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SUPREME COURT:

Monday, 16th January.

IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.

BEFORE SIR I. S. BERKELEY (CHIET JUSTICE).

LOO WING KEK V. THE YU HING LUNG FIRM

In this action. plaintiff, who sought to re- cover $4,721.42 owing to him by the defondant firm, on the 12th inst, obtained judgment, but His Lordship stayed execution till the fact of bis having obtained judguient was advertiseddu Chinese newspaper. As before, Mr. N. Farrers, instructed by Mr. H. A. Harding, appeared for the plaintiff.

Mr. Ferrers said they had advertised. His Lordship naile the necessary order.

MULCHERS, AND CÁ, V. THE CHIN FUNO

WING FIRM."

The plaintiff firm sued the defendant tira (of No. 282, Queen's Road Central) for $3,069.54 dnanges with respect to eighteen different contracts made by the defendant firm between March 192 and. June 1904. Mr. Coltkrop. "¡asteneted by Mr. T. V. Stonreason, appeared for the plaintiff firm; the defendants were alent.

The assistunt manager of the plaintiff firm produced sixteen of the eighteen contracts He said that they had mislaid the other two, one bing dutor the 27th December 1902 (goods to the value of $162), and the other the 24th Jnus 1904 (goods to the value of 8270). When the plaintif firm received the goods the defen

POLICE COURT.

Monday, 16th January.

BEFORE MZ, H. H. J. GoMPERTS (FIRST

POLICE MAGISTRATE)

at

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 17TM, 1905

on his own nessunt,

PENINSULAR AND

ORIENTAL officers, and the whole of the arew had beon:

STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.

KODAK

3

FILMS

& ACCESSORIES.

DEVELOPING AND PRINTINGĻUNDERTAKEN.

LONG HING & CO..

PHOTO GOODS STORE,

17, QUEEN'S ROAD

(SAME PREMISES AS MESSRS. AH CHEE).

139

Hongkong, 27th December, 1104.

turned wirift, it required several wooks, at least, before the ship could be sailed towards hor orginal destination. The consequence was The 64th annual meeting was hold on 13th that the peculiar service in which she was December, Sir Thomas Sutherland presiding,

engaged was greetly disorganized, and for the loss The Chairman atutd that the r vit of the which the company thus sustained they had pust year's operations was far better that made a claim--a very moderate cisim-on tho the directors anticipated six months ago would Russian Government which he had no doubt have been the case. The return made by them would in du course bomot. It was most absurd amounted to an average of 9 per cont. on the OPTAINING MONEY UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.

to suppose that the company, who were woll was charg pad-up capital, and he hoped that this would known never to insure their ships, would be guilty To Pak Fung, a student

the instance of Inspector Collett;

be regarded as very fair in view of all the of carrying on a dubious or suspicious trade, ed

circumstances, more especially as, before declar totally inconsistent with their public character, with attempting to, and ob aining money under falss protauices, also refusing

oing the dividon and bonus the directors wrote no matter what prolit night attach to it. But the pay a riesta coolie had engagel. Evidence of £400,000 for deprasiation and made good the state of affairs in conexion with the seizure, showed that To bad hit upon the ingenious Pocuniary deficit in the secounts wh ch had bean not only of the Mainced but also of ether caused by the unfortunate loss of the Australia, vessels, had opered up a very grave question. plan of collecting rent He would call as a home, oullect the mousy, the regarded this loss as totally inoxonsable. There was no werehaudise consigned to Japan ask to be shown a previous receipt from which They could only hope that the zeal and vigilance which it would not have basen possible under the he would us the wording of the chop, and then of their commandere would rouder the company wide proclamation of Russia to call conditional inform the tenant that he would return with immude for a long time from uch au accident contraband, and the company found it nevery appeared in certain shipping circles a tendency

recip in the afterne n.

