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to think that it has "but to This morning in the Summary Whether the methods that are give an order for it to be at once Court before the Puise Judge, being employed by the Chinese obayad unquestioningly, even Mr. Justice Kemp, the cage was Government for suppressing the though fulfilment of that order mentioned in which Pau Sang Siberian Mail.Arrived per se. practice of opium-smoking are would mean the turning upside sued Mr. C.W. Stewart to recover
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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1913.
AN EXCESS OF CAUTION.
Gone to Australia.
Gymkhana.
Left for Japan.
Sir Havilland de Sausmarez. Sir Havilland de "Bausmarez, Judge of the Supreme Court, was to leave Shanghai about June 3 for Hongkong, where he will sit in the Appeal Court.
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Mr. Kong SingHe has been transferred and now the plaintiff is on one steamer and the defend- ant is on another.
Die Lordabip:-What time is he going on Monday?
Mr. Gardiner:-I believe at
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to the likelihood that indulgence it is; then why need she add to Canton and will not be back in opium will ever be entirely to them by rendering an enor- until Sunday,
Mr. Kong Sing:-Can you take stamped out in China,.. be the mous portion of her population means employed to prevent it diaffected and rebellious by in-it on Monday? what they may.
terfering so drastically with their His Lordship-What is he on; What the Hongkong Government |lirties? The opium smoker is a steamer?
not half the nuisance or the dan- Mr. Kong Sing:-He was on There are times when the ger to ble fellow men that the the Loongsang and the plaintiff Englishman in Hongkong is none drankard is; and when the Chin-was also on her.
His Lordship-How long will. too proud of the judgment and so give up their own particular
narcotic and take to drink instead he be here ? methods of his countrymen,
Gardiner :-He comes Mr R. H. Stephenson, until re-whether displayed in as they assuredly will do Mr. cently the manager of the Bijou administration or over private they may find that their last here on Monday and is going
away on Monday. Theatre, left for Australia by the matters; and, for that very state is worse than their first.. Nikko Maru.
reason, he should hail gladly The Cherniavakys. Toaching the Sanity Board,
every opportunity of acknow- The talented Cherniavsky
ledging whatever may happen CORRESPONDENCE. by the way, we confess to sing brothers are to give a concert at to represent thess in a creditable surprised at the terms of the Pre- the City 11 to-morrow at 0.15 light. This applies as much to sident's reply regarding dumping p.m.
Hongkong's handling of the opium and the capture of dumpers. He admitted that it is possible to The first of a series of "Pagal" difficulty as to other things. Any fair-minded man must own that
His Lordship-I will take it at the Government of this Colony catch dumpers, but he claimed Gymkhanas takes place at the
nine o'clock on Monday morning. that it was hardly worth while U.S.R.C. ground, Kowloon, to-has done its best to deal in a losing half a day's work in order morrow afternoon...
thoroughly practical maurer with" MARINER'S DISCOVERY, further application, to make and Mr. Kong Sing:-I have a to secure a $5 fine. It is difficult
Among the passengers who one of the most difficult questions
that is to add another plantiff. to follow this form of reasoning,
Mr Gardiner :-I must object Where a necessary improvement left by the Yawata Maru for that any ruling power has ever
to that. If that is the case I want of any kind is to be effected it Japan were Mrs. Alabaster, Capt. been called upon to settle; and To the Editor of the "Hongkong
mant sought to imitate its example, should matter nothing, in re eon, Skrimshire and Lieut. G. H. that, had the Chinese Govern-
correspondent to be served with an amendment it would have fewer of the foss of Mariner " has indeed made and then I must be able to con- what it costs in time and trouble, Faithful.
