Intimation.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
week. It will be understood at once from. these figures that this is no' trifling affair, especially when it is remembered that the origin of the trouble and the dislocation in the opium trade have both been brought
8. WATSON & CO., about by no fault on the part of Hong kong dealers. The primary objection of the Canton Importers to the rule that permits in triplicate must be obtained before they can deal in prepared opium brought from abroad is the old and obvious one that the system opeus the door to unlimited opportunities to "squeeze? That it also tends to hamper and barass trade and places in the hand of the officials a stick to break the back of the importers are minor points which are, never- theless, not to be despised. At all events
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LANCE-SERGEANT Edwards, of the Water Police Station, charged a boatman before Mr. FVA. Haieland this morning, with making fast to the French mail steamer Polynesian white he was under way in the barbour on Saturday, A fine of $so was imposeḍ.
A LAD named Li Fuk, nineteen years of age,
MONDAY AUGUST 30 1909.
PRESENTATION to dr. HAFSTON.
at the tung WA HOSPITAL.
On Saturday afternoon, Dr. G. M. He stoo was the recipient of several bandsome pieces of embroidered silk from the Directors of the Tang Wa Hospital on the eve of his departure from the Colony on a holiday as a small stole a bicycle from 52, Haiphong Road, Kowtoken of appreciation for voluntary services loop, some time last week and was arrested the Hospital Mr. Sin Tak-fan, President of rendered in attending to ocular disease at while he was attempting to sell it. He pleaded the Tung Wa Hospital, presided, and others guilty to the charge in the Police Court, to-day present were Hon. Mr. A. W. Brawin, Dr. and Mr. J. R. Wood seat him to gaol for a term of six weeks.
A CURIOUS-charge was heard in the Police Court, to-day. A Chinese lady, who resides at 20, Aberdeen Street, was charged by her amat with the larceny of her box of clothing and a Messrs. Goldring, Barlow and Morrel jewellery, Valued at $44.80 on the 8th February appeared for the defence, and the bearing was adjourned
Lost Cargo.
MARINE INSURANCE CLAIM.
THE CHIEF JUSTICE'S DECISION.
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and that in this instance what was dona was fully covered by the Intention of the parties. I now come to the use of lighters, and I do not think the law is very clearly stated in Amould, I shall first deal with the anthorities, Sparrow Y. Carruthers decides that if the consignes sends his own lighters for the goods there is an end of the voyage, but that it was otherwise if
bosts, or presumably the shipowns lighters. the goods were sent on shore by the ship', -
which might arite, suppoking the ship itself to The Chief Justice noticed a pqasible'anomaly'
does of itself, show that the law was not quite have been chartered by the consignee, which clearly established then. But this caSO WAS doubted in Hurry Royal Exchange Co., though it appears to have been set up again in Streng e Natally. But in Hurry's case a dis.. tinction was drawn between a public and a
private lighter. The public lighters in query tion were described by Rooke J. as being
His Lordship the Chief Justice (Sir Francis Piggott) delivered his reserved decision in the which the Tung Sang Wo firm, of s, Ningpo Supreme Court, this afternoon, in the case in Road, Shanghai, brought action against the Fo On Marine Insurance and Godown Company, to $9,722.22, alleged to be due under a policy of Limited, to recover the sum of Tis, 7,000, equal insurance on a pumber of packages of ground at all, which ware shipped on board the JC. Thomson, Messrs. A. Denison, Ho Kom steamer Shao Hoing from Shanghai bound for Tong, Leung Pui Ches, Lau Pas Chio, Chau Canton, and which were lost in Canton during Chuk-jan, Au Tak, Wong Yiu Tung, Chan the typhoon of July 18th, 1908. Sia-ki, Yu Pon Nam, Yu Yut Yue,. Wong The Chief Justice said:-The questions Tak Oban, Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, M.B., C.M., Kraised in this case take up the points which were Fai Shan, Chao Chauk Hing, Dr. Jay Hock pot fully gone into in my judgment in Hip Os and Mr. Chan Lok Chuen,
Insurance Company
"publicly registered, in atoit, that sort of v. Hang On Insprance
the . Shao Haing from Shanghal to the port be observed that the reason for the distinction The Chairman said:-Dr, Harston,-On the Company. The goods were insured on board / lighter which is "equally known to the under. writer and the owner of the goods." It is to of Canton. The policy contained a "risk of craft clause. The ship was moored to Messrs. between public and private lighters seems to Butterfield and Swire's piez wbari opposite their have been based, not on the ground that the godowns at Honem. The goods, oil in baskets, goods had passed into the custody of the con
