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TH, HONGKONG DAILY

EMPREZA COMERCIAL DO EXTREMO ORIENTE

AVENIDA ALMEIDA RIBEIRO NO. 3

MACAU.

IMPORTERS OF PORTUGUESE, WINES

A large consignment of this following First-Class Wines has fart been Isaded:

FORTS, CLARETS, RED WINES, PORTUGUESE LIQUORS, etc, etc.

SPECIAL EMAS. OFFER.

No gift is more appreciated than a case of good Fort Wine From a large assortment you may selectgifts to meet every taste al reduce/? priced for 16 days only.

་ ་ - [ "" ་ + PORT WINES from $20.00 to $40.00 a csa

We will send samples All mounts will receive our prompt and careful attention.

A large stock of PURE PORTUGUESE OLIVE OIL, SAUSAGES, OLIVES,

ab... on hand

SWAN

FOUNTPEN.

NEEDS NO "COAXING"!

It's made right

To write right.

That's why it's the most popular

USE

INK

138

Fountpen.

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Does not rak, Scratch or Dry Ep Fitted with Gold riding Tipped Vib.

WHEEL 19

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TRY

Bald by

JEWELLERS, STATIONERS

IMPORTERS

MABIE, TODD & Co.

--Manufcturers, LONDON;?

CATALOGURIYFREE!

Modern up-to-date

Sanitary Goods for

Bare fastory- and carry stock of first

residence

Estimates and

cost given

lor

modern up-to-date bathroom.

UNION ENGINEERING CO. LTD..

Ground Floor, 13, Chater Road,

THE

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HONGKONG.

Anderson Music Co., Ltd.,

WISH THEIR PATRONS

A PROSPEROUS

NEW YEAR.

16. DES VOEUX ROAD.

..

TO MAKE A DAINTY MEAL.

Bay "BOOSTER BRAND Macacoal, Vermicelli, Egg Noodles, Paste Star and other Linda of Soup Stuffs from us. All our Paste Prodieta, made in-a now, wall. ventilated and modern style Factory, are pure, wholesome and of excellent quality.

Ohtaimble from all our Ageste everywhere

Samples Bad Price List will be given, free of charge, on application, to our Head Qot.

NIGERIAN, BULE, BRITISH RESIDENT WINS LIBEL

ACTION

AUCTIONS

JATURDAY, « JANUAHY SED. "1920.

THEATRE ROYAL

TO-NIGHT!

A

TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT!

EDGAR WARWICK

Presents

PUBLIC AUCTIONS

BY APPOINTMENT.

LUCKIGHTERS TO TEX GOVEERXENY, AND ARMINALITY.

General Auctioneers,

Captain Joseph John Fitzpatrick, poli- tical officer in charge of the adminizfri tive division of Banchi, Northern Nigeria, who claimed damages for libel against Mr. John Eldred Taylor, editor and pro-HUGHES AND HOUGH, prietor of the African Telegraph, and against the African Co-operativa Cor poration (Limited), distributors of the paper, was successful against the former in his action before Mr. Justice Bray and a special jury. The allegation complain; ed of was that Captain Fitzpatrick had ordered the fogging of two naked nativa women. Ha denied that he bad done so. Mr. Taylor claimed to be a full-blooded Africas prince descended from some old Nigerian kings and Aka princes, ( ́ ́.

James,

West 1

African native,

Share, Coal and General. Freduce Brokers

time to sell by Public Auction,

The Undersigned have received inatrae

(For Account of the Loncerned), ON TUESDAY

January

1990, commencing at 2.30 PM,

Na 8, De Vo

at' their Sales

Road, Co

Lots of line of Ion House Street,

Double bertitshed. sheets, Linen Damsak

said that he was in the Alkali's Table Cloth Turkish Face Towels, Bath Court when two women whom he knew were brought up. It was about Towels Labroidered Bedspreads and Table

Cover three months before the war broke out. They were sent to guol for six months. Next day he saw those women in the market put in the stocks and flogged while naked. He had se women fogged there nearly every day,

Captain Fitzpatrick, recalled, said be had never at his Residency at any time shouted from the verandah to the Alkali that he was not satisfied with the sentence. and wanted the two women flogged.

