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SUPREME COURT.

Monday, 19th January. IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION. BEFORE HIS HONOUR SIR WILLIAM M. GOODMAN (CHier JUSTICE).

TRA CALENDAR,

Thelendur of cuses was Ave in number, implicating the same number of persons, and included one charge of murder (the Ship Strest case) and two charges of areon.

HOUSE COLLAY ES.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 0TH.

The Court adjourned at half-past one for Inncheon.

On the Court resuming, his Lordsbip xammed up at length, and the jury retired at 3.20 o'clock to consider their verdict.

They returned at 3.50 and the Foreman de clared they had ananimously foun 1 the prisoner guilty of manslaughter.

Mr. Ferrers asked his Lordship for a miti gated sentence on the ground that the accused was not a British subject.

His Lordship passed sentence of ten years The Court adjourned till to-day at 10 am.. hard labour.

POLICE COURT.

Monday, 10th January. BEFORE ML. F. A. HAZELAND

(POLICE MAGISTRATE),

BRUTAL CRUELTY TO A PONY.

The Attorney-General (Hon. Sir Houry 8. Berkeley), who appeared for the Crown instracted by Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, Crown Solicitor, stated to his Lordship that certain onquiries bad been made into collapses of

On the complaint of Inspector R. McEwen, buildings or part of them and the Coroner bad emmi ted certain persons for trial; but he (tho Inspector of Markets, Kan Ho and Yee Chun, Attorney-General) and found that there was no mofos, were charged with having cruelly ill. ground for any criminal charge against them. treated a pony yoked to a guarry in Queen's and exorcising the powers he had as Attorney. Read Central. Evidenes showed that the the pouy being ill-treated General he had decided not to proceed further Inspector saw in the case.

in the street, unyoked it, and sent it for His Lordship said that in a case of that kind examination by a veterinary surgeon, There the Attorney-General and the same power as were four passengera is the gharry. The a grand jury in England and he had practically driver was seated on the box, beating the pony thrown out the bill. Therefore it only remain-violently with a whip. Another man bad bold ed to deal with the recognizances. He thought of a strap attached to the bit and was hauling they had better be discharged and that would hard upon this, while a third had a strap fastened to the pouy's forslag and slung over his own shoulder, by which means the poor animal was made to stumblo along, with what anffering may be imagined.

be an end of the matter.

The Attorney-General-If your Lordship please.

His Lordship-Direct that they be discharged.

THE SHIP STREST TRAGEDY. Chiratos Matsumoto, a Japanese, was charged with boring, or 26th December, in Ship Street murdered a Japanese woman.

He pleaded not guilty, and was defended by Mr. H. N. Ferrers, barrister-at-law.

The following jury was empiarlied-Mosers. J. Wacker, E. M. Hazeland, W. Farmer, Fung Ka Shau, F. J. V. Jorge, Li Wai Ching and

A. Neilson.

The charge having been found proven, His Worship imposad the full penalty on each of the defendants-$75, with the alterna. tica of three months' imprisonment. He was sorry. he said, that under the Ordinance he could not send them to prison with a dogging without the option of a fins.

The fines were paid by the owner of the glazey.

THEFT FROM A SHOP.

Ip Ho, coolie, was sentenced to 34 days' hard labour for stealing 35 catties of sugar from a shop at 291, Queen's Road West on Banday,

DOWN ON THEIR LUCK,

THEFT BY A BOATMAN.

On the complaint of P. C. Wisby. Leung Choi bhing, boatman, was charged with and convicted of having on Sunday thrown over- board into the Harbour a quantity of coal suspected of having been stolen.

The Attorney-Gozeral in his opening state- ment said that the accused was a Japanese subject charged with murdering a person who was either, bia wifu urbia woman. The facts were very short of and simple and left no doubt as to the guit J. A. Mylor (43), an English master mariner, the prisoner. It appeared that no Sunday, 21st was ordered to the House of Detention as a December, about 10 o'clock in the morning the vagrant, and a similar inte befel C. R. Adag deceased woman was in the brothel in which she of the U. 6. army, from Manila. was living and had been living for some con

Un that morning siderable time previously the prisoner visited her. The other famates of the bonse (who would be called) hoard a noise in oneof the cubicles into whiell the place xasdivided. They were attracted by this noise and on going to the cubicle they saw decessed lying on the door and the prisoner-me enid stamp ing on her; others, striking her, and others jumping on her. When the other girls appeared, they said, the accused censed the assault upon the woman and then went into the kitchen on the ground floor of the next house and lay down on a bench there pretending to be drank. The girls found the deceased woman bleeding at the month. They tried to revive ber, and out for a Japanesó doctor who fonad that she was dead. Then the police ware callad in and the prisoner was arrested.

