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WELCOME TO THE CHIEF JUSTICE.

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THE FAREWELL CONCERT TO MRS. GORDON,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 2ND 1912.

HAMBURG LETTER.

The excellent concert given in the Drill [SPECIALLY WRITTEN FOR THE HONGKONG

DAILY PRESS."] Hall at the Volunteer Headquarter last

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the

HAMDUNG, April 10th. LABOUR UNREST.

men was not

in the remaining districts. Opinions as to the quality seem to differ, but it is hoped that it will be satisfactory in most sections.

GENERAL.

The shipping trade with the United Staten is threatened by a bill brought in in Washington last week proposing to close the ports of the country under penalty of £5,000 to steamers belonging to owners who in the finding of any American court have infringed the Shor man Truss Act. This will apply to all the greatest English and German com- panies that have joined the shipping pool, and it is expected that they will leave no stone unturned to prevent the bill becom ing law.

It is reported from Berlin that the Norddeutsche Lloyd in Bremen intends to establish a regular service of steamers between that port and San Francices on the opening of the Panama Canal next year, but so far the news lacks confirma- tion.

Yesterday morning there was a large at tentance of the legal profession in Hong-night by way of farewell to Mrs. A. G. kong assembled at the Courts of Justice Gordon, one of the Colony's most popular to welcome and congratulate the Hon. Mr. vocalists, was attended by many old

The coal strike in Geat Britain has at Eees Davies, K.C., his appoint residents. familiar with the willing

Chief Justice the assistance Mrs. Gordon during the last been officially terminated by a vote of 440 against 115 at the conference of the Among those present were whole period of her residence the Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, Acting Colony has given at concerts, especially miners federation last week, when it was

with promoted philanthropic decided that the narrow majority obtained Attorney-General, Hon. Mr. H. E. Pol-thuse

in favour of a continuation of the struggle lock, K. C., Mr. M. W. Slade, K.C., Hon. objects, though the audience was not so Sir Kai Ho Kai, Mr. Eldon Potter, Mr. large as might have been expected. The at the ballot of the W. V. Drummond, of the Shanghai Bar,

programme we gave in our yesterday's sufficient to justify such a step.

change, majority of two-thirds having on provi- Mr. J. H. Kemp, Crown Solicitor, Mr. P. issue was carried out without a

ous occasions been deemed necessary M. Hodgson, Assistant Crown Solicitor, except that every item in it was encored,

Orders have therefore gone forth for the Mr. H. A. Nisbet, Messra. M. J. D. There were thus two programmes, the con-

men to return to the pits, and most of them. Stephens, J. Scott Harston, P. Gold-

cort being prolonged till about 11.30. ring, C. Willson, H. J. Gedge, II. K. The contributors to the programme, be

are probably only too happy to do so; still Holmes, 8. W. Tso, L. R. Needham, Otto uides Mrs. Gordon herself, were H.. they are a stiff-necked lot, particularly in Kong Sing, F. X. d'Almada e Castro, Leo Mr. Cland Severn, Mr. Denman Fuller,the northern counties, and it is by no means certain that everything will pass off d'Almada e Castro, E. Davidson, and

Dr. and Mr. Schofield, Mr. George smoothly. To begin with, there are fears Bulmer Johnson.

Lammert, Mr. Frank Austin, Mr. H.. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL-May it please 1, Jones, Mrs. F. Maitland, and Mr. R.xpressed of a strike of the transport workers in England next month; in your Lordship, as this is the first occasion Sutherland and Mr. G. W. C. Burnett who Antwerp and Ghent they have already on which your Lordship takes your seat as holder of the substantive appointment of supplied the humorous element and did threatened to turn out unless a minimum Chief Justice of this Colony, I should like it with great success. Mrs. Gordon was wage of six francs a day be granted by down on the programme for two songs the employers, and here in Hamburg the to say on behalf of the Bar how much we welcome you in that appointment. We have but sang four, her last two being, very dock porters are demanding an increase known your Lordship for some years now, appropriately, "My Ain Folk," and in their pay, although the pay sheets of the Swannee River," the the past year prove that the men in regular both on the Bench and at the Bar, and we have the fullest confidence that your Lord-audience joining in the chorus of the employment with stevedores, etc., have ship will continue to maintain, in the latter. Both songs were beautifully sung been earning from M. 1,000 to M. 2,200 pacha

