SUPREME COURT.
Monday, June 25th. IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.
BEFORE SI FASCIS PHIGOTT (CHIEF
JESTICE).
A DISPITER WH
Judgmont was delivered in the ease of Li Po-kwai mud'another v. Li Ling-shi. This was a claim ander will for one sixteenth part of Marina Lot. 2:84 and Inland Col 1,35%, and for an account of the rant and profits thereon.
Mr. M. W. Sindo, instructed by Mr. John Hastings, ujjmored for the plaintiffs, and Mr R. H. Sharp, K.,and Hou. Mr. II. E. Pollock, K.C., instræeted by Mr. R. Barding (of Messrs. Ewen, Harstons and Hariling represented an defendants.
and blunt in the other. This is the worent triviality because, although you may get crisp strokes on English paper the essential quality of brushwork on Chirose paper in its crispness. which the quality of English paper does not fend itself to the provision of. And his Ynk sualysis was not much butter, for I do not think in considered too carefully the conditions under | which the two signatures zasportividy were written. One point especially was worthy of his attention.
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With regard to the letter reprinted in our It is certainly a fact, if a curious one, says the issue of yesterday, a representative of the Calcutta Englishma, that of late years N.C.. Daily News interviewed Mr. Friede, the cumulative force has gathered round the teal- agent for the Siberian line, in his Shangbai ing, originally breached with trembling, that a cles, and drew his attention to Mr. Levieu's trained judge could always be trusted to give letter. Mr. Friede's explanation was as follows: a sourdie vordict on any issue even of fact or Mr. Friede's sgout at Kabe issued tickets to damages than a scratch jury; but it is needless the passeggers mentioned, to Paris and London, to add that, though Indian, julgas for the most
they Both chierachers wore obviously at the sumo tie
part sajoy very high reputations for intigerity. secure train their legal acumen status on a very different shond wite to sto the that written wit an almost dry pon, and there is accommodation. When the Ohio III. was about lovel, and it may be hope that no change in
་མས་ no telling what will result from a dry prn, to sail Mr. Friedo arrived at Nagasaki. He at Uie law affecting jury erdiets at home will be
ones informed the Trans-Siberian pawengers permitted to infrings the privilege of
jury whether it will earostly produce in the way of
that he had not yet made arrangements to fack trial which with its legal limitations is perfect- loops and flourishes all that is required of it.
Bangers further the St. Petersburg arly safe. The sweep of the reforming below in I should require much more skilled evidence Morow and purned them the excess of farm the home Bill has been vory ertensive, prae. to induce me to sort the proposition which they had paid. The only difference this tically providing for an apper in almost mado was that the passengers themariven would every casa alike on points of law or points seems to unfarlin this with'ss' widenc», that
kara to secure tickets for the continuance of of fact, and on' mentoners. ail Chinam nt all times and under all
In the judicial and their journey begoud those places, Mr. Finde other legal opposition offered to some of these giuranding to refund any suir they had to is ground for hoping that a bridle may be pat His Lorship said Li Sing was an old and feiraumstanes always write the characters of It wonki He as to have hat their mos in 93 identical manner.
pay wealthy Chinamo.
over the excess ratururd. At the same time on those that ser equally annossary and impossible for to Bud forger e
he strenuously urgral the two indies to postpono dangerous. Apart from the circumstance that of her characteristics! He must have been wily,
their departure until the next steamer, as the if all the changes set out wore sanctioneel they ovidence
WAN given. 13110 the for he conceived the idea of dividing is such
H leaving Vladivostok express
the 22nd, which would, with the further provision of 1 Fre evidence j Fatal the
was the first the War, was certain to be appen in atmest allic
Fenses, result in almost every property, or at least some $4,000,000 worth, schoolmaster's
He practicals full. All five passengers i
insisted before his death, thereby tefondant who called him. belwen is MIN
on contiuning conviction being sopended aerinst, with the their journey, though the small chanos' day hat farther, result of doubling the work of the rualding them to enjoy it without paying the pronounced in favour of the gouineness of the
of obtaining areontnodation on the express was already hasil taxed Appellate Courtan usad tribute to the fiovernment, known by signature in exhibit the balsnes shent 15-
frequently
Friede pointed out ser amplersized. Mr. the man of succession duty. He also had tonging to Tam Sai-tung. The two signatures
the difficulty of abisining rooms at Vintivostok argement which is not unuswerable, if this word the only way of sensing justinn--it is somewhat hang views, of the subjects of what had been challenged like the signatures to the should the express sa full, hat Mr. Lavien bim-resonably feared that the sense of responsibility If andertook to find quarters for the bliss. which w now v weights juries would simply disappear. belonged to it and what did not for there other duennunts, and there is no doubt that the
Mr.
