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The Hill as presented did not meet with the approval of unofficial members, all of whom were of opinion that a clause for the provid Ing of compensation should be added.. The Hou. Mr. Keswick aled objected to a master in dispute being referred to the Legislative Council after it had been dealt with by the Executive Council, giving na
WATSON & CO., a reason that any course approved by the
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THE GOVERNMENT did not 800 the neces sity for a compensation elduse, and in the course of hie remarks he said,
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SUPREME COURT.
Friday, July 22nd.
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
HIS HONOUR M. F. A. HAZELAND
(ACTING PUINE JUDGE).
THE FALSE INPRISONMENT CASE.
The case was again, meationed in which Wong Fu Ng, compradore, med Captain A. A. Johnson of the na. Ehui On to recover damages for falso imprisonment.
VILLAGERS AND SURVEYORS. Some time ago I reported that a company of Ignorant villagers attacked a party of student BEFORE eurveyors, broke their instruments and saulted several persons. The village was un- der the jurisdiction of the Nam Hoi Magistrate, and that official sont an account of what had happened to the Viceroy. His Excellency has LONDON, July 21st..
placed the matter before the Canton Self-Gov Although the Amalgamated Societyrument Society, advising this body to procure of Railway Servants refuses to support the services of a good crater, who is to go to the the strikers financially the men are villa, and those in the neighbourhood and lecture the people on the use and value of ber of these itinerant orators in the province, teaching the value of Self-Government. Do me setting forth Confucion doctrines, some caso of the presence of many revolutionists in the City, the Total of Police has just lately ioned a notice prohibiting speech-making in the public streets, and a man found disobeying this Leung Keng Chan, partner of the Po Fang,
Mr. Davidson (of Mesars. Hastings & Hastings), who represented the plaintiff, naked his Lordship if he would hear argument in Chambers to-day regarding the question of
Mr. Kong Bing-Will your Lordship fix it for Monday at 10.15am, P
Mr. Gardiner-There are other cases fixed. I am like my friend. Idon't want to hang about the Court all day,...
Mr. Kong Sing will have w spostat cbork in attendance. I know my friend is a very
busy man,
His Lordship fixed the hearing for Monday morning at eleven o'clock.
LOCAL SPORT.
V.R.C. SWIMMING FETE.
▲ swimming fátó to oslebrate the opening of¬ the new bath at the Vistoria Recreation Club will take place this afternoon, starting at 4 p.m.
The programme includes a water polo watch Mr. Shenton (of Messrs. Descon, Looker & between the Boys Own Club and the 87th Co.,
would be ready. Deacon), who represented the defendant, said be E.G.A., which is the first match in the Shield
We are told there is a likelihood of the most obdurate and have rejected peace surveying. Thero must be quite a large num special damagos.
overtures, This has deepened the Governor-in-Council (after disallowing an objection on the part of an owner of impression that the shunter incident property, forcing the resolution through was only a pretext to ventilate other this Council in the face of the opposition of complaints. next to the owner, and if it was a question of QUALITY, the most essential re-refusing compensation, I should think
against the opinion of quisite of a Cigar. Our Warehouse member of this Convery unofficial
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in Stanley Street contains specially fitted Drying Rooms for Maturing Cigars, and in the Dispensary itself the same idea is carried out on a smaller scale by the installation of drying cupboards.
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The unofficials
never give us officials any credit for having conscience at all, I know. We put in this clause about referring objections to the Legislative Council for the very purpose of providing that the matter should not be done in a hole and corner manner, and that full publicity should be given to the transac tion." As regards the compensation question, Any Cigars purchased from us have clause in the Bill was subsequently amend therefore the advantage of being ined to enable the Governor-in-Council, in his FINE CONDITION.