It is unnecessary to during the twelve months (foremen oven honourable position which you now hold, by Mr. Gordon. as you have done in the past, the highest say that each appearance of Mrs. Gordon more) and others not much less. The coal. traditions of both. I feel myself for was a signi for warm applause, and miners in Saxony, Bohemia, etc., still hold tunate in seeing here joining in this after her first song, The Enchantress," out, but seem to be on the point of sur welcome not only the senior King's Coun she was presented with a lovely bouquet. rendering; on the other hand there are sel on the roll of this Court but also the Miss Gordon played the accompaniments troubles amongst the labourers in the senior member of the cuter Bar on either for her mother, Mr. F. Ormiston accom- vineyards on the Rhine, where cases of hand of me, and also to the right the sentor panied His Excellancy's sopga, Mr. G. sabotage have occurred in some of the practising solicitor on the walls of this. W. King played for Mr. Burnett and best sites, and the movement is extending Court. They are all present to bid you Mr. Denman Fuller for all the ether There seems to be aarest in nearly all singers, besides contributing an Irish trades and industries; discontent is every- welcome to-day.

Rhapsody on the piano which was a most where smouldering under the ashes, shoot- welcome number,

ing out into flames now and again, and it is to be feared that the admission of the

The CHIEF JUSTICE-Mr. Attorney, I have to thank you most cordially as spokes man of the profession for the very kind way you have introduced me to this Court. I have had the honour for fourteen years of serving as Attorney-General three Colonies of the Crown, having been for all those years tossed or the billows which surround the life of a law officer, and it is pleasing to find a haven on the judicial Bench. It has always been my ambition at the Bar stand well with my colleagues in the profession, and I hope to retain their good

to

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"Down on

THE GREAT KAYMOND." The Great Raymond, whose masterly exposition of his art bas cosured for him full houses in almost every city he has visited, presented an entire change of programme at the Theatre last night The audience was satisfactory, though the

to the Moselle and other tributaries,

Although, as I stated in one of my former letters, Bremen has been out- stripped by Rotterdam and Antwerp, its trade has grown sufficiently to render ari extension of the dock and quay accom modation necessary, and plans with that object in view have been prepared by the harbour engineers, and are now under examination.

THE DARE TO DIES,

LEADER FINED AT SHANGHAI.

Liau Fab-piao, the founder of the "! Dare-To-Die " band of soldiers, appear- ed on remand at the Mixed Court yester- day, says the N-C. Daily News of the 26th inst, on a charge of returning to: the Settlement after having been expelled. Much interest was taken in the case and

General Li was among those present in

on the charge sheet as an officer, married, of the Native City, was charged with re- turning to within the limits of the Inter- national Settlement after previously being expelled therefrom, such sentence boing dated January 8th, 1000. Further, with having in his possession one loaded automatic revolver in contravention of The accused had bye-law thirty-seven. been remanded in custody from Monday, pending the direction of the Consular Body.

Court. The accused, who was described

Mr. C. G. Kirk appeared on behalf of the Police and Mr. H. 8. Oppé repre sented the accused.

