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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY SEPTEMBER 11 1911.
The City Hall
PRACTICE.
Motion for Leave to Appeal Bofore the Chief Justion Sir
quoutly.
The Puiane Judgo On: what point do you desiro to call furilor evidence?
Mr. Pollock-On to question
Aprivato letter from Woihui- A QUESTION OF RIVER could be left to bo We have suggested that the Separatist party in the Dominions
wei states that light form of is not of numerical or political consoquendo. In Caunda the recont utterances of Sir Wilfred Laurier, himself a French Canadian beur dysontory is prevalent there this out. There is not a single Canadian politician of importance Some of the cable office employees litve been affected and a little, who has of late years raised the cry of independence. It is trus that there has been recently a large influx of Americans into West-European girl aged for is said ern Canada, but the very fast that those newcomers, with full to be in a very serious condition. Francis Piggott, and the Puismo of the custom prevailing on the knowledge, chose to live beneath a monarchical rather than a repub The following is the return of sitting as a Full Court in the Poiter will argue that point
Judge, Mr. Justice Gompertz, boats. My learned friend Mr. lican flag indicates that their political beliefs cannot be rigid; un- less it is assumed that their advent is part of a doop-laid plot to visitors to the City Hall Library Appellate Jurisdiction of the The Puisno Judge The plain- bring Canada into the American political fold-which, as the excel and Museum for the week-ondling Supreme Court this morning. tiff preot cally closed his case, leht Euclid was wont to remark, is absurd. That the Soparatist September, 10-1911-Non-Chi Hon. Mr. II. E. Pollock, K.O., The questions of bad custom ani party in Australia is of no importance whatever is proved strangely. nese, Library 405 Musoum, 177; (with whom was Mr. Eldon Potter unscomanlike conduct arose and enough by the Sydney, "Bulletin," a paper whore.views are most Chiness, Library 140, Muscunt instructed by Mr. Lowis, of Messrs. Mr. Stonyenson without to call
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11th, 1911
THE MOTHERLAND AND THE 'DOMINIONS.
tolerant antisement,
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DAY BY DAY
moved for un order that the to me that the question suddenly able (1) that Gourge V, shall remain on the throne, and (2) that the Highly, Diverting. judgment delivered by the Puisno coming up like that was not British Empire shull romain intact, no sane Australian is going to During the parforained at the Judge on August 4-lust, whereby relevant
Mr. PollockThere was no quarel." Coming from such a source nothing could be stronger. Taiping Theitre on Saturday $720 dimages with asts, were In a word the intelligent colonist is urged both by soutinent and evening a Chinese in search of awarded Captain Tom Austin evidence of custom
The Puisne Judge What Cap reason to do all that in him. lies to maintain the integrity of the further diversion commenced against the Chi Wo Stonni-hi Empire. Io has all to lose and nothing to gain by striving to throwing stones at the Inition Company for wrongful dismisan tain Austin said-was: {' What I obtain an independence that he could not resorvo for a day were constable. A court interpreter from the s.8. Hai Ming, might bed was what everybody else he to lose the negis of the protection of Great Britain. It may be was present in the audience reversed. Hon. Mr. O. G. Alabi did." The inate also said hit assumed therefore, that, though the relationship of the Motherland and he pointed the culpritter, instructed by Mr. D. V and added that he considered and the Dominions will change to meet elmuging conditions, the cut to the constable who of Stouren, of Messrs. Dercon. the plaintiff's conduct sermon- voice of the Separationist will continue to excite no sentiment except fected an arrest. This morning Looker and Deacon, was for the like. Therefore I considered the
the seeker of diversion was sent respondents.
plaintiff's conduct a samanlike and to prison for two monilis with The motion was made on proper. An independent witness hord labour.
the following grounds (1) from the Harbour Office was called: The Colony's Health
That the finding of the Puisend the appellants were, mot The Medical Officer of Health Judge that there was to oral estopped in any way from calling announces that there was a clean agreement between the parties to evidence. All things that are,
We note that the Shanghat shoot as far-ne plagne is concerned the effect that the agreement be
Mr. PollockWo had no op Ars with more spirit chased papers are announcing that they for the week onded Sept. 9. The ween them might be terminated portunity of cross-examining than enjoy'd.
have made arrangements for me total number of cases reported this by 24 hours' notice on either sich Captain Pylus. ipcreased service of Router's year was 261 and the deaths 241. was against the weight of Continuing, Counsel submitted telegrams.
