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known that in that happy land any Chinese who is not a British subject can be banished, without trial, if any

SPECIAL CABLE.

MERCHANT LOSES $320,000.

HAD JUDGMENT AND EXCHANGE

TO BLANE.

official shout be displeased with him. A SHANGHAI BANKRUPT He denies that his object was ti deport them. That may be true. He should be asked if he had any idea of putting the fear into their minds of such an indignity. Bis says his sole reason was fif they were found to be British snbjects) *to impress upon them what he thought was the duty of British {subjects to the Empire in its hour of red." and this may be the answer the question we have just suggested. If so, the Directors have a sufficiently heat retart, as follows:

China Mr SPECIAL.?

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1921.

TO-DAY'S COUNCIL BILLS.the train, they are within the law and

NEW LEGISLATION. -

SEVERAL IMPORTANT AMENDMENTS.

LOAN LEGISLATION.

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GAMBLING RAID.

AND RENTS ORDINANCE.

A PECULIAR CASE

cannot be arrested, and detection at intermediate stations is difficult. Clause &quires all tobacco imported by the railway to be consigned through to Kowloon by railway in A number of Bills providing new Iraia in possession of tobacco not so voice, and any persons found on the legislation and amendments to Or-consigned will be liable to arrest and dinances already in farce were intro- | prosecution.

There is a section in the Renis Ordinance which entitles a landlord duced by the Hon. Attorney-General at this afternoon's meeting of the officials the same powers under the that the tenant or anybody residing 5. Clause 5 gives certain Railway to eject his tenant if he has proof Legislative Council. The titles of the Ordinance as are given to revenue with him has been guilty of conduct Bills are given below together with officers, the object being to enable which is a nuisance to the neighbours their respective objects and reasons arrests and seizures to be made on or has been convicted of conducting

the train by Railway officials.

the place improperly. 7. Clause 7 amends section 59 Mr. E. C. Vaux relied on that of the Ordinance, which is the proviso when appearing before the A Booled an Ordinance to general penalty section, by empower-Puisne Judge (Mr. J. R. Wood) in the and the General Loan and In-ing

4 magistrate 10 impose a Summary Court today to support a scribed Stock Ordinance, 1913.

fine of ten times the duty on the claim by Tam Cham Wo for the OBJECTS AND REASONS,

tobacco in question, instead of the fine ejection of the Chi Sang Tong, a firm This bill is introduced on instruc authorised by section 59, whenever of medicine dealers, from a domestic questioned us on the pant in the Mr. P. W. Goldring represeated the lions from the Secretary of State for be is of the opinion that there has tenement owned by him at 233 Holly. presence of the Assistant Protecturetor. A statement of affairs places the Colonies in order to bring our been an intent to avoid payment of wond Road. af Chinese the questions

There have recently been the assets at $2.05 and the estimated existing loan legislation into line duty.

Mr. Vaux explained that the Labilities

cases of smuggling tobacco which | defendants occopied the ground floor with present day requirements, at $320,000. certainly interpreted by us and

Humphreys attributed his losses to apparently by all the others pret al judgment, the tremendons fall

have obviously required a pecuniary upon which a gambling raid was penalty greater than that authorised carried out by the police on August 1. by the principal Ordinance, and it Twelve men were arrested and at the general public and we and conditions. His original capital he in exchange, and general bad trade

has been thought advisable to give Magistracy the next day they were the magistrate the option of imposing charged in their absence with playing sand approximated $150k The

a fine of ten times the duty, where in a common gaming house. examination was adjourned.

such will be greater than the present maximum fine. The power of the! magistrate to inflict imprisonment in lieu of or in addition to any fine re- mains unaltered.

SHANBA, August 31. Mr. Cecil Humphreys, merchant of Shanghai, yesterday underwent a Enquiries were made as rublic examination for bankruptcy, nationality through the thine in the British Supreme Court before Protectorate the day before we metereditor was the, Bank of China. Judge kimin. The petitioning the Colonial Secretary and when he

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PRAYA EAST RECLAMATION.

A Bill intituled An Ordinance to provide for the reclamation of the foreshore and sex bed off Praya East, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong.

OBJECTS AND REASONS.

1. The object of this bill is to legalise and to provide for the Praya East Reclamation Scheme.

STAMP ORDINANCE.

The Judge: Were they convicted? Mr. Vaux: No.

