Football Season,
Wear
1908-09.
"The Junior Club'
FOOTBALL
BOOTS
$5.00 PER FAIR.
WM.
NEW VICTOR THE CITY
*OF
RECORDS
Just Received
A SELECTION OF OVER
2,000
|English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German and Mexican Records.
Inspection Cordially- Invited.
POWELL, S. MOUTRIE & Co., La.,
LIMITED,
Queen's Road Central.
Hotels.
MACAO HOTEL
PECIAL REDUCED SUMMER
RATES
J
Chater Road.
Hongkong. April 16, 1807.
(a)
Par Day... 4.00 to 1.00 according to A. S. WATSON
Per Week 16.00 to
room selected
40.00 do. de.
Per Month 90.00 to 140.00
Week ends, Batarasy afternoon to
Monday morning... 87.00 to $10.06.
Two persons occupying one room will be aberged a rate and a half only.
Children under 18 Hali raton.
SPECIAL. TERMS FOR FAMILIES.
Excellent Cooking by An CHEONG, for
& Co., Ltd.
ESTABLISHED &.D. 1841
avot seventeen yasis chief cook with the WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
lato Mr J. W. Osborne,
Macao, May 18, 1808.
730
BELLE VIEW HOTEL,
TELEPHONE No. 393.
BILLIARD TOURNAMENT.
is proposed to hold TEAM BIL-
ILAND TOURNAMENT of che
above Hotal.
Tomos may be selected from different; alta.
Crita may be composed from Clab, Worka, Regimenta or Corps or Members of
ang one department.
The Committee will consist of one meu-
ber from each Team.
Team wishing to enter are requested se
WATSON'S
E
VERY OLD LIQUEUR
forward their names to the Banager of the SCOTCH
above Hotel on or befora-20th September,
-4908,
FRED, E, J. BISHOP,
Manager.
Hongkong, August 11, 1908.
493
'BRAESIDE,
PRIVATE HOPE.
2. PEDDER
PHONE
X
536.
THE CHINA MAIL.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1908.
The Judgment.
PARIS, the Chinese army. In other words, iture cherished by others and possibly THE HONGKONG BANK CASE.fow at first, then more, then moro still, STREET.Agrested that there should be the by a very considerable section of the same training for both. Chinese and Chinese people. Whilst such an at- Manchus in the future, when they are titude is maintained there is little likeli enlisted in the new army that is to be. hood of any real harmony developing The editor discusaça this proposal, and between the two most important see seems very much averse to it.
He tions which go to make up the Chinese
JUST RECEIVED
A New Consignment maintaine, first of all, that the Chinoce empire, while there are certainly a defendant, the Chief-Justice, Sir Francie theory of the base set up by Ma. Fou Ting
PARIS MODES and GOWNS.
879
JOHN & ROBERT HARVEY & CO., LIMITED.
make better soldiers than the Materials gathering for a big explosion
chus, though he does not appear to see
should | opportunity offer itself. that if this be so, and if the Chinese
ADMIRAL SPERRY WISHES
-COMMONWEALTH PROS-
PERITY.
are so anxious to free themselves from THE AMERICAN FLEET. Court muat decline to entertain it. The kong to pay the royalty was the cause of what they call "a foreign yoke," they ought to have been able to have dons so long ago. He reters, somewhat weakly, we think, to the two cam. paigns which recar to his memory in support of this contention.
He says that it was Chinese soldiers, and Got Blanchus, who crushed the Tai Ping rebellion; but he omits altogether to HARVEY'S "SPECIAL $14 per Case.state that foreigners bad a great deal 11 to do with this result, that without
ESTADISİ23 1 1. 17.7 0.
THE Undersigned have been appointed BOLE AGENTS Hongkong and South China for the above. Company's
WHISKIES.
DODWELL de CO. Hongkong, August 11, 1908...
MEMOS. FOR MONDAY, Auctions.
11 a.m.-Auction of Magnificent Irish Linens, &, at No. 25, Des Vox Road Central, formerly occupied by Mutual Store.