ets occupy a different is one admitted instance at his having indub original case was that this document was forge who had only a returul from as inv giving Bual verdicts
Vladivosteek hut found it impossible to get a position from those who are aware of a safety in this with division among his sodiu, property ol, but this was afterwards abandoned and the
FODED room in the hotels there and haul nerording valve of appeal behind them, valued at over $38,tan, which belonged to the lements admitted to ho genuine. It is a bespoken one which he was assured would be Lai Hinge tira. It may was that with that this doesurat only related to the first til in a day or two, for the man of his sent of test instance which watches the demennour
Whte was iha on his way
way unt
• accordingly of witnessas and the surrounding circumstances declining years that delicate mental perception branch of the alleged transaction, the sale fo wired to his ugent, who hat only just arrived, of a trial is beyond question a lutter julge than wax wanting which was necessary to appreciate Li Láng, and not the transfer to the plaintiffs to amunt to get herths on the express for the the Appliate Coner, which has nothing bat the sumoslat esmplicated relations with the But if you put a case of forgery furmand and Dhie's passengers, and to give up his room to
record to guide it. "Magistrates in India have the ladies if no total eroinmodation could he some times been driven to despair by the verdicts La ing wad with former owners of shares it half of it breaks down or is abandoned, it w
poured. It turned out as he had prolisted of Appellate Courts, and the burden, has beet the property, in the lots of land now in question.quires an exceptionally strong case to support
The express was full, and to make matters worse intolerable where beside acquitting real He also mezas to have been a bit of a despot, ¦ the ease of forgery against the remain ug part. Mr. Fricki's agnat had not been able to get the offenders, the Higher Court has convicted the for certainly 1 Tsuk-chi, the executar of Li A. qua of forgery cannot, therefore, in my promised.coom of the hotel. Under the eir-
Pruustatiese na objéaliya would have been rank Ling's brother: Di Chir, did in the matter of tia | opinion be held to be established; those nee assignments to the sous what he was expected therefore dnsuments which hot to begin the passengers had remained on board, as I this was in port nearly a week. The fo do, trusting, I suppose, if he really kusw and which satisfy the requirements of the Stat-
journalist and his fries, together with the what to ww about. to correct matters to of Frauds. Judgment for the plaintiffs Punchman, took the advice given to them by Mr. Fride at Nagenti, and went on to afterwards. as he hid in Tho come above with cests.
Erkutsk by the mail train, while Mr. Pride's mentioned. The question is whethe it
agant procured arenadation on the following is not necessary to make another correctiau
wok's express for the ladies.
Mr. Friede nintains that he clearly explained to all the pa-sengers that if they insisted on proceeding without having previously booked railway herths they did so entirely at their own risk. He will not accept passengers w until he has from bisagent that train acomodation has his agent's linguistic ability. Mr. Friede states that he does speak English-though not quite Anently-but that it was easier for him to sonrarse with Mr. Lovian in German, his nativo tongue,
in the case of the property in dispute in
this action, and which was included to the
sigament to LiPo-lang. The plantiffs' story is that they wore willing to purchase a share in the property belonging to ancestor Tam Lai-
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His Lordship delivorod lifedleferred judgment in the ease in which Ho Tung sud Chung
Shua koo for the specific performance of an agreement of lease, and to recover $65,000, arrears of veut.
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Mr. F. H. Sharp, K:0, instructed by Mr. R.
