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SUPREME COURT.

Wednesday, 17th May,

IN APPELLATE JURISDICTION.

BRFORE S H. S. BERKELEY (CHIKF JUSTICE), AND MR. T. SarcoMDE SMITH (PUNNE JUDOR),

NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA E. P. LEMAIRE

AND CO.

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 18vnt. 1:05

REVIEWS.

Cantonese Love Songs By C. CLEMENTI. M. A. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2 Vols,

Price 21 a.

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pity that this style is not maintained throngh- out. In Song XI iii there in a line of 8 words which literally mess, “A thousand reds, a myriad greens, so splendil," said in apostrophe

of a lotus lity. This is expanded in the trails- WE HAVE THIS DAY tien to “What luxury of splendour is in those thousand flushes of red, those myriad tinta of grow."

uy another clanso to the active a claim on the bill of exchange for $10,00). An order was mado on the 5th April allowing the amonóm st to be made, aud thin defendants now brought on appeal against that order in chambers on the grounds that such amendment ought not to have been made. The two grounds before, es Much credit is dus to Mr. Clomenti for the Since Dr. are andue delay in their application to amen production, of a scholarly work. and that the defendant's care is prejudiced by Eital published his dictionary, there has These volumes appeal to us an students of the an order allowing the amendment. On both appeared no ench interesting contribution to Chiness and their language, and not for any This was an appeal by the defendan's against greends they have failed. There was no andus the library of the student of Cantonese as the gr at artistic merit of the original songs. But an order made by the Chief Justice in Chambers delay, but a meie laps of time, and the deter-book under review. The English volume is Mr. Clementi holds that they are pootry. And on the 5th April in the application of this are in no way prejudiced in the conduct printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford 4 when he speaks of them as illustrating the plaintiffs, allowing the plaintiff's to amend the of their action by this new course of action suficieat guaraníce of clear type and gool extreme anotimentality of the Cantonese. statement of cluim by adding is sother claus. † Boáng rdded. It Moerce to me that the amond-binding. The Chinese volume printed by even of the coldest business man or the most of action a claim on a bill of exhauge forment has only been put in a tervor form than Mossrs. Noronha does not satisfy the eye so ureouth coolín," ko is issuing a challenge which $10,000 lastend of, as the original writ of this clause contained in the statement of plead: w-'. Tho type is not of the best. Mr. it would be pasillaufmous to ignora. At least mummous claimed, $10,500) on a promissory note ings of the 22nd October. It is well known Clement's trauslation is in prose, his lines that is so if he uses the word sancionality that amendments in pleatinga havu bọn allowed Iwing munatered in correspondence with the so long us anything remains to be done in the Chinese text : End the lines in the latter been nction or on the juigment, and the Court is of treated in the same way, comparison would opinion that this appeal be dismissed with costs. have been still easier. At the end of the English volume are notes in explanation of the various allusi.. Tas vocabulary appended to too Chinese vidaniù leaves us in much doubt as to the precise le oss of readers to whom Mr. Clementi would appeal -Gfaucing through it we ⚫elect almost at raadora auch notes as

·H, indvej” “A Mother people, men" Surely such information as this, and much more of the same kind is of use to the newest beginner only, for whom' bowever the study of aunla n work would be altogether too difficult. Does the translator write for more advanced scholars'? Then it seems to us that he should have adele d

SHIPPING.

Mr. H. N. Ferrers instructed by Mr. P. W. Goldring (of Messrs. Brutton. Hitt and Goldring) uppoured for the Appelants, and Me, E. H. Sharp, K.C., Attornay Geral, instructal by Mr. H. W. Locker (of Messrs. Deacon Looker and Deacon) for this (forme:} Plaintiffs. Me. Ferrera--The statement of claim in this

MALVACE NOW PROCEEDING. aution was filed on the 11th October, 1901,

The Oziro Kisen Kaisha hus muude armangy. and states tint the plaintiffs are lankors having a registered office in Queen's Rond Central, andments to refloat the Nargonara, 3,800 tous the defendants are merchants ruerying on gross, one of its Boot, which lies stranded in business in the same street. The plaintifs the neighbourhood of the Qaelpurt Island, claim 210,000 due on a promissory note. The Korva. stutament of defence was filed on the 16th Sep. tember, and lire plaintiffs Bled a reply on the 22nd October, 1904. The next prccending was that certain affidavits ware filed with a view to taking otidenes in England.