of the ship, some across the wharf into lighters of the underwriters was increased by using In each case the oil was weighed by or on lighters which might perhaps not be well-fitted an pusoned distinction, but whether the risk
babalf of the consignee and the lighters were for dangerous or unusually risky operations, as hired by the consigose. The ususi Custom the landing in that case, seems to have been. House formalities were fulfilled either on the lo Strong e. Natally an ordinary lighterman
ip or on the whart with a day's delay on
was employed; but the underwriters were held account of the Emperor's birthday, though the discharged not because the consignee bad unloading of the cargo was continued during hired a fighter, but because he had dispensed of oil and 100 of these were sold to charge of them during the night, and took them that day. The cargo consisted of 550 baskets with the obligation of the lighterman to take customer out of the lighters. On these facts into his own custody," He had discharged the the question arises whether the "risk of craft" lighterman, and placed himself in the same do not think ibat it appears very clearly landed and delivered: and having so done he clause in the policy covers the oil so landed situation-as-if-the-goods-bad-beep-actually- whether all the 359 baskets were landed over, wharf, but in the view that i take of the law
triplicate, and the fat was immediately in the A MAN Damed Chen Họn Cheong was arrested and a sincere friend. They have invited you were put into lighters, some "og the water side ignee, which was expressly pointed out to be
the Canton importers of opium from Houg kong determined to resist to the uttermost MANUFACTURERS. this fresh attempt handicap their business and boldly defied the authorities to do their worst. With the object, probably, of bringing matters to a head, the police autho ritics arrested an opiumi merchant who had failed to apply for the necessary permit in
Gre. The resuscitated order declares it to be illegal to deal in opium without the official document so that the police had apparently CHAM- full power to do what they did. On news of the arrest being circulated the opium importers decided that until the objection. able order was either withdrawn or revoked they would not touch or handle foreign- opium and to that resolution they have stead
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fastly clung since last Monday. While we can readily appreciate the attitude adopted by the importers in refusing to obey the behest of the authorities and take out permits which are a perpetual source of vexatious interference by the officials and are lever wherewith the authorities may line their own
in the Colony yesterday for alleged fraud. It was stated in the warrant that he, between the 23rd December last and 15th January, obtained the sums of $1,900 and $800 by means of false pretences. The complainant is a shoemaker, Leang Po, of 318, Queen's Road Central. An application for an adjournment was made when the case was called in the Police Court, to-day and it was granted.
POLICEMAN J. O'Sullivan, af, Shau-ki-wap Police Station, recognised a coolie in the dis trict yesterday as having returned from banish meat before the expiration of five years. The departed from the Colony in June last. He was mao, Tong Yung Fuk, was found to have beco seat to Canton, and it is believed he returned by the next steamer, Police Court, to-day, charged with the offence with a Viceroy who may be described-as-a--he pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to siz brand from the burning, 'we cannot get away months hard labour and four hours' stocks..
pockets and at the same time curry favour
from the fact that the real sufferer from the
is
release of the man.
ove of your departure for a holiday, the Chi: nese merchants and gentry of this Colony de- site to avail themselves of the opportunity to testify to you their great esteem and kind re- gard they have for you both as a skilful doctor to come here this aftermone for the purpose of presenting to you a few pieces of embroidered silk in token of their appreciation of the iD valuable services you have rendered gratis to the Tung Wa Hospital in the treatment of dis. cases of the eye. As President of the Tong Wa Hospital the pleasing duty now devolves upon me of making this presentation on their behalf and expressing to you their deep sense of gratitude, and in so doing I can assure you, whole of the Chuese community, represent Sir, that I am echoing the sentiments of the as it is in every kind of business and calli by these gentlemen assembled. Earthe past years since November, 1995, you have attended this Hospital every Monday and Friday after- convenience to dispense your knowledge and noon at great sacrifice of time and personal
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this is immaterial and 'I shall assume that it
might have kept them in the lighter for a week, for he had as much control over them, as if
On being arraigned in the skill as an oculist, and it is difficult, if not im was. On behalf of the defendants it we they had been in his custody for that period.