His Lordship said he had alrowly intimated Just the plaintiff was entitled to julgment or the claim, sul that the defendant was entitled to judgment on the counter-claim, the question reserved being as to the amount of damages. Pan defendant, so confuse-his case with the moonct of details he introduced that it was difficult to disentangle. It was clear the front shops were finished too late, what tue
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After today's leader was put into type, i Shanghai papers arrived with the following farther referohen to the subject :~
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ling, and the way in which this was dous was by Stevenson of Mosers. Descon. Looker and baked. As regards the complaint, shout means of a parebne by Li Sing, and a retrans-Deacon) appeared for the plaintiff, while Hon. fer of the property by hám to them, the terms Mr. II. E. Pollock, K. C., instructed by Mr. M. being the payment to the vendor of $10,800 | J. D. Stephons, represented the defendant. rash and the taking over of the liabilities to thes Lat Hing of 23.800. This truusaction was proved by (1)n receipt from the Lai Hing of the sum of 8108 o from the Po Shan-tung, that is, the two plaintiffs"; (2) op entry in one of the Lai Hing books, abstracted by the plaintiff - publicly as he said—to the effect that the shore aux transferred to. Li Sing, and on the some day parted up for the same price to the plaintiffs; (3) a balance-shent boekt was defenduat was to have 'com plete persession. } of Border Dependencies, has banded up to the the ousation of the labours of the Commission are well housed and well fed, well, Date out for perusal of Po Chan-tung oxcept the Daily Press, on July 1st. In view which dealt with the amount $2.800 due to the Lai Bing: (4) a balance-shoot book of the previous year ixlonging to Tam Lai-teng in which flare is a 'recorti of the transaction so
far as it relates to Li Sing. The verbal arrange ment botween plaintiff and Li. Sing was
of his dading on to principal point in the action, that this Faily Press was not to go out. on February, defendant would not barn lot the upper for only they were finished, therefore the alleged less ke Lauts, Wegener und Co. other person was immaterial. The premises were to have been finished by Messrs. Palmer and Turger on October 15th, but they were not Saisted until November 15th. As it diffcult to assess such damages, as there were always are contingent dangas which could not actually be specified, his Lordship thought 1,500 would vorrectly express the counter- claim, thorofore he thought defendant was entitled to judgment on the counter-claim for that amount. The plaintiff would be allowed casts on the claim, and the defendunt on the
counter claim.
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The fact that such mis wrong persons,
-There are persons now in Shanghai whoị ceringes away bo of fequest ecurrence hare travelled over the line of the French is no reason for enlarging 18 sphere, and it Yuanon railway, wides lians who ben may be hoped that sure meditections of the worked on the line, all of whom tell the s.2016. liceuss of appeal on facts will be introduced story. The pity is that the majority of thos is the furtant progress of the Bill. On points win hear witness to the cruelty and oppression: of law appeals ons hardly be expanded on to which the poor patient China coclie is widely at home. With jus
judges such as we are subjected under the present gross mismanage on the British Bonen, there is ob-oluto safety ment, have not the
to interfore. The power be applicable t
main facts of the ces are theas ---The valley up and some day the remark may be
And finally as regards seu tences, which the railway in question is being carried, the in qualities of sentences bave long puzzled from the bank of the Red River saths at mission in Paris proposed in 1904 to examine 7,044) fest shove, by a valley, the Nainti, holds legal reformers The Interoutiesal Law Cera-Lankai upon to the Yuunan platem, 300 ta judges on this asticale point, with what roll such dedly malarial grass enclosed within. that British judges will is not known; though it is inconceivable, its wall-like sides, that il is practically vivisectol in order to give jurists pictures of Annames, acclimatised as they are to the fever. consent to be uninhabited. No money will iudneo either the thig working of their minds, or that uniformity breeding Red River valley; nor the Yan will to secured amongst the minds of judges so barty cuntaineers who dwell on the high us to standardise judicial penalties.
any
work within its woufiner, platean, to do
ignorant Inbourers nave to be bribed from afar. Of course ti railway has got to be built and lives burn to barished, Europong as will s native, and the French contractors for the work | Janve to get aboue somehow, by book or by crook. A Mexican correspondent of the Mining But it is the callousness to human suffering as Journal thus concludes a revent article : --We well as the neglect of their own host interest Very illuminating are the following notes by will briefly recapitulats what has been done up that appels the traveller in theses parts.
