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for opium'iappiession, they are found fairly complete and minute in respect of penalties and fines, and these Regulations should be promulgated and enforced both in and out of the capital,
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tend the local officials in taking steps la reduce the term of years in which poppy plantation. Persistent rumours on Thursday and Friday should be probibited with a view to eradicating isst of an infamous scheme which had for its the evil as soon as possible. In the provinces object the illicit recruiting of a number of where entire suppression has taken place, they school boys in Hongkong for employment in abould at all times investigate the conditions Honolulu, led da to pursue a diligent and and any recrudescence of the evil should searching inquiry into the truth of the report be regarded as a violation of the laws of the with a view of laying bare some of the least Governmeal, and action must be taken ac. objectionable features of the slave traffic of au cording to the Regulations for the punishintamens and happily bye-gone age: ment of the offences, All the Regulations
The natural reticence of the authorities whom proposed by different Government offices we approached during the earlier stages of our in the capital and the variations in the length inquiry baffled our efforts to expose a design of terms of prohibition proposed by the pro- as carefully planned as it was lanocantly given away by the guileless simplicity of a school girl of tender years. It would appear bat, when we stated in our issue of Saturday, that there was no truth in the report that an attempt had been made to get a number of school boys away as illicit emigrants, against the Regulations he will also be puni hestance, was justified by the desire to get the we were led into a stror which, in the circam ed. It is sincerely hoped that this chronic perpetrators of the scheme into the mashes curse will be gradually eradicated and that the people will daily, strengiben and flourish here. after."
vinces which have been sanctioned by the Throne, should become established Regut tions, and any violation of them should be punished accordingly.
Should say high official in or ous of Peking, who has control over focil officials, date to ro tax his efforts in this maler or secretly to offend
NEWSPAPER COMMENTS. Commenting on the above, our Shanghai contemporary writes :---
the law,
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Afrmative reports having reachad us that there was a good deal more in the tumour than meals the eye arged us to the prosecution of fresh inquiries whereby we have been placed i possession of detailedfacts. Theinfacts which we now place before our readers would go to xbow that the curtain has only just been raised over the first act of what may ultimately transpire an a well-woven plet, that goes to confirm the saying that truth is stranger than fiction.
A LIKELY THEORY. The clethibipaffers at Honolulu to the youth- fal dupes could be hog short of artful buits held out by the reclusters with which they a Easily trapped thais unwary prays. The theory is advanced that the boys were in reality want ed for the prosperous sugar plantations in Honolulu and as the American Exclusion Laws prohibited the entrance of Asiatic labourers into the territory, an illicit' labour agency was' set op in Hengkong through whose medium la. bour of a description not proscribed by the laws of the State would be procured and imported into the country destined for the prolific cave fields of the Island. Whether the labour as might be represented by the batch to easily mped in by the silver-tongued confederate of the emigrant trafficker, was the most nullable' did not at all enter into the head of the scrupulous broker whose one thought was upon the sum total of the dollars represented by the aggregate of the value he would secure at so much per head of the immigrants landed at Honolulu, authorities, it is to be trusted that for the fair Now that the matter is in the bands of the game of the Colong the whole mystery would be sifted to the very bottom and so prevent traffic which (if tolerated) may earn for it the Hongkong from being made the centre of a
ravived noterious slave trade lo a modiñedform unenviable sigma
of the locus of the
THE KOWLOON LAND AND BUILDING CO., LD.
ANNUAL MEETING.
In the formidable list of Imperial Edicts
The twenty-first ordinary meeting of share. which we publish to-day the one dealing with
holders in the Kowloon Land and Building the suppression of poppy plantation may attract
Co., Ld., was held at the company's office special attention not unmingled with surprise.
