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the arguments of Counsel on the prisoner'z behalf was that the crime was committed before the new Code was in existence, and be Curt was urged to deal with the case ter the old Code; but the

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News has been received in Shanghai of the death in London of Mr. J. Samson, he came out to Shanghai in the carly sventies and later became a partner in the tea firm of Reid, Evans & Co. Mr. Samson was only 58 years of age, and lepes to mourn his loss a widow very popular in Shanghai society, to whom the sympathy of a large circle of friends goes out with a real and genuine sincerity.

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THE BALKAN SITUATION.

BERVIA. PREPARES FOR WAR,

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

ANGLO-JAPANESE FRIENDSHIP/

LONDON, Jum 10th. BELGRADE, June 10th.

Baron Inouye, the

Japanese General Putnik, the chief of the Ambassador to Great Britain, interviewed Servian General Staff, arrived in the by Reuter, said he was greatly pleased to capital by a special train and attends aeturn to England. The ňutlook for act of the Council, presided over by the King, to consider Bulgaria's reply to the Servian Note. It is expected that the reply will be in the negative. Tre parations for war are most active.

THE SUFFRAGETTER'

CONSPIRACY.

THE SOLICITOR-GENERAL ON THE UNION'S

ACTIVITY.

LONDON: June 10th.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] LIBERAL MINISTERS SITARE

TRANSACTIONS.

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INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS.

LONDON, June 10th. Interest has been revived in the Marconi Committee owing to the discovery through friendship between Great Britain and the examination of the books of it Japan was never brighter than to-day. absconded broker named Framer that the The Alliance had preserved its power and Master of Elibank in April and May influence as a convincing guarnice, of 1912

bought 3000 American Marconi the pence of the Far East, Friendliness towards Great Britain lay at the heart of the Emperor and his people.

AMERICAN TARIFF REVISION.

WASHINGTON, June 10th.

The Democratic leaders of the Senate

The Suffragette conspiracy trial has have decided to place a countervailing duty on live stock, grain, fresh ments for and other grain products. These are to he embodied in the free list, but where duty is charged - on American exports of these commodities an equal duty will be imposed.

the prisoner wished to escapo punishment it was I duty to have sought a divorco when the new Code came in force Therefore the Court decided that it must deal with the case under the new Code. but in view of the fact that the prisoner com- milted the crime "on account of being anxious to improve himself by study abroad," the Court deemed this to be

special circumstance," within the meaning of the Code fallowing of the initigation of

Eighty-five teachers-men and women- the sentence, and so ho was sent to prison from the United States arrived in Manila for eighty days, whereas the maximum; last week. They come from nearly every sentence is three years. A Shanghai con.

State in the Union, representing some of temporary,commenti ng on the este, remarks the best universities, colleges and normul There must have been such a crime as schools the country. Most of them are bigamy known to the Chinese ages ago, for college graduates, some have dore their law lays down regulations and punish-graduate work in the universities and ments for it, but as a matter of practical others have pursued technical courses fact its occurrence must also have been preparing them to take charge of agricul¿praed at the Old Bailey.. extremely uncommon. In our search for tural work, manual training and trade They examples we turned to that most useful school work and domestic science. volume, Mr. Drer BALL's Thinge Chinese. have come to the Philippines under a Apparently bigamy was not one of two year contract. them. The term is missing from the index, and a search through the many references to marriage, belrothal, divorce, &c, failed we are, therefore, justified in assuming to unearth even & passing reference to it,

that bigamy is not, in China, the common thing it is in the West." The fact is that the thing exists in China under another name. We may find, however, in Mr. Dre BALL'S book entitled The Chinge at Home (page 46), this reference to bigamy

Thousands of years ago, one of the most renowned men in China married the two daughters of one man as equal wives. This solitary case has served as a plea with many a woman. It is pitiable to see how so-called wives try to use it, endeavouring thereby to show that they actually fill the position they would hold if they could. The author

in his official life saw not a low cases in

which a secondary wife, or concubine, has

Sir John Simon, K.C, M.P. (Solicitor General), for the Crown, pointed out the Union's activity, and showed that it had an income of £35,710. He dwelt on the Miss Annie San, older daughter of Dr. Suffragette speeches urging outrages, and Son, came to Hongkong by the Mongolia characterised a mass of papers found at Miss Sun is 10 years of age and has just of studies in America, where, the Ching the outrages as a hook of crimes. He em returned to Chins after pursuing a course the Suffragette headquarters recording

Republican anys, she acquired a remark-phasised the fact that expenses were paid able degree of proficiency in English, to the perpetrators, who were also re- which she speaks fluently. She is also a

On arrival at

she had developed Bright's disease, and had almost lost her eye-sight. She has been accompanied to China by a nurse, Miss Mary Matchett. Shanghai. she was unable to go ashore. Her parents preceded on board to see, her and Mrs. Sun accompanied her daughter to Hongkong, where the latter will undergo treatment.

