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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 14TH, 1904.

to ship released convicts and other deportees of United States nationality direct to the States, instead of, as formerly, letting them

4. S. WATSON & CO., proceed to Hongkong. But the Philippines, of course, are troubled with bad or suspi- cious characters of other nationalities, and

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ceeded to coal ship.

Mr. Fisher, U.S. Vice-Consul at Nagasaki, has

ben promoted to ho, Consul at Tamsui, For- mosa, and will leave shortly to take up is now appointment.

of these we certainly get our share when Immediate affact has bean given to the the Philippines got too hot for them. I recentlyconcluded Franco-Siamese treaty by the Shanghai's offence against us, however, is appointment of MM. Strembler, Lambert, worse, and the ating of it all is that British Foncufer, and Debasse to a minions Siam to undesirables are legally sout here in a promote reuch influence in that country. The Governor-General of French Indo-China has number of casos, to prey ou the community. further commissioned the à four gentlemen to The Onler in Council for the Government form a bureau on their return to deal with all of H.B.M.'s subjects in China (und Japan, questions tending to promote French interests

in Siam.

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Dr. Shiga. the distinguished Japanese icteriologist, who discovered the bacillus of dysentery a your or two ago, has succeeded in daining for his Government an anti-toxic sorum, which will probably be put to the best in the present compaign. It is the aim of overy. one who discovers a bacillus to crown his work

has not yet, after more than twenty yours. seceeded in robbing the tubendo lacillus of íis powers.

clause that, "where an order of deportation is mada, the Court shall rot, without the con- sent of the person to be deported, driet the deportation of any person to any place other than Hongkong or England." The 112th clause gees ou to sy that," when any person is deportal to Hongkong, he shall o his | arrival there be delivered, with the warranty producing from it a serum which may rob it under which he is deported, into the custody of its powers, ari bettor fortane appears to have attended Dr. Shiga than Professor Koch, who the Chief Magistrate of Police of Hong- koug... who, ou receipt of the person deported, with the warrant, shall detain IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. him and shall forthwith report the case to who shall either by warrant (if the circumstances of the cass appear to him to make it expedient) cause the person so deported to be taken to England

or else shall discharge

sanction in case of deportees. But there Krouls, British subjects who get into trouble in Shanghai, who are not definitely deported, but, as it ware, let off with a caution if they undertake to go to Hongkong. Now with 26.00 regard to the Order in Council, this was wade in 1865, when circumstances were of

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the Governor,

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The Governorship of British North Borneo worth $15,000 a year-still remains vacant, but the duties of the office are being carried out in the

mantin by Mr. E. Peregrine Gueritz, who has boon a judge there for the last ten years, and was some time ago appointed "one of the com.

REUTER'S SERVICE.

CHINA'S NEUTRALITY.

LONDON, 11th April. The Morning. Paste Chofon correspondent wires that an increase of anti-foreign polior is permeating to Peking, and that there is a grave possibility of China's neutrality being abroken soon, in spite of official assurances to the contrary, by a general, upheaval of the people.

AUSTRIA AND ITALY.

LONDON, 11th April.

The Standard's correspondent at Vionna ays that it is anticipated the result of this most- ing between the Austrian and Italian Foreign Ministers at Abazzia will be that the agreement between the two countries relating to Albania will be extended to the whole of the Balkans

LEAVITTS TROUBADOURS.

Last evening this Company performed in the Theatre Royal baforen fair house. There was a change of programme and some novol turns were put on.

To-morrow night Professor Zancig will put a hypnotised person, to be selected from the audience, into a sleep, and the subject will be placed on exhibition in the window of Messrs. Ullmann & Co., Queen', Read, opposite the Post Office, until Saturday night, when the Professor will awake him from As Professor Zenci has fully established his title to be in the front rank of

his trance.