Victoria Buildings, at noon to-day, for the pur The edict ancounces that several provinces have reported entire suppression of opium-
pose of receiving the report of the directors, A MOYISH NARRATIVE.
together with statement of accounts for the growing, in others, however, this desirable'
The uncoloured and coberent parration a year coding jest December, 1909. Mr. T. F. and Governors of the backward provinces are and has not quite been gaine; and the Viceroys gathered by a representative of the Hongkong Hongb, chairman of directors, presided. Others accordingly commanded to take steps to youth of fifteen years of age is the best account Machado (director) A. Shelton Hooper (secre Telegraph from one of the dramație persona-prescot were:-Messrs. A. Rodger, J. M. E shorten the time within which the poppy. that can be presented of the story without any tary), T. 1. Rose, J. Rodger, Mowbray Nontcotes provinces officials are warned to guard against alternoon last week," said the boy, "ia a cina shall cease to be grown. Is the other attempt et effective colouring. "It was ose and E. B. Shepherd. recrudescence of the evil, and new penalties malograph. hall that I was mal by———— are beld over, the bends of all, bigh and low
who is otherwise known by his Filipino saubri- alike, who violate the law: The importance of quot be is a man who looks like thirly the edict lies rather in, what it implies than in
odd years of age. He käaw me and api what it says. It was never supposed that all proached me with the question whether provinces had been equally successful in eradi: would care to proceed to Honolulu and there cating opium; that indeed would bave been too
ears my living as a clerk. At that moment regulations have already been issued, that the much to expect. But so many and stringenta American-Spanish mestizzo (pame given) new edict would appear to be needless on any
supposition but that the campaign is less advanced than the outside world has been led to suppose. It will he remembered that, after the year, the indian Government will have to décide whether or no it is justified, by the pro- gress made by China herself, in continuing the ausual reduction of the export of opium to China. Not improbably the realization of this
fact has led the Chinese Gryerament to bestir
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(18 not, we believe, gone farther than the sug gestion put forward by Mr Max Müller. But in view of the new edict, it is the more,
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OPIUM SUPPRESSION.
· ANOTHER IMPERIAL DECREE.. The N. C. Daily News publishes the follow- Ing translation at an Imperial decree dated Paking, 20th January:-
urgent that that suggestion should be realized. We are not thinking of the Indian Govern ment which is perfectly capable of taking case ol itself.
But for the sake of the Chinese themselves it,is of the utmost importance that the extent of opium suppression should be accurately known; and in the regrettable impossibility of being able to depend on provincial statistics; an inspection by unbiassed observers is the only remedy. If indeed the campaign be shows to have gone less deeply thus we have been led to suppose, China will assuredly lose, 50 sympathy, The undertaking before her is so vast that ieme disappointments are well nigh inevitable. But if that undertaking is to be pushed to com pletion, it is indispensable that she should | know precisely how the stands.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
PRINCE de Béarn et de Chalais from Peling, is.on a visit to Monsieur Leduc at the Consu- late de Fraper, at Foochow.
MR. and Mrs. Woodley, left Foothow on 29th
utt. for Formosa ria Amoy alter a few month
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Tacir depasire is much regretted by the whole community. An Indian watchman employed at Kowloon. was fined $5 at the Magistracy this morning for sleeping on duty. The taxy one was found en-
joying a quiet supoze in a matar-boat.
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It is reported that Japan bas decided to sell to the Chinese authorities 30,000 Russian rifles, together with a quantity of cartridges, which have remained stored in Dalny since the late
way.