results of the anti-opium campaign. In ordinary times the shipment of opium from Hongkong to Canton ranges from 150 to zoo chests a week which means a turnover of bbiween one and a, half and two lakhs of the dollars for that period. Such an amount is
of considerable moment at a time when Lo TAK SAN, a shopkeeper, of 12, Central adiverse markets are exercising a depressing Street, put in an appearance in the Police influence on trade generally in this Colony, Court, to-day, to answer a charge of assaultier a woman named He Sap I, who resides in the but even were it not so, the watter is ofHang Fa" house, in the Westers district weighty importance both to Ilongkong and A. S. WATSON & CO., arm of importers here, realising the gravity those engaged in the trade. The British
contended that the overwharf transbipment Justice Bowen's dictum in Houlder v. Mer into lighters constituted a landing, and Lord
chants Marine Insurance Company was relied
He said Landing gonds means putting
them upon the land, or upon that which by the custom of the port inita equivalent" I have so
15 Paul v. Insurance Co. of North America, Mathew, said that Sparrow v. Carruthers agreeing with the Judges in Harry's was an extraordinary decision to arrive at; so..
cars. He seems to have thought the same
of
Strong v. Natally, which, I think, may
be supported on another ground. He add ed that the "risk of craft" clause must cover
carrings in a hired lighter, and why should it oot. also cover it, in a lighter belonging to the assured, the parson most concerned for the
doubt that by equivalent was meant wharf or pontoon. But the case there was whether the risk of craft" clause covered the goods in the lightera. during trausbipment to another vessel, safety of the carga"? There seems to be a de and the use of the words "safely landed infinite principle derivable from these cases. A the craft covered by the risk most be crafi'used for the purpose of landing and Lot craft used for the purpose of transhipment. The dictum illustrates this argument s'bat in view of the
the risk of craft clause: the much-doubted iaction pot between private and public lighters, case of Sparrow v. Carrathers draws the dis- but between a hired lighter and the consigoog's
can be construed into a taking pissession of the goods by the consignee in such a way that it is tantamount to terminating the Dormal course of voyage, that is by ship plus lighter,
from the ship to the shore, then the risk has
possible, to enumerate the benef's" you have conferred upon the Chinese community in your indefatigable exertions to alleviate human suf- fetings. Your fame has been widely diffused REFRESHING. misguided zeal of the provincial authorities THIS morning, the first police magistrate (Mr. not only throughout the whole length and not the Canton importer but the Hongkong F. A Haigland) imposed a heavy penalty upon breadth of this Colony, but it has also extended dealer who supplies the product. The import a shipping clerk named Tsang Han, of 1, Con-itself to the southern parts of Chinn, so much er may remain inactive in so far as his dealing naught Road Central, for obstracting a police so that very many people have come here from in foreign opium is concerned, without ex man bite in the execution of his duty. It the interior to seek your advice and aid. One was stated that Lukong No. 350 arrested a mas periencing any great loss in his business; bot
case in particular has come under my persoal in Connaught Road on Saturday for creating, a
observation of a woman who hailed receptly so the Hongkong dealer who is endeavouring disturbance. The defendant, who was passing from as far a distance as the Kwong Ning dis- to stave off till a future day the disastrous then, stopped the officer, and demanded the trict, is the Kwangsi Province, having on her connection with that clause meant clearly that tired lighter is within the meaning of craft, in
The officer, of course, re-back a child suffering from an affection of the fused, and after more palaver the shipping eye which would, I understand, have caused total clerk was taken up. His Worship severely blindness had it not been for your timely treat- lectured the accused, and fined him Stoo, the ment. Upon arrival in this Colony she found
herself, in a miserable condition-homeless circumstances in which, it was used it cannolibler. But if the putting them on any lighter alternative being two months' haid labour.
|and peoniless-but such was her real and con-
be straiched so as to conclude.a case, such as.
hardly manifest. It is needless to mention fidence that her distress and anxiety were the present, where the question is is the fact that goods have touched land temporarily in that the Tung Wa Hospital in its traditional the process of landing somewhere else is a land- generosity came to her assistance Generallying within the meaning of the policy. Lord speaking, the Chinese people are grateful in Justice Bowen was considering the question of the Chinese Empire any kindness shown before the landing. The land, so to speak character and in the present progressive state of transhipment, something which happened And benefits bestowed upon them are appreciat lay in the distance beyond the tranship ed the more. Personally speaking, your firm ment; and a broad general proposition and more, and as my personal doctor you have questions may arise not foreseen which require has been my family doctors for the past 25 years sufficed. But when we got to the land other special consideration and which cannot be cos aid me under a debt of gratitude for the good imagine that this meeting was initiated by me, but I assure you that the idea of doing you honour to-day was spontaneous and universal aud that the presentation is made in a spirit of grateful remembrance and not by way of com: pensation, because it is a well-known fact that you have been fully compensated for your labours by the successes you have achieved. In bidding you au revoir we all wish you a pleasant voyage and speedy return with renew ed health and vigour. In conclusion, L. beg to tender the thanks of the Hospital to the Hon. Mr. Brewin, Dr. Thomaso and the Represents tives of the local Press for the honour of their company.
