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SUPREME COURT.

Thursday, November 15th.

IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.

BBYONE BI FRANCH PIGGOTT, (CHIEF JUSTICE).

BILL OF LADUNG AGAINST A CODOWN WARRANT.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17TH, 1906.

The fraud of Hang Seng Choong was not the depositing of the tin in the godown, which, quite irrespective of his. instructions, he was entitled to do as agent of the ship, the B/L not having come to bund, but in obtaining an adrance on the tin and giving the godown warrant to the Bang Yui Bank.

I now look at the case from the point of view of the independent title of the partion respectively.

Again oa tha, simple facts of the case, the

defondant could not succeed, for his title is derived from a person who had no right

Hi Lordship, the Chief Justice, delivered judgment in the trial of the issue between Khee Terk Siong, & Singapore merchant,

give him the document on which and the Hung Yo Bank, Tes Vux Road,

no claims. Farquharson., v. King in thes Victorians to whose title to the proceeds of latest example of the explication of the a sale of 50 stats of tin, chipped to the order doctrins that he who has no title can give one, of plaintiff, should prevail. Mr. M. W. Slade, except in market. Tu that ease the person who instructed by Mr. A. O. Holborrow (of Mesars, dispersed of the goods to the claimant was a Basicum, Incker and Beacon appeared for pintiff, and Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C.. in structed by Mr. H. Barding (4 Mowers Ewans, Haxton and Harding) appeared for the defond

ants.

of the ship in which the tin cams to Hongkong, and he became assignee from the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank under the following circumstances:--

When you got to Capsuimun, did you think anchor - Yes, because the wid had shifted you were justifed in going to Pillar Point to to north.

Supposing you had slipped your anchor senld have steamed up Yes. If I had known ink I could have kept her going. the yphoon was going to be so shortlived

jiy Captain Parks How much chain had you when you took the bench P-About 30 fa, irame.

Wisy did you not give her all the chain ?— Beras I wanted to get inside the Brothers.

By Lieutenant Boucher- When she got berm Almost a on to the sea was she absolutely unmanageable?

The action was instituted by the Hongkongy and Shanghai Bank as holders of the B/L It against the shipowner for breach of contract in not delivering the goods to the bank under the B/L: the damegen being the amount for which the B/L was purchased. The shipowner thera upon agreed to pay the bank the amount claimed the bank on its side agreeing to assign the ship. owner all its rights under the B. This agreement was carried out and the shipowner, the prevent plaintiff, became assignee of the BL On this statement of facts as exceedingly ingenions argument was framed. Whatever might be the rights under ordinary direum this asignre and none because in any antion on stances of an assignes of the B/L to these B/Ls,

The BL ho would have to rely on 'bis own wrong, his fadure as skipowner to deliver the tin. It seems to me probable that under any

vircumstance it is possible to imagine an action

Chief floor Smith said the wind was blowing very hard from the westward when the kinshan left her wharf. On the way to the central channel After that witness was employed in getting they stopped to take the crow off a cargo hoat. every Brothers she captain told him he did not intend everything secured. Before they passed the

ardors from the captain that when he let to pass them, but to anchor in Castle Peak Bay. Witness thea went forward, having received

go

the

the

thief. Horo I have little doubt that what Hang Seng Chong did amounted in law to larceny by a baile but whether it be or not the doctrine applied to a title pretended to be given by a baileo which he has not in fact the right to give. What it was mail thers was something special in relation of the brought by the shipowner against the consignee acolor was let go, but there was

of the cargo bo would be sotitled to reply you shipowners to the bailor, who was the ship's

cannot sue me for you yourself are in default in agent, which would entitle the defendant to avoid the application of the dietrian and that bo tras put in such a position by the shipowner himself as to make him commit this frend

His Lordship said: In this case, I was disposed at the trial in bare givu judgment at anew on the broad gronans that the plaintiff in tio imun wenn klas zowigstoes of the Bill of Lading ayil that the defredant had obtained his till from a person who had no right to give such a title.. Tint, in sew as I mudrstand of the impsetaten which the case teay have and in which in fact, he did. I do not think this not net upauch a defen, for that would be setting by the jamp on th

view also of the highly ingenious arumont which Mr. Pullick susanel. I took time to consider. Five hundred and fifty slabs of in deposited in the Hongkong and Kowloon to down Company's godown having been claimed by two different parties, The Company took out an interplader commons, and an issue was directed the two climutite being made plaintiff and defendant respectivaly. The tin having been sold by order of the Court the viral elarus are saw made to the proceeds of this safe, All questions na to the identity of Tin depositeal with that of the tin claimed by both parties

