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SUPREME COURT.
THE CHARTER PARTY
CASE.
It was not until a fortnight later,
a letter from Mossra. Ewons
intended to terminato.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY MAY 20 1911
the defendant entered into a con- tract with the plaintiffs for the purchase of one case of broad- gloth. The goods arrived on August 23rd and notice of their arrival was sent to the defendant. Under the contract he had two
Mr. D'Almada replied that in sucli a ense notice had to be given
CANTON NEWS.
TELEORATH" CORRESPONDENT
STANDARD OIL TRUST.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN? SHORT REVIEW OF THE LAW.
on any occasiona,
Within recent momiary the
Act.
CENSUS OF HONGKONG. ENUMERATORS AT WORK
TO-DAY.
Sixteon o'xtra enumerators. In
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These proliminary figures of CHINESE CIVILIZATION. uitizen is not any happier or moro course have to be checked after-
contented than the averago Chi-";
TIONS.
ENTERTAINMENT COM- MITTEE.
childron.
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wards with the schedules and AN INTERESTING ARTICLE. nose. this is not the least arduous
A civilization which has In Original Jurisdiction before
part of the work. For the
lol China to wade through the Wodnesday the census enumera-work of tabulation a staff of a splended article, which has poraries, who were perhaps evon A Chinoso correspondent writes crisis under which all her contem- the Chief Justice, Sir Francis T.
Tho telogram which appears tor is abroad in the land.. In twouty clerks have been engaged; found print in the "Straits Times" rioler and better equipped mate- Piggott, Wednesday morning, the mouths in which to take delivery, in another column, regarding reality ho
boon and that period having olapsod, the dissolution of the Standard gaged in the work of com- Messrs. Dennys and Bowley's old is a vindication of the "Groat away cortainly has something
an-ther will
be quartered in of Alay 10than article which rially, have fallon and passod case was continued arising out of plaintiffs pressed him to take de- Oil Trust is somewhit in piling the consus of 1011 for offices at the Supreme Court. anarbitration concerningu charterlivery of the goods, but he had adequate in as much as it some time, but to-day saw tho
Oriental People." He says: which is superior to gold and: Farty between tho Javn-China-not done so.
gives the public, and especially first of him in the central parts of CORONATION CELEBRA-rectly stated that to toll the truth,
"It lins beon wisely and cor other materialistic standards. Japan Line and Olaf Wijk and
Afr. Gurdiner pointed out that the interested public, no idea of the city. The whole work of the
It is true that our civilization Co., China Agoncios, Lul. The
there was a stipulation in the con- the manner in which the Standard census-taking is under the control
rightly understood, is not to state has defects and imporfections. tract that if tho goods wore not up Oil Company have violated the of Mr. P. P. J. Wolehouse of the
the true facts, but to convoy a Wo do not claim that wo have arbitration case had been board to sample, the buyer had the option two sections montioned, nor does Police, who has been engaged in REPORT OF CHILDREN'S much has been written and said civilization, no, for from that, true impression. In recent years roached our highest ideals of and a special caso stated. It of cancelling the contract. now camo on for argument upon
it give the nature of those two the preliminary work practically sections. questions of law. Hon. Mr. H. E.
about Chinese civilization by re- We admit that it has flaws and since the beginning of tho your. Pollock, R.C., (instructed by Mr.in one week.
Inall probability there has been
turned missionaries, tourists and shortcomings and that thero aro Alroady the consus of various J. Scott Harston), appeared for
some technical mistake under the outlying parts of the Colony, such
others, yet it is a and fact that most in our country social evils, politioni tho charterers, the Java-Chinn-
The case was adjomu nod,'
Anti-Trust Law and that scous as Lantau, Lanima and Choung
The following decisions were still do not understand rightly for, tho fret is that wo, as other of the people of the western world corruption, and moral decadence; to be the opinion of Amany people. Chau, has been completed. In arrived at by the Children's Sub what Chinese civilization is in human beings, also make mistakes Japan Line; and Mr. Eldon Pot- EMPLOYER AND for (instructed by Mr. G. Hast-
Recently, as is well known, the New Territory thoenumerators Committes with reference to the fuct, some evon question whether and fail to carry out what wo know EMPLOYEE. ings), for Olaf Wijk and Co.