Silk Delivery... This dumping of rubbish and
The silk shipped from Bong-its own household than it has at a discovery of importance, of sider my position. It makes all refuse is a matter which intimate-
which perhaps
Govern- the differouce, because we do health of the kong by 0.8.3. steamer Mexico the present moment. ly affects the
ment will
advantage admit the debt and I will consent balf. "S Colony, and
dozen Maru, railed on April 30th last,
China has listened to mission--the I doubt it. He bas to judgment for ermebody but prosecutions, would make all was delivered in New York on
aries, to fanatice or wire-pullera with its light lit by day in a fog
discovered that a lighthouse not the person here,
Mr Kong Bing:-The plaintiff the difference in decreasing Jone 4th a.m.
in London, and to evil counsellors the numbers and curbing the
Plague. dating of the dumpers. On the Two plague cases were noti- of its own cople, some of whom will suffice for the guidance of as it now stands was the steward. Mr Gardiner-Never was the President's own showing it is fied as occuring in the Colony are carried away by revolutionary ships, thereby doing away with
Mr. Kong Sing:-And he trans- possible to catch dampers, and it during the twenty-our houis hysteria while others act as though the bothersome, and expensive steward! should not therefore be hard to ended at noon to-day. The total they are working to suit certain fog signale. How the light kespers
private ends.She has made arbite will blees "Mariner!" Bat mari-ferred the debt to another man, secure a few prosecutions. And is now 121.
ery regulations without for one exa will not, if the Government The other person is quite willing if they did cost a few half days'
moment taking human weakness act on your correspondent's idea. to come bere and say that as a Poor "Mainer." He must be matter of fact the money was ow- work, that would be very much
into consideration, and without! worth while.
allowing for the fact that, since but a poor mariner if he is unable ing. He has got all the obi's. The Latest.
Mr. Gardiner :-If the action to ensure stearing a coures for five he Manasties as much as
there are two sides to every quos miles in moderate weather until had been instituted by the right tion, there must surely be some.
party we should bave paid the our neighbours the Derby incident in connection with His Majesty's
Injured Children Improving. thing to be said from the smoker's Green Island light shows up,
Of course, it a light on any-money into court, On enquiry this morning we point of view... Hongkong on the
Mr. Kong Sing:-Thon why horse, we are not unprepared to Bee good ultimately stice out of hear that the little daughters of other hand, has realized that no thing is visible to him in a fog it what, at first thought, one en Company-Sergeant Major Stewart, vice can be stamped out merely would be a good thing for the don't you do it?
Government t install it, Mr. Gardiner :---We don't owe While we agree to the desirability of every reasonable precan-only regard with anger and dis- whose accident on Monday was by legislation and prohibition,
benefit. Perhaps he will move tion being taken to guard against spying and thus to maintain the gust. The drop of comfort that reputed in the o columns, are and has told the opium-smoker, in Chinese Territory, for his it to you,
even as it has told the gambler the Chines Republic,to do so, always remains behind, after any doing favourably.
Wood Stealing.
and the drunkard, that it can and security of the British Isles, we cannot but regret that the authorities of these occurrences, is that each A man detil id as being a will protest him from opportapi- for his amusement.
and to keep it lt during daylight, at Home have stepped in and raised obj.stions to the "Daily Mail"new outrage is but one more brick member of a gang of Hart our ties of over-indulgence as far as
Yours etc. aerial competitions on the ground that, should they take place, an knocked out from the foundation lieves at West Point, was fixed reasonably lies in its power, bui
X infringement of the regulations against espionage would rosult. As of the suffragist structure. Long-$10, on in default one month, at that, beyond this point, he must
suffering
Hongkong, June 6, 1913. John Bull 18, the Polics Court, this morning, protect himself or else, pay the we see the matter, this is an absurd and altogether unnecessary.stand there are
certain of his for stealing wood.
penalty, to take. The two competitions interfered with are the aerial round-institutions
PARCELS BY THE The Law in Hongkong, London "Derby" and a flight by water-plane round the British may touch without his wanting to
Mr. Gardiner :-It is a question As the law stands, opium-amok. Isles. Necessarily in competitions of this type, the contestants would know the reason why. The Derby is
of coat. If we had been served be relatively few, and though doubtless veral nationalities would one of those institutions, and re- of a cable stating that the Shelling in a men's privats house and
spect for the Royal person and Transport and Trading Coy. Ltd.with certain very rigid limit No surprise has been occasion by the right person we should be represented, we wonder how much time for spying an aviator prestige is another. By Miss have declared a dividend of 5/- ations-in a few places of public ed by the decision of the Post- have paid the money into court.