Meantime Too loss of the Australay, however, illustrated to refuss all shipsnis to Japan- proceeding to misunderstand the foots of the case, mud he would employ a wood carror to mule one good point in connexion with the adminis by which, he believed, their German compell absolutely to ignore the natural sentiment of a similar chop, with which he steppeltration of the company-namely, the large tors had largely benefited. That any soution the French poople, who, in the face of English. bis receipta His now schema was progressing appropriations made from time to time by them of the question of conditional contraband was opposition, created a unique work, which had towards dupreciation er a sinking fund for the pssible during the war be freely admitt-il, but annihilated space and revolutionized the com- favour.bly until he called upon an old lady at a house in Des Vinui Road who had thera value of their ships Between 10 and 11 years the faluity of it in regard to the shipments of red and the social relations of a great part suspicious nature. She told defendant to call ago the Austral cost £220,000, and they were deal which had taken plues was surely very of the world. (Hoar, hear) in the uforon and she would have the appropriation of only 156,0 0. This excellent necessary for our Government, to safeguard our able to make good the pecuniary deficit by unremarkable. He also admitted that it was ready. She then went to the landlord to inquire if the rent collector had been gonged principle was followed in the present acounts. rights search and captus in case we should On learning that he had not, she prepared a trap ler, ia ddition to the 5 per oout. dopre-iation be belligerents ours-les. Taking, however, all for the afterasou. Shortly after tifo To

on the capital cost of the feet, the directors had those matters into consideration, we had had a written off au extra depreciation of £123,000. very serious object lesson for the future in on returned with a choppest recript. He was rolbos suspind to find itself four to face with making goud the sum he had mentioned of nexion with the war batwa a Russa and Japan lukar was informed him that he was 2500,00. They regarded this as one of the and the question of contraband. Taking the wanted." On appering before His Worship most important assets in the company's busi- broadest point of view of our interests, whether he was eentenced on wach of the first two nosa, for it was impossible to knew what as belligerents or as neutrals, contraband ought charges to four months; he was further fued changes, what revolationary changes, he might in future, it possiblu, to ho confin d to armson $5 or fourteen d ya hard labour for refusing to say mail company might have to meet, and munitious of war, and he trusted that there it was, at all events, satisfactory to feel con-

was come truth in the rumour that Ameries pay ricaḥa bire.

vinced that they could afford to suspend their

was to call the attention of The Hague con- ference to this very important subject, when he be narrow,d and consolidated by international authority. (Hoar, hear.)

STOWAWAYS.

sinking fund for two or three years without and stability of the company. (Choers.)

a

THE PROSPECTS.

TRADE

$14.00

TELEPH NA No. 185.,

As times went, the company had had a good tea, and locking person to the surront en he regarded their prospects as fairly favourablo upon the whole, for throughout the East generally there were, he thought, indications of CLUB

larger tride not only in India, but also in China, Japan, and Australia. Nearly 40 years age he opened, as the company's aurent, the first regular steam communication with Japan, aud looking at the events which had happened in the interval, it almost semned as if the soul of a people which had been dormant for centuries had been reused into a now existence by contact with forces previously unknown. To whaterer

must not lose sight of the fact that that country had been and would be one of the most deter- mined competitors of the commerce of this country and of all Western countries. Having warmly t-grified to the services of the staff he conelnded by moving the adoption of the report. Lord Leven and Melville seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously, and a resolution was afterwards passed declaring the dividends recommended.

A cordial vote of thanks to the chairman and directors brought the meeting to a close.

dants were notified. The whole of the contract captain of the na. Macquarie with stowing affecting in the slightest degres the solvency hoped that the definition of vvutenband wou'd extent we might adnice Japan as an ally, we

they wore claiming for, including godown ex- poses and insurance, amounted to the value of $8.18. The plaintiffs had auctioned the goods. realising $5,135.

firm with costs.

1

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION,

BEFORE SI H. 8. BERKELEY (CHIE

JUSTICE).

SIN FUK HING LUNG FIRM 7. CHUNG LA CHIN,

This was a claim for $12. Mr. R. Harding

Steward.

THE FLEET.

