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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 28±1, 1904.

There have been fire fatal plague cases in tho last two days-

Sir John Anderson is engaged in making his first official tour throughout the Straits and. States.

A Japanes merchant has bought the wreck of the Koreels, the Russian gunboat blown up in Chomulpo harbour.

The German Mail of the 23rd Jung pas delivered in Loudon ou the 23rd inst.

American papers say that General Cronje, aged nearly seventy, has been married at St. Lanis.

to universal fraternity, and so, to many! practical minds, they seem as dreamors. In a hold paradox, it seems to us, is truth and hope to be looked for; and it is this-that the real federation of mankind is impossible

Some days ago wo mentioned international law as an evolu- tional product of the crude primal laws that must have antedated the Decalogue by millions of years, and it is obvious that it must have had such small beginuings. The original object of all legislation, whether a simple law upheld by a sheik, or a complica ted aystera maintained by a nation, was, it must not be forgotten, the attainment of the greatest good of the greatest number. Law has ever beon, sud is now, primarily the protector of the social aggregate. Pri marily, because it will at once occur to the reader that the modern law of civilization pays careful attention to The grand Panopticum in Des Voeur the rights of the individual, protecting the Road is not open in the mornings. The time weak against the strong, and, not infre. tu seo the exhibition is from six to eleven p.m. quently, the minority against the majority. The Japanese authorities have sanctioned Its vital principle, however, is the com.appeals to the public for contributions of tobacco munal well-being. It has been pointed out literature, &o.. for the Russian prisoners in by some philosophers as one of necessity's Japan.

inventions, and the idea has occurred în THE MACHINERY in uee embodies orory way winds, no doubt, that in the earliest communities to frame a code of conduct improvement up to date.

The most perfect scientific system of filtration

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By which means we have attained

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there must have been a sort of referendum, followed by the consent either of all or of a big majority. A relation of AsonEW LANG's has pictured for us the primal law as the arbitrary rulings of the fathers of the first families, stall nowad bands, in which the strongest male made himself “ a judge over Israel," and drove out of the circle the younger males who might show signs of disputing his authority. Whatever its eurfiest beginnings, we hare seen that law has gathered unto itself more than a mere {collection of "thou shalt nots." It has Attracted a curse of time the "thou OUR WATERS being acknowledged by tho | shalts," which muke of it an ethical system. leading English Manufacturers as equal to their Our concepts of right and wrong, the late Mr. HERASET SPENCER would have told us are also the fruits of evolution, acquired by generations of dwelling upon the couse A. S. WATSON & CO. quences of infringements of the law. The

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forces of heredity despened and confirmed

the idea that certain actions inimical to the social organism were wrong, with the corollary that their opposites were right, until pressully were men and women who did the right thing by instinct, or conscience,

The foreign passengers of the captured steamer //siping left Nagasaki for Shanghai on the 19th instant.

The output of coal at the Kyushu collieries for the first six months of the present year was 47,927,600 picule.

The City Hall Landing Library will be closed on Friday for repairs and remain closed for a week. No books can be taken out after 9p.m. to-morrow (Thursday),

The Japan Times reports that a Japanese teacher in Vladivostock, named Maida. has arrived in St. Petersburg and applied for Ho is the Nippon naturalisation

papora,

quivalent of a little Englander," and thinks his country has hoon led away by the ideal of territorial expansion."

THE WAR.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDERT]

ANOTHER SEIZURE.

IMPORTANT JUDGMENT RE

CHITS.