His Lordabip agread to hear. would have when participating in an exciting race round the Davison's mad action it is esfe to per share-4/- final for 1913 and resort, is not illegal in Hongkong; master-General to inaugurate a
yet to carry the practice to a parcel post to the Far East by the mater in chambers to-morrow Metropolis. And the same argument might be applied as regards say that many hundreds of interim on account of 1913.
sympathizera with her "cause
The Liaan's Delay
harmful excess is purposely rond- way of Siberia, remarks the and stated that he was inclined to have b:3n estranged at one blow; The s.8. Linan, which arrived ered as difficult as possible; and "Financial News," which goes on grant leave at present. while many others must, argue that with, the Sil rian mail a day anyone who knows the Chinese to say-In fact, it is quite ex- people who pursue such methods le's yesterday, reports having well enough to bi able to detect pected that when the P. and O. as those by which the "militants" been delayed by fog in the the smoker by his apperrance, mail contract expires all the
This morning in the Summary Surely in events of this kind there is no need to insist on have distinguished themselves North; thence to art there will admit that signs of excias postal matter for China and absolutely strict adherence to rules and regulations which are are far too irresponsible to deserve were strong B. S. W. winds with are rarely to be observed here. Japan will be sent overland. At Court before Mr. Justice Kemp
a vots.
heavy thunderstorm and much Clearly if the law only allows the any rate, Sir Thomas Sutherland the caɛ3 was mentioned in which directed, not against the sportsman, but more particularly against The Bengall Sensation,
rain on appretehing Hongkong. retailer a certain quantity, he hinted as much at a meeting of the Yes Wo Firm is going the Li We sincerely hope (though we the professional spy, who would naturally choose to make surrepti
Mr. J. H. Scott's Will, cannot make it stretch to the sup- the company not very long ago. Foo Tak and another, to recover confess to doubts on the matter) tions visits to an alien land, and would scarcely be likely to that the Preas in general and the Eridene, Argylighite, and of 5, number of eastomers. Every largely availing themselves of the
Mr James Henry Scott, of plying of more than a given Commercial people are now more the sum of $641.
Mr. R. O. Faithfall appeared. endeavour to carry out his designs while all the time his every move British and Indian etion in par- Princes-gate, London, S.W., mer retailer is registered and licensed, railway facilities than they did, for the plaintiff and Mr. Otto ment is watched and recorded. A man may, of course, be a sportsman ticular, will not arek to magaily chant, enior partner in the fam and the police know to a fraction and fairly large consignments Kong Sing for the defendant.
Mr. Otto Kong Sing said and a spy at one and the same moment, but we have yet to be the importance of the conspiracy of Messrs John Swire and Eons, the amount of opiam that is being are being forwarded by train, convinced that it is at all probable that an aviator from one of the with which, according to last of London, and Messrs Butterfield lawfully emoked in the Colony. Moreover, in consequence of that the parties had come to night's wire from London, forly- and Swire, of China and Japan, It should be added, in fairness to reduced charges for the convey an arrangement and the defend Continental countries, say, would enter competitions of the kind foar Bengalis are charged. So left, in addition to real estate, per the authorities, that it would be ance of raw silk, big quentities ante conecated, to judgment on organised by the "Daily Mail" for the specific purpose of spying out far there dess not appear to be a sonal estate valued at £108,905. difficult to keep a much more of Chinese and Japanese qualities an understanding between Mr. the land for the benefit of his particular country. "Moreover, where large amount of conclusive or even Revolver and Ammualtion. careful watch on any illicit traffic are coming to Moscow, via Siberia, Faithiol and bimcalf.