horse or the native contributor of the AC. Daily News to the present, and give a resum of the situa Chinataan is less regarded than
tion at the moment when an oscillating fall in male; these latter, of which numbers are The Lifangyuan, or so-called Mongolian Superintendency, but really, Comptrollership the price of silver will probably cause in part ompleret by the superintendents along the line!
grooms and Emperor on behalf of the Paushou Lama, an
well cared for the poor willing cookie is dumpol of Exchange and gain toight and in weight some ten or maiolaised up to within the law few days, the the great Yunnan plateau are all mularios;
puc gold about four or five Koows, whiiet the Dy. As all the world
of silver and Mexican down to shift for himself in a strange wild hud, or idel
esos has increased to the height that has been
best he
The may. valleysolong adge of! twelve ounces, together wish a "Hata" or pince Commission of Exchange and Money Rected their rich bottom lands tempt the adventurons of satin on which is written an infinite na her the sale of pesos abroad, for their equivalent in Chinese farmer to risk their cultivation in of prayers and the Buddhist-formula Mun- gold, to convert the latter into Mexican money. 1 pad mi san.
(Thou sacred person of
many places, but experience has taught him lotus). This tribute says the Lami's Lemorial Up to the present the Commission has that he dans so at his life's per Lif he passes tlu made in thankful rem, a brance of the Imperial sold Alexiean pesos for account of this night there: he consequently descends into clemency for not chepping him to pieces for his and for neonunt of the Banks of the Republic cottage on the plateau above. One would think
Regulating Fund, which it administers, the valley only in the daytime, and has his. luvolualary excursion into India.
realising in all a total sum of Lai Lama of Lhasa, and the Paushen Lam national production for exchange for the old importation of Chinese labourers for cla Dahi atud, et 1 Pope and Vice-Pope, & ibu It has received besides in froid, he bars of sunt a simple precaution, like this must bar
i suggested itself to those responsible for the of Tesbianabe, are usually designated, appear Mexican gold money, for increase of capital of frozen North into the tropical valleys of Indo- North the other must needs travel South. This foreign enplint in the cnnatry, the sum of hats for the cooliee on the higher fud did to be so opposed to each other that if one goes banks, and for the investment of the fresh Chins. If this natura! precaution of providing has been the state of politics for yours in Tibet 13,813,5.10 pesos, making a total of 40,578, suggest itself, a murderous sonomy prevented where the partisans of ench incestaully intrigue against one another in the yameas of the pesos, which the Commission hold in coined as precaution from being carried out even within the walls of the Lifangynsa, oramennt which might have been taken from the poor Jamaica coolies in Chinese Imperial Resident in Lbassa and gold or gold to be coined. The 13,000 dd the wretched colies were dumped down of the second anm large y compensates for the and left to perish, much as were the the old days at so-called Mongolian Superintendency Matters cireniation of the country, for remittances mail-Panama-with the reasita, AS a trench apparently have, not changed even to this day, sbroad by private It should be noted traveller recently through the district informed
persons.
retnitt. the writer of this letter, that, of the first batch Lama's trip to India reached the ears of the
auces to be large, for they were not Bufciently len thousand men, one third were deal Delai Lama at Urga, Mongolia—for news,
From the sun of close on remunerative.
within three moncha
ths of their arrival in the travels slowly in those parts, the Paasben Lama forty
half millions, which in the fatal gerge Ne wonder they try to escape, having already returned to Tibet from his fty and a
total racaived in gold by the Commission, terring their wages behind. One canost but Indian trip than wood that the senior Baddhist has taken into bis head to throw 14815,500 pesos have been coined up to ured feel for then I do, and I shamefacedly enclose Linself into the open arms of the Russians of 12 lat Consequently, there rennsins to be
is
for
of
the
Mr. Sharp asked his Lordship, to considero sooner has the news of the Panalier that it has not been passible for them i
ung had been well advised be would bare Se
delectation of the Emperor in Peking, is wording to reliable accounts, astuuch fear of the British Goverment of whose might
aud bo has had ccular evidence. strength
Indeed
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in the stars it will receive in gold in bars antion productia to the value of from 8:41601 to 1,000 0 pesos every month.
