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A. S. WATSON
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6rv, 1906.
sare Darwin's immortal hypothesis, and the whole scientific world has been thinking hard since Professor FIBRAE CENE and bis wife, by a loug series of fusions. | solutions, and crystallizations hunted down & CO., the element responsible for this newly noted property of matter. It the sure ransists of only a fraction of queer cent of radium (and the solar presence of helium has been known for twenty-five years) it wil noemut for and make good the heat that is annually lost. The su is not cooling, then, and it has now, within
Trooper Henchman has resigned from the TELEGRAMS H.K.V.C. on leaving the Colony,
The Colonial Exhibition at Parie has a section devoted to Yannan. This seras sinon what anticipatory,
The Loft No. 2 Company, H.K.V.C., is to have a spoon competition at Tai Hang Range on Sunday, 16th inst.
the
The following telegram was received from Government of Burma yesterday
port removed".
WATER these last five years, become evident that "Restrictions against arrivals from Hongkong
the earth's material is not self-cooling, but A very on the contrary self-heating".
MANUFACTURERS.
WE SPECIALLY RECOMMEND OUR LATEST PRODUCTION,
The German steamer Spala which collide
("DALLY PEXAS" RECLUSIVE BERTIGE.}
FLOODS IN BENGAL.
LONDON, September 5th. Extensive floods have devastated the district around Behar.
have
The indigo and food crops been ruined, and many villages have been obliterated,
SUPREME COURT.
Wednesday, September 5th, BEFORE Mr. A. G. Wise (Prissa Johor).
A BILE TRANSACTION.
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Ng Sea-kong and Ng Ym-hui, partners the Kan Wo silk firm of Cautoo, sued the Tai Wo firm of this Colony to recover the sum of $1,600 duo for goods sold and delivered.
Mr. C. F. Dixon (of Mr. John Hasting's offico appeared for plaintife, and Mr. J. Gerdiner (of Mr. O. D. Thomson's ofen) for doferdants.
Mr. Dixon said the Kwan Wo firm were wholesale silk merchants in Canton, while the defendant firm wore silk merchants in Hong kong. The plaintiffs claimed $1,000), balance
HONGKONG CONTRABAND CASE
IMPRISONED HEAMES RECOVER WARES.
Mr. Justice Lawrence fa'the King's Honek Division has given judgment in "Caine and othara v. the Paleos Shipping Co." for the plaintiff wamon, writes our London represanta- tive.
They were nine men of the 8.3. Franklyn, who were imprisoned at Hongkong for refusing to go to Japan because their carge was coal (con- .traband). They claimed wages from the timo they left Hongkong until they reached England. They also claimed damages for malicious pro-
secution.
nail quantity of ralixim diffused through | with the British stoamer Strathmore under NEW MAN-OF-WAR LAUNCHED due for goods sold and delivered. The amount (They sailed from Glasgow, taking Welsh coal
the earth suffices to maintain itstemperature against all loss by radiation. Where geology Binde the physicists grudgingly allow a hundred million years as lifetime for our bit of cosmos fit used to be only ten millious, and with biblickaters CHAMPAGNE only a few thousands) they will
ORANGE
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circumstances already recorded was yesterday arrested when about to proceed to Cantan.
Yesterday at Wai Oi Fat Youk, a commemo- reuenahleration rvice in honor of the fiftieth anniver mary of the arrival of Dr. R. H. Graves in Centor, was to have been conducted by his Chinese friends.
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The Queen Dowager of Italy, Marguerite of Savey, be informed Mr. Oyama, the Japanese minister at Rome, that she intends to pass the autumn of next your in Tokyo mud other Japanese towas
A private Japanese company is trying to arrange for the establishment of a Japanese, calony in Alberta, Cannes, and is engaged in ring the requisite land. This will be the first Asiatic colony in Western Canada.
A Chiengo millionaire ordered a replica of the Venus of Miks to be delivered to his home. When the case arrived sad was opened, the millionaire, the Bystander says,
discovered
LONDON, September 5th. Viscountess Ridley has launched the Lord Nelson.
NAVAL CHANGES.
