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SUPREME COURT.

Tuesday, October 18th, IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.

BEFORE HIS HONOUR SгR FRANCIS PIGGOTT (CH JUSTICE),

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19Tṇ, 1910.

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SHIPPING NOTES,

The Japanese Merchant Marine College Training Ship Taitei Moru, with a hundred students on board, will start at the end of this month on a cruise round the world. She will retura to Japan in September, 1911.

They had heard the formidable document read in the new Territory were numbered by by an officer of the Court, and it charged him Government ofloials only. These people knew with obtaining money from eloven distinct it, and the only man therefore entitled to exant persons-iu most cases 51, in euc case $2-by any money in respect of the namboring of falso pretonces. The facts were very simple, houses would Government official but the found, the Attorney General would As no fees Ind hitherto boon charged, submit, was a most scandalous one, and it what did the defendant do? With a vast irax obviously the outoons of a carefully amount of audacity, he was clover enough to say considered plot to roba number of poor villagers that a new law had been passed to authorize

A wireless message was received at Shanghai In the New Territory. On September 6th the the changing of numbers. He threatened them,

on Friday from the Commanding Officer of tho and on the previous day two adjacent villages, further, produced numbers and obtained the

Monteagle that he has the Hamborg Amerika The made af operation was a very simple one.

money by fraud. Another point established Line steamship Armenia in tow and expected to The prisoner proceeded to one house after was that the accused had been a Goy.

arrive at Woosung about 6 o'clock on Saturday another, represented himself to be a Govern, tramont ocial, and it was part of meat officer, and told the teuarts that the his duty to visit the villages in question. Mr.rening. The Armenia is a 5,471 ton ship Mr. C. G. Alabaster, instructed by Mr. H. L. Gororumont had misde a new law; that Potter said there was no proof that the prisoner bound from Hamburg to Kobe, Japan. Donnys. FOBOR Acting Crown Solicitor, according to that law their houses bad to be could speak Chinese, but all the witnesses spoke prosecuted, and prisoner was undefended.

renumbered, and that each villager whom he

SEAMAN ARRAIGNED FOR FORCERY. Robert Stuart was indicted on throu counts

NOTES AND NEWS.

LADY SWIMS LOBOR NOLENT,

<FORGERY OF RUSSIAN BANK

NOTES.

GIGANTIC BWINDLE AT OSAKA.

Mra. Hamilton, wife of Major Arthur Bamfl- ton, 6th Dragoon Guards, swam scross the So.. lent last month, this being the first time & Indy had succeeded in the task. The sea was smoɔtlı, but there was a strong current when Mrs. lambeen unearthed at Osaka. The discovery was A remarkable case of bauk-note forgery has ilton landed at Rydo,. She was not tired nor cold, though she had been in the water over two ads quite sociloutally a day or two ago, and those concorued arresto, by the police. It hotara,

appears that two Chinese, Lin Shauli sud Yeh- RUGE ICE CAVE.

tasi-chin, of Nishi-ku, Osaka, were arrested in An ice cave, which turns out to be the largest April last on a charge of counterfeiting and last few days in the Dachstein Mountains, near notes, and the Oana Central and other p Obertraus, on the Lake of Hallstatt (Austria) authorities are since engaged in a rigorous police Soientific investigation bus boon, made, and the gearch for

of forgery, Prisoner ploaded not guilty, and Prisoner visited the village of Kau Pai Shok, and in order to impress the villagers stili | Cozadizu Pasifle Railway Company's R. M.S. in the world, has been discovered within the attempting to export Russian Brouble bank.

the following jurors were orapanelled:--

G. K. Haxton (foroman), J. Simpson, A., L. Dawn, F. Da Silvo, R. L. Bridger, E. J. `vou Deldon and W. Manning.

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Mr. Alabaster said that prisoner was charged called on was required to pay 31 in respect, of acquit the prisoner on the technicality raised by / Company the gross profits for the first half of

to is. He submitted that if the jury were to

Me. Potter, it would be defeating the ends of justice.

