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SUPREME COURT,

Tuesday, Eth December.

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.

BEFORE MR. A.G. WISE (PUISNE JUDGE).

CLAIM FOR RENT,

The Robinson Piano Company sued H. Price, lately carrying on business as s wine and spirit merchant at 12 Queen's Road Contrai ander the style of H. Price and Co. to recover the sum of $975, being for one mouth's rent from the 9th October to the 9th November, 19, of the eastern part of the ground floor of Connaught Housse ↳

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Mr. H. W. Slady instructed by Mr. Grist (ef Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist) appeard for the plaintiff and Mr. I Pollock, K.C.,, instructed by Mr. H. J. D.. Stephens, represented the defondant:

Mr. Slado statod the claim was for rent in respect of a portion of the premises formerly occupied by the Robinson Piano Co, which were let to the defendant. Practically the whole case bors on the letters and documents which passed between the quarties.

Conus here" proceeded to site passages from

POLICE COURT.

Tuesday, 12th December.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13Ti, 1905.

BEFORE MR. F. A. HAZELAND) (FIRST

POLICE MAGISTRATE) -

ANOTHER BEACHCONUER.

Harry Eaton, who was charged with being stowaway on the za. Leong Song, was fined $5.

THE MIRS BAY PIRATES.

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The two mon ́charged with holding up a jnok in Mira Bay last week again appeared before the magistrale, but the bearing of the chat was adjourned for a week.

THE CHAMPION INDIAN WRESTLER..

COLLISION IN THE HARBOUR.

MASTER'S CERTIFICATE SUSPENDED

REVIEWS.

The Comopolitan, au Illustrated Monthly, No.3

Shanghai: N.-C. Herald Oec. $.1

An enquiry, conducted by Hon. Captain Barnes Lawrence, RN, took place yesterday

With shine and confusion of countenance, morning of the Harbour Office into the circum the raviower discovers that he has misunderstood stances connected with the collision between the the "motif" of this most attractive publication, steam launch No. K 10, (master Mok Shing It is not meant to merely amuse; the anonymous Cheung,) and the steam pinnses of HM S. editor-proprietor-contributor bus a mission. Hecla in the waters of the colony on the after. What before seemed feeble humour is tein to be subtle wit, designed to awaken the populace of op of the 15th November last.

George Martin, first class petty officer, sal-Shanghai, where, to quote Tulstoy, as translated. About 4 p.m. on the 15th November I was going by the editor, "generation after generation alongside H.3.5. Erne, and when shout four live and dis without knowing why." This- lengths from her port quarters I observed the journalistis Sisyphus assays, storie anid cosided, -K 10 coming up on the starboard quarter of save by the printer's best art, to carry "the the Erne. I first saw her bows. I observed her whele (unleavened) lump" with him to the top bend going to port and noticed box heimama where his alter ego sity like a Demoeritus,. putting the wheel over to part. I then wont full speed ustern with my engines. The cox ewnia of the K 10 reversed his helm by putting his wheel over to starboard and-I-concluded the intention was to pass between my boat and the ship. I immediately went ahead with my engines so as to give him more room. There not detect the imputation, but even then our gallant contemporary has set him. was, however, in time for this and we were

self a bard row to hoo. We wish him well; struck just abaft the port beam.

and can honestly assert that, whether regarded La ham document or a mere dollar's worth of shrew 1 roading, the Cosaopolituar is not a magazinu to be ignored. When its author is murderal, and his bely sunk boyand recovery in the Yangkingpang, all available copies will' be collectal by the Municipal Council, placut in glass cases along the banks of that ninrous

An Indian, who was stated to bo the champion Indian wrestler. baying wop the gold medal in a recent competition in the colony, was a monod for riding a bicgele without a light. He was employed as a watchman in a bicycle shop, but said he was at aware of the lighting regulations. A fiue of $5 was imposed..

REFUSING HIRE.

Three sampan women were summoned for refusing to come with their boats when hailed from Murray Pior. Inspector Gould said these bats were very busy and the people haring undo His Worship agred that they people were "making too much money" and impered a tine on 'each of 83.

To the Magistrate-Tha K 10 wonkl talout

us. I did not hear a whistle blown by the K 10. I was going to the starboard gangway of the Erne.

the letters in question, which dealt with themes were, he supposed, inclined to be lazy.x boat's kingth from the Erne, when she struck arrangement arrived at regarding the case of the premises, partitioning of same, etc.