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respect of the nondelivery of the tia." But certainly supposing this bypothetical notion be brought against Hang Seng Cheong, he could

is a question of estoppel but merely this, whether the plaintiff's claim can be strong. themed by the fact that the shipowner has conducted his business in such a way as to have ecutributed to or brought about the fril.than Hang Seng Cheong. I think that this argument is afficiently shadowed forth in the pleadings to justify my considering it. The case hory has an extra

caseblanc to tho fucts ordinary

.3. Klag but the point Farquharson was examined from the point of view of the destructive rather than the constructive side of the case. It was proved in order to show that

up his fraud; and the completa answer to him wont be "it was through your own frend that T did not deliver the goods.' And Lang Seng. Choong's assignso can be in no batter position

it

But the argument can be disposed of on a broader gronud. There is nothing in this assignment which makes it invalid, though per- bapa it may be inoperetire, as spainst certain parties in the original transation. To hold that the Hung Yui Bank can set up the ship owner's default for not delivering the goods to

the holder of the B/L would be to hold that the

port anchor ho WAS to Miva the ship fathoms of chein well outside.

fis time By

blowing wind WLA very hard and was accompanied by binding sunile. It was nearly ahead.

The com

port 8 Bach strain on the cable that witness had to use). away to early 601 thoms before he dared put on the brakes. The vessel then appeared to swing with her head to the South West, still keeping a big strain on the chain, Witness thought they anchored on a muddy bottom. After anchoring he knew the ship was dragging

chain.

Awning spars and stanchions were blown

aray and broken. About 20 minutes after anchoring witness r¢vo+j rq\[

order from the Captain through tha second officer to Eenve

the port chain. Just then the vessel began to roll beasily, but after considerable diffemits he muaged to heavo in about 35 fathoms of chain. About a quarter of an hour after this he saw what he)

to be the North point of the Eart Brothers very close to the

thais wart whip on bow. After passing the Hrothers the second order to witness to let the anchor drag, and officer went forward again with the Captain's not try to heave on it. Shortly after that the vessel took the ground. The wind was thon

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BEFORE MH. F. A. HAZELAND (IEST POLICE MAGISTRATE).

STRALİNG A MOTOLE, The remand ease in which seaman Preston, of the sailing ship Chapman was charged with the lareany of bicycle from Western Street, was concluded.

The captain of the vessel informed s

were satisfactorily solted during the course of the principa! had "enabled" his agont to com. assignment by the holder of the B-L to the month-south west, and blowing with hurrican Worship that i did not expect to enve Hong. 1

the trial.

On this bare facts of the case the question is simple for one claimant is the legal holder of the B', the other only of the godown warrant. The B/L represents the actual goods, and is the legal title to them. In the words of Bowin, L.J., in Suanders v. Mclean (11 Q.R.T. 301) the delivery by endorsement of the IT is the symbolical delivery of the cargo; the godown warrant is not an absoluts ilegument of title, but no more than a document of titlo as between the bolder and the godown company, As between the holders of these two documents therefore ha who lawfully holds the B/L must prevail, and this irrespective of any question of time when the two dormants dins into their

it the fraud, and that he could not recover the goods but non-constat that in every cass in which one claimant count recover the other cau for his title may also be defective. I agres however that there are certain variances in facts which perhaps differentiate this case from the facts in Farquharson v. King: and I therefore must deal with the constructiva kido of the defendant's case which, based on Swiss v. Francis (L. R. App. os. 106). It was suici that the agent having achad within the scope of tas authority given to him by the shipowner thus parfected the defendant's title, and oured? it at the dafont which I have atrouly dealt with, that it doyunded on the fraud of a bailor: We get here to another category of cases altogether

shipowner in default was altogether bad--which force. Wiluoss had been in the river trade about four years, and bad previously be in a typbenc

I cannot do.

I thereforo think that the plaintiff in the issue is notitled to the relief na claimed with costs, which include all coste which have been reserved.

MARINE COURT.

Friday, November 18th.

STRANDING OF THE "KINGMAN."