In the Civil Summary Court at Shanghai, ou läth July, Mr. J. C. E. Douglas, Acting Assistant Judge, in re Central Storea, Ld, W. M. Harvio, gave judgment as follows:→→

This is a summons taken out by the plaintiff LONDON, 27th July. company against the defendant claiming the sum of Mexican dollars ninety-four and cents The Volunteer cruiser Smolensk seventy, being an recount dus from the defen | dant to plaintiff for refreshments supplied to has seized the P. & O. steamer

the defendant at his request, At the hearing Formosa, eastward bound, and taken of this animons Mr. A. H. Campbell on behalf of the plaintiffs stated that he held chits in her to Suez. There is some dissen-support of this claim, and that s me of them were given for wines, cigurs, spirits, and aerated sion at St. Petersburg, and the waters; that as regards thean drinks they were Russian authorities are doing all they untral Hotel, two or three drinks at a time supplied to the defendant over the bar of the

He, moreover, stated that the defendunt was But staying in the hotel at the time when may part of this debt was contracted. The defen- daut mhnitted the whole claim, but the facts

can to evade a settlement of the questions raised by Great Britain.

(REUTER'S SEKTICE.]

THE DARDANELLES, 3-

Losnos, 25th July. Mr. Balfour in the House of Commons said that he did not wish to minimise the seriousness of the question arising out of the recent captures, which had raised a separate question, viz. that of the Dardanelles, and which was still giving the Government great anxiety; signs, however, portend a favourable issue, and it was inexpedient to say more. The Government consider that prizes should have the free use of the Canal like other ships, but do not consider that British merchantmon are required to submit to the removal of their cargo without the

The Great Northern Telegraph Company's Amor-Shanghai cable is interrupted for repairs,authority of a prize court. and some delay is to be expected therefore in the service of telegrams to and from Shanghai and the North. The whole of the traffic is being transmitted over the Eastern Extension Company's cable.

The Merchant Service Guild's tag was not condemned because of its likeness to the naval Jack." It appears that it has to be of certain dimensions-7 by 5 feet, diamond 6 by 4-anı that in the Singapore case these dimensions were. exceeded. The flag, with its "M.8.0." in diamond as before, is declared legal by the

Board of Trade.

LATER.

before as raised the question whether tho plain. tiffs were legally entitled tox O judgment against the defendant on the whole or any part of the claim having regard to the statutes in fores with regard to claims of this Lature.

By wetion 12 of the Statute 24, Geo. IL. o. 40, it is enacted as follows:---

"That from and after the said first day of July one thansand seven hundred and fifty-one. no person or persons whatsoever shall be intitled

| the facts. I nm only able, then, to consider. the question on the admissions of the plaintiffs and on the ekits which are before me. Tho plaintiffs, however, were desirous that. I should

on this ovidenco consider how much of tho

claim was legally enforceable. I have examined the chits and I sad that a good many of them were given for cigars and cigarettes, others, it appears probable, were given for tiffesor dinners, and the rest, with two exceptions, do not state. the nature of the refreshments supplied. The two exceptions mentioned,, being two chits for 80 cants each given for drinks concocted with brandy anal gin, are clearly within the statutes, but, as regards the rest of the claim, there is nothing before me on which I can decide that it is not enforceable by reason of the statutes,

for 893.10, and they will be allowed $3 for the On these facts there raust be judgment for the plaintiffs for 894.70 less $1.60, that is to say, costs of the summons.-N.-C. Herd,

THE WAY OUT.

write a chit,

A decision has been rendered on the way to

By a judge well steeped in wisdom quil the

lay,

And in brief his finding reads that if you leave

it blank you're It,"

When a summons is presented at the door. Contrary-wise, if you inscribe the nature

of the drinks

Upon the piece of paper's virgin free,

1

unto or maintain any canse, action or suit fox, You can one a thousand dollars (this is where or recover either in law or equity, any sum or sums of money, debt or demands whatsoever, for or on account of any spirituous liquors, unless such debt shall have really been and bona fids

and mentioned in such article or item, shall not

contracted at one time, to the amount of twenty shillings or upwards; nor shall any particular article or itens in any account or demand for distilled spirituous liquors be allowed or main- tained, where the liquora delivered at one time amount to the full value of twenty shillings at the least, and that without fraud or covîn; und where no part of the liquors an sold or delivered The Porte, in consequence of the British shall have been retursaal or agreed to lo return- protest, has informed Rusain, through hored directly or indirectly; and in case any retailer Amissador,

that

of spirituous liquors, with or without a licence, inor Volunteer

shall take or receive any jawn or pledge from cruisers will be permitted to pass the

any person or persons whatsoever, by way of Straits of Dardanelles.

security for the payment of any sain or suns of monoy owing by snch person or persons for such spirituous liquors or strong waters, avery such person or persons offending hertin shall forfeit and lose the sin of forty shillings for each and every pawn or pledge, so taken in or received by him or them, to be levied and recovered by warrant milder the hand and seal of one justice of the peace where the offence is committed

no

RUSSIAN VOLUNTEER CRUISERS.

