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SHEWAN TOMES
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on the agreed value of the land. SIBERIAN FREE TRADE, Public Companies
No matter how great a failure the sa
land was there and if they came: Traders Appeal for Protection.
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Oh What an Ass!" The New York" Globo" heads its report of Mr. Smith's specoli,
In the columns of the Siberian Oh What an Ass!" and it
and and therefore there would newspapers there recently op declares that ne a summary of
In the Shanglin Supremo bo ne hardship on the company peared a report read by Mr. the ovidence given at the inquiry Court on June 26 an appeal and having to pay commission on that Pifade at a meeting of the mem ried on be the Chinese Engineering & the committee's report is firpioni, cross-appeal was board in the figure. So far from suggesting bore of the Board of Trade at Mining Company, Limited; will be con Other Now York journale call caso of Messrs. Showan Tomes it was not applicable in the ovent Khabarovsk. According to the tinard under the management of the mendation that buoys should be liquidator of the Whangpoo contained sentence and provisions free trade within 60 versts of the THE CHINESE ENGINEERING attention to Mr. Smith's recom-& Co., against G. H. Thomson, of failure this clause actually ecturer says the "Japan Mail" KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRA- carried by every ship to mark Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd. in and valuations which wont to frontier, established by the St. the places of burials, and they which plaintiffs oloimed, under show that it was contemplated it Petersburg treaty of 1881, is do ask how can a buoy be anchored agreement, the sum of Tla, 31,250 should apply, And finally the trimental to Russian commercial ig mid-ocean
aa general managers of the com-last paragraph made it so clear interests. According to this European Discharged
pany, The Lower Court found that there could hardly be any Treaty only goods, of Chinese Mrs M. Thorpe, who was ar for plaintiff under a different roal argament that it did not origin can be brought into the rested in Singapore and has been clause of the agreement and apply-except under the cirreo trade zono audi denit in with- is hereby rotified that on and after appearing before the district awarded damages of Tis, 13,500. cumstances and terms above men-out any duty, but, as a matter of sied on by the Lanch Mining Com this date the busine-s bitharto car magistrate at Bangoon t answer Plaintiffs and appellants were tioned the company shall have no fact, under the name of Chiness to allegations that sho by faleo represented by it. N. MacLeod, power to terminate the agree- goods all foreign goods are pour-the management of the KAILAN pany, Limited, will be continued under representations obtained sums of Mr. II. S. Oppo defendant and ment." They did not have to ing into the zone, whence thoy MINING ADMINISTRATION monoy from Mother St. Constance, respondent.
deal with the value of the land; are transported into the interior Father St. Gily and Bishop Mr. Macleod's appeal was that it was fixed by the agreement.
of Siberia, Carlot, has been discharged,, the judgment of the Lower Court The Court dovided that Mr. Mr. Pitade insisted in his loo ovidence being insullicient to sub was that Clauso 4 of the agree-Oppe roply on the apposi only, turo that the free trade zone must stantinte charges of cheating.
ment did not apply and that and the Court réserve it deci-be abolished so as to give facili St Andrews Golf. Course.
Messrs. Showan Tomes and Co.sion, The peril of the old golf course were not entitled to the Tis at St. Andrews is illustrato, saya 31,250 in consequones of the salo the "Daily Mail," by the fret that or as damages for breach of the the Green Committee of the Royal agreement be reversed on the and Aucient Golf Club have ground the judgment y con decided that the Calcutie Cup trary to the true consfuction of tournament, fixa to begin on the agreement and to the prin August 0, shall be postponed to a ciples of law. applicable to the later date get to be announced. Ca80.