Fourteen Japanese were charged by the sway at the port of Moji in Jupen. The defondante planted not guilty," stating that

An exceedingly large addition had been made

THE NATAL CRUISER AGREEMENT. they had obtained their passage to this port during the past year to the tommage of the fleet

Another paragraph in the directors' report with the consent of the Chief Officer and Chist no less than 62,000 tons, at a cost amounting

alluded to what was called the "naval-cruiser very nearly to £1,700,000: Never before in the Cecil William Elliot deposed, I am Chief company's history had they approached such axxcom.cat," by the termination of which the His Lordship gave judgment for the plaintiff Officer of the sa. Macquarie. We came from

un areount as this Several of the now Tesla company would loan income of £13,000 a yea Moji to Hongkong direct, and arrived here on

waza very expensive, having been contracted for agreements had existed since 1888. Saturday night, I found the defenitants on

presumed that scnuomy was at the bottom of at a time when the cost of shipbuilding was board the day after leaving Moji. Eight were excoptionally high. The proprietors would, the change of policy on the part of the concealed in a linen locker in the saloon; one in the pantry, one in the Quartermaster's therefore, not be surprised to hear that the Admitalty, and probably the Government would save £100,000 a year by displacing the whole of vessels in question stood in the company's books cabin

one in the mess room boy's cabin; one

at about £26 pr ton register, but notwithstand these transport agreemonte. He was not, how- in No 1 boy's cabin, and two under a bunk ining this, the not value of their theot was still

ever, surprised that the change of policy had another cabin. One of the men offered to bribe exceedingly moderate, They had hardly an old scarred, becauan, Lappily for all of us, the me if I would lat the matter slide, He offered

the last for years a very considerable tonnage Russian "scare," as it was called.

what it was in 1885, c the novasion of the last me You 50. It is untrue that the defendants ship on their books, and they bad sold within position of the Navy was totally different from We were all at break-up prices, but the foet, with last year's additions to it, now stood in gross at over £lo glad that the Navy should be more powerful than

It

t was formerly, but it was certain that if we a tan. Taking credit, however, for their casli

should unhappily be engaged in war again, all resorves, he found that the net valuation was the best vessels of the mercintile marine would only £6 da, per ton, which, as he had said, was oxfugly moderate, taking into acount the stand at a very high premium intel. The character of their ships. The steady and per company were still carrying on a certain amount sistent renewal of their feet was the very life of Indian transport work, and the efficiency with blood of their business, and therefore the prop which they had conducted it had been testified rictors would not be surprised to hear that the

to most satisfactorily by the military authorities. company had now 45,000 tons of shipping under construction, while since the report was in print the directora lind contracted for two additional mail steamers of 8,000 tons each. As a matter of fact the proprietors might calculato that within two years, or a very little over, they would have added 120,000 tons of new shipping to the company's floet at a cost of over £2,500,000-s fact which, if it did nothing else, said something for the vitality of the business, (Cheers.)

appeared for the defence.

The paintiff being absent Mr. Harding asked for judgment for the defondsut with costs. The defundent claim that he had paid the

money.

His Lordship-Mr Thomson should have been here. You had better tell then you are applying for judgment. If that is all right, let me know and I will give you rests to-morrow. Make out an affidavit of facts and serve noties if you can.

LEUNG TEE V, H. D. NORONIA.

The plaintiff in this action sue the defen- dent for $484.84, being the principal and interest on a promissory note made on January 8th 1904. Mr. R. Hardling appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. T V. Stevenson for the defendant.

The plaintiff said-On the 8th January 1904 the defendant gave me this promissory note. I have demanded payment a number of times,, the last time being on the 16th December.

Cross-cuminol-I demanded payment at his offico opposite the King Edward Hotel. I saw him personally, I know Leaug Chung; bo wes He died on the my father; he is dead. 2nd February 1904 This money was ad- vanced in Wellington Street, at my father's louse. The defendnut, when I applied for payment, pnt me off for a month and said he It was selling houses, and would then pay.

oamo on board with my consent 1 have

nothing to do with the b. cking of passengers.