WAR NOTES,

NEWS FROM SHANGHAI,“ The Shanghai Bercury of the 8th inst. says:"A telegram has been recaived from Nowobwang stating all is quist there. Steamers are leaving there for Shanghai to-day and to- morrow, and steamer companies are asked to send more steamers. By this we conclude that our correspondant at Chefoo has been mis. informed regarding Nowokwang." The Clefoo telegram referred to says:-There are still tea steamers at Nowelwang loading bean-cake. It is reported that no moro steamers are calling at Nowchwang as the Russians aro mining the entrance of the river."

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CORRESPONDENCE.

SHORTHAND.

TO TUU EDITOL OF TRE “DAILY PRESS,"

Hongkong, 13th April. Six-Will yon ba-so good ny to allow me to eater into the area of this controv “sy amir. as I wish to reiterate that to learn shorthanek

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it is very difficult? It is plausible, but not possible, for a porton to become a full blown stenographer after a couple of months study. The steret of quick, writing, is, much practics. As the runjority of public speakers or business mon articulate from two to three words erary second, it will be evident that the hand must be well trained and the mind well tutored before. the pen can keep pace with the tongue, and this can only be accomplished by dint of long and continued practice. When your correspondent, in casting aspersions Pitman's system, received his desserts. I was surprised that he should act the indignant innocent "by asking "Why are Pitmanites so jealous of this shorthand, and why do they uttack all new systems" when he was the first to open the ball." Advertisement is the life of The Sinivenpao also states that a bridge trade, and to praise a system in which you are across the Yao Yang river situated at a point interested is highly commendable and business- between Heinminfa and the vicinity of Koulike but to make comparison with contempt of pangtze, which was Bloedod, has heart damag a rival aystem and call it "obsoleto" dunnot ed, for which reason the trains bare beon intor

be considered fair criticism In stating that rupted. For the sake of conveniones pedos trianɛ are going by the Yankow railway,

The Siuvenpon says that aceonling to a lettor from Fongtier, the Russian troops des- patobed to inspect the city of Fonglion hardly exceeded 3,000, but the Russian authorities 64ggerated the number to uphold their orders among the Chinese. The troops were ordered, to mureli in and out of the city with such move ments es deemed fit to deceive the Chinese, who, however, are not all fools; they saw through their stratagem long ago. On the south of the Liaoho there are ubout 20,000 Russian troops.

MISCELLANEOGS.

Pitman's system is out of date, your correspon- dent has indirectly injured the business of local booksellers, both foreign and Chinese, who carry large stocks of Pitman's shorthand publications, and in justice to these honest tradesmen who imported the books at considerable coat, you should give publicity to this letter. I may

him from custody." This is the legal missioners to assist in administering the Ga thought-readers, it will be still woe in teresting Russian wrostatie pack in Manchuria, catting farther state that Pitman's shorthand is still

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course totally different from what they are now. The continuance of the practice dumping" in Hongkong at the present date is iniquitous. As for the cautioned persons, who are sent on Hongkong to try to amend their ways, the British authorities at Shanghai

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vernment. Mr. Gueritz first went to Sarawak as a cadet in the Rajah's service thirty years go, and gradually worked his way round to Sandakan. He has proved himself at all times an alert and fretful official, and has a complete and accurate grasp of North Borneo and its people and affairs.

One importual Australian town. Fulmerston,

to ace how he exhibits his hypnotic powers, which are said to be of quite a different class from anything of the kind yet seen in Hong- kong.

STREET-COOLIE HIRE.

In response to a correspondent who asks whether 33 cents a day for the hire of street. coolies is, as stated in the Chronicle and the capital of the Northern Territory of South Directory, the correct fee, and, if so, by whom it Australia, is practically in the hands of the was fixed, we may state that the scale is official. Chinese, who form the majority of the popula-Having enquired into the matter, we refer our On all the lead. correspondant to Ordinance 8 of 58, -section tion, and employ white men. ing Australian goldfields there are Chinese XVII, and to the Government Gazette for 1871 "camps." Int there the Chinese digger is as when on p. 337 a notification by the Colonial free BH the European.

In Melbourne and Secretary may be found, giving the revised Sydney there are extensive Chinese "quarters." scale of hire for street-coolies.

