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SUPREME COURT. Monday, 12th January.

IN APPELLATE JURISDICTION. BEFORE THEIR HONOURS SIR WILLIAM M. GOODMAN (CHIEF JUSTICE), AND A. G. WIE PUNE JUDGE,

taken.

PAU LEUNG AND OTHERS U. TAU KWOK CHIU. the deeres made by the Chief Justice on 10th

This was a petition for leave to appeal Sepabor. In the case as originally bought Pi Leng and his two brothers applied for a tition for newinistration of their father's estato by the Court and for äccount of exorator ship to be taken, and his Laurdship after hoering parties mado a lecrue that the terms of the will be carried out and that the usual accounts be I order d that the release of date 15th April, 1983, bo set aside and gars plaintiffs corts so far as properly incurred for the pur

So far as the action 1 of Hiting it aside. did not ask for the setting aside of the release, I could not then deckle the quistion of costs.

Mr. Barp, KC barrister-at-law appeared for the appellant (instructed by Mr. P. W. Goldring, solicitor), and Mr. M. W. Slade, barrister-at-law, appeared for the respon dat structed by Mr. F. X. d'Almada Castro, solicitor). Mr. T. Morgan Phillipe barrister-at-lus, who had appeared for the defendant in the original case, was also in

stiendause.

Before Mr. Sharp began to address their Lordships,

The Puisa Jadge remarked that so far as he would understanil, the appofaut was appealing froin u consent order; the whole thing us drawn up was by const

Mr. Sharp all he was appealing from the consent order so far as that order related to the setting aside of the release. Most of the order was by consent. The part relating to costs was But by consent, and it was that they were appealing against.

The Puisne Judge was of opinion that the Jared Jaign who drew up this ordor thought the whole thing was by consent.

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The Chief Justice said this case was a little anals The decree was drawn up and settled ja presence of counsel ja his chainbere and then some days afterwards there was change of solicitors, Messrs. Deacon & Hastings baing engaged. The first thing that occurred was Mr. Hastings writing in, regsasting time to consider the matter, after, decreo had been given. That was most absurd. A new solicitor was imported after the deeron was settled and he suggested that bo had better be allowed to consider the decree which had been settled by counsel on both sides. Now the present solicitors were finding fant with the deurce, which is Lordship certainly assumed was drawn up by cassent. Nothing was said at that time to indicate that the deeren was not drawn up by consent of parties.

The Paisus Judge remarked that he did not want to "barko" any appeal, but there was no evidens before then to show that the order W not by consent. There should be s ufidavit or something of that kind.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 13гH, I! 03

ROYAL HONGKONG YACHT CLUB. | THE NEW RUSSIAN SQUADRON.

ENQUIRIES INTO COLLAPSES

OF BUILDINGS.

TUNG LUI LANE,

EASTMAN'S

The flagship of the now Russian squadron for Faz Fastern waters is the Retvizan, which is specially interesting as the product of an American shipyard-indeed she is the first in- FILMS. portaat forsign battleship to have been built in the United States. The Cramp Shipbuilding Company, of Philadelphia, received orders from

KODAKS AND ACCESSORIES

the Russian Government for this vessel and for DEVELOPING AND PRINTING UNDERTAKEN.

na the flat and 4in. on the Blopes, with

GOOD WORK. PROMPT RETURN.

WE HAVE AN ESTABLISHMENT SOLELY DEVOTED TO EXECUTING WORK FOR AMATEURS, AND WE HAVE LARGER AND BETTER FACILITIES FOR DEVELOPING AND PRINTING THAN ANY HOUSE IN THE COLONY.

ACHEE

& CO.,

On Samlay, the 10th inst.. the first race for The enquiry was resumed yesterday afternoon the Commodore's Cup was sailed. The course before Mr. F. A. Hox:land and a common jury

was round the rock .W. of Kanichan and into the circumstances attending the fatal collapso of two houses in Tung Loi Leno (near back. The wind at the start was of moderate the Harbour Office) on 12 November last, force and varied in direction from North Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, Crown Solicitor, appeared ou behalf of the Crown, and Mr. H. W. Looker to North-east, but when the leading boat on behalf of the contractors (the Wing Sing was near Katichau it freshened considerably

cruiser, the latter, the Vuryag, making her firm), the shorers, and the architects, Messrs and at times blew with sufficient force to ale last year, when she attained a speed of 23 Leigh and Orange.

The jurors were-Mossrs. W. Goldenberg, make skippers wish for a reef in their kuota, becoming therefore one of the fastest C.. Blason, and E. W. Torrey.