St. Joba George deposed: I am Master of the 8.8. Mecquarie. Nobody on the ship had authority to take the defendants, a board. Provided the defendants are willing to pay their passages, I will not press the churges. The Chief Steward collects passenger tickets.

The oase was remanded in order that the Chief Steward might be called as a witness.

PIRACY IN THE WARBOUR.

Wong Hi, Ng Kam, and Kwok Cheong were charged with boarding the pusboat San Fa Li. No, S. 860, armed with revolvers and daggers, and there rubbing Krek Shuu Chi, the master, of $1,700.50 in money, and $139 worth of jewellery, in the waters of this Colony Formal evidence of their arrest having been taken, the men pleaded guilty, when, at the instance of Chief Detective Inspector J. Hanson, the case was rumanded for a week.

BEFORE MK. F. A. HAZELAND (SECOND POLICE MAGISTRATE),

DEMANDING MONEY WITH MENACEL

THE NEW MAIL CONTRACT,

very

Test

their

THE ACCOUNTA

passenger

MEN-OF-

SIGNALLING BETWEEN

WAR AND MERCHANT SHIPS.

100A.

MARK.

WHISKY.

PER DOZEN

MARTELL'S

$28.00

BRANDY.

PER DOZEN

TANSAN

48 FINTS ...

* 100 SPLITA...

... $6.50

$8.00

H. PRICE & CO.

12, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

SOLE AGENTS.

ROBINSON

40

Important developments have arisen out of the complainte of Admiral Lord Charis Beros. ford that nine out of eleven British merchant vessels had not replied to siguals displayed by B.M. Casa. Considerable attention giren to the subsequent correspondenes which pod between Lord Charles Beresford and the Marchant Service Guild, as also that between the Guild and the Board of Trade on the subject. The Guild urged that aliens wight conceivably have been in charge of the vessels which did not reply, that British merobast ships were in vary many casou nej her sufficiently or efficiently. maaned to enable prompt and proper reply to signals being muds, and that, failing these, the sig nuts of the Casar were bot takon 83 directed to the merchant ships owing to the frequency of Naval ships signalling between themselves. The Guild have also forwarded to the Board of Trade large number of casos where the salates of merchant vests have not INVITE INSPECTION OF THEIR boon aaswered by musu-of-war, stating that this may have a direct bearing on the subject.

Tarning to the accounts. he remarked that the paragraph in the report referring to the exchange would be clearly understood by the shareholders. The alteration which had heen made was merely an academical one, but it would have the great advantage in the course of another 12 months of bringing the figures of the company's business nearer to a state of actuality than they had been in for a great many years. Comparing the figures of the He need hardly say that these extensive past two years, last yea's reranu offered some

Their building operations wore uocessitated in a large very gratifying exsults. measure by the new mail contract, which would receipts, amounting to £500 at the new increase, begin next February, and which was to ran for rates of exchange, exhibited a the short period of only three years. In their whereas there had been every reason to expect Theodore Thomas, a Portuguese, was charged half-yearly report the directors explained the that a considerable deficit would have been with demanding money with menaces at Kow-great reluctance they had felt at assuming a shawn. They had inwared their rates to China contract embracing a more arduous and costly and the Far East considerably in order to loon. He pretended to be a Sanitary In-

compete with the Siberian Railway, and they spector. He was calling from house to bouge service for so short s period, because the same serving notices on tenants to effect various preparations had to be made for this three had not thought it right, owing to the war, to yours' service as if it were a 20 years' contract. raske any alteration in that respect; and the repairs, offering to ignora them in caSER

They accepted the contract, however, under

remuant of their coal surtax where the innates would give him oumabaw."

Despite all disadvantages He obtained altogether about $2.0 He is strong pressure from the Post Office, because had disappeared.

had the Government were seriously embarrassed however,

receipts passenger Dow entered upon a term of six weeks hard

Under £20,0 FROTO.

the head by the attitudo nasumed by the Australian been- Inbour.