A marine court. of inquiry was held at the Harbor Office respecting the circumstances connected with the stranding of the British seamship Kinahan. The Court was composed Li-at. U. C. R. Boucher, R.N., H.M.S. King Lieut. C. W. Heokwith, EN.. 'resident), Captaio E. Banthem, muster of the sa

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By Liett. Boucher-Have sea ony idea why you were told to stop hearing in No.

Supposing you had weighed your anchor, do you think it would been heen possible to get the ship under control? I am neable to say.

bad both anchors down and all your chain out, do you think you could have steuticd the chip Sho would still have dragged.

Crew:

cargo,

kong before the latter and of December, and Mr. Hazaland sentenend the defendant to ongi month's imprisonment with hard labour.

BEFORE M. C. D. MELBOURNE (SECOND POLICK MAGISTRATE).

REFUBING HIRE. Cospector McHardy charged two chair coolienį from the Peak with refusing to accept hire,

RUSHING PASSENGERS,

When farther evilence find been adilinced the After hearing the evidenen kis Worship found) Court found-That the a. Kiushen left the defendunte guilty, fined each #1 cents, nud Hougkong on September 18th at 830 01. threatened orposure in the stocks to futurs) bound for Canion with

goneral

offenders. 427 passengers and 140

The skip was well- found and

The typhoon powered. hoisted at the appointed place indienting that within 30 miles. there was a type of reaching the Tart of the Colony Capauimun. Pass the wind backed to W.N.W. |

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certainly ought to have taken no risks and anchored Fonth east of the East Brothers. That, frens the evidence fally gone into, when the master found his ship with 30 fathoms of chain out, aid the ship nearly East Brothers, we consider it was clearly the duty

south east of the East Brothers, hat he The letter from Captain Lossius of the proceeded to Pillar Point instead. This, in Kinshan calling for an inquiry was read, also the opinion of the Court, was an error of the warrant of the Governor constitating the judgment on the part of the master, who court.

The President stated that in this case there wura three points they had to satisfy themselves

Firstly, was the master justified in anchor bis ship drifting eastward, did the master take the ordinary precautions of a seamen to save the rurga, lives and his vessel? Thirdly, if the ship had tor anchors down and all chain out, and her engine going full speed-or-half-did the court consider from its experienco she had a reasonable chance of going aground?

which Barwick v. Foglish Joint Suck Bruk pv, spininis with two documents of equal degree, where (L. R. 2 Ex 255) is the leading. In such cases perhaps vilor questions might arise. Against it may be said, as it was said hore, that the It is trao this simple application of the law, the dafnonlarıt, master had not authorised the act. who is the holder of the godown warrant, that he had not authorised this paticnlar alleges that the plaintiffs' assignors, the long-act, but he had put his agent in bis kong and Shanghai Back, who ware the place to do that share of acts, and be negligence in not giving noties to the godown that agent has conducted himself in doing the company of their title, and that the conse. business which it was the not of the master to This is the principle laid down queen of this was that the defendant made place him in. advances on the godown warrant which would by Willis, J. Does this apply to the present As I have already sail this fraud was not otherwise Lave done, In order that this case? plea should be substantiated some duty must be not the depositing the tin in the godown, that Blown which the lank bas neglected to perform. Heung Song Cheong was entitled to do, quite If there is such a duty it would have involved apart from any special instructions:

original hollors of the BL, ware guilty of innst be asawerable for the manner in which ing at Piller Point? Secondly, when he found dragg stranding on the warth point of the

of the master then to bare let go both muchors adall his cable, Th

This, in the opinion of the Court would have held the ship and prevented her stranding. That owing to the abnormal conditions under which the mastor was navigat ing, with regard to the burricano force of the wind and blinding rain squalls, the Court con

master for allowing his ship to strand with an

a short stay. arbor at bow and aunther

the conséquence that the bank should first though the deposit was made as if he was the pretty hard from the 18th. It wng blowing sider that a severe constre be passed on

ascertain this fans of the godown company with whom the tin was deposited before the due date of the U/L, which; the bark had purchased with the document atischeef, und before they

knew it would not be used. There is no

apart from this authority, hold that such a duly | authority to deposit the goods: it

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Nine pairs of chair enolies wore charged with rushing passengers at Bake Pier.

his Worship found them guilty and fined each They denied the charge; bat, on the evidenc...“,

par $2.

DISORDERLY RICSKA COʻLIES. Fourteen risus conlios were charged with obtructing the Macao stestuer's Wharf at

West Paint.