LONDON 25th July.

The Smolensk and the St. Petersburg are The cruising in the vicinity of Jeddah. Russian Consul at Suez is negotiating a charter of the Khedivial yacht to convey in-

By kind permission of Lieut.-Col. Tramonger and officers, the Band of the 93rd Burma Infan-tractions to the Volunteer cruisers in the try will play the following programme at the Red Sea. It is expected in St. Petersburg Kowloon Hotel, during dinner, this evening that the cruisers will eventually join the Baltic feet and be replaced by ordinary War-ships. The Malacca will be transferred to the British Consul al Algiers.

(weather permitting):—

ONLTCommusications relating to the news columns and refrained from doing the wrong in the March... "The Star of Bobbie Bans Onl Hizme

NOTICE TO CORBESPONDENTS

should be addressed to THE EDITOR.

Correspondents must forward their names and ad dresara with communications addressed to the Edir, for publication, but as evidence of good faith All Litters for publication should be written on one side of the paper only.

No anonymously signed communications that have already appeared

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DEATH.

On the 27th July, at his residenes, Kowloon, [1836

Mr. JAKER HEnry Cox, aged 72-years.

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG. 28th July, 1904.

same easy way, without having to stop to count the cost. Unfortunately, while such acquired instincts were being multiplied and developed, there was always that weak link in the chain that Mr. DARWIN had to reckon with, atarism. There was never a generation without some members in it who had barked back to the primitive instincts and impulses that were lawless because existant prior to law. Otherwise, with the moral instinct uniformly evolving, law as we know it would in time have disappeared with the disappearance of its necessity, For such throws back," law is still re.

Entr'acte......ia Lattre de Manon Gillet Selection" Les Cloches da Corunville" Planquette Cornet bolo "I'll Sing Thee Songs of Acaly * Chy Solection......" Floradora". ...

................. “A Greek clave". Polonaise "Hoffali"*

Valve

Leslia Stanit Sidney Jones ..... Gung't

So far, the Australian raid on the English magazine publishers (in the ostensible bebeof of abundant good literary talent" among Colonials) has not produced the golden egg that was expectol. The following tells its own story: "English Mail Examined. Poor Result Adelaide, Wednesday.-Acting under instrue- tions from the Controller-General of Customs, the examination of magazines by 'this week's English mail was carried out at Port Adelaide Five officers went through

this morning.

THE ADVANCE ON LIAO....

LONDON, 25th July. General Sakaroff reports that the Japa nest advance guard is advancing along the Taitee river, east of Linoyang, followed by a strong column with thirty guns.

WAR ITEMS.

JAPANESE STRATEGY.

Some idea of the extraordinary care and precision with which the Japanese generals move their armies has occurred to Te-Day General Kuroki should leave the Russians in

and the person

the bar-keep winks), And keep the summons servara on the chase. For, according to His Worship who the finding

handed down, Aud whom ten thousand topers have to

thank,

+

Neglect to specify may mean in this enlighten-

eil town,

"Twas devilled bones. or sandwiches, you

drank.

So, impecunious, ono and ell, of low degree and

high,

At whose signature the harboy blandly

blinks,

You'll mye a deal of tronble and exponse if

when you buy,

A cooktail or a peg, you name the drinks. [H. M. Ayres in Shanghai Times.]

CORRESPONDENCE.

