problem suggested itself for solution in settlement of the existing differences nud wizard to shoulder. In this case, it may be tier similar to those that befell Captain received by the stewards.
the resumption of losanitary properties, Mr that the meeting of the Portuguese and recalled that when the Prinsest Alice arrived tain had a magistrate endowed with common Gosche. Fortunately, in this case, the cap-
Seth was seconded for service as Secretary Chinese Special Envoys at Hongkong will at Singapore from Shaughai and Hongkong,
to the Board constituted under the Tai-ping. be more or less of a purely formal character the officers of the Opium Farm discovered
shan Resumption Ordinance, 1894. To by reducing into xxiting the understanding on board some 1,440 tacis of chandu, valued
March of the following year, he was appoint already reached between representatives of at $4,320, packed in boxes, which had been
(31st March.)
ed Acting Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court, both countries in Lisbon. This report can, received by the chief steward at Shanghai
guished career in the Colonial service of Mr. Deputy Land Officer and Acting Secretary stance. The vigorous agitation on the part To those who have followed the distin- Official/Receiror in Bankruptcy, Acting however, hava, but little foundation in sub- and placed quite openly in the baggage
Arathoon Seth, 1.5.0., the Registrar of Supreme to the Squatters Board. In July, 1896, there room by the baggage master. It should be
of the people in South China and the Court, and also to the commercial com understood that, there was to attempt what
munity of Hongkong, both foreign and Commission, and no more suitable secretary authorities in Peking lead to the belief that was appointed the Insanitary Properties unusual activity displayed by the higher ever at concealment, no thought of smug Aling on the part of those to whose charge
Chinese, to whom Mr. Sath has been than Mr. Seth was procurable, who received if an entente is to be arrived at, it can only the boxes containing the illicit drug had
popularly known, the news of his early retire the thanks of the Government in connection be reached after negotiations; between, the been committed, and no idea of evading the
ment after forty years of active service will with the efficient performance of his task two Commissioners who are about, to the lynx'eyes of the Opium Farmer's repra
arrive in Hongkong In the meantime, teditatives.. So much was admitted by the
geration of terms when we mention that the that when the District Land Joust was estab the Self-Government Society in Canton, prosecution, but that did not exculpate the
Hongkong Civil Service, excellently manned lished under the New Territories Ordinance, which was called into being after the Tatru captain from blame, nor did it fead the
as it is, may possess a few members equal to, the Registrarship was offered to Mr. Seth Mars Incident in February of last year, is Court to forego the satisfaction of mulcting
but none to excel, fö point of ability, in who could not accept it on account of his pursuing its anti-Portuguese propaganda him in a substantial dne. All that it did-wai | THE STEWARD'S PERQUISITES. dustry and seal the officer who is about to early departure for England upon medical with the wanted vigour which has marked to lessen the penalty "which, in conisquence
retire from the service of the Govern. advice. For the ten yours from 1897 to zgor, its proceedings, ever since it proclaimed of the presumption the law, imposed upon Some months ago when an irate passenger ment. Many a fledgling, who have since. Mr. Seth continued to discharge the various its undisguised and well-defined policy of, the master." The facts were plainly set who had travelled across the Atlantic by one attained to high positions in the service of duties of his office in the Registry of "China for the Chiness. The resolutions forth and the circumstance of the chapdu. of the great linera wrote to the press indig the Crown, and who have served their the Supreme Court to the satisfaction adopted at the mass meetlog in Canton on being on board clearly explained. While at nantly protesting against the universal system periods of cadetships in this Colony, have of Beach, Bar and litigants alike. On the the 31st ultimo after considerable discus Hongkong, on the voyage to the North, the oftips in vogue, as a result of which the pas-been initiated into the probationary period of 19th May, 1904, he was appointed substansioti and several speeches by members who chief steward of the Printiis, Altte received a sage money was increased by some fifty per their various offices under the tutorship of tive Registrar, being conferred the honour spoke with some authority on the history of note from an acquaintance on another N. cent,, his views were endorsed by a