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The committee have come to The notice of appeal therefore this decision on the ground that asked that the judgment award it will be impossible for them to ing Ts. 13,500 under clause profide course suitable for such bo reversed On the an important competition owing that the agreement fixed the to the number of greens which at amount of damages at Tls. 31,500 that date will be still under re-and that that order be discharge pair. The course has been worn and the Full Court do order de throadbare in many places owing fendant pay. The. 31,250, costs of to the play nad the drought. appeal, and costs of claim in the
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Treaty, state of affairs naturally influenced the commerce of the colony. The Rinderpest in Province Wellesley. being reduced, the sale of tissues among the cattle it Rapala Potas, purchasing power of the natives Rinderpest has broken out and objects of first necessity Province Wellesley, and the ex- notably declined, as also did the portation of cattle from the Pro- Customs receipts, and the ligni vince has been prohibited until dation of engagements became further notics. under Clause Four, the Court Cochin China, which is suffering payment of, cominission claimed laborious. The situation in.
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The Cross Appeal.“ The Triangulation of the Island of Labuan was completed during that in the ovent of the Fall Mr. Oppe's cross-appeal was 1911. This work was of some Court reversing the Lower Court value the Admiralty as the judgment and linding that pisin Triangulati in ᏉᏗ advanced onough to furnish sufficient
tiffs were entitled to the true number of Trigonometrical construction of the agreement to stations and their values to the II.M.S. Morlin when she arriv elin Labuse for the survey of the North-west Coast of Borneo in May, A completo obart of the of the order of the Court as rather precarious, especially for UE II.A. . Stormship. Labuan Triangulation was given awarded plaintiffs damages for Chinese trade. In Tongking to the Commandor a few months breach of Clause Six should be set the year shows now and sensible later. Commander Davy aside on the ground that no claim progress. The two ric crops signs of Cargo.are hureby tulonaed kindly left in ths Survey Office s
| Captain Brust, having arrivel, Oon- churt of the first portion of his that part disallowing the counter and exports reached to figure of place at their risk in the hazardous was raised under it and also that there were salisfactory as a whole, that their goods are being landed and triangulations showing the ox tension of the Re-survey Trian salaries and allowances between 30,000 tons on the preceding Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & claim for sums paid by way of 100,000 tons, an increase of about andfor extra-lazardous Godowns of the gulation to Burneo Const together October 12, 1910, and April year. The writers express the Godown Company, Limited, whence with the anglos and distances adopted by lấn. The triangula.
1, 1911 reversed on the opinion that when the necessary delivery may be obtained against Bills- tion of the harbour and neigh not entitle to pay such sums, are carried out this country gad
grouud that plaintiff were irrigation and other works of Lading countersigned by the Under- bouring islands was also of some use to the Merlin for the har-Messrs. Shewan Tomes not Re-will have a rice export approach- Optional goods will be oneriod an bour and approzek survey.~~ sponsible for Failure.
ing that of Cochin-China. Further, qulos notice to the contrary be given Survey Report,
After a littlo argument Mr. was loss, choro was an appreciablo ten days of the steamer's arrival hero,
if the minize crop of Tongking today.
All claims must be presented within The Indian opium revenue for judgments of the Lower Court cement, and zino and tin ores.ognized.
MacLeod read the pleadings and rise in the shipments of oil, after which date they cannot be re- the current year, being the prand entered into argument. The position of the European creds of two silos of Bengal, and was novor suggested that Messrs trade, both import and export, Goods have left the Godownr, and all
No claims will be admitted after the undershi t PRUNK DRAWERS. one-sale of Malwa opium, amounts Shewan, Tomes and Co. were sensibly improved in the course Goode remaining undelivered after the to Rs. 1,34,70,547, which is its responsible for the failure of the of the year, whilst native, trade 6th inst., will be subject to rent 50,91,547 botter than the estimate. Company and it was also quite ahowa marked
advance. In All broken, chafod, and damaged According to a report from the clear that Mr. Tam Wa agreed dustrial fairs in general have goods must be left in the Godowns, Japanese Acting Consul-Gonora did not do-so and that he was
to give a complete wharf and also developed in an appreciable where they will be examined on the Vladivostok, the Russian authorities were to suspund the
released from any liability. and Battambang, the drought
As regards Cambodia 5th iust, at 9.80 x.m.