The balances of the total coisage is-ned up
$11
my mite
FRANCOPLE.
the
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BABY TODD'S CURE
OF SORE EYES
Over Two. Years of Awful Suffering→
Eyes Stuck Together and Would Bleed When Washed Open in the Morning-Every Lash Fell Out.
ANOTHER WONDERFUL
CURE BY CUTICURA
"I feel it my duty to tell of two most wonderful cures of sore eyes by Cuticura Ointment. My little non had an stţick
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"I had heard a lot about Cuticura Olut- ment, so I thought I would try it, and frura the first application I have had aust to be thankful. Before I had used oue box of Ointment the lashes showed
signs of growing, and at the end of a few months he had a crop of lashes of which any person might be proud.
"I recommended Cuticura to a Mrs. Phillips for her chiid, who also had sore eyes, and her little one was cared with less than one box. I have advised dozens of people to use Cuticura Ointment, often stopping them in the street, as I diri Mrs, Phillipa, who was a total stranger to ine.. I have such implicit faith in it that I have written to relatives in England and Ire- land telling them of its wonderful virtues, sad asking them to reccomend it to any sufferers they might know.
"I am sending you this testimonial of my own free will, in the hope that others may be benefited as we have been. (signed) Mrs. C. Todd, Old South Head Road, Waverly, Sydney, N. S. W." - Ref- erence, Messrs. R. Towns & Co, Sydney. Butlers Roup, lotment, and Plans weld thenighout the world, Depina : Landan, 17 Charterhouse S.; Pardes Har do * Puik, Australia, H. Temos & Co., Sydwej. Potter Drug & Mrs Buston, T. A Role Print Skin and Scale"
led Free. "Ikaw lu Omen for
50-19
tendered in evidence and objected te. I admitted it subject to consideration. I do not, however, discuss this question, for although the artdence is interesting, it is not of such it portages that ita rejection would have seriously prejudiced the plaintiffs' ons, her would it of tself be sufficient to support the plaintif case. The defencs to the action in a general denial, which in the box took the following farms. The frat defendunt did not appear, Coupeol stating that she was a Chinese farly and the fore could not or would not we into the box. A dangerous doctrine as it seems to me when the lady has been taking the costa in cospecting with the counter claim.
or less active part in the man A tore
The matter of costs was in his Lordship's #gemont of an estate, and one to which
discretion, and his Lordship and god grounds in the absarco of more light I munot zubscribe. The second defendant went into for disallowing the costs of Chung Shun
i tau taela contribution which I beg has kilberto been handicapped by the superior. the box and shock his i end to everything. In koo. Defendant refused specific performanso
on the grounds that the plaintiff had expressly the North, apparently for no other reason the 2005 of which 10000 pesos you to forward to your Kweichou correspondent cheapuese of New South Wales coal. If that some things his negatives were equivalent to
promissi that the Daily 'ress should leaves in tonet is opposition to his rival of Teshilumbo will be receivet from Philadelphia, according had so give me at lost the satisfaction of handings hemmer remored the du serlend palpable unauths. I must not omit to meu" February, This was his case; and Mr. Sharp This persoanga, in spite of his equirucal contact, and the balance will be coined } knowing that I shall have provided a thou and allieries may have a welcome chuteg
these circumstances, it is not warprising that tion the fact that the plaintiff i l'o-kwai is submitted that he should wholly prove that case.
memorial to the Lifangyuan for the special co. The Commission calculates that meals for the starving wayfarers.
the Hunter River colliery divers should base bazitated in determining the amount of a ivance not wholly blameless in this respect. In ons
His Lordelup said he thought on the whole
to be doslared Tim-alone can show whether particular his evidence fell short of the state that that part of the case could alwage have
their action w justift ible or otherwise. If the ments sup, lied to his Counsel, and secondly, beun separated from the case as put forward. Pauelen Lam.'s memorial alleging harsh to the proanthat, is to say, 5,865,810 pesos.