chores the present Registrar, who has filled a multi of the newly-instituted Order of the Im the Portuguese settlement in Macro, bear D. L. vessel stating that he would receive of those, who had gone through the same plicity and diversity of offices like no other perial Service in 1905. We have thus sum- the impress of a determination on the part two boxes at Woosung for conveyance to experience, As might have been expect public servant in Hongkong had dane. A marised in the briefest possible manner of the Society to bring as much pressure, as Singapore. The boxer were to be seated nothing came of the agitation to recently as the other day, on the occasion of record of service which should be the hit le capable of gathering to bear on the ashore at Singapore and would be taken to abolish the tipping of stewards and their the wedding of the younger daughter of Mr. pride of any mad to possess, but when Imperial Government of China, in order Raffles Hotel. The boxes were duly received satellites, mainly because there is a Seth, the Hon. Mr. F. H. May, the Colonial it is added that that record is acknow-to whittle down Portugal's claims to the irre- from a Chinaman, but when they were land moneyed section of humanity which will Secretary, in proposing a toast to the bride ledged by most people acquainted with it ducible minimum. Briefly put, the main ed at the Southern Settlement. It was dis- always seek by the giving of gratuities to and bridegroom, in extremely felicitous as meriting higher recognition than it has thus resolutions were three in number. They covered that they were leaking and the corrupt the morals of the stewards and termosi paid a just tribute of praise to his far received, it will be admitted that, the arn(1) The abrogation by Chinx of the Raffles Hotel representative refused to have sequre privileges to which they are not acolleague in the service, which is endorsed retiring officer from the service of the Crown Sino-Portuguese Treaty; (3) the retroçession anything to do with them. Accordingly they tually entitled, and indeed which are only by all those w
argen in China: or, in the alternative, the re-imposition of the years YOUR were taken on board again and placed in a phaigedeemer of the nustatanceshia with Mr. Seth when he said:" but the fair dues of one who can claim a
of Tls goo in recogniţie “Nui -'comers: *~ THE BOXES Were "eaking
the stewards are arranged on a scale, which came into relations with was Mr. Seth who when the attention of the chief officer was
to secure-the-landa f*** drawn to the mess he expressed the opinion presupposes their augmentation by the at that time held an important post in the
ernment's compliance "Luesoun that the contents consisted of gambler while benevolence of travellers. Anyone who has Colonial Secretary's Office. I had already
(1st April)
substance of the above resolutions" har another officer thought the line contained Journeyed from England to the Far East, received my baptism of red tape in the
The reception accorded the U.S. Third, been transmitted by telegram to the Cen syrup. Nobody dreamt that they had opium or along the China coast, is well aware to Colonial Office in London. I think Mr on board, and, indeed, the witnesses de- what an extent this tipplog system is carried, Beth helped, to initiate me into the secret clared that they would not know chandu if If a steward does the slightest service to a of how to use red tape discreetly. It is a Pacific Squadron in Hongkong has been the tral Government at Peking goes without they saw it, which is extremely protiable. passenger. it is assumed as a matter of grand thing with which at times to choke subject of graceful acknowledgment by saying. It remains to be seen, to what One of the numerous bands of informers course that he is entitled to an honorarium, of inconvenient questioners. But at others Rear Admiral Harber, commanding the extent the authorities at the Capital will be who make a livelihood by haunting the and few passengers dare to brave the glassy one has to beware lest one's own usefulness Philippine Fleet. The hospitality which was influenced by the deliberations of the agitators wharves and surreptitiously inspecting eye and hard visage of the gentleman with is choked by it; so it is willi much pleasure extended to the American visitors appears in Canton. The dem, ad urged for, in the ships cargoes came on the scene, found the napkin by refusing to accede to the that I seize to-day's opportunity to help a to have been appreciated by our neighbours first of the three resolutions, if complied with, what he desired to find, informed the unuttered demand.. So far as the man of friend and colleague whose sterling worth in Manila, for, in giving prominence to would be tantamount to a rupture between Opium Farmer and the boxes were seized. means is concerned, the system