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G. P. LAMMERT.

AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER

AND SURVEYOR.

Public Auctions-

A EN Undersigned han received fistrae-

-tions to sall by Public Aucilor,

ON

TUESDAY, January 13, 1820,

- commencing at 2.30 p.m.

at his Salos Rooms, Duddall'Street,

A Quantity of

Valuable Office and Fousehold

Furniture,

Comprising:-

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Carved cherry wood curio cabinot, table and chair, teak sectional book. cases, tenk writing tables, revolving shairs, teak occasional tables, teak reens, card tables, fue carpets, hand sewing machines, easy chairs, tapestry porered drawing room anite, etc., etc.

INTIMATIONS

* R* * *

JUST RECEIVED

from AUSTRAIA ̈"a larga shipment of LACTOGEN, UNIWESTENED CONDENSED MILK, STERILARIND

· NATURAL: MILE, HÄLTED MILK and SWEETENAD Datda. ad- MILK, acid at very ressonable prices owing to the prosent high rate of Exchange,, especially for Retailers.

ACTO

BACAL WI

SHIU FUNG TAI & 00.,

Tenk extension dining tables & chairs, taksiceboarda, diaaer waggoza, ica cheat, teak overmantels, pictures, orna» ments, bronze incense burners,, dinner services, electro-plated ware, cutlery & Connaught Road Central, Hongkong. glassware, etc., etc.

Tak wardrobes with bevelled mir- rore, brasa.iron bedsteds, teak dres Ing tables, marble top washstands,. toilet sets, chest of drawers, etc., etc..

Also

A Quantity of Valuable Novels

1 Enamelled Bath,

And

Several Typewriters (Underwood, Remington & Utiver in ne condition.

GEO. P. LAMMEET, Auctioneer:

INTIMATIONS.

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IN A JAPANESE COURT- ROOM.

SPIRITUALISM.

SIR A. CONAN DOYLE'S .COMMENT.

The Japanese Bench usually gon. CHURCH AND sists of four judges, one of whom conducts the questioning of the prisoner. With the judges sits also the Public Prosecutor, and a few feet away, facing the bench, is the desk. of the lawyer for the dafence. Judges and lawyers are all gowned in stiff, black costumes and all wear caps of bluck crepe.

Following the discussion on spir. itualism at the Church Congress recently. a Daily Telegraph had some conversa

representative of The tion with Sir Arthur

"Criminal trials in Japan are public, but not blatantly so," says R. O. Matheson in an article on the procedure in Japanese courts, written from Tokyo for the New York Herald. Several formalities inst Everything is solema, everything be complied with according to Mr. is decoroas and, without a jury to Matheson, before one can even enter impress, there are none of those the grounds surrounding the court flights of oratory with which the the I have arranged to go over buildings, to say nothing of entering American lawyers call upon Heaven Church Congress discussion

on spiritualism at a big meet.

the sacred precincts of the court-room to witness either the scandalous ing to be held at Leicester" Sir itself. Only persons who can show nature of the prisoner's crime Arthur said. that they have a good reason or the halo of innocence so plain to

but for the time being for wishing to gain entrance the attorney, for the defence. The are admitted. When he enters the room where the Japanese court is in session the visitor is required to remove his hat and overcoat, if he wears one, to walk quietly and to Witnesses are not sworn, nor are

confine all his remarks to the faintest there any bewildering laws of evid- spiritualism at the congress. The

of whispers. All the surroundings ence that furnish-legal arguments, tend to impress him with the majesty grounds for appeal, and keep any. of the law. It appears further that one, from telling all that he knows not only are visitors admitted to and suspects. The criminal code is court with reluctance in Japan, but that of Napoleon, and the procedare there seems to be a disposition to is practically that of the French keep cut lawsuits as well Thus a number of cases which in America

would furnish an excuse for pro- tracted grinding of the judicial mill, in Japan are settled by the policemen on their beats or at the police

station.

I am so pressed by lecturing, &.....' prisoners sit in a prisoners box until that I am obliged to postpone the their case is called, when they stand detailed consideration of the points one by ons before the jaizes, and tased and arguments used. I may axe polished off in rapid succession. say that I am not very impressed by the strength of the advocacy of

Dean of Manchester spoke up brave- ly, but there was nobody there, to state the claims of spiritualism with the force and fucidity of an Archdea- con Colley or an Archdeacon Wilber- force. In fact, there is a striking contrast between the weakness of the The handling of the prisoners is representatia of the cult at the pure Japanese, however. Delivered Congress and the actual numerical at the court-house for trial, the strength of its adherents among the prisoners are marched from the rank and file of clergymen.. One or police waggon in single ble hand two of the strongest mediums in cuffed, and tied together by a stout England are, clergymen, and not a rope that circles each man's waist, week passes but I receive letters and is twisted through his obi, from clergymen seeking advice Their jail kimonos are of a dull on points about which advice can be drab, and on their sockless feet are usefully given. These are men who

courts.

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Once he has been sent to head quarters, a prisoner's troubles com mence. As a preliminary to all else he is photographed and finger printed, a decided reversal of the American grass sandals, in which they hop: combine their pastoral duties with principle, which bars e man from the through the corridors.

the practice of spiritualism. There

that a prisoner be

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“Rogues' Gallery" until he has been The most unusual feature of all to are many others who are keenly convicted of a felony. A suggestion a stranger is the fact that each alive to the problem, and whose

zre mugged in prisoner has his bead covered by a minds America before conviction would set wicker mask, more like an inverted reception of proofs, Among the every syllable of the Constitution qui waste-paper basket than anything better known clergymen spiritualists vering, but in Japan "it is an orfer," else, the object of which is to prevent I might instance the Rev. Vale Owen, and as such goes. To question a recognition of the prisoner, to permit Vicar of Orford, Warrington, who is police order is neither according to him to hide his shame ander the dis about to publish a little book giving etiquette nor the dictates of pru- guise, and, very possibly, to prevent a description, communicated by his dence, and the records contain no the whole file from making a bolt for mother, who is dead,, of life in the instances of anyone ever doing so. liberty. The sight of a prisoner so next world book which I have From the photograph room and the arrayed is ghastly, the mask bringing read in proof, and which, on internal inkpad the prisoner passes on for up the suggestion of the hangman's evidence alone, apart from the re- his examination," a legalised third cap. Once in the prisoners: box, howputation of its author, I consider to degree, held in an underground room, ever, the masks are removed, while be above any imputation of fraud or, where, without benefit of counsel. he the prisoners sit with deeply bowed

invention."

is sweated, perhaps for several days heads in an attitude of the utmost

in succession, although the law pro- humility. hibits the holding of a man without

Japanese courts have the name pf,

a definite charge for more than being fair, and the Bench is honest. twenty-four hours.

A recent charge of spite made against

MR. SHAW.

Interviewed with reference to a re- ported invitation to go to Australia, extended to him by the Socialist party there, Mr. Bernard Shaw said he had

A similar law is evaded in America one of the procurators in Kobe was by rearresting the prisoner at the so much of a rarity that it attracted end of each day, but the process is attention all over the Empire and simpler in Japan. Here they keep was investigated immediately with a no intention of going. He had merely the fact of a suspect's arrest a secret, thoroughness that left no ground for and there is no booking to help in suspicion of sympathy on the part of quiring friends, if any are foolish the Bench generally. 'enough to run their own necks in a noose by making inquiries. The ex- aminations are legal, however, and "are always held in camera, following.

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