H. P. Troker, executiva engineer, Public mainsails The ra en itself was comparatively men-of-war afloat. The Retrizen is the battle- Works Department, was recalled and examined uneventful. The prevailing wind made the ship, and she also made a successful trial, by Mr Looker and Mr. Bowley. In reply to

a 12 hours ruu Her vital parts are protected juryman, he said there were fifteen tons of course a plain sail there and back, and all the steaming at an average speal of 18.8 knots on goods between the grond and first floors of yachts except Colleru went straight for the by a belt of Sin, armour, which extends from No. 12. Had that weight been all on the first floor, it would be rather heavy for an ordinary mark, kooping S. of Kauishau. Colleen want 4ft. below the water line to 3. above. Chiussa floor.

that she would scoro considerably, thereby coal between the belt and the slope of the N. of the island, and at age time it appeared and behind this is an armoured belt Zin She come racing along with the first of the deck. Above the Sin. bolt is another ono strengthening breeze, bat before she had gained sin. in thickness to protect the gums from excugh to make up the extra ilistance she had toll barsting below the deck, on which the travel the stronger wind reached the athors and bulk of them are placed. The Gin. guns are in about half of them got round the rock before carried across the ship, and above the bulkhands. her. The Feron, who from the start bad

tīnus provided is one of Sin. steel suolosing the been drawing slowly away and had made full battery. The heavier guns are carried in pairs half her time allosauce from Alanok by the iu two turrets placed before and abaft the central citadel protected by 10in armour. time the boats had passed Groen Island.tes is provided to 16,000 h.p. engines by tons of coal, hid fael can be carried in the rapidly increased her lead in the stranger wind Niclatisse water-tabs boilers and, as well as 2,000 and rounded the rock some minutes abend double bottom. The Scientific American says of Almuah, who in her turn was between of the Retrizan that she is unquestionably on exceedingly fice specimen of the up-to-date on and two minutes ahead of the next boat.

first-class battleship." The Pobieda will be remembered as the representative of the Russian Navy which went to Spithead for the Coroun- She differs but slightly from On the way

tho the P'erencial. which is already o tion review. China Station; the armament is similar, but the belt whirl in the Perasrict extends for only fivesixths of her length is complete in the Pobiedu. The latter on her trial debut the stage had not been reached when the 195 knots, stent being supplied to engines distinctive odoar of horst born would be given Belleville water-tube boilers. The arrangement to trace the infection to its source, but every of the armour is in principle similar to that in means that seionee can anggest is being taken working up to 15,492 u.p. (noco. 14,500) by off. It will probably be almost an impossibility the Retefan, and the coal supply is good. The and the matter will be thoroughly sifted following table will facilitate a comparison Meanwhile it may be impressed upon all con-

floor was better supported than an ordinary Replying to Mr. Bowley, witness said the Chinesa floor. being supported by a double set of joists, and fiftera tous was not an excessive weight, considering the construction of the floor. Evan Dougherty, an overseer in the Public Works, who left hospital to give evid-ace and was accommodatol with a chair, said that when ho went down to the scene on the afternoon of the collapse ho saw some persons removing 100 bugs of what was described to him as starch from the ruins of No, 12, Tung Lai Inne, but he could not say whether the bigs actually can from the first floor. By the way they were lying, judged they came from the first floor.

Hoary Ernest Yorke Haggard, who ex- amined the promises after the collapse, gave the thickness of the wall which fell as inches on the ground floor, 14 inches on the first floor, and nine inches on the two top floors. That was less that he thickness required by the Ordinance for top floors. From what he saw, he should not say that the wall was a good one, and nearly all the joists were decayed at the end. Witness was of opiniou that the floor fel first paing to being over- weighted, dengging out a portion of the wall and so bringing the rest down.

Examined by Mr. Lecker, witness said he examined the beams. the ends of which were decayed, and some of them had the appearance of Eaving broken off. Some of the beams of the first floor of Ac. 12, he was of opinion, gave way in the mindle, and if the wall had cobased first those beams would probably not

have been broken at all.

Percy Thomas Crisp, inspector of buildings, said he obtained from a Chinaman at the collapsed houses the description and weight of goods stored in No. 12, the total weight was nearly 341 tons, but witness could not kay how it had been distributed. His theory as to the canse of the collap e was that the weight on the flours caused the pads of the ratten joists to bronk and throw the the weight of the goods on the wait, pashing the brickwork out and causing the wall to collapse.

