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SUPREME COURT.

Tuesday, 13th August.

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.

Beson Ma. H. H. J. GOMPERTZ (PUIANE JUDGE).

(LAIM BY TAILORESSES,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14ra,

CHINA'S POL TICAL ADVISER, ¡ exploring there was attacked by natives

DR. MORRISON'S REMARKABLE

RECORD.

and struck twice by spears. The spear points were not removed until some months afterwards.

FOREIGN OPIUM AT SHANGHAI.

At

1912.

·

bonded

3

The

You can't have it both ways. delivered far up the Yangtaze; but no authentic ease is ou record of the payment Utopian dream of the Little Ones loads Customs at Shangliai, in his report on

Mr. H. F. Morrill, Commissioner of of such prices. At present the local trade inovitably to a terrible awakening. Yon is almost at a standstill, and the no-can have unpreparedness-and rapine; the trade of the port in 1911 writes:- negatiability or repudiation of native or you can have preparedness--and peace. Following this adventurò, Dr. Morrison

The record of the opium trade during bank orders in many cases has caused resumed his medical studies, going to the year is of peculiar interest.

INTIMATIONS almost a panic on the market in this non- The Poking correspondent of the China Edinburgh. He finished in three years the beginning of January the value of nection...

The gross amount of Press (the American paper published at and then went to America in an emigrant, Malwa was about Hk. Tls, 1,860, and foreign opium actually imported into Shangliai) writes:

The appointment of Dr. George E and then went back to New York. From market slightly

vessel. He later locked in on Jamaica Bengal Hk. Tls. 1,030, per chest, with a Shanghai from abroad shows a decrease

rising. Morrison, the famous correspondent of there he went to Spain, where he was an

In March of about 2,900 piculs, and, under present JOHNSTONE'S the London Temes, as Political Adviser assistant medical officer at some copper Agreement was to come into force by siderably over a year will have elapsed rumours began to circulate that a new conditions, it seems probable that con- to the President" is one of the most mines. He was promoted after her agreement was Customs charges would before the present stock of duty and likin Maria dos Remedios sued the Hongkong encouraging things the new Government and took the place of his chief. After be materially increased. The stocks held paid opinm still stored in Tailoring Company for 830, being oar has done and indicates a desire to avail

a year and a half of this he crossed over had heen considerably added to in the godowns awaiting delivery can possibly month'e salary and one month's Falary in itself of alien talent in the work of to Morocco and became medical adviser | inlerim, and the price fell.

Its existence was duly As an be exhausted. * stable Government. to the Shereef of Wazzan. He remained oxceptional concession to the owners, and taken into consideration by the Indian lien of notios, and Adelina dos Remedios upbuilding

Incidentally, the Government has paid in Morocco for 'n few months and then owing to the special circumstances, an Government when the reductions for the claimed from the samo defendant 2001 a ligh compliment to Dr. Morrison..

returned on a trip through Spain. The appointment has been favourably From Spain Dr. Morrison back tracked permitting any owner desirous of so doing this years 1915-16 were bring arranged.

arrangement was allowed by the Custoins authorised importations into China for for one month's salary and one month's

Flaintiffs received here, and it is believed that Dr. to Melbourne, qualised and took a posi- to pay at once duty and likin at the rate salary

in lieu of notice.

Morrison will be most helpful to the new tion in a hospital. He held it for two of Hk Tls. 110 then in force and to re- -appeared in person, and defendant was Government.

past, have found that their greatest task Pepresented by Mr. Leo. d'Alamada.

more. He went to Hongkong and to the for subsequent delivery," without in- d'Almada asked that the way to get the Chinese officials to accept Philippines. Ho visited the count ports sisting on its being immediately labelled Mr. actions might be taken together as both their advice. More often than otherwise of China and followed that up with an and remored elsewhere for storage. All plaintiffs had boon engaged by the defen the advisers were left to do nothing at all inspection of Japan: From Japan he such opium was carefully identified, with the London Daily Express prints the fot- there to the Burma frontier. This trip went back to Shanghai and walked from resulted in a book. Then the Loudon

two

Foreign advisors of the years and then took to the road once tain such opium in the honded godowns! YOU CANNOT "AVE IT BOTH

beads. It is believed, however, that Dr. and servod out their contracts as figuro- Morrison will be of real assistance and

dant at the same time. The defence was that the girls had been engaged en probn fied with their work paid them off at the China, as he not only understands the Siam to investigate conditions there.