We Stock all the Best Known as well as the following, Brands, which are Manufactured solely for
discretion, to award such compensation as ho. might doom just. Now, in the Home Act a property owner has the right of appeal to the Quarter Sessions. The Bill in question, however, proposes to make the Legislative Connell a final Court of appeal, which as the Hon-Mr. OSBORNE pointed out, is tantamount to an appeal from Cæsar to Cesar. The Legislative Council, as is LOLITÁS- PER BOX OF 50. $5.50 well known, ja composed of, among others.
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most of the members of the Executive Council, so that in the event of s'erse in dispute being submitted to the former bedy, certain members wi!! have already consider- ed it, and in all probability will adhere to the decision at which they arrived in the higher chamber. Again, the Legislative Council has an official majority, and
A. S. WATSON & CO.. although it is unlikely that the Governor
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A SENSATIONAL SUICIDE.
LONDON, July 21st. A well-known city stockbroker, Mr. Athelstan Cornforth, committed suicide in the Central Park of Now York. He was an ex-clergyman, and suffered from nervous breakdown and latterly experienced small financial
embarrassment,
DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF WESTMORELAND.
LONDON, July 21st. The death is reported of the Countess of Westmoreland.
MILITARY TRAGEDY.
LONDON, July 21st.
rule a few days ago was promptly arrested.
OPIUM.
In spite of the stringent opinm regulations there is a large illicit trade done in this drug. Many opium dens still exist and a very large number of smokers. are without licences. This stato of affairs is dae not only to laxity but to corruption on the part of those whose duty it is
hors which sell small quantities of opium to to carry out the law. There are several places poor persons, and neith these shops per the customers have licenses. A few days ago one of the dealers was nicely caught. It esme to the
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ears of the Taotai of Police that this shop was illicit trade, so he sent a polios officer disgnised as a poor workman to the place to endeavour to procure some of the drug. The man easily obtained it, but a few hours after the police came to the house and seized it in the name of the law. There is so much evading the law that the Anti-Opium Barean have just issued four stringent regulations having as their alm the punishment of those illicit traders,
There are to bo sporta on the ground of the Nanking Institution on the 13th of October and sportsmen from all parts are invit ed to attend. The entries will be put into five divisions, of which two have been allotted to the Two Kwongs and Hongkong. The Kwong Tang At Fort Monroe, Virginia, ten men Sports Society are going to hold a meeting in were killed and five injured by the the YMCA to-morrow to discuss the best means of getting young men to enter for these blowing out of the breach of a twelve-competitions. The increased interest taken in inch _gan.
THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY STRIKE.
LONDON, July 22nd. The North Eastern Railway strike has ended by the men surrendering.
An instance of the dislocation caused by this strike is the throwing out of employment of 30,000 miners, SEQUEL TO COTTON FRAUDS.
aports by the Chinoso is a sign that the people are becoming more susceptible to Western ideas, and whereas a few years ago a Chinese student would have thought it utterly beneath his dignity to engage in many sports, now nearly every school has its athletic association and, the principle of the sound mind in the sound body is rapidly taking hold of the present generation
of students,
FROM THE SOUTH.
His Lordship-Very well.
AN ALLING LITIGANT, Wong Sham, trading as Wong Sham Koo, P.
was a claim for $647.25, balance due for work done and materials supplied.
Competition; a two lengths handbeap ; plunging ; diving for objectą; swimming under water; & toam race; and a V.R.C. water polo match.
LAWN BOWLS
Messrs. Curris, of Talkoo, and Davey, re- presenting the Civil Service Club, met in the. Mr. Otto Kong Sing appeared for the plaintiff, League Championship (open) on the Polica and defendant was represented by Mr. P. W. | Beornation Club ground last night. The result Goldring (of Messrs. Goldring, Barlow &
was an easy win for the Taikoo player, who Morrell),
defented his opponent by fifteen, the final scores being:--
Mr. Goldring-My foki is still sick, my Lord. Els Lordship-Then I don't see how I can. possibly get on.
Kong Sing→I would suggest that your Lordship should fix a day for him to bring his accounts in. I have an account which showe clearly that the defendant owen us $2,000 odd.
