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THE PEAK TRAMWAY'S 21ST

ANNIVERSARY..

A GLANCE AT ITS EARLY HISTORY.

To-morrow is the twenty-first anniversary of the opening of the Peak Tramway, and it occurs to us that an outline of its history many prove very interesting reading at a time when an additional line to the Peak is under the con- sideration of the Government. Both schemes owed their inception to Mr. Findlay Smith,

fact that proposal B. while indisputably a scheme of great public utility in attended with exceptional engineering difficulty, and is one regarding which favourable financial results cannot be predicated with certainty, must be your petitioner's apology for bespeaking every Consideration in the terms of the concession prayed for.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 29TH, 1909.

to Isare the Colony for a time. The line was completed from, St. John's Place to Victoria Gap, a length of 4,650 feet, in the beginning of 1868. The height of the upper above the lower terminus is 1,207 feet. The easiest gradient is 1 in 25 and the steepest

1 in 2.

The Hue was informally opened on May 28th, 1888, by H.E. Sir William Des Voeux wha congratulated the directors on the success. tal completion of their important undertaking and expressed himself as highly pleased with the trip. On the following day free trips were taken up to the heights, including many Euro

JAPAN.

[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

Tokyo, May 16th.

DISCIPLINE IN THE SCHOOL.

Bothell would have had ground for successful libal kotionis sgainst a dozen papers in Japan had something equivalent to British law been in force here, for he was treated unjustly from the first. Although he received sont courtesy and less justios from the papers at that time, it * Spare the rod and spoil the child" is a new is a ploscuro to note that at least one Japanese that must have courred to most minds in this paper does him justice after his death. This country in recent years at the remarkable acknowledgement comes from the Scout Press, demonstrations, often violent and insubordinate, and it will be appreciated by residents in the of schoolboys against their teachers and the Korean capital who know. Mr. Bothell and higher authorities. This tendency has certainly esteemed him as a man.

▲ PLEASANT PICHIC. grown since the war, together with other bal

The officers of the British China aquadron the Minister of State downwards, are endeavour Tamo near Tokyo a week ago, and enjoyed a the time when the education authorities, from spent a pleasant Sunday afternoon on the river

To this petition an anewer was received from the Governor, through the Colonial Secretary. informing the petitioner that by going through the necessary forms of procedure there would be nothing to stop him from obtaining leave to carry out his ideas, provided he could get some charge of the requisite bill. What followed is set forth in the following newspaper extractpean ladies. On May 30th the Peak Tramwaying to impress upon boys and girls the importance sort of hospitality that was pleasing mainly

was opened, for traffic...

back to a time when there were very few houses

The building of the Peak tramway takes a member of the Legislative Council to take offered to the public and large crowds were tendencies, and it seems rampant to-day just at on the Peak. As Hongkong grew the need of suburban advantages for the European popula tion forced itself increasingly on the public attention. Every resident at some time or other had made an excursion to enjoy the cool, fresh breezes of the mountain tops and the advantage of residence there, 挑越 atmosphere from sight to ten

** No sooner, however, had the question' been mooted in the Council; and of course-in-the- publie papers; then suddenly a rival company sprang into existence, or perhaps it might more properly be said that certains gentlemen in the colony proposed to form themselves into a

The patronage the line enjoyed from the start quickly dispelled illusions as to the likelihood of proving unremunerative. Within a month the shares of the Company were standing at 250

it

of obedience and good behaviour in and out of because of its primitive character, Overlooking school. The Imperial Rescript on education is the Tamagawa, amid a landscape not at all an regarded as the Bible of the Japanese school, like that in the homeland, the officers spent the but just as the precepts of the good book are first part of the afternoon in the gardens of

degrees cooler than in the town below, was syndicate to control everything of this kind. Per cont premium, and they subsequently went disregarded in the school of life, so the precepts, their host From a distance the ellopos of these

in

up to over 400 per cent premium.