there has been a great agitation have been at work sinco 6th Coronation Celebrations :— Continuing this morning Mr.before him the case, in which of trusts and also against those in nearly finished. In the above Mr. Justice Gompertz als had in America against the formation March and the census is now
there is such a thing as Chinoso to bo best. But wo aro also con- That the schools, as indiented civilization. Consequently, the scious of our shortcomings and Potter dealt with the correspon- Kwok, Yan Kee sued. Fong Tan existence. dr. John Sherman, who localities, donce that had passed between to recover $116.07 being monies was a Sen nor in the United States population has been done by the Dotted Rod lines in the Chart in others too low. The reasons for opium crusade and the anti- estimation of our civilization in are fighting against all kinds of the taking of the by Rod lines, Black lines, and some minds is too high while in ovil with irresistible forces. Tho the two parties, and referred in overdrawn by defendant from representing Ohio introduced an police with the assistance of eight Table II. of the Report of the such a result are very evident. footbinding movement and other particular to a letter of February plaintill. 7th from the charterer to the own
act which was passed by the Sonate extra Chinese enumerators in the Director of Education for the in most cases the main purpose reforms that are now swooping ors. The fast portion of the let-
Me. Otto Kong Singape red and the provisions of which were Now Territory.
year 1900, comprising about of missionaries in writing or over the empire are proofs of the tor was of importance, saying as Mr. Holmes defeuded.
fon bolall of the plaintiff and to prevent huge companies from In the Chinoso part of the city the entertainment scheme.
7,500 scholars, be included in speaking about China and her above statement. it did: Under these circum-
kooping, to use in colloquialis, of Victoria there are 120 Chinese stances, I shall feel obliged by Lordship that the defondant was
Mr. Otto Kong Sing toll is the bottom dog under.
enumerators at work, the rest of
That of the Private schools giv-sympathy so as to advanco mie what Chinn has been in the past
people is to arouse Christian
The world that his marvelled at your agreeing to pay the extra a former employee of the plaintiff the Sheram Act al under its
This act became known as the city being covored by the ing instruction in the Vernacular, sionery enterprise. In order to will marvel morb yot at what Chine promium. In the terms of the
police.
the 6 schools manged by tho do so, they generally paint is to be. On account of the rich a first class risk in local insurance Salary since 1905 up to 1900, been directed against various harbour oight faunches and six-gentlemen, estimated to comprise and the condition of uttor help-virility of the poople out may
und he had been overdrawing his wing crusade after crusade has charter party the steamer must be
For the cousus taking in the Tung Wa, 5 Confucian schools, the dark side of the Chinose and practically untouched re- and I school managed by Chinese people, show corrupt institutions sources of the land and the officos. There was no suggestion and that had been appropriated
There had only been one payment trusts,
As is woll known the head of teen sampons are employed, this about 1,000 scholars altogether, be lessness. of the tormination of the contract, to the latter year. He submitted the different crusades was ox-Pre-work also being undertaken by also included in such scheme.
Words from the pen rightly expoct a great future but a direct suggestion that he that in this caso the statute sident Roosevelt, and he agitated to police with the assistance of was bound by it, and required the of limitations could not apply as
or lips of tourists and travellers for China-a Chinese political That the question of tho enter-are frequently superficial because future, industrial future, oduc- owner to pay the extra premium. this was a care of, contiuntos innrican Tobacco Trust hustion, the method of numbering is not bolonging to any school at all, enough in the country to acquaint the formal and external features the case of the floating popula-tainment of European children, they usually do not stay long ational and religious future. All Fobruary 22, that they received liability.
The evidence for the plaintiff been fought and the Standard the same as that followed in the or left to be sold by private themselves with her people, her of our civilization may pass and Hurston saying that they was being taken when we went til Company has now fallen lying parts of the Colony but that metals Deive Truth, ancient history, traditions, law, away with the time, but is do: the ban of the Sherman that is to say, the port is divided but that medals be given to such customs and habits. To be sure fundamental principles will exist Thon pross
into sections and the required
there are those other than Chinese That 12,000 medals in all be themselves who have given, some while pouce, justice and con as long as there is humanity: It is common knowledge that particulars regarding the oceup-
ants of each sampan or junk or ordered, and that the Llonourable fair opinions about our civiliza science have been the keynote die Standard Oil Company is a they have charters in a great many adorned with a cross in white of them. combination of companies and
stoumer are entered direct into a Mr. Koswick bo asko if he will tion, hut such men are indeed of our civilization, greator poace, book, after which that craft is kindly range for the ordering vory few and fewer are those higher justice, and more develop HIGH COMMERCIAL ·
states in the United States.