The Chief Justico-The plaintiff, aned upon a promissory note which had been įriveu to the to further Feunce an amount due to them on a bill of exchange which had been given in December, 1933, fell dus sometime in March, 1904, unil not being puid on due date the defen- | dants gave the plaintiffs a promissory note,

which, when it tame due was dishonoured

The plaintiffs then suoi gon upon the prozis sory note which was given upan the same indebtedness as the original bill of exchange. To this the appellants tool: the technical objes

tion that the plaintiffs could not so because the note after it was given, wus alterol, and not

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BRITISK STEAMER BOLD.

The Britizli steamer Beta has been sold to Mr. Nakamura of Osaka, and re-named the

Biltoke-mura.

ANOTHER JAPANESE PURURAGE.

The Italian stoanter Sara, from Goupa, was to be purchased by the Miten Bishi Co. for use as a sulyago steamer.

"NORIO" WARNED AGAINST MIXES,

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to his notes ethers on poists of scholarship, and in justification of his renderings. We hope that in an early second edition this course may be followed, and the more so because the mean- ing of the riginal is obscure in places-uor i

in Mr. always obvious

Clementi's To give oue rather

The Oriental and Ocsidantal steamship Doric it arrived from Manila yesterday.

translation.

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in a good BETONE, IS Lix whole attitudo Soem to prove ได dona. But surely the word means falso sentiment: în this sense alone can we admit that it filly describes the attitude of Chínás towards, wann, and particularly the attitude of the anther towards the unfortunat clus. whose fedings the professes to interpref. There is a good reas02 why Chinesa writers must find it hard to express a trac motion when they feel one, which is, they are so tind and bound to the past, that they can hardly perform oven the most Batural action or become aware of the simplest emotion, without recollecting that there is classical precedent for expressing that emotion or porforming that action. But apart from this our author fails us au interpreter of unhappy women, because his sympathy with them is not genuino. As moralists we may if we please remember his environment and pardon him. But art kuows so extenuating firenistsaces. As an artist he fails in good taste, and stands condemned. We give ono instance of supreme bad taste, and that the

buse heen looked for. Chin yung the author had, wo learn, a concabire, whem after two or three months his deserted. Fenniless she was driven tr an immond life, and unable to support her misery and degradation committed suicide. In such circumstances an honest man might have fait remorse, a frsá

it. And thus sings this heartbroken laver (Song XLVII.) as his rangs at his mandolin.

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AN INTERESTING STORY,

Tokyo. Adachi Kuratoruki a young mat A story with a moral at both eada comes from

played in the Shin Ohashi Tax Office, Tokyo, ent upon a little spocalation on the 27th ult ad is now in the care of the polies. Evidently Adarki called an Suzaki, a timber morchatit, and knowing the subtle ways of timber dealers, in his capacity of tax official asked to see the hooks. Buzudi's prices for timber were remark. ably modorate to one who understood something, of the trade, which the sharp Adachi evidently! lid. At any rate tbu tax official asked Sazuki if he selling timber as cheaply us was shown in the books. With some observation about the bad tintes, and after an uneasy grunt or two, Suzuki replied that he did, when the PER CASE OF 48 PINTS... offering to buy some at the pries. Excuses wily Adachi electrified the wily Suzuki by were of no avail. Suzuki was compelled to s-1 274 you worth of timber at his tax inspection. PRK CASE OF 100 SPLITS book anil on credit, whereupon Aduchi imashed it off and sold it to another | timber merchant for 420 yon!