BEFORE MR. J. H. KEMP (ACTING PULICH MAGISTRATE).

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

Cheng Yneu Chik who has been in bospital since 31st alt, consequent upon his attempt to commit suicide in the Harbour, was discharged.

CHINA MUTUAL 3. N..CO.

NEW RUSSIAN FAR EASTERN

QUADRON.

THE INDIAN CURRENCY QUESTION.

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EASTMAN'S

The Times of India has the following criticism of Mr. R. H. Elliot's paper ou "The Eronomic Effects of Recent Indian Currency Legislation," which we mentioned a few days FILMS. KODAKS AND ACCESSORIES age

The promoters of the Isdian Currency League, which announced its constitution the other day, have reason to congratulate them- selves on the space giren to their pet topic is the budget of newspapers received last week, DEVELOPING AND PRINTING UNDERTAKEN. The opponents of that body's this may also

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.

According to the Ostasiatische Lloyd, the Russion equation now on the way to the Far Eost, which, on its arrival in the Mediterranean will be strengthened by another six s-a-going torpado-boats in Japonesa telegram said seven). may only be expected to arrive at the port of destination, Fort Arthur, in the month of March, since the five big ships will bo much delayed through visita in English, French and Mediterraneauports, and afterwards again gratulate themselves on the timely up through conling in Aden, Colombo, Singapore pearance in this journal of a lottar from a correspondent pointing out afresh certain con- and Hongkong. The Lloyd anys-After the siderations which the League profer to ignore, arrival of this flest, Rawia will have at her Too often, it must be admitted, the attitude of diepceal in the East six first-class battleships, the apostles of the Longue towards the con- siderations in question in that of the Scotoh four armour-plated craisers, two armour-plated cister who, after setting forth a knotty point gunboats, five large protected cruisers, two in divinity, said: "This, my brethren, se a small profected cruisers, fire small non-pro-matter which it behoves us to lock straight in tected cruisers, twelve san-going torpedo-beate, the face and pass by." Mr. R. H. Elliot has us also the five gunboats and about twenty read a paper on "The Economic Effects of torpedo-boats of the Siberian feet. In case of Recent Indian Currency Legislation," and in war, this teet, the greatest part of which that paper be ro-afirmed the caricus points of consists of modern ships, will be strongthened what may be called the case for the prosecution.

As regards the producers of Tadia" be said, ACHEE & CO., ⚫the leading points of the situation bare thos by ench steamers of the volunteer fleet as are

(1) The Government in the East at the time; the necessary materials

revenues gain by the artificially high value to make them inte auxiliary cruisers is being been summarised. kopt in readiness at the ports of departure in Europe, as also in Vladivostock. The battle-which has been given to the rupee.) This ship Oslabia, 12,991. tone newly built at St. gain to revenne is a lose to a portion of the Potersburg, and the cruisers Aarora and Bajan, community. (3) The portion of the community of 6,700 and 7,800 tons, built at St. Petersburg which foses is that which buys rapers (4) and La Seyne respectively, will perhaps leats The producing portion buys rupees, and thore- Europe as the next incresss for the Russian fore loses. (5) 1ta loss is equal at present to a Far Eastern fleet Russian naval power on the lo-s that a 20 or 30 per cent export tax would China cost will then be superior to each entail. (6) This tax on Indian production separate fleet of the hitherto two strongest acts as a bounty in favour of competitory the ships of the British China Station. naval powers in the East, the Japanese flost and countries." mest, however, be horne in mind, that as long as no serious quarrels threaten in the Modi terranenu, Great Britain can send from there reinforcements to China in a very short time.

SLEEPING SICKNESS.

