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CORRESPONDENCE. AMERICAN INFLUENCE ON BRITISH JOURNALISM. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG

DAILY PRESS.

APPEAL FOR COMFORTS

FOR TROOPS.

CBE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 30, 1915.

SALE OF POISONS IN HONGKONG.

IMPORTANT MAGISTERIAL

JUDGMENT

The full text of Mr. F. A. Hazeland's written judgment in the cast in which the

Sin-With reference to the leading arti cle in to-day's issue of your admirable help with her knitting-machine the Ho Wah Sang firm were summoned on

paper, I think that it would be more conrate to attribute, the change notice able in the display of news in British newspapers of to-day to a desire to meet with changed times and with the quite different mood or mode that now prevails, rather than to the copying or adoption of The American journalistic methods. Victorian epoch has passed, and with it the Victorian newspapers, The present

Lady May wishes to express her very hearty thanks to the Women of Hongkong for their prompt response to her appol for knee caps and sleeping-caps |- for troops from Hongkong at the Front. Special thanks must be given to Mrs. S. E. Green, without whose splendid amount zaked for could not have been

the short time given four counts for offences against the completed in Thanks are also due to Messrs. Loxley & Pharmacy. Ordinance is as follows:- Co. for very practical assistance in The defendant was summoned under dyeing the white and lighter-coloured the Pharmacy Ordinance, 1908. Thore were four summonses. They wers (1) not articles. Kind offers of help have been received from English ladies in Manila

being 4 chemist and druggist and Foechow, and wool has been supplied and registered under to them

Thirty dozen each of knes-caps and sloping caps have been sent off, and Lady May would like it known that sho will be glad of further contributions in preparation for another consignment.

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Ordinance

YACHTING.

GY.C. CHAMPIONSHIP RACES.

Sume goad finishes were witnessed on Sunday, when the first races in connection with the Championships of the Handicap, Heyward Hay, and Gael classes of the

Corinthian Yacht Club were contested. The resulta were :——

Handicap Class-1,, Moja (s,cernd by Captain G. G. Wood); 2, La Linda (Mr. F. Smythe):

Heyward Hoye Class-1, Bat (Mr," R.. €. Witchell); 2, Dawn (Mr. C. E. Davis); 3, Alice (Mr. R. I. Atwell). There was a most exciting finish in this event.

of 1908, unlawfully did sell and keep open a shop for retailing goivon on the 14th day of October, 1816, 1908; (2) unlawfully did soll poison with-

Goel Class-1, Poinetta (Mr. A. A. Cinx- contrary to Section 3 of Ordinance is of out making an entry in a book, before (on); 2, Gact (Mr. H. Pearman); 3,

generation, influenced by many things from Mrs. Stabb, 117, Peak, and Mrs.delivery, the date of the sale, and the Thecla (Captain Riddell).

that entered but little, if at all, into the lives of the past genoration, have, în conse quence, different tastes and a different outlook. The rapidity with which almost everything can now be transacted doubt loss astounds "later Victorians" when they contrast the methods of to-day with the comparatively easy-going methods of their earlier days. To the changed times, therefore, I think may properly be assigned the real cause of the change which is now apparent in ali but the most "conserva tive" of British newspapers. Indeed, British journal'sts, with very few excep tione, dislike American journalistic methods too much to copy them. The "new methods are, of course, more conspicn- ously sometimes, alu 1 more vulgarly used in a certain class of British news papers, just as they are more flagrantly abused by many of the newspapera of the United States; but that is largely a matter of taste the taste of those owning the responsible for its

Showspaper and those

notual production.

With reference to the question as to whether the newspaper should be a leader or a follower in the discussion of public affairs, no British journalist worth his salt has any doubt on the point, for he knows that if he does not believe, and does not likewise convince others, that the many years he has spent in reading of and deal ing with events of public interest, together with the consideration that he, compared with gentlemen belonging to other pro- fessions, must of necessity give to such mattere, qualify him, to lead and, not to follow in their disenssion and development, ho naturally comes to the conclusion that ho is little else than a server-up of 1 unconsidered triffes," that his news: paper is nothing but a news sheet, and not what it ought to be an organ of public opinion. Enclosing my card, I am, Sir, jours, ste,

JOURNALIST.

Wool and instructions can be bad freo Pope, St. Andrew's Vicarage, Kowloon.