Four cases of communicable dis-ovidenco. (2) That tho Puisme tlut an assessor could not be ense other than plague were re-Judge held without any evidens consulted by the Court on any Monthly Meteorological Report porte during the week, two of being before him to that effect, thai point of fact. He could only be The monthly meteorological ronerie mal two of smallpox. it was not the usual course of duty consulted on questions of technical port for August shows that the Death resulted in two cases, one on river boats plying betweenmanship. They had the maximum average temperature from small-pox, the other from Hongkong and Canton, and carry- vidence of a Cay tin who had for this period way 80.2, the mean, enteric.
ing only two officers for any regulaiborn in the service for 27 years. 810, and the minimum 78.4 do-
watch to be kept, but that the subanitted that all Captaju A large batch of gamblers caine appellants could call evidence to Justin said amounted to this before the Magistrates this morn-show that on such boats regular This is my usual practice. bing in the street had to pay the following question in con-
M. Aluba-tor-No, no, he said ing. Three mon who were gam- watches are in fact kopt. (3) That
Botter grade rice was selling at $12 a pleal in Shanghai ou Sopt. G
It is now possible to go to Europe by rail from Tsingtan to Berlin in 12 days.
Sorious rioting is said by the occurred at Poolung in connection "Shanghai Mercury" to live with the rice shortage. The position in Shanghai is becoining serious.
grees. Altogeilior 30.06 inches of rain fell, and the number of hours On five days there was no sunshine of sinshine readed was 190,5 and on thirteen no rain.
A Terrible Death
oach
Gambling Houses Raided...
.
The Chief Justico-What you
that
was the general practice...
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now trying to do is to appeal
the as-cs.or's auswer
DI in defandt seven days noction with the respondent', Eleven men were charged by In-evidence ought not to have been The Ningpo correspondent of spector Fenton with playing fan put to the assessor, because if the Shanghai Times," in the tan in a house in Sai Hu Lana, involved questions of fact, viz. :----
Mr. Pollock-It all como bu ok In a twenty round contest at course of a description of a big fire The two keepers of the house were "Does this describe the usual to the question: "What, is the Shanghai ngaiast Seaman Ramsay thore, says: There was "Battling Simms" gained the fatality during the fire, a very Inbour, while the others were fined carrying only two officers?" The Fusine Judge-Suppose you
one ordered to pay $75 or 6 weeks hard tours of duty on river boats usual practice?” roforec's decision.
curious thing indeed. The body $4 or seven days. The money (4) That inasmuch as Cap have a conflict of evidence bot was found huddled up in a kong sized by the police, $11.04, was
tain. Pybus was called of water with the head and upper confiscated,
inween two wituersos, can't the Court to advise the Court upon the skinn assessör:
"Which witness ports of the hody roasted beyond
evidence hofors, it, às to the pro- do you believe?" recognition. No one knew who
fessed duly of the respondent to
Mr. Pollock-You can't pos News have been received, aus get regular watches, the inde-sibly do that, this man could be or how he got the Shanghai Mercury," that endent statement of Captain there. But it is presumed ho was A. W. Pontius, American Pybus, amounting to evidence as out that the owner slid teally The Paisne Judge-There is no something during the fire and got transferred to Dalny, vico Mr. A. with regard to keeping of regular travelled frequently on the bont thief trying to got away with Consul at Chungking, will be to the practice on river stemmers know what was going on. -10 trapped by the building col- Williamson transferred to An-watches ought not to have been und played cards with the Captain... [sing
ting. Mr. B. Green, Consul at accepted by the Puiane Judge as Volcanoes in Japan.
It's all in the evidence:
The str. Ifazel Dollar which went ashore off Muroran was re- fouled on Sopt. 3. She procce led to Hakodate for repairs.
1- The British-American Tobaccoʻj
has appropriated $10,000 for the relief of flood sufferers and is despatching an officer to Wuhu to supervise the listribution of the contribution.
minonce the question of the relutions of the Motherland and the hour. Dominions. There are those who believe that the day is steadily Bijou Scenic Theatre. drawing nearer when the great self-governing portions of the British Empire will gently, but decisively, werdr the bunde that unite them continues to gain in popularity This little hall of amusement with the Home country. In support of this theory it is pointed out The programme for this week in that Canada at the prosent moment exercises practically all the powers eludes several bright and catchy of an indepontient state. Certainly it is true that all legislation passei sangs by Miss Vera Ferrace and by the Canadian Parliament has to receive the assent of the Governor number of very good pictures General, who is the direct representative of the King, but this, it is large houses were present at both claimed, is to all intents and purposes a formal function, and it is Saturday's and last night's per scarcely conceivable that any nonsure that embodied the wishes of formances. the people of Canada would fail to obtain the vice-regal sanction. Stress is also laid upon the fact that Canada has inaugurated a local navy. The Commonwealth of Australia is almost in the same position,
Bank Notes
"Anierizan Consular Changes
The Result of a Raid.
Trams and Dogs-
the fault of
CONTENT WITH LITTLE.