TANSAN

TANSAN

Had Adachi paid for the timber, nothing more might have been heard of this enlightening incident, but besides being wily, Adaobi was weak. As is common with the young men of

ing his more or 1 sa legitimate protis, he went off to the literised quarter at Yokohama, her SOLE AGENTS— he was in dos contes discovered by the polios and arrested-Japan Chronicle.

Captain Smith reported that Be Doric, while instaus: the with line of Song LXXXVI que, if any, where genuine feeling might his class, instead of paying Suzuki and pookst stenting through the Pesadores Channel,

north of the Island of Foruloss, was hailed by a small Japanese vesnei and intrusted na to The coure the should follow in order to aroil saburine tožnas,

STORMY VOYAGE OF THE ADATO."

roads ✯É BEAR

which is traz slatod, ""Tis mainty for your sane tint, siled youth I lost my tanidenhood."- This we submit is nons use. Moreover the word means beginning or case, either of who translations makes the passage comprehensible.

rexiapid after altesation. They also took the steamer Aidnto was in Kobe, fire was discovered buely Mr. Clementi should here and eli poet would have found words to express

note.

It will be remembered that when the British

where have explained by means of notes is in the hold and o quantity of cotton was des troyed. From Kobe the vessel sailed for San departure from the obvion, In XII iv he Francisco, having an adventurous voyage. On trauslates I grire, à do but grieve that by March 28th in latitudo 47 degrees north, the willow banks the transience of wind and longitudo 17 degrees east, a gale sprang up sullenly from the north. The stove was tipped is understoed in Fasily" An alternative over, the contents setting fire to the cabin and weak be "It is my arrow that by willow utterly rnining That upartment, as wel as des-

kunk the moon of passion quickly changes le troying the storeroom pantry, with all that it dawn." That is, joy may endure for a contalued. Thres ventilators were also broken off by the pitching and rolling of the steamer, nigtit, but heaviness emeth in the morning. wext lino supports this rendering. and the cabin roots were flooded. The entire The

objection that thern was no consideration of the On the pleadings there was consideration on account of the bill they ought to have pail, and did not. The plaintiff's then rutas ta and asked jeave to amend the claim aul writ to add now what they might have done originally. There was no obligation on the plaintiffs to sue on the promissory note, therefore I gave them leave to sue on both. The suly ground on which the court mht not to grant the amendment is, wore the plaintiffs bringing up a new case motage amounted to $15,000. The row bad" The moci sinks, crows caw, men sus full of hard work for four hours in fighting the e, "care." It is not to be thought that Mr. and the men were at one time about to give up Clementi has overlooked the original meaning of their task pod take to the bonts in the wild sex.

four hours out from Karatau, she ran into a Previously, when the Adato was only twenty.namely, dawn; but for preferring the

commoner and dorived meaning to understand fald of ice, through which the vessel proceeded he must have had his reasous, and we think for a whole day and right.

we should have been told them, In XII

to be placed in the same position vis-a-vis with the original?

Mr. Ferrers I refer your Lorships to page 354 of the White Book wherein it is afated that a plaintiff must prasua the action to which be commits himself when he draws his giale- ment of claim, ho line of action ho committed himself to then be ought to be Longji by. In unending the statement of claim in this action thera hus been quite delay and your Leadships should have been supplied with some reason for that delay. By amending the state. ment of claim the plaintifs may set up a better cuse, and defendants should have reasons why, after their expense and trcublo in meeting the original caso, the plaintiffs have not filed on affidavit explaining the delay.

The Chief Justice-It is not at all clear that

it was necessary to amens. What you have to

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140 means literaly paint my King The C.P.R. str. Empress of China scrivod at fister moths," and so "lustrous eyebrows arched Koba at 4 p.m. on Ju-sday, the 16th ins, and like a moth a antennae." We despair of finding a left again at midnight mme day via Nagasaki for Shanghai, where she is due to arrive at 1 a,.sutisfactory translation, but we can not com on Saturday, the 20th inst.

mend paint my eyebrows with aniline." Anilice The Glen Lins str. Glenstrae, from London, is a mess unpoetic product of coal tar invente &c., left Singapore on the 16th inst., und is due long after these songs were written. More here on the 22nd fast.