3 p.m.Auction of Crown Land at the Public Works Department's Offices. Miscelazooza
Goods par Ville de la Ciotat unclaimed after this date at Noon will be subject to rent and landing charges.
Gaida per Austris avdelivered after this
date subject to rent.
General Memoranda,
TUESDAY, September 29 :----
Noon-Military Gun Practice,
2.30 p.10-Avotion of Japanese Curias
(Exclusive Service, supplied by Reuter,
via Bombay,) LONDON, September 19. The American Fleet has left Albany for Manila.
Admiral Sperry replying to Mr their aid it would most probably never Premior Deakon's farewell message,
have been accomplished. The ascond reference in support of his contention,
that when fighting with foreigners it has always been the Chinese and not the Manchus who have won for Chica her few scanty laurels This refers of course to the war
wished the splendid Commonwealth happy and prosperous development.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Mr Alexander Campbell, the quarter master of the Elenlochy has succumbed to cholera at Hankow hospital.
I
The Chamber of Commerce of Hankow
at-last the long-list in the particulars war reached. Bat, continued his Lordship, thist would not do either, because sa there was In the Coltse of his judment in the question of renewing bills, but only re- action by Tau Man Cho, otherwise Lau placing bills at maturity by new bills which Hok Shim, to recover from the Hongkong supplied the funds for meeting the old one, and Shanghal Banking Corporation $4 title as well as some more cash for the Wavy deode which, pinintis alleges, are his pro- Fung. The cast on its financial side broke perty, and are wrongfully detained by the down completely; it destroyal the whole
Piggott said two-prelimiasty objections and his confedstates, and it carried with it were taken to the jurisdiction of the Court. all the claborate fction on which the cass The first was that tlie action-related to was reazed that the pressing not immediate the title to land abroad, and therefore the necessity for Rising 1,600,000 in Hong.
general principle was a familiar one, but it the negotiation of these hills to the bank. Jid not apply to this use. The right to And it must destry A necessary the possession of the documents of title consequence all the evidence as toauthority to the land was, it was true, in issue, to pledge the deeds in the way in which the hat the question involved was the right pledging was done. He must therefore of the defendants to retain them, and reject it. But it was said that putting all this the right claimed was that they had a on one side if it could be, proved that the charge upon them or upon the land re- moncy raised on the last series of bills, presented by them. The case was covered in question in the action, did in fact go into by at least a dozen authorities in which the the coffers of the Wang Fang, then his English Courts had, dealt with mortgages view of the law being wrong, the Bank of lands abroad by way of foreclosure could recover. In order to prove this decree. The charge. If it existed, was some books were tendered in evidence as created in this Colony, the parties were in the books of the Wang Fung and the ques- the Colony, the decree could be enforced, tion arose whether he could receive them and therefore all the elements wars under the Evidence Ordinance. He could prosent which the English Courts held receive such books if he was satisfied that to be sufficient to entitle them to exer- they were that they purported to be; and cise jurisdiction. The second point was also that they were regularly kept in the that the defendant bank had instituted pro unlinary way of business. The books ceedings before the Namhai Magistency at said he was the acconstant of the Wang were produced by So Pat Ting who Canton in respect ofthe question raised in-the Fung but they bore no name of the action in which it was sail that the Wang Pang inside or outside. Bu Pat plaintiff had appeared as defendant, there- Ting said incidentally that he ชอ by submitting to the jurisdiction of that his assistant had copied them from
rough hooks, Beyond Pat Ting statement that they were. Wang Fung books there was nothing to make the cont believe that they were. In order t account for the absence of the time of the arm on the books it was painted out that lottery business, being illegal in Bengkong. it would naturally not be put on them, but the contents were harmless anough, and he most cursory glaner at the contents and it had nothing to do with lotteries. But the
of reprisals with the French, and he has decided to open an evening school for being raised upon them, but even if they mentions Laingsban. In view of apprentices in different shops. these "facts" OLY contemporary
During the long vacation the office maintains that the Chinese should of the Supreme Court are to be open be placed in the first rank of the day from 10 a.. until 1 o'cicek.
The meetings of
and Embroideries, o, at Mr Geo. P. new nomy and not, be bracketted equal Lammert's Selos Rod Goode per Paiian utdelivered after
this date subject to rent.