Mr. Goldring That is what you say, His Lordship-Is there no dispute between you and him?
Mr. Goldring-No.
His Lordship-I think there is.
Mr. Goldring-It is certainly not all clear. His Lordship-We'll put the ease in next Friday's list, and then see how the foki is,
Mr. Goldring-Yes, I understanil he is very ill. He has got beri-bari
Mr. Kong Sing He had that a couple of weeks ago.
Mr. Goldring-He is very ill; He sy never be able to come.
His Lordship will put the case in next Friday's list.
CLAIM FOR GOODS HOLD. 8 Montric & Co. v. R. F. Daly was a claim for $167.80 for goods sold and delivered.
Mr. P. W. Goldring appeared for the plaintifle, and Mr. Hinds (of Mogers. Bratton & Hett
represented the defendant.
Mr. Currie... Mr. Davey
A TROPICAL ROMANCE.
A "Romance of Tropical Pioneering" is v recalled to pablie notice in the monofincemeat that that fine man, George Clunies Rose, has died at Ventuor, in the Isle of Wight, not long after his arrival, in quest of heath, in England. Indeed, he passed through Bingapore on April 23rd, a fallow passenger from Batavia lu mail with our Colonial Secretary, Bir the Datel Arthur Young, on his return from his official visit to the Cocos Islands, the ting Taland Empire. of the Clunies Rose dynasty: There is hardly
any tar of corner of the earth where a purely patriarchal system
the
simplest catinu
lins been carried on for three our generations without the inaption of
in that thing in
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interference. And the remarkable the outside -- it has been an old. Bebtch skippor, his son and bis grandsons, who bave directel and roled their little Asiatic community of islanders in suph wise that, just as lu the opera of the "Arcadians," crime is unknown and
moneof plays no
no part in their elementary system exchange. There is a close parallel between thint little community of the Cocos
s and the
patriar Sarawak, Rojek Brooko went into an ancient Borneo state by the invitation of its inhabitants as a raler, old Captain Ross, away far back in the Mr. Goldring-I would ask your Lordship to early twenties of last century, settled un
isolated archipelago of the Keeling Islands, as day.
as they were then known, as a cultivator and a Mr. Hinds-I must nak for the usual adsquatter, and created his community partly out of the scanty fishermen dwelling there, and journment.
Mr. Goldring---If my friend has the hardihood imported native labour from the Butch Archi
pelago. It
It was the extreme isolation of his to do that, I must tell your Lordship how he sea-girt territorim that gave Capt. Ross so free s has behaved. I could get nothing from kim-but-hand in the gradual consolidation of the small a shifty verbal undertaking that they would community that grow and prospered in an under his fatherly sway. elementary way appear. I would ask your Lordship to give me In about thirteen years & Clunies Ross will be able to celebrate the centenary of his family's Mr. Hinds-There is an absolute defence, dynastis occupation of the Cosos group, as it is day, as there is no defense.
throughout all these many years there have been What they are suing for is goods sold and now called. And it is gratifying to know that delivered, and if there is anything dus at all, it no real domestic diflexities, and the only affo
from cyclones destroying their coconut groves is due under a guarantee to pay for goods tion those simple people have amiferett has been
tearing up their frail dwellings supplied to somebody else.
narter of a century age
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would force through the Council a resolution which the unofficial members unanimously disapproved, still, in cases where the people's representatives differed, the decision of the Governor-in-Council would prevail, and a property owner would have no redress. Highway improvements might diminish the value of a person's property, or it might Correspondents must forward their names and happen that they would enhance the ad tresses with communications addressed to s Baitor,
not for publication Jut as evidence of value. The latter possibility, apparently,
did not
to members of the good faith.
"All letters for publication should be written on Council, but in such case wo prezums | ane side of paper only.