Mr. Justies Lawrence in giving judgment mentioned that the men had agreed to serve for three years in Intitudes that included Japan.
on board at Cardi. and at Hongkong thes mou learned that they were to go to Sasobo, They considered this dangerous, and refused, His Lordship presseded: "They were taken
before the Harbour Master, a Lieutenant
in the Royal Navy, who appears to have boom
of the debt was $1,028,9, but the 328,98 had been almodoned to bring the claim within summary jurisdiction. The defendants sont their managing partner to Canton to order these goods because goods had best previously orlered in exactly the same way and saut to Hongkong Prices were arranged in Canton at the time the goods were ordered, which the witness who took if any say so, the resident magistrate; and he committed them for seventy days molitary eho order wnd toll his Lordship, and
candinement, on the charge of impeding the he would also say that he wrote down the navigation of the ship, eader was of the goods ordered, together with the prices sections of the Merchant Shipping Act. Tho LONDON, September 5th.
charged therefor in bis rough order book.
men were marched, handeafed, through the Rear Admiral Henry Deacon Barry, The goods wore subsequently want to defond-
streets to the prison, where they did their C.V.O., Admiral-Superintendent of ant firm together with a letter and a bill
was taken to Sasebo by a crew of Chiname. containing the list of goods and the prices. Renty days. In the meantime, the vossed Portsmouth Dockyard, succeeds Rear No exception was then taken, but later the The men, on their release, wore sent home as
charged were not the proper ones. Admiral the hon. Hedwirth Tannb-defondants raised the question that the prices,
repressulative to Canten for the purpose of Ton, C.B., C.V.O., to the command of then wrote defendants inviting them to send a the Third Cruiser Squadron.
Aamining their books. A man was sent and Commander Charles Napier Robin- | must have satisfied the defendauts with his examination, for nothing further was said for a long time. Plaintiffs continued son, R.N., has been placed in sharge
thamou of last year Ng Sz-kong came to Hongkong to compare looks with the defendant exactly to see whether the accounts sgried.. the
Plaintiffe
farnish
there were no arms, su threatened to bring of Portsmouth Dockyard, and Com-defendants with accounts readored, and in the an action against the railway company forlore Spencer H.M. Login, C.V.O., damages. The company sent an oficial to in- quire into the matter. found that the arms were indeed missing-sad paid.
concede a million millions, de, as - Professor LANKENTER put it. "as many more 218 wo AND want".
Some of us may in future feel -WHOLESOME A MOST REFRESHING SUMMER BEVERAGE, less guilty when accused of “wasting tinu”. POSSESSING THE FULL FLAVOUR | For there is no end to it time threatens to jte prolonged so long that "eternity" Jannot OF THE FINEST FRESH
begis: radium loser fifty per cent of itself AN IT MAKES IDRAL by dissipation in about fifteen hundred FRUIT. DRINK FOR TENNIS PARTIES AND years, hut RUTHERFORD of Canada has discovered that it is constantly being BATHING PICNICS.
formed afresh. The scientists give us the WE ALSO STRONGLY RECOMMEND great wheel of Buddhism, but hold wat ne hope for should we say fear?) of airvam. Passing over the discovery of a missing link" in morpliography, and other additions ta fossil evidence; and merdy noting that the only fundamental distinction between animals and vegetables has been brushel away by the discovery that protoplasin through plant-cell FINEST JAMAICA ROOT BY has continuity even OUR OWN SPECIAL PROCESS AND walls by canals, and threads halagous
to our veins and gorfes; we must still along the Pacif: Coust. The practice has IS THE ONEY SUCCESSFUL PRODUC-
pause to draw attention to the fact that TION OF ITS KIND IN THE FAR there are two kinds of psychological re-
search, and that Professor LANKESTER does "erimps" and the two Governments are deter- not respect those "enthusiasts who bave mined to put a stop to it as far as they are able. The Acting Conni General for the Nethor- been eagerly collecting ghost stories and recordis of human illusion and fancy" Wlands bas received telegraphic information from the Governor General of the Dutch East Indies
STONE GINGER
BEER
WHICH
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BREWED FROM
EAST.
THE
The Dominion Government has appointed a Commissioner to 20 in conjunction with an American Commissioner in an investigation, of the praction of crimping," which reported to b flourishing at ports:
H
been reported to the authorities by sailors who have come within the clutches of the
would way that the book he saw. A.D.C. to His Majesty the King, has heen given rommand of the Ports-agreed with the one which would be exhibited mouth Reserve.
THE HAMBURG-AMERIKA
LINIE...
WILL INCREASE ITS FLEET.
LONDON, September 5th. The Hamburg-Amerika Linie issues one million new shares or the
before the Court. The defence was that pleinties had not given the defendants oradit for certain mouice paid by them. The spraker and his client had hud an inspection of the documents in Mr. Thomson's, office, and is client was of opinion that some of them were not genuins, the chops thereon not being the chops of his firm.