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so much as exists. Then the whole question has the barrier, and deny that principle or axlom to be began de novo upon fresh ground, bat For with no better prospect than before. thesa

Now, we hold no brief for the defence; but is to the public interest to require that the statement of any doctrine on so serions a subject should be free from all suspicions of the die. lectical vice known as "begging the question." We fake no exception to the first two of the "points" slovo enamorated, but when Mr. Elliot says that the portion of the common- pity which less is that which bugs rupees' and that the producing portion buye rupees, and therefore loses," we cannot help questioning whether be is not leaning towards the vica have supposed that every man who exchanges alluded to. Economically speaking, we should services or the produce of his labour for money may in Indie be said to bay rupees. Thus

reasons the controversy about the the debinition is loose and calculated to arouse A vague suspicion of injury among all classes. Iading currency does not appear to "get Secondly, the definition is erronnous. The forrader," und, we would fain urge the new baying of rupees of an enhanced purchasing Indian Currency Lagos to begin their work paper obviously entails no loss to a man who, by defining the terms it proposes to use. If they for in subsequently disposing of them, is free to would admit that the value of a piece of money profit in his turn by the said enhanced purches-be it of metal or of any other substance, consists ing power. The less touches only those who, solely in-and is limited absolutely by its power their labour or produce, receive a diminished to purchase staple commodities, we should have quantity of appreciated rupees (these representade a start. If they would formulate another ing the same aggregato purchasing power at definition of value we should at least have a formerly resided in the larger quantity of clear point to thresh out. If they wonkl under- depreciated rupees) anillare by some obligation take that on the conclusion of each stage of the or contract bound to pay over to Government, discussion they will agree to a strict deflaition to the sowcar, or to some other creditor, the of the point to be next discussed, and will thers- game number of appreciated rupees as they after keep themselves wholly to that point until it has been settled, we might hope to see the formerly paid of depreciated rupees,

end of the dscussion in a few months. Bat we tremble to think what would be the state of mind of our readers in the meantime.

ENGLAND V. GERMANY IN CHINA.

Several of the Japanese girls who live in the hotte wore examined and told in effect how they wor attracted by a noise from ons of the cubicles and on going there found the prisoner jumping and striking the deceased who was lying on the floor. When they appear- el be desisted and went away. They attempted he said she was dead. One of the witnesses stat d that when they all went into the room and told the prisquer to stop assaulting her, the the woman said, "Leave him alone; don't mind

In oross-examination by Mr. Ferrers, the and staff of the Company, the shares of which Campagna to trace the connection between which he started to the widest generalisations'; 000 is bound to pause at almost every step and

lo ravive the woman but when the doctor arrived

me,

foot was elicited that the deceased woman was not liked by the other inmates of the house

whisky into the house.

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Fatherland tries to pose not only as guide, last Saturday I was surprised to learn how the philosopher, and friend, but indeed as the senior partner in this strange dusi aliance, I will give the German military instructors in this viceroyalty fail marks for the mansor in which they have drilled and made soldiers of the rough material, albeit 1 bave always maintained that there is the material for one of the floest ermies in the world in China. The Viceroy Chang

At Wachang thers are at present 13,000 Chih-tang has e rtainly spared no money in carrying out the wishes of his foreign staff. trained troops, almost wholly infantry and pioneers. On Sunday last 6,000 of these troops were paraded for my boneft, and I was greatly astonished at the excellent manner in which they drilled under their own officers, and none In the evening we had the lass so at the cleanliness and neatness of their barrek zeems. meu in the gymnasium, and they proved themselves to be far and away superior to the average foreign soldier. I am speaking now as a military men of some experience. If then u for foreigners can turn out sneh troops as these and our Weihaiwei Regiment, what would be the result if each province started raising troops on these lines? Perhaps I had botter say what will happen when China bas her army organised on foreign math s. for it wilt

absence of the chairman of the late company, by the Royal Society. Dr. Low, a relation of i ohorns, bat least his position would have been Harkow, under date October 24. As bis lettur certainly come to this. The drills at pres ut

from

drilled Chinese, and ere jong a very larga re being carried out exclusively by foreign-

river will be capable of instructing the raw percentage of the 13,00 troops across the material,

The Britisher who knows the China porte and visits Hankow is at enes struck aghist at

the absense of the British merchent. With the exception of the shipping agencies all the trade