of rewarding has been recognised by His Majesty him the entertainments beld. in Hongkong, the the Governments of China and Portugal Up The Princess Alice had to be detained while those who have gone to any special trouble self, who not long ago decorated him local Timer, in a leaderette, observes to the present, nothing bes transpired, which ron under Rear-Admiral Harber has been differences are insusceptible of adjustment the ship's captain was being tried for import to mitigate his sufferinge en voyage, and to with the Imperial Service Order Little The visit to Hongkong of the cruiser squad can lead to the assumption that the boundary ing illicit opium into the Settlement. To a relieve him of the usual discomforts of ship did Mr. May's auditors imagine that a certain extent it reads like a farce, or much board life, may be deemed admirable, and career so highly appreciated was soon to be another long step towards unity between by proper diplomatic pegotiations, tytan ado about nothing, but the consequences the additional outlay forms but a small lost to the public service of Hongkong Hongkong and Manila. The visiting tars hardly be supposed that the Government in might have been very serious had there been item in the total sum he is prepared However, none will grudge the retiring of were given a right royal welcome and during Lisbon will consent to the re-payment of the shadow of circumstantial evidence tend to spend on the trip. But many of those ficial the well-merited relirement which he their stay have been very handsomely enter the ground rent, thus reducing Macao's ing to suggest that there was any attempt to coming to the Far East are young striplings bus, seen fit to scck in the fullness of his fained. There were two putable functions position to that of a,tributary state to Chi conceal the boxes. However, fortunately for who have left home for the first time health and strength and many there will be 19 honour of Admiral Harber and his offina. The late-Governor-Amaral paid the those immediately concerned, there was with thinly-lined pockets, and a capital con who will share with us the hope and the cera, the first at the Hongkong Club, parti price of bis life to secure the recognition and Portuguese squadrons, and the second of Macao. The third resolution may ba As the judge who tried the case sisting mostly of high hopes of what the wish that. Mr. Arathoon Seth may yet cipated in also by the officers of the French of Fortuguese sovereignty over the Colony
To them the enjoy a long life and profitably exer
x. dinner and reception at Government dismissed as entirely superfluous. With Said: "Would the baggage master, if he future will bring them, had any suspicion that the cases held opium, stewards" "fces" are nothing less than cise his recognised ability in whatever have received them back from the hotel run iniquitous and many a youngster landing in new sphere, he may deem proper to House. At the dinner at the Hongkong Commissioners of the experience and ability ner? and having thus received them back, Singapore or Hongkong has found himself employ his energies upon the termina Club Sir Paul Chater was chairman and Mr. of General Machado and H.E. Ko Yu Him, would either he or the steward, if they knew cleaned out, even to his last copper after be tion, of his official connections with Hong. T. F. Hough vice chairman, and among the it can be assumed with a tolerable degree of of the illegality of their conduct, have still has met the claims of those who, he had heen kong. His career began in the Colony guests were Sir Frederick Lugard, Admiral certainty that all differences are capable of allowed them, of traces of them, to remain led to understand, were paid to serve him. when, after having distinguished himself in Sir Hedworth Lambton, and Admiral Perrin settlement without the arbitrament of force. an examination in the Chinese language, in of the French Navy. There were many It is to be hoped that the cordial relations within the eye of every one on board, there- Of course it is all false pride which leads a by endangering themselves? The answer to young man, new to His Majesty's dominione the old St. Xavier's School (since developed happy references to Manila and in the which had existed between the two Goyern- both those questions seemed to be in the beyond the seas, to ape the lordly air of the into the present St. Joseph's English Cal- course of his address Governor-Lugard re- ments for over three centuries maya negative." The magistrate proceeded very seasoned taipans who can afford to dispense lego) he joined the mercantile firm of Bour. ferred to the recent visit to Manila" of a tinued unimpaired as a result of the sensibly to remark that the ordinance laid largesse with a prodigal hand. But tradition Jau Hübener & Co, of which, Mr. Gustav, number of residents of Hongkong