INQUIRY COURTED.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESS,"

Office has a genuine grievance against those -SIK-The_Portuguese staff of the Post

or persons to whom suy such pawn or pledge correspondents who, concealed behind mislead- doth or shall helong, shall have the same remedying initials, have been reflecting upon it in the for recovering such pawn or the value thereof, correspondiace vokimas of your contémporaries. as if it had never been pledged.”

In the mutter of the miscarriage of the By the Statute 25 azul 26, Viet. e. 38, the Nagasaki mail, complained of recently by above enactment is repealed but

so far Nagusiki correspondent in your morning con- only as relates to spiritnous liquors sold to be temporary, the Portuguese members of the consnured elsewhere than on the premises where Postal staff court the fullest official înquiry; sold, and delivered at the residence of the but in the meantime, no proper complaint. purchaser thereof in quantities not less at one having been lodged, they regard priblic time than a reputed quart."

animadversions of the kind referred to as a grave injustice-Youra, &c.

By Section 182 of the County Courts Act 1888, † 51 and 62 Vict. c. 433, being a ro-onnetment of Section 4 of the County Courts Act 1867, 30 and 31, Vict. e, 142, it is provided as follows:-

No action shall be brought or be maintain- able in any county or other court to recover any debt or sum of money alleged to be das in respect of the sale of any ale, porter, beer, cider, or perry which was consumed on the premises where sold or supplied, or in respect of any money or goods lent or supplied or of any security such ale, porter, boer, cider, or perry."

These statutes contain ertain Hitations

fit to impose on the sale on credit of intoxi- eating liquors and having regard to Article 5

IMPARTIAL.

LAND SALE.

Messrs. Hughes and Hough. auctioneers, yesterday afternoon sold by publie auction a piece of valuable leasehold property situated in Ho Ook Wei, No. 17 District, Kowloon. Messrs. Eweus & Harston had the conveyanning.

The property was described as all that piece or parcel of ground lying and situate in Ho Ock Wei, No. 17 District, Kowloon. in the Colony of Hongkong, registered in the Land Office as

admeasurement in the whole four acres and is held from the Crown for the rasidue of a term

HONORING Ürricz :14, DESVEUX ROAD Pired, and since such ethical "sportsforty-eight rasse, and the net result of the Before crossing tho Yulu, it was necessary that given for, in, or towards the obtaining of any LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.are able to appreciate the mere, inhibi-overhand was the discovery of 371b. weight of

tions of law as binding upon themselves, insets (loose sheets), which, at 3d. per 1. duty Under öriinary circumstances, as the Russians which the legislature in England har thought Kowloon Farm Lot No. 7, It contains by

If this were a fishing. the arm ofthe law, which is force, compul- will roulise 93. 3d."

The column, or one given to frivolity, we might have sion, must perforce be still hell up

something screamingly funny to say about Sir poor woman who felt she must wear mount-

hal, and so forth. As it is, we hold our hand,

THERE does not appear to be a privee- facial connection between international law

absolute ignorance of the fores at his disposal.

wore occupying the heights on the other side of the river, all the movements of the Japanese would have been under observation. To

and the custom of wearing mourning clothes;ing for a worthless and unloved husband William Lyne and his net, and his miraculon's forces---their arrival and concentration at Win of the Order of Council of 1865 and to the fact of 993 years granted by a Crown Lease dated

camnity to law. Were all of her cerebral capacity, the brotherhood of man wohl not be far off, and the principles of humanity would exercise a more effectual control over the actions of human-kind. In spite of a TSAE with oye to the happiness of the

Moreover, right up to the lust moment Kuroki

The object of the legislature woulil appear to be the protection of a certain glass of people from the temptation to immoderate drinking and, given a similar class of people here to-day and a similar temptation, thers can be no ques tion as to the applicability of the statutes or of the right of these people to this protection.

$18.00.

by increases of $100 and $200 a time. Those competing for the property were all Chinese, with the exception of Mr. Alimet Ramjalin. Mr. Jau Sia Han became the purchaser, the price being $8,609.