The Judge: Were they discharged? Mr. Vaux: No.

The Judge: What then?

For answer Mr. Vaux handed up a document which disclosed that the defendant. bail had been estreated and that a sum of $17.45 seized by the police had bren confiscated.

friends considered at the time that we had good reason to gratulate ourselves on the fact that we are all British subjects. We note however that these en quiries were intended as the found- ariou (a curiously elalsurare one) for an appeal tour patriotisni As regards the appeal to patriation. We needed, no reminder į of our duty as British subjects, Dur vessels were god be mine sweeping and patrolling and we all in our private capacity com tributed to War a uls. suteenbed to War Lacts and tid our best. according to our mein and abdity, to further the success of the Allied on leave, returned to the Coloartion, c.g.. akering streets, moving didn't, Exchange contracts are sub that the tenant himself or somebody

Cause It out eaquacity as Directors of the Eastern Shipping Company

The sale of a motor cycle by auction is advertised by Messrs.

Hughes and Hough for to-morrow.

details because the bill represents the 2. It seems unnecessary to go into

result of negotiations between the Government and the marine lot holders, and has been approved by The latter.

3. Power is taken in the bill to carry out all works which may be Mr. 3. Tanner, Head Master of necessary for the purpose of con- Queen's College, who has been Home structing and completing the reclama- pipes and cables, running construc- esterday by the Kamo-naru."

tion tramways, etc.

The 17th ordinary annual meet- we are simply trustees for our ins of shareholders of Messrs, Wise i Shareholders and had we allowed! man Lid, will be held at the Com nur generosity towards the Empire, paay's offas, No. 14 Des Vœuxi to indsence our attitude towards Road, Central, on September 14 at the Colonial Secretary's demands 12.30 pm. in her detrimental to thei interests of these shareholders wei should very properly have been elleri aveÐURİ,

Mr. J. H. Taggart has been ap pointed Managing Director of the Hongkong Hotel Co, Ltd. Mr. H. S. Beaurepaire. Secretary, and Mr. E W. Alderson, Sub Manager, effective trom-to-day.

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BILLS OF EXCHANGE.

A Bill intituled An Ordinance to amend further the Bills of Exchange Ordinance, 1885.

WARTIME ACTS.

AMENDMENTS.

ESTATE DUTY.

split"

A Bill intituled An Ordinance to

The Judge: If come and have dinner with you I am not residing

with you.

Mr. Vaux: No but if you came to dinner and were convicted of some

ence I think the law would look

very severely on you. (Laughter).

Proceeding with his argument Mr. Vaux urged that a place was used as a gaming house it was ipso jacto 2 nuisance to the neighbours.

The Judge. Is it?

Mr. Hind: It might be conducted

amend the Estate Duty Ordinance, as a gambling house for 50 years

1915.

OBJECTS AND REASONS.

without there being any noise to complain of.

The Judge: Yes, a public nuisance is not necessarily a nuisance to a private person.

Mr

Vaux suggested that

the

Mr. Vaux contended that this Objects and reasons for the amen

should be regarded as a conviction ding Bill say experience has shown His Honour agreed with Mr. W. B. for the purposes of the Ordinance but its necessity. Those who documents to evade the duty now

Hind. who appeared for the defence, bear the onus of proving that they

that it should not. The Judge pointed out that Mr. Vaux had to show either ject to some modifications.apparently residing with him was before the to protect the Banks. Conveyances are to have a flat rate of one per

Magistrale. cent, instead of the present double) Mr. Vaux urged that if the 12 scale. Banks must starp exchange men arrested were using the place cancellations. Ope amendment drops actually to that extent residing with as a gambling house they were the expression market value" for sbares in favour of plain value. It

the tenant. is a fact that market value" here '03JECTS AND REASONS,

might mean anything. We have no Paragraph (4) of section 72 of the true market values. Compradore Bills of Exchange Ordinance, 1885, orders passed through a bank must provides that where a bill is drawn pay like As regards other matters, they

out of but payable in this Colony, amendments cannot be popularly cheques. Many other Leround their opinion that the

and the sum payable is not expressed explained. Colonial Secretary's memory has dot}

in the currency of this Colony, the Rural building, lot No. 175, adamcunt shall, in the absence of some another little controversy in which joining Villa Miramere. Pokfulum, express stipulation, be calculated ac he is simultaneously engaged throws with an area of 37,100 sq. ft., has cording to the rate of exchange for light. In 1 report to the been sold to Mr. E. T. H. Bunje for sight drafts at the place of payment Governor had said that the Com- $4,800. The upset price was $2,226, on the day that the bill is payable pany's legal adviser was rather or 6 cents a sq. ft.