Gods per Bendran undelivered siter
this date subject to rent
Goods per Oriental not cleared at 4 pm.
on this date subject to rent. WEDNESDAY, September 93:-
the Hongkong:
with the Manchus. But, apparently, this Christian Union are to be resumed at the Chinese editor, like most of his European F. M. C. A. on September 21, cloth, doubts the good faith of the at 5.20 p.m. Manchu rulers altogether. He sees in latest military proposals an intention on the part of the Government
6.15 p.m.-Meeting of Victoria Recreathe
tion Clubs, at Gymnasium.
5.15 p.m.-Meeting of Kowloon Cricket
Club, at Club Pavilion,
THURSDAY, Septembar 24 --
to improve the status and the power of
Goode per Prine Waldemar undelivered the Manchu army, that thereby they
It has been. settled by the Centrala straightforward way, though on one of Government that a Chinese Consul will be two occasions his explanations did not
the Chinese residents. appointed to Canada for the protection of seam entirely satisfactory. It certainly did seem extraordinary, continued his Lordship, that a man engaged in a vast an having so huge a sum as tools 1,400,990 undertaking as this lottery businem, and
available, should trust not only this sum and title deeds of property worth apparent ly half a million more, but all his interest in the remaining period of the the existing concession in the hands of a some of whom at least were not too well
was necessary that he should at least look at the contents in order to see if the zoquirements of the Ordinance
his note book. On the face of them they more the Wang Fung bocks, than waz wore satisfied-ghowed that they were no
were the ulinary books of a regular ball
magistrate. He might remark that the facts in ao far as the plaintiff in this action was concerned, did not warrant this paint
did the case was abseintely covered by Hyman v. Bilen 24 Ch. D.531, where it was held that a party who was a defendant in a suit in one country might legitimately put himself in the position of plaintiff in another country in respect of the same catane of action. After an elucidation of quoted his opinion on the facts. The plaintiffs authorities, his Lordship proceeded to give case, he would not any, was plain and intelligible. Plaintiff gaye his cridenee in discounter. There was the profit or los
of each eat of transactions totalled sip at the bottom of each account. There was ne evidence that the Wang Fung carried on tho busine-s of bill discounters. There was evidence that they raised money by the sale of bills in the way described by Ma Fat Ting but the Looke showing these
that on the face of them they were transactions would be quite different from the books produced, and he was satisfied not the books of the Wang Fung, but of some other firm. The item in No. 9" book relating to a transsetion in yarn was of itself almost sufficient to war. rant their rejection. He always strained a point not to reject books of account which It was the policy of the Evidence Ordinance to make ovidence, but he was perfectly certain that if these books were examined more effective footing, then there will
prise in connection with the further con- balance sheets it would be found that they be an end to any hopes that the Chinese
Dession which was to last six years, and had nothing whatever to do with the Wang may cherish of being able to induce, The natives of Peking after learning then go away to Shanghai or Puking and Fung, except the Wang Fang Cantozi ac count itself, which showed pretty plainly much less force, the Manchus into giving have been greatly despisted. Their grati-doeds were in fact left with the partners. The facts failing to establish the the time of parliamentary organization practically not come near the place again, that they were the books of some other He did not thas sight of the fact that these firm, apparently, the Lai Hing, and that them a fair share in the government. tudo and pleasure are displayed in the for the express purpose of raising money case which, as he had said, wight possibly the Wang Fung bød su“ account with that 9:30 pm Anction of Lensshold Pro-It will be seca Lom This how deep is erecting of memorial tablets and ilium for the necessitios of the Wang Fung Com- have been established in law, judgment
party, at MrGeo. P. Lammert's Sales RODOIN
the suspicion and mistrust entertained ting electric lamps. Chinese characters in-pany, and the Bank's ease was that they would be for the plaintifs with sta against the Manchus, a distrust which are woven with pine leaves and are if a case of negligence might be made of dicating Loyalty, Parliament, and Emware in fact so used. It looked. almost as
into priut. The point of the lender to show their joy and appreciation different law to justify the retention of deeds hand the Chinese have no hesitation in pot-decorated in the glass soreess. In order but assuming that that would be sufficient in
after this date subject to rent.