A. S. WATSON & CO. responsible for ao sending them are certainly There the Mongolians are ten-merchants,

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treating Hongkong in an unjustifiable man- nar in order to lighten their own laboura. It is high time that a vigorous protest is made, and that the local Government of the Colony takes steps in the mutter. Public (31 coraplaints, however true, cannot alone do much against a long-established tradition; and the matter is, moreover, one which

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market gardeners, furniture manufacturers, and owners of numerous laundries. They have almost allowed the Europeans out of these two latter trades.

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writes to the Singapore Free

Prese a letter in which he holds that the Euro poan element there is being swamped by the Asiatics, that this trade of the Colour is in a

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DEPARTURES FROM HONGKONG,

Between ten and eleven o'clock yesterday morning a long string of Chinese crackors suspended from the verandah of the East Asiatic Trading Co.'s premises. in Des Voeux Road. was fired off, making much noise and emitting

According to a Straits Times telegram dated London, 31st Marob, it is reported in S. Pe. tersburg that the Japanese have destroyed the

the balloon connectionn.

Sixty million compressed tablets of dried milk taught in all the loading collegas and schools in have been ordered by one of the belligerent the Colony, and it is a silent testimony that the With regard to Russia, we prosume. These tablets, it is said system is not yet "obsolete."

hisstatement in your paper this morning, I shall form a perfect ration for the soldier who can

carry provis ons for a fortnight in a roooptacle the size of a cigar-box.

The Echo de Paris published last month an account of what purports to be an interview with Mms. Stark, wife of the Admiral who was commanding the Russing foot at Port Arthur at the time of the first attack by the Japanoso fleet. "We were expecting hostilitice," Mms. Stark is reported to have declared, "and everything led us to believe that they were close at hand We had been living for a long time in unser tainty, and, although we did not think that the attack could scour that night, the squadron was nevertheless on ite guard. On February 9 Admira) Stark ordered his officers to bo on board again by five p.m., though, as a rale, the officers were free until sight. Since May, 1903, when he came to Fort Arthur, my husband never spent a night on shore. According to certain statements. I had given a ball on that night, but as a matter of fact there had been Council of War on board the fingahip. When the Japano o attack was wonde half the squadron London Daily Chronicle, Mr. Fred T. Jane says Mme, Stark's statement that the story of the Russian officers boing at a ball on the night of the 8th-9th February is a fabrication was hardly needed. It reads in parts, by the way, more like an official statement than ■ lady's disclaimer. It reveals one hithertonsknown fact, that only balf the Russian ships bad steam up. This makes the case frather black against her husband or Admiral Alexeeff; for ships to lie in the open roadstead without moans of locoma- tion with war imminent was a very peculiar state of affairs indeed. It is little wonder that Admiral Stark has been recalled."

say that "betting is nothing more than fool's argument." I am afraid that by treading on the adder, he has kicked against the pricks this time.Yours, etc.

M. FERNANDEZ

c/o Messrs Kolly & Walsh, Ld.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESS,” Sin, I have no desire to infringe on Mr. Warwick Feele's monopoly of bluster and abuse in this discussion; he is welcome to all the good his public display of temper may be calculated to do him

So far as I am aware no claims whatever have beon put forth by lady students of the "Up-to-

who are able to do what Mr. Peele elaine I date" system of shorthand. If there are any

would gladly apologise for any injusties my letters may have done them, and would congratulate them most sincerely upon a Business Training College, I imagine, would romarkable achievement. The Principal of this

have no felty in getting a small committee

test would suffice, students being required after an interval to read what they have written.

intimately concerns the policing of this wretchedly hopeless state, that the Government left for Europe yesterday, accompanied by his had steam up." Commenting on this in the to test these anime. A ten-minutes shorthand

Colony.

Work is going forward on the new Post Offica site on the Praya, and two huge pile-drivers are already in position.

Au office boy in the Chartered Bank at Bangkok has been arrested on a charge of being implicated in the forgery of a cheque for 12,000 ticale.