WAYS.

What are we to do with the Little Eng- With the Radical publicists who aro Alling the Radical Press with microbe England?

tion, and the defendant not being antis will make himself exceedingly valuable to Times picked him up and sent him to labelied upon receipt of formal applica-wails and shrieks in their advocacy of a

was a verbal one

July they were dismissed.

Plaintiffs' brother said their claim was for half month's salary and one month in lieu of nolice.

classes going to do with hey w

force has never caved

a

nation,

Under this heading in large black typo

wired and a special ticket attached. cut opening, and the chests were then lowing in double columns Such opium could be delivered and landers?

tion at any subsequent date. This Chinese, perhaps more thoroughly than When this mission was completed the arrangement was availed of to the fullest ut the first month, The agreement any other foreigner, but he has their full energetic Morrison was sent to Peking by extent by the opium merchants; and by

What are the sane and serious middle conlidonce as well. Thers is probably no the Times. This was in 1897, and he has the 8th May, when the new Opium Agree-

They will not learn, they will not be Plaintifa aid that they started work other foreigner in the entire country to been here, off and on, evor since. He ment

was published, no Tower than taught. Unchangeable history has no ith Jane and were paid some safary whom the Chincee have, during the last visited Manchuria and Russian regions la 12,663 19-2 chests had paid duty.

Of meaning for them. The facts of the ages peoples last few months, turned for counsel so described Russian intentions. at the end of that month. On the 15th few years, and particularly during the the northward and with great accuracy these, 5,022 10-2 chests have since been are as nothing. That the "soft"

Later at formally imported and labelled, while inevitably go under, that only the fit and much as to this journalist.

Dr. Morrison will tee up his duties in made another trip to Sinm and then went 1,141 P-2 chests are still stored in the tho ready survive, that diplomacy un

to Korca. He was thero when the Boxer bonded godowns. Various complicatione backed He loaves Peking on a flying troubles brake out. October. Lepto England next Tuesday. His cau- Poking, where he or the Byrom the He hastened to occurred on the question of certification, that high civilisation did not help the tract is one of the most flattering the Nicolas Joseph Pinto, manager of the Government of China has ever made with eg, doing his share of the work with certificates for opiam authorised to or the South American Incas from the defendant Company, spoke to having a foreigner. It provides that Dr. Morri- great courage and zeal and receiving & exported to Ching from the beginning of Huns and the-Goths, the Baracene and. de the year; but much certificates of the Spaniards to go no further back

or forward-all this is as nothing. ngaged the girls on trial, but as they sou be employed for a period of five years. given high praise by Sir Claude Mac-kept by the importers, even if forwarded,

While the weaklings of the past were spoke too much and did not like certain { dhe wording is such that it bestows a high donald, the British Minister. Among and much of the opium had already been |

other things. Dr. Morrison rescued "delivered.

probably talking of Rare and Refreshing And when the war from the Western Hills just s the

wers trained for war. came the Rare and Refreshing became After hearing further evidence, his characters used baing different from these group of American ladies and children possible to attempt to discover how much Fruit, the hardy folk over the borders Lordship entered judgment for defendant ordinarily employed. As one prominent trouble broke out. He was wounded by be classed as certificated. In many cases.

Dead Sea Fruit, and all the social ame- liorations that the Tiny Englishmen pro the baseless fabric of a vision. sold think that even to preserve their own ideals the Tiny Englishmen would urge us to be ready.

work he told them to go away.

THE WRECKED STEAMER "QUINTA."