FRIDAY, September 5-
the lawn at the Belle View Hotel, on A grand military band will play on
may be better fitted to keep the Chinese Sanday evening before and aftor dinner. when a hearty welcome will be extended to all guests..
5.50 p.r.-Meeting of Hongkong St. in subjection, and so prevent the
Andrew's
Society at Uity Hall,
genuite sons of Han from ever enjoying SATURDAY, September 26 →→→→
Noon-Meeting of Hongkong Cotten their own, or even sharing in the govern
Spinning Wearing & Dyeing Co., L.,
at Mesara Jardine, Matheson Corsment of their own country. If the army
Qfice,
M Hen. Colonial Secretary courte ously informs us that a telegram has been received from Bast Belgy, and As
| known to him, and that he should fur-
Garde per Manchuria undelivered at of the Mapelius ever gets put on a stating that Chittagong has released the ther embark with them in a new enter by an accountant and compared, with the
p.m. this date subject to rent.
MONDAY, September 28:-
5.15 p.m-anting of Royal Hangkong
Yacht Club at Club Pavilion, TUESDAY, Reptember 29;-
5.30p.m.-Meeting of Hongkong Feot
ball Club at Hongkong Hotel.
| TUESDAY, Cotribor £ :---
WHISKY
A Blend of the Finest Pure
TANDING in its own grounds with Malt Whiskies distilled in
Terms and Croquet Lawns, Large.
Airy and Well Forrished Acoms, Every Scotland
home comfort. Fine View of the Harbour:
Telephone, No. 690.
Apply to Ms F. W, WATTS,
Braeside. 20, Muodonael Rosd. hongcong, September 2, 1908,
OF-
14 GENUINE AGE
KINGSCLERE,
PRIVATE HOTEL
AND
APPROACHED fram Konnedy Rod FINE MELLOW
Macdonnell Kosd.
Tel. No. 134. Teler, Address: SACHSoya.'
A.B.C. Code, 4th Ed.
Electric light, bet and cold water thronga. out. Billiardo, tennis, croquet, patling green and Ere standing for bones.
Proprietres, Mas E. SACHSE Hongkong, September 1, 1908.
1208
VICTORIA CINEMATOGRAPH.
COMIC FILMS.
CHANGE OF PROGRAMME EVERY SECOND DAY.
FLAVOUR.
PER DOZEN
NOTICE
tauera relating to tromes lauld be address d to THE MANIFE Communications relating to news should be
addressed to Tux EDITOR.
Correspondente must forecard their names and addresses with any communications ad drmed in the Editor, not for publication but as evidence of good faith.
geamantine restrictions imposed against Hongkong.
is directed against Tox Foxe, Viceroy shops in Peking will hang lanterns for live
days. of Chikkiang Province, who has been very much to the fore in suggestions f army rolero Our contemporary does mot mind affirming that this particular
on one side of the paper only.
No anonymously signed communications that would trample on, the Chinese, and that have clready appeared in ather papers will be whatever they may say in public they
over without authority he could not go
three months in order that the Bank might Mr Pollock asked in view of the large- amount at stake for a stay of exeration for consider their position.
Mr Shade objected to the stay
execu tion. The plaintiff had obtained judgment and was entitled to the benefit of that far us to say there was negligence in fact judgmont. The Bank had instituted pro The plaintiff did take precautions. Hoceedings in China and tho possession of the leads was ruturally of great value. If defendants would give an undertaking to abandon those proceedings
Mr Pollock said he could not content to that, but he would give an undertaking that
The Royal Engineers' Variety Club gave instructed that they would carry then are to give minstrel untertainments at the out. The fact that Iau Wai Chun and R. E. theatre this evening, and also on Mr. Fat Ting and Wai Long Shan acted Monday evening and ought to be well contrary to those instractions did not
Mr Blade was dissatisfied with that. Misplaced confidence dir not amount to Messrs B. N. Hutchison, Woodhead, W. negligence. He would not attempt to diary proceeding was to apply to the Full His Lordship pointed out that the or F. Rayband. The second part comprises through it all, because he was of opinion Mr Pollock agreed, but pointed to the Leckie, Jury, T. Williams, Carson, Skuse, weigh the evidence, nor would he go Court. Orders for extra empien of the Onya Man have this determination at heart and are a descriptive picen "The Phanton Brigade,'
that the evidence which had been given on possibility of the deeds gefag out of the a stump speech, and a negro absurdity.