With reference to abe Regulations for oplum prohibition, drawn up by the Ministry of the Interior in conjunction with the Law Revision An electric generating station recently built Commissioners and prosented by'ibe Commin at Chang-chun for the lighting of the city bas poo for Constituent Reforms, it is to be ob- boog destroyed by fire. The lighting of the served that oplum suppression is essentially in city by electricity will that be posipoped, it is important matter to strengthen the Empire, feared, for a considerable period.. and that Decrees had been issued in the pre- vlcus reign commanding that opium should be MR. G. S. Sandford, the papalar agent of the strictly prohibited. Regulations of probibition Chartered Bank in Foochay, is under instruc- have, at different times, boon insued for general tions to leave for Hongkong, and will be ruc- guidance and this'your warnings have baca ra. karated, yo ikat instructions and preventive measures in the matter may be said to have
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The Secretary rand the notice of the meeting* The Chairman, said:-Gentlemen,We will with your permission adapt the niual course and take the report and accounts as read. At our last annust meeting I informed you that the previous year's working showed a reduction in our retums on account of the number of vacant houses, but F held out the hope that during 1909, with the increased demand for our houses, we might reasonably expect to earn sufficient to enable us to revert to the payment an increased dividend, and I am pleased inform you that such is the case, for our out profits for the year ander review amodal to $15,819,25 as against $9,818.90 for the former year, thus enabling us to pay a dividend of 51 50 per share ar; against $1.50 This, I feel tore, you will deem satisfactory. If any shareholder wishes for any further information, I shall be pleased to supply it,
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interrupted his companion and said that if would go I would be given a salary of £3 10 a meath. After some further conversation was conducted by the first speaker to a board-to ing house for Chinese emigrants in Conpaught Road West. I don't know the number of the house. There I was offered food and a bed, but I would not accept either. I was then old by my conductor that my real em player was an Americao (also named) who was residing in a' leading hotel in Hong. kong. I was offered a khaki suit and a shin and promised a sum of ten dollars, which would be paid to me, on board the steamer Tenyo Maru by which we were to proceed to our destination. I was also induced to assume the Filipino name of Antonio Gonzalez and to represent my age as being sighteen or nineteen instead of only fifteen which is my real age. Along with me, several others, some thirteen and fourteen boys, were going with this man. In the end we were prevented from
sailing by the Tenyo Maru on Friday through our parents coming to know of our would-be advecture, so that two of the younger boys who had actually been concealed on board the Japanese steamer were huoted out by their uncle and father. I have since, in company with the last two gentlemen named, and à European and a Chinese detective proceeded to the boarding house whither, bad been taken by the coloured man who accented me at the cinematograph,"
There ended our young narrator's story which is a plain statement of facts and which we bavo' been èpabled to supplement from information gathered from other sources.
HOW THE ABDUCTION STORY, LEAKED DOT, Opt of thecompanions of our youthfuliaform: ant; who had also beep inveigled into the acceptance of the recruiter's terms, failing in his courage to abide by the illicit contract, and meeting his friend's younger sister on her way home from school, laquired of her if she knew where her brother had gone.
Upon her replying that she did not, he proffered the statement that she would not see
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There being so questions, The Chairman moved the adoption of the report and accounts.
Mr. T. I. Rose seconded.
Carried nem con
Mr. Mowbray Northcote moved the confirma tian of the appointment of Mr. J. Rodger in place of Mr. A. Rodger, and the re-appoint. meat of Mr. A. Rodger, on the resignation of Mr. J. Rodger, to the directorate.
Mr. Bhepherd seconded.' The motion was agreed to. On the motion of Mr. J. Rodger, seconded by Mr. T. 1. Rose, Messrs, T. F. Hough and J. M. E. Machado were re-elected directors. Mr. M. Northcote moved, and Mr. J. Rodger seconded, that Mr. J. Co-Edwards be re-elect- ed auditor for the ensuing year.
Carried unanimously,
The Chairman-Dividend warrants will be ody to-morrow morning, gentlemen. Thank you for your attendance.
This concluded the business of the meeting. CANTON DAY BY DAY.
-SUNNING RAILWAY.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
THE MOOSA CASE,
FULL COURT'S DECISION RESKAYED.' Before a Full Court, consisting of the Hon. Mr. W. Rees-Davies, K.C, Acting Chiel Justice, and Mr. Justice Gompertz, Paisse judge, the hosting was roaumed regarding the points of law raised by Mr. Eldon Potter in the case in which Moosa Ebrahim was found guilty on Hon. Mr. F. & Hazeland, Acting Attorney one count under the Bankruptcy Ordinance. Caveral, assisted by Mr. M. W. Slade,instructed by Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, Grown Solicitor, pro- secuted and Mr. Eldoo Polter, fastracted by Mr. C. E. E. Boavis, of Messrs. Wilklason and, Grist, appeared for the defendant.
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been a real transfer of the propmy to defend. and's infant son di merely a paper tracafer and the jury found that there had been no transfer
could not san-how it could be possiblá to revoku, With regard to the last point, Counsel and he
criminal cases a majority of five to two. Bun the usual practice of that Court accepting in parallel instance, Counsel referred their Lord- ships to the Companies Act and submitted that- Ordinance was passed to accept a majority of the practics of the Court ever since the Jory five to two was dever thought to be wrong and be asked that the practice beadjudged right in that case.