Mr. Neilson, K., the plaintiff's counsel In that the method in which you conduct your profession as Resident!

Plaintiff-Certainly not, nothing in the remotest degree resembling

not in the habit of shouting to the Alkali from my verandah. In any case, I should not shout.to a high official from my verandah, There is not, a word of „truth in it.

You have beard two witnesses say that this was done by your orders. Is there shadow of a vestige of truth in it?Not the very slightest.

Describing the nationality of the first

AND One Wardrobe Teank, two Bellow Valises and Suit CaseS,

..

Two Primatic Binculara, Brass Jardinieres and Vases, Tennis Seta and Foles, &,

(Alf are new ..Goods). (Fall Particulars from. Catalogue). Terms: Caak,

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

O TUESDAY, Jaanary stb, 1692 commencing at 2.30 PM., at their Sales Hooms, No. 8, Des Vœux USEFUL HOUSEHOLD FURNITU Road, Corner of Lee Hours Stroot GLASS, PLATED WARE

ko.

And

Consignment of INDIAN CARPETS and BUGS,

As follows:-

and Armchairs (new), Folding Card and Large Tapestry covered Chesterfield Sofas Occasional Tables, Upholstered Suite, Teak- wood Bedroom Furniture comprising Bed stents, large and small Wardrobes.-

Din

two native witnesses, Déláney and the Tabies, Washstands framed re other, plaintiff said they came from the Sideboards: Dinner Waggen, Extention Gold Coast. Not one of them came from Ing Tablead Chairy de Dinner Services, within a thousand miles of Bauchi. The rockery, and Giza Ware. Cooking Stoves, first two were of the ordinary type of Cutler Bath Boom Utensils, Electro black man, brought from the Gold Coast to do clerical work and various sub Soreens Sundry Black woods Furniturs,

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Teakwood ordinate duties. They were Christinna Blackwood Fur Screens, &c, Side Tables, and were just as foreign to the natives of Chair: Cabinets Fitures de the Northern provinces as a Scotsman and second hand, Cartina, de

rpets new

Plated Ware.

One Pr

would be in Sicily. The people in North- ern Nigeria were Mohammedals. They

One large Victrola, One Gas had nothing in common with the wit Cooker Cue RickshL, hersen. Flogging was discouraged, as (Full Particulars much as possible in the native courts. TERM -ị,

Mr. Neilson then out a que aon to plaintiff on what he termed a loathsome suggestion." Have you ever," "be" ask. ed, sent for two native women in the history of your existence in Nigeria 1"

"No, certainly not," replied Captain Fitzpatrick emphatically

In cross-examination, Mr. Rigby Swift, K.C., for the defendants, asked: Have you any doubt that two women WAZO flogged as described by those witnesses 1 -I bave every doubt of it.

EUGHES

tions from DR. VAK Joves to sell by Public. The Underigued have receiver instruc

Auction Ki

on WEDNESDAY, January 2018 at 10.30 AM, at his rendence No. 114, The Fear, VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE

therein

contained

&c

You don't think any two women were

As follows: Blackwood Hall Table, Betles and Stande flogged all-I don't know, but I think Chesterfield Sofd And Arm-chairs, Occasional It is not impossible that two people were Chairs (Powell beaten. I am perfectly certain they have wood Desk 2 not been beaten in the way described. In the whole of my experience I have never seen a woman beaten in Nigeria

Plaintiff suggested that the reason for the allegations against him might have

A110 Several lots of Maiden Hair Fern, a fine assortment of Pot Plants, Wood and Force lain Flower Stands, Sunblinds, Electric Ceiling Fans and Fittings.