Mukden, is transferred to an evidence or otherwise for the Mr. Potter claimed that on the A telegram from Gifu, Japan, ków, vico Mr. Mosher, transferred A Europoan rosiding at the states that Iwogatako, a volcano to Germany. Mr. Mayaard, Con-purpose of arriving at his judg-legal aspect of the case, the plain- in Mino Provines, which has been sul at Vladivostok, goes to liar-the judgment with regard to more than merely say that the ment, (6) That it appears from tiff would have to do something Hotel de l'Europe has been miss- Mr. Rudyard Kipling's dramatic appearance in the role ofing sines Friday night, says regarded as extinct for some time bin, and Mr. C. L. L. Willians, adviser to the people of Canada, coupled with Sir Wilfred Laurier's a telegram from Penang dated past, began to erupt on August Consulat Swalow, goes on leave Captain Pybus statements to ppellants know what had been assertion, which we publish; to-day, tint the Dominion is prepared to Sept. 5. It is believed that he and the villages at the foot for several months, which he will only speak as to his belief and condong
him that Captan Pybus could going on. A master might talk busines, lmt nog polities with Anetion, brings again into prd-las committed suicide in the har- of the volcano, the downpour of spend at Peking with his father not as to the usual course of duty servant and continue to condone
ashes was so heavy that objects at the Ameriçon Legation. only a few foot off were invisible
on West Itivor boats. (6) That as condone it again and again The water of the Takhara River The man who attempted to on Yangtze River bonts, Captain where he was bound to say "I regards the usual course of duty but he must come to a point
od close to Iwogatake; smells Gough Street Hill, when the own personal knowledge in regard The Puisno Judge-Oh, no, he in Takano Mora, which is situat jump through a window at 106 Pybus could only speak as to lihall condone it no langer.” strongly of sulphate and the fish house was raided by excise ollicers to a period antecedent to the your must give notice. have been killed. According to on Thursday evening, was brought 1891, since when he has been information gathered by the up on remund before Mr. J. R. employed continuously in one o!
Mr. Potter-No, my Lorik Hagiwara Police Station, a large Wood this morning on a charge theirs of the O. P. L. Co we went to p:o3o,
Argument w. sproceeding when new arater has been formed about of having a quantity of opium in which are on-going slips. ((7) 5 cho from the old crater, and all his possession without the per-That in view of the practice of the trees and grass within a mission of the Opium Farmor, radius of 15 cho from the summit. It will be rememberal that the in fact, prevails on river steamers keeping regular watches, which, A Dangerous Practice
have perished. Hugo boulders officials found implements for sing between Hongkong and When a Star ferry bout was
Bank Robbers at Hánkow. the only difference being that the Governors of the individual statesmanouvring alongside the land- have been thrown up from the boiling opium and a quantity of Canton, though carrying only two
When the safe at the Banque which comprise the Commonwealth arestill Imperial officialsappointed ing stage at Kowloon yesterday a
erater, Tue villagers living near the drug, in the house... navigating oflicere, and in rogaredo Indo-Chine, Hankow, was by the King. Australia also has the nucleus of a navy, and, if the scheme small boy caught hold of the the volcano are in a state of alurm,
To-day the man was fined $37 to which the appellants crave opened yesterday morning, says propounded by Admiral Sir Reginald Henderson is adopted, it will chain by which the gangway
or in default one month's lurdle ve to call evidence, it was not become a factor of some importance in years to come when the quesis lowered and his hand became Remarks" flie reverse of con-abour.
to "Central Chin Post" of 30th proper and seanulike for the ult. it was discoverol thist thieves tion of the naval supremacy of the Pacific has to be decided. Those, jammed. Furtunately a warning | trały pre' somolimes made in
respondent to run his slip for had been in during the right and who foresee the disruption of the Empire, paint particularly to the cry was raised in time to prevent regard to our locul bank notes, In giving judgment in the Westvarima periods during the land broken open the door of the inauguration of these semi-independent naval units as a syruptoni serious injury. It would be well, gonerally perhaps in regard to the ninster County Court in the case vys ges with only a Chinese safe. The payors and onrroney that supports their theory. The proposed Reciprocity Agreement however, for parents to warn their owness with which they arrive of a claim for £3. 19, 6, the value pilot on duty on the bridge, but were found in utter disorder, and between Canada and America, which only requires the endorsement childrenol the danger of meddling and the rapidity with which they of a dress which had been rained that on the contrary it constituted of the Dominion Legislature to become operativo, is thought to be a with any of the gear on the for-depart. The disregard they show by a dog while the plaintiff was a neglect of duty in the respon- 1,000 in French gold and Frenial. En count revealed that about TE. still plainer sign of the trend towards separation,
ries.