•

HEAR AND FITTINGS COMPLETELY LOOTED.

The tog David Gillies, which went dows to the Paracels inst week with a salvage party in charge of Mr. J. Ormis

Co., to ion, of Messrs. Macdonald & make another attempt to float the wreck Ted steamer Quinta, has returned to Hong kong, and the bull of the Quinte still re- The maine high and dry on the rocks.

tion.

MR. BLAND ON CHINA.

!

The compensation is liberal. Above all, compliment upon the new adviser, the

wound from & Boxer hullek

Consequcutly, it was only of the stucks on lund on 8th May could the same volley that killed Captain the merchants themselves were unable to Strouls After the Boxer troubles he

of either view. He went to

The original shippers might not have forwarded the certificates, or the opium might have been reshipped from Hongkong or Singapore and the certificates retained there.

One

M.P.

heek of bail Walky ** After effects of M.P."^

OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERÐ.

H. RUTTONJEE & SON,

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official side, it isn't a contract, nor an agreement, not a compact, but it is an invitation from the people of China to resumed his travels, visiting many places produce any proof whatever in support fess to hold most dear were no more than WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. Dr. Morrison to come and help them.

Announcement will shortly be made, it throughout the country. is expreted, of the selection of other advisers. The Government is still negotiating with Prof. Jenks of Cornell University, and it is probable that he will shortly become financial adviser. Francs Piggott and Prof. Ariga, a noter Japanese authority on-international law, are being considered for the legal adviser ship. There is a report here that every Cabinet Minister will have an expert foreign adviser.

HOW ADVISERS ARE CHOSEN.

Sir

S

While

Port Arthur to see the capitulation of that stronghold, and after the war was

When, one day, Englishmen are not over he went to the Portsmouth Con- ference. la 1909 he was presented to the

Another alight drop took place in the allowed to walk the pavements of their late Emperor of China, and enjoys the distinction of being one of the two for market during May; but to this succeed cities, and their women are for the plea- cign journalists ever presented to Hised a rush in wild speculations which bade sure of the invaders, and the offices of It was caused by a rumour that the cinerated by a furious mob; when foreign. Majesty. In 1910 he rede clear across fair to rival the rubber boom of 1910. the Tiny England newspapers are in- China, going through Kansa and the New Dominion.

Indian Government had arranged to sup-military officers proclaim martial law press completely all importation of opium from the Royal Exchange steps, and when This some billions of pounds have to be raised into China by the end of 1913.. rumour has, of course, been proved to be by taxation by taxation of the toiling baseless. While it still was bring gen-illions" as well as others to pay the extraordinary heights. Opium "to arrive consists of England-less Dover, requir eratly credited, prices rose, on paper, to invaders out, and the British Empire was bought and sold in the most excited ed for a foreign strategie tunnel and the Opium owners admit having Channel Islands-then the ghosts of cer

tain politicians

and publicists will prob recorded larger profits in the three orably call a meeting for the discussion of four months while the rumour prevailed the Fourth Dimension.

It is probable that his new position will prevent indulgence in his passion for travel, but it is safe to say that when he has finished his work with the Chinese Government he will again take the open

road.

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The Chinese Goverment is going about selecting advisers without consulting any hull was found to be almost intact, but other Government. The British Legation it was seen to be quite impossible to float was not officially informed of the plan to her, failing as exceptionally high tide, employ Dr. Morrison and nothing has teen said to the American Legation about When such as could not be hoped for.

Prof. Jenks. The Government considers

than during the whole of the last 10 What are the middle classes to do? the vessel was boarded it was evident that that these mon will be the employees of

yeare; but they have not necessarily been They see these clever and talented dema. Always have en hand a very large complete an expert band of wreckers must have the Government and that the Legations

-The text was issued recently of the able to realise such profits, sinee com- gogues controlling by the mere gift of heen in possession of her for some con- will have nothing to do with them.

on eloquence the empowered majority which siderable timą, as she had been stripped it seems likely that international jealousy

Mr. MacCullum Scott, Mr. Munzo a cash basis. The question of the storage has no knowledge and no prescience, but All Gittings, derricks might cause objections from some quarter, Home Rule All Round Bill brought in by-paratively few transactions from stem to stern.

nothing of the sort has so far occurred.