The O.S.S. & C.M. str. ficctor left Singapore over is an adjective, an epithet of on the 15th inst., at p.., and may be expected While there are but few pages where as every here on the 20th inst.

The CN. str. Changsha, from Australion day critic would boldly aver. Here he is wrong. porta, loaves Manila to-day, and is due bore on Saturday evening or Su day morning.

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MAKING MACHINERY.

satisfy us of is that the amendment now places THE CHINESE MARKET FOR ICE- you in a worse position thru it would have it pleaded in the first instance. There has been no delay, as the application was mado before the beating,

Mr. Ferrers-No virosmstances have arison which would justify the application which warė not in existeneo at the time the defence was #led.

HOW TO DO BUSINESS,

there are many where the moaning is sufi. ciently doubtful to deserve a justification of the translator's opinion.

Mr. Clementi's style does not striko us as very well suited to the matter. What charm these songs possess is due to their simplicity and that is violated too often by a diction' Eeveral months ago the American Consul at at once prolix and previons. Io 80 for limited bell for the introduction of ice-making original it is faulty. But here we find a trans Bankow called attention to the almost unas a translation fails to give the tone of the

chinery in the cities of central and southern Chinn As a valt he received a number of lator, who goes out of his way to wislend, in an enquiries from American manufacturers, and effort to introduce ideas which the original never though none for distribution. Not a single phrase, for or month. several firms sent him catalogues (in English), attempted to convey. In XLVII 0. firm, however, sent prices, and the manufac Mr. Ferrers--The plaintiffs take up a very turers who seemed to la most interested in the There is not a grain of poesy in it, it is tho different position under the two documents, matter specifically stated in a letter accompany baldest colloquial. Why abould it be tricked out As long as they were on the premiwory note ouring their catalogue that they were not then in

a position to quote prices.

as "for three and two months"? In this case the difference may be slight Ent when the same procosm of glorification is applied to the stock lang of the hense of ill fame, the meaning of

The Puisse Judge-There has been a lapse

of time, but as delay.

defence was good enough, but when they come under the bill of exchange the position is chauged.

The Chief Justice--Why cannot you put in

irosh slatemout-of defence K..

Mr. Farrers-We should like to, my lord. The Chief Justion-Yon can..

in

the

You died for your gallout? Then I cannot

grade your death,

You have flung into the water that passion of

days gone by,

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I know not whow you trust to worship your white bones upon the groen hill-uile. Yes, you were best have been, a virtuous wife, that I might have set your tablet in

Buddha's shrine.

Some one has wittily and truly said: "The desire of the way is for the wou. The desire

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of the woman is for the dusite of the man."well that it should be such actions will recoil Failing to appreciate a payobological truth on the ation responsible for it For exam many erotic writers go astray, and our author this authority whom we have quo e urgus car Japanese merchants should for the time hing "Water and..fire can among them.

cense to do business with France. That means, apparently, that they shoull cease to do business in Frunch goods. It follows, of course, that in such casa France would cease to purchas

France merchandise to the value of 5,107,913, Japaness goods. Let us see what this would imply. In 1963 Jazen pur has from yen, against purchases of France from Jap.at PRACTICAL EXPERTS the value of 34.279,116 yen. In 1904 the i imports from France amount to a value of 3.334 322, yan, and the exporta from Japan to that country to 36,322,301 yea.

a unul cur passions." "My debt of wanton joy," and similar phrases recur on every page, und show clearly a misapprehension of the feelings all the unfortunate girls asked for was peace they would explain. We may be quite sure that

and protection.

Be a God and bold me with a charm'; '*** Be a man and fold me with thino'árm.

And above all, delivery from the house of bondags.