This paragraph was a copy of par 1915. insolent." The solicitor concerned

agraph (4) of section 72 of the Bills has told what happened. and mate Governor substituting eight ceats for Vict. c. 61. It is not in accordance regulation made by the of Exchange Act, 1882, 45 and 46

1. The object of this bill is to it appear that the insolence was on five cents as the first class fare be with the banking practice in this amend the Estate Duty Ordinance, the other leg, and that it was "with tween Victoria and Hunghem was Colony. According to that practice

The chief reason for doing so iraun by the Colonial Secretary.

the amount in Hongkong currency is is that the position of land in the New Although, as he admitted himself.

tabled at this afternoon's meeting of calculated according to the rate of Territories in relation to death daties landlord was really being penalised the Legislative Council had much tol

exchange on the actual date of pay is not clear. The New Territories | owing to a peculiar set of circums ido that day, the Colonial Serretary's The record of rainfall in the exchange might vary considerably

ment. This seems reasonable, as Regulation Ordinance, No. 34 often:es.

1910, personal explanation took up a great Ectanic Gardens for August hows between the day when the bill was no probate duties are to be payable terest of your client to have a section 29, provides that The Judge: If it was in the in deal of the and several of the a total of 15.95 inches. The heaviest payable and the day when, it was members wasted more by assuring fall was on the 25th when 4 15 inches actually paid. The bill is intended Officer of a successor.

upon the registration by the Land conviction recorded could be him fand the patte) that they were recorded. The 8th is next with to amend the Ordinance so as to perhaps a doubt whether this section and have the evidence taken and a There is not even aɔw go to the Magistrate lieve he had acted with the best 3.40. No rain fell on 19 days. of tntives, ete. One of them, who

agree with the local banking pactice. exempts such successions from estate conviction recorded in their absence? duty, and it has been thought Judgment was then entered for the capressed sympathy with him "at Mr. Tse Tsan Tai sent the

advisable to make this quite clear by defendants. being made the target for unfoustied Harvard University a copy of his

adding a paragraph to section 6 of Mr. Hind asked the Judge not to eriticisms (by the Judge is a Solution of The Dark Mystery of

the Estate Duty Ordinance definitely take it that the defendants admitted partner of the lawyer who appeared the Fast and the Origin and Age of

INDEMNITY KILL

exempting such successions from that the premises were improperly, for the Government in the action! Ancient Human Bones in the Valley

estate duty. This is done by clause conducted. We have read the explanation" of Mexico City." They have accepted

Restricts legal proceedings for war. 3 of the bill

His Honour: The place for that This I absolutely deny. I pointed very carefully, and conclade that the it, with the usual grateful acknow time deeds, and provides substituted 2. The chief difficulty, however, issue to be tried cut is the Police out to Mr. Oxenlineaf the f'ompany's strictures of the Chief Justice-were ledgment.

remedies. Anything done then by arises act on these successions, but Court--cor here. I am not making Secretary in conversation, pet at well founded. Some of the aspersions

officials "in good faith" is not to be on grants of probate or administration any statement on the merits of the the meeting in question, that the cast on the Directors in his after-

actionable. But shipowners may by the Supreme Court which include case. the Government or to the tang the trial defence aggravated his parcels ter Mesopotamia, Koweit tioned.

Rates of postage payable on claim compensation for ships requist New Territories land. Such grants Harbour Board, which is the same offence. He should have stuck to Persian Gulf) and Abadan, Ahwaz

were exempted from probate duty, in thing, they owed the privileges of the disarraing one of the passage and Mchammerah (Persia) sent via

so far as the value of the New HEADLESS BATHER FOUND. the Ferry Service and Slipway in which he said:

Territories land was concerned, by Licence, and for that reason it was!