W.J. Robinson deposed to being managing director of the Robinson Piano Co., and tho premises in question were formerly in his

ALLEGED MURDER BY ITALIANS.

laughing with grief at the fat?cies and follios of Skaughai society. His policy is to foll the (slightly embroidered) truth on all occasions, and so to shook a Tabant minded mob into- what he considers common-s-ase, Shanghai

occupation under lense from Mr. Fung Wa were charged with the commission of the Heela. I was passing H.M.S. Brne which was tributary, and above will be written: Si

Chun. is lense was signed after the negotia- tions with Mr. Price. $325 rent for half the premies was a fair sun.

Cross-examined-Witno could not remem.

ber whether ho told his eclicitors to put the 1st November in the lease. He first board from the Land Co. that he could not get into lis new promises cosil after the 1st November, ffter his return from Americ. He consulted His solicitors on this, and believe they had mmunicated with Mr. Price's solicitors. When he returned to the colony he endeavoured b gets now clause inserted in the base to the eet that the demolition of the brick wall hould be carried out at Mr. Price's expense.

· Mr. Pollock submitted that the plaintiffs had 1ot made out a case at all. As his Lordship sand see, they were staing on a writ of summons--new amended--for the rout of the aremises for one mouth from the 10th October othe 9th November. The premises were describ doorrectly in the writ as being the eastern half

Two Italians, named Antonic and Gorani,

crime of murder within the jurisdiction of the Italiau consul at Mongtse, Yunanu. They wor e arrested by Detective Sergeant Murison and Sergeant Watt on Monday on board a ship leaving for Haiphong Both men denied. the charge and were remanded for a week.

1 ARCENY FROM THE NAVAL YARD, A foreman in the employ of. Messrs Funchard and Lowther, and a woman said to be his wife, wero charged with the theft of various articles to the value of $15 The woman said she was his wife, but when he repudiated her she declared she was a widow, apparently with the intention of screwing the The prisoners were remanded for inquiries to be made.

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ALLEGED ARSON.

Mok Sling Cheung, master of the K 10, said-When I first saw the steam launch of the

on my starboard beam. The Hecia's boit was on my starboard side. I blew a whistle und altered my course to starboard. I saw toy bout was going too fast so I went astern at once. Thepinnace also went astern and I struck her on the port quarter. I did not blew a whistle when I want astern.

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Robert Brookes, boiler-maker for the Kowloon Dock Co., said-I was in the K 10 at the time of the collision. When I first saw the ilerly's launch she was ahead of the Ere some distance off. I directed the master's attention to hor and told him to blow one blast on the whistle.

To the magistrate-He blew one long last ea the whistle to indicate we were going down the starboard side of the Erar. I was not aware that one long blast had no indication in the rules of the road, and that if a blast was blown the

The bearing of the shergo of arson punferred against Kwok Fat and Li Kat Hin wheelm must necessarily be altered. wern sccused of wilfully setting fire to the premises of 162 Dos Veux Road on 22nd November, was resumed, Mr. Harathons

Witness continued-Seeing that no regard. was paid to our whistle wo kept on our course and I supposed the Hecle's boat was going along. side the port gaugway of the

Erne.

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arga and valuable collection of snapshots we a speaking likeness of two Haug kong

visitors.

Shanghai: Its Sights and Scents, (A book of

view s.) Shanghai: Kofly & Walsh, 1,

Those interested by the recent photographic exhibition will find hero a remarkable collection of examples of how photos may be pistares in the true sense of the word. As illustrating that interesting city and its environs, it would be difficult to find a act of mure rate or

sivit presentments; and the printing is fully equal to the fiue plates. There are nearly fifty of these exquisite pictures, which have only to be seen to be coveted. Cannot something like it be done for Hongkong?

Ürendole, by ELLA MACMAHON, London:

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A musical novel, about an Italian virtueso

fthe ground four of Connaught Honso; that prosecuting on behalf of the Neiji and Prusa When we came up on the starboard quarter who feil heir to an English peorage, lost his

ms to say that the plaintiffs wore suing for part premises. The draft loasa was before his Lordship, and he would see that there was no

National Insurance Companies, and Mr. 0. D. Thomson defending.