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SOUTH AMERICAN RÜRBER ATROCITIES.

LONDON, June 10th. The report of the Select Committee on the Putumayo atrocities says the em ployees of the Company were a gang of ruffians and murderers who shot, burned, tortured and violated in a spirit of wanton dorilty. The British directors cannot absolve themselves from the charge

censure..

ENGLISH COUNTY CRICKET.

LONDON, Juto 10th. Middlesex beat Surrey, at Lorde, by

70 runs.

shares.

On Monday Mr. P. H. Illingworth, who succeeded the Master of Elibank as the chief Liberal Whip, testified that Captain Murray, the Master of Elibans's brother, had informed him that the Master of Elibank had made the above purchase on behalf of the Liberal party. Mr. Illing- worth himself knew nothing of these shares or where they were. The list of the party's investments handed him by Lord Murray did not include then.

THE SUBMARINE EXPLOSION.

Losbos, June 10th. Submarine Es, in the engine room of which an explosion occurred on Sunday, had just been completed and only left. Barrow on Saturday for Portmonth. The explosion, up to the present, has not been explained,

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

LONDON, June 10th. In the House of Commons on Monday

brilliant. Chincie scholar. For the lastwarded with medals, etc., after the six months, she has been suffering from manner of soldiers in battle. ill-health and it was finally found that

THE SUFFRAGETTE MARTYR.”

LONDON, June 10th. The Suffragettes have arranged public funeral for Miss Davison. There of culpab negligace regarding the Mr. Asquith moved the second reading will be a procession serass London to labour conditions prevailing, and the of the Home Bule Bill which had been King's Cross, and the interment will take Committes think they deserve severe rejected by the House of Lords. He place in Northumberland, special banners

emphasised the length of time occupied in with Biblical inscriptions being carried.

discussion of the rocasure last session and A meeting in London sent the following

affirmed that throughout there had been A PRISONER'S DEATH.

elegram to the KingConstitutional

no sign of falling off in Parliamentary said that she was the squal wife of the man

support to the Bill. He analysed the who has another legal first wife. She has

At the Victoria Gaol yesterday Mr. methods of approaching our King having got the so-called husband to promise F. A. Hazeland conducted an inquiry failed, Family Davison has given her life A. S. WATSON & CO., that she shall be his equal wile. But no into the death of a Filipino prisoner to call attention to women's passionate plea of that kind is of any avail, au named Paguin, who bad died the previous demand. We call upon our King to give LIMITED,

there is but one legal first wife in China, night. The jury was composed of Messrs.crimis attention to the appeal of woman- and no ore, while she is alive, can: Le A. H. Abbas, J. M. Wang, and K. R. hood." Letters from Mrs. Pankhurst and her equal." The position is that a man cap | Forde. have but one legal wife, and, in addition, as Evidence was given by Mr. Pierpont, many concubines 18 be: can afford. chief warder, to the effect that the Whether there is an instance of a Chinese deceased, a man of about 15 years of age. being punished for a bigamous matxinga | was received into the gael under sentence with a woman of Eis own race we do not of death on 19th January, 1905, the death know; the special feature of the case under senterica being afterwards commuted: natice is that the bigamous marriage was The warder on duty stated that he was with an American lady, and the sentence in called to the hospital and found the the case was imposed, perhaps, not alto-deceased in a state of collapse. gether without the intention of it proving a salutary warning to the young married Chinese, who dwell abroad for the purpose of study.

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BIRTHAN FASSE. On June 10th, at 4 Condui Road, Hongkong, to Mr. and Mrs. JOHN FASSE, a daughter.

1783 DEATH. WILFORD.-At Cardiff, on June 8th, SARAR!

CATHERINE WILFORD, the beloved mother of F. C. Wilford.

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HONGKONG. JUNs 11ru, 1913.

Mr. Archibald Rose; Assistant Chinese Secretary in Peking, is to tike up the Vice Consulship at Hankow,

A Chinese residing at Lower Lascar Road died on Monday from

a self- administexed overdose of opium..

A telegram to Northern papers says that there have been 146 cases of plague in Canton during the last two months.

Another live cases of plague in yester day's return brings the number of cases in the Colony since January 1s up to 131. A European while waiting for a launch

expired in about ten minutes.