Members of the King Edward VII. Lodge No. 10 RAO.B. are reminded of the con-

cluding ball of the season which is to be given te-night in the City Hall. Dancing will

commence at 9 o'clock.

Mr. G. W. Clark, photographer, Ice House Road, sends us a series of photographs he secured during the recent fire at the Kowloon godowns, They are capital pictures, showing the tire as it appeated at different stages. To those who witnessed the fire, in particular, they will be in- teresting memorials.

is apathetic, that the unofficials are pooh-pooked, sad that the time has come for the spirit of Mr.

Chamberlain's methods to be infused into Colonial affaira, Government to be reconstructed ?” he asks, The Press remarks that any "reconstruction." only obtainable by revoking the Orders in Council on which the Colony standa, would sal in an ultimate izcrease of the disabilities of the European element.

Is it not time for the

The saving in distance between Liverpool and Yokohama via Halifax, Vancouver, New York, and San Francisco is 1,515 miles in favour of the Canadian route. This advantago will be greatly increased when the new Grand Trunk Pacific line to Port Simpson is completed. The Empress of Japan has made a record trip of tan days, ten hours from Vancouver to Yokohama, the distance. being 4,283 miles. With a fast line of steamers between England and Halifax, Capaita, British mails could be delivered in China and Jopen in a little over three weeks with satisfactory regularity. This would be a better result than is likely to be accomplished by the Trans-Siberian railway for many years apart from all question of the war..

cloud of sulphurous smoke. This was a farewell to Mr. G. Herling. Manger of the East Asiatic Trading Co., and Vice-Consal for Sweden, who

wife. Mr. John Goosman, who has been over 31 years in the Colony, and than whom there is no more popular meraber of the German com- munity, also left by the Hamburg. His retire ment is much regretted.

DUMMY SHIPS: A WARNING.

Admiral E. R. Fremantle, as vice-chairman of the executive committee of the Navy League utters a timely warning as to the out-of-date character of any of our sloops and gunboats now in commission on foreign stations. The fastest of these vessels are of only 13 knots speed, and they are therefore useless as cruisers. It is suggested that in case of war arrange.

ments should be made to recall the vessels at

Reports from Russia give a very gloomy account of the position of sExirs there, writes a Vienna correspondent. The country, is in a state of dangerous political fermentation. Al

Foles, the Fins, and the Baltic Germany-are the non-Hassian nationalities in Russia-the exasperated against the arbitrary and on. nipotent Minister of the Interior, M. Plehre. The Armenians are doprived of their schools and ecclesiastic funds; the Little Russians are forbidden to print in their own language; the

As Mr. Peele has not quoted me fairly in his letter, I would like to call attention to his claims once more. They now appear in a stil more definite form in the advertisement:

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"At present his teachers have only been under * training for a fortnight, whilst six weeks alto- gether will be necessary. One, a lady, after daya study, accomplished 40 words a minute, "after 11 days, 60 words; after 21 days, 80 "words; and she is now in the 120 words a "minute speed lesson."

Let the reader carefully analyse this announce. ment, but pray, Mr. Editor, do not allow anyone olse to point out the inherent absurdity of it Warathim that Mr. Peele would Chustise suck a main severely."--Yours, &c, r

PHONOGRAPHER.

POLICE COURT.

Wednesday, 13th April,

BEFORE MR. J. H. KEMP (SECOND POLICE MAGISTRATE).

THE practice of deporting worthless of criminal persons from Shanghai to Hong- kong is one of which we have frequently complained in the past, but it continuce to flourish, and hardly a week appears to go by Yesterday forenoon the central part of the now in which a reader of court proceedings | city was crowded with German soldiers from in our northern neighbour's Press cannot the transport that is presently in the harbour, find some mention of an indesirable char- Most of them made their way to the market acter who, with or without preliminary for the purchase of fruit, and the pavement imprisonment, is to be removed from posite the Post Office was in rather a dan

gerons state for some time, covered as it was Shanghai and gives a fresh chance in life

with banana-skins and orange-peel. in Hongkong. Matters have come to such a pass that the most recent Shanghai joke (which we quoted in yesterday's issue) is the child's answer to the teacher's question exports show a considerable decrease in dollar necessarily was submitted to many changes of at any rate many Chinamen preferred to leave Boymour Road (adjoining Mr. Ho Tung's Worship satisfied that the prisoner was a British