Regulations dated August 1st, 1905, all the more to be expected that)

under the Stamp Ordinance, 1901. (Regulations of Hongkong. 1914, they would realize their public That hals are hupan can be

page 572). duty to Government in a rite of

It is very doubtful This Bill makes our 1917 Ordinance whether this exemption now extends demonstrand. but it is neither a war. I may add that the Company

more up-to-date, vis-a-vis compliment nor a justification. It

recent 10 estate daty, and it seems only has been since October 1918 inf

legislation at Home. Until this Bill reasonable that where recourse is seems that no buman who is given

possession of both,“

passes, British subjects, 29 a rule, are had to the Hongkong Courts, all the to have been made at Junk Bay on A gruesome discovery is reported power over others can stay deceatly

On account of the rapid advance safe from deportation. Bat now duties and fees payable in respect of Monday afternoon by a party of officiated as Colonial Secretary in of the troops of Wu Pel-fu, who is | "i Very few people will be willing to human. he must ec officially believe that that reminder of benefits

this Colony, I trust that the work now bent on subduing Hunan, the power to deport any person whatso able.

"It is considered necessary to take Hoogkong property should be pay bathers who were shocked to find the bunan. which means all the worst (to a company to which he was trying

otherwise dune will be placed in the forces of the various southern pro- ever who, in the opinion of the hunan caracteristics t cantan-to dictate terms) was net a hint that

balance.

It has been thought advisable headless body of a European clothed kerousness and spite. A Singapore what the Government gave (or sold))

vicces Yunnan, Kwangsi. Kwei Governor in Council, has acted or is therefore to append a proviso to the Or. better still. he should have chow. Kwacgiung and Szechuen-are about to act in a manner prejudicial to paragraph added by clanse 3 of the Judge was recently very severe on it could take away. The jurige imitated the highly paid law officers now preparing to start a joint expedi- the public safety, etc." the Colonial Secretary down there. evidently thought Welf. theof the Colony, who first of all advised tintoassist Human and Hupeh against you may remember. He nude com Company, in answering the Colonial him wrongly, and then kept out of broke down the embankment on the Wu Pei-fu, whose troops recently ments in the course of a judgment Secretary's self-excusing speech. Court, leaving the taxpayers to pay Yangtse River near Chungfupu, and which indicated that the Colonial gives the horrid facts, thus:

the private practitioners. Secretary of the Straits Settlements

The flooded the whole district behind the With regard to the Shipway Judicial strictures were as severe in lines of the Hunan troops. The break had been roughly putting it, behar License the Colonial Secretary their case us in that of the Colonialing of the embankment causing the ing like a Burnble. Acting. in the denies the threat and points to the Secretary and they have maintained water from the Tangise to rush in- absence of the Governor, as chairman

fact that we still have the License, a musterly silence! at the Legislative Council, the Colonial Secretary (u man valled James) replied at great length to the judicial find- ings, excusing himself, and disingenu- ously explaining away (as we see it). ome things that he could not deny.. As the Government is not appealing, most people think this procedure was an improper re trial of the case, with the sycophantic legislators as fury. It certainly is not good that a begislature should belittle the work

The China Mail.

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THAT OFFICIALS ARE

HUMAN,

the High Court of Justice. It was

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He omits to state that we were informed by the Penang Harbour

Board by a letter dated 30th Decem-

ber, 1918 that our License, without

India will be as follows:-For a I think however, that after all 7 lb., $2-15, 11 I. $2.55, according to parcel not exceeding:-3 lb. $1.75, we are all human. Mistakes are a regulation made by the Governor Lound to happen and if this if and tabled at this afternoon's meét it can be called a mistake-is the ing of the Legislative Council only mistake that can be put to

my debit during the time I have

People who have tickets in the

land was responsible for the loss of nearly 10,000 lives and thousands of homes, says the Canton Times.

DEPORTATION ORDINANCE

AMENDMENTS.

TOBACCO ORDINANCE.

amend the Tobacco Ordinance, 1916. A Bill intituled an Ordinance to

OBJECTS AND REASONS.

1. The object of this hill is to amend the Tobacco Ordinance in certain respects where experience has sbown it to be defective.

2. Clause 2 gives the Governor in with tobacco duties in anticipation of Council- a wider power of dealing a resolution of the Legislative Council.

bill to the effect that the exemption from estate duty there given shall not apply to any land which forms part of an estate of which the Supreme Court has granted probate or letters of administration.

LEGAL PRACTICE.

A Bill intituled An Ordinance to amend further the Legal Practitioners Ordinance, 1871:

OBJECTS AND REASONS.

WAS HE A EUROPEAN?

STRANGE STORY FROM JUNK BAY.

only in a bathing suit floating in the water. It is stated that one arm was also missing.