503 HIL and this action Was
from recover the wages dos brought to the time they left Hongkong to the time they arrived in this country. The points taken by the defence were that the men were bound by their article to go to Sasebo, if required; that they had broken their contract; that they were the claim for malicious prosecution could not be sustained because the proceedings did not legally convicted and sat to prison and that
objection and that part of the claim wEN abandoned at the trial. Defendants also pleaded that the men's services came to an end upon the terminate in the men's favour. That is a good
conviction, and therefore they were not entitled to wages, The question that romains is whether having boou convicted by a complent coart of summary jurisdiction the meni could go behind that and claim their wages. "I shall hold
that the men were within their rights in refusing to proceed to Sasebo, and that the conclusion arrived at by the Harbour Master was contrary to the law of this country; I therefore come to Be conclusion that the men are entitled to their wages up to the time of thoir the defendants paid the amount in full before arrival in this country. Julgment will thoro-
Evidence was called in support of the plaintiffs' claim, after which.
Mr. Gardener said the defogue was that
AIS. WATSON & CO... \ could have wished that when rehabilitating that the port of Hongkong has been declared Purpose of raising capital to increase Chinese New Year. This would be borne out by fora be for the plaintiffs, for wages they are
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entrice in their books.
entitled to severally, up to the date of arrival His Lordship then beard the evidence for the
in this country. defence, after which, in summing up, he stated
Mr. Hamilton, for the defendants, then
alone of the two parties be would non-suit the defendants, this was a very important matter" no longer subject to GERMAN COLONIAL DEPART-that apart from-anything else, on the boolsessked for a stay of execution in order that the
as "bodly na" bis" "Lordship bad over seen any
to the shipping world, might consider their papared to pay the books kept in bis life, while the defendants' were
mony, together with the taxed custs, intu
METSCHNIKOFF's interesting doctrine of to be not any more infected will, plague, so that the number of ships in its flect. phagocytosis, Profesor TANKESTER had ships or vessels arriving in Netherland India given us his opinion of Pat HuHLENHUTH'S from Hongkong are
certain articles from Hongkong is also with- researches with allemen, leading to a
drawu and all goods can now be imported into regrouping of mammalian species. He appears to have ignored this important these colonies. discovery altogether, with less excuse than Onur communications relating to the news solumn he had for skating over many subjects.
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With his plea for more consistent govern- ment support of scientific research we are in sympathy, though not with his method of bringing it about. There may be too much" tiling with classical literature and absorption in athletics", but were not sure
Á enrious accident happened to the steam from Sam Chou, a junk signalled for a tow, and launch Ying Fat on Tuesday. While on the ra No sooner had the launch drawn alongside than the sound of something in the water falling was heard, followed by the Ying Fat becoming un manageable. Then it was discovered that the propellor hail dropped off. The Ying Fat lo turn had now to signal for assistance, and in a
Losnos, September 5th. Dernburg has been appointed the German Colonial Departament.
An
to
REDTER'S SERVICE. HEAT WAVE IN EUROPE.
LONDON, September 3rd. precedented heat wave is passing
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Mr. Justice Lawrence, on those terms, granted a stay of execution for 14 days, and on the money and costs being paid into court a stay up to and including the appeal,
faic. Apart from that point it was admitted court. that the gooda were purchased in Canton at a | certain figure which had been arranged. It was xlo admitted by the plaintiffs that defendants write and complained of the prices, but that lettes was luat. Then the plaintiffs practically told the defendants to fix their own pricus; at least that was what they said they did. Their that under section 16d of the Merchant Ship- was obvious: the plaintiff firm was ping Act, his Lordelip had power to award, over and above the wages, damages, not exceud- ing £20 for each man.
reason
hear the supply is limited. "Only supplied forfash, clint the messary educational reform lies short time another launch came along-kle, and over Great Britain; the thermoseter is on its asb legs, and they were only too
Telegraphic dááros: Pazne, Codes: 4.3,0.
Frieber:
P.O. Boe. 33. Telephone No. 12
Ed
Thea the defence was that the
disabled craft to Hongkong.
a contract was entered into for taking the registered over 90 in the slude for several anxious to get any money in.
days. Footballers and the spectators at the evidence for the
Mr. Ross Brewn asked his Lordship ta award the plaintiffs damages, pointing out
Mr. Justice Lawrence declined to give ab
matches have been prostrated and carriedaintiffseaine down and amended the prices, judgment as to damages.
and his Lordship' believed that altogether.
Iel us close by quoting in the direction of teaching all our jonug people science.