Bilding commenced at $5,000 and went up

but some impatient comments that have was B. subject of that transmitted subju leaving the bare facts to sink into the soul of remedy this, all the roads and passes up which that there is nothing in these statutes in an the 8th August, 1865. • Annual Crown Rent

way limiting the sections quoted or waking recently appeared with regard to the first, tive adaptation of the moral judgment to the Minister of Customs and such others as it screened by mats of maize-stalk, so that man prevail here, I have no alternative but to apply the Japanese army had to move were carefully them inapplicable to the circumstances which and a new story recently told with reference which we have referred, which we now call may concern. --The Outlook.

and horse could move unseen. In the elementary them so far as they are applicable, if at all, to to the second, appear to suggest au assocía-conscience. She did not belong to that

Yesterday morning passed peacefully away simplicity of this strategy lies its real genius.

the circumstances of the present case. tion almost intimate. The comments refer order which is fain to regard all public

one of the oldest residents in this Colony, Mr. Never since Malcclits disguised the real strength red to partook of the nature of doubting opinion as Philistivism, and which, in J. H. Cox, who had been suffering for some of the army he was marching against Macbeth allusions to the usefulness of international setting up its own standards, frequently months from a sincerous growth in the throat, by making each soldier carry a branch of a tres law, as having back of it neither an interta-only betrays its atavistic tendency toward took to bis bed about flace weeks ago, sail had that it some to the Scotch King that

THE VOLUNTEER CONCERT. tional law court nor an international police

sings grown gradually weaker. He died at his Birnama Wood was marching on Dausiaune, has

The Hongkong Volunteers last evening force to enforce its decrees. The story was

residence, Kowloon, at 7.30 am. yesterday. Mr. strategy of such a kind been resorted to. Cor was widely known and generally respected.

presented an exceedingly enjoyable entertain- of a woman in service who asked for a brief

He came out in 1850 or 1861 to join the firm of kept the Russian Commander in absolute igno.

It must be noted that the law, in a sense, is ment on their parade ground at the back of the holiday, and an advance of money with

Messrs. Turner Bud Co., and after the death of rance as to his strength. All his forces were

Cathedral. The little green, illumined by s not absolutely prohibitory but simply says if a which to buy blacks," as her husband was

the Hou. Phineas Ryrie, managed the business of moved at night, and in order that there should certain sort of con enct is made it will not be profusion of Japanese lanterns, made a gay cad. Her mistress kindly suggested that

the Hougkong branch of the firm until the douth be no sound, the bridge by which they reached enforceable, in the same way as it does not picture which was heightened in tone by the of the surviving partner, Mr. Walkinshaw, the first island in the Yale was covered with

allow a contract for an immoral or illegal sprinkling of uniforms in the crowd. The band man ill-trented her and neglected her so tively, a nation not se amenable to the gladly accorded a room in his old office, where straw. In the final dressing all the approaches discourage certain practices, and this is done by selection: Gunner P. W. Golding, H.K.V.C., The programme opened with ab orchyattul that she had had to return to service? demands of conscience. What seems to be hainvariably turned up daily until quite recently, to the river were screened, and almost without the refusal of legal remedies in certain cases, Was it possible that there could be any wanted, for such cases as hers, is another is last appearance being about the end of last sound, thirty thousand men, with guns and

sang "A song of thanksgiving," a satisfactory It is not for mo` to consider, beyond the When did he Hague Conference, with somewhat different mouth. Mr. Cox was an excellent bookkeeper, reserves of ammunition, passed over two rivers circumstances of the present case, any limita-

tenorial effort. Mr. Frank Austin renderel genuine regret for him?