Dr. Hunter deposed that he made a post the proposition of the Chairman, seconded by Hundreds of cases were seen in Kavironda, but value of the rapes in relation to gold has been course and ground to the rear is studded the foreign market, and as a consequence one

merton examination of the body of the docensed woman. The enuse of death was intracerebral hemorrhage, dus to vary a wore injuries to the head froma blow or blows; there was considerable

lambar region.

wards called.

braising on the head and a large braise over the

The apparent failure of the commission sont ta Uganda to investigate the strange disease known as sleeping sickness cannot be the leet word on a subject of such vital importance to vast tracts of British territory in Africa. Medical science will never thus early admit defeat, and in the light of the volume of information Dr. Castellani, Dr. Dow and Dr. Christy must have collected, further studies may solve the mystery. Of the ravages of Complainant while looking over the boats in negro-lethargy there can be no question. the Harbour opposite Bowrington Conal saw blany years ago missionaries on the Congo the boatman throw three baskets of staff over-reported that whole villages and districts were board, being apparently afraid et further in decimated by an epidemic, the principal fasture spection being made. Hesearched the boat and of which was that the sufferers sank into su found some coal on the deck, also even apathetic and trance-like state, which prevented them from waking the slightest effort and baskets with cool sticking in the interstices.

$15, or one month.

BOON onded in death. Dr. Christy met with costs on the Upper Niger whilst with Colonel Lugard's West African Frontier Force, and recently the disenae was found in Senegambia un the hinterland of Sierra Leone. Its

Mr. Elliot staris from the Government appearance in Uganda was first reported by Dr. Cook, a medical missionary, last year, and the Revenue and hes he appears to us to have alarming growth of the epidemic resulted in the allowed his argument to fall to pieces and to have hogged himself in a non-sequitur. If he formation of the Commission whose report seems to have been made pablie. Dr. Castellani, an had said, "the portion of the community which loses in that which continued to give, for the Italian well known in the scientific world, aud recently assistant to Professor MacFadyen' at same rights, services or supplies as formerly,

A correspondent, whose identity may possibly A special meeting of the China Mutual Steam the Jenuer Instituto, London, undertook the the same dumber of appreciated rupees as they have been incompreheus ble to many of his Navigation Company was hold on the 13th ult. bacteriological part of the work and was in formerly paid of depreciated rupes," he might be guessed, writes is the London Outlook from in Londos, Mr. J. A. Maitland presiding in the charge of s mest complete laboratory sent out Mr. Gen. B. Dodwell, with the object of passing Dr. Manson, the Medical Advisor to the Colonial anageailable. Through this one slip in his is of considerable interest we reproduce the

chain of argument Mr. Elliot quickly finds his bulk of it below:-

Back in China after three years' absence, resolations regarding the disposal of £25,000 Office, who will be remembered as being asso- Riven by Mr. Holt as a solatium to ike directors ciated with the experimente in the Italian way from the Government events Mr. Holt, had purchased. The Chairman moved mosquitoes and uslaris, had charge of the and his 6fth and sixth "points" appear to as ask, "Is this a dream" My intention when a resolution that £11,280 should be divided clinical part of the investigation. The epide to be pare assumption. They, at all events, at Shanghai was to make a direct line for the

of the port is in foreign hands. In ont conces because she had a bad tempor nu sometimes among the staff other than the directors, and. iological and parasitological work was placed embody assertions which the press reports of Manchurian frontier (Russia permitting), but got drank: she frequently brought bottles of in doing so, laid stress on the fact that the in the hands of De. Christy who is an authority is address do not show him to have substan- events of importance necessitated my turning

eioa the Russian ten-merchants have their tiated, and which, we confess, we have not yet my stops up the Yangtze Vailey, and diresters had done extraordinarily good work on malaria and is well known in India. A Japanese girl who came from Formosa to

for the Company, doubling its capital whilst the The infos e uron extended along the shore seen made good in any of the controversy that hero 1 am at the capital of Central China... consisted of the

to Eastern Russia and Biboria as well as for Hougkong with the deceased woman stated shareholders had received 100 per cent, in of the Victoria Vysaze, and its dande, from bas arises. Sir Edward Sassoon, in the House I last passed through this place on March hongs and factories, and the latter work day Year by your that she had

the European Russian ports. seen the deceased along dividends. The Chairman refers to the Kampala through Usoga and Kavicondo to of Commons, traversed much the same ground 14, 1898, on my return from Hups, and and night masafustoring brick tes for export