Commonwealth in connexion with the mails of freight. chaters. the receipts An application was made on behalf of the question. The Commonwealth bad passed a law for the year were £1,625,806. In the com- Chinese Government for the extradition of Lideharring their Government from entering into parison bo was making there was a similar rate Kai Siu, the alleged loader of a gang of armed any wil contract in connexion with which of exchange, and a decrease in the earnings January last as stated, but signed a promissory desperadoes who besieged a fown some miles ship were employed which carried Indian cwing to the total cessation of their South Beamen or firemen. Thit was 2 condition African transport work. There bad, however, from Canton, And committed various which the Imperial Government, of course, was been en advance in their freight return of over note. Originally I borrowed some money and robberies therein. Husted by the Chinese,

absolutely nonble to assent to. because the 300 in the year, taking the figures at equal the interest went on accumulating till at last I authorities, be camo Hongkong Hora gare this promissory note. I handed that he was followed by a Chiness offical, and India seamen and firemen employed by the rates of exchange. This result was not owing

on Sunday arrested in Hollywood Road. The company were just as much British subjects as to higher rates, but to additional voyagos, and Marcantile Marine Service Association to note to Leung, who in 1901 lived in that road

we ourselves or the people of Australia were, also to the larger opacity of their vessels, as case was remanded till Thursday next.

(Hear, hear.) It was also a condition to which well as to the fact that, upon the whole, during going from Lyndhurst Terrace, and sub-

the company could not submit, for it was the past year they had enjoyed the advantage sequently in Wollington Street, where I gave

The remanded Luk Wai lottery case in which impossible to man their fleet without the aid of having better cargoes than in the previous him that promissory note Several relatives of fourteen defendants were charged with being the of these native stamen, and, farther, it your. The additional work and the larger Leang. came to my office in July and keepers of a common coming house in the would be utterly impossible to carry on their tonnage had involved increased expenditure, donianded payment of the money I borrowed. Colony was further heard yesterday afternoon, work with the efficiency with which it was but during the past year coal freights through Mr. F. B. L. Bowley (Crown Folioitor)instructot conducted without the aid of the admir out the whole of the East had been ridionlously They told me Leung was dead and wanted by Chief Detective Inspector Hansen prosecuted. able men. It was very strange that Australia low. Although they burned about 30,000 tons me to pay some of the money I owed-for house Mr. Looker (ni Mesars Deacua, Looker and Den: should have raised such an objection, seeing more than in the previous year, the total cost of and funeral expenses

con) represented the first, second, third, fifth and that even France and Germany, which had no their 618,000 tons was in reality less than that fourteenth defendants; Mr. F. X. D'Almuda e possible interest in British subjects allowed of the previous year owing to the low rate of Cross-examined-I will swear that when I

Castro represented the printers of the lattery loir ships to be manned-partially, at all freights. All their port barges were heavior, signed this promissory note the man I saw was tickets standing as the seventh, eighth, rinth,erente-by moans of our native firemsn. necessarily, and their Snez Canal dues were got the plaintif; it was a stout old man whom Guth, el reuth, twelfth and thirteenth defon

extremely large, amounting to £322,000, or I had dealings with ou several occasions. Origi-dants. The fourth and sixth defendants were

about £50,000 in excess of the amount paid by the company in the previous year. nally the debt was for $180.

was my own money.

The defendant--I did not torrow $381 in

By the Court-I did give a promissory note and do owe the money to someone.

His Lordship ordered that the defendant and plaintiff be faced, and told the interpreter to tell the plaintiff what the defendant had said.

The plaintiff-He gave me the note and I gave him the money,

The defendant-1 never saw the plaintiff

before December last, when he came to my offico for the first time,

The plaintiff The last time was in December His Lordship One of you is making s misstatement as to fast. Who wrote this wote? The plaintiff My younger brother who is at the electric light works at Hunghor.

His Lordship-You can have judgment for the defendant or an adjournment.

Mr. Steavenson-I informed Mr. Harding that the man was dead,

His Lordship said it was a very sorious case; he would remand it for a week. Then ad dressing the defendant-They have got this -note-you have to pay to someone. What is the use of all this?