former. we may be prepared to bear of further inspite of L's denial thers seems to have lusin . It certainly was put forward in a complicated, treatment received by him at the band of the/Gas bith allotted, part to the banks of the
step is the same direction.—Seducg Trade no doubt that he was present at the division confusor, and so very
Simultaneously with the great coal strike in Review. honest way. The Britísk las drocived no-stie. It was composed | capital, part to the public treasury, and part the United States a movement has been m of property at Li Sing's hense on April 3 defendant disassociato himself, in bis Lord. and sent up te Poking for form's sake and to private persons
All the sales of peos effected by the Com- menced in Australis for raising the prices of THE MISHAP TO THE " MONTAGUE.” Ute. No ligel contingencies seem to me to attach to his presence: the utmost that can be ship's mind, from the main cus, aud if Ho! we bare now the spectacle of the Buddhist Pope mission hare beau made without any loss, and esal, al lough but a few months back itu pared! femekling to the Russians jus because the Vice
It was reported that the salvage operationa Pope is known to be friendly towards the sold at a Ligher price. On the other hand, as American troable had anything to do with the and & false bottom was being made to cover the sone it be made a profiton derived from psas as if further red tone would become neo-ssary
early date.
Whether the anticipated on the battleship Montague had been "remmed British,
freight on sums of
teled to the inter gold patche
zetion of the Australian colliery owners les yet holes, while the cooks auderneath were being had been paid by the
ra, but this was Commissi
to be seen, but concerted action on the part of blasted with a view to towing her off. In this not caused extra expense, for these sums were derisal from the r miltures frogs Philadelphia, those in the Hantar River district as for some ananection a Times of Ceylon reporter
the and were sent direet to their destination.
tims sppeared inevitable, in view of the keen 8. Thorpe of Colesbo who as an engisor. The uzarthing of the Bible City of Raxusos, ten millions that are still to be received from competition in & comparatively limited market, has had varied and practical experience in built by Israelites, was the subject of a most Philadelphia will be in soins of pan.
and the increased cost of winning the coal repairing ships. The principal thing interesting address delivered at University
As stated above, the Commission con ider that thereby gutting the margin of profit extremely said, is the damage done and the
position of her " College, London, to June 17th by Professor the success of the monetary reform is a surd, fine. Nearly the whole of the Hunter River the skip. Without this data it is Flinders Petrie, v
who had just returned from anand as the price of silver has slightly declined, colliery owners have formed a combine," the difficult matter to say bow the repairs to the area-ological expedition in Egypt.
battleship are being effetzl," Asked as This how professor said it was surrounded by a square of such time as conditions will a'low of some pries fully is per ton, if not more.
would enable them tu ittle profil.
give 17 nisa) er -- Probably they are making a bottom, from unbaked brick walls, which wer probably
This is not to my however, that the Com of 4 per ton in the hewing rate. thus the inside. There are many ways of putting document No. 5 of Li Sing, are forged. Au - A selfior of the inchi Agiment prosent-thirty fire feet high in size the town was that mission has bad for its ain in ab its operations assisting in allaying the discontent prevalent on a false betts. From all assunta I have old schoolmaster was tenderat an export ined a Chinoman for the theft of St. It appears of the one square mile" City of London. to make a profit for the public treasury, but only amongst the cual miners. But the questions in the papers, I think it is being pat on
The western and southern walls were each to carry eat a public strics in favour of the arises as to how far the adtunce is the walling from the inside." handwriting and in his view the signature to that one day last week the Baluchi came to broken with a great gateway, Passing through baults and the country in genorst, without any price will affect the over een export trade, in added: "The rocks an be blasted with- four was genuine, so that the charge of forgery Hongkong with 545 in his pocket. He chang- the western gets one entered immundiately upon other limit than that of ant diminishing the view of the low rate at which Japanese coal car out damaging the ship. We do not know the
ed a five dollar bill into small money at a money-enclosure in which stood the temple of the city.
broad pathway, which lol to a large square regalating fund of the muetary circulation, be pincel or many of the markets. had a non-restricted ares. The expert con-
It is here position of the Montague, and it is impossible sidered that the signature Yak" to the mechanger's and wrapped the silver with the notes founded 3,000 R.C., or before. Thecity contained Which amounts to 10,000),(kr) pesos, zod which where the element of uncertainty entors into for us to give an idea as to how the repairs
may be pres med that the are being done! and that of Li Sing to Ave, were not gumine, in a handkerchief which he placed in his breast the great storehouse of Syrian tribute, and was
Besides converting of the silver into goll, associated colliery proprietors are not preparing "Suppose that the boles could not be got at His standards of comparisons were as, to pocket. The Chinamen jostled him and one inbabited by the Elykes or Shepherd Klogs.