Hr. Patter submitted that it was true that the question of partnership was left to the jury, but that should not have bëan so. The matter
ment.
And because they bad it from" the Crown witness that there had bean an
first address their Lordships on the first point should not have gone to the jury, inasmuch as
The Attorney-General stated that he would
raised by the defence. The question with rathey bad it from the lips of the Crown witness gard to the first point was: What was the (Allana) that there had been an assign constraction to be placed on the words "Moces the body of the Receiving Order? By Section assignment, the questio should not have been
Visita and Company" which appeared on
name of a firm. The statutory permission also Saturday that the defendant had totally divested 6 of the Ordinance, there was statutory per-left to the jury whather that mrigement, was mission to insert into the Receiving Order the fraudulent or otherwise. They had seen on occurred in other Ordinances. The question himself of his property and in spy case it was was: What is the scope and reason for this clear that the defendant could never have re. tend should be the construction to be placed The assignment was made and they, must sort of legislation-what do the legislature in obained the property. either on a Receiving Order; firm name of any assume that it was made in the proper way, other civil procedure? He quoted Lord Ja The Court must simply accept the statement of, tice Lindlay, who said that a firm name was merely a convenient method of naming the The jury convicted the defendant because they the witness that there bed buen an assignment, parteen of a firm.when an action ac- crued. *The
Damo of firm was only a compendious expression embracing all the mombora of a firm. Therefore the name of Maosa e Vieira and Compady was, in the words of Lord Justice Lindlay, merely a convenien method of representing those who constituted the body of the firm-namely, Moosa Ebrahim and' Ebrahim Elias. He submitted that each of the partners was liable to proceedings. The property of the firm was the property of the petition presented by the defendant was a partner. He also mentioned the fact that the
debtor's petition, namely, a petition by the, defendant against bis father.
The Puisun Judge-How does this really affect the question?
The Attorney-General-It affects it in this way that the names of the partners are as. certained.
Coussel then proceeded, to deal with the next palat-the rule on the construction of the penal statute. He submitted, that the words were not comprehensive enough. The funda mental rule with regard to the constraction of a penal statute was the will of the legislature— what did the legislature intend? His friend's contention practically amounted to this-that becausa defendant did business in a firm in partnership with another, the legislature in- tended him to go scot-free.
Mr. Peter-My Lords, I did not say that the legislatoro had intended the defendant to go scot-free. I merely said that the machinery
provided by the law was insufficient,
thought that the assigamant was fraudulent. jury and quoted a case lo support of his conten- He submitted that that was not open to the tion. A faint-hearted suggestion had been made by the other side that his (Mr. Potter's) construction of the words “Any por- 300 6gainst whom a Receiving Order bas bien mada" reduced the Bankruptcy Ordinanc to an absurdity. The effect of a Receiving Order was that the goods. belonging to a bankrupt was attached in a certain way and set aside for the benefit of his cred tors. Their Lordships were bound by the construction of a certain Bection with regard to the word "person" and be was entitled to their decision selling aside defendant's convic the construction and obviously they must strain lion on the ground that they could not strain-
the construction if they were to bring the defendant within the meaning of the Act.
Their Lordships reserved their decision, bail being allowed as before.
MANILA CATTLE İRADE,
AINDERTEIT FROM CHINA COAST..
"In addition to the fact that cattle from China bring rinderpest into the Philippines, they form a dangerous 'menace to the hor industry of the islands from the fact that they are the host for suira which hai taken off a masy animals in the islands within the past few years," jald a.well known horse.dealer, according to the Manila Times,
The Attorney-General — It practically amounis to that. Of course, if your Lordships
It is well known that there are: sporadiskonur are against me with regard to the grammatica:outh.eaks of this dread horse dissase in sodan around Manila, especially in the sections. construction to be placed on the words, then nothing mora need be said. I think what, my
where cattle imported from the China friend is trying to do is to reduce the whole
coast are pastured Or quartered, and~~ matter to an absurdily.
the outbreak of surra at the Alabang stack farm which carried off many animals was pt.
tribaled to the calle brought from China which the hast for the trypanosoma, or surra parasite." were used for solum culture and which were
According to a local importer: the only thing that keeps up nadarpest in the islands and cause the outbreaks in distant provinces. 'from time to time is the importation of calle from China.