British concession and band, the latter cover. with the primer in Ship Street abont a opposition of Mr. H. H. Nelson, who had issued Kiant, the lake terminus of the Uganda as Mr. Elliot seems to have covered. Many of at that time Hankow

ing perbapk 700 yards of river frontage the Chinese here are manufacturing less lea for Hung Cha literally rad toa), or your ago, on which occasion he gave her S50 circulars to the shareholders, us "a miserable Railway, and then down the eastern shore of his remarks, as was natural, hud special re- and told her to pay certain debts. Deceased little faction," which brought forth a protest the lake to the German boundary. According forence to the mill industry in Boulmy.

he asserts that The curious To-day a noble river frontage extends for at seen, that while the least two and a half miles, while the old race. hud told wilnes that she had run away from from Mr. Nelson, and after some interchange to recent advices from Uganda, evidence of the But when

of the largest Russian houses in China has her husband and would not return to him, of personalities, the resolution was ourried on severity of the epidemic was met on all sides. phonmenon is now

the massive hong established an agency at Colombo, The Chinese

A new Mr. Strachan. The proposal to devote the the rurages of the disease were most noticeable artificially increased, its purchasing power had with buildings, from

out to them some years since the advantage of balace of the money to meeting contingencies in Usoga. Here the bansuns were ripe and not increased," he appears to us to assert a to the desirable villa residence." and expenses and to divide any surplus song rotting on the trees, this plantat, ripe and patados. The high isrol of the prints of arms racecourse and club house bare bocu established are not inclined to go in for the manufacture of and other produce in Indis in recent years well out in the country, and the shrill whistle forelgu tes with foreign machinery. I pointed the directors was very strongly opposed by Mr.ohcked with weeds, the pathways overgrown,

These conditions are way line to Faking convinces the perhaps that the area cultivated by a large estate owner Nelson, who said that directors ought to have and the villages empty. On several ocquions is notoriously due to climatic conditions and of this locomotives of the Franco-Belgian Failsweing foreign machinery, bat when I'discovered idoss beyond looking after what they deemed corpses were found on the mad in attitudes of shortage of supply. their own interests. Be did not object to the prefeand slamber, and frequently a few feat entirely abnormal, and to argue from their re- doubting traveller of the fact that things are payment of the staff. If the resolution in away in the jungle were the remains of bodies snits ja mere waste of time. It is very certain really going ahead in China. Friends from the covered not more than fire to saven acres, and For the defence it was aled that the favour of the remuneration to the directors was dragged there by hyenas. The population that if the purchasing power of the rupee had North tell me that my astonishment will be none deceased woman was the wife of the prisoner. carried the matter would be taken to a poll, and became terror-stricken at the mysterious death not been increased, prices of produce in India the less when I revisit my old haunts in that foreign method. Besides this, good native tea

would bave risen enormously. Moreover, if region

My trip up the river, though a pleasant one, realises very large prices. I have, for instance, She ran away from him in Formosa and came the judge would be fully informed of the result. which passed or r the land. Infected persons Sir Edward Sassoon and the other critics of the

was not worthy of any special mention, all the been given tes that cost the equivalent of £3

per catty (13 lb. avoirdupois), to Hongkong. He throw up his employment The property had, he asserted, been sold againet were often turned ont of the huts, and some-