Mr. Garstin, in announcing the decision of the Court, said:-The accused is charged with returning to the Settlement after being expelled therefrom and with carrying a loaded revolver on his person in the Bettlement. He was sentenced in January, 1900, to two years' imprisonment for extortion, to be followed by expulsion from the Settlement. The defenge is that though the original charge was one of extortion, the evidence showed that the accused's real offence was that he was a member of an anti-Manchu Society, and it is argued that the party to which he belonged having proved successful the sentence of expulsion passed against him

cannot be enforced now. But it is clear three years ago on political grounds that, even though the money which the accused collected at that time from un willing contributors had been devoted to the funds of the party of which he is now so conspicuous a member, the evidence of extortion by means of threat still remains. The accused deliberately entered the Settlement knowing that the order of expulsion was still outstanding against EXCITEMENT IN SHANGHAI NATIVE him, and he must take the consequences

The Hamburg Colonial Institute has papers of the great African explorer Dr. lately purchased the Diaries and other The former in eight volumes begin with his departure for Egypt on October 10th, 1874, and extend up to the day of his death, the 23rd over the whole of his stay in the interior October, 1892, the only gap being the four months of his illness after meeting with Stanley. The remaining eleven volumes valuable notes and observations of all. and numerous loose sheets contain most kinds and descriptions concerning the country.

CITY.

OUTTING OF QUEUEK.

Considerable excitement seems to have principle of a minimum wage will not prevailed in the City on Thursday after The necessity noon, says the VC. Daily News, when, as tend to improve matters. of affording adequate protection to will the resnit of a proclamation, quenes were forcibly cut off in considerable number. ing workers is becoming more apparent in the course of the attack upon this form every day; people are beginning to see of coiffure many took refuge in the French that it is the only way to counteract the Concession, and as one of the men engaged

in the work passed the boundaries and

pro.

be arrested by the police.

of his act. The circumstances under which he entered the Settlement, viz., to attend a banquet at the invitation of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, have been taken into consideration. He will have the option of paying a fine of $100; in default of payment he will be imprisoned. for three months.

Mr. Oppe asked whether the judgment then given was the judgment of that

Court.

Mr. Garstin-It is announced by this

house was not packed. Raymond showed combinations of organized labour and to needed with his efforts there, he had to Court on the advice of the Consular Body.

sumber of very fine card tricks, his manipulation of the pasteboard tokens being carried out on a different scale to that adopted by any of his predecessors. His illusions were all clever and neat, and quite as bewildering as those shown at the opening performances. A special matinee was held in the afternoon, and was well attended.

prevent the entire trade of the country being placed at its mercy, as has recently The affair started by the issuing of a been the case in England. The logges proclamation presumably coming from an direct and indirect in wages and other official holding the rank of sub-prefect that all queues had to be instantly removed, wise sustained by the nation on this occa and giving authority to the police and sion are estimated by competent judges at volunteers to cut off any which were found, between 40 aml 50 million sterling, which besides imposing a fine of $5 upon those means a material decrease in the purchas. still clinging to the appendage. This work the police and volunteers proceeded to ing power of the people and the possible execute, and armed with scissors stationed loss of some of our customers abroad. themselves at the gates. Soon passers-by The German collieries have certainly pro who had not discarded their queues were the object of uuwekome attention, and fited by our inability to supply the latter, the and all found themselves queueleas. but whether they have gained a permanent Not content with this, it is stated that show. Be

Mr. Kirk-Does the order of expulsion as originally made stand, or is it upset? Mr. Garstin-It stands, of course. Mr. Kirk Then there is the question of the revolver.

Mr. Garatin-The revolver may be re-

turned to the accused.

will and their confidence on the Bench. 1 am fully alive to the responsibilities of the high office which I have obtained. Litigation in Hongkong, with the points of importance and Issues involved, is second to none in the British Empire. am following in the lines of distinguished predecessors, and in the case of my im- mediate and learned predecessor he was, a jurist whose legal achievements and of the German ship Pikagun at Dover standard works have established him as aat, it is understood, the instance of the very high authority on the law of nations tugs which salved her after the collision footing in new markets the future will the soldiers entored private houses, where that his sentence had been made lighter..

with the P. and O. liner Oceana, “

Whilst, I, therefore, approach my task with diffidence, I am sure I will receive

the cordial co-operation of the Bar and of the legal profession as a whole in discharg ing without fear or favour the duties en- trusted to me by our Sovereign, I beg to thank you very much for the kindly welcome given me, and to the profession as a whole for testifying their congratula- tions by their attendance here to-day.