CONSUL Fanatin and the Committee of the Nippon Club bays issued invitations for Saturday, the sath of February, 1910, at 9.10. o'clock p.m. to meet. His Excellency Vits Admiral Baron Kamimura, at the City Hall.
Dr. J. M. Akinton, príncipal civil medica officer, and Dr. F. W. Clark, medical officer
Hongkong at the meeling of the Far Eastern of bailth, have been selected to represent Asicciation of Tropical Medicios to be held la
Manila next month,
With regard to the point dealing with the partnership question, Mr. Slade said that their Lordships would have noted that the Bankruptcy Ordinance of 1883 contained no.penal sections whatsoever. It simply applied the penal sec. tions of the Debtors Act to cases not included in the Debtors Act, Proceeding; Counsel stated that in the Colony's Bankruptcy Act, the draughtsman, de, thé Attorney-General, bodily incorporated all the provisions of the Debtors
Io speaking of this matter he said: “Rinder- Act. The question, for the Usuet to consider post undoubtedly comes from the cattle im wan; What is the meaning of the phrase "Aqy
ported from Chits, but we need the animals parson against whom a Receiving Order has
for work purposes, and as long as they wa been made, as used in the Bankruptcy Ordinbragt into the country we shall buy them. We send them to the provinces and get about auce. The phrase occurred many times in the Ordinance and he would show their Lordships they succumb to the disease, and so get our-
"eight months' work out of them anyway before that the construction his friend wished to place on the words would lead to the utmost absurdity
mogey back." apf confusion in all stages of Bankruptcy pro- ceedings. Bis friend said that there was a vital difference between the Home Actand that Caton, sih February,
pertaining to the Coloas, · He would show that the phrase "Any person against whom a Re- The total amount collected in fares, elc.ceiving Order bas heen made" meant on the during the 29 days of the ith "moos was 319, face of it the person against whose property a 150.33, being over a thousand dollars a day on
Receiving Order had been made. A11 matter an average. This amount was almost entirely of strict grammatical construction, the phrase costributed by the passenger traffic, only a small portion of it being derived from the car has been made was absurd. A Receiving Or- *Any person against whom a Receiving Order riage of goods. The shareholders of this Com-der could not be made against a person, 11 was made against. bis property. That was clearly to be seen by turning to section 4 of the Receiving Order was. That section (Bection Ordinance, which showed what the psrpose of 4) along with another section, showed exactly Order was. The object of a Receiving Order what the object and scope of a Receiving
was the protection of an estate. & Receiving
He submitted thạt taking the Ordinance as a whole, there could be no question that the section containing the phrase "Any person against whom a Receiving Order has been made" included the partners of a fim when that firm appeared under a firm nami. The question was at the time left to the furt. The Paisas Judge had' specifically told the jury that they could convict only if they considered that the transaction with regard to defendant's property had been a mers blind. Somebody had described it as hocus-poćak". It might have been himself or it may have been his friend, By their verdict, the Jury found that there had been no tosfer. The pretended traction
devices for the concealment of defendant's was no transaction at alThey were merely
property. It was qulin clear that becinus ■ paper trailer was put through, there could well have been no real transfer of the property, That proposition he putforward as a self-griden, in spite of a paper transfer having been made proposition. After having quoted case, Counsel proceeded to say that the question was put to the jury, and iightly so, by the Prime Judge whether, they considered that, they had
bin for some time, more as he had gone pany are greatly satisfied with the increased as a sailor on board a Japanese steamer, caraloge realised at present; but the railway is Alarmes, the lile girl bastened home to still considered as mas being developed its impart the information to the unsuspecting full earning capacity. Work is now in pr mother Once apprised of the unwelcome greas for the extension of the line from Kang news, the anxious lady sent for as eldar sou Yick Fan to the city of San Wut in the dis- by whom diligent, starch was promptly and trict of that same and it is anticipated the successfully made with the result that the boy respit of the extension will doubtless con- was traced home and unravelled the whole tribute very largely to the company's pro-Order merely affected the property of a debtor. tale, whose more salient features we have chronicled above. It was from the relbraed would be adventurer that the names of his other companions were loirat, and subsequent ly communicated to their parents.