for the virtue that is said to rank travelling on one of the London dent to have omitted to keep It would be idle to blink the fact that there is a Separatist party The Occasional Contributor
next to godliness is also sometimes United Tramway Co.'s cars, systemsfregular watches between must have been po esserl of won
notes was missing. The inoes. both in Canada and Australia. The analogy between a family and an Empire which includes rich, virile and rapidly developing states, but ay abode is at the Peak, murke: The clean faces of our liable for the breach of their duty kong and Canton and vice versa working the combination luck. It galle nudf hyself to speak, elsewhere. Tondon paper roof opinion tunt the company was the whole voyage between Hong for they get the sufe open by a subject for comment. So is it Julge Wodfall said that be was himself and the mate throughout dorful attence, as well as luck, as has been frequently remarked, is very close. In a family the sous, where all the taipans live, and bank notes, praised by a Society to the plaintiff as their passenger and that such neglect of duty Thoy had first tried to mash the - upon attaining an age when they feel that they can shift for them where we breathe a genteel of Arts lecturer the other day, is a The tramway company had, would have justified theappellants door open, us was shown by the selves, generally leave the paternal roof to make their own way in atmosphere. At half-past four or the world. There is no antagonism to the parout involved; the five o'clock F doff my office coat subject of congratulation es through their conductor, know in dismissing him without notice. nk of their tools. Evidently separation is brought about by reason of the natural and laudable and look my roll top desk, smooth pecially in the light of a com-ingly permitted the dog to be at (8) That any method of procedure they found their troup na not desire of all healthy-minded young inaalfood to cease to be a burden down my hair and tell the boy to prison with the notos of other large on the car, Judgment was on a river vorage such an is de prong enough for this job, so they and to rely on its own energy and intelligence. With the British call a chair, and, borne in triumph, sluga and other lands. There was given for the amount cln'med cribed by the respondent would begin trying to work the oms self-governing Dominions it is similar. This instinct of what we soon I am conducted to the wait Frank Duckland's frink driticism people should take heed. Doge cantion which is required by the or Iter on the right set. With the Scotch piper honey. And und euste. The local tramway constitute a neglect of probination. They chanced sooner might call self-reliance, though the torm is inadequato, han led a ing tram. Perhaps, because of of its uncleanline: "Mr. Ball are supposed to be paid for and ordinary practice of seamen and minority in the Dominions, that deceives the unsophisticated in youthful sina my trilulation then showed me money lie had received to wear a chain on the trams, but, would love justified the pre-treasure unting to millions regard to ite size and importance by the constant clamour. it begins and someone's yellow pup for his lamba," he wrotenot particularly on the Peak trams, Ints in dimissing him without of trols within the joblins
the cafe open, tinre was n makes, to demand separation and independence. The more who's rolled in mud and covered only enw but smelt tile money the owners do not trouble about nice and let any custom (even roneli, but for some reaso level-headed and better balanced majority, however, while equally up with mould (without a chain) intent upon achieving full control of all domestic affairs, in animat comes roaming round and seeing of Scoleli bank one-pound notes, dogs are frequently at large on caution wild he had in law.
Trom afar. It consisted of a roll these, ragulations Unattached if proved) to neglect such a pre contented themselves with a d ed by no sentiment of animosity to the Mother country. On theme comes at a bound and rubs contrary as pintarity is being rouched the Dominions (gen rolly be himself against my legs and fills, dirty, rugged pieces of the trams and, when it has been,
try thi usand Hon. Mr. Pollock said he was gin to realize the debt of gratitude they owe for the protection given my boots with doggy dregs while papar, looking only fit for the fire, raining, deposit Hongkong real moving inter, alis for leave to call them in foebler days by the British Army and Navy. To that feel all the people look askance at my These notes, & undersare estate over the summer clollies frash orionon. It seemed to him ing of gratitude and the belief that it could be most effectively once chaste, now filthy pants and sometimes quite intolerable. of indignant passanger Now desirable that at question should. shown by relieving Great Britain of part of the burden imposed in boots. I wish no harm to degs. The notes, from Wick are the that a legal decision has fixed the be settled first. The reason why publis securing their safety has been due the inception of the Canadian but I abling those human hops of fish about them: Mr Bell's people the local anthorities con- was because he had certain wit-in fatur
worel there is a charming odour responsibility upon the tramway he was making that application offro and Australian navies and the adoption of compulsory military sor wholet their canines roam around notes smelt of shop. Our worst cerned should so that there is a nesses in Court whom they lind mas Vice in Australia, and New Zealand. When the Dominions fleets and cover nie with liqui and land forces, gain appreciable strength it will be possible for and so I write (let cynica notes are exchanged on the rice- proper observance of the regu- secured at some exponso, : This Great Britain more effectually to concentrate her forces noarer home, to claim your
And they do not smell|lationy, ilimely action mey Baye, mucation, he suggested, should be ; in 161 and that is the end the people of the Dognitions hold 'id view,
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