LIMITED,
HONGKONG and KOWLOON.
Hngkong, 15th July, 1909.
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The Hongkong Celegraph.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1909.
He pleaded not guilty to the charge, and the number of friends were dining in the Wui Luk case was remanded. The defendant and a
terminated too,
restaurant last night. The complainant, a singing girl, was in attendance. At about 3 am, to-day, the defendant called upon com plainant to play rhai mui. She refused, adding that it was after hours. As she still persisted you Eave done me, and naturally one would cluded by a general proposition in the absenceing, and for this purpose to store them tam-
in her refusal, the defendant was alleged to have struck her. As already stated the hearing was adjourned.
LAWN BOWLS.
POLICE DEFEAT CY.C.
A very interesting game of bowls was played between members of the Police Recreation Club and the Corinthing Yacht Club on Satur- day last, at Happy Valley. The police team was far superior to that of their opponents, who were defeated ob every sink, the scores at the faith being 84-67. The names of the players and scores follow:-
Folice-LS. Ogg, P. S. Watt, L. S.. Pitt, Laspi. Laogley (skip) .....................28 P. S. Gerrard, P. C. Glepdianing, faspt. Fenton, laspt. Robertson (skip)...
......22
P. C. Bell, P. S. Sim, P. C. Bruari, Joapt |Gourlay_{skip)-...............
'P. S. Grant, P. 5. Wilson, L. S. Cooper PC. McLennan (skip).
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རྩྭ་ dnubtedly the voyage, and to the risk, was Applying this to the facts of this case, un- terminated, is the case of the 200 baskets sold from the lighter. So, too, if on the evidence. I of the situation made representations on the subject to Consul General Pox at Canton,
intended, not to store the remainder in came to the corclusion that the consignan but these could only be of a tentative.
the godown, but to sell them before stoe- character for the simple reason that even the Consul General is hedged about by limita.
of such consideration. And this is necessitated porarily in the lighter, then the risk would also by the facts of this case. I agree that "loud- hard come to an end. That he would have tions and is practically powerless to interfere
ing" means "landing," but Strong v. Natally sold them it a customer bad come along is in a question which concerns the Chinese
is an authority for paying that the words clear, but that is not the question; I must be people themselves. The Canton merchants
"safely Landed" mean what they say, and if satisfied that he did in fact so delay the transit have no quarrel with the Hongkong dealers;;
the goods have to be landed in a lighter the to the godowns in the lighter, as to amount 10. they have no wish to penalise those who sup
risk covers the transit to the shore in the lighter a taking control of them for purposes other than ply the goods which are the subject of this
in the normal circumstances." Risk of craft," those incidental to the voyage, of ship plos. latest form of passive resistance; but as
a clause introduced since the day when the lighter. they refrain from buying the financial
early cases were decided," if, it is inserted・・ This brings me to the last point of delay. CANTON FOREIGN OPIUM disabilities arising from the cessation
in the police makes the matter still more plain. The landing must be is reasonable. time; this TRADE DEMORALISED, of trade naturally fall on the a exporters who
But it introduc's some special cpasiderations point differs somewhat ju detail from a deliberais of its own. I am of opinion that insurers are termination of the v yage, I think, as I have are thereby made the vicarious victims of the
bound to know the conditions of the trade already said, that I am bound to bold that the For once in a while, a section of the mer. Canton provincial officials. According to
which they it sure. The fact that Meur risk covered the transit by lighter to one of cantile community of Canton being incensed a local authority on opium affairs, the offici-
Dr. Hassion, in responding, thanked the Butterfield and Swite do not take oil joto their these godowns, and that it must further include - at the arbitrary demands of the provincial als feel they are strengthened in their action
Directors for their handsome gift and said that godowo seems to me to be irrelevant: a con such delay as is involved by the normal process authorities have declared an armistice in the by the doings of the select few in Parliament
the department in which he was interested was signee is not bound to put his goods into the of landing the oil into these godowns. Now maiter of foreiga boycotts in order that they who are clamouring for the suppression of
commenced four years ago in a modest way. nesiest godown: the fact that some well known here again there is one clear case where delays may bring all their forces to bear against the the trade in opium. All the parliamentary
It was still a modest department. Last year oil godowns were across the water must, or would release the underwriter. Supposing ond official mandate which has aroused their discussions on the subject and many of the
he had seen to lower than 2,500 cases in the should have been known to this insurance