Surgeant Fenton told his Worship,ho had! driven the defendants away from in front of the wharf gate several time, but they would persist in returning and barricading the passage

ugrest.

Ibers were over 1,000 passengers: landed from the steamer and the presence) of the ricshas caused an obstruction.

His Worship impok a line of $2 on such defendant.

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A Peking despatch to the Time, dated October 10th, says-Tusu-fang, the Visurey- fect of Niking, expresses his belief that the edict promulgating certain long-expectedl rearrangements in the central and provincia administration will not be issed befor eix months, as the plologates of the six principu! Viceroys, who must report on the provincial | needs, have not yet rouched Peking.

In the meantime, the cutfuratures or the Constitution continue and are still enger y

authority for the preposition and I cannot, Yai Bank. It was within the scope of his squalla of rain and winde wind shifted book Broadwood, C.B., from the Orange River dingassed outside. All indientions point to s lies on the holder of the B. It would make within the scope of his authority to raise witness decided to suchor of Pill Paint Coiny, to the South China command, seems to sharp divisjon between the party of moderate"

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true owner, which in fact he was not, and giving shelter, from whiff of small craft running for from which they found great difheulty the godown warrant to Hung Yui Bank oblijn- in getting clear. They ran across to a waler- ing un advance from them on it and haring the logged cargo bost in the middle of the addition made to the warrant that the goods arrived at Capnimus Per. The wind had

and picked off a crew of 13. In duo time wora to be delivered to the order of the inng shifted by then to west north west and the

increwed.

The appointment of Brigadier-General R. G. A little off the East Brothers' Island was not

to worth, the sea was running very high, se

hays Bitracted more attention than is usually progress represented by the the ordinary business which a bank down in money on them, er to sanction their delivery to was between 10 and 10.15.r. The port anchor

Yoon Shih- kai and the couservativo alder statesmen, many respect of advaares on documented bills im- anyone else than the bolder of the BL. In

was ro eat and VAYA 50 fatlioma to the water's given to the local post.

of whom are Manchus, who prerogatives ar possible. That, like every other form of busi- order to give the Hung Yui Bunk a good tile and four Europeans, while the crew, Chinore and

edgo. There were 427 Chinese passengers on board The idea seems to be that such a good men

threntward. The situation is full of interest: Best in connection with negotiable instruments, on the principle I am now considering it would European, zumbereri 100.

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of the position When the case last will be thrown away al Hongkong, which of because of

·Yuan: Shik- Viceroy must proceed on the assumption of bona fides. bare te be differently stated: thus the principal her wharf her draft was 8 foot 3 inches aft and suggestion that as a cavalryman he will be out who, winding a power rarely attain Shih-kai bofore the war between Ubian and course we cannot admit for an instant, The kal, who controls the only effective army and Tang Shao-yi was the right-hand man of Yuan The business of a godown company however has put the agent in his place and this base 7 foot 6 inches forward. The black drum,

Chinese offieis), has for the first time in history Japan contribute to the viti etion of Chinese preende it is said on the sumption that the usbled the agent to do things which hadicating a typhoon east of the Colony, was

of place is a far-fetched one. His excellent entrusteat many ** the meet larative and depositor is the lawful owner of the goods was not authorised to do to do things The

hoisted at the Harbour Office at 8.28 a.m. cavalry work in Egypt and South Africa respost

responsible posts in the metropolitan prorfus in the peninsula.

The Chiwere failure to fulfil the slipulation deposited, and treats him as suas, engaging-wirely good-the-scope of his authority.

wun carried two bow anchora,

of which was abon Promises a few noful hints for the Happy to Cantoress educatel abroad; while every high of the protocol regarding the Formiga Ofes to full his instructions as to the persou to which had

the ober 19 Valley Hussars, and possibly for the hangbai | provincial authority whe owns his position to is must rek By Article XII. of the

Tiz inGavues of Yuin Shih-ksi has a Canteness whose order they are to be delivered, as if the his actual authority; and in doing them to com

Ninety fathoms of six was supplied to each Light Horse; and his gifts that way are

protocol, attached to his stuff. In view of the remarkable

to reform the day her own interests undertook depositer were the tran owner and therefore it fraud. It must be considered that there Pass about 9.15 8.m., and passed the

anchor. They got through the Gepeniman unlikely to have rusted by the time they say olanishno and cohesion of the Cautones the the net cheage has been the alteration of the the department for foreign affairs but entitled to give such instructions. The business is a dividing line in determining the liability of Brothers about ten minutes to tan. The wind

ho wantel again ele where. It is a poor question naturally arises to what extent aro Yuan name Tsung-li Yamin to. Wai-w.pn and the could not be carried on in any other way, for it the principal for the nets of his goat between minutes later shifted to north. The wind was