A liftmaker was working at his offies Late PROFESSOR LANKESTER'S rather ent ex-
one night, when the telephone bell rang, ant LICNOKONG OFFrex: 10A, DES Vaux ROAD C.planation of the government neglect. "The
renson is", he thinks," to be found in the an agitated voice raid that it was Lady Blank caught fire; it is believed that the rafters | plaintismazagor gave a receipt for Talk 532 Loving Orvica: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C
The
Daily Press.
VonGKONG, SEPTEMBER 6TH, 1906. Most of us being too busy parsuing the equivalent of bread and batter to devote the time and study necessary if we would Topistemologically up-to-date, we should
thankful that Profesor RAY LANKESTER, President of the British Association, has ande his anual address take the form of a historical survey of scientific progress, in he last quarter of a century. That progress, which we likened a year ago to the cautions building of a pier out into an ünmeasured se, has certainly been more than usually pronounced in the last two decades. We are in nearer to a solution of the everlasting riddle of the universe, but we have advanced to a stage where nearly all previous solutions have to be discarded. The PROFESSOR was careful, to point out that, startling as many recent discoveries bad beer, nothing that was really scientifi in the past had been put to
defective education, both at school and University, of our governing class, as well as in a racial dislike among all classes to the establishment and support by public funds of posts which the average man may not expect to gain by popular clamour or class privilege-posts which must be hel·l by men of special training and mental gifts".
M. Augenloant has been appointed governor of French Iudia
Col. W. H. H. Waters, C.V.O., C.M.G.. half-par, is appointed Brigadier-General to command the Troops in North China.
who spoke, and that a man was to be sent immediately to put her lift right. It had stuck between the floors. The liftmaker, the Manchester Guardian stuter, replied that every one had gone, and that he would send some 120 in the morning. The lady exclaimed, But 301 giving & dinner party, and~~~."130 was helpless. liftmaker interjected that o
But there is a lady in the lift" cried the voice,
If the
off the fichls. A Hospital at Northampton Agais, foro was the receipt question; the
were.iguited by the sun; many cases of corn atacka, petroleum tanks and trees catching fire have occurred.
!
SUCCESS OF THE "GJOA.”
LONDON, September 3rd. The Norwegian Polar Exploration vessel Gjon has reached Nome, Alaska, completing
the North-weet passage.
THE UNITED STATES.
Henry Jones, aged 4, of Bethnal Green,
LONDON, September 3rd. The strike of Canton chair poolies is reported was sitting in a chair talking and laughing one day last mouth, and afterwards fell back
President Roosevelt has reviewed at dead. At an inquest, the widow stated that to be settled.
her husband was a very heavy cigarette Oyster Bay, the greatest fleet of Americau smokor.-Dr. Jenkins, of Cambridge-road, warships es er assembled, to the number of asid that death was das to heart failure from forty-three. Mr. Bryan's advocney of a disease of that organ.-The Coroner : mau had a weak fatty heart, and was always State ownership of railways, is considered smoking cigarettes, it would tend to make him to seriously jeopardis bis chances of the Yes.-The Coroner told Presidency and powerful influences are now worse-Witness: the jury to take warning and if they felt a agitating for the re-election of President
Coase Roosevelt giddiness, or shortness of breath, to smoking cigarettes, or they might fait and The V.B.C. jutend giving another nocturnsidie.-A. verdict in accordance with the doctor's
The sound sports will eridence was returned.
Our new fate on the 14th inst. be held this mouth, not as previouely stated, in
at
II. E. The Governor will be "At Home Mountain Lodge on Tuesday, the 11th inst., from 4.30 to 6pm.
Desember.
Convention with China, just published, has the effect of giving final regalarily lo our relations with Tibet and completing the diplomatic and other measures of India upon that particular side. Chinese Government confirme our owe agree It is stated that the Japanese Prince Fushimi, ments with Tibet on the subjects of British
LAWN BOWLS.
In a quiet unobtrusive way the members of the Police Clab have been giving their atten- tien to the game of bowls on their ground at Happy Valley and as a result they have attained no little skill with the woods.
A rink
The Chinese Resident at Tibet has asked Hliame permission to introduce silver money to replace Science was not bankrupt: had not come to the Anglo-Indian paper money in circulation of the late Government for the safety and quiet competition has been inaugurated, in which no
the end of her work: had, indeed, only as
yet given mankind a foretaste of what sho
ia Tibet.
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fewer than ten rinks have entered, and some interesting matches should eventuato. At any rate the new organisation will be welcomed
has la store for it. He reminds us of at present at Dalny on beard the man-of-war | trade and foreign interference, and engages in by the two other bowling clubs. the discovery of argon (the lazy gas) and Naniwd, will go to Peking to visit the Emperor its own par "not to permit" political in
The
the subsequent finding of three equally inert, neon, krypton, and xenon. spectrum process which revealed these had shown Sir WILLIAM LOCETERA. helium in the sun, and nov-only two years
of China.