THE MOTOR AMBULANCE GIVEN BY THE WOMEN OF HONGKONG,

The following lettere have been received from the Over Seas Club, and from the British Red Cross Society:- The MANAGER, AN

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking

Corporation, Hongkong. DEAR SIR,We have much pleasure in forwarding you the enclosed receipt and better of thanks which we have received

name of the purchaser, contrary to Sec- tion 10 of Ordinance 12 of 1008; (2) dił sell poison to a person not having been introduced by, some person known to the sellor, contrary to Section 10 of Ordinance 12 of 1008; and (4) unlawfully did sell poison without having the word "poison" thereon in English and Chinese, contrary to Section 10 of Ordinance 12 of 1908.

The name of the poison the subject matter of these charges is Yohimpin The substance is a poisonous vegetable alkaloid and is therefore a poison under Schedule A. Yohimbin is a trade name and the chemical name for this is Cary- mine Hydrochlorate. It was sold by the

CRICKET.

R.G.A CHINESE R.CO

The following were the scores in the match between the Chinese Recreation Club and the 83rd Company R.G.A. played at Happy Valley or Saturday:-

Cpl. Smith, o and b Yew Man Chun 18.

Yew Man Chun

from the British Red Cross Society for defendant in tubes containing 10 tablets. Gr. Freeman, e Ng Sae Yuen, b the £450, to generously sent by the Ench tables ecntained 1/60th of a grain

of Yohimbin, Women of Hongkong for a Motor Am

The taking of one fablut would not be dangerous, but the "Liking. bulance Yours truly,

HYLDA DES VEUX

of ten tablets would probably be duger. (Chairman,

ous. The taking of six tablets in the course of the day would not be danger.

Sub-Committee Over Seas Club).

DEAR DADAM,-I am in receipt of your. letter of the 15th instant, onelosing cheque for £450, the same being the cost of a Metor Ambulance which has been subscribed for by the "Women of Hong

kong.

ous.

It was proved that the defendant, had been selling this drug since 1009 and that. Messrs. A. 8. Watson & Co. commenced selling the drug three or four years ago. It was also stated that at Home this drag is not marked “ poison.” Our 'aw in Well you please accept our sincere Hongkong with respect to poisons is simi thanks for this generous, gift, and allar to the law in England and which is as far as possible convey our thanks to to be found in the Pharmacy Act, 1868. the subscribers for their generous gift,

The order for this car will be placed at once, and it should be ready for service towards the end of the year

I shall first dea] with the scope and object of the law. The law has been passed to protect the public, the sale of poisons being a public danger.

I should be very grateful to you if you would mention to the kind donors of Lawrence J. in the caso of the Phar this car how grateful we should be for macutical Society. Piper & Co., 1803, some help towards the running expenses" 1:Q.B.D. 887, in the courts of his judg

This question of mont, deal, with this point thus: of the Ambulance. upkeep is causing us a good deal of Of course, every case can be so put anxiety, and you can readily understand

as to appear ridiculous, and the case that every car supplied to us thus main has been rut to us of a medicine con tenance expenses increase, and containing an infinitesimal quantity of queatly we are doubly grateful to any donors of cars if, at the same time, they poison; but it is obvious that, at any poison. There is a will give us assistance to maintain them, rate, no harm would be done by labelling

In the present state of roads in such a medicino France, which causes great wear and tear point at which any medicine containing en the cars, we estimate that the sum of poison may become dangerous, and we £200 is required to keep each Ambulance ought not to fritter away the provisions of an Act of Parliament the object of in running order for a period of six which is to protect the public and ra

dear Madam, Yours faith-

prevent unqualified persons, who months.I am, fully.

have no scientific or chemical knowledge E. M (Director of Motor Ambulance Dept) whatever from, retailing, dispensing, or

compounding poisons.”

To LADY DES YEUX, Over-Seas Club,

CLARKE

Central Building, Aldwych. The balance of The Women's Motor Ambulance Fund, $379.00 was given to The Red Cross Collection for October g1st, and sent home by H.EJ Bir Henry May to Lord Lansdowne, Should any one wish to subscribe further towards Hongkong, November 29th, 1915. fund to help to maintain The Women's [We agree that the changes in the style Meter Ambulance for 6 months, for which of British newspapers are in large measure it will be seen that some 22,000 is needed. a reflection of the change which has taken Lady May, Mountain Lodge; Mrs. Kemp, place in the character of the reading public, Gomez Villas, Kowloon and Mrs. owing to the spread of elementary education. Stubb, 117, Reak, will again gratefully

mong the masses and other causes, but receive, and acknowledge donations that does not disprove the statemong that the new methods, were borrowed from America.Ex, H.D.P.]