Arthur Turner, architect, was called by Mr. Looker and testified to the satisfactory nature of the shoring. He was also examined by Mr. Bowley, and stated that the pulling down of a house was always a dangerous operation, for the Chinese coalie was rather reckless in the way-of- dropping bricks; it was not dangerous, how- aver, ta the adjoining houses.

The Chief Justice added that the only ration- "al assumption was that the whole thing was by Consent all through. He believed and thought that the whole order was by cousust. When the parties left his chambors there was no mention made about either side being displeased with the decree His memory was that u authorities were quoted. to him to show that hoanimed by Mr. Bowley us to the relative cost of had no power to make that order and if it had ben mentioned he would have deal in the judgment with the alleged miscordnut..

Mr. Sharp said Lis plient had to go into Court because they wore charged with fraud. Morgan Philips had consented to the decres simply as expressing his Lordship's views with wegard to the costs."

The Chief Justice repeated that be assumed The the decree to have been made by consent. appollant admitted that the releass was given to him while the respondents were under age. His opinion was that an executor ought to be very careful.

Mr. Sharp said that as a matter of fact theme

young nten were indebted to the appellant in the sum of $5,000.

The Chief Justice-He must be a very kind

exнentor.

sil

Mr. Sharp contended that the trusteo, was entitled to his costs until the allegation against Lim of gross misconduct was adjudicated upos, until the accounts been given and saquiries made. The other side could have as many enquiries as they wanted. They had charged the resposdout all through the petition with fraud and that was Hud the reason the cass came into Court. they been satisfied with the ordinary, release and accounts, the case would never have come into Court. The question of casts could be left to the exid. If they could show as the result of their enquiries that the defondant had been guilty of fraud, no doubt he would be notitled to pay the costs at the finish, and probably the costs of the retion as well.

The Chief Justice pointed out that Mr. Morgan Phillips hud usked that the release ha

set aside.

Mr. Sharp said it was set aside for the pur. pose of taking the account.

After hearing Mr. Morgan Phillips with reference to the arrangement come to with regard to costs,

Their Lordships dismissed the appeal with costs in the cause.

The Court adjourned.

Leung Yi Tai, the scaffolder, was re-ex- the shorings on the job, after which the hearing was adjourned until this afternoon.

THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN JAPAN.

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home l'emon, though giring her crew a remarkably uncomfortable time, sailing as she did in the gusts nearly flat on

bor side with her lea-rail well under water,

slipped still further away and in the end won very easily. Irie, sailed by Mr. G. A. Tomes, went well in the strong wind and drew up con. sideraily on Alannah. At one time she looked like saving her time (9 minutes) on Vernon, but she got badly headed by the wind about the middle of the harbour and only just manogen to secure second place on time. The handicap, as will be seen from the muptsed times, brought

the other boats of all three classes very near

together, six of them finishing with minutes on corrected time, but the now boat proved herself for Uetter than her reputation and eculd bure conceded another 4 minutes at round and still just have won

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4 32 30 4 34 52 4 15 52 On Sunday the One-design and 2nd-class boats tried to sail off the 5th Club Race. The weather conditions were more trying than one of the oklest sailing members of the Club could remember to haveencountered before in 10 years

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tible to infection, and it must be most carefully watched even when it has successfully passed all the usual laboratory testa.

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of $145, 13,95.

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ST. GEORGE'S BALL

VARIOUS ARTICLES, JEWELERY, CLOTHING, &c., found at the City Hall on the night of the 6th January, are in my possession owners can have same on application te

E. W. MITCHELL. Hon. Secretary.

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Hongkong, 10th Junnary, 1903 --- H.F.CARMICHAEL

armament, protected by shields, consists in each The gross profits, including 821.93531 vessel of 6 Gin, 20 3in.. and 8 14 quick-brought forward from last year, are $248,799.24, 16, Queen's Ro d. firing guns. The bogatyr-is a vessel displacing which after delacting all charges and allowing 6.100 tons; she was built at the Valean sard, for bad and doubtful debts lives a net profit Stettin, and is reported to have attained a spoed of 24 knots, her engines developing 20,500 hp. Her machinery is not entirely beneath the protective deck, and where it rises above the water line is covered by armoured hatchways, She carries 12 6id., 12 3in., and sine smaller guns. With their speed, if it can be maintained aten, these vessels should prove useful scouts

This the Directors propose to deal with as follows-To pay a dividend of $1.962 per shery (in London 3/11 absorbing 879,499.45, to place $50,000.00 to reserve and to carry forward

$15,613,89.