in sympathy with the peoplo, ed conscience will be the keynote That 50 conts bo allowed for Thus it is mainly due to non- of our civilization. COMMISSIONER.
paint to denote that it is done The Company has received no knowledge, the chaterers knew It is reported that H.E. the oral Government. The Com
direct Charter from the Fed with so far as the enumerators are each scholar refreshments and-representative and superficial or amusements to the scholars in lectures and writings that most of that the condition as to the ship Canton Viceroy has memorialized being a first class risk, was the Throne to appoint Mr. Choung | East in known as the Standard Chinese enumerators have been scholars in (2), and thut Mr. E. A civilization. Through misunder-
pany working in the Far
For the whole of Kowloon 42(), and 25 cents for ditto to the the Americans misjudge our incapable of fallmout. They lung-nam; who is the younger Oil Company of New York which specially engaged to assist the irving be asked to kindly, ap-standing and ignoranco sómo have i know it on February 7th and brother of the Court Councillor has received its Charter under the polico. In some of the more pronch the Heads of the different denounced our nation and people he submitted they knew it before Mr.Cheung Yuk-nam, well knowns of the State of New York romate places like Kowloon City schools, requesting them to lay as semi-civilized or even without claim for $770) damages ho urgeit merchant in the Straits, as ligh ramifications in this part of the system of entry is being employed being stipulated that the above the calling of all foreigners Dr. J. W. Noble.............. $250 that date. With regard to the in longkong, and who is a rich which oxtonil to the Company's and Samsuipo, the direct book their different schemes before this civilization although such judg-| that they could not recover be- [Commercial Commissionar in
Committee for its approval, it ment has no truer ground than cause by their action they hadCanton. The new official will be
as being most convenient. waived fulfilment of the condition. in charge of the work for develop absolate, shares may go down. the system of numboring adopted benefit of the scholaire, and that it nation upon which the attention
grant is to be expended in refresh-barbarians" by some ignorant Netherlands Trading Society 250 In Victoria and Kowloon proper ments and-or omusements, for the people in China. China to-day is Russo Asiatic Bank........... The putting in of a receipt for the ing Tai Shu Tau as a trade centre What this would mean to those in the schedule system. The town be spent on the actual Coronation of the whole world is focussed, and Whiteaway Laidlaw & Co... payment of 880 guilders for extra in Canton, for opening up Pratas America who are interested in vari-is divided up into sections which Day, and that the scheme of re- the sooner she is rightly under- W. 8. Brown........................ premium was not evidence that Islands, and also acting as superous ways no one can tell, but it are again demarcated into sub freshments and or amusements is stood the better for her and for all J. Hooper................ the money was paid as a broach intendent for the promotion of of contract as regarded the condi- industries, agriculture, commerce is one of the greatest banking by two enumerators working to Masters to this Committee for its
is well-known that the Company sections, each of which is covered to be submitted by the load humanity. tion. On the trip charter they and banking enterprises.
From the very earliest time the T, W. Robertsoa.............
C. II. W. Kow................................. had refused to pay oxtra insurance ANOTHER CONTEMPLATED
concerns in the United States.. gother. Every pair of Chinese approval.
tasto for learning was cultivated P. R. Wolff................. but yot on the time charter they
It is a company in which mil- enumerators are accompanied by produced a receipt to show that
Tint it is advisable that, if und, has continued to be a dis-E. S. Ford.. lions of dollars are sunk and not a district watchman from the practicable, the sum of at least tinguishing characteristic of our J, Hyde.............. they had paid it in that instance. freely osted at Shek-lung to the Company cannot be dissolved.
Some days ago placards were a few are of the opinion that the Registrar-General's department. $6,000 be allotted to this Com-people uninterruptedly through R. Packham............. It was a link missing in the proof effect that a general rising was,
In those parts which are covered mittes for the above objects, and all its history to the present E. H. Neave....... of their case that the receipt did contemplated and all rics shops is the state of trade and the fight Chinese work together.