Two years later Messre, MoEwen, Frickal and Co. consed to be the General Managers, Mesure. John D. Humphreys were appointed to succeed them and have ever since hold that office, while Mr. C. B. Bayers has been superin tendent of the line from the day of its inaugura

tion.

of the Imperial Rescript seem to be utterly disregarded by those whom they chiefly con corn. Instances of petty insalprdination have been numerous of lato, cases of arson and assault on teachers in revenge for real or imagined wrongs have been recorded, and the latest exsuple of schoolboy revolt, the suspension of the Higher Commercial School in Tokyo; is a matter of grave concern to the country,

gardens looked like a solid hank of vivid red, being thickly planted with the pretty azalow then at its boat. This country mansion is surrounded with fine timber, and as it had rained on the previous day there was an air of freshness about the country that was delightful The officers assembled on the lawn fronting the house and moving here and there were many a pratty kimono and obi, adding colour, while their wearers added grace and beanty to the scone. Outside, in the lands and byways, a great portion of the country side had gatherel to view the scene, and a lot of the simple country folk some quite disappointed that the officers

which appeared to them to have money in it, recognised, but the cost in tine and money of In June of that year our projecter was not a getting up and down precluded the possibility little astonished to receiro a letter from Mr. R. of any considerable development of the Peak J. Alford, who signed himself the Secretary as a residential quarter. When Mr. Findlay of the Hongkong and China Tramway Smith put forward the idea of a mountain railway the public looked aakance at the scheme. Company, containing a proposal for smalgam While admitting the utility and importance of such a line they doubted its practicability, and when assurances were forthcoming on this point, they still had no confidence in the enterprise over paying its shareholders's fair return on their investment. But Mr. Findlay Smith was not discouraged. Mountain railways should become co-promoters. of the Hongkong the necessary powers from the Government to representation was passed recommending the had not turned out in gold-laco and medals

THE QUESTION AT 199UE.

tion, and also to make his pot scheme, the trouaway to the Peak, a kind of branch of the new. Company's larger undertaking It was about this time that the Hon. P. Ryrie appears to have joined hands with Mr. A. Findlay Smith, and the third item in the rival preposition was that theas gentlemen

in Europe and

and China Tramway Company, with seats on America and he was quite satisfied in the Board. These proposals did not appear to his own mind that A

menntain railway meet with a every hearty reception from was a praticability in Hongkong. Nor was het Messrs. Byrie and Findlay Smith, who in loas confident that the line would pay. In the formed the rival Company that the proposal Company, and plans are now, as our readers are Commercial Bchool be elevated to the rank of a peony, and many other flowering trees... Boys

axisted at the time

early 'Eighties he calculated that with no mare than from thirty to forty families living at the Peak, the annnal expenditure of residents and

visitora in reaching the top amounted to figures approaching 845,000. And taking into account the bighly probable augmentation of trafle, which is the invariable experiones of railways running to fashionable or popular resorts, the projector felt confident of the success of his scheme. Mr. Findlay Smith had boon travelling on several separate occasions in America, na well as part of two winters in Europe, and bad taken advantage of those assions to visit and make himself conversant nearly every method of railway then in mountain scent. From the

to tho

were

"Our local Stephenson," as the Daily Press

Smith, seeing that the capacity of the present of twenty years ago called Mr. Findlay line is now fully tazed, brought forward three years ago & scheme for an add tional tramway to the Peak, and obtained proceed with the constraction of the line. All the rights of the promoter were, however, subse quently acquired by the existing Tramway aware, under the consideration of the Govern meat. It is very safe to say that the new line will not be constructed with the modest amount of capital which auflood to make the oxisting

ne

SUPREME COURT.

Friday, 28th May.

IN ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION. BEFORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE (SIR F. PIGGOTT) WITH LISUTENANT BECKWITH, R.N.