No amously signed communications that that the Government would make no
appeared in other papers will be claim for the good they had doze. An The committee of bankers formed Orders for extra copies of DALLY PRESS appeal to the Legislative Council would last month to negotiate the Trans should be sent before 11 am, on day of certainly receive full publicity, but whether atlantic interests affected in connection publication. After that hour the supply in limitea. Only supply for Cash,
it would receive the same consideration as with forged bills of lading attached to Telegraphic Address: Pers8.
would be accorded it by an independent cotton bills from the United States, Codes:"A.B.C. 5th Ed. Lieber.
body is another mat er. In our opinion it cabled yesterday to the leading Amer- HONGKONG. OFFICE: 10A, DES VEUT ROAD Cwould be a much fairer method to allow the icen bankers notifying them that they LONDON UFFICH: 131, FLEET STREET. EO aight of appeal to the Supreme Court, or
to a Board composed of an equal number of would decline, from October 31st, boon addressed to the Self-Government Society they did nothing of the kind. My friend wanted taxy education at a kind of “Ledges
Heerted.
P. O. Box,, 54. Telephons No. 15.
Che Marty Press.
HONGKONG, JULY 22ND, 1910.
THE prospective mpid development of the
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LONDON, July 22nd.
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official and unofficial members, and presided to accept bills of lading accompanying over by one of the judges or magistrates. colton bills unless their genuineness The system proposed by this new Ordinance was guaranteed by exchange buyers is not progressive. It is really setting up in America. another farcical body like the local Appeal Colony and the prospective change in many Court. However, the Bill is not yet passed,
THE KING AND HONGKONG. of its physical features invest the Highways
The following despatch was laid on the table Ordinance ut present before the Legislative and during the coming fortnight members
of the Legislative Council will have ample at the meeting of the Legislative Council on Council with considerable interest. In the
objects and reasons" appended, it is opportunity to study suggestions, and if Thursday :-
Downing Street, they think necessary, to act upon then,
17th June, 1910. Sir,Your despatch and its enterrar have been laid before the King who has been greatly touched at hearing of the deep sorrow evinced by the British, Chinese and all sections of the inbabitants of Hongkong, and I have it in com- mand from His Majesty to express on his own behalf and on that of Her Majesty the Queen Mother and the other Members of the Royal Family their heartfelt appreciation of the sympathy shown throughout the Colony, and the dutifel and loyal attitude of all classes of the community.
I bare the honour to be,
Sir, Your most obedient,
explained that "this Ordinance has been found necessary in view of the laying out of The More prisoners working on San Ramon Crown lands, the formation of new streets farms at Zamboanga overpowered their guard, and the diversion of portions of existing killing one and wounding another. Seven of streets in various parts of the Colony, and is the prisoners escaped, taking with them one riot
gun.
based in a measure on the Imperial High- waye Act of 1835. This explanation is The hour of the early celebration of Holy not quite suffieisut and we have to go to the Comunion on Sundays at St John's Catho Bill itself to learn that the Governor-in-dral has been changed from 7.30 to 8.15 am, This change comes into farve to-morrow, Council-is-to-be-empowered to mazos, stop July 24th, and will continue in force nutil divert or turn any street on Crown land further notice. when deemed expedient. The Governor-in- Council in addition to its many other duties annual promenade concert promoted by the thus to bo constituted a highway Kowloon Cricket Club, to be held to night,
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humble Servant,
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authority, an arrangement which illustrates should be a great success. The programme is The Offer Administering the Government of
afresh the difficulties Essociated with the very attractive, while the surroundings will be Crown Colony form of government, which invested with considerable beauty.
Hongkong.