1910 (after dedusting general axpenses) were given at £160,000 against £250,000 in 1909 The cause of this improvement is chiefly more imperial mail services. Owing to sovore com petition the South American business shows slight decrease.

CLAIMANTE TO A HUGE FORTUNE.

His Lordship, directing the jury, said thay had first to decide the identity of the ilofondant. / active business with the North American and died in the middle of last century, and to be Mitsuturo, aul Kimoto Kiymatin, a cotton Then, if they found there was a threat and false protoucen, they would be entitled to return a verdict of guilty against the prisoner.

case is foun 1 to be nearly a mile and a half in learnt the accomplices One of the dolectivos length, It consists of an upper and lower art in a printer named Yamamoto Sentaro, group of great halls, the largest of which is tho accused Chinese Lin prior to his arrest, had

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who frequented the house of about 700 foot long and 100 foot in boight.iately beau visiting another man named At the mooting of the North German Lloyd Many interesting prehistoric objects have also Tobikuma Sayoji, aged 49, of. Nishi-ku, during

boon found.

the ni, ht, and that the latter was engaged in printing something on a machine installed in coming ratis & dot un lien- uocares, our Further investigations led to the disclosure that

Some interesting details are published his house, work done the to have been left by an English knight, who three other meTanaka Kamozo, Farakayo claimed by amber of relatives of the deceased merchant, all of Nishi-ku-were also connected

with tho who

U.S.A. The reside

side in Naw Jersey,

› operations of the two mou in question. of the poreon by whom the huge fortune was

It was farther found that those five men, in loft is given is Sir Thomas Mooro. It would conjunction with the two Chinese, bail forged oppear that there are several persons in America Russian sper money and disposent of who believe thomires entitled to shares in the it to another Chasse, named Heii Lai-shen, Moore fortune, and that they have consulted ared 49, wise of Osaxo, the latter exporting together with the object of presenting a joint them to Vladivostok through the agency of a To this end a corporation has been formed JapanESO POLY! These frets laring so far in New Jersey for the purpose of pressing the been substantiated, the Kujo police decided to

take steps against the accused. RUMOURED BETROTHAL OF ENGLIS

PRINCESS.

on three counts. One charged him with for the renumbering of his bouns. Having obtained gery, with intent to defraud, the second with $1. theu accused presented each of the parties attoring a document well knowing the same to with a printed number, and told them to keep bo forged, and the third with obtaining goods by that number and on the folowing day a means of a document which purported to come

call man woukl

to repaint the house. from the captain of the ship. Prisoner was a Haring obtained the dollar and loft the seaman on tho sa. Drumeiian, aul on October number, the prisoner made himself· searco, 9th he was entitled to certain money an wages,Needless to say that no one valled next but according to custom it was left in the hands day to reanumber the houses, and that the whole of the captain. Prisoner therefore did not story from beginning to and was a pure, inven- take the money on shore with him when he tion on the part of the accused to defraud these unanimous in finding the prisoner not guilty on¡ prosented a third potition to the Board of Posts obtained leave from Saturday till the following Monday. Tradesmen would not give strange people radit, therefore captaina usually gave į members of their craw a chit whoroby they could obtain goods. The captain of the Drumellan had given prisoner notice that he would hot be responsible for any chits a fow days revious to the ailoged offence, and he did not

unfortuniste people. The various witnesses would toll very much the same story as to what took place. In the case of vse woman hefeld her that if sho did not pay up she would be fined. Ho told another man that if he failed to pay he would be arrested and prosented, and in the onse of a third the prisoner said he would have him arrested. The witnesses would say, in ench

Tho jury retired to consider their verdiet. Os returning into Court some ten minutos later the foreman announced that they were

all counts.

Accused was discharged.

RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION IN

WESTERN CANADA.

THE DEMAND FOR CHINESE LABOUR,

VICTORIA (BC.), Bopt. 26.