A COLLISION' CASE. The action against the owners of the steam- ship Holstein for $10,000 damages for collision

In the first place it must be pointed out that the' authorities. have misled the public in a certain not. At the last session of the Diet establishment of a commercial college, and this Near by, the private gardens of another magnate was generally considered to imply the desire wore throwe open to the school children, aud of the Dist and public that the Higher hero tastefully laid out were camelia, azalea, college. Contrary to all expectations the De. and girls romped the afternoon sway, until it was time for the officers to depart, when partment of Education suddenly ordered the

the children gare the gallant sea-fightore abolition of the post-graduate course of the

a send-off. But before they went back to school and the establishment of a commercial faculty in the Imperial University of Tokye, Tokyo the officers had an amusing time on giving the post-graduate students certain the river, being crowded in small boats privileges, when entering the University. Tu and engaging in fishing for ai, or lovu-fish, a this it must be sail the Government has acted,humber of the finny tribe that is caught, broiled, regardless of the Diet and public opinion, with and enter on the spot. It is & pity there were not more excursions such as this, not its customary despotism, as evidenced in such examples as the postponement of the cxhibition only for officere, but for men alas, for there эго are lots to be seen round about the and abolition of the puri-mutuel. The Diot has been ignored, which is a common phenomenon, bat public opinion, too, has been ignored,

BEVOLT AND A TEAMFUL FAREWELL

Then the agitation among the studcuts, 1,500 with a jank was continued. Hon. r. H. E.in. number, began. Rosolations were passed by

Last Saturday the final mass

urban districts of the capital. Unfortunately, however, the enjoyment of the sailors, British and American, has been marred by heavy rains.

EXHIBITIONS.

Although the Tokyo Asserably bas resolved to proceed with the scheme of holding an

be

CUTICURA

COMFORT

FOR LITTLE FAT FOLKS

Most grateful and comforting is

■warm bath with Cuticura Soap. and gentle anointings with Cuti cura. This pure, sweet, econom Ical treatment brings immediate relief and refreshing sleep to skin- tortured and disfigured little ones and rest to tired, fretted mothers. For eczemas, rashes, itchings, irritations and chafings, Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment are worth their weight in gold."

Bold throughout the word. Depota: London, 27.

5. Toe de is Charternus Ho: PARA. 5. ) 1ts, H. Towns & Co.. Sydney: India, D. "B, 22nd. Chiessita:, China Hong Kong Drit Co.; Jana, Mwenya, Ltd.. Takko: Rumia, Ferrin, Stoneori Ba. Alrik Lennon, LEÃ... Cape Town, vie; V.B.

& Glam, dorp, Bola Props, Borida

56 1.9

the parties to the issue should file their respective statements of facts within three weeks in a scaled envelope to be opened by the Court, The issue was tried in April, 1906, before the Chief Justice and a jury, the lower get that hearing lasting aix days. Wong Ka

of

submitted merely indicated an intention to promote the very same object which the latter had boon laboriously-working at for a long timon previous, and that the terms rabmitted were somewhat too vague and indefinite to warrant thom either in withdrawing from their own special undertaking or merging it into that of the new Company. Bat on the 16th July of the same year a Revised Proposal was drawn out and submitted to Messrs. Ryrie and Findlay Smith, to which those two gentleman finally attached their signatures, and by which they consented to amalgamate their tramway scheme with that of the rival consera On the 20th of the same month Messrs. Ryrie and Findlay Smith, who appear, in a messure, to have original Clay Street and subsequent schemes boon reluctantly forced to compliance by a in Ban Francisco to the two or three

stronger body of workers, or supposed workers, Pollock, K.C., instructed by Mr. P.W. Goldring, them, teachers resigned or were discharged,ohibition in Tokyo in 1911, it has yet to be con- methods in Scarborough sud so ca

Hot little astenichod to receive of Mosers. Goldring Barlow and Morrell ap- and finally the students left the scho trmed by the Aldermans' Council, as the superi. ceased to be a partner in 1898. In the Rigi, Monterey, Interio, the Rhine and Mount another communication from Mr. Alford, Pared for the plaintiff, and Mr. M. W. Slade, en masse Vesuvius, Mr. Findlay Smith made a thorough informing them, with regret, that the general instructed by Mr. Holborrow, of Mosers. Deason

this Colony inspection, and returned to thoroughly convinced that the enterprise would body of his promoters had not been able to see Locker and Deacon, appeared for the do their way to ratify the instrument of