Shit-kai's produce to be identified with the compliment to suggest that he cancel de antial activities of their fellow provincials in reshaping of the tablent which the Miniators sit

political

in and which was formerly round nd is now reo would be impossible for the godown company to those that are within the scope of his authority, north when he anchored off Pillar Point, The Major-General Broadwood, as he must now be

good work in other details of the survies Singapore. Amerits, Jupa, and elsewhere tangalar. Especially the protocol provided that investigate the title of despositors of goods and those we are not: it must on the other vessel bad only got her chain out when the

abroad, whose avowed paliny is the expulsion of the Ministerns, the Foreign Office should deat It therefors dos no more than treat a depositor band be admitted that though frand is not for wind backed to west again. She then fall eff called, will find that bis promotion does the Manchus and the exclusion of forviga themselves exclusively to their duties; yet as the owners it does not make him the logs within the serpe of the agent's authority, yet hoe head to wind with his engines. He hove

influence. broadside on to the wind. Witness tried to get

not entail exile in insupportable surroundings,

Tang-Shao-yi ban a dozen other posts any que While these important conferences are con-of which would effectively tax owner, nor lavest his instructions as to delivery in some cases the principal is liable for the in on his chain to

We append an extract relating to his career: tinuing, and while the outspoken Press is than his. While the country is

a capaity greater with any oro gality than they inherently fraud of his gut, I think the true fins of to stop her rolling. So the coumenced to

try to bring her head to

to wind The fullest Brigadier is an oxulique of the sinusacing for every conceivable reform from lure renoul this unwilllagers to improve its posess. If therefore I consider the case durcation in the case of liability for fraud is drag. He could are at intervals between the

12th Royal Lancers, in which he passed his Parliament, and the abolition of racist die- to continue to be sceptical of the possibility of

education, the establishment of a compulsory

foreign relations compels all the foreign rowars squally. The

to the suppression holder of the R/L and apply tho dectrine which,

domestic slovery China's reforming herself from within. If anchor brandside on to the wind, filled various important stuff appointmelts, and ou of which the fraud springs, is within the bad to starboard. Ka could not

he has had the stratage of having seen a good and what нну the law bas devised for determining the question serpe of the authority: if it is thou if it is done time it was when he was off the Brothers, but of right as between two innocent persons which with fraud the principal is liable, yet if it' is nat

deal of nativa sarvice in four campaigns. Whilst we alturapt is being made to improve the cau- who must be an Imperial Princos will most attached to the Egyptian Army he went through Bee. when be got clear of them, the wind shifted to

dition of the Wai-wu-pu, the Chinese Foreign probably be Duke Tai-tue, the chief of the south-west. Witness managed, by working his

Broadly speaking, every uterus! the ongola Eradition, 1896 (mentioned in

rua recent mission to Europe. think the plaintiff would la entitled to succeed, That doctrine as stated by an American judge agent's authority ceased when he had deposited minutes past eleven she took the beach. movial with two clasps, British medal): Nile direction, but the methods are crals and the Mont and adopted by the II. L. in the recent case of he tin in the godown. The subsequoat act of pasaud vary close to

whole of the Brothers, and Expedition. 1897, the actions of Aba Ahmed achievement so far is inconsiderable,

thom

extension of satisfactory is the continued น wind

of Berber (two clasps, 4th class Wostora oueation, for ignorance is the chief and occupation of Farquharson v. King (1192 A.L: at p. 332) is obtaining money on the godown warrant and

WES thea blowing burricane force.

at

Онмаківі); Nile Expedition, 188, when one of twu inneront, parsens moat suffer gising fraudolent instructions as to the order

When witares passed the Brothers the wind was the baitles of Alabars and Khomeining danger in Chin, Groster knowledge most fallen rapidly ever Japan, and risan slightly to

(sation

greater security for the foreigner d moderately elsewhere, From the frond of a third, he shall suffer who, ity and therefore the shipowner is not liable. they passed the Brothers until the

south west auf blowing seatherly, so he tried od twice ia despatches, two clasps, and British greater demand for foreign things. for delivery of the goods was bopend his author