Dr. Morrison, who is so well-known in Ferguson, Bir Maurice Levy, Sir Ivor and murance of the immense stocks had which governs this country by sheer force and gear of avery description had been

The maja engine had been China that it aces rather futile to dis- Herbert, Mr. Essex, Mr. A. H. Marshall, also to be considered. Much of the opium of blind and unthinking numbers, and

fur advances, and the fluctuations in The idea is that we shall retnoved.

Much in the same way, one stripped of every piece of brass, and all i cuss him or describe his career, is a man Mr. Pirie, Mr. Pringle, Mr. Haydn was held by the foreign banks as security there seems nothing to be done.

of remarkable experience and personality. Jones, and Mr. John.

Under the Bill loca! Parliament prices caused no little anxiety. The fire through." missable fittings, and engine-room stores. He has had a most adventurous life iu

WE DID NOT TRAIN, had been removed. In short, the strip several widely separated parts of the would be set up in England, Scotland, insurance companies were disinclined to supposes, as we have worried through the

WE DID NOT OBGANISE, ping throughout the ship had been com- world, although he is best known for what Ireland, und Wales, and his Majesty accept extreme risks on single godowns, Olympic Games at Stockholm. WE TRUSTED TO LUCK. plete, and in the circumstances there was he has done in China. He has been over would be represented in England, Ire and it became desirable to distribute the

The result we know. nothing for the Daria Gillies to do but the length and breadth of this vast coun-land and Wales by a Lord High Comstocks among more godowns. As a con- try many times and no one knows more missioner. The Parliaments would have cession to the requirement the spium

Lord Haldane gurgles of Goethe to the to return to Hongkong with this informia-about Chira and the Chinese than he legislative and administrative power in godown owners ware allowed to bond sup- His travels throughout the nation have matters that concern each respective plementary godowns. At the beginning never been equalled.. He has been in country alono. Special provision is made of the year four honded godowns, which Germans while the Empire is not yet DRAWING every province-in most of them more against the imposition of any religious have replaced the old opium hulks, burning, but is being saturated with kero- suced for the stock in hand, but at the sone to kindle when somebody applies the tines than one. He has a good knowledge disability.

To the Imperial Parliament, in addi- end of 1911 no fewer thing 10 had been match.,

We desire peace with the world-pas- of the language and understands the people thoroughly. He has made a position to a general over-riding authority in applied for and authorised among the

a peace worth keeping-we must be ready Mr. J. P. Bland, who is always tion for himself in Peking which is all local affairs, is reserved the exclusive same owners as before, Of these, Reven sionately we desire it. We desire peace the for the storage of "ticketed" upium, for war. Not that it will come to war. worth reading upon Chinese questions,

duty and likin paid for subsequent de We shall simply give way point by point, finds the root causes of present unrest in Premiuent, and for several years his control over all matters that concorn the are fully bonded, while three are reserved with Germany, But to keep the peace Squares, Set Benares. Straight Edges habit and ideal of life that are incom-influence and power has been as great United Kingdom as a whole or

Has that of any Minister, and greater than Empire.

In England, Scotland, and Wales the livery, as above referred te-and no other, and however vital the point may he we patible with economic stability.

that of many. His home on one of the

A Single Chamber, and in called for. In the event of the re-exporta- articles in the Tiny England Press will writes:--

Amation which implicitly believes, and main arteries of the Tartar City-a broad local Parliaments would consist of the In such cases no additional bonds were shall still give way, and the leading be in the forefront of the battle to give Ireland the King and a Senate and ation of such "ticketed" opium to unanimously acts on the belief, that alhighway which all foreigners call Morri- King and

The membership treaty port, it is in all cases duly labelled way. Even though the point may be the man's first duty in life is to provide as son Street--is a landmark.

