No. 148.
Hongkong.
sir,
MO
12981
24716 1563
Reeb
(Ref 15 JUL C51
Government House,
Hongkong, 7th. June, 1905.
I have the honour to acknowledge
the receipt of your Despatch No. 79 of the 28th. April
transmitting a copy of a letter from the Secretary of the
Merchant Service Guild regarding the case of Captain Bell
Smith formerly of the Steamship "Wing Chai" and the cons-
-titution of the Court of the Marine Magistrate in this
Colony.
2.
The Guild appear still to misap-
-prehend the circumstances under which Captain Bell Smith
was prosecuted by the Master of the S.S. "Yin King" as the
parallel at Shanghai to which they refer was a case before
the High Court in Admiralty Jurisdiction, corresponding
to a case before the Marine Court in Hongkong, rather than
to one instituted on a Police Court Summons. In the Marine
Court constituted under Section 19 of the Merchant Shipping
HE RIGHT HONOURABLE
ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,
80+
800-3
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