Buch substantiuf reasons for so doing, but, at If the holes of the ship cannot be got at the Yuk" a document produced by Six made off with the handkerchief cutaining the Jess outside the city was the temple of Cpina. Commission had in its caro the re-coinage to raise the alling prices without having good from the i side, bow would the work bo done
present The home market may bear the advanco, but, patching from the outside, provided you sau under any circumstance, it must be some time reals the bottom. For this the rock will have before, American stocks become sufficiently to be blasted. The usual method is to
patch deleted to necessitate, replenishing at advanced the holes with teak wood padding, us we did in ratos. Any cral shortage in Aineries would be the case of the mishap to the Pris: Hemrich felt principally in the authracite supply, and here
at Gall. In this cas the Montague is Queensland right find its long-looker for steady, hard and fast on the top of a rock. The opportunity. That State has sums of the largest teak wood pads would be used with some soft anthracite fields in the world, bat bas yet to staf which would adhere to the bottom of the a market. The Dawson River and other ship. In the case of the Prins Heinrich pals have been successfully tested by the British after patching the boles from the outside the Admiralty, but a demand bas still to be created water was pumped out from the inside, and the The Queensland coal-mining industry generally pressure of the water from the outside kept the
pads well fastened."
cantia. i
of corts would obtain.
said of it in that it affords grounds for
that there was some delay in the Daily Preat ecment. As to the delay in bringing is not going out until July. The ordinary rato action, that of coarse goca to £is oredit, but I canot attach
d-finite any gencies to this delay and the question of credit really hardly arises. I have been obliged to notice these waiter been us they were go into
# the trial, but
POLICE COURT.
Monday, June 25th.
Porter MAGISTRATE),
he whole and sole defonce rests on the Statute BEFORE MR. F. A. HAZELANI (SECOND of Frust More fully it is alleged that the signatures to the documents 1 hare numbered two and four, and also
to un intermediate
CUT MIS QUECENTO-
UNEARTHING A BIBLE CITY.
day
31r.
to
Describing the city as it had been, the it proposer le suspend further purchases of gold principal object being to advance the selling the fa'se battom would be pat on he said:
about
the Government placed at its disposal.
question. It
Tak-fan known to contain this genuine Yuk ", money. The Baluchi gave chase aid captured twenty miles north of Cain, and this way of the fractional mones, upon which it has these are cut apparent to outsiders, from the inside the repairs will be done by
waxworked with great activity.
and for the Li Sing a series of gnaturse on the thief, who in the meantime had passed the sixtythe way aloped up wer, which over
discovered
piter
A great
WEATHER REPORT.
removing a large earthmoned fest. deep. The
main entrance was to the documente admitted to be genuine. I protest money on to a confederate. Determined to
through four or five houses to against persons going into the box to give escape at all costs, the Chinaman pulled a knife res
shadowed the road, From the from his pocket and cut bis quena, leaving it in dow
description expert evidence who ignore the elements ou
given
On the 25th at 12.20 p.m.-The baremeter has temple were identified in every respect. and
Pressure is highest over the part of the Kan-po compares A
character written on followed him till the thief ran up an entry the basis of the temple itself, which was just Chisa Sea in the South, and probably over E. Chinese paper with others writton ou glazed Here, the soldier kept guard until the arrival of balf the size of Salomon's temple. Within a Japan is the North. The Japanese relurus English paper, and in part bases his opinion the police, who ultimately secured the thief. mile of the city s large cemetery was unearthed, are, however, lacking.
He was sentenced to threa wooks' hard labour and in the graves were found beads, nocklaeas,
Moderate S. to 8.B. winds are indicated in certain strokes being sharp in
amulets, and other small personal relies which it the Formens Channel and the N. part of the was then customary to bury with the dead.
China Bea.
which such opinions should be founded; Ho the hands of his captor. Again the Bainch; by Josepbas the outer and inner courts of the risen over the Chin wast and Formosa.
OR
end six hours in the stocks.
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