The crux of the whole question by the police, a European and a incidentals, i.e. $3,750 for the day. Centurios before Homer A, H. Heron....... not say how the need for extra in-were threatened to be looted. against the "big dog."
entertainment of the scholars in there existed in the country a. Unsworth.. surance had arison. In addition Although nothing has happened,
The census when completed is the schools in (1), and $250 for literature which attests the very S. It. Ismail... to the receipt they should have the authorities have taken every represented in Hongkong, as sons resident, within the Colony at $1,000 for medals and $1,000 for ment and since then it had been S. II. Sopher....
The Standard Oil Company is supposed to be a record of per- ditto in the schools in (2), and highest state of intellectual attain S. Jaman,******* produced evidence to show that it precaution to prevent an outbreak, the South China Department, at 12 o'clock on the night of the incidental expenses. was paid. The Victoria was not in-Suldiers were on duty day and Shanghai, as the North China 20th inst., but of course it would
enriched till to-day very few 0. S. Mooney......... surable as a first class risk. It was night and the public were noti-Department and has also bran- bo practically an impossibility to should be included in
That children in Hospitals Westerners who have mastered C. F. L........ a technical point, but, he sub-fiod that everything was quiet.ches in Japan. mitted, n' sound one. There were The Icoal authorities are
the our language have not echoed and Foung Kam Lun.. obtain such an exact record, as to presentation of modals,"" no letters of any kind with
The effect at these places if the time, in a place like the Colony
re-echoed sentiment that untold Juman Khan.... regard
that opinion to this receipt.
That H.E. the Governor's Ad- treasures lie hidden in the rich Lan Yung Fuk... station dissolution is sustained cannot of Hongkong, for obvious reasons, dress be printed in English and lodes of Chinese literature. It C. H. Tsan..... On the question of the claim for at Shek-lung is not properly good that a company of such a Meanwhile the enumerators are
of the Canton-Kowloon Railway be surmised. If the idea liolds geographical and otherwise. Chinese and framed.
unfolds the marvellous realm of damages. by his clients, he sub-guarded, and have requested the large capital cannot be dissolved, engaged in distributing the and Chinese member of this Com-lenges a comparison with the best been received from Mr. Chan Kai mitted they wore entitled to Viceroy that arogiment of soldiers then-the work of these branches blank schedules to householders, mittee should go round with a models of both ancient and no-Ming on behalf of the Chinese
That, if practicable, an English Chinese philosophy which chal- Fung Clow lang..........
Also a cheque for $15,000 has damages for breach of contract, under Commander Lau Hung will not ho interfered with.
filled, in: These schedules require to have copy of His Excellency'a Address dern times.
and the medals to the different
Chinese civilization may also will be published at a later date.
community, a list of whose naines schools, the schools being divided bo viewed through the moral into districts for that purpose.
claracteristics of the people, some At a subsequent meeting, the of which pre rarely found in other LOG BOOK, replies of the load Masters of the races. In naming them a careful various schools to the circular No. observor will include. in the list
TONNAGE. 10 sont by the Director of Educa-some of the prominent virtues, tion were read.
such as due respect to the old and kan shipping which outered and The tonnage returns of Sanda
apart from any knowledge which they had proved Mr. Bisschop to have had before, that alone would put the charterers out of court on [Tus the point as to whether they were entitled to terminate or not. lo submitted that from their owi
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It would be impossible for them Chow be despatched for the protec AMERICAN GOVERNMENT to prove damages while the charter tion of the place. Meanwhile the party was still in existence and authorities are keeping a sharp while they were being paid month look out for the evil-doers rosponat last been successful in their The American governmont have by month for the boat.The damages sible for the posting up of these suit against the Standard Oil of accrued after the contract hadflammatory placards.
been wrongly terminated, and
would be equivalent to the loss of
CHINA'S TELEGRAPHS.
rent of the boat up to the prosent
time. Concluding, Mr. Potter said
"You have all the facts possible; THE NEW €400,000 LOAN.