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The Shareholders' Aasvointion of the China Marchants' Steam Navigation Company has and Communications praying that the sole mazugonent of their company bo handed over to the merchants, on the ground that the present mode of management by merchants under aflojal control is expensive and inconvenient.

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various claims,

Ramo

it

was

In the meantins it happened that a box containing 3,000 thres-rouble banknotes, and a Rumours are current in Court eireles that amber of Chinese tool notes, together with the an engagement will be announced next year

plates from which they were printed, were found between Princess Alexandra of Fife and Prince by accident rolled up in a large bundle of straw rope at the One shipbuilding yard, Nishi-ku, Christopher of Greece, plow of Queen

The mysterious beadlo, Alexandra and youngest son of the King of ascertained, had been parchased. from Greece. Prince Christopher was in England dealer in old rope named Kishi Subei, of Princess Royal and the Duke of Fife at Maz same ward. The find created quite a sensa Lodge. Be is twenty-two years of age. The to the district, and was duly reported to Young Princess, who is new 19, is the older the Kajo polico. The authorities accordingly daughter of the Princos Hoyal and the Duke moued the rope dealer, when the later Fife. She has serious tastes, cares little for deposed that the rope bundlia had been extrusted Tobikoma, who handed it to Kishi's wife whilst Rooiety, reads German, French and Danish to his charse by his brother-in-law, the accused authors, sud, like her author, is devoted to drawing and water-colour work,

uthorise the parchase of the goods. On Sun case, that they pirted with the money entirely completion of the Grand Trunk Pasific Railway Captain Carlson, lying at the Kinleeynon-wharf until last month. He was the guast of the

ay st 3 o'clock in the afternoon princner woot on the falso protence which this man set ad obtained some clothing, gave a domwent to e value of 820 purporting to come from the stain, with a footnote that the tradesman was go ou board the following day and get the When charged prisoner sail that he sdrank, and did not know what he was doing,

did not intend to dofrand; ---

DOY.

is Lordship-How much had the waster in josqussion belonging to prisoner?

· Alabaster About $90.

up. Ho posed as a Government official and they, boliering that ho was entitled to collect this dollar, paid it. All the witnessut spoke definitely as to the man's identity, sud he did not not think the jury would have any doubt about it. The prisoner was fortunate in haring the services of Mr. Potter, hat the Attorney-General could not anticipate what the defence was likely to bo. As far as his instruc tions were concerned, it was a very clear case

The shortage of labour will not permit of the

by 1914 as was planned, and proposals are being made that 20.000 Chinese be brought to join the railway builders in British Columbia. The Canadian Preife Railway would have back many years had the Chinese not, bean brought in to build it, and the Grand Trunk

of

"GIBRALTAR'S RIVAL"

the

he was absoat from hin shop, toward the end. of inst month, Quite ignorant of this fact the rope dealer had sold the bundle to the shipbuild- ing yard; All those concerned were subsequent- ly arrested by the police, and subjected to while their houses were arched, and apparatus confiscated.

At the time of the steanding of the Mitsui Anghera distrist and the boast line up to rigorous exiting machine and other

A number of Chinese witnesses. testified to and in Cannil any such scheme as this: German cruiser heptig and the gunboat Luchs

Lordabip-Is the captain prepared to against the prisoner. ' at he would not pay tho money?

Alabaster-Yo9.

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the defendant calling at their house, represent Lordship-Had he the right to withholding himself as an offer of the Public Works Department, and stating that the houses would

from each of them. have to be ronumbered. He obtained $1 or $2

Alabaster-I don't know.

ner did not douy anything about the dat, but denied any intention to defraud.

eridence the jury returned a verdict

Sergeant Appleton spoke to baing ontside the

Fire broke out in the afternoon of Friday last on board the C. M. steamer, Kiang Kwan