Mr. STEPHENS-My Lord, on behalf of the solicitors of this Court, I have, pleasure in offering you our congratulations and wel- come on your appointment to the high office of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hongkong and of this Colony, and to add our hope that you may hold

that office for many years to come.

Dur-

ing a period of nearly forty years I have

practised in this Colony. I have seen the office of Chief Justice of Hongkong filled by no fewer than six Chief Justices, and I have no hesitation in saying that the appointment of yourself to act in that office is one which cannot fail to give the greatest satisfaction to the solicitors of

this Colony.

SHIPPING NOTES.

A writ of arrest was placed on a mast

The steamer Cambric, which was in collision with the Arabien laat week be tween Hongkong and Swatow, was found when examined at Shanghai to have had her step smashed in, twenty plates being badly damaged. The forepeak filled with water, but the collision bulkhead held, and there was no danger of the vessel

sinting.

the Nippon Yusen Kaisha management thinks of placing the Company's Kuma

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Would Scratch Until Face Bled. Had to Watch Him Night and Day. Uses Caticura Soap and Ointment, Face Clears, Scars Come Off, Sleeps Peacefully, and is Cured.

**When my baby was five weeks old f noticed something on bis face like a day

Beurt which soon spread al}, over his head. The doctor eald it was dry eczema and KAYS TO 20the calve. He told me to batho it frooly with olivo of. This I did but it gradually got worse. We got no rest night or day, it was so itchy. Ho would scratch his face unthi

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dry eczema and garo me s

jar of saire, told me to put it on men and put on its face and head. I con tinved this for some weeks but all to no good. He got so bad someonD had to watch him night ami day and he had his hands tied so he would not make his faca bleed, Howas constantly cry g with the pain.

sried many other ointments hat

It they wore all no uso. My friends advised mo to try Cuticure Soap sed Ointment. This I did and before, I had finished the first box of Cuticura Ointment his face cleared, the scam came on his head and left ng marks whatoyer, He was able to sloop peacefully which ho tad not done for months, Baby is now nearly two years old, and there baš never been the least sign of its return since he was cured some eleven months ago. It was all gone before I had finished the second box. When ever I hear of anyone safering with eczema Ointment, omnes, Clear Mor I very grateful indeed for them" (Signed) Aira. A. Wilson, 12, Perse B., Hartlepool, Durham, Eng., Doç. 16, 1919.

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Accused said that he was only receiving a salary of $140 a month, and he asked how he would be able to support his family if he paid the fine. He also asked whether, in the event of his not paying the finr, he would be detained at the station or be sent to the Municipal gaol.

Magistrate Kuán pointed out to him FINEST O

the Court having taken into consideration at the invitation of the Chinese Chamber the fact that he came into the Settlement of Commerce. His coming was neverthe- less a breach of the regulations was immediately after the bearing of the case.

It is understood that the fine

paid

of peace is bailed with satisfaction every doings caused not only the utmost excite A climax seems to have been reached where and will, it is hoped, give a trement in the vicinity, but also grave alarm impetus to trade, which for some time past when a steamer with a couple of hundred had assumed a somewhat quieter aspect. passengers aboard arrived at the Chinese The heavy industries, however, have been Bund from Tungchow. No sooner had the