and of the two. Envoys which is about to take down that the presumption against the has it that the stewards must be tipped, and Weller, now principal of the firm of Messrs. thanked the Americans for their hospitality. place in Hongkap. accused in such cases might be rebutted by who is he that he should fly in the face of es- Sandor, Wieler & Co., was then the book. He said there were many opportunities for proof of reasonable precaution. For the tablished curtom even if it means Immediate keeper. Os account of the distinction the mutual and beneficial expansion of purpose of such proof; it seemed too much embarrassment the moment he sets foot on Mr. Seth earned at the examination in business between Hongkong and the Philip to require, the captain to acquaint his subsbore? And so the stewards continue to wax Chinese inhi Alma Mater, Sir Cecil pines and pledged himself to its promotion, ordinates, with the revenue and excise laws at at the expense of dedglings, who have not Clementi. Smith recommended Mr. Seth He also said that he hoped the relations of every portjat which they might touch. the case to keep their hands in their pockets for appointment to the Magistracy. He between the two in both a business and Another point which prepossessed the Court and Migoare the insinuating suggestions of joined that Department as Hindustaol social way would increase. The dinner at in favour of the master was the fact that the those who have rendered them the service interpreter in February, 1868, and resigned Government House was a very handsome C. Merchant, the Parsas, susjed, fom vessel was a mail steamer-plying between which would have been given in any case. It. the servicoin December of the following year, entertainment. Alargo party dined and Hongkong to Boswer jo a charge of petals pre China and Europe and not a vessel exclu is not astonishing, then, that there is never to accept an appointment with the P&O subsequently many more came for a recepi ferred Against him by Mit Angela Chi sively employed on the China coast, so that any lack of applicants for the post of steward B. N. Co. Daning the three years, that he tion and dance. Un both occasions Rear was acquiitadasterday After Irial by Jadga there was less reason to believe that she wouldonady of the overseasliners, or that the meagto remained with the big shipping Brm, he Admiral Herber was the chief guest and Crossfold and he departed to-day for Hongkong: engage in the traffic of smuggling opium pay is regarded as any delerrent. From became practically conversant with all the be gracefully expressed, the thanks of highin The coun decaded fo and consequently less cause for special pre-what transpired in the course of an action indepartments of the shipping business. In squadron and his country for the kindness belonging to the complaining witness was cautions being taken to guard against auch London the other day it is perfectly clear! September, 1874, Mr. Seth returned to of his hosts. It is bighly satisfactory that petly held by the accused as sacrnim feru On March 27, 1900, at Shangbal, FREDERICK contingency. But the law is inexorable on that if any of the larger steamship companies the Magletracy a Third Clerk, rising relations between Hongkong and the Philip R. MANN, 1, M. O. Hankow, oldest son of Fre the subject of opium ; it is probably stricter offered no pay whatever they would still be rapidly to the First Clerkship upon the pines have reached this very pleasant condi-drar, zevatha complaiAIAN WANGANUndamant for derick TB, Mann, of Australia, 10 MAGDA and more drastic in its operation then inundated with applications for the coveted death of Mr. James Collins in Calcutta, Hetion and for our part we should all strike for ZENE, eldest daughter of Mrs. H. M. Datlor, of the law dealing with attempted manslaughter,post of saloon steward. In the action ro occupied that position for six years and was maintenance and improvement of them, Shanghal
It holds captain his officers respon-ferred to, the plaintiff formerly a transferred to the Office
yak On March 17, 1909, at Shanghai, CHARTS for the spine sinspection of the pair In the service of the P. & D. Company, and as Chief Cleric in 1881 upon the death of THE DELIMITATION OF MACAO. WANNERE MARKERS, Second son of the late sengers baggage and the character of the he claimed damages from the Great North- MG -M. d' Almada Castro, - When Mr. Aj WManners Manners, of Ilkeston, Derbyshire, cargo How many passengers would tamely em Railway for fojure received in a rall Wodehouse proceeded on leave of durante it would appow from the capart of the England, to BERTH, Becond daughter of Jubmit to the ordeal of having their personat way accident which occurred bear Finsbury Mr. Seth was gazetted Clerk of Councils, mass meeting organised by the Self-Govern Les Thompson, Esq. of Kobe, Japan..........