of

P.S. Purr said ho remembered the fire ariation in thit, although, as his friend question which he reached shortly before mid- tentioned, there was a disprite as to which side night. On entering the godown be found a the premises should be occupied. As weighing machine, the platform and arm mntiined in the first lottar it was the intention which were burning, while three fest beyond the parties, clearly expressed on the face of was a Chinese cable, the legs and tap of which 1 kase, that the tenure of the whole premises vero alight. Further on was a cookie's bed on child commence from 1st November, 1905. trestles. Its legs were on fire, as also the top Rilordship would see, by referring to the of the bed boards. About 23 feet beyond the dra lease, that the tenure contemplated was

bed was a heap of rubbish about ten or twelve feet high. This was on fire from the ground. satire und undivisable tenure of the whole preises at a rate of $750 a month. A great | Os the left hand side of the godown between dealad been wade by his learned friend with five and six feet from the door, was

staircase which was alight from top to bettema, referece to the initial lotlers between the partie and there was no doubt that original's Alter being there about 15 to 20 minutes be the vogliations botworn the plaintiff and the noticed the bottom of the first door burning defondit wera hused upon the assomption that through, the burning patch haing about two the dedidant would go into possession of a fort square. It did not become ignited from portion the premises as soon as a certain the ground floor. There seemed to be burning partitioners erented. All these arrangements oil dropping from this patch. Sometimes it wore eakly superseded in the month of May of dropped from the first floor to the ground floor this yer. He would refer his Lordship to a letter! unt sometimes half way P.S. Gordon and of the 1 May wherein was a distinot reference himself played ty hose on this patch for to all prious correspondence which had taken about 90 iuutes int they could not extinguish place been the parties. He submitted thatst, and they called Tuspector Collett's attention that let from the Robinsou Piano Company, to it. He attributed the fact that they were which witfollowed only six days afterwords by not able to put it out to the presence of Messre. Mkinson and Grist's, enclosing a dmft kérozens oil. The thick black smoke issuing lease, w ubsolutely clear and conclusive as anything puld be that the plaintiff then took nothing unusually influromable it would, in his up the sid, we matter what the previous opinion, only have taken 10 to 15 minutos to negotiate might have beon, that the base of have extinguished the fire. As a matter of the whoeprises in question was to begin fact it took about four hours to put it ont from thels November. He did not dispute There was nothing that might have conveyed that thepwas another itka originally, but

the fire from the different chjects already the Robins Piano Co. said emphatically that described. On the top of the staircase were the lease rato comonee from that day, and

cases which wore leo on fire and obstructed the ouviensly dracted their solicitors to the same

way. Between the staircase and the articles on the 10th May opwarde there was a space where one could walk. After ++ct. position the plaintiff took up as that the

the fire he examined the debris but found Lo lease of th hole premises was to be from the

trace of deer horn. There were, however, four 1st. Neverb and notwithstanding that coun-

or five cases of ground nuts and three cases of sel for thepbatiff attempted to raise & some. what ingeis argument on Mr. Stephonx tes. During the fire he heard reports which letter of fath June regarding the partition- might have been Chinese caskers going off. ing of; if Lordship would refer to the sume

gentleman tor of the 5th July, be would find it quitar that it was not as his friend suggested.

His Tods-What do you suggest he intended?

Mr. Polie He suggested that it referred to the preventrrangement with regard to the partition.

from it smeit of kerosene oil. Had there been

P.B. Gordon, who arrived at the scene of the are after the previous witness, said he did not en the weighing machine alight, but otherwise corroborated P.S. Parr's statomout,

The houring was adjourned.

BEFORE MẸ. C. D. MELBOURNE (ACTING SECOND POLICE MAGISTRATE).

THE MURDER OF AN INDIA.N The thros Indians charged with the murder In conclsioMr. Pollock said that the only question lat or until Mr. Robinson's return of a countryman whose body was found to the Colory w the question with reference Boating in a box at Laichikok, were committed

to the matte of partition.

His Lordhipparved judgment.

LATEST STAMER MOVEMENTS.

The CPR. Empress of China arrived at Yokolioma at 9.3. on Monday, the 11th inst., and left again at pm. same day for Kobe, where she was do arriva at 2pm. to-day.

The HAL striaga via, from Hamburg,

to the Criminal Rossions for trial.

WEATHER REPORT.

The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report -

On the 12th at 13.10 p.m. The barometer has fallon rapidly over E. Japan owing to the depression which is now moving into, the

Pacific to the E. of N. Japes.

The anticyclone, central to the North of the Yangize, now covers China and a considemble

of the Eine I BOW the launel on our starboard bow and our engines were put-full Our head went off to starboard. specd astora. Our weigh was not checked, however, and the collision occurred. We were about one-and-a- Eulf lengths from the stern of the Erne when the boata collided. I noticed the launch going slightly ahead when the collision took place,

Both parties demonstrated the positions of the respective boats by moduls.