THE EFFECT IN SHANGHAL. of by the queue-cutters, and once more

The arrest and detention of the leader displaying great activity all along, makers passengers landed than they were laid hold

of the "Dare-To-Dies" bas had an effect raising their quotations abuost every hair went cheap. In trying to evade their week; the falling off in the demand was aggressors some of the passengers made

for the French Concession. In all like locally which could scarcely have been The Manchuria Daily News states that chiefly noticeable in the textile ones, but hood they did not think of the protes | anticipated. Now that he is at liberty

since the holidays there has been tion which foreign jurisdiction would Д little more enquiry for

woollen afford them there from molestation, but the fears which the episode gave rise to and goods, and that

took this way as the most convenient may not be realized, but until yesterday morning at any rate these were still pre- Whatever their inten-

sent. in the situation. Jaru, 6,165 tons, on its Kobe-North yarns China line in addition to the atr. du pause should have occurred in the meats of flight

tions may have been, they led at least one In the first place the troops threw the Maru, 2,934 tons, taking effect from next June The Kamukura: Mary is now on Manchester goods business is not surpris of their pursuers to cross the boundary, blame for their leader's arrest upon the the Company's Yokohama-Seattle line, ing, as many spinners and manufacturers and as he seems to have attempted to carry and was built in 1807 by Messrs. Work both in England and on the continent are on his work whilst there, the French Police Chinese Chamber of Commerce, from man, Clarke and Co., Ltd., Belfast. She well sold up to the end of the year and took him into castody

The prisoner was brought up at the is under command of Captain K. Soyeda,. formerly of the S. M. R. Co.'s str. Saikio bond. Cotton itself, however, in spite French Mixed Court and sentence of three of this and an American crop of 16 million days imprisonment was passed upon him. Maru.

hales pretty well assured, continues to ad vance steadily in price, for although con- tinental mills took advantage of the low prices ruling in the winter to stock heavily both with actual cotton and contracts, 60 that shipments to the continent from the

NAVAL NOTES.

The sum of £25,000 is to be spent in oil fuel storage at Hongkong. The coal strike crisis will hasten the development

of oil fuel in the nary.

Commander Cyril Peel, who has been appointed commander of the Minotaur, flagship of the China Squadron, has been in the service 22 years, and reached com- He previously ander's rank in 1900. terved on the Station.

The CHIEF JUSTICE-I am very much ob- liged to you, Mr. Stephens.

AIT. DRUMMOND My Lord, I gather that my friend the Attorney-General has in the wurds he has addressed to your Lordship specially included me in the invitation to all members of the resident Bar bere, and I feel very much gratified at his kindness

Under the new organisation of the and courtesy in asking me to take part in this function and in joining the resident British Fleets, which came into force members of the legal profession in long yesterday, the China, Australia and East kong in offering to your Lordship our con. India Squadrons are grouped together gratulations upon your assuming the high under the title of the Eastern Fleet. office of which you take charge to-day. I Apparently closer inter-relations are, to have for very many years past had a be henceforward established between these strong feeling that the administration of hitherto separate units. justice by British courts is constitutes

in fact the very foundations of the Bri-

tish Empire, and that its administration i

INTERESTING QUESTION OF

NATIONALITY."

PRESIDENT OF HARVARD IN TIENTSIN.

ADDRESS AT THE PRIYANG UNIVKESITY.

Dr. Eliot, Emeritus President of Har vard University, America, addressed a large gathering of students at the Peiyang University recently.

whom the invitation to the memorable tiffin party came. On behalf of the Cham- ber it is pointed out that they were not

aware of the situation with regard to Lian Foh-piao and the Settlement, but in spite of this the report is current, that the soldiers accuse the Chamber of enticing Liau to the Settlement for the purpose of having him arrested. As a consequence Chinese merchants living out- side the Settlement have been in great. fear of reprisals, on the part of the troops, in the nature of attacks on their It is understood property or persons. that on behalf of the Chamber of Com- merce representations were made to the

Consuls with regard to this state of

things,

A second effect was the extraordinary drop in the yarn market which took place on Monday. Dealers were absolutely above mentioned, and as a consequence afraid to do business in view of the facts there was a sudden drop in yarn of

Tls. 5.