It is here that Dr. Morrison keeps his House of Commons.

with Shanghai labels prior to shipment, massacre of the Armenians, or the Jews, Ireland many male heirs as possible for the com-

but is covered by an exemption certificate or the missionaries, or any of the things. England..... 458 fort of himself and of his ancestors, in. wonderful library, a collection of books, would be as follows:-

Wales .......... Scotland..... 175

which enables the port of destination to so dear to the heart of the Little Once, evitably condemns vast masses of its records and charts concerning things

The Irish Senate would consist of 40 grant transit certificates there, one being we shall still have to give way,

Does anyone-anyone who knows-say people to the lowest, depths of poverty, Asiatic which in without an equal. The and condemns the body politic to regular library, for which Dr. Morrison has just ly recurring cataclysms. The chronic constructed a fine fire-proof building, is Senators nominated by the King on the issuable at Shanghai. No case has occur

abroad, and when the exceptional pro- is less happy, less well nourished, jess condition of China, except in those his greatest treasure and delight, He is advice of his Ministers in the Imperial red of such opium being reshipped seriously that the German working man prosperous than the English working. Each local Parliament will have power! cedure was authorised a special reserva- districts where plague or famine or civil ever at work among his books and is con Parliament.

relieved the presstantly adding to his already enormous war has temporarily sure, is a struggle for life unequalled in collection. Booksellers all over the world after three years to alter the franchise tion was made to the effect that under no man? How is it, then, that Germany can or to redistribute the constituencies with conditions could any claim be entertained maintain the greatest army in the world, any other part of the world- struggle have standing orders to furnish Dr. so desperate that the fittest who survive Morrison with anything they find on the due regard to the number of electors in for the refund of duty and likin thus the second greatest navy, and spend han

each constituency..

at must of necessity be endowed with Far East, whether just off the press or

To deal with the subject of finance the paid at the old rate on opium "for sub dreds of thousands of pounds upon gain-

land "cannot afford" to maintain peeliar qualities of physical resistance as old as the hills. He has many records Ad vitality.

were imported into Shanghai from other the same time a great flest, an adequate of the Jesuits and some very old editions measure soeks to set up a Commission of equent delivery. Latterly, a considerable ing the mastery of the air, while Eng porta. In no case was such labelled army, and hardly any pretence of an of Marco Polo. The value of his cellee nine members, consisting of four repre-sumber of chests of duly labelled opium tion is estimated at £40,000. Until sentativca nominated by the Imperiai recently Dr. Morrison intending selling Treasury and one representative from

opium godowas, even when being landed German army and our own is too great between the German fleet and our own his library, and there was a movement on each country, presided over by an officer pium allowed entry into the bonded serial forec The difference between the from the importing steamers. The aub- to be set down in figures; the difference Foot to dispose of it to the Chinese from the Imperial service.

eequent movements of such opium are consequently assimilated to those of gen will soon be one of half a dozen ships or ઋણ. What we risk and what Germany eral cargo re-exports, examination and

If we win, what can we do? portion. identification of the opium being in all risks in a war is ridiculously out of pro- cases insisted upon whenever re-exporta Blockade and destroy her ocean-borne tion of entire chests is applied for. In commerce. But Germany could still live.

RUBBER COMPANIES. Straits Bottlements (Bertam) Rubber Government, that it might be kept in -Company. It is amounced that the issua Peking, but now that he himself has of 78,178 additional shares of . each,decided to remain bere-he contemplated recently offered to the shareholders at going back to Australia-he will not sell 4. por share, has been over-subscribed at this time.

Fusan.