A Chinaman attempted to obtain a thousand the Mairie of Cholon, but the fraud was detected pisstres by presenting a false lottery ticket at
and he was arrasted.
trusion upon the territory of its vassal. This is more important in the view of principle than the document is that which binds ourselves, as of practice, and the really effectice clause of
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
The E. & A. str. Australian, from Sydney, &c,
this port, and is due here on Friday morning
and side only received Tuels 406. If a GR was fool enagh to keep his books as be did, and give receipts for money he had not received, thị ho deserved to suffer.
Mr. Disk-What does your Lordship say about the gueness of the chops!
His Lop-1 say you have been paid with the exgion of $7.88. I so the whole
The plaintif on suited with costs, things the Hes, word nineuded by consente
THE ROW HONGKONG GOLF
CLUB.
POLICE COURT,
Wednesday, September 6th,
BEFORE ME. F. A. HAZELAND (SECOND POLICE MAGISTEATE)
Kweng Loong Shop, 42, Hing Loong Street, was charged with the farceny of aurated water bottles the property of Mr. F. P. Dannenberg.
Mr. Otto Kong Sing defearled. The defence was that the bottles Ind bean collected by mis- take. The prosecutor had learnt that a caso of his bottles had been shipped by the defendant per the steamer Chan On for Wuchow, and he went to the Refeudent concerning the matter. Together they went to the ship and the case of For the Sephor meeting, the following bottles was landed again. Sub-equently fifteen
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mere bottles belonging to the prosecutor wera found on defendant's premises.
Mr. Otto Kong Bing for the defence cross- examined prosecuter with a view to proving that these bottles had been paid for by the customers of the prosecutor; but Mr. Danaaberg said that he did not charge his customers for the bottles, which were moroly, lant to them. If one or two bottles were broken the firm bore the loss and not the customers. His Worship thought it a very reasonable explanation.
The charge was altered from larceny to one of wrongful possession and his Worship impred
Mr. R. M. Grus, H.A
(28 extr The post competition wheld at Happy ate of $100. Valley from 8th to 10th Robertan Farewell Cap.
ember for the
A correspondent in the "Nature" gives a very remar
number of
THE COTTON OUTLOOK.
of the strength of a beetle lustration August 7th
Aphodius Fosser," which lecimen of inch in length, hasing flown in be put the lid of a tin box of
it looks as if
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we shall
A Manchester correspondent writes, on
The latest telegraphio reports of the condition of the American cotton crop half an
most encouraging, the state of the plant being window, better than for one years past. There appears beetle walked about bearing the libat the to be every probability of a larger yield th He then put the tin box on the top back, last season. It is rather too soon to give our own
elinate of the crap.
crop, but and was absolutely sourced to flid, have, if good weather continues, an atau of
the bales more than cotton year just eloxing. Then the East Indian crop is doing very well clase pon 12,000,000 baler or overtant of
Washington Bureau crop report. Some authori ties in Manchester look for lower prosperous. On Friday last New York at is
arises a good Bombay demand for pisos goode Oriesne were lower on the publicstion of w
it will be a good thing for Lancashire. later on, but this remains to be seca cloth mater
the
box
left Manila on the evening of the 4th inst. for insect filled up a corner of the vort The C.P.B. tr. Monteagle arrived at Yoko. and lid, and nearly escaped. The weit well so the Chiuose, to take "such stops as may
bama at 7 a.m. on Wednesday, the 5th inst., beetle when dead was. 4-grain, alis the indeed, and we hear that the plant in Egypt is be necessary" to make the Tibet Convention a Yesterday morning the upper verandah at reality. That means that our right of active and loft again at 5 p.m. Exame day for Kobe, have been little more; but the box The A.L. str. Persia left Singapore for this tu a man lifting a tolerably large konse ago-it was ascertained that helium was a 281 Des Vorx Road collspel, carrying the Intervention is formally recognised, and that where she is das to arrive at 5 am. on Friday, weighed 1,758 grains. The feat is cold
gigantic. the 11th inst. product of radium. The discovery of radio-lover with it in its fall. Fortunately no one our dealings with Tibet coret for the future the 7th in
HENRI BRUQUEREL was injured. The Public Works Department be attacked upon any valid ground of inter port on the 5th lust, and is expected bere on any sesistance, and the strength it in activity by M. practically eclipses everything in the period is attending to the baking.
national law or authority.
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