THE EXTRADITION CASE.

There was further argument in the Hung Shir Lung extradition case at the Full Court yesterday, before the Chief Justice, and Mr. Justice Gomperta

Mr. E. E. Sharp, E.C., (for the Crown) referred to an affidavit made by Mr. Brutton (solicitor for the fugi- tive) as to what transpired between the Magistrate and Mr. Potter, and said that there should be no further attempt mado now to vary or affect the written judgment of the Magistrate, which, according to Mr. Potter's own frank statement, had been altered somewhat at the request of the latter,

CIGARETTE AND TOBACCO FUND.

Total acknowledged. to the 20th

November, 1915 Since received:

AW $2; E.E.J.; $3; H,W.L,

$10, Fer South China Morning Post-

Non-Smokors,** Per Mr. O., D. Gander, Chi- BUSO. Maritime Customs, Hongkong:Messrs. A, Ni- chot, C. F. Cronwall, W. Olsen, and H. P. Allgood A at $2 each Messrs. M. W. Fraser, E. T. Craig, LL. Lopes, J. Ken- nedy, K Stangaard, W. J Martin, P. Popoff, G, Breen, A. K. Grondahl, C. Cooper, H. Markham, H. Owen, J. Hyatt, H. Apple- ton, W Crawley, A. H Feen, E. Alcock, H. P Harrison, F. G. Muidwent, C. W. Johansen, H. Penne- father, R, Cross, M. Gilmore, K. Backlund, 31, A. Hancox, E. J. Statter, W. Wolnizer, A. R. Ballot, and G. D Gander 20 at $1 each

It was 2 peculiar position. At the request of the defence a written judgment was nude, and at their further request on the 18th October, when they went up to the Magistracy-unfortunately the Crown were not there--the Magistrate addett to that at their request, and now the defence came along and sought to vary or affect the judgment still further by an affidavit as to what had been said by the Magis trate and Mr. Potter at the Magistracy.

The Chief Justice-Had the Magistrate been in the Colony I should certainly have asked him to confer with us, but he is not in the Colony. His lordship added that he had taken the view. throughout that there was no ambiguity in the judgment. Mr. Potter had said that the Magistrate amplified his judgment in the terms be sked him to do. He (the Chief Justice) had always been opposeil to that sort of thing going on at all.

Mr. Justice Gompertz. said he had never felt that the judgment was in any way ambiguouĄ, He also followed the Chief Justice in his view on the other? point.

W that the Mr. Eldon Potter said that the affidavit was put in to bring quite clearly home to the mind, of the Puiene Judge that the Magistrate meant his finding on

B

Por Miss Square;-A.B.C.,

Mr. G A. Pertrenth, $5;

85 Mr. J. W. Evans, J.C.F., 81, Anonymous, $1 "Eddie. French" 85; Friend, 50 cts; P.C., 32.50; Mrs. 85, Mr W, E. Clark, 2, Bleat, 82; Mr. B. A. Gubbay, M. C. F., 60 ats.; Friend, $2.05.

List No 4 L.-E.A., §3; J.B.,

may

Again, Colling L.J. (then Colling J.), dealing with this point in the same case, states as follows:-

"What is the object of the Act? Il deals with the sale of poisons; its title shows that it is intended to regulate their enle, and to siter and amend the Phar- may Act, 186 Broadly speaking, therefore, it deals with the sale of poison- ous drugs, and does not deal, as has been The legislature suggested with the sale of soap and things of that naturë. was dealing with the safety of the public in the dispensing of poisonous drugs; and insisted on such things being only dealt with by competent persona, making, however, an exception in favour of the class of patong medicines.***

CBM Clenves, c. and b. Yew Mon

∙Chun

Hallam, b Yew Man Chun

Gr. Graham, b Yew Maa Chun ye... Gr, Hillas, e and b Yew Man Chun... Gr. Martin, stu *

Knight, c and b Ng Sze Kwong Burgess, and b. Yew Mon. Chun Rowell, e and b Your Man Chun Palmer, not out

Extraa

Total

BOWLING ANALYSIS,

It

8 1 Ng Sso Yuen....... Yew Man Chun ... 7,5 2 19

CHINESE R.C.