Heinrich Christiansen, second officer of the succeed in Hongkong. The project was put amalgamation, and thus they were again left to in shape by presenting to H. E. the Governor themselves to carry out their own Tramway to said that he saw the junk on the port tack and Holstein, gave his version of the collision. He of the Colony the following Petition dated 20th the Peak undisturbed and unfettered by jealous

saw her stern light. On going into the wheel May 1881-

rivals or other syndicates, although by an arrangement under which power for both the house he heard the captain signal to the Low Level Tramway scheme, of which Mr. machine room and the engines were stopped Alford was Secretary, and the High Level At the same time they put the wheel more than three-fourths hard over. They could Tramway should be obtained under one Bill, and

with the haml gear. their part (Messrs. Ryrie and Findlay Smith's not do any more assigned to them by deed, which was afterwards leanwhile the junk continued on the port tack with the result that the stem of accomplished."

the stammer struck the junk on the after part. The New Tramway Bill agreed upon by the The steamer was, canting to port. The wind amalgamated companies, was published in the

WES N.N.E. He thought the speed of the Government Gazette of July 2nd 1881. junk was sailing from four to five miles anand hard-hearted detectives, could not restrain sights of the capital, for it contains the greatest committed each of them to prison for three 2-That public requirements in this respect embraced five schemes for Low Level Tramways hour. Their own speed until the angines wery shedding a tear in sympathy with the art treasures in the country, lent and purchased. months without hard labour. They were bailed would be most effectually served by the con struction of lines of tramway; and that, having and one for the Peak Tramway which reads as regard to the configuration of the island, the follows: nature of its climate, and sanitary and economio * A partly single and partly double line com-

FIA JOHN POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G.

Governor of Hongkong, &e, &o, &o, In Conneil. The Petition of

ALEXANDER FINDLAY SMITH, of Victoria, Hongkong, (formerly of the Highlood Railway Company, Scotland). Hambly Shewath

1.-That the growing prosperity and ineros. sing population of Hongkong render the introduction of improved means of locomotion within the island a matter of urgent social and commercial importanco.

fandants.

stopped was ten to eleven knots.

After further evidence and subsequent argu-

Was

An

result the jury found that Wong Ha Chuen was not a partner in the firm at the date o

Jention was made to the full Court by the

twas outered for him accordingly. the presentation of the bankruptcy petition, and

verdict and for a new trial, on the ground that the Chief Justice had misdirected the jury on 13 heads, and also that the verdict was against the weight of and was contrary to the evidence, and of the discovery of new evidence. The full Court dismissed the application with costs, and from that decision the Official Receiver now appealed to the Judical ommittee. He naked

meeting of the boys was hold, and on the or body, and enthusiasm does not appear to ings of the school was destroyed by fire, in. that the idea of holding the exhibition was but evening of that day one of the principal build very keen in the matter. The fact seems to be velving a loss of 30,000 you. The institution the child of pique and resentment at the

remarkable scene was then suspended. A day or two later a ponoment of the national exhibition by the witnessed. Eight Government. If the exhibition is to be hundred young men, wearing their uniforms hold it will mean that the tax on lead with the school badge on their caps, drow them in the city will be increased 50 per cent. selves up in rows in the narrow street opposite to defray part expenditure. An exhibition the school and solemnly sang the "Kimigate," of another character, in fact, a sort of The anthem was repeated three times. They national gallery, has just been opened in

In the course of the argument for the. then took off their hats, tore the brass badges Uyeno. This is the art gallory established by

The lose of the hearing of the issue the Chief Justice said that several native witnesses therefrom, and throw those insignia in a heap on public subscription to commemorate the ved appellant counsel mentioned that at the the ground. As they were bowing in bidding ding of the Crown Prince ten years ago, farewell to their alma mater the tears streamed building has been sight years under constrie had to his mind been guilty of the most down their checks, and we are assured that the tion, and is designeil to be permanent, being fagrant conspiracy to defraud the alleged It is destined to be one of the partner Weng Ka Chnon and had each one been guilty of the most corrupt perjury, and he dense assemblage of on lookers, even the police built of stone.

ELECTRIC RAILWAYS.

for a new trial of the issue.

considerations, the wire-rope system of the great mencing on the South side of the South-Westment the hearing was closed, judgment. boingment of Education has expressed its determina. of Japanese business concerns by the appoint reversed the order of the Chief Justice, and

boundary of the War Department ground at its junction with the Garden Road, thence passing in a southerly direction up the hillside to the Victoria Gop, crossing over Kennedy and

reserved.