The trade returns of the Straits Settlement for the quarter ended on the 31st December inst have now been issued. Both imports and

values amounting in all to nearly 16 million dollars-say 7 per cent. The decrease is in part dus to the higher exchange rate of the dollar. Exports show a decrease also in sterling, but imports an increase to more than counterinlauco The total trade expressed in storing shows a very slight increase.

once to the headquarters of each station, and that the crews, some 3,000 in number, be old vessels of low speed-which, by the way, utilised in another way. A summary of these cost about a million and a half of money-shows that they number twenty-four in all, and are scattered all over the world. They include fourteen sloops (five on the China Station) and

river gunboats are not reckoned, 28 their eight gunboats two in China), but light-draft retention can be defended. The conclusion is that the Admiralty should build more fast The Lancet wrote last month His Majestyseonts to take the place of those masted polics the King has now recovered from a sharp ships, catarrhal attack. The cold, commencing as is usual in these insidious cases with irritation in the throat and month was aggravated by the exertion of his visit to Cambridge, where he

temperature in his conscientious inspection of the now buildings of the University. As a result, on his return from Cambridge, there

were some fever and bronchist irritation. His

Majesty was kept in rooms of an uniform tem- perature, and the slight pulmonary symptoms soon subsided. the patient answering quickly to remedies. His Majesty's public movements. have since shown that his restoration

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considered complete by Sir Francis Laking, who has been in attendance.

where bad people go to-"To Hongkong." Shanghai, in the popular phrase, is "rubbing it in" by thus laughing at us. But indeed it is no laughing matter. We are uct inhumane, and we think it is very right that minor offenders should be given the chance to make a fresh start. But why in Hongkong, when Hongkong is not in any The symbol of the two-headed eagle, the way responsible for their offending? We emblem of Russia, is considered by some heralds to be merely the rwult of the heraldío practics are not in a position to be a reformatory or paoral sanitorium for other ports in the Far of "dimidiation," which crept into English

| heraldry during the reign of Edward I. The literature of Japan has excited some jea- East. We are not over, but under-policed, Dimidation was simply a child's way of impal- lousy in Paris, writes a lione contemporary. No. and having so much work to do in looking ing two coats of arms on the same shield by the where, says a sprightly critic, is fiction so much. after the hordes of low-grade and at least primitive method of cutting each in half, and written and read as in the land of the Milado. suspicious Chinese whom our labour-market taking the dexter half of one and the sinister Japanese romances are enormously long and attracts, we cannot with justice be called half of the other, and placing them back to dull. One of them, entitled The Story of Eight back, as it were. Strange two-headed beasts Dogs, runs to 136 volumes, and at the end all upon to undertake the supervision of non-naturally resulted; as, for instance, when a lion the characters, numbering fifty, without count Chinese rogues and vagabonds from other and an eagle were halved and joined together; ing the Dogs, ure dead, and the reader's condi- places. It is impossible to say definitely and the griffin is supposed to have been evolved tion is not much better. Happily, adda the that any than British subjects are openly from two liene rumpant by dimidiation. The critic, this tale has not yet been translated into passed on to Hongkong, though it is certain two-baded eagle of Russia was first assumed Russian, Evidently hs is a feuilletonist, whe that the "beachcombers" with whom we by Ivan Basilovits when in 1472 he married wishes he could keep a story going as long, and Sophia, daughter of Thomas Palaestogas, and chop up as many corpses. But in justice to are favoured are not all British. The

niece of Constantine XIV., the last Emperor Japan it should be said that the romance in Insular Government of the Philippines of Byzantium. The two hende symbolise the question is in 100 volumes only, and that the recognised the equity of Hongkong's com- Eastern or Byzantine empire of the Western Dogs are Japanese gentlemen, whose carine plaints not long ago, when it was decided or Roman Empire.

character is allegorical.