A report was said to have been the Central Police Station this morn- made, to the police but enquiry at ing failed to trace any record of the maiter. It was explained to a China Mail reporter, however, that this notwithstanding it was still quite possible that a report had been made verbally and that a police launch bad beca

to investigate. If the body was not found it was quite probable that an official report would. not be entered,

sent

While the truth of the story is remains that no European has been strongly afirmed, a strange feature

reported missing.

:

which our Dockyard is practically Bangkok lottery which has been soment at Timor was passed by the Sentence of six years' imprison- useless, would probably not be long open that many had forgotten Macao Chief Justice on Carlos Jose

rendered necessary by the fact that 1. Clause 2 is a formal amendment renewed after the 31st May, 1919. all about it-will be glad to learn Sequeira, a Portuguese subject con The powers now conferred corres the Law Society has changed its We have reason to believe that this that it is actually to be drawn on victed of forgery while employed as pond with those entrusted to the name. intionation was sent to us on direct Sunday. September 25. They will a book-keeper in the Hongkong Legislative Council by section 7 of orders from Singapore and was be interested too to learns of the latest branch of the Northwest Trading the Ordinance.

2. Clause 3 authorises the Governor not considered by the Board. We that tickets unsold on the day of the have forged the manager's signature be paid on tobacco manufactured in paid to examiners at the solicitor's its new premises to-day, an imposing

in Council to make regulations for official announcement, which states Co. Ltd. Accused was alleged to 3. Clause 3 provides that duty shall the determination of the fees to be. protested and sent a Petition to

The Bank of China moved into drawing II. E. the Governor and that is the the Scouts Rifles Fund, as if they are was arrested in Macao, A number of bonded or licensed warehouse, before the examiners' fees shall be recovered Road Central, opposite the Ast

shall all be presented to for cheques totalling $11,990. ile the Colony which is removed into a final examination, and provides that six-storeyed new buliding in Queen' reason why we are still in possession sold to same; and the prizes won by witnesses from Hongkong attended; removal from such bonded or licensed from the candidate or candidates, It House. Mr. Tsuyee Pel, the local m of the Slipway License." proved for it, because it provoked

those numbers presented shall be the Procurator of Macao conducted warehouse. That one exposure alone shows what given to the Fund." When the last the case for the prosecution, and Mr.

is proposed to fix the examiners' fees ager, was at home to friends. reply from the people he had tried his excuses and denials were worth, mail left Bangkok about 200,000 H. Nolasco defended.

4. The object of clause 4 is to at $100 each.

heads of all, the other banks wrong, a reply which shows him but we may as well take a look at tickets remained unsold out of a Hazlerigg (Assistant Crown Solicitor) to the Colony by rail. As the law thousand dollars on summary con- to offer their felicitations. Eating Mr. T. M. prevent the smuggling of tobacco in- 3. Clause 4 authorises a fine of one European and Caincee hope the Aled worse than ever. For example, a few others, the course of his excuses to the get these Chinese Shipping Company conveyed no hint as to this genious the Hongkong Government. The persons to bring tobacco into the hundred dollars (apparently recover side by side outside and teri

He was trying to million. The original announcement watched the proceedings on behalf of stands at present, it is possible for viction instead of a penalty of two British and Chinese ads of directors to agree to, terus he pro- and as the Scouts Rifles Fund is to have been one of twelve years but and to evade detection by alighting penalty for unlawfully practising as and leaving, the new Tauyee manner of disposing of unsold tickets sentence, which the judge said would Colony by rail from Chinese territory, able by a common informer) as the people of many nationallying pre posed. He says himself that he

wired; previous to his arrival, to stay per cent of the lottery in for extenuating circumstances, does with the tobacco at any of the a barrister or solicitor. The consent sented a busy scenes and bec Neprive the [Eastern Shipping] ascertain whether the Directors were usual-it-stands to do very well Brmed by the Portuguese authorities As long as they remain on the train titution of proceedings is made no a very busy time

say case-not the ten which is more not commence until it has been constations before the Kowloon terminus of the Attorney General for the in-Fet proved an excelle coming his purpary of their Klipway Licence. British subjects ar not. It is well indeed.

at Goa.

and do not remove the tobacco from longer necessary.

lative Council for public con aption) he said:

It is stated that I threatença

Eumerous visitor.