finely carred Cherry- Cahineta, Chairs, &c., several lots of Curines, Brass Vases, incense Burners, Electrio Standard Lamps and Table Fans, Teakwood Buffes Extension Dia- ard Table, Glass and Crockery Ware, White Table Chairs, Glass Cabinets and

been a desire on the part of the African Twin

Bedroom Suite Witnesses to injure him, and, through Machine, Botroom

mako),

Sin

die Beving him the Administration. There were Enamelled Bath Lavatory Basins, Toilets, Cupboarila &c. large several matters on account of which he &c, Pantry and Kitchen (Captain Fitzpatrick) was not very popu

Utensils J lar with certain classes of natives in Nigeria. He had stopped a very profit able procuring trade Another thing was that he would never sign liquor per mite for Africans, A third matter.was in reference to the case of man called Jones, a black Sierra Leone clerk, in 1913. That man came before him and was tried, and convicted on a charge of extors tion and violent assault. Jones, said witness, had established a complete reign of terror at a place called Kuru. These three things, taken together, might well furnish a motive, be added, for a certain animosity towards him in the minds of t some people. SAN

The jury found the defendant company had not published the libel. They found

Particular, frum Catalogue). On view from Tuesday, 6th inst of 2 PM. THIMS Cas

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctionepri

THE WEST POINT BUILDING

COMPANY, LIMITED

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN thus MEELING of SHAREHOLDERS in this the THIRTY SECOND ORDINARY

will be J

held at the Offices of MATHESON & COMPANY,

that the libel was defamatory, and was Mesura

JAZDINE

not true in substance and in fact. They Loop on WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14TH assessed the damages for the plaintiff at 1020, 11 o'clock aw, for the purpose of £400.

Feceiving the In a rider to their verdict the jury together with a Statement of Account for the

Report of the Director said. The jury, are of opinion that if year elding fogging is still practised steps should be?

December 1918. H The REGISTER of SHARES of the taken by the proper authorities to stop pay

ay will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, Com January 1st, to WEDNESDAY, January 14th, 1920, (both

both days, inclusive) during Registered

it."

A black man seated in the Courtwhich period no Thuster of Shares can be "Thank God!" "c

THE HING WAH PASTE MFG. CO., LTD,plaint against Mr. Terior for 2,400

HEAD OFFICE: Nos. 47 & 45; Connaugh, Road Central, Hongkong, Tal. No. 2230

BRANCH OFFICE: No 430 and 421, Nanking Road, Shanghai, China.

FOR NEW

ORLEANS.

THE U.S. SHIPPING BOARD

S.S. "ASKAWAKE

About Middle MARCH,

1920.

For freight space and particulars apply to

THE ADMIRAL LINE:

Agents.

Telephones, 2177 & 2478

5th Floor... Hotel Hamsions.

His Lordship entered judgment for the Judgment was also entered for the do fendant company, the African Co-opera tive Corporation (Limited).

THE NEUTRALIST MOVEMENT.

ALLBATIAN UNDER TRUL

Bf Order of the Board of Directors a

ASHEETON HOOPER, Secretary to FIL

A

THE HONGKONG LAND INVREMENS

& Agger Co., E General Agents for the WEST POINT BUILDING CO., LTD. Haigtong, December 14th, 1919, [145

PALACE

HOTEL. KOWLOON Henri Fuamann has been arrested at Corner of Haiphong & Hankow Roads. Jarville near Nancy. He is charged with CDT LE pangor Telkkärmen: Falsos, complicity in the Neutralle movement TWO Minule's from Perry and Railway completely renovated and refurnished is station This Hotel ha just been now up-to-date in every respect and under

leine permal

in Alsace and Lorraine Formann was

prisoner of war, and, until the Armis tice lived near Nancy whence he corres

ponded with Count Bépp, the leader of unless stal povidon of the

the Neutralist movement, who was dire fugee in Baden The Strasburg police have investigated the origin, and use of Fuzmann's mysterious sources of supply: Fuzmann has made a complete confession. and has been removed to Strasburg for trial, which is expected to produce zater Listing) revelation

Proprietor. A BILLIARD ROOMS,

ODERATE ment for Families

1. EL OXBERRY Proprietor:

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PROGRAMME

LESLIE HOLMES conducting a local philharmonic society interviewing his various medical advisers.

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and also

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