of the godowns, or even both were sull, and wrath. Under an old law which has always newspaper comments on the evils of opifin
out-patients' department and 100 patients were company: and I (bisk" that even without this the lighterman lay alongside hoping for a 23-successfully operated.upon-is-the-in-patients clause were it accessy-en-to-decide, bat-car chance of gening his oil taken in clearly, the been more honoured in the breach than the are translated into Chinese and published-
cese.. But suppose observance, it is required that Canton im in the vernacular press, which is diligent
department. He had thought of the possibility|tainly with it, the intention of the parties clear-risk could not cover such of that department being made to pay for itself, ty was that in the process of landing lighters man, or the consignce applied for space, and he that in the normal course of things the lighter. porters of foreign opiùm should obtain perly perused by the officials. The out
and-he-would-suggest-a-schemo-by-which-it would be used: further, that "landing means was told not that space would be reserved be mits in triplicate from the departments con- come of their reading is that the, opium
84 might be made practical. Several people who
forchand, but that there was room, and bis cerned with the trade, but the order had traffic is under a ban imposed by, the
came with defective eyesight were too poor to
boat-load would be attended to la din 'course, fallen into desuetude even if it had not been British Government and that being so
...........23, bay spectacles and be suggested that a Chinens
ie, suppose it were finit come first sorved, al- ways coupled with a promise that he would Icos 'grinder be obtained who would be able to
be served, then I am clear that this would be. forgotten altogether. With the appointment they consider that they have been dealt a
make suitable spectacles for the patients and
the normal course of business, and would be of a new Viceroy of the Liang Kwang, whose royal flush and refuse to yield to any repic
also for people outside, who would be able to
covered by the risk......... sympathies are entirely with the anti-opium auntations made on behalf of British im
....14 | buy glasses and spectacler much cheaper. faction and who is expected to adopt the porters by the Consul-General or even by J. J. Blake, J. M'Kay, A. Thorabill, C. Bond Tea was then served and after an exchange proverbial new broom action in regard to | the British Minister at Peking. British mer- | (skip)
........................-å....................ra | of folicitous remarks, the gathering dispersed. matters connected with the opium trade, the | chants, are, however, entitled to reap what-
The embroidery bore the following iss- officials in Canton have been busily setting ever benefits they are entitled to under the
cription in Chinese-Dr. Harston is one of the clever physicians of the West, being their house in order with the result that the treaties with China, which embody the
proficicat in medical science and a specialist law referring to permits for the importation of principle, that not a single chest of opium
for optics. For a period of 5 years be has been of the consignee at the scales does not bring opium has beco discovered and put into opera-shall be put up for sale without the Chinese TRIAL TO RESUME ON WEDNESDAY, giving his services gratis at the Tung Wah the can within the ollier doctrine, which dexis tion. The idea, of course, is to induce in His authorities securing for the British dealers
Hospital, and those who owe him a debt of with the termination of the voyage by the con Excellency the belief that there are no more
an unbindered outlet for their goods, Plain. We are given to understand that the trial gratitude for recovery of their eye-sight are of signco's own action, which I shall refer to pre- ardent adherents of the anti-opium superstily that right is rendered nugatory when the will resume in the Supreme Court at 10.30 as insignificant number. Now on the ove of scotly. Clearly weighing the baskets as they that the plaintiffs' agents deliberately lay along- tion than the energetic, calightened and pro... | buyers are so harassed by official meddlers o'clock, on Wednesday morning, in which his departure for homeland, we, in recognition west into the lighter did not terminate the voy" | jod of hire in the chance of selling the pil, and side so as to keep the lighterman his fall per- Captain C. W. Mitchell, of the steamer Fook of his vaiquble services, which.aothing_canagem fally alive to the fact that, the law, gressive officials of the provincial departments that they deem it the only plan to cease a
Song, in clalming damages against Mr. Jobp, adequately requita, respectfully subscribe our
never intended to store it at all. The examina- in Canton. Whether the incoming Viceroytrade, which, it may be assumed, is profit. Lamm, the architect, for alleged misconduct selves to this scroll as a token of our esteem and severely tested if a typhoon or tidal wave were work done by the godown on the days in
as fum laying it down, might be somewhat tion of the godown book as to the amount of will be beguiled by the blandishments of able to all the participants. The same with his wife. The architect, it is stated, has regard.