Colony, as the plaintiff was resident“ in publication. After that hour the supply is the Manchus are fat, and the Chinese H. J. Haring, W. L. Leckie, T. Williams, limited Cash 10 cte., Credit 20 eta, per
are less. Seeing this is so, where there B. J. Beckett, and H N. Hutchesori. is haughtiness amongst the Manchus,-
All letters for publication should be writter Vicenty, und such as he, despite, and worth a visit. The troupe will include: prove, that the plaintiff was negligert the instier remain in statu-160.
.
should be sent before 11 a.m. or the day after resolved to carry it out at all costs. The following will take partiens behalf of the Bank broke down and did Chipe
copte
Alterations and addition to Advertisement on 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7, should be aert ta sir
-$16.50.15 Wyndham Soret not Inter than 11 there should be schemes arranged to
Robert Porter & Co.'s
BULL DOG
BRAND
Two Performances Nightly STOUT
7,16, to 9 F.M." and 9.16 to 11.15 p.
Tickets own also be obtained at the ROBINSON PIANO CO.
Don't Forget the Address;
DES VEUX ROAD (POTTINGER STREET CORNER). Hongkong, December 25, 1907.
25 per cent Discount
FOR CASE
faturdat, 1st Aug, 03.
(til: taether notice) On all MILLINERY GOODE, Smart Belection of: RIVER and TRAVELLING HATE.
M GAINS, COURT HILLINER. HOTEL MANSIONS
1716
am. New Advertisements should be sent to destroy that spirit, and to humble them;
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
the solis
His Lordship-They might remain with,
solicitor does not wish them to remain with Mr Slade They are so valuable the
alm..
one their tight to hetain the deeds not establish tho propositions on which
could rest. He would examine therefore, the defendants evidence alone. The case its simplest terme was this: that the Wang Fang or Iau Man Cho himself bank...
Mr Pollock-They might remain with the
Mr Slade-We don't trust you. We
[mer Ofice at 8, Queen's Hood Central dejov | wherever there is int on the bodies of to be held on Thursday, when the Hon sary to pay the royalty duo to the Chinese against us. He added that the Bank could A meeting of the Legislative Council is/was in great need of the large sam neces: don't know that you will not use them
8.
The China Mail
HORNEONG, SATURDAY, SEIT. 19, 1908.
MANCHU AND CHINESE
Ir may be interesting, and it is cer-
like
THE GREAT IRISH LINEN SALE.
Advertisements and Subscriptions which are the Manchus, means should be devised Mr M. Stewart will more: That in the taal 1,000,000 payable in two instalments in China, and that he could not consent to Government for the concession. This was bring great pressure to bear diplomatically not ordered for a fixed period will be continued to lesson this fat and mate them lean.opinion of this Council the reasons given
the deads remsning with the bank, until countermandod.
of taels 1,000,000 and 800,000 respectively in the House of Commons on 28th July. The great question was how to raise it ined in a neutral bank, the Chartered Bank, It was decided that the deeds be deposit- Telegraphic Address: Mail, Hongkong, Let their salaries be curtailed. Lot by the Under Secretary of State for the Telezione No. E
them have
surnames given them Colonies, in explanation of the peremptory Hongkong, and then the ingenious Mr Ma and that if the plaintiff required them he nature of the order issued to Your Fit Ting the partner of many firms, sug could make application in chambers to the the Chinese have: This course would celicacy of the ith May one ulisaisfactory, guasted raising the necessary money by duda
Judgment mis entered for the plaintiff soon bring them to their right position.” That the members of this Council regret cans of manipulation in bills; he in It will be seen that the spirit of this the recent action of the Building Authority fast put his chop and signboard, in other Chine Inder writer is irreconcilable in instituting on a large scale criminal words his credit, at the disposal of his partners. After a roference to the Nothing can be done toward amalgama-failure to comply with the requirements at the bills of exchange quedandncted by Mesars Hughes and Hough. proceedings against property owner, forgement signed in 1993 his Lordship
The first day of the great Irish Iinen sale ting the two sections of the people whilst of the law under circunstaures which, in were bought with the deeds as collateral auctioneers, at the Old Mutual Store, 25 edicured Chinese cherish such feelings, the majority of cases, rendered compliance security, but were handed to the bank Dus Voux Road Central, under ustro- in Pints and Splits. tatly instructive, to notice the attitude and net in this way. The final conten impracticable.