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RAILWAYS IN KOREA OPENING UP AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS, In the Consular report on the trade of by the shareholders, The company ulto. Dr. Morrison is about fifty years of age. states that 24 tons of first latex crepe His frame is sturdy and his face full of Korea attention is drawn to the fact that very rare instances, certiüentes are issued Germany won, what happens to us? rubber have been sold for delivery in personality. A heavy growth of grayish in consequence of the completion of the by the Indian Government for "touch" Starvation and ruin. We cannot get to equal quantities in each month next year hair which covers his head in a rather railway bridge over the Yala, which was opium, commonly called "prepared," Borlia anyhow-Berlin could get to Lon- Supposing Germany builds two hau ats, Gd. per lb. The Sumatru

Consolidated Rubber tumbled mass helps to give him an

now has direct railway communication now in bond is an instance in point.

It will pay her. His life of adventure began when he with the rest of the Asiatic continent and Shanghai is too far north of Hongkong dred dirigibles and loses one hundred Estates. The report for the year ended appearance somewhat out of the ordinary opened to traffic on November 3rd, Korea and the half-chest of boiled" opium don. April 30th states that the directors are able and propose to pay out of profits was but eighteen years old. His father Europe. The journey from Changchun to and the Straits for merchants to risk the and ninety-nine of them--but just one

was, the principal of Goelong College, dividend of 10 per cent. for the year Geelong, Victoria. Dr. Morrison went to Seoul, a distance of 073 miles, now takes shipment of such valuable cargo by junk, gets over London.

clandestinely within this district. Fabul- dropping? We shall willingly pay ns. amounting to £5,020. Of this sum there will be distributed to the shareholders school there and thence to Melbourne 26 hours, while a further to hours is and hitherto no attempt has been detected What are we going to do about it? What Among the new local Korean lices, the our prices are said to have been offered ransom to Germany the cost of those hun- £4,204 and to the vendors £1,645, being University. During his vacations he required for the journey from Seoul to to land any chest of foreign opium are we going to do when the bombs are a refund of advances for the guaranteed started in on his explorations. He did & dividend of 5 per cent. on 35,013 shares. walking trip of 650 niiles and a canoe trip railway from Seoul to Gensan, on the cast for labelled opium to be at seller's riak died and ninety-nine lost airships.

and before the bombs are falling? A sum of £812 remains to be carried for- of more than üifteen hundred miles. After cost, which, while not possessing any until safely received by buyer; but little Would it not be better to build two hun- would not cost any more. We might oven ward. The full dividend of 6 per cent. a couple of years at the university he had

important from an administrative and many cases whore labelled opium was Bent

there by sea. for the year ending April 30th, 1913, on a disagreement with his teachers and he great commercial possibilities, is most business has actually resulted, and in dred dirigibles ourselves before the war 35,043 shares is still covered by the left school. He shipped as a milor on a strategic point of view, will be completed. to Yangtsze ports under exemption cer-

I returned to seller in Shanghai. vendors' guarantee, and the recessary vessel engaged in the Kanaka slave trade, tum remains deposited with the comfle wrote a report of what he saw and by the autumn of 1914, about two years tificate recently, such opium has been ret to Berlin by air; we cannot get

The Honam, or southern line, the whole highest prices for cash during the burst pany's bankers. On April 30th last this led to a correction of the abuses the earlier than had been estimated. 4K,000 trens were being tapped, but this going on. Later he went to New Guinea, number will be steadily increased during and from there back to Australia in of which is likewise to be finished in 1814, of speculation were, for Malwa about the present weA500. The current year's fishing junk. & Botable trip he made at will materially assist in opening up the Bk. Tls. 3,200, and for Bengal Hk. Tls. erop is estimated at 136,000lb. from ana later into was across Australia on foot, rich agricultural districts of the south. 3,250, per chest, both non-duty paid, but area of 692 acres. It is hoped to bring a distance of more than two thousand In the opinion of the British Consul for opium "to arrive" (ki-tae) prices the total area of land under cultivation miles. He did it in 123 days. Later on General at Seoul, the construction of these reached about Hk. Tls. 3,780. As high as ed for opium duty labelled and safely up to about 2,509 acres by April next. he went again to New Guinea, and while two railways means the development of H. Tis. 7,000 bas been mentioned as offer if wo do not wait until after the next war.

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