Mr. Goldring-The alain is perfectly clear. His Lordship-I have not got a day. Mr. Hinds-I must have particulars. Mr. Goldring They have been delivered I sent them to my friend by letter. If your Mr. Hinds I am entitled to ous week's Lordship will give me a day next week. adjournment to go into the sa
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It is just a George Clunies Ross was a fluo upstanding man with that quiet
control that just fitted his role se director
of the destines of the Cocss and their an Alicates.
inlabitants Bir Arthur Young
The Chinese resident in the Straits Settle meats, nuder the leadership of a noted merchant have sent to the Viceroy a memorial deploring the bad state of edustion in the Kwong Provinces. They point out that though educe tion opste the treamery a yearly sum of 1,600,000 tools, very little progress along medern lines is being made and the results do not justify the expenditure. The memorialists attribute this bad state of affairs to incapability on the part of the present Ednational Commissioner, whom
of him this year as a man of seventy years of ago, full of energy, and, in spite they acause of having filled up the posts in the
of the great cyclone disaster which ruined the Fortunes of the islanders, busy with plans Department of Education with members of his own family, most of whom are utterly inespable
for rehabilitating the position of the of fulfilling their duties. They urge the
simple folk Mr. Goldring-I would not ask for a day only of whom he was the father and counsellor.
How Viceroy to dispense with the services of the
wisely the islands wero rated
may be seen in brief paragraph in the Inst official I report by the prosent Commissionar and to appoint a more the direnmstances are poliar. My friend's
Straits Colonial A letter on the subject has also firm absolutely misrepresented things to me.
Secretary, which mentions that capable man.
Mr. Hinds beg my friend's pardon, but
only five children
a sort of plemen- and to the Educational Association.
by a crippled native. Bir Arthur tion for those who have to warn their living by
This, anys?
anys Sir Arthur, mannal labour, ably the true cause for non-attendance at for that ideal though elemental happiness i school. We would add that it is the trae cause which these islanders dwell. Education would. certainly breed discontent, and induce crime, and J. C. Clark brought notion against M. 8. Hoy diminish the sum of communal content that now
there
would le to recover $1,000 damages for detention of prevails, For the educated ones
nothing
bat to leave the island, for its limitations Jata
our firm to give a personal undertaking that we would be responsible.
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Mr. Goldring I never naked such a thing all at all. It wouldn't be worth having.
His Lordship-I will fix the case for Friday
week.
A WARDROBE DETAINED.
clothing,
Mr. Otto Kong Sing appeared for the plaintiff
THE MACAO TROUBLÊS. There is still a good deal of talk relative to the fighting at Macao. I hear, but do not gust- antee the statement, that the people of Heang Shan are very excited over recent events and are openly in sympathy with the pirates, whom they regard sa patriots. There is talk of an organised attack to be made on the Portuguese Settlement, but it is probable that these stories have very little foundation. Nevertheless, the people of the Henng. Shan district are a very turbulent set, and it would take very little to rouse them to make trouble. The fact that the defendout. Boundary Question still remains unsettled the Chinese Government to take serious steps to ankles in many people's minds, and it behoves prevent disorder arising. It is unfortunate that just at this juncture Admiral Li should have spelled for permission to retire from service. The Admiral has done excellent work in keeping in check pirates and brigands, and the Viceroy will not accept his resignation, but has ordered him to remain at his post.
and Mr. J. H. Gardiner represented the
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Mr. Kong Bing-Will your Lordshily take action, as my client's wardrobe has been detained or rather an affectation of talk Bet, out- kido the pages of fiction it is hardly possible the case on Monday'? This is a very serious mash talk of the "almple life" nowadays, by the defendant and he has no access to it,
to conosive of any man of British
descent Mr. Gardiner My alient's money, has been
whose family had lived the tras simple life that is only to attained by continuous antara for with detained, my Lord. The defendant claims that so she has a lien on these belongings. They are in Nature, had constant reliance on the room which was occupied until a few days ago every scanty went of life. To the Boss family, by the plaintiff, sud the defondant is anxions far more than to any other, has it been given to my, without an atom of exaggeration, that to have these things removed from that rosin each was #monarch of all he
mallurveyed "The bat there because she wants to make use of it, but she does kingdom
rivals to
look grudging not like to go and interfere with a gentleman's were belongings unless the plaintiff is there, or some over a frontier. The Cocos were like some fragment of a lost Atlantis, and its few youy sopranting him I would like your hundred people lived-an-existenss-free-from all care of the morrow, like the lot of the Lordship to give me instructions.