He

Dr. McKenny, medical oficer, stated that he conducted a post-mortem eximina- tion of the deceased and found he had an enlarged liver and that his heart showed a remarkable condition of fatty degenera- tion. Death was due to extreme fatty degeneration.

Miss Pankhurst were read exalting the heroism of Miss Davidson whose last words were "Fight on God will give us the victory,

THE BURST PARK OUTRAGE..

Losbox, June 10th. Two Buffragettes have been arrested at. Richmond on suspicion of setting fire to the grandstanci on Hurst Park race.

course.

THE PRIZE RING.

LONDON, June 10th. Carpentier gave a boxing turn at the The jury returned a verdict of death Revue, the new London opera house. Wells, who occupied a box, challenged from natural causes.

him, saying that his friends were prepared to back him for £1,000,

AMERICAN CHARGED WITH MISAPPROPRIATION.

FOREIGN LABOUR IN ENGLAND,

LONDON, June 16th. Some hundreds of Dutch agriculturista have arrived at Suffolk for work on the

charged with the misappropriation of The case in which S. L. Josephs stands

sams amounting to 83,03, the monics of Mesars. Michael & Company, Cebu, was beet sugar farms. again heard before Mr. Melbourne at the Magistracy yesterday. Mr. Lewis, of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes & Master, ap- peared in support of the prosecution, and

BRITISH AVIATION.

LONDON, June 10th. The Government offers a prize of £5,000

Northants defeated Essex, at Northamp.figures of the by-elections since the intro- dnotion of the Bill, and declared that it ton, by s wickets.

INTERNATIONAL LAWN TENNIS.

was impossible for anyone to contend there was any evidence that the mass of NEW YORK, June 10th.

the electorate disapproved the verrfict of In the preliminary round of the com-

the House. petition for the Davis Cup Melloughlin,

Mr. Balfour, in moving the rejection of Americs, boat Doust, of Australia,

of the Bill, said he believed that if the 6-4, 6-4, 6-2. The Americans have thus

Government persisted in the present won the required thres events.

Williams of America beat Rice 1-6, couise we should be on the verge of a 4-6, 6-1, 9–7, 6–2,

great untional calamity. Ulster was firmly determined to maintain at all costs he repeated at all costs--what she regarded as her alienable right as part. at the United Kingdom. England's power, if exercised ruthlessly in Ulster, would succeed, but he appealed not to. the Government's feeling of omnipotence,

THE INDIAN MONSOON.

BOMBAY, June 10th.

The monsoon has burst.

A YACHTING DISASTER.

LONDON, June 10th. Captain Crick, of the mercantile marine, and two seamen from H.M.S. but to its conscience Temieraire were drowned by the capsizing of a pinnace during sailing race at Bangor, County Down.

DEATH OF MR. GEORGE WYNDHAM.

&

LONDON, June 10th.

The death has taken place at Paris of the Right Hon. George Wyndham, who was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for War from 1893 to 1900, Cabinet Minister in 1902, and Chief Secutury for

on Sunday morning at Queen's Statue Mr. J. Grist, of Messrs., Wilkinson & for the best aeroplane engine. The com-Ireland from 1900 to 1905.

Wharf either lost or had his basket of Crist, defended. bathing gear stelen from the pier,

There is much complaint about the censorslip of Press telegrams in Peking: "Foreign Press telegrams are new often delayed and mutilated," it is stated.

The hearing was adjourned.

THE MAGISTRACY.

AN AERIAL FEAT.

LONDON, June 10th. Count Zeppelin in the airship Sachsen, flew from Baden Baden to Vienna, a distance of 45 miles, in eight hours. He was welcomed by salutes from guns and cheering, crowds, the airship encircled Schoenbrun Palace on the balcony of which the Emperor watched its evolutions. Herr Aspern, the burgomaster, enter- tained Count Zeppelin to a banquet.

Mr. Wyndham was taken suddenly ill at the hotel where he had been slaying for a week with congestion of the lungs Great dismay was caused in Dover (which he represented in Parliament), as it was not known that he was ill In the House of Commons Mr. Asquith paid a warm tribute to the deceased gentleman's ser vices,

OBITUARY.

NEW YORK, June 10th. Professor C. A Briggs, a distinguished American theologian, is dead.

PEACE CONFERENCE CLOSED.