Shanghai. The alarm was at once given and the fire appliances of the ship were brought into play as well as streams from the shore. Great poitement prevailed for a time, but as the fire, which broke out in one of the forward deck any houses, was a antall one, it was soon extingusir He is being held back; last week the

company year for the 500 mile gection between Yellowhead of the fire is unknown. abandoned the iden of calling for tenders this ed, not much damage being done. The cause Pass and Allermare in the Bulkeley valley, the contrast for which was to have been allotted next month. The proposal to bring in Chinese is not acceptable to the Federal or Provincial Govern- Busssu Kaisha's steamer Alagosan-mara in meals. The politicians at Ottawa and Victoria Bouth Chian waters on June 24 last the fear the advocacy of

political considerations come Oriental immigration has been one of the great of their work, says the Japan Gazette, tlo usually before practical ones. The question of rendered valuable assistance. In recognition political issues of the West-the riots at Mitsui firm has decided to present the Com Vancouver indicated the feeling against the brown and yellow worker. Western Canada is mander and officers of each warship with a in great need of habour; and the cheap labour aonvenir in the form of a handsome olgar ogs80 of the Chinese would greatly assist in the rate of silver, or which the Company's development of the country.

When Mr. Smithers, chairman of the board expression of thanks in engraved In German pany, was in Victoria after returning with Yokohama firm, and will shortly to sout to the President Hays and party from Prince Expert. German men-of-war by the head office of the bo intarsiswad Mr. McBride, the Premier of British Columbia, seeking a modification of the Mitsui Bassan Kaitha, Ltd. the Roitway Company which forbide the employ clause in the agreement between the Province and ment of Orientals on constraction work in Bri- tish Columbia Mr. MoBride would not hear of

ohange. As a not.

Foley, Welch, & good upon. Stewart, the contractors who took up the work

ob, and his Lordship sentenced the accused Soldiers and Sailors' Institute on the evening of directors of the Grand Trunk P.ciño Com- The two cigar cases have bean completed by a

tothe' imprisonment.

LARCENY,

of September 7th. The defondant came along inf a ricaba, and witness, approaching, said to him "Good evening, Mr. Grant. You know I am Ang was indictodon a charge of larceny. Prpleaded not guilty, and the same jurors a police officer Defendant. said, "Yes," and sat he previous caso.

witness told him that he would have to arrest Asing the evidence the jury returned him for obtaining money by frand from several a vef guilty, and his Lordship sentenced Chinese. The Sergeant then cautioned him ther to three years' imprisonment within the usual way, and accused said, he knew politics he dare to unde

nothing about the matter. Witness sobret the prisoner at the Central Station and found Tng Wah was arraigned on a charge 28 in notes and some odd cente.

harte

· KIDNAPPING.

Meters,

There are approaching completion at the yard of Messrs. Harland & Wolf (Ltd.), ship. builders, Belfast, three of the largest vessels of great White Star liners of 45,000 tons each, the

tha

Hassan Ben Ali, an American Babject who has purchased practically the whole of the

Gibelous, which has never before been in the hands of a foreigner, left Tangier last month for America, travelling by way of Europo. He According to confessions made by the neenso:1. intends to interest Americia capitalists in the Yamamoto, who is reported to be a skilful exploitation of the mineral and agricultural printer, had, in conjunction with three others, wealth, of bis new property. The purebases nduced Kimoto, the cotton merchant, to finance made by the naturalised American Moor, th

this counterfeiting operations last year. Es- Hassan Ben Ali, are stated to be of greet potwean July and August last your they forged litical and strategical importance, including 18,000 three-rouble bank-notes, which they twenty miles of coast line wear Tongier and a disposed of to the Chinese Lin for 75 sen encir range of mountains. The latter are spoken of Subsequently they counterfeitol as rivalling Gibraltar in strategical value. Hassan Ben Ali holds 200 titla dreds, but refusen to state his actual holdings.

GERMAN CROWN PRINCE.

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further

70 000 of these notes, representing a face valao of 210,000 roubles. The acensed further forged soms Chinese bank-notes, but this undertaking proved ansuccessful. Upon the priest of Lin, in The Reichsbote published a story illustrating entered the employ of a coke merchant at

April last, the gang was dissolved, and 3

Farukawa the genial humour of the Crown Prince. Du Nishi-ku esa banto. Of late, assuming that the ing the manœuvres of the Guards Corps, his- Imperial Highness commanded the First Batta- police search for the accomplices of Lin hed battalion was bivouacking, and a crowd gathered nterprise. Accordingly Furukawa borrowed lion of the 1st Foot Guards. One morning the slackened accused agreed to resums their illegal the sum of 140 from his employes under the as ueual to watch the soldiers preparing their meal. This time there was an unusual number pretext that he was about to establish a printing

allowed to

of Osaka, He and his Ree

his accomplices the unbuch After the fed by the brand the Dago, With this money he leased a house at

•In the fem Seuing ladies among the

aspirants in review, and with imparti. not beauty competition, passed the al gallantry awarded prizes to all. The prizes consisted of chocolate, and when the supply ran ont, of cigarettes from the Prince's own use, The Prince was particularly gracions to three young ladies, who, at his request, took charge of his camp kitches and cooked pancakes for the Prince and his officers, who hugely appreciated the delicacies.

of bailding the 40 miles from the Skeena Dlympic, and the Titanic, while the third is the themselves in their own way, the Prince pertici-ided to forge new Ya bank-notes on a large of king & plon of not guilty was enter After formal evidence adduced by Inspector River cañon to Aldermere, were oxpected to Maloja, the largest P. and O. liner built. Ebenkers his Imperial Highness proclaimed a scale, but in order to procure sufficient funds

od, aame jury was empanelled.

Aftring the ovilonou theý roturned i univerdict of guilty, and sentence of three and labour was passed.

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take up the work to Yellowhead Pass, but Mr. Stewart announced to the president of the railway when he visited Prince Rupert that his firm would not take the contract owing to the shortage of labour,

to

in

Sullivan, the case for the Crown closed.

Mr. Portes, for the defence, said it was the duty of the Crown to prove its case. It was the daty of the Crown to convince the jury that That the Dominion Government will As I was removed from the dock, he the

ranption the bringing guilty before they could be asked remarkhe sentence is very lonient. I convict him. In

1.8 case sch this of 20,000 Chinese, probably under bond, in don't ca

several the same way as the Chinese taine workers the Crown had to prove

irore taken to Jobanussburg, for the building of things. First of all they had to prove, beyond the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway is generally Cho Tsoi and li Yee were charg all rousosa le doubt, that the man in the dock believed, but it is net anticipated that the ed with Jery.

Both prisoners pleaded was the man who had committed the offance. Dominion Goverment will be strong enough to not guilty the same jurors were sworn, in.

There were two points which must have struck gree. The result will be that the constraction Mr. Al, informed the Court and jary the jury. First, they had produced in evidence that the Pers were charged with robbing · a number of printed numbers, presumably nam an old wom bangles, jewellery and money,bers which the man who committed this orime

stolon property. ying

and with

ROBBERY.

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ther 20

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to appear, and to, in the evidence she gave have done. But at the Police trt.

She said in ad- content with the witnesses from the dition that she ka both prisoners. They country without endeavouring to discover the went to her house abrog o'clock in the ranru- printing office. They were satisfied to take their ing, awaloned hor hanging at the door, and chance with the evidence as it was. There was a when they got in by nearly throttled her. second point which the Crown could have proved

wai,

has a tonnage of 15,000. The two White Star liners represent hard cash to the extent of no less than three million pounds sterling, while the other vessels being built or finished by the firm era valued at two millions.

الحرة

The French ataame.* Admire Olry, of the Chargeurs Reunis, put back into Singapore on the 9th inst, with a fire in kor bunkera and her forohold. Tho Admiral Olry arrived in Sing- spors from Saigon on Saturday, the 8th October, will drag along slowis, year after year, and and left to continue her voyage to Europe the that the entry of the best through train to Princs following mowing at 8 o'clock.

When she Was barely four bours at sea it was 'die- Ruport in many years distant. In company with Sir Wilfrid Laurier and his party, I recently

The weather in the

was not extinguished until the ship returned to Singapore.

TRAVELLING IN CHINA.

STEAMERS . RAILWAYS.

CORRESPONDENCE OF SOVEREIGNS.

contracted to sell them together with the copper they first counterfeited 3,000 Ramsian noten, and plate from which they were printed, to the Chi nese Yeh. In orlor le ensure the safe transport full rope, and throngh the accused Tobikams entrased it to the unsuspecting rope denler whilst awaiting favourable opportunity of sending it to the Chinese. But the plan was doomed to failure, as the sequal showed.— Japan Chronicle.

if the notes, tho accused bound them in a bundle

"SURCHARGED" STAMPS.

LORD CREWE'S CIRCULAR TO THE CROWN COLONIES,

If our were asked to speculate us to the

Then Sovereign whose daily mailbag was the greatest, one would hazard the Kaiser. But no. most will say, It ought to be. On the azim- peachable authority of a Paris contemporary, we learn that the Pope is the recipient of the his Holiness consists, on the average, of 23,000 let- greatest number of missiver. The mail of ters, newspapers, &c. To go through this mass 35 secretaries are kept employed. The Prosi letters daily, and about 4,000 journals and booka.

The Kaiser's mail consists of 4,000 lettere, and frequently the same number of books and papers. Our King, we learn, is favoured with kind of stamp 1,000 letters a day, and over 2,000

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Among the treasures of philatelists aro what' are called surcharged stamps, that is to say,

had matter printed upon their faces in order to altor them to another kind or denomination. One of the causes of surcharging has been the sudden discovery of a scarcity of some particular

newspapers In a circular to the various Crown Colonies,

being given at 600 letters, di, per day. The pressed disapproval of the practice so far as bost 300-3 and Spain have to deal with those Colonies ara concerned. In the course of

Kings of

each Queen Wilhelmina is still more favoured, with 150 letters, &c. But President Fallières is still more fortunate, for we are told that he receives few letters, and hardly any papeTS.

the viruular he says:-

"I have the honour to inform you that my attention has recently been called on several occasions to disputes and regularities in various Crown. Colonies arising in connection with the sale of postage stamps to persons who deal in them for purposes of trade.

Aitor hearing the extence the jury returned not guilty, bat it was for the Crown to his" by the late Mr. D. U. Mills, Mr. A. | Fa) and the newcomers, The latter, how

into and had barst The got printed for the purposes of the crime. In made a trip over the forty miles of railroad that covered that the coal in her bunkers had

over-beated the Skeens become has been completed along the bank of prosatrix quot be able to appear. She place like Hongkong, where the number of River, and the amount of work necessary to build fume. Under the direction of the captain, gave evidence, Polies Court, and was then printing offices is limited, one would have im that section was apparent. The whole way was

rock-out following rock. Compuudant Privat, the crew turned to the task dant of the United States receives nearly 1,000 stamps of ono kiud or denomination which have takou ill wihalaris and removed to the agined that it would not have been beyond the almost a great will certainly besa expenses one of quelling the outbreak. All day long water

out. The line Tung Wah ital. On account of her powers of a Hongkong detective to have

The diffenity in securing sufficient labour for

was plied on the mist of barning coal from which illness the A WIN pat over from traced that printing office, and to have the construction work is increased by the system empuks was rising in overpowering volume. the laal Session that the prisoners might adduced some. evidenco to the

The Company awarded the contract man adopted. have an opportar of cross-examining her. As who got the numbers printed. It was a

for sections of approximately one handred miles Sexural men succumbed to the suffocating to a firm of railway builders, and this firm sub indsenco and had to be removed from the aceno she could not appear, however, with bis childishly simpla point, and Counsel

sub-contractors of action in an unconscious ecndition. The fire and books. The Czar is not overworked in this Lord Crewe, the Colonial Secretary, has ex. let contracts to others.

The Lordship's pormi Mr. Alabaster proposed would have thought it would have

been also sub-let contracte, and so on, until little mailo to call the doctor testify that elie was too ill the very first thing the Crown, would parties of workmen were contra turs. for a

quite or less. As-each contractor and sub-contractor profited the wage of the worker was gradually need. The raling rate of pay at most of the camps is 12s. 6d. per day, and the worker paya 258. per wook to the contractor for his hward at the "bunk-house." Skeena River section is moist, and it is seldom

18 EVIDENCE CELIABLE? Professor Marquis, of Latasse University, that the worker has six days to his credit

Some four years ago there were only two

has made some interesting experiments which ← Thr more serious difficulties which have re- Then they took her fables, and when she without the least possible difficulty. That in the clothing and, supplies from the eon British Peking and the Chiza Merchants Com is seldom reliable. He questioned a number of with issues of anrebarged stamps. Atisation

working week. Furthermore, the worker steamers on the Ningpa-Shanghai rau--the

seem to prove that evidence giren in law courts cently been experienced have been connected called out they ran ay. Connsel concluded whether or not the accused spoke bays his by putting in the stemonts made by the Chinese. It was not for the speaker to prove tractor's store at calanced prices, with the result pang's Kingtech. There are now fire, says the his students concerning various parts of the on-as called to the objections to such issues in defendants at the Pdo Court, in which they that the prisoner did not speak Chinese. It to be derived in other employments. When rate war has been waged between the shipping are by fore their eyes, every day.

that his wage is small in comparison with that British Acting Consul at Ningpo. A Serce versity hail logs and other objects which Lord Lipa's circular despatch of August 18,

Out of should be unnecessary

1893, in which it was pointed out

out that surcharg accused one another.

was not for him to prove that the accosed was the Cauadina Pacific Railway was built the conference (the three vessels previously ou tho fifty-four students not one

was able to

proper re Supply Company was formed in Sunconteren

have so far held their own, although possibly use isht questions correctly, and when taken to maintain à suficient supply of stamps.

asked about a certain window forty-five I ardist. of guilty, ad prisoners were each prove that he was guilty. It was in evidence

concur in this view, und, with the object a Onderdonk, and athers, and some Chinose, and sentenced to the poor imprisonmont with hard that the defendant was formerly employed in a this firm took the contract for the Gorarpment they might have been in a different position denied its existence, sight affirmed it and avoiding such issues for the fatura, I havo one remained undecided. Another test of their decided that the Officer Administering the Government Department. He was a land section of the present line of the Canadian semi-patriotic association formed locally, under powers of observation was to ask them to describe Government, the Colonial Secretary, and the surveyer in the Pablic Works Department, Pacific Railway from Part Moody to Savoss the style of the Nangshao

Support Society dress and appearance

a man wearing a Colonial Postmaster of the rarions Crown and the Crown could bare called witnesses were brea ht to Victoria by sailing ships, the which enables these various steamers to find roo

To build the road about 25,000 Chinese Ferry

It is principally the large passenger to mask who had been introduced into the lecture-Colonies and the Protectorates should be held room two days before. Their answers varied collectively and individually responsible for to say whether or not he spoke Chinese Chinees being recruited in Canton, and it was

The loud passenger considerably. They were also shown ten masha onsuring that an adequate stock of stamps is TRIAL OF JOHN GAANI,

If the jury were satisfied that the money because of this orent that the Chinese were profitable employment

returns are the second largest in the Empire, out of which they were to select that worn by kept in the Colony or Protectorate, and for John Grant, an ex-surveyor' the Public not obtained as a result of the pre-fired with the desire to emigrate across the

and the number of passengers carried to the mx.

Out of twenty-four students only ordering a fresh supply as soon as the stock in Worka Department, was indictor on leven tence set out in the change, they wore bound to Pecifio.

and from Ningpo during 1909 was considerably

1,000,000. Now, as regards the Shanghai. four recognised the correct musk, laven made band falle below the amount sormally required

for their Dy

a perind of counts of obtaining money by tako pretences.soquit the prisoner. Every one of the Crown

ssy, six montbits understood it is, no fioubt, Prisoner pleaded not guilty on all counts, and witnesses häd negatived the case for the Crown.

portion of this trafic, does it seem at all probs mistakes, and nine could not make uble that the

Professor Marquis, "are men of education and by members of the Civil Service of the Colonies Drs. At a

culture. What, then, are we to think of the and Protectorates that dealings in poutage rough estimate, the railway will perhaps carry statements made in criminal law courts by stamps for purposes of private profit are not allowed, I desire to impress on all postmastere, persone who belong to less educated classes ?" passengers through to Stanghai in some nine

treasurera, or other Brancial offers that they will ronder themselves liable to pravo censure hours. The steamers, at a cheapor rato, carry them in about fourteen hours; but these four- teen hours begin at 4 p.m., when the business

labour.

BEFORE MR. F.A. HAZELAND

(ACTING PUTAN), JUDGE).

WOS

THE PRINCE OF WALES.

but for the Buancial assistance of a kind of

the following inry was empanelled:-Mosers. The Attorney-General said his learned friend, TOUR ROUND THE WORLD BEFORE JOINING | Railway will selected Ningpo-Hang cho minds about it. "All these persons,

G. T. Eberius, B. F. Lorg, A. A. da Jews; Mr. Fotter, was always versatile, and always had

THE ARMY.

affect matters.

Bays

were in

of

LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS. it boy engage in any transact one of this

The Indo-China str. Laisang luft Calcatta sleep. The and is due bere about the fat prox.

str.

A. E. da Silva, A. M. Smith, K. A. Helm and many strings to his bow, but in this case be An interesting statement with regard to the J. Toppin.

found himself in the position of having all the future of the Prince of Wales and his brother, Prince Albert, is made in Truth. The Prince The Attorney-General (Hon. Mr. W. Boes facte against him. The evidence abundantly of Wales is now at the Royal Naval College, Darias, K.C.) instructed by Mr. H. L. Dennys, established the charge which appeared in the Dartmouth, and Prince Albert is at Osborne: day is

is newly over, and end at about 6 am, in sear, Acting Crown Solicitor, appeared for the indictment. He submitted that the whole of it is expected," says the authority referred sight in which to bediant or discomforts of the for the Straits and Hongking on the 16th inst..

time for the next day's work, after a Crown, and accused was represented by Mr.theso transactions conveyed to the minde of to, "that the two Princes will leave England

about twelve months hence on a Toyage toned journey have been passed over aldon Potter, who was instructed by Mr. J. H. each of the witnesses that the defendant was the world, during which they will visit the solved are this; but it is unfortunately still question is one which might well have been Gardiner..

anthorised to collect a les from each, and principal Colonies. The Attorney-General informed the jury that they paid it because he went there as an

"if this plan is carried out the Prince of Becessary to refer to the Ningpo Hangohow the prisoner at the bar was before them on su employee of the Government for the purpose Wales will enter the Army when he returns Railway as only projected," since matters in indictment charging him with obtaining money of plesting the fee. Two preliminar, fatheme, while Prince Albert is to join the Navy connection therewith have made practically no This arrangement will be in accordance with progress in the past twelve months, or indeed from a number of plisons by false pretences had been established. The first was that houses the family precedent."?

in the past two yesra.

The cargo of Silk shipped on board the M.M. Ville de la Ciotat, which left this port on the 13th ultimo, was delivered in Lyons on the The Silk er R.M.3. str. Empress of India, 15th instant. which left here on the 17th ultimo, arrived in New York on the 16th instant,

nature."

A well-known French actor became involved in a discussion with an American, grow heated, drew his card from his pocket, threw it on the table with tragic air, and stalked out. The American regarded the card for some moments, then took out his fountain pen, wrote "Admit bearer" above the engraved line, and went off

to the theatre.