On the departure of Mr. Lauts for Europe in April Mr. Julius Focke was elected

when Mr. Lauts, having returned to Hong- hong, was re-oleoted-this will require your confirmation.

Tokyo, 30th December Owing to the interesting condition of Japanese domestic politics at the present moment, and to the serious consequences that may follow from experience of having here. There was a good they will not, however, add fargely to the fight | Director but resigned his seat in the autumn, enough wind to start with, but it did not keeping strength of the Russian force in the Far up and the leading boat enly reached the East. A smaller cruiser, the Boyarin, was fishing line at 5.07, 12 minutes after the expected to join the squadron. time limit for the race had expired. The race will consequently have again to be remailed.

the present deadlock, it may not be out of place for me to go back a little, at the beginning of a new year, in order to show how things got into the tanglo in which they are in to-day The subject will be of all the more interest to readers of the Hongkong Baity Press inasmuch ss some knowledge of it is requisite for a due nuderstanding of the rejection of the naval ex- pansion scheme. The latter phrase is somewhat misleading, however, as it was not the naval expansion scheme which was rejected by the partios in opposition, but the land tax cou- tinuation Invasure on which that scheme depended; but this matter will explain itself in due course,

WHY THE ITC CABINET FELL.

Ishell only go back a year and a half, to the time when the Ito Cabinet fell in May 1901. Ite fall was due to the prolonged suspension of the Government works insisted on by Viscount Watanabe, then Finance Minister, who saw. or fancied he saw, financial rocks ahead and who thereupon raised the cry of national bankruptcy,"

in their

EVACUATION OF SHANGHAI COMPLETED.

The evacuation of Shanghai by the interus tional garrisons was completed on Saturday, 3rd inst, by the departure of the remainder of the German troops. Soun after seven o'clock in the morning Count von Schlippenbach, the officers and men, left their camp in Babbling Well Road, and were joined at the Country Club by Captain Boistagon, Colonel Mackenzie, Major Brodie Clarke, and Captain Wedemeyer. At the Loougfel Bridge they were met by the Town Band, which played them down the Malen, up is Hand, and over the Yangkingpang bridge to the Norddeutscher Lloyd jetty, pass ing a French guard of honour ou the way. On iba bund of the Fraueh Concession the men were formed up and addressed by the German Consul (Dr. Knappe), who complimented them on their general conduet during their stay in China, and wished them a enfe voyage and happy return home.

THE PUNJAB INOCULATION

INCIDENT.

With reference to the Mulkowal casu the point to be cleared up was indicated in our columns a few days ago, says the Pioneer. It is, briefly, whether the responsibility for the poisonous phial should rest upon a superior or an underling, and whether the mistake was made locally or in the Bominy laboratory, Tho donths of the nineteen villagers, it may be re membered, were due to tetanus, and the mystery to be unlved is where the tetanus-microbe was

after

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TELEGRAMS: "Carmichael," Hesekose.

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NOTICE.

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Mr. Ewens retires în rotation from the Heed Office Board and Mr. Wotton from the London Committee and being eligible for re-election offer themselves accordingly.

the let instant taken over the whole con- The accounts at the Head Office have beenBEG to notify the Public that I have from audited by Mr. R. C. Wilcox and in Loaden - corn of" AhToo Msfoo's Stable." by Messrs. Deloitte, Peter, Griffiths and Co., Chartered Accountants.

Your obedient servant,

U. EWENS, Chairman. Hougkong, 7th January, 1903.

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introduced into the serum. The searching enquiry that is now proceeding may clear up this point, though in all probability the con- clusion arrived at will bare to be based upon STILL LEADING guess-work. At Bombay the serum manufacture is kept for a certain number of days, and a phial from each "brew" is examined at the close of this period. If there is any indication of putrefaction setting is this test A SCOTCH WHISKY OF EXCELLENT phial, the whole quantity is destroyed. If everything is satisfactory the consignment is sent away, the phial being retained in the Among the crowd of foreigners who aliendeů | laboratory and carefully watched. Thus there to witness the departure of the troops were the is a double precaution against mischance, Consuls of the various powers represented in Shanghai, Colonel Dessino (Russian ilitary Agent), Captain Rose, Mr. R. E. Bredon, and numerous officers of the S. V. C.