His Worship, in summing up, said. This case demonstrates the error that is frequently Made with respect to the use of steam whistles, The Herl's boat, did the best she was able to do under the circumstances, as, seeing the evident intention of the K 10 to crass her bows up to the time the latter went astern, sie also went astern. I absolve him from blame. The master of the K 19 should have known the regulations concerning the use of steam whistles closely tin and is also to blame in rounding so storù of the Erae, when he must have known that any boat coming from the starboard side would be on his starboard side, and that, there. fore, by the rule of the road he would have to gira way to her,

Mok Shing Choung's certificate was ordered to be suspended for four weeks.

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Lionel Terry, an Fnglishman, said to be well. known in art and literary circles in London, and to have been once an officer in the Bines, has confessed to shouting & Chinaman in the streets of Wellington, New Zealand, on Sept. 24, in order to call attention to the yellow Beggars Luck by NELLIE K. BLISSETT,

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told he was ont, he said he would call in the afternoon. morning. He next went to his hotel, ant half an hour in the smoking-roun, dined with a friend, and retired at eleven. In the morning ho chatted with the other guests over breakfast. and after writing some letters, called on a book- seller to ask how bis pamphlet, The Shadow of the Empiros publication denouncing alien immigration--was selling.

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fate of the Hongkong Typewriting Burean) ia by Ernest Rulford and the photographa by From there he went to the police-station, and, various exports, including Hollver. It is an

34, Queen's Road Central (Second Floor).

Hongkong, 25th October, 1905. (2479 laying a fire-chambered revolver before the sergeant, remarked, "I am the man who shot the admirable drawingroom-table book, or gift Chinese last night. Then. producing a copy book. Several of the pictures are on stiff of his pamphlet, he said, "if you read that you cartridge paper. A marvel of cheapness. will understand the matter." He was taken into- custody, and at the inquest an the Chinaman a REPRINTA-Newnes, Ld., are well to the fora verdio of Murder" was returned against him.

with the publication of dainty sprints. Anot Lord Plunket, the Governor, on hearing of the affair, seet the police the following lotter alle specimen is the edition of Sterne's Navels signed by Terry-"Sir,--Having spent several in pocket size, well in keeping with the subject years in various portions of the British Empire mattor, and though there are 720 pages, thanks loquiring into aliou immigration, and being to the wonderful modern paper, the typo is beld convinced of the evil consequeness arising therefrom, I have decided to bring the matter and clear, and the book no more than half un month, and each of the two chief Pengerans is before the public eye in a manner which will inch thick including leatherette cover. It is a to receive $500 per month. compel alfention To make this decision perfectly plain I have this evening put a China man to death.”

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Our recent telegram from Labuan confirmed by the following:-It is reported that an administration of Brunei, under British protection, has been arranged in lines. similar to thinse made in the caso of the taking over of This in reality as the annexation of the the Federated Malay Statos. Sultante

The pension of the Sultan is to be $1,000 per |

There is a probability that the erstwhile Brunei territory of Limbang, recently pur- chased from in British North Borneo Govern- ment by the Rajah of Sarawak and annexed by him without the consent of the Sultan of Brunei or all the Pengerans of Lintang itself, will eventually bo voinnorporated with Brunei,

Otherwise, it is stated, our occupation of is taken over by the British. Brunei would be useless.

left Singaporefatis port on the 9th inst., p.inerense of pressure has taken place along the Bulawayo at the time of the Jameson raid, and portrait of the author, a lady. As guide to the when the administration of the latter country

and may be exped here on the 16th inst., .gi

Tho N. stigte, From Australian ports, const.

left Port Dary the 8th just, and is due. Very strong monsoon prevails and gales are here on the 19 at: at daylight,

The CN styuan, from Australian ports, left Sydney otle 11th inst, and is due hoxe on the 5th Je

likely to continus in the Formcas Channel, and the N. part of the China Sea

Forecast:-Fresh N. to N.E. winde; dull at first, improving later.

has travelled a great deal in Canada, the West quality of the forty-add other gems of passion and poetry, the following "On Tilgrimage" Indies, and the United States. failed to preach the doctrine of opposition to

Whenever he had-an-opportunity be cover may be taken as typical :— coloured immigation. To a friend the day before the crime he said, "The question will only be settled by someone being martyred.”

Oh. youthful bearer of my palanyain, Thy glossy hair lies loosened on thy noak,

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