Nevertheless, there are some pretty passages to be found here and there and Mr. Clementi does well to call attention to the emphatic form in which the metaphors are expressed. "The mailen is not compared to

like

BUT

AND

Now we should MÁNUFACTURERS

to have an explanation by this distinguished suthority on the law of nations as to wh'el ↑ Fower is likely to suffer the severest "panish- ment" if trado relations are broken off between the two Stares. If figures ar my criter on. Japan will be a far greater sofferer than France:

le tetually is, the royal Rower of the Ciana-national how to well consider the consequenc

by such a coarse being adopted. Would it not, therefore, be well even for authorities on inter

mon Gordon. Simrifarly her lover is the pea of the action they propose before venturing cock, the bee, the butterfly." rong XXXIV. is into the light of publicity? a good instance of this. The translation is ours. The flower wrap: the moon is not swathed. "Moon, look you, we flowers how wilted are wo. "Pity that as you wax, so must we fade away. The wild wind blows, and the rain gathers "together: my day is anded."

It is not easy to find exact parelle's to his figure of speech. One occure to us. in Venus.

SUICIDE OF A GERMAN SOLDIER

AT TIENTSIN,

lio

A sad case of suicide amongst the German The Coneal now writes an angry comment on

military contingent quartered in Tientsin is the facts, and frankly admits that "from a

posted. It was made sadder by the fact that the soldier had just successfully passed good many cases one is compelled to believe

an examination in Chinese, for which he that the manufacturers of the tnited States do not appreciate the situation in China with the original is deliberately saorificed. A and Adonis, stanzas 39 and 40: "Then he had received reward of 200 marks, It

that other word, my doer, since I am such a park." One simile is appears

tho MON. respect to machinery and modern scientific is a custotaer, there is no

belonged to the 5th Company of the t iofan ry appliances of all sorts." It may be taken as » To metamorphose him into a "gay gallant" | really beautiful, and that is autumn wares“ matter of course, he he

is misleading. Gallant and gay ho my for women's eyes. Any idea more expresire Regiment, had, up to the present, borne an unblemished record, but un vrtunatly on дора

toward the that Hothing can ba

And so of dark depths and glancing flashing brightness April 21st be exceeded his l-avo by fifteen might by maug

the guard-hense. This comes with the context), it would be hard in- day's imprisonment

appeared to prey an bis mind, and on the follow- deed to discover. Of course it is not original.

ing morning, whilst his company were out at Mr. Clementi has on interesting not on drill, he shot hims if through the lead. The Buddhism, though not everyone will agree with bollat entered under the chin and penetrated him by to the extraordinary solaes which the through the brain, so that death must have been

instantaneou“, . still exercises over Buddhist faith.

Mr. Forrors-If your Lordship permite this Thion without chekadirikeryba, but the author ze er niû 80.

amendment we shall be in a worse position than

before. The evidence frem Home was on your manlive engine, 06 to throughout, by the talk of Willowy Arbones and thaa z ware at night. (and the iba of night minutes, for which he was sentenced to three :

file when leave was given to emend.

The Chief Justice-I do not fook at the file, but at the pleadings when leave is applied for

to amend

plants, outfits for motor

alother modern machinery. Ibehore the better plan for American masafadiumra tu follow wound be to ranke specific offers of complete pluts at certain prices. For instance, an offer of an ice-ma-ing plant guaranteed to produce a certain number of tons of ice per day with a to expenditure of fuel, labour, and supplies, the plant complo's and ready for setting up, for a certain amount of money, would das acceptances, I believe, than twice the amount of effort pushing the sale of the The Chief Justice-Their order was that they

same plant with uncertain pltimate cost, eren should have leave to amend by paying the costs though the price in the latter case seemed occasioned by the amendment. If you like I lover."Commercial Inteligence. will alter the language and put in costs of the amendment."

Mr. Ferrers-The plaintiffs are wi'ted five months, and now come to ask to be allowed to turn their action upside down from the haginning. They have started pleadings wholly different to what they had five months ago.

more.

AND STOKERS,

NAYAT. COURT OF INQUIRY at Kobe, Ou May 4th of the British Consulate, Kobe, a Naval Court of Inquiry was held, the Court comprising the ouaul, Mr. H. Bonar, Mr. B. 4. Edmonds, Master of the British steamer ratgears, and Mr. R. E. Peel, Master of the British steamer Clan Macarthur.