Mr. Douglas, sub-accountant of the petition begins at Farnborough on the International Bank, gave evidence re 1st February next." "Orders to the amount Miss May Tang, daughter of the exgarding certain book entries.

of E10,000 will be given to the makers of Premier, Mr. Tang Shuo-yi, was married in Shaagimi last week to Mr. Wellingtondence, said the book produced was handed

Mr. V. W. Daniel, continuing his evi- the rogines fulfilling the requirements of The sentence of eighty days' imprisonment, a graduate of Columbia,

to him by the defendant, who stated that the Government. passed by the Mixed Court at Shanghai or

it contained a record of all money Chinese who had been prosecuted for

received and spent hy defendant on behalf bigamy will cause many Europeans to correct

of Michael & Co. their notions of Chinest marriage laws We are so accustomed to the idea that the We note in a southern paper that so far rich. Chinamen is often & much married there are six candidates for the Hongkong man, and polygatay is so extremely common University Matriculation Examination in Chine, that the very mention of a pro- which is to be held at Penang on Septem- saeutica in the Courts for bigamy creates ber Ist.. amused surprise. It will not he without interest, therefore, if we glance at the facts and the arguments presented at the trial

LONDON, June 10th. The defendant in the case had married 1

The Peace Conference has closed its young Cantonese lady in 1910, and after

THE ULSTER RIFLES,

sittings. The delegates decided that a six months left Shungi for America to

definitive result would be LONDON, June 10th.

more easily take up university studies. While in

Dr. Wu Ting Tang appeared at the America he fell in love with an American wedding of Mr. Tang Shao-yi in frock

The rifles seized at Dublin came from a reached if a Treaty of Peace is completed lady, and subsequently went through coat and top hat. "But he was not

stable at Hammersmith, whither they had by agreements separately concluded be- a form of marriage with her, In the entirely comfortable," says a newspaper

been copreyed from a ship at Wapping. tween the respective Governments. course of time he returned to Shanghai report, and be explained to his friends The roads were bad, and it was impossible The police had been watching the stable, and enfessed to his wife the circum that he had not donned that form of con- to turn the ear. Accordingly, he turned where there are still 4,000, for some time, Hventional dress for about thirty years the car off the road and remained there and notified the authorities in Ireland stances of his second marriage. arrest followed, on an information laid not since his days in Lincoln's Inn. He till six o'clock. Inspector Sim said that of the departure of each consignment, by the Chinese wife.

had stuck to the comfortable Ching cars could turn on the Jubilee Road His The stable was rented by a party of well- The prosecution

clothing ever since."

Worship imposed a fine of $5. was instituted under the new Code. One of

dressed gentlemen.

A meeting of the Legislative Council is called for to-morrow, when the Bills introduced a fortnight ago, including the Currency Bills, come up for second reading.

Mr. Lewis, of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes Muster, applied for a re-bearing of a case in which a man had been charged with obstruction. His Worship thought the defendant had not understood the charge and he granted the application.

T. M. Nichol, garage owner, was sum- moned for driving a motor car during prohibited hours at Aberdeen. Defendant: informed Mr. Hazeland that he left the city about twelve o'clock, and it was near our o'clock when Aberdeen was reached.

The Montenegrin delegate, M. Voinovitch, who presided over the Con- ference, in a valedictory speech, expressed the delegates homage to King George wal their gratitude to the British Govern- ment and nation for their hospitality.

NAVAL EXPENDITURE...

LONDON, June 10th. In the House of Commons, Mr. Chur- chill informed Bir W. P. Byles, Liberal M.P. for North Salford, that the accelery- tion of the three contract Dreadnoughts would necessitate an additional expendi- ture of £500,000 in 1913 and £250,000 in 1914, with a corresponding reduction in the two following years,

BRITISH TRADE RETURNS.

LONDON, June 10th, The increases in British imports last month amounted to £3,211,588 and in exports to £5,025,787.

The increased imports were principally in food, drink and tobacco (£2,250,000), timber (£500,000), and wool (£250,000), while cotton showed a decrease of 2385,846. The increased exports were in iron and steel manufactures (£2,000,000) and cotton goods (£1,000,000),

A SCHOOL FIRE

LONDON, June 10th. St. John's Clergy School at Leather- head was destroyed by fire. All the scholars were promptly reseed, many in scant attire. The outbreak is believed to have been caused by gas igniting curtains.

Arrangements are being made for most. of the scholars to return to their homes.

HIS FEE.

Sir" said a barber to an attorney me if this is a good ven-chilling pices !" who was passing his door, "will you tell The lawyer, pronouncing the piece good, deposited it in his pocket, adding, with great gravity" If you'll send your lad tomy office, I'll return the four pence # From Anecdotes of Bench and Bar.

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