TE CHINAMAN'S FAKEWELL.

(The Duke of Marlborough stated the other day that he was credibly informed that at first their wives at home. (Laughter).]

The parting of our waye lies hore,

But, almond-eyed, forbear to weep; "Tie that, although I hold you dear, The world has found me cheap. No more our rats and rice we share

By native swamps of curi us smell; You're mine, for ever mine-but thore

Are other mines as well.

Called forth by fate's relentless voice, Driven by fate'e unsparing stick, The minor cannot, tako his choice-

Ho merely takes Lis pick. Here as a man I quit the scene-

Become a slave, a yellow dog,

An animated mad-machin Priced in a catalogue.

I place my neck beneath the heel,

"And meek and mute I play my part; Yet wait a turning of the wheel,

A zig-zag on the chart.

BAREY PAIN, in Daily Chronicle.

WEATHER REPORT.

the following repart

The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued On the 13th at 11.30 am. The barometer has fallen at all statious but more particularly in N. China.

The highest pressure is at present over Japan, and it is relatively low in the Philippines,

Gradients are very slight on the China Coast, and light E, winds will probably be met with in the Formosa Channel. They are moderate over the N. part of the China Ses, and moderato E. to BE. winds will prevail in this region. |_ Forncast:---Moderate E. winda; cloudy, £ne.

Jews are outlaws. Never before was there exhibited such an amount of racial hatred and antagonism in Russia as there is now under the despotic rule of M. Plehve.

BURGLARY IN SEYMOUR ROAD,

It was reported yesterday that on the previous night the house of Mr. Chau Tung Shang in

dwelling) had been broken into by burglars, who guined access by climbing up a storm water pipe and got clear away with some $1,000 worth of property.

SUPREME COURT.

Wednesday, 13th April

IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.

BEFORE HIS HONOUR SIE WILLIAM M. GOODMAN (CHIEF JUSTICE).

CHEUNG, KAM TIN D. C, EWENS. The hearing was continuod in the cross-setion by Cheung Kam Tin against C. Ewens, solicitor for $94,382.04, being the difference between the value of 1,800,000 square feet of land and 100,472 square feet of land at 5 cents per square foot with costs of $908 paid to the defendant as plaintiff's solicitor.

Hon. H. E. Pollock, K.C. (instructed by Mr G. K. Hall Bratton, solicitor), appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. B. H. Sharp, K.C. (instructed by Mr. R. Harding, of Mestra Ewens and Harston, salicitors, neting under power of attorney from Mr. J. Scott Harston), represon: ted the defendant.

EXTRADITION.

The case of Abdul Kalik again samo on before Mr. Kemp, Mr. H. W. Looker, of Mosers. Looker Mr. and Denoon, appearing for the defence, Looker said he understood that the murder

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with which the defendant was charged, took Place at Sninam. near Canton.

subject ?

Mr. Kemp read over previous evidenso showing that the man wasn British subject from

British India.

Another question: Had the Comni at Canton jurisdiction to try an offence by British subjects committed in China?-Yes, the Shang- hai Court had jurisdiction to do so. Furt

Mr. Komp read over the depositione from Cantou From these it appears that the murder took place on the morning of the 24th ult, au Indian watchman of the Canton-Hankow Rail. way being shot with a revolver while asleep in bed. A Ruggian had been arrested and released and the defendant, alec, had been arrested and rebased.

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The depositions were interpreted to the defen- dant, who acting upon advice from Mr. Looker, did not make a statement.

Mr. Looker submitted that the defendant was entitled to know under what sub-motion of the

been made.

ordinance the application for extradition had Mr. Kemp did not know, but that was not necessary.

Mr. Locker applied for an adjournment, which was refused,

Mr. Feron ordered that the man be sunt to gaol to await warrant from the Governor for extradition. He would not be given up, however, for 15 days, during which he had a Mr. Ewens was exaoined at great length for right to apply, if he thought fit, for an overral- the defence, and the case was again adjourned.ing decision from the Supreme Court.