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RANDOM REFLECTIONS.

The new motto of the Automobils Association: Sien customs curtsey to great Kings","

145 HUNGKUNG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29TH, JYXL.

substituting the Public Works Committee for a Commission," H E. the Governor, though accepting the proposal, wid he would not be surprised to learn that "the extent of the house-famine is being much. exaggerated. One or two people without houses can make as much It is hoped that" pristinat jokers will boss as biventy when trying to influence not be prompted by the inagisterial | public opinion.". Now that the matter decision in The King of the Road"as come a little closer tome, owing to the Sanitary Board belog called upon

ase to anusis themselves "by traversing the mulle of the road to Repulse Bay leisurely pace just before dinner

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gala nights.

SHIPPING COMPANY'S

LIABILITY.

FOR DUTIABLE GOODS. FALSELY DESCRIBED,

INTERESTING CASE" AT THE MAGISTRALY,

A case of interest to shipping com to pay for the accommodation of their panies was heard at the Magistracy, by em plays at Bowrington & rental site ar. G. N. Orme, yesterday, when to that which their neighbours have borac without exciting official sympathy M. Lo represented the Yurt On 8.S. His Excellency is athirst for reformi. Company in connection with a charge kind."

Mr. Lo said he thought he was entitled. to what he had asked for, if there was "an appeal it was important to know at what point the prosecution started-i-iņ case they cho ged their grounds later on, The Magistrate: I am glad to have Mr. Smith's opinion on the subject, but 1 can't accept it. All I can go on is the wording of the section.

Me. Smith; I think it will clear mat

ters up, if I say that shipping companies are not expected to open every case and that „eggy sro marked eggs and 'not marked something else. I admit that, if it is any good to

A fellow feeling makes us wondrous brought by the Superintendent of in./ Pry, into them and see

ports sad Exports relating to cigarettes on the ss. Chuen Chow, tabelled and con- signed as jus sticks

Me. N. L. Smith mid 'that five large

the other side.

Chief Revenue Offor Watt gave the

In his sermon at the Roman Catholic Cathedral Archbishop Mannix declared that The Chinese, like the Irish, are It is worthy of reinak in passing that a peace-loving nation-law-abiding by the Committee of the Council which has been appointed to advise us as to a remedy- The majority of people will probablyfr the present difficulty does not include cases enme as ordinary cargo from Macao/ number of cigarettes in the five cases as conclude from this that His Grace is a in single meniber who can be said,' by humorist-unconscious, perhaps, but none any stretch of the imagination, to re to Hongkong: "The Department bid in. 76,700 and the duty payable as several

hundreds of dollars the less entertaining on that account. Present the tenant class. The explana formation and waited for them. The It is possible, however, that he meat tim, of course, is that there ain't no cases were found to contain cigarettes, pany did not know that the packages Mr. Lo: Bupposing the shipping com=" sich person on the Council. And yet same perverse people deny the need for Constitutional Reform 1

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the Tuchans and their followers China, form really but a small minority of cute population.

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shown the uanifest as joss sticks. The sticks, what would be the proper return

to make It is not a eqniziðrum. 'Ins officers of his "Department tried to getector, What would you do if you were some information from the compradors the shipping company of the ship and others it was felt that the compradore must have katwa where. P. D. Watt. I would certaruly put the goods were going to otherwise het in the general cargo manifast, an joss could not make delivery, but ho gave no assistance, and therefore, he, as Superiu tendent, authorised the prosecution of the shipping company, as is seemed to him that their silence was tantamount to.

The Magistrate: Leit you no other a.ternative, you mean?

Mr. Smith: Yes.'

Mr. Lo: I do not admit that thus was a correct statenent of the facts, When Mr. Smith enys the Company gave no assistance he means that the Company ance. Baid they were unable to give any assist

Mr. Smith: Oh! quite. ?

fur the sake of clarity after: "four values, and it required, a public indig- that the consigcommented Mr. Lo.

heurs."*

sticku

the

Supposing afterwards, clever detrativen found them contain cigarettes and pro secuted you for not reporting to Superintendent, what would you think?. In this cas, I think they should have. thought there was something suspicious about the way the goods were shipped.

How, suspicious?" Conie on, let us know all about it. How were they ship- ped--They were shipped in Macao.

Is that suspicious-Np. but it is very suspicious that the cousigner comes down on another fuster steamer and not or the same boat that the cigarettes were on..

"Mr. Lo said that the officials of the hip denied that the Chine detectiva had been told that the consignee was com ing by aucther ship" to meet the goods. suggested that is had been true. he the detectives would have tried to follow up the scen

The Magistrate: He did follow it up.. Mr. Lo He says he didn't. The Magistrate: He didn't, through your clients.

Why, he wonders are four hours Saken as the standard! A visit to Hong kong which, by the way is not referred to unless it be embrnéed in the deals that can be burne more easily than' the shipping company carry on the prac. Part of the charterer, captain or any nativadjacent islands necessitates an aberlice of ten hours,

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The Magistrato: I can go what course is open to Mr. Smith other than

Mr. Lo: Than to prosecute

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to answer.

Regardless of the weather location you can spend a comfortable night

you use a Folding Camp Bed!

if

It enables you to sleep on the verandah, and gain the benefit of any breeze during the Hot Summer months..

By adjusting a simple frame, a mosquito net can easily be fixed, so enabling you to enjoy the sleep which nature so justly demands.

Being portable and light, it can be quickly Folded and placed away in a comer" when not in use.

Why then slumber in discomfort ? can send you one at once.

We

They only cost $18.50 complete "with Mosquito Net and Fittings.

Thin Summer Blankets $6.50 each,

Lane, Crawford & Co.

'Phone 1741.

FAMOUS WHISKIES

to

AT REDUCED. PRICES

ROYAL GEORGE-EXTRA SPECIAL LIQUEUE DUNVILLES TWO CROWN-SPECIAL SCOTCH WHITE HORSE CELLAR

Per doz.

Per bot.

$40

$3.50

40

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8.76

NAPIER, JOHNSTONE-SQUARE BUTTLE PALL MALL-GEABANTER 11 YEARS OLD

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ine idea of preventing landlords from Those who sought to divorce the unfairly explaiting the situation created Archbishop as an ecclesiastic from the by the periodical influxes of refugees Archbishop as a politician overlooked the from the adjacent provinces of China fact that such importance as the politi-by forbidding them to evict their tenants cian possessed he owed to the prelate. or in the alternative, to raise their renta-without giving six months notice Official replies, whether in the House is likely to essen some of the of Commons at Westminster or in the hardships which the poorer class Legislative Council in this Colony, seem of the community suffer. Under a custom to be somewhat lacking in candour. In which prevails, I believe in some parts reply to the question whether the only of China a tenant is free to remain in possession of his holding as long as he stationed Europea police-officer-

chpases at the rental originally fixed by -Cheung-chau is not constantly absent

from the Island in the course of his the landlord to yield him a fair return

on Thursday.en his invested capital. duty, the Government, answered in the uegative." He was only

When the at times not even "fre landlords it reminds me of the devil Government rebuke the absent

absent, you will observe. For quently

Do you think that suspicious)--I do. exp, during the months of March. denouncing sin. Up to the present they

Would you as at detective try to find Mr. Lo: J. should like to ask your Wor- April and May he was away sixteen have been content to turn a deaf ear

out why he did that?—Yes. I tried to times in all for period exceeding four to the appeals which have gone up from ship hot to have any