A SEA MYSTERY.

woeful young men. It must have been an affecting scene. In the meantime the Depart tion to carry out its resolve, which of course is the proper thing to do, for if the authorities were to show weakness at the present moment it would be disastrons in its effect upon all who gri

American railroads presents indubitablo advant agen.

3-Your petitioner respectfully approaches Your Excellancy in ouncil, praying that your Excellency may be pleased to grant him a

A strange story of the sea has just come to to school, The, students, by their acts, havaloau for two milliens advanced to the company. concession investing him with powers to con- struct and work, by means of a public company. Plantation Roada by means of bridges, and light: Ab.ut two months ago two juaks belong-lienated the public sympathy, much as the pablin The business was concluded at a meeting of to be a new trial in this case. The appeal

or as a private enterprise, a wiro-rope railroad, of a gauge of about 3 feet 6 inches, between the following pointa

AFrom a terminns to be fixed at East Point, vis Queen's Road, to a torminus to be fixed at West Point.

that, if carried out, it would

now unproductive.

Legislative Council.

representative of the London syndicale recently visited the proposed ronts. The subscribed capital of the company is 3,000,000 yen.

out in a few days, and appooled to the Judicial A new chapter has been begun in the history Committee against the Chief Justice's order. The Judicial Committee decided in their favour, ment to the board of directors of the Keihin directed them to be leared. That, however, (Tokyo-Yokohama) Electric Railway of a bad nothing to do with the present appeal.

At the close of the arguments on both sides, The Lord Chancellor, in delivering judg foreigner, a representative of Messrs. Sale, Frazar and Co., who are the underwriters of &ment, said their Lordships were not able

to advise his Majesty that thors anght.

verdict was against the weight of evidence, nor terminating at the Victoria Gap at a point on ing to one of the outlying islands wore fishing may condom the attitude of the authoriting, for the company yesterday. There has naturally had not been argued on the footing that the between Gap Rock and Lintin when something it is recognised that discipline must be uphali-been much opposition to the idea of a

was it capable of being argued in that way apart the North side of Farm Lot No. 53,”

the The Bil was in due course passed by the dark was seen floating on the water, the greater What the Government proposes to do cannot foreign director on the board, lnt evidently from the smuaming-up. The summing up of t

the company has been unable to obtain learned Judge had been the subject of the part of it however being submerged. The crows affect the personal position and progroes of the

ériticisms which were made the foundation of A company was started to carry out the made for the object and succeeded in getting a students, but they, from a false love for their funds except at prohibitive rates on say this appeal. Their Lordships did not think that other forms. The money will be used for that summing up was whelly satisfactory, and B-Along a rente, to be determined by low-level scheme. The capital was to be half a rope round it and ultimately raising it by menushime mater, have shown a disregard for

the constraction of the Rokugo bridge, near saveral criticisms were made on it which, in their special surveys, from Queen's Road, in million dollars, and the Provisional Committee of their tackle on beard one of the junks. Un discipline and a disobedienen that should not go Kawasaki, and the extension to Aoyama, where opinion, were well founded.. There was certainly the vicinity of the Parade Ground, to

a great deal to be said in support of a new trial Victoria Gap, and thence to a point on included at least half a dozen of the best names fortunately, however, they dumped it on deck,

unpunished.

the great oxhibition is to be held. The oon on the grond of the great weight of sertain THE LATE MI. BETHELL. the southern alope, in the neighbourhood in Hongkong. The Hon. Mr. W. Keswick was and a terrific explosion resulted. The whole

struction of the Keisei (Tokyo-Narita) Electric parts of the evidence addaced on behalf of the Aberdeen.

the Chairman and his colleagues on the Com- crow were killed with the exception of a

The death of Mr. Bethell of Seoni removes 4.-The advantages, especially to the business

mittee were the Hon. T. Jackson, the Hon. F. little boy who happened to be protected

jury who knew an unofficial figure who was making his mark in Railway will shortly be bogun, and for this plaintiff, tut their Lordship could not forget. life of the Colony, of a line of tramway on