quen. these would-be supporters of the anti-opium difficulties, are being experienced in Nan- te urned to the Colony from blu holiday,
to arise suddenly and destroy the goods while tion, as well as the auswore I succeeded in THE DIRECTOKS OF THE TUNG WA HOSPITAL, they were in process of transhipment on the Ketting from him as to the normal course of 'decree is beside the question. The seribue king and Hankow which obtain their supplies
THE COMMITTEE OF THE PO LEUNG KUK, AND wharf itself. But should such a case aring 1 out the stery told by the plaintiffs' witnesses, work at the godown wharf, so entirely Bear part of the matter is that the effect of the of the foreign product from Shanghai but wa
THE GENTRY AND MERCHANTS OF BONG- am not afraid that the logic of the proposition that I am compelled to accept the plaintiffs' dowonted, and, so far we can see, ill- | are still in the dark regarding the steps that
as I have enunicated it, would be equal to the story. I, therefore, give judgment for plaistins advised and unbusinesslike action by the are being taken by the British merchants in
task of deciding the case. A small point may Counsel for the plaintif applied for Ibforest, - authorities-is-having-a-most-detrimental. the Northern Settlements, although it is not.
be, here referred to. It was suggested that and his Lordship said he would consider the effect on the opium trade of Hongkong, and to be believed that they will take the blow
while Masers. BatterBold and Swire's wharvet | matter in Chambers dels Mali already the Colony has suffered financial loss, lying down. Meanwhile, as the officials at
were in the Port of Canton the all godowas The plaintiffs were represented by Mr. M.W. were not. "It could not bà put higher than a Slade, instructed by Mr. R. A. Hardingay: Bir to the extent of between $150,000 and Canton are running their heads against a
suggestion. I am satisfied that what lies in Neill, instracind by Mr A, Holbarow, of M81875, Henry Berkeley, x.G., and Mr. Descas Mc- $200,000, and that, when the revived regula brick wall, the consequences be on them
or about the post is included in the port Deacon, Locker and Deacon, appeared for the sion has only been in operation' for a single | såfros ] -
if shipping or goods in lightern nacally go there, | dafondant,
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G.Y.C.-F. Allen, D. Gow, A. Milroy, C.. R. Edwards (skip)
f. Taylor, P. Farrell, T. Grimshaw, J. C. Scott (skip).........
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A. Davey, E. Dawson, P. R. Adams, M. M'civer(skip)........
DIVORCE DAMAGÈS,
FIRE ALARMS:
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During the last forty-eight hours the fre brigade was called out on two occasions—once on Saturday and once yesterday. In each čase ž
a chimney fice had taken fire in Des Vœux
KONG.
In his application of the jadu chips and cinnabar,, Ila merlis lustre as the sun add the star Like the benevolent cloud and the maglo shower,--
· May his'virtues over the glola avte tower,
'Road Central, but the services of the brigade | The Resolution dealing with the increase in ware not required, as the blaze had been ex liquor licences will not be proceeded with a tinguished before the arrival of the fire-fighters. the meeting of the Legislative Council on Men The damage done was triding.
putting the goods upon the land or upon that which is its equivalent by thecustoms of the port, *where in the clear intention of the parties t was intended that the goods insured should be landed, and so the voyage terminated." If therefore according to the practice of the wharf, which is a much more suitable expression in the circumstances than the custom of the port, it is necessary la drder to get to the lighter to tranship overwharf then, it is not landing but an incident of the voyage, which is not con- claded until the craft has completed it by tak ing the goods to the shore. The interference
the evidence. The plaintiffs' agents in Canton Now, I am going to make a short cut through were in the habit of stoning their oil in quanti. ties of 300 to 400 baskets, sometimes evan of much smaller quantities. The defend Ants want me to bellave that in this care their usual contom, because that is not proved, they were going to depart from, 1 will not say, bot from what they very frequently did. put the letter on one side; I am not bound to go further than to say it might have been given by Mr. Ho withons authority. But the godown of any sort, kind or description was made, and manager wants metobelieve that no application
with costs.