The skin trade is almost wholly in the Lands and shipped here after her as carpenter on a the advice of the chairman and managing times a whole village fled, leaving the stricken Government policy would reflect for a moment. steamer. When he found her in this brothel director, and sold, moreover, for £100,000 less

ones behind to die. Some of the beautiful they would see that, since tho, value of a gold ports en route boing very much as when I enw in Bhip Street he gave her $50 to pay ber lebts than he had been told it would have fetched lands of the Victoris. Jaza bate lost two currency, like that of a silver currency, cousists them last; but it was reversed for Hankow to solely and absolutely in its power to purobine flabbergast" me. The new concessions bere with him. Then he had to go away with his with the staff, but they wanted to deal much of cultivation, and it is feared that famine ship. On his retura he went to get her out of

more liberally with themselves. The result was will soon sweep away the survivors, If the rupee in relation to gold is a definite and con- France and Great Britain have very much the brothel but found that she had spout the said to be equel to five years' parcbase for the Commissioners have been unable to find the clusive proof that the purchasing power of the extended the ures of their properties. It is it mney which he had given to her to pay ber directors. He asserted that the Board had not

cause or remedy for this disease, it is believed rupee has relatively increased. It is perfectly the French oncession that the greatest activity debts. She refused to go with him, ond in the done its best for the Company. He wished to they will be able to make a reassuring state. I evident that the foreign country that buys pro-prevails, and all the hotels are there situated. remark applies to the Russian concession here; resnit the useault was committed.

sarp sn amoniment against the proposal, of ment with reference to the report that plague duce from India would not continue to pay a Wa never had, with one small exception, hotels which he had given notice in bis circular,

had broken out in British East and Central sovereign for a diminished number of rupees, it in our concession, as in the old days one always presence of the gentleman with yellow foongs The Chairman ruled euch an amendment eat Africa. A number of cases of sickness resem. ¡ it did not know from experience that each of put up with friends at one of the kongs, badke, there is nothing to distinguish this concession of order. Mr. Nelson said that if he liked he could bling plague occurred at Nairobi, and there the rupe a so obtained had a greater purchasing or consultes. Those good old days in China to Cantou. Now, however, since the war in move und get secondet that £2,000 be put down were nearly a score of deaths, but though the power than would be the case if the mists wore have, alas! gone, never to return. In former adraic, and the chairman was bound to pat his disease was not unlike plague in some features, open and exchange at sach a level as we fear to days we all knew each other from Newchwang motion. The solleitor to the Company said a

It is this fallure of the crilics to go to the bat. the North an intion of a very question- from true bubonic plague.

tom of their own arguments which, on the one able class of foreigners has taken place, note would be made of the fact that Mr. Nelson there is reason to believe the area is quite free thinks of wished to move his amendment, and that they

hand, vitiates those arguments, and, on the other and the ence virtuous Treaty ports are refused to accept it; as they did also the further amendment of which notice had been given, THE CATASTROPHE AT NANKING. hand, deters persons of a more exact habit of quickly becoming contaminated, highway and wind from controverting them. If the sciences other robberies being of common occurrence, The Board, the Chairman went on to state, tried

The N.-C. Daily News of the 14th inst, gives called "dismal," no satisfactory discussion is A Russian officer told me that in Port Arthur possible until both sides have agreed as to the slope there are at least five hundred ladies and His Lordship, intervening, reminded the Sir Alfred Jon's, Mr. Ellerman, and Pauwure the following nocount of the above disaster:

At a quarter past six on Monday morning, exact meanings of the ternis 10 be used. Now, gentlemen of the Fort Said-Alexandria type; STILL LEADING learned counsel that while in some Eastern Gordon, Hill and Co. who were asked to bring nations the husband did exercise a great the matter before Mr. Morgan; and it was while the C. N. s.e. Poyang was alongside the the meanings of all the terms in economic while in Shanghai I noticed that at the Houg authority, this case must be judged accord-

absurd to say what Mr. Nelson did in regard to hulit belonging to Messrs, Batterfield and Swire science have been doined a hundred times. ker side a regular aattioment of these odious ing to English law which laid-it-down this matter. After further wrangling between at Hsiakaan, the port of Nanking, a terrible There are many factors of diverse importance; people has arisen, and they are starting ram that although a wife might provoke her