Ng Sto Cheung, b Smith

Yew Mau Chan, b Smith .................. Ng Bae Kwong, Kaight, b Palmer Ng Sze Yuen, e Bargoss, b Graham... Wong Po Keang, b Smith

War Tu Shing, h, Smith

Hang In Kwong, Graham, b

Hallam

Kwok Shin Yon, b Hallam Mok Hing. b Hallam Wong Po Kit, did not bat Ng Hon Ting, not out

Extras

Total

***** 2-28

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WILLEM HEYBLOM,

4.-Diocesan School v. Lam Liong, Club AMSTERDAM.

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St. Joseph's College . Confuciaus, Nary ground, 2.30 p.m. Referce, Corp. Thorntos, R.G.A, K.S.L.I, Ros, v. Islamics, Military ground, 2:30 pm Referee, Corp),

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With respect to the question of the amount of the poison in a compound the law on this point is thus stated by 8 8,407.54 Collins LJ. in Piper's case at page 588

The learned Judge, after stating that the Act applied to the sale of a compound 15.00 which was made up in part of a scheduled 11

poison, proceeds as follows: 10.00

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"When that proposition is once estab. lished: the question whether there is more or less of a scheduled poison in the son pound is not one that has any logical bearing on the question until we arrived at the principle de minimis non curat [lex."

In another portion of the judgment the learned Judge state, as follows

"I do not think it necessary to luy down a rule which would cover every case where s compound contains an in- Battesimally small quantity of poison; that question can be dealt with when it prises,

To put it shortly, a person who sells & scheduled poison without complying with the requirements of the law commits an offence unless the amount of the said poisor can be said to be infinitesimal, In Ogilvio's Dictionary the following. 29,00 meaning is given to the word infini-

tesimal

38th Company . Staff and Depart-

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68th Company . Islamics, Club ground, 2.30 p.m. Referee, Corpl Davies. 2Staff and Departments . Diocesan School, Military ground; 4,15 p.m.

Referee, Sergs Praguell

"An infinitely small quantity; that suggest to my mind that it was the inten which is less than any assignable tion to make a person liable to & double quantity. Webster gives exactly the penalty for one act." The head note in meaning, word for word the report with respect observa-

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Dr. Mckenny, who was called by the tion of Lush J. is. Semble, that there A dealring, to loare the Colony should apply

prosecution, deposed to the fact that it was quite common to prescribe 1/150th of a grain of a drug. As the poison in one $2.55 of the tablets the subject matter of the charge is à 1/50th of a grain, it cannot therefore be said to be less than a assign- Kenny's evidence. I am therefore of different Sections in an Enactment. opinion that the 1/50th of a grain of a propose, however, indicting a penalty drug in a tablet cannot be described as against the defendant with respect to one infinitesimal. My finding is therefore only of these three summonses under against the defendant with respect to the Section 10. Having regard to the cir cumstances of the case I am of opinion four, summonses herein

that the penalty should not be a heavy one. On the charge under Section 3 the defendant will pay a fme of 810; in

cannot be two separate convictione under in writing Lot permission to do so to e different parts of the Enactment for one Captain SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, at least The head note is 48 hours before the intended hour of departure, and the same act." wrong, as the learned Judge used the giving name, nationality, age, sex, height

not Section and

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name of the steamer or other vessel or the hour There is no reason why a Enactment.

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55.60 Mr. Crew submitted that if the defon! dant was to be convicted he should be 13.80 convicted on one of the summonses only:

He referred me to the case of Berry default, 14 days hard labour. On the 8,689,39 Henderson, 1869, 5 Queen's Bench ensos charge under Section 10 of selling poisau FRENCH LESSONS 8.075.41 page 296. In that case the appellant was without the word Poison" thereon charged under Section 17 of the Acs only the defendant will pay a fine of $10; in Balance in hand 8 513.98 as he was a pharmaceutical chemist default 14 days hard labour. These two Hongkong: 27th November, 1915 registered ander the Act. Lush J. dur sentences are to be consecutive There D. W. CRADDOCK, ing the argument of Counsel, said will be no penalty with respect to the

Chairman. The language of the section does not other two convictions under Section 12.

the facts to apply to both branches of Amount Exponded to 20th Nov...

that judgment; thats was to say, on the whole case he was quite clear on the facts and his finding on fact had refer ence to both parts of the judgment:

The hearing was adjourned.

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