No Fire Insurance will be rfected by train service on the Lake Baikal Dealing with Clause Four of the seriously compromised the re- as in any case whatever.
agreement Mr. MacLeod said the ceipts. Despite the obstacles in "section with the exception of two
expresses a week, from the 21sterul effect was that it give the way of rice shipment, the ex- ult, in order to expedite the the company power to terminate ports of Anuam show progress, the agreement by paying 5 por both to France and other coun work of doubling the line. Passengers and freight will be cut on the nominal capital of tries. Tho silk-producing
Tls. 1,250,000-but in the event of industry tende carried pcross the lake by the
10 develop. Baikal and Angues, two casale or transfer or a smaller per: Despite the effects of the poor rice Hongkong, 1st July, 1912 breakers employed on the lake in centage, 2.1-2. The clauso ended crop in Cochin-China and the de- winter.
that they aliould not be eficit in opium sales, which fell titled to terminate in any other from 107,000 kilos. in 1909 and Wenotice by the "China Medical way. It was necessary to look 75,000 in 1910 to 20,000 kilos. THE H. A. L. Steamship Journal" that & Medical Journal more closely into Clauso Four the general budget of Indo-China **FCRST BULOW" in Chinese will bo published hie Lordship having held closed with a small credit balance, Captain Jager, having arrived, Con- shortly, both in Peking and Can that the eale was ano under nd- and the reserve funds still smutsigues of Cargo ars bareby informed ton. A correspondent to the M.verse circumstances. Clause Fear to more than $6,000,000. It is that their goods are being landed and Journal" states that the Canton
A said the terms, when there none the less true that the bud-adfor extra-bazinious Godowns of the placed at their risk in the hazardous Government is now employing the capital which for the purpose quires the utmost prudence, and down Company, Limited, whenes de- was no sale, were 5 per cent, on getury situation of the country re- Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Go- six foreign-trained physicians, one a graduate of Edinburgh Uni of agreement was estimated to be without a reduction of the crual-Uvery may be obtained against Bills-of- versity.
the value of the land on which the ing military contribution it does Lading countersigned by the Under- Siamese Minister on Leave wharf and godowns stood and not possess sufficient reserves to signed. The Siamese Minister left Lon-suoli sum should be taken to be don on Juno 4 for Bangkok on an ascertained and fixed sum,000,000 that is so necessary, anless notice to the contrary be given guarantee the new loan of 1.90- "Optional Cargo will be carried on leave. Ilie Excellency was ac Clause Four "B" provided for particularly for irrigation works to-day companied by Phira Oliniaurin, 2.1-2 per cent. if there was a sale and the creation of communica. All claims must be presented within First Secretary. Laung Ban and then a minimum was fixed, tions to the mining centres of ten days of the steamer's arrival bere pakitsh will be Charge d'Affaires. and, it would be observed, that Tongking and the regions suit after which date they cannot be re- was 2.1-2 per cent of the sum able for rubber-growing in Co-
sognized. In the Swiss Canton of Vaud | agreed Tls. 1,250,000...
No claims will be admitted after the chin-China. The report goes floods have left, the Godowns, and all the director of police ordered all
Decision reserved.
on to record the serious effects Goods remaining undelivered after the the policemen under his control' There was no suggestion that of the revolution on trade Cth inst., will be subject to rent. to learn English boxing and be the clauso was only to apply in in China, but saya there
All broken, abafod, and damaged able when attacked to deal the the event of Messrs. Shewan, ia reason to believe that the Bank goods must be left in the Godowns, 'knock-out blow," "The Swiss Tomos having made a success of is safe from any serious loss. The where they will be examined on the gendarme has no truncheon but the company. He submitted there political transformation which 5th insi, si 9.80 am: carrion a revolver, which He must was not nothing in the agreement China is undergoing is assuredly No Pie Insa spre vill ta offedal not use unless his life is in doug which suggested that however the prelude to an era of activity by na in our case whatever. or, and he has to prove this fact great the failure of the sale or and prograss. The operations of Ex Dag from Stettin, before the coart should he firo however pour the rtico received, the Bank's agonolos at Singapore shot. The med have taken up they would not receive this mini and Biogkok were regular and the und 7 of the “noble art" willa mum. He
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