security for the payment of bills then tiens from Mr. 3. P. Murphy of Belfast, Hon. Mr M. Stewart will also ask already over due New Ma Fat Ting was who is now in-flougkong, was held on of educated Chinese na shown in the tion of our contemporary is that the with reference to reports which have most cynically, osudid au la the means Friday and the very large and commodious fending articles of Chinese papers when Goyermout of Peking by desiring to appeared in the local Press concerning the which he adopted to raise the money re premises specialy arranged for this sale dealing with the Government of thoir Sive the Manchus a good military train alleged unsatisfactory state of some of the quired for the royalty; he sold a few bills was crowded all day, and the nanimous own Empire. Recently we have beening are not actuated by the desire to stone railway bridges under construction and then on maturity he sold a fer opinion both when the goods waco-on- Kowloon and the New Territory, have more and so on until all the bill view and on the day of the sale was that defend themselves against foreign ag- the Government any information to comprised in the particulars, totalling with goode of such high class quality and general reading some articles in a typical paper,
gression, but are seeking to strengthen impart
additions eabsequently made to nearly one excellence had neepy basu offered before wherein has been discussed, somewhat
the Manchu arwy n that whenever the The ordow of the day are first reading and a half millions, but unfortunately in this City by public suction. Bargains of a bulk entitled "An Ordinance to apply his story did not hold water. A considerere plentiful and the Indios appeared to a fit condition of training and efficiency hundred and seventy thousand four hood. these bills could not have gone to the Wang and Tuesday, when those wishing to The sala is to be continned on Monday and specially the proposed scheme.
to put down all attempts of the Chinese and twenty-seven Dollars to the Pablic Furg, but must have gone to meet the replenish their hoseshold block ought to whereby it la suggested that Chinese to win back the guvernment of Service of the year 1909345
series of hills which fell due some months avail themsires of the unique opportunity First reading of a bill entitled An Or previously if his story was accursts of obtaining the highsht quality of goods and Manchus shall be brought closer own country, or even to demand & dinance to extend a certain debation in The Wang Fing could not bare mceived as prices, in many insane far below together. It will perhaps be remem Parliament. We do not profess to the Inperial Act styled the Briloube anything approaching that man at the time those usually paid for much fefuror 00, bered that sometime age certain that the opinions here cutlined are held proposals were published, advising by the antire body of educated Chinose, that there should to a closer amalga but as they appear in a prominent mation between the two divisions of daily newspaper it is probable that they
Rainier Beer
LIGHT, wholesome, and
invigorating: Undoubtedly the best Beer brewed in America."
A. 8. WATSON
LIMITED
·ALEKANDRA. BUILDIIGE,
adversely, the Government's proposals time shali. come, the Manchu may be in a som not exceeding Ave zillion five able amount of the money received on enjoy the novelty of this kind of shopping.
for establishing a Chiness Parliament,
(Colonial Statutes) Act 1907.
First aiding of a bill entitled An Or it was required molesa (allowing for pro material dispace for regulating theatres and other miam and interesty practically the same places of public resort
bumber of billa het boen negotiatodOU would like A meeting of the Finance Committee: | 1897) Mr Ma Fac. Tür mün he did of the roodE will to held womedistely after the Council. not do this, but bersa
t firet böcause of the pinnast leato i afterwards, becanda
Stearns Wins of God:
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.