narrow bridge, padded with straw,tions which have been put upon the Statute of and was well received. A wholly charining The Border Balind," Juritone solo, die? "Oh! mum," the poor wonun naively ideals and objectives, or, at any rate, with a and was at one time auditor of several public by one admitted, he died nine months ago in jail. I mOrE CONMORsense programme of methods, companies. He was also a Justice of the Peace and one pontoon, strewn with maize rosts, 24, Goo. 2, c. 40, by the Courtz, or which it item in the first half wes Mrs. 11. M. Wobb's

and took a keen interest in all local affairs, between the hours of darkness and down. Small might be argued should be put upon it by the but I've just heard of it. I must go into English liberty was the direct outcome of though chiefly as an observer. He was a most wonder, as the Standard correspondent says in actual wording, which is certainly not free from Mr. R. Sutherland sang an Irish comic song blacka. It ain't respectable not to. With baronial coercion at Runnymede. A Magna regalar attendant at the Hongkong Club, of his graphic account, that the Russians were debt. I may say, however, it is essentially and a Scotch encore, in both of which he was an ore preamble, we may proceed, in KING Jona-like reluctance of some govern member, and where his face was the one perhaps

The which we believe he was the oldest resident taken by surprise.

poor man's Act. It is known as The Tippling at home. The and then played a selection. medias v'es, to demonstrate the essential cons

Act' and has for itz object the protection of a ments to sigu the arbitration scheme of the most familiar to the habitués. He was a sanguinity of these two apparently incon-TSAR was quite excusable.

cortain class of people from immoderate drink It was not liberal subscriber to publio chárities and mang gruous matters, and thereby, possibly, point practical politics. Behind arbitration, until acts of private kindness can be placed to his credit the following report

The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued ing which may be indulged in by the purchase on credit of intoxicating lies at public bars, For while we have in these that instinct of right and wrong in Deceased married late in life, and laves no,] On the 27th at 11.50 10. The aromeler I am well aware that in this couranuity a great "columns casually mentioned international universally developed, must always be war, 1901, and her loss was severely felt by him. Sima owing to the receding typhoon and Ens many contracts are enterit into and faithfull fight." and was applauded. Mr. P. L. Miller family. Mrs. Cox predeceased him in January has risen charply in the neighbourhood of Minco

fallen at all other slution towards this N.W. capable of being legally enforced, and I res no

played two very pretty violonelo solos, carried out which strictly speaking are BotChanson Triste," and "La Cinquantaine." threatens to enter the coast to the northward of objection to that, but when a case comes into

The typhoon still moving

Mr. G. H. Edwards sang Sargeant's setting of Food W. winds, backing, to B.W., will be

Shakespere's * ingratitude" Hong. Mr. Cout. I can only deal with it according to the Sutherland gave another, comic song, and Strong

law as it stands. experienced in the Formuse Channel, and

Mr. Frank Austin a fine baritone solo. The moderate 9.W. in the

part of

In this case the defendant admitted the debt,

Pipes of Pan." but stated that he was not in a position to pay very enjoyable programme,

The band wound up 1. the China Sea.

Forecast:-Moderate S.W. winds, One. and he did not deeirs to offer uny evidence on

it would be waste of money. Had not the majority, Russia seems to be, administra- When the firm changed muds, Mr. Cox was matting of maize-stalk and the pontoons with evusideration to be enforc d. It is desirable to / of the 93rd Mahratta Light Infantry played:

a moral.

law as a thing not yet perfectly developed, wo bave carefully refrained from alluding to it with the slightest tincture of disrespect, To it we look, god to it only, for help to- wards that brotherhood of man that the anti-war people prate of. They view the abolition of war as the necessary antecedent

Charta of the nations is wanted.

as behind the judge and jury there must His funeral took place yesterday evening in stand the police. With an alliance of all the Protestant Cemetery, Happy Valley, and the nations, pledged to punish any default-

was very largely attended by the male portion ing Power, there would be greater certainty of the British community. He was buried in of international law being a living force. The were reflection that certain things the me grave with his late wife, over whom he ain't respectable" does not necro a su had erected a handsome marble monument. He. cient restraint upon some diplomáts. Cox was in his seventy-third year.

WEATHER REPORT.

song, “The Eachantress," which was elicored

After a ten minutes' interval the orchestra again struck up. Sergt, W. Terrill. H.K.V.C.. took to the vocal war pati, harmoniously tolling the audience what is done. When we