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ACCUSED COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.

Mr. Melbourne, Second Magistrate, con- tinued on Saturday the hearing of the case in which Fung Chi Wan, solicitor's clerk, was charged with being in unlawful possession of a quantity of cocaine, and alse with attempting to hribe Revenue Officer Wilden.

Mr. P. M. Hodgson (Crown Solicitor) prosecuted, and Mr. F. C. Jenkin (instructed by Mr. F. X. d'Almada), defended.

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TORONTO, July 2nd. The movement against Asiatic farmers has crossed from California to British Columbia. Not long ago the executivo committee of the Okanagan fruit growers and truck farmers passed a resolution

FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL ISSUE. excluding Orientals from holding stock in any of the local fruit growers' associa

The DIRECTORY envers the whole of te tions. By this action the advantage of parts and cities of the Far East, from Nether fande Todis to Biberia, in which Europeans reside. co-operative marketing of products is réserved to the white settlers of the

Not only is the Directory n full and complete Okanagan district. Naturally the Chi-in each case as it can be manile, bat each Colony, nose are organizing to resist the horcott. Fort, or Wo Bing, a wealthy Chinese merchant of New Westminster, points out that if the edict of the fruit growers is to prevail,

am a naturalized British subject and I because of uncertainty as to markets. "I want to farm. If I cannot sell what I raise, then what is the use of my work? position if he went to China and the con- The white man would be in the same ditions of population were reversed."

tiffa, either directly with the defendants, or as agents personally liable, as is alleged by the plaintiffs; or whether the contract was made by the plaintiffs directly with

Mr. Jenkin in his address for the the Bureau of Monopolies of the Japaness defence said his Worship had to be satis Government, as is alleged by the defen-fied, before committing his client for dants, who say they took delivery on commission on behalf of the plaintiffs. trial. of a strong, or probable, presump-Chinese cannot farm in British Columbia

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is not pretended that the Chinese in the Okanagan desire to sell their fruit at lower prices than are paid for the pro- duct of the white settlers. ready to ship in co-operation with the whites and to insist on equal prices.

Commenting on the quarrel between the

entered tion of his guilt.. He pointed out that the The plaintills

they

into

de-only evidence of alleged bribery referred the

with agreement fendants personally, The

second to 8th and 9th January this year. and a most important issue is as to whe- Mr. Wilden did not know until the 26th ther the contract is to be construed June, or 2nd July, whether or not it was

ship of Wo Sing the Chinese in the according to English or Japanese law. bribery: he did not know but that defen- Then his

Okanagan valloy will organize an associa Both these foregoing issues are questions dant was trying to trap him. of feet which will have to be proved at Worship would have to have regard to tion to market their own products and Defendants the charge of possession which was pre-that Chinese salesmen are now travelling the hearing of the action.

throughout the Prairie Provinces, taking produce a certificat from the Jananese ferred against his client on 28th June: orders for the delivery of producc Consul-General in Hongkong as to the that was getting on for six months after Competent jurisdiction of the Courts at the alleged bribery had taken place, and Taipeh, and they contend that the otain- notwithstanding that fact, the charge of tiffs' object in' suing them in Hongkong possession, and possession only, was is in order to obtain an undue advantage alleged against defendant, and preferred over them. Plaintiffs oppose the annlien-against him, on the 28th June, although two racial elements the Toronto Globe tion on the ground that they are entitled nothing further happened after the 8th BAV