the Board and Mr. Nelson, the Chairman, in catastrophe occurred. The premises in question bat the greatest of them is value. It may mills" for the sale of poisonous liquor, into husband he must not strike her. It was quite reply to a query as to those who had not acoupl. had a length of 280 feet, and the land was well almost he said that only when a definition of which the happy-go-lucky Jack Tar is enticed, true that under the English law it had at one of the offer to sell their shinres, said that banded, with a large godown on it. Suddenly, value has been agreed upon between parties does and wherein he ultimately leaves his hard à SCOTCH WHISKY OF EXCELLENT time been permitted a husband to beat his wife eleven-twelfthe had accepted, and the position and without any warning, the whole frontage, intelligent discussion of any economic question earned dollars. It is a pity, hat still it was with a stick of a certain thickness-no thicker of the remaining one-twelfth was unaltered, with the godown on it, seem to give a shake, bogiu to be possible. Without a comprehension inevitable. The spoiation of Chiun by the I pointed out some years since that notwith. than his thumb-but that was in semi-barbarous They were still shareholders of the Company, and then slipped bodily into the Yangtze, carry of the nature of ralne economic disputation can blackguard foreign element has begun.

Mr. W. E. E. Galland, late managing director, ing with it the jetty and bridges connecting really be settled only with a bludgeon or a Mr. Forrere went on toargus that at any rate said he was anxions that the whole case from with the hulk. The frontage wes crowded at blunderbuss. No man accustomed to the sys-standing the freely-vanated British sphere of cortain amount of allowance had to be made for the the start should go before the judge. (Hear, the time with cooliea and hotel rauaers and tematic sul correst use of terms can-unless ho infinense in the Yangtze Valley, we actually excitability of the Oriental temperament, which hear.) The Chairman replied that it would all there, the Poyang having hrought a large be a monomaniae on the subject and an idle one bad ne sphere in the sense that various foreign was especially likely to be brought into play in go before the judge. The original motion was oorgo and many passengers, and the loss of life to boot-be expected to plunge into the night Powers lay claim to in other parts of China, and case of the kind where u wife had deserted her then put and lost on a show of hands. A polí must have been very large; how extensive will mare of a discussion with persons to whom illustrations verifying the truth of this are in! IF YOU REQUIRE A PERFECT hasband to go and live in a brothel and had

was demanded and proceeded with, a shareholder probably never be known, but twenty-two de sitions and terms are merely things to aban ance. It will be remembered that with squandered the money he gave her to buy exclaiming that the directors had voted for the corpses were conated floating about the cbains jugle with. It is like fighting with shades; herself out,

proposal sad the shareholders against. In the shortly afterwards. The lasdslip, for such it and the contest can never be conclusive, for the The Attorney-General in his address argued end the Chairman said that the Board had 60 was, the river having evidently undermined the combulant ignorant of definitions is quite un that the charge as made had been proved and proxies, and it was through them that the whole piece of ground, was followed by a huge conscious of any absurdity in disputing axioms wave, swaraping everything in the vicinity, and that have been the . B. C. of the science since aalsed for a verdict accordingly.

the river was full of overturned sampaus. The the days of Adam Smith. So the combat, under godown was full of valuable cargo, and there these conditions, llits inconclusive from one and was practically no salvage; there is now a bay to the other of the vast and well-trodden arena where the band was, with fifteen to fifty feet of of economics; and when the systematic thinker water in it. Other bundlings and houses in the has panned his adversary against the zentral with astonishment his legitimate captive ignore vicinity seem not unlikely to follow Mears. frontier of arion or eternal principle, he sees Batterfield and Swire's property.

Kvidence of a formal character was after

that combination amongst them was impossible.

it was evident that it was neeleas to urge the

of German firms, and the Japanese bare a large

and get her ont of the place to go back and live | (Laughter.) The Board had dealt liberafy thirds of their population and are entirely outmmodities, so an increase in the value of the are owned by Russia; Japan, and Germany, while say in the "muck and truck" business, as well

Mr. Ferrers in od Iressing the jury on behalf of the prisoner said that the latter had admitted all atonic that he caused the injuring which caused the woman's death, but contended that he did not go to the brothel with any intention of killing this woman, who was his wife; but, that he was angered at the time by the refusal of his wife to leave the brothel. The jury bad to take into consideration the question of provocation, especially in view of the certain amount of anthority that was allowed the hus. band among Eastern p oples.

time.

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to get a hatter price for the Company, and saw

motion was oortivd,

In the course of his remarke Mr. H. H. Nel son referred to the question of the commission on the purchase paid to Mr. Stewart by Mr. Holt, the purchaser, but was prevented from bringing forward the subject owing to the solicitor to the Company raling that the question 2674--8 was not in order.

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