Thus The typhoon exista still us an ordinary ta get inside to

to the eastward. From the time nedal brevet coloneley); and in the Boath by his indiscretion, has enabled the third person

Power is willing to sets

of depression to the East of the Lochoos to assist the spread of Owing to the disappearance of the bigh every took ship

African war he commanded to commit the fraud." In so far as the Hong. Puiting the matter more concisely; the prin- the ground would be about 20 minutes. After

aducation. couse, the South African Light

yet every Power is confronted with success the

China in tbe

recently oorering B. Japan, it will Pre-Pressure kong and Shanghai Fanie is conccrued there pipal is not liabda bomusa he has put the age passing the north point of this Fust Brothers and also served on the Staff (mentioned Sve that condition of the Wai-wit-pu

witness

The removal Probably now more away to the N.E. did not give the ship both anchors Times in despatches. A.D.C. to the Sovereign, of Prince Ching from the post of

and

A second depression fa moving into the has been no indiscretion, for they noted in in such a position that he can commit fraud, shaius because be thought she would bave Queen's medal with six claspe, King's medal in a pressing neuessity. The Prince never attends Pacific to the N.B. of Japa

of president accordance with the regular custom of banking; but because he has authorised him to do certain foundered had he done so. He had had previous with two clasps). He took over comamed in the office, but, dwelling on a higher plane,

Pressure is again high over N. China. 99 far as the defendant, the Huug acts which he has done fraudulently. On this experience in a typhoon when a ship was

was O.R.C. in May, 1904.

Fresh to strong monsoon may be expected ground therefore I think the defendant's case

over the Formosa Channel and the Chins Sea, i fails.

Hongkong minfall for the 24 hours ending ni 10 n.m. to-day, 0,00 inches.

irrespective of the preponderance of title of the to be found by enquiring whether the not itself, chain to haip drifted with 30 fathoms of regimental service from 1881 H 1893, Hsha wanauchs and even to the alleration of dross, Priacs Ching is forced to retire, his successor,

the fraud of a third party had intervaned, I i then the principal is not liable. Here the ship's engines, to get her stern to the wind. At five despatches brevetlientenant-colonelcy, Egyptian olange called for by the Prass is in the right

but in

How can the plaintiff succeed?

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had been ton-years in the river ing and

Captain Beotham-What did you kopo to

WEATHER REPORT.

On the 16th at 11,55 4,t,~~~~Tha kúrometer has

The forecast for the 24 hours suding at noon

grants are audiences to foreign Ministers at his private residence, iguores despatcher, and is absorbed in amassing wealth.

All effective work is luft to Tang Shan-yi, and thwarting all forsign proposals and igeering today to as folius whore is the simple one of stonewalling

protests, with the inevitable. questionably such a policy is extending

result

N winds, of straying the Powers in opposition. Un. Hongkong & Neighbourhood

moderate; fair.

N.E. winds, policy is being followed by bir fellow Cantonese South coast of China between) among his countrymen, and a a similar Formosa Channel... popularity

***froah to strong. Tastei, Liang Mou-ting. in Mukden, where be

N.E. winds is the chief adviser of the Tarlar general. Yet South coast of Chins between

Hongkong and Lammocks fresh. - apolley of this kind pursued in Korea when

Yui- Bank, is eoneerosd I cannot imagine.any more indiscreete act-thau advancing money on a

We reported that Japan is negotiating a godown warrant without being satisfied that the Again on the simple facts of the case the fathoms of chain paid out. To coep hox from ingote feud service of trails which will do by your the ground 30 treaty with Russia for the purpose of establish- persau to when the advance is made is the legal plaintiff being consigase of the bank's rights rolling. owner of the goods or not. From this point of which the B/L would entitle to succeed. But when off the Brothers--Because I was afraid No oficial information with regard to this

Why did you not let po the other anchors bring Tokyo within seventeen days of London. all foreign view therefore the Hang Yai Bank could not there are some peculiarities connected with this of foundering the ship, prevail against the Hongkong and Shanghai consignment which required to be carefully ex.

Grand, but the news was not discredited. A Bank nor against the assignes from them of suited, as the stress of the defendant's attack

formal treaty between Russia and Japen will the B/L.

was put upon them. The plantif was the orner

possibly result in the service being expedited,

When you left Hongkong did you think you were going to be caught by a typhoon P-I did not; but thought I would get strong gales as my glass was still high.

scheme had been received at St. Martin's-18-

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