D. Sassoon, Meears, C. P: Chator, W. Danby, by a fold in the ssil. He was picked up an hour

Korian affairs. Mr. Bothell came out to the purpose a loan has been arranged with a London that this case was tried by Queen's Road, need no demonstration. As to

Hongkong and Chinese enstons, and bow scheme B, your petitioner respectfully submits W. H. Forbes, W. K. Hughes, A. B. Johnson, later by the other junk, but as the occurrence East fifteen years ago, and settled in Kobe where yndicate for 1,500,000 yes. Narita is a town in rauch reliance was to be placed on Chinese Shimosa, twenty-five miles due east of Tokyo, evidence. Although the matters in lesno Firstly-Fender valuable Crown Lands J. &. Moseley and W. Wootten, The ommittee, took place in Chinese waters, it has not been he had an export business, his brother being and the country in between is thickly populated might have been presented in another way

however, found the general public apathetic, and officially reported. The object, according to the London partner in the concern. This is

in the samming-up, yet the jury who Secondly-Afford important facilities for the capital was not subscribed within the time the story of the survivor, was about six or ten still flourishing, but about five years ago, Mr. and with very poor railway accommodation. A beard the evidence during a period of Eve

the moving af troops and material, as allowed by the ordinance to elapse before the feet long and it was not very thick.. The im Bethell withdrew from the business and went

or six days, also heard the arguments of counsel. It was not a circumstance to be by wall as ready means of access to the commencement of the work. An extension of pression is that the unlucky find was a floating to Korms. He was a friend of the late Mr. Tom

suy moane forgotten that since the trial the Military Sanitarium now about to he

defondant in the issued (Wong Ka Chuen), who constructed. In this connection may be time was applied for and granted. Renewed mine which had drifted down here from the Cowan, the well-known journalist, who was the

was the principal if not the only really relevant suggested the not altogether conjectural efforts to raise the capital were, however, north. Though it is more than four years since founder of most of the "Times newspapers in

witness called on behalf of his own csse, had contingency that,

with a regular tram-railing, and it remained for a Londen the war was concluded this explanation seems the East, such as the Manilo Times, China

diod, so that it would be extremely diffoult to the Peak, it might become way service to

this case. In these circumstances their. advisable, for economical and sanitary res syndicate to construct the low-level tramway fossible. It may be however that authorities Times (Tientsin) and Japan Times (Tokyo).

On the 8th inst we pablished a telegram Lorum

would humbly advise his Majesty on the subject can find another explanation of It was the intention of the two to start a daily to barrack the greater portion of the sous twenty years later. sone, t Garrison on the higher grounds, in which But tho higli-level scheme escaped that fate. what at present is a mystery.

iu. Beoul, but before the actual flotation of the announcing the judgment of the Judicial Comto dismiss this appeal, but they would not erent the Government would

reap con-

Korea Daily News, Mr. Cowan, who had long mittee of the Privy Council in the matter of the allow any custa on either side, thinking that Lai Hing firm (bankrupta)-Wakeman, Official there was justification for raising the points siderable benant from the diversion to The privileges belonging to this scheme were

DEATH OF CAPTAIN MARKHAM.

been in bad health, grow worse and Mr. Bothell Receiver and Trustee v. Wong Li Shi, that had been raised. commercial uses of the extensive pro-assigned by the promoters of the Tramways

Mr. Sharp. I take it that the Official Recei- perty now occupied by the military.. Ordinance of 1883 (Messrn. F. B. Johnson,

Captain Markham, an announcement of whose was left to undertake the work alone, which he administratrix of the estate of Wong Ka Chuen,

ver will be able to take his costs out of the Thirdly,-Open up the coolest and most T. Jackson, W. K. Hughes and Ng Choy) to death we regret to note in a Home, paper, was dil. Mr: Cowan removed to Tokyo and shortly deceased.

We have now the Times report of the cash estate? attractive parts of the island to residents

the Hon. Mr. Phineas Ryrie and Mr. A, Findlay Lieutenant Markham when his name was upon afterwards in 1906 succumbed to brain disease, which reads as follows: and visitors.