CHINESE INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES AT NANKING.

United States are so far a million and á half bales in excess of those during the same period last season, spinners in Great

In an eloquent address, which lasted Britain and America acted with less fore half an hour, the distinguished visitor out- sight and can consequently not keep out fined the progress which the western world of the market. The revival of the demand had made during the last one hundred for goods came much later in the United years. Up to 150 years ago he said the States than in Europe, but when it once thoughts and actions of the people in the West were the same as, if not more set in the mills there bought largely and backward than those of the Chinese continue to do so, thus strengthening the people of to day. Only two hundred years Moreover, ago, the beads of criminals were still hung in public places in London and women's hands of southern holders..

since, it had been due to the rains, floods, burricanes and a low tempera progres500 method of reasoning. Ope planting has been deplayed by heary rights were unknown he estad ture, and although seasonable weather observed this especially in connection henceforth many still be in time to help to with the sciences, where careful observa secure an ample crop it must necessarily tions, accurate methods and true results

Feng Cheh-fu, formerly President of the ben late one.

were principal features. Whilst in Shang- hai, the speaker continued, he was Bureau of Civil Affairs at Wuchang, has care collected shares worth $50,000 for the particularly impressed with the of Chinese who are resident in this Colony mother is a Chinese you can't come to

Glowing accounts are being received ful drawings made by the students manufacture of porcelain from the soil of Har the Nanchang district. It is reported that and anbject to this Court but who are resi-

of the recently established

That showed experts will be engaged from Japan,.. vard Medical School. dent in various parts of this vaat Empire. Manila. It makes no difference if your I think, therefore, that the administration grandparents are citizens of the United with regard to the tobacco erop in Cuba,

that the Chinese possessed to the full the Kiangsi and Hunan,

Re A coal mine has been opened in Chih- of justice by British courts in many parts States.". So the Supreme Court held in a

The mine is of the Empire placea Great Britain at the decision in the case of Harry Atholl which is said to beat the record. In the very apex of Western civilisation in the Edwards, who sought a writ of habeus absence of cyclones and drought at the faculty of "the inductive method."

the Chinese would before long contribute near the Wang and Su ancestral tombs, eyes of the world. I will only add that corpus against Collector of Custome time of planting the young plant has had had no doubt that, given an equal chance, sienkwan, near Nanking I am quite certain that your Lordship will H. B. McCoy,"

The board of special inquiry had denied an unusually good start, the season co-much to the modern knowledge of the and the descendants of these men believe fully maintain the high traditions which have grown up around the exalted office to Edwards the right to enter the Philip tinuing favourable throughout. Cutting world. But Chinese should at the same that the operation of the mine will bring pines, on the ground that his mother was of the leaves began in January and is time study the good points of other na calamity to the families and have accord- of which you assume charge today, un

provements. Two points he wished to They followed this up by destroying much The OFTER JUSTICE-I am extremely oba Chinese woman of full blood. Counsel

paper El Tabaco estimates the tots! yield impress upon his hearers. These were of the mine property. The Governor-Gen- liged to you, Mr. Drummond. I feel ex for Edwards contended that the race to almost over by now. The semi-monthly tons, and wherever possible make im-ingly brought suit against the company. first, the education of women, and second, eral has not yet given judgment on the tremely fortunate that so old a member of which one belongs depends upon the race the Bar as yourself should be present to of one's father, and that of the mother at 700,000 tons, of which 175,000 tons are

our actions baratheon kärldens tel will hinder the development of China much take part in this welcome, and I thank has no influence.

Media, 80,000 in the Partidos and 410,000

Dr. Eliot's address was listened to with more than its political problems, remarks The Supreme Court sustained the find you very much indeed.

marked attention by all present.

the Peking Daily News, ings of the board of special inquiry.[/

is watched with the keanest respect and admiration not only by the large number

This concluded the proceedings.

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