belongings searched by the seamen on board Park in November, 1907 Among the In addition to his combined duties ment Society held at Canton on Wednesday Feb. 19, LILLIA CLAWFORD, of North; a mail steamer,, their trinkeja, nick-nacks, witserses called another steward who he performed also those of Valuer last, that General Machado will have a Finchley, widow of fata Di R, F. Crawf odds and ends of merely sentimental value, had been employed by the P. & Ounder, the Rating Ordinance and rather kapity problem to solve, when he His capacity for guess Commissioner for the delimitation ofthe
Indabred exposed to the scom of the vulgar eye and Company and his revelations should oped Superintendent of Oplum Revenue between arrives here skrly next month as the Portu
mul boundaries of Macho.; It was only the other: wzVAD the jibes of the ribald tonguer, as Captalo the eyes of passengers, whose generosity is the years 1881 and 188
rom Jung day that we published a telegram from Sloga, | Merchants Gosche sald, if they started that game, they only limited by the depth of their wallets filling number of appointme would soon bays no passengers at all, which is wager, he stated amounted to the itaneously was demonstrated, a
month, but ion 10 October, 1887 be dir
they matchap) perfectly reasonable deduction. With Inconsiderable sum of 4 regard to the carro, in how many instances, a single voyage he had received
In the lit be mid that the appearance of the
Race Pony Shól,
The Sugar Industry of South Formosa. Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Association. Foreign Trade in 1938.
"Sly Jim."
The Campaigo against Plague.
Canton Day by Day.
Stranding of S, S. Kutiang.
Fatal Shipping Accident.
The Yang taze Insurance Association, Ltd.
Castle-trade with the Philippines, eg,
The Kaiserin Elisabeth,
Anti-Opium Measures.
The Fatihan Incident,
Commerce and Dip' macy.
The Vangiste Whailand Godown Co., Ltd,
A University for Chioa
Chiaz and Japan.
China's Monuments.
The Late Dr. Faulus,
The South Manchurian Railway. The Japan Sugar Refining Company.. The Recent Earthquake.
Japanese Shipping Companies. Stésta-trawlers in Japan.
Copfidence Trick at Nagaiaki. Shipping Competition, Parismutual in Japan.
Tax.
C. Merchant Acquitted. Alleged Opium Smuggling. Singapore's Coal Trade. Optum Smuggling at Singapore. Curious Malay Customs, Noise in the Couru
Pessimistic View of Singapore... A Deadly Parcel F
Bangkok Rice Exhibition.
Commercial:-.
Weekly Share Reports. Yarn Market. Exchange. Local-and-General.:
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Mrs T, A. MCLEAN, & sop/./
Os March 26, 1909, at Shanghai, the wife of P.J, DOYLEND, OF A BON.
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MARRIAGES.
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C. J. MERCHANT ACQUITTED,
ALLEGED FALSE-IMPRISONMENTƐ
The Manila Timis, of the 27th" ult, says —
that the accused had a right to pawo if and that
there lid sten padrina, Jädge Crossfeldho
tickals in the case be returned to the complains P120 against the accused, ordered churchspann
ing witness and directed the police 10 return the Merchant P300 on it. One of the strongest throwings cande by the accused was that belong jewelry to the pawshop which had advanced Fleaving Meals for Hongkongly rent Veylo tered letter to Mrs Carullo, informing, bars bis intention to Raway temporalis, and telling her where he was going
There were many chilies in the test but the court held that the companie