wo were paid $5,500 per month
New York. The United States Supreme Court has handed down its decision to the effect that the Oil Trust is
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cation of the Head Master of the matters, contentment in one's lot, left the port, during 1910, com-
It was decided that the appli-venerable, ardent zeal in religious
for the steamer and the contract The Eastern Extension and the months. The Standard Oil is,
Ping Stain school that the allot- thorough training betoro ventur-pared with those of 1000, show a was to extend for twelve months. Great Northern Tolograph Com-whether trading regardless of the
mout of 50 conts to his school being any task, love of work, grate-total of 140,070 tons entered and increased to One Dollar be grant- fulness, optimism, patience, in- 142,038 tons cleared in 1910 They have paid us from October panies have loaned £400,000 to Sherman Act, as a Trust or 17 to April 3 so that the rest of China for eighteen years at five otherwise, is a live, wideawake
ed, but that before the scheme be dustry, economy and others. The the twelve months is still to run. por cont. The name is to concern and will not be greatly required are very much fuller the elders of Ping Shun to such er, Confucius, condensed from respectively, in 1000. This shows On this occasion the particulars finally decided on, the consent of moral code which our great teach-aguinst 160,712 and 108,500 tons, Your Lordship has to give us what be used for the extension of the disturbed by this adverse de than has been the case in schome should be obtained. you think is fair compensation." telegraph system into Mongolia cision of the Courts, doubtless any
a decrease of 28,742 tons ontering wisdom and teaching of our Mfr. Pollook was addressing the and Tibet.
It was decided that the mom-forefathors, covers almost evory-and 20,501 tons clearing. they will long ore this live com- schedule is based Court in reply when we went to
It will be repaid by 1930, simul ploted all plans for continuing used in the United Kingdom to distributo medals should only fatione between man and man.
on that bors of this Committee who go thing that concerns the re- · NAVIGATION "LAW. pross,
taneously with the oxpiration of their business at the mmeold stand census of April lust, with certain go round to such of the schools tho oxisting agreement with the No. 20 Broadway--and in the modifications suited to the reas have arranged for no trip and surroundings, traditions and cusTokio, a
Owing to the different physical According to a wiro from ALLEGED BREACH OF British and Danish companies. sume manner as heretofore. The quirements of the Colony.
potition has been CONTRACT.
Thors will be no foreign suporvi- business will not bo interrupted,
that the members shall fix their toms, our civilization is, in some made by Chinese shipownors to When the onumorntor leaves the own times for such distribution; respects, different from that of the Japanese Government to re- [sion, the small body of foreign there will be some large fees due blank schedule to be filled in,nud that, as to the other schools, the West, and some of our waye quest the Russian Government This morning, at the Suprotno experts employed being further to the Attorneys who will advise he at the same time enters the the medals should be given to may scom oven mysterious in the to postpone till next year the Court, before Mr. Justice Com-reduced. The security, however, them as to the best methods to number of the house or flat the Head Masters for distribution. Inttor's oyo; but this does not enforcement of the now navigation portz, Mossrs. Shewan and Co. is ample, and the object of the pursue in changing the constituin a book and when he comes to Huod Ling Loon to recover loan excellent.
It was decided that should follow that our civilization is in- law. By enforcing this law the $167.20, as damages for brosch
tion of the Trust, convert it into collect the census papers again there be any modals over, after forior, That part of Wostorn Russian Government will prevent The development of the tolo onolugo Company.excepting only this collection will begin on the the distribution to the schools and civilization which is generally foreign ships from participating of a contract, for the sale and graphs is badly needed. At this change, all will be.as before; 21st or 22nd inst. he enters in children already agreed upon, considered so superior to the in the coasting trade of North purchase of one case of broad present China's inland telegraphs we will still hear of the unique the same book the number of the surplus should be distributed Chinese civilization is in matters China and the Russian portion cloth
are the worst in the world. Thero methods and enormous trane malea and females shown in the amongst the private "Adventure" of mechanical inventions, indus of Saghalien. In the event of Mr. D'Almada o Castro appear is no uniform rate, no secrecy, and actions, which have made the schedule. ed on plaintiff's behalf and Mr. the offices are overburdoned with Company famous; all of which will be possible within a
By this means it vernacular schools.
trial development and extended their potition not being accepted, Gardiner defended.
It was decided that no medals commerce, but these in our the Chinese shipowners havo officials ignorant of telegraphy, will be conducted with the greatest comparatively short while to as-should be given to school childron eyes are not matters of fret im agreed to take a common course. The case for the plaintiffs as The rates are ridiculous, being on secrecy and the great power wield certain very approximately what unless they had attended their portance. It is strange to-day against the Russians and have outlined by Mr. D'Almada, was an average 12 times greater than ed by it will not be curtalled in the population of the Colony respective schools between the 1st that with all the wealth of the Undetermined never to sell, their tlist on January 28th of Isst your in India.
the least, by this decision,
· May and Jõtli June, 1011. Ited States the average Amerioff steamers any Russian agrún
usapunta to.
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