Add largely and beneficially to Smith, and Government consenting to this every one's lips in Hongkong. The name Mr. Bethell contined the News and during the Fearthly Au

This was sn appeal by the Official Receiver Hongkong Court? recalls the terrible Bokhurs disaster. Lienten-

Mr Sharp--I think for the moment it is for the over-growded rudential area of the assignment granted the assignees an extension at Marklat, as he was then, was a member of war was correspondent at Beval of the Daily as the trustes in bankruptcy of the Lai Hing Colony Eatablish communication with Fifthly

of twelve months for the sabatantial commence the Interport Cricket Team which was return Telegraph. From the signing of the Japan firm from a judgment of the full Court of the your ordships. it any rate, an intimation an

Supreme

Court of Hongkong (consisting of the the point would be a guide, mout of the construction of the Bue. In due ing from. Shanghai to Hongkong on the Korea Treaty of 1905 he became a decided Chief Justice and Mr. Justico Wise) of July 4, The Lord Chancellor.—It is not our function the outport of Aberdeen, and villages on

P. 0. steamer Bokkara when the southern side

course a company was formed with a capital 5.In the alternative, your petitioner prays of 8125,000 in 1,250 shares of 3100 each, the typhoon and foundered near the Fasaiores opponent of the Japanese administration, but 1906, which distpissed an appeal of the Official to advise the Court.

with a loss of 125 lives, only seven Europeans unfortunately journalistic indiscretions, slight Receiver from a verdict and judgment in the trial After some farther conversation the Lord Chancellor said that the question being asked being saved.

bat irritating, marred his influence, which of an issue before the Chief Justice and jury. carry out either of the schemes above indicated,

Mr. Tannger. KC, Mr. E. H. Sharp, KC, whether the Official Receiver's costa ought to be Lieut. Markham was to make surveys under observation of the Mr. Phineas Ryrie, Messrs. A. Melver, J. Surveyor General's Department, and to perform B. Conghtrie and A. Findlay Smith, and Light Infantry which was then stationed in

Hongkong.

in expression and less Macklin were counsel for the appellant: Mr. F. said, that in their Lordships opinion the Official Lo subsequently went with his more all other pots essential to the promotion of the the General Managers, Mears. McEwen, regiment to India and Ister, or obtaining his personal. His connection with the Korea Gors-Browne, C., and Mr. A. F. Wootten Receiver was perfectly justified in appealing to

for the respondent.

this Board. If it was the Court in Hongkong undertaking. And also that, if accorded, the concession for scheme B may be accompanied Frickel and Co. The shares were subscribed captainos, he went to Central Africa in com. Redemption Fund proved his influence among

On November 24, 1905, the Supreme Court of which had to decide, it would no doubt pay A grant of the Crown Land required and a survey was at once made by Mr. J. F. and of the troops

plague with results that oorspelled him to retire the Koreans, and a successful action for libel at Hongkong directed an issue to be tried to attention to that expression of opinion. eidings, the track, for

The Lord of Appeal present when this judg- for Boulton, M.I.C.E., and the actual work of con. and

from the service. Captain Markham was born Shanghai vindicated his character of a charge determine whether Wong Ka Chuen was at the Buildings at different points, together with struction was begun on the 20th September, in 1869 and was therefore only 40 years of age that too many preferred to belive true. At auch privilegça and easements as Your Excel]-1885: Mr Boolton acted as resident en at the time of his death. Ouly last year he the time of the Redemption Fund trouble M bankruptcy agalart the Lai Hing firm a partner Lord Ashbourne, Lord James of Hereford, und Joney shall deem reasonable and requisite. The

gineer until failing health compelled him married,

she ran into a

THE LAI HING CASE.

THE JUDGMENT OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL.

The Lord Chancellor.-Is that for us or the

that authorization may be conferred on him to Consulting Committee consisting of the Hon, and sixtoen Lascar in the 1st Shropshire might have been very great had he been (of the Hongkong Bar), and Mr. A. Romer allowed out of the estate, this much tight be

by

for

There he caught the

moderate

date of the presentation of the petition in ment was delivered were:-The Lord Chancellor

in the firm. The Chief Justice directed that Lord Gorelt.