The real objection to the Chinese is that to the advantage of selecting the tribal and 9th January that could possibly in which the action should be heard. The support a charge of bribery. The bribery while they carn as much as the whites they are poor spenders. Instead of living upon onus of establishing that the contraet charge was preferred on 23rd July. He the same scale as the Occidental they turns on English law is clearly on the would suggest now, as he would suggest heard their prefits so that some day they may retire to China or to Hongkong as plaintiffs. Now it is clearly laid down elsewhere in L'e event of the case being capitalists. The Oriental on the Pacific that the jurisdiction of the Court to tried elsewhere, that that fact exposed-acoust does not assimilate with the white. stay proceedings on the ground of vexa-weakness in the charge of bribery. If his and even if he did seek to do so, racial prejudice would prevent intermarriage tion should be exercised with great care. Worship agreed to exercise his discretion, with the white population, without which It is assimilation becomes impossible. and truck farins of interior British most unfortunate that the fertile fruit Columbia have begun to develop the racial troubles that have so long been Manifestiv there is. and will be, a acute in the cities of the coast. comoon feeling in British Columbia and the Western Pacific States against Asiatic emigration, Asiatic labour, and Asiatie Leonmetition in agriculture and in

dustrial operations.-The Times.

I am clearly of opinion from the evidence he had plenty of material to say that

on the affidavits that if the defendante

are sued in Hongkong, they would be there was no probable presumption of the subject to vexation and injustice to which guilt of the accused.

His Worship-I am afraid I will have they would not be subjected if the action were brought in Formosa, where all their to commit for trial and leave it to the I think witnesses, including the officials of the Attorney-General to decide whether he there is sufficient to leave it to him and Japanese Government, are, and where it will file an indictment or not. is not denied the documents and book I am justified in committing. relating to the action are available, and Mr. Jenkin-I am entirely at your that, apart from the question of exneasa, Worship's discretion. I think probably there would necessarily be grent diffenty that in this case, in which, as I suggested in proenring the attendance of their wit to the witnesses, there has been some misunderstanding, of which my client is in Hongkong. The question, the unfortunate victim, it would be better therefore, that I have to coprider is who to thrash the matter out in the High ther. it I stop the action I should be Court.

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The Yokohama office of the C.P.R. Co. The Crown Solicitor said that it had is in receipt of a wireless message from doing injustice to the plaintiffs sufficient een reported in the Press that bis friend the R.M.B. Empress of Japan sent. mid- had suggested that Inspector Terrett had written a letter to the accused advising him to skip the Colony, and, in fairness

to outweigh what I consider is established the most serious injustice to defendants. This is a case of some nicety, and owine to the outstanding controversies of fact to which. I have alluded, it is scarcel analogous to any of the crses cited in argument, but applying the general prin- ciples laid down in those cases to the facts as they exist in this case. I have come to the conclusion after much con- sideration that I am not doing injustice to the plaintiffs, for the reasons which 1 have given, in slaying the action, and it will be stayed accordingly.

sight on the 8th August, when the vessel was 1,200 miles from Yokohama, advising all well and that the Commander expecta to Inspector Terrett, he would like to reach Yokulama on the 12th August, at know if it was deinitely so or not, because 10 p.m., leaving Yokohama again on the Inspector Terrett was anxious to go into 13th August, at 3 p.m. the box and deny it.

The P. & O. str. Arcadia left Singapore Mr. Jenkin said he quite agreed with for this port on the 9th August, at 8 am, his friend, but the question he had put with the outward English mails, and is "did he (the witness) know that due here on the 13th August, at noon. Inspector Terrett had communicated to

Was

the defendant" not that he had written

The Ben Line str. Benlamand, from

any bitter. It might have been a mistake Leith, Middlesbro and London, loft be expected to arrive here on the 13th in the Press for which he was just as Singapur on the 7th August, and may sorry as Mr. Hodgson.

August,

Inspector Terrett strongly objected to his name being mentioned in the case. and declared that his name had been bandied about through Mr. Jenkin bring ing it in. He had no reason to bring him His Worship said the Crown Solicitor Por Haimun, from Foochow, Messra, had mentioned the matter, and Mr.

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Jenkin had apologised.

Inspector Terrelt warmly reiterated his complaint, and said it was not pleasant for everyone to come round and say. Now you've put your foot in it."

Mr. Jenkin-If the Inspector thinks I have any animus I will shake him by the hand now,

Inspector Terrett-I will leave it at that.

The C.P.R. str. Monteagle left. Yoko hama on the 9th August, at noon, and is due to arrive at Kobe on the 10th August, at 6 p.m.

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