blameless vestul” of l
The fourth of
of the fing, by the world forgot the world forget- Ross dynasty assumes charge, and
ie Bow on the spot, and Amurath to Amurath succeeds. Mr. Andrew Ferguson Clanies
Rose, whose Beottisherigin appears in every one of his names, may be trated to carry on the role of the Rasses in the same benevolent patriarchal way that has made their little community the nearest
Elysium approach known to a tiny
RIOT AT GLOVE CONTEST: The Becuto, Lisbon, reports a violent riot as having occurred at a boxing match which took place between.” “ professional -boxer - zumed Azevedo, who has recently returned from the United States, and a coloured man named Costs, who is of huge proportions. The building In which the content took place was crowded to the utmost, there being about 4,000 spectatori present. Both pugilists used four-ounce gloves. In the secund round. Costa, with a tremendoni caso? ► The death of Princess Feodors of Schleswig-wing, taught And When stoves
on the jew, souding him- was lodics as well as discharge the bigher duties in possession of, and uttering counterfeit sein, Holstein, younger sister of the German Empean, instantly to the glored boxer, it is alleged
regaining his feet t The Princess, who was 36 years of age and resumed the contest End parished his adversary
Azeredo's posed are to be considered by His Excellency charge of uttering was dismissed, but for having unmarried, died at Oborsanbul, in Baden, from while he was on the grouse Bull Costa AWAY Mr. Kong Sing But there is a provision Singapore Fres Press,
A Chinese was charged before Mr. J. É.. Wood at the Magistracy yesterday with being
has to supervise drainage, roadmaking and the other duties pertaining to petty local
of government. Objections to any work pro,
and with returning from banishment. The
KAISERIN'S SISTER.
took placa on June 21st,
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Mr. Kong Bing-Make a special order for my attendance, and my friend will pay the costs,
His Lordship-Will you take away your Mr. Kong Sing-That is what we want to
do.
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Mr. Gardiner They are quite prepared to do
attached.
Hi Lordship-What is that?
Mr. Kong Sing-That the plaintiff pays.. His Lordship-I can only make an order by
o's seconds that. the spurious money in his possession the fallare of the heart caused by rheumatic fever interforest, endeavouring to pull in Council, and parties objecting will be defendant was fined $35 or a month, and he was
She was of peculiarly sympathetic matares The seconds
of the coloured fighter thereupon and thoroughly dognainted with the lives and attacked. the opposing party, and the spectators permitted to state their case either person sentenced to one year's imprisonment with hard
both of the poor aspirations
in Schleswig and amid general uproar, took sides. The affair ally or by representative. In theercat of an labour and four hours stooks for returning Bilenin where her family bas netatea The quieldy degenerated into a free fight. Blows
Princess was also mistress of the Low-German
fustily exchanged on both sides, and the objection being disallowed by the Governor from banishment."
dialects (Plettdeutsch) spoken in those province, wildest confusion
prevailed. The crowd grow -Council the work cannot be undertaken
and several little hooks have been writt
Written by still more turbalent, and
the
polics who weXT except by resolution of the Legislative
her under the pen-name, F. Hugin," in which present are atterly unable to quell the riot the trials and tragedies of the people are Reinforcements of gendarmary were summoned, Council, which it is proposed to make the
described with considerable skill. She was also and only order was restored. It was then no sicko artist, and has flastented some of her found that over 30 persons had received mors representativo authority in the Colony, and
awn stories,
or lies serions injuries, from whose decision there can be no sppeal.
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Mr. Keng Sing Will your Lordship take the case on Monday to prevent any further inconvenience to my client?
Mr. Gardiner-And to mine.
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