The Paisno Judge, in delivering the decision | JAPANESE COAL of the Court, euid-It appears that on the 4th June last the plaintiff bank issund a writ claiming $10,000 due on a promisory note made by the defendants, with interest $123.28, On the 11th Angust the plaintiffs filed their statement of claim, and on the 16th September the defondwuts filed their statemout of defence. i John Newman, Master of the British steamer On the 22nd October a reply was put in by the Fenay Lodge, brought a complaint against five firemon, P. Mucarthy, F. Thomas, J. Lewis plaintiffs and subsequently an order to take A. Fraser, and E. Kelly, that they refused to evidence on commission was issued. Thut proosed to sea unless two extra trimmers were commission was returned to the Colony on the engaged, The Master had declined to engage these extra raen. Although it was not a Court 24th March last. On the 21st Marol all of Justice, one of the firemen was food to application was puedo by the plaintiffs to shillings for contempt of Court. The men were smend their statement of olin by adding all discharged from farther daty.

Flowery Lomes ideas are imported which aro absent from the author's thought: for though the words are here, their original significance La completely faded from them. Indeed Mr. Clementi owns as much in his introduction.

We spoke of the simplicity of these dittīsn. When the anther forgets his similes of ice and snow (which in the mouth of a Southerner are about us sincere as the Strephops and shepher- desses of eighteenth century postas ers), he can bs touching in a simple way. For instance; in Bong XXIX, the carrier goose, scilicet Homing Pigeon, is apostrophised :

"Perelance then tearest lotters carolessly, and hast lost them in country-side or at city barrier.

Should he be in deep sorrow, but Indolent

in writing lot ors;

Then, if he has unsant letters written in his,

mind, bring me the empty cover.

So will I, spreading out the blank paper imagine it holds ten thousand, thou and

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For each of our two-beurts is as a mirror le the other's thoughts, even though no words be spoken:"

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the peoples of the Eighteen Provinces." The lace is the doctrine of the transmigration of souls, beyond which not one Chinese in ten thousand knows anything of Buddhism. But this doctrine by itself is no more Buddhists Intelligence, to congratulate the British Cotted MR. A. GALUZZI is prepared to take

than the belief in an after-life can be said to

constitute the Christian faith.

A chapter on the musical notation of the phe pha or guitar will doubtless be of inter st to

musicians.

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It is all very well, remarks Commercial

Growing Association on the excellent work it has done, but it seems to us there is a consider- For torms, oto.. apply to the above, care of able tendency to lose sight of the stupendous nature of the task to be accomplished. The Sgures contained in the map, which we publish elsewhere, ∙show how absurdly small tho amount of our imported cotton that is produced in the Empire apart from India, and Lauaashire

Daudet claims to have written Bappho to show his sons the fruitlessness of an immoral did not respond to the invitation of the British

Cotton life. His intention though fatuone was probably for the

Association to find funds

sincere. The writer of these love songs if we of its task. Possibly

tho

reasons that deterred modestly prefaces them with a hope that this Lancashire mon from opening their purses, wo little volanie may serve to rescue all such as should find that they were twofold. In the first are sunk in this world among the spells of the place the duty of providing against a national

disaster, such as the complete stoppage of our i supplies of cotton from America, seems to many

ocean of desire."

Aud bere we bid him heartily farewell, with

n

profound conviction that ho, the late Mr. tional matter, and in the second, many

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fail to see bow such efforts as the Chiu Ta-yung, with his phe pha, his fripperies situation. Meanwhile, however, the encourage 1st FLOOR, WATKINS' BUILDINGS Association can put forth can really affect the and a most extraordinary smagness, has been ment of potion growing by providing railway

This is direct and good, and the language appropriate to the speaker, while the trans more fortunate than he deserves in his in- lation is in suitable plain prose. It is a dustrious expositor.

and other facilities in, of course, clearly a step in the right direction.

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