HIDDEN IN THE ENGINE-ROOM. The story of how one lather accompanied by the accle of a boy proceeded to the Pacific turbiner in the harbour and there pursued his search after the sheep who had strayed beyond
sperity.
AMERICAN CONSULATE.
The American Consul-General at Canton; the Honourable Leo Bergholz, left here on the 2nd instant on leave, and during his absence, Mr. Myri S. Myers, Vice-Consul General, will be in charge of the American Consulate Gestral in Canton,
SWEDISH MINISTER, The Minister to Sweden, Mr. G. O, Wallen. the fold makes romantic reading. The officersburg, who arrived here on the and instant op a of the ship naturally could not be cognisant of visit to Canton, left for Hongkong on the 3rd all the goings-on on a big freighter on the instant, busy morning of her departure. But ope Japanese sailor, who had casually seen some ceeded by Mr. Beasly. Mr. Sandford will be
On the 1st ins at four o'clock Ong Cheng wis boys led past the steerage into the lower dock arrested at the passenger and baggage division missed by his many friends.-Foockow Esko.
volunteered to conduct the strangers in search at the custom bouse, at Manila, for "trying in corner of what is described as the engine-room, uggle in his personal baggage a quantity of of their quest Right below and is an obscure so the story relates, the two boys were silver ornaments and eight kilos ofṭopium.j located and subsequently dragged out of their Foux Chiness, including a woman, were this hiding place. There were twelve other boys morning charged with baring counterfeit colts board the steamer, it is related that another wars discovered in the bid of one of the di: While the latter scene was being enacted on in their possession. The counterfeit tekous lady was hurrying on to a certain school in pur- fendants, who was head $420, while the emigrate, as the llits man's: KAMI WAI ATID","
To the former's ciated with those of the victims of the labour mother, hail to pay $160. The rest were dil
Host rents and scarcity of houses have led do bean axbaustive.
the formation of a building society at Batavia, Many provinces have now reported the entire It proposes to build about 600 dwellings at suppression of opium plantation and in difor-rentals of from ga to so geliders a month, in ant parts the number of people breaking off the principal districts of the town. The duoil- this habit is gradually increasing. It in becesings will be up to date, both in comfort and sary at once and definitely to decide on a plan convenience. In the meantime, the Chiness and punishment and warnleg in prder that this Arabs who own most of the house property poleonowe bane may be eradicated permanent there are making acomics profite. The Od persil of the Regulations proposed ↑ building society has already started work
also on board.
suit of her son lost he also might be decoyed to
WORD, who, by.
be held 3.45 pm, tomorrow, for the purpose of A SPECIAL meeting of the Sanitary. Board will considering a report from the Colonial Veterin ary Surgeon re an outbreak of rinderpest at No, 6 shed of the Dairy Farm Company's premises at Sassoon's Villa, Pokfulam Road, 1-
A LARGE shipment of cement came to Masili" inst, by the freighter Mathilde from Haiphong. this morning, reports the local Times of, and.. The cargo it contigned to Smilk, Bell and Company and after discharging here the vessel will load a cargo of coal at Batas for Hong
keng..
A SOMEWHAT extraordinary request was maden at the Magistracy this morning.. A man 'ap. peased before one of the local Magistrates, who, after hearing de evidence, requested the Sergeipt in charge of the case to produce mỗ party who could' awary to defendant's good ge character. The case was remanded, pending,
appearance of the party in question,
TWELVE months* hard labour, four hours: stocks and twelve strokes were awarded two Chinesosa at the Magistracy this morning for stress, to unsich a reticule,which; Mrs. Fuller ADĘDU snatching. One of the men was bold anongh carrying which, however, did not seminin Long in his possession. Thase exemplary senti should produce wholesome effects on the i scrupulose gang,