WEATHER REPORT.

The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following:-

On the 16th at 11.25 am. The barometer has fallen slightly over and around the Eastern sea,

and has risen elsewhere.

Gradients am slight upon all the coasts of China and light N.E. monsoon will prevail both

part of the China Sea,

in the Formors Channel aud in the northern

Forecast E. to N.E. winds, cloudy, fair,

EXTRADITION CASE.

to

LARGE GAMBLING CONCERN.

uot defoudeil.

POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENTS.

THE SUEZ CANAL DUES.

PIANO Co. LD.

PERSONALLY SELECTED

NEW ART MODELS

OF

PIANOS

The Guild have stoly beon informed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that, baring had under consideration the great impor tanes of enmunication by signalling between H.M. ships and British merchant vessels, they have decided to sppoint a Committee to consider the subject. The President is Rear Admiral EH. Gamble, C.B., and the representatives include those of the Admiralty, the Royal Navy, the Royal Naval Reave, the Board of Trste, Lloyd's, and the Shipping Community. The Lords C missiouers informed the Guild that they were desirous of including in the Committee a representative Merchant Captain and accordingly would be ranch obliged if the Merchant Service Guild would assist them by suggesting the name of a suitable Captait belonging to the Mecantile Marine. To avoid any misunderstanding, however, they wished to explain that the arcessity of limiting the non- ber of the Committee rendered it impracticable for them to invite bodies such as the Guild or nominate special representatives to sit on the Committ; therefore, the Merebant Captain selected would be required in be regarded as the representative of the Merchant Servion as a ENGLISH AND whole. The Guild expressed their thanks to the Lords Commissioners for the honour done them in inviting them to nominate a representa- tive and sisted that their nominee was Captain George Rogers, of Liverpool, who had had oug a wide experience connected with the Merchant Service and would be able to devito himself fully to the important business of the matter, and Captain George Rogers has boon appointed

member of the Committee ander notice, which is at present going fully into the subject of signalling both by night and day.

KWANGSI'S EX-GOVERNOR.

How the question of the mail service was to be dealt with in the future he could not tell, Mr. Bowley applied for leave to amend the All he know at present was that the attitude of charges against the fourteen defendouts as Australian politicians was inimical to what They owed the lessoned Can Idues and pilotage follows: (1) That the first five defendants were might be called the ovorsen trade and highly to an arrangement which was negotiated in the unlawful keepers of a common gaming protectionist to what they know na the local that room 20 years ago, which had been widely house at N. 30, 31 and 32 Lyndhurst Terrace; shipping of the company. The directors might

known as the

programme de Londres." Their The cashiered ex-Governor of Kwanigal pro- (2) That the remainder of the defendants were have to consider the possibility of dispensing main object in this important transaction was

vince, Shih Nien-tsu, has been granted by aiders and abettors of the first five in the altogether with an Australian mail contract. not a rovision of the Canal Company's tariff, decree dated the 7th inst, the rank of a Tootsi keeping of a conimon gaming house: (3) That If so, they would in all probability, so far as he hat the construction of a duplicate caual or the and ordered to report for duty with Viceroy the sixth defendant sold lottery tickets in the could see into the future, have to divert the enlargement of the then existing and inadequate Chang Chih-tung, at Wuchang This, the Colony on the 14th, 18th and 1816 December splendid line of steaners now run by the com- channel, so that skips would be able to pass N.C. Daily Newt is informed by a Paking last; (4) That the defendants seven to thirteen pany to the Australian colonies to a direct through in a single day or in a lesser spice of correspondent, has been the result of a judi- printed the said lottery tickets in the Colony, service between this country, China, and Japan, time, as they now did, instead of being delayed cious manipulation amongst the principal Mr. Looker: As far as the fourteenth Hitherto their sorries in that part of the world in transit, as jwas formerly the case, often for eunuchs of the Imperial Palaces of the defendunt is concerned, he has been charged had always been carried on by a branch line; any days. The enlargement of the Canal, as ill-getton gains for the obtaining of which and partly tried for keeping a common gaming but in China and Japan a great opening was recommended by an international Commission, the ex-Governor had been onshiored in house at No. 28, Des Voux Road. If taking plade, and taking place very rapidly, hat long since been accomplished at a coat to October, 1997, agaontuated, as it were, by Mr. Bowley wishes to drop that chargo the and he was by no means sure that the company the Canal Company of £5,000,000, instead of the laging of costly "tribute" at the teef defendant must be discharged and a new charge would not have a larger fold--and certainly being carried out by means of a loan of or the Empress Dowager in November last, preferred against him, as he is now charged with they would have a more economical fold-for £8,000 000 of British money, which was the when her Imperial Majesty was celebrating aiding and abetting.