A man caught leaving the as. Jin the drug than is kept here. in place of the Suez route, and it Mr. Faithfull:-Shall I tell you is this sort of thing likely to end? If every nation were to adopt the serious evidence as to the con
spiracy's being in any sense Empress of India with a revolver It would be absurd to expect is anticipated that very soon the Lordship the tams of the settle- attitude of the much-scared British Government, international wide-spread; and, as all of and some ammunition in bis pas-that, in a vast, and at present Russian city will compate effec-ment? aviation contesta would become an utter impossibility; the British know
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from experience, cession, without a licence, was disorganised country like China, tively with Lyons as a distribut Mr. Kong Sing I don't aeronaut would perforce have to do all his flying within the limits of many such affairs turn out to fined $250, by Mr. Hazeland, at the rame clock-work-like arrangeing contre. It will be intereating think that need form part of the the United Kingdom, the German in Germany, the Frenchman in be just what an alarmist and the Police Court, this morning. ment could be followed with any to see what steps the steamship judgment; you have signed the France and so on.
mischievous Prose chooses to Bergeant Wills proved the charge, thing like satisfactory results; at lines take to meet this new com letter. make of them; and no more. and Mr. Russ, of Mesata. Goldring, the same time, everything must petition. Let every precaution that is reasonable and necessary be taken, Ammunition, jewels and papara Berlow and Morrell, defended. bave a beginning, and China bad by all means, butlet not friendly eporting rivalry-that which fosters were found on the premises; the Obstructing the Fairway. far better try to imitats Hong, Missionary Exhibition
Sold to Japanese. proposals" This morning at the Marine kong's management of the opium The Bishop of London opened The liner Catonis, belonging amity and encourages peace and goodwill-be retarded by insistence papers contained
gedition-spreading Court, before Commander Basil question than attempt the presents three days missionary exhibi- to the Russian East Asiatlo on the letter, instead of the spirit, of regulations drawn to operate oto; and that seems to be all. We Taylor. R.N., Lance Sergeant sweeping prohibition; for tion the Church Hall, Edmonton, Steamship Company, Limited, against the spy and not to frighten away the bona fide sportsman. have heard of and laughed at Lanigan charged Ho Lat Shing human contrariety is the same all on 8th net. At the exhibition Libau, has bean sold to Japanese A few more prohibitions such as those under notice and Britain as proposale" of this order before. Keung and Ho Loi, lioenrad bost the world over: to be forbidden the customs and the missionary buyers for about £12,500. She is nation will earn for herself a reputation for "nerves" which will Ferhspa the quickest way out of men, with lying alongside the positively to do a certain thing is work in China, Japan, India, of 4,572 tome gross and 2,049. imply that those at the head of the country's affairs have thrown in the trouble would be to shove steamship Dilwara in such a man- to be impelled to do it. One of South, West and East Africa, tons not register, and was build at their lot with the "blue funk school" And nobody who has Bay into a lunatic asylum, burn the Central Fairway on June 5. A Empire stands where it does pore, and Mahommedan lands are sions 396 ft. by 432 It by 280
the whole forty-four Benzaliener as to cause an obstruction to the many reasons why the British South America, Melanesia, Singa Glasgow in 1890, with dimen respect for British solidarity and common-sense would doaire that we the papers, and say no more, fize of ten dollars each was impose the list of the world's Powera is flustrated, Jay ourselves open to a charge of that kind.
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SIBERIAN ROUTE.
Mr. Kong Sing:My applica- tion is to add a plaintiff under section 55 of the code and to that there can be no objection, ...!
Mr. Gardiner:-Will your Lord- ship hear me in Obambers to morrow?,
Mr. Kong Sing-I have no objection, except that it will waste time,
SETTLED.
The matter was rattled on that basis.