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follows. Some case doubtful. So far as we can learn the course of of local abscesses and tetanus first occurred events was much as in the Paujab, and orders were issued by the Local Government to stop inoculation KING EDWARD VII pending reference to Bombay, the iden being that in accordance with the suggestions of the the new kind of serum-nufactured, by the Plague Commission was responsible for the trouble. Unfortunately these orders, as we know,

THE KATSURA CABINET. On 2nd June a new Cabinet was rather nuexpectedly organised by Viscount Katsura, Dow Count Katsura. The premature desth of the Ito ministry just as the ministers and the other office-holders of the Seiyu-ka were beginning to feel annag new billets, and the unexpected success of Count Katsura in forming a ministry, caused the members of the displaced Cabinet and their friends to regard their successors with a distike which was not manatural in the cirenistan- ces, especially as the "strings" of the new

During the wait at the jetty, cordial farewells cabinet were pulled by the House of Peers which is mainly opposed to Marquis Ito and and good wishes were given and exchanged, and which is a firm disbeliever in Government by the Town Band played "Auld Lang Syne," and

other well-known airs suitable for such an arep party. Marquis Ito did not, it mest be con- fassed, share the dislike with which bis followers. The splendid band of the German cruiser Hansa regarded the Katsura Cabinet; but strong and also took part in the send-off, About 20 officers ruse as by is, he could not present the Feiyu- and 500 men embarked at the jetty on the k from gradually drifting into the position tender, and were taken down the river to the of a regular Parliamentary Opposition. Owing, steamship King Albert, at Woosung, leaving however, to the Marquie's tour abroad, to a lack for karope a few hours later in the day. of homogeneity among the members of his party, and to the Marqnia's lograms to the Seigu ku leadors counselling patience and moderation. the latter felt themselves compelled to make up Fearon Road as for us the Municipal stone rarions devidert concessions to the Government, Count you Schlippenbach and several officers and the smell is described as that of barut An offcor and two crborn, the pungent odour that is familiar enough especially on the matter of the Budget. But also loft for the north. ibis only served to make them feel mora bitterly three men have been left behind to look after when horses are being shod with red-hot shoes. A

the property of the garrison not token away. towards the Cabinet

ROWDYISM AT SHANGHAI, There has been a good deal of disorder in Hongkow lately and in two recent disturbances the French sailors from the men-of-war in harbour were again at the bottom of the trouble, One night last week a party principally from they raiser Pascal caused a fracas outside the Now Cleveland Hotel, und, foreing their way inside, smushed some windows and did consider able damage. Unfortunately they succeeded in grading arrest. A moro serious business ocenrred on Saturday about miduight, when another body of sailors got into an altercation with a number of ricksha coolies in Fearon Road. The foreigners were the worse for drink and were getting the worst of matters when some A coolie received of them drew their knives. u nasty eut across the head. Mr. Sterling, of the Travellers' Hotel, who with other foreigners was trying to quell the diserbanes, was also injured. The sailors rau off, and one of them separating somewhat from the others dashed

way,

wore not received in time to prevent the Mnikowal catastrophe. Now tetanus is a disease which After the tender had left, a number of troops has a very distinct microbe of its own; and, escorted by the bands, marched down to the further, in the case of a:.7 kernum which has China Merchants' Lower Wharf, and embarked b mome infected with tetanus-polson, there is A Freuch on the vessel Gouverneur Jaeschke, for Tsingtao. au odour which is unmistakable.

Butist made this discovery some time ago,

yard, where he dived in and tried to hide. The pursuers wera, however, on his track and ho was dragged out and handed over to the police.

NEW IMPORTANT QUESTIONS. The captured man gave the name of Ribout.

They had not long to wait for a chance of

AN OLD FRIEND BY A NEW NAME. Liebig tutta Barthelin of the war-vessel Régorde, taking revenge. The land tax had been raised Company's Extract will soon be known se Ho was lodged temporarily at the Hongsen to 3.5 per cent, from 2.5 per cont. in 1899, Lemos, the new name placed upon it and sem police station and handed over to the French and the Government which had raised it had posed of the Liebig's Extract of Meat Com (Continued on page 3.)

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This fact is doubtless well-known by this time Borg medical men engaged in plague inocula- tion, who always smell the contents of a phial when it is opened, rejecting any that are in the least suspicions. At Mulkowal the operator was Dr. Elisit probably the mest careful of all the practitioners at work, a man who takos exceptional precautions in each

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Many of us in the Far East bavo rend books on Tonkin, ancient and modern, but a knowledge of things as they are there to-day, of what has been accomplished under M. Dotmer's administration is far from common. The anther has written what he sot out to do, a very readable and accorate sketch of the colony as it is at present... Altogether, this is a book to read."-" BANGKOK TIMES."

THE BOOK WILL BE FOUND TO BE A COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE HANOI EXPOSITION.

Hongkong, 17th October, 1802.

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