their operations in carrying out Airect lines bargain made by Mr. Gladstone's Government her seventieth birthday anuiversary and in Mr. D'Almada e Castro also submitted that with China and Japan than they haul at the with M. de Lesseps, but which was subsequently sufficiently genial state of mind to be at peao his clients should first be discharged. In from- present moment in "conuexion with the Austra-cancelled. Various other concessions were with all men. The following, in a few words, ! ing the new charges the prosecution were at-lian colonies. They would, however, never obtained from the Canal Company, to one of is an outline of the official career of ex-Governor tempting to prove what they could not prove dream of abandoning the Australian which only would he reter- namely, the Shih Nion-tou, who is a native of this province before when they charged-them-originally. tarde, which it would be possible to carry on immediate abolition of pilotage and the-and-holds the literary degree of MA, or His Worship said that ander section 21 of by means of large cargo vessolecis the lowering of the transit charges, an operation Chujen -Appointed Tactai of Lunchou, capital the Ordinance, it was allowable to amend the Cape of Good Hops, carrying a certain number to be evolved from time to time, according of Kansu province, 1872; promoted Provincial charges.

of passengers ut, comparatively speaking. to the growth of trafic. He could not Jadge of same, 1877; retired into monraing, Mr. Looker: When a man is charged under low rates. No doubt, some way out of the better illustrate this point thaar by saying that 1881; appointed Provincial Judge of Yuunan, a particular oction in the Statnio with a dificulty would he found, and he only hoped while this company paid last year folls amount- 1884 promoted Provincial Treasurer of particular arius and then an entirely new that it would also be the best possible solutioning, os he had said, to £322.000, yet if they had defence is set up, I submit, Your Worship, in the interests of the Australian colonies. that be must be either proceeded with on the original charge or acquitted, and then charged again.

Considerable argument followed as to the defondants being tried separately, and eventual ly His Worship decided that the fourteenth defendnut should be tried alone.

The case was remanded till Monday uext,

Kusicbon, 1887; transferred to similar post been called on to pay according to the tariff in Yannan, 1889; and promoted Governor of THE 'MALAÇÕA” AFFAIR.

which the Canal Company could levy under Kuangei province 1895, from which post he was Reference was made in the directors report their concession, the amount would have been cashiered in October 1807 and dismissed the to the case of the Malacca, but as it had passed nearly C100 000 more. They wore the chief service for misappropriation of public funds into history it was unnecessary to enter uto castomers of the Suez Canal, but their tonnage and general incapacity of conduct, thereby any detailed explanation on the subject. He could was only 1-12th of that which passed through causing discontent and insurrection amongst eren now, however, revive the feeling of anxiety it every year under the tags of all nations, and the inhabitants that provlace which has and humiliation which they exporioneed at therefore the £100,000 mentioned must be multi-continued to the present day. The restoration seeing their ship carried captive to Algiers.

true measure of the profit-sharing which the tsa is a sufficiently clear proof of the corruption bail in the case of the printers, with the excep. Thanks to the pr. zupt intervention of Lord i 12 times over, in order to arrive at the to the public service of a men like Shih Nien- tion of the bood printer, being reduced to $200 Lansdowne, the vessel was speedily released į tanal Company conceded to their customers. in the capital and the power and influence of each.

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