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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 8TH, 1911

Ten cases of plague occurred in the Colony

comprising it being brought together under during the day ended at noon vesterday. All TELEGRAMS.

The cases for the year now total 92.

Ono ruler. They all acknowledge the king-wore Cainase. Five were returned as dead. ship, which, in itself, is a very strong bond. In acknowledging the kingship they also acknowledge, though to a less degree, the kingly rights vested in those pro-Consuls who go out from England to the Dominions to administer them in the name of the King.

A. Chinese jeweller of No. 10 Queen's Road. Central reports to the police that one of his fokis has departed with jewellery to the valas of $25!..

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For stealing haft a pound of butter from the Muitary Hospital dr. Hazeland at the Megis- trasy yesterday soutenced a coolie to six weeks imprisonment and four hours' stooks.

On Tuesday threw Chinese attacked a country- man and attempted to rob him on Stanley Road near the Wengneichsong reservoir. The victim's cries of are in a post the police

On Wednesday the dead body of a Chinese Thn rights vested in these pro-Consuls, maslo, aged about 16, was and on Chathas however, do not give them such authority Road, Kowloon, near the railway line, Thore as to make them supremo. Speaking gen-are no indications of foul play, orally, it may be said that the Dominions themselves exercise a powerful control in the selection of their governors, and that in certain cases public feelingg might be strong enough to force the recall of one who had' run counter to popular causes. If the unity of the Empire, starting supreme with the WATER kingship, has already weakened where the kingship's representatives are concerned. what shall be said of such unity when affairs of State are considered? It is now pretty well recognised as an historical fact that after the loss of the North American Colonies down to within comparatively recent years the policy of the British Government towards the Colonies was one of drift. Such a word as "Empire" was

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taken it into their heads to cut themselves adrift from Great Britain and had had the strength of arms to carry out their plau, many people-politicians and statesmen included-would have shrugged their shoulders and suggested that it was not such a bad thing for Great Britain after It is hardly surprising that under these circumstances the relations between Great Britain and her Colonies should

all.

GINGER BEER, romain to this day of the very vagucat char-

PY ERIS-Sparkling

to his aid, and one of the alleged assailante waa arrosted.

General Vomander, Russian Inspector-Gear- al of Engineers, recently left Enrops for the Far East on a tour of inspection. He will join General Sakhomlinoff, the Minister of War. af Vladivostok, where important conferences

will be hold.

Dr. Petrie, of the Lister Institute, whe

ferenen at Mukde, has been visiting Manila and arrived in Hongkong on Monday. He left by the Nikko Maru yesterday for Japan, whence he will proceed home vid Canada.

represented Great Britain at the Plague Con

Reuter's Telegram Co., Lt, has just paid a final divided of 21 per cont, for the year 1910 making a total distribution for the year, fros of meme tax, of 5 per cent. The report states that the banking business on which the Company in 1908 decided to embark was inaugurated last your.

A Chinese, who was arrested at 380, Shanghai actor. In matters of defence, trade and Street, Yapmati, was charged before Mr. Wood commerce, and constitutional obligations at the Magistracy posterday with being in there is no agreement at all. Should Great pussession of 40 counterfeit twenty-cent pieces Britain be at war any assistance from the The ofence was proved, and defendant was Dominions is purely voluntary. It is only ordered to pay a fine of $150, in default three the other day that a Dominion fleet was months' imprisonment.

Mineral Table Water.talked about, and the Imperial Conference

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itself is but a thing of yesterday. matters of trade there is no general policy. The Dominions can and do discriminate Great Britain; they can form treaties with A.S. WATSON & CO. | foreign countries, including tariff arrange.

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As a sequel to the dinner recently, held at a house in Aberdeen Street at which a number of Chinese were poisoned, a shop coolie and an ice- croam vendor were sharged before Mr. Wood at the Magistracy yesterday with administering stupotying drags. The tearing of the sturge. was adjourned

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A QUESTION OF JURISDICTION.

TOKYO, June 7th.

SUPREME COURT.

Wednesday, June 7th,

IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.

BEFORE THE CHIP JUSTICE (SI FRANCIS PROBOTT).

How do you fix your loss P-Bince the Station Hotel wasstarta),

And that will appear in your books?—You By the Court-I suppose it is the existence of the Station Hotel which draws your customois. away Yes.

Would it draw them away whether Mrs. Uschmann was there or not?--The Kowloon Hotel was there a long time and it did not draw my customers away.

You attribute the loss of customers to Mrs. Uschmann taking the Btation Hotel?-Yek

Mr. John Lenim, architect, spoke to carrying

ALLEGED BREACH OF COVENANT. The hearing of the action was continued in which Frederick Helohmana of the Grand Hotel sued Mrs. Mary Uschmann for damages for breach of covenant and sought for an injunction out work for Mr. Uashmaan on the Station restraining hor from carrying on the business Hotel, He submitted the plans to Mr. and Diplomatic negotiations are ia proof a hotel kepper at the Station Hotel, Kowicon. Mr. Uschmann, who approved of them. It was Mr. Eldon Potter, for the plaintiff, quoted not suggested in conversation that Mr. Usch- mann was the sole owner of the hotel. He re authorities on the two pointsraised by his · Lord.

Would the Station Hotel compete with a tionalthough there might be no damages, and the ship, the first one being the granting of an injune.ceived intenctions from both. second one as to whether a covenant was void as hotel in Hongkong ?-In my opinion it would, parties contemplated in this ease wast restric. hotel in Hongkong. being too wide. Proceeding, healthat what the if conducted by somebody who had conducted a tion in the area the Colony in which trading was carried on. He did not think that the top of Lantao was contemplated, although that was within the Colony, nor was Lamma Island con.

gress between Tokyo and Washington with reference to an American seaman from the cruiser "Albany," who is being held in the U.S. Naval Hospital at Yokohama for killing a comrade in hospital on Sunday.

has

A question of jurisdiction arisen, the Authorities maintaining that the accused should be surrendered to the Japanese Courts.

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FURTHER FIGHTING IN MOROCCO.

LONDON, June 7th.

templated.

His Lordship~~Your argument goes to that

extent!

Mr. Potter-No, my Lord. I submit you have to consider the circumstances and find if it is reasonable.

His Lordship-It works book to what I sag. gested yesterday, that you don't so much look at the strict interpretation of the covenant as to whether the application of the covenant ie reasonable.

Mr. Potter -You first construe the contract as to what its exact nature is, and having con-

stood it you and it means so and go and then ask yourself is it reasonable.

A message from Tangier states that General Moinier's column, while oper. ating round Fez, was attacked at Raselma on the 2nd instant by swarms of Moorish horsemen, who charged in the face of a heavy rifle and mitraill-be, euse fire to within a hundred yards of the French lines, and only retired when they were decimated.

The fight lasted eight hours, and the French had a surgeon-major and three legionaries killed and thirteen wounded.

The Moorish loss was heavy.

EXPULSION OF GERMAN EXPEDITION.

LONDON, June 7th.

It is reported from Berlin that the Germau Legation at Tangier has been

RENEWED CHAMPAGNE

RIOTING.

ments which may or may not injuriously affect Great Britain, and in numerous ways The Yokohamus Offco of the C.P.B. is in they have so complete an autonomy that a receipt of a wireless message from the R.M.S. Canadian or an Australian may find himself Monteagle, mutatia.m.on Wednesday, 7th Jane on visiting England in a foreign country, with when the vessel was 754 miles distant from different laws, different institutions and diffe-Japan, atrising all well, and that the Com-instructed to investigate the circum rent privileges. Only a few years ago it was mander expouts to reach Yokohama on Friday stances of the expulsion from Dabdu by the French of the expedition repre- possible for a man to form a perfectly legal the 9th June, at noon.

A telegram in a Singapore contemporary marriage in the. Colonies and on visiting England find his wife had no status and his states that "a resolution proposing that the Mili.senting Mannesmann mining interests. children were illegitimate. In Australia fary Contribution for Hongkong be fired at no British ship can engago in the coasting $1,000 a year was defeated in Legislative Council. trade, and in New Zealand a suffragette can by only one vote," This is not the case exactly. vote with perfect safety. The so-called The Unofficial Members were prepared to pay a million a year; a thonesad is caiting it too fine. unity of the British Empire is, in fact, a unity of sentiment which has so far attained It re- very little practical expression. sembles faintly the bond uniting the United States of North America, so far as the autonomy of the different States is concern od, but it is infinitely weaker in so far as there is no central authority, except the kingship, to bind the States together. The

"One by ouo, slowly but none the less surely,”. says a letter from Russia, "things old and authority of the kingship, moreover, is but small, for although there is a nominal right venerable are pushed aside, destroyed or dia- of veto it is seldom used. It possesses the regarded by trade, progress and other relentless. une value as the right of veto over Bills instruments of change. The latest is the attack passed by the British Parliament. Whether on the Asiatic caravan, by means of which the At Melbourne, on May 24th, LANGFORD the present conditions under which the best tea has been brought from China, pasked. PURCELL.

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BIRTHS.

At "Ardsheal." The Peak, Hongkong, the

179 wife of R. U. EDWARDS, of a daughter.

On Jaue 6th, at Abartholeyn, Poak Road, Hongkong, to Mr. and Mrs. W. G. WORCESTER, & daughter.

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The Medical Nursing Staff of the Govern nient Civil Hospital desire to thank the many friends who have expressed their sympathy and sent flowers on the death of Miss BARKER,

Her Home friends will be most grateful for the respect shown to her mentory..

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Another armed robbery has been reported to the polion. While trading junk was lying at anchor near Leung Kio Tan a fishing boat ran alongside, and four mon; armed with revolvers, jumped aboard and vuverol the crow. junkmen were driven below, securod, and the junk was rans sekad, and clothing and money to the value of $270 carried off by the robbers.

The

in air-tight metallic sinistere, across the Great Gobl desert of Central Asia to Russia, trowing en route three ranges of high mountains. This

way before the automobile. A line, running at picturesque transportation system wil soca givo regular intervals, has already been established and two weeks' time is out off, while the tes is better because of the shortened time of exposure.""

British Empiro is kept together are the best possible or not. is another question. Con- sidering that in United South Africa an- other Dominion has been created on exactly the same lines, presumably statesmon view the arrangement with favour. But apart from that it is always advisable to put aside sentiment and look facts straight in the face

While the water police launch was patrolling once in a while, so that an unprejudiced LONDON Office: 131, FLEET STREET, EC opinion may be formed. The Dominions the harbour in the vicinity of West Point on have now come of age, we are told, and if Tuesday morning a man was observol on the Praya carrying two large bags of raw cotton. A rosponsibilities of life, then presumably a man, but as soon as the latter saw him ho change in the attitude of the respective dropped his burden and ran away. components of the British Empire towards afterwards another man approached, and is each other is signified. But coming of age alleged to have offered the policeman a dollar also fry often means a breaking of the and told him not to worry. This man was taken at the Magistracy yesterday on charges of being parental leading strings, but in the present in charge and appeared before Mr. Hazeland case it may rather be said there is a growth in unlawful possession and of offering a bribo.

The

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Dress. coming of age means assuming the Chinese policemen was lauded to accost this

HONGKONG, JUNE 8TH, 1911.

On the eve of the meeting of the Imperial

Shorty

LONDON, June 7th. A decision of the Council of State in France, whereby Aube champagne was to be described officially

bas champagne of the second zone," caused renewed rioting.

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measures

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His Lordship-No, no. The question should is the application which you wish to make

eh

reasonable?

Mr. Potter-I don't think the cases show anything like that.

His Lordship-Sapposing an hotel had been opened at Taipo instead of Kowloon, it would be manifest that there would be no dama e, yet the plaintiff may desire to enforce this covenant strictly, not so much from actual trade rivalry

Mr. Potter-Exactly.

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I. will show whore mon have bean re you strained from business in areas which on the face of them seemed unreasonable.

Counsel dealt at length with anses showing that the judges had not considered whether the contracts made were or were not unreasonable.

His Lordship-Ture you watched the hotel? Witness-No, it is simply my opinion. E knew people have gone from the Kowloon Hotel

to the Station Hotel.

Cross-examined-Have you known of people

going from Hongkong to Kowloon - Yes.

It is not usual --Yes.

His Lordship-I suppose they come for a change?

Witnons--Yes.

Mr. Pollock-Who was to pay for this work at the Station Hotel!

Witness The landlord two-thirds and the tenant one-third.

It fell through!-Yes on account of Mrs. Uschmann's instractions. The landlord thought it was extravagant and would have nothing to

The hearing was adjourned. do with it.

CORRESPONDENCE,

THE CONDENSED SKIMMED MILK -

QUESTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG "DAILY FRESS."]

- 7th June. SIR,The letter on this subject published

in your issue of this morning was evidently

bat because he wanted to keep that person out written la answer to one which was addressed by me to the Colonial Secretary on Friday lust, of the hotel business.

after I had ascertained to what His Excellancy the Governor referred in his reported state: ment that "the labels on the tias appeared to him to be a deliberate fraud." My object in so writing was not to miks it appear that my. Counsel and myself were suffering from mental aberration in producing for the inspection of the Legislative Council wrappers which are now sald to beat fraudulent wording,

prevent the possibility of deception, my ellonte but it was to point out that, in their desire to (a British firm of long standing, and of hitherto undoubted.

They construed the controts strictly.

His Lordship remarked that it could not be

compete with one in Hongkong. To go to contemplated that a hotel in Kowloon would Kowloon one had to upset one's arrangements and to go a journey by tempestuous see at Mr. Potter said that if a hotel was established at Kowloon it did not rely on the residents of times.

Kowloon, but would cater for the traffic coming to the Colony. In these circumstances it could not be said that such a hotel did not compete People landing at with one in Victoria,

Kowloon would naturally proceed to the hotel

on that side.

integrity) Jad cansed to be translated into Chinese the statement on the labels that the milk was machine-skimmel, and tlist they have always been under the fall impression that sach was the plain menning of the Chinese ebaracters. I stated in my letter to the Colonial Secretary that I was so in strusted by my clients, and that the translation of the words given to me by my own Chinese that "the best part of interpreters was Plaintiff then gavs àvidence. In October, 1909,

the yellow cow's milk had been taken away he and his father-in-law came from Australia to Hongkong. Prior to that à cable bad been by machinery." I further stated my absolute conviction (which I may mention is based on an zont to defendant to ascertain if the hotel Was for male, and when they landed they proceeded intimate knowledge during the last 25 years, to the hotel. They agreed to $30,000 for the of the high oharacter borne by the head of the British firm in question) that the possibility for 26 000 good.will

paid alao and

had never occurrel to my couts that the furniture, wine, oto. Before agreeing to pur- chase, Lu went through the books with defend. Chinese words could be construed as meaning ant, She catered mostly for the German that the tins contained the pure mills of a community. He knew this from the books, yellow cow which had been wilted by machinery. There is invariably extremis difficulty in She represented that being a German plaintiff trade. He ngrood. to take over the hotel,in such a way as to prevent it from being is might hope to secure the continuance of that translating an English sentence into Chinese and it was arranged that Messrs. Wilkinson & misconstrued, and I believe that in the presen Grist should represent both parties. He went instance no two persons have given precisely the over to the solicitors' office and had a covenant same trauslation into English of the Chinese put in the draft assignment. The covenant words on the wrappere complained of.

to

LONDON, June 7th. American correspondents report that the Provisional Government adopting repressive ensure complete surrender.

The Governor of a town was shot for refusing to surrender, and twenty- eight persons met a similar fate in another district.

[FROM THE "IL"] TREATIES OF ARBITRATION. PRESIDENT TAFT ON JAPAN'S ATTITUDE.

Washington, May 25th. President Taft to-day said he hoped that Japan would be in a position to concluds a general Treaty of Arbitration with America on the same, lines as the arbitration Treaties between the United States and Great Britain

and the United States and France.

The President was deeply gratifiel at the

of the Imperial sense--a new feeling of His Worship, after hosting the evidence, impos newspaper reports from Tokyo that the solidarity, which, in spite of conflicting el a fine of $25, or one month's imprisonment Japanese Government was in favour of interests, may in time develop to form a on each count. nucleus for a more extensive solidarity among the world's nations in time to come.

of a

was explained to Mrs. Uschmans, and she objected to it when she learned that it would restrain her from carrying on similar business in the Colony.

But whatever may be the correct translation, the fact remains that, so far from their having been used with intent to deceive, they were placed on the wrappers with a directly opposite

faithfully.

Mr. Pollock objected to what was saldon that intent and for an honest purpose.-Yours occasion being accepted as evidence.

Witness stated that in his opinion the Sta tion Hotel competed with his own hotel. People who resided in Kowloon used to come to his hotel for dinner and remalu till 10 or 11 o'clock, but since the Station Hotel had bean opened they went there instead of going to Hongkong. He gave the names of seven or eight people who had given over coming to Hongkong and mentioned that Gorinan officers

did not come to his place as they did before the Station Hotal was opened,

Cross-examined by Mr. Pollock-The latter

C. D. WILKINSON,

TUE 8, S. "EASTERN.” Circular Quay, Sydney, was to be revisited on May 9th for the first time since the latter part of February by the E. and A. Company's steamer Eastern, which during the interval has boen in Mort's Dosk undergoing extensive repairs. She is now practically a new ship. has placed this popular vessel in a thoroughly ses roing condition, and made many improve The Company, regardless altogether of expense, ments which the travelling public will appreciate. She has had a number of new plates pat in har

reduced to a minimum, are assured. The vessel's such & Treaty, He was convinced, he said. Mr. Beavis said the letter might as well he put perfect. Speed and comfort, with movement in the waste-paper basket, Mrs. Uschmann was first outward voyago will be to Melbourne, but was drafted after the auigament was signed. bottom, and her rolling chooks have been made

When he Messrs. Gibbs, Bright & Co. are already that the conclusion

general

not within hearing at the time. Treaty of Arbitration was the surestigued the lottor be sonsidered it was mere notifying the resumption of the regular service At St. John's Cathedral yesterday Miss method of extinguishing for over the fre- waste paper. Mr. Crow, his father-in-law, read by this vessel to Manila, China, and Japan,“

avoce to witness signing it until: Mr. Beavis Ethel Potts, daughter of Mr. W. Hutton Potts, quently spread rumours of disputes between the letter before witness signed it. He was was married to Ident. George Hall Bordey of Japan and America

MARRIAGE AT THE CATHEDRAL.

Conference in London it was only natural that the thoughts of the subjects of the Empire should be turned towards Imperia! -matters-that they should, as it were, take a look backwards and try to form a concep- tion of what meaning was to be attached to the vast sovereignty attained. Whatever the reason may be, it is certain that during the weeks preceding the meeting of the

His Excellency Major General Anderson C.B. on his return from Manila has resamed Conference the English reviews

the U.S.S. Wilmington. The ceremony was No formal steps have yet been taken in stated that the letter might as well be journals contained many articles whereia the command of the troops. the writers endeavoured to bring together Mr. T. Folkes Claxton, Director of the conducted by the Ber. F. T. Johnson. The the negotiation for the above Treaty, but if in the wasto paper basket. It would pacify the threads of Empire and catch as a whole Kayal Alfred Observatory, Mauritius, has been bride, who looked charming in a creation of any overtures for a conference in connection Mr. Uschworn. He did not take from his General of the Foroes, which will be vacated tlie vast assortment of races and interests appointed Director-Designate of the Hongkong italien and a picture hat of white feit with the question are made by Japan they books the list of mamas of men who were offered to Lord Kitchener, but that Lord Kit which go to make it what it is. Speaking Observatory, not chief, aszistant, as stated in by her father. Miss Gaelio Potts was the will be cordially welcomed by President not coming to his hotel. He jotted them ohemar, has not seen his way to accept the

and

generally, the attempts were not very our yesterday's issue. successful--not by any lack of ability on

trimmed with ostrich plamen, was given away.

bridesmaid, while Lient. Bastase of the Wi-

Mr. W. D. Barnes, Colonial Secretary, mington aoted as best men. After the ceremony the part of the writers, but simply because arrived in the Colony from Home yesterday to a reception was held at the Hongkong Hotel, the Empire only existe within a very elastic jake my his appointment. Mr. Barnes was mot meaning of the term. Perhaps it may be said on arrival by Capt. Mitchell Taylor, A.D.C., that the only sense in which it can be ranked and Mr. Clementi.

Taft

The Siames Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., kas and later in the day the happy couple embarked bean established with a capital of Tos. 500,000 the as. Nikko Mara fox Japan, where the in shares of Tas. 100, to run boats on the rivers honeymoon is to be spent.

of Siam

LORD KITCHENER. INSPECTOR-GENERALSHIP REFUSED.

It is understood that the post of Inspector.

in the sution by Sir John French, has been

down from memory. In the one of the appointment, which is, of course, one wholly first named he could not say how much damage he had suffered probably about 8100 a month

them with his present takings. during the last few months. Mrs. Uschmann had taken hor books and he could not compare

When the Duke of Connaught was Inspector subordinate to the Army Copusil, General it was an open secret that his reports It is not likely that Lord Kitchener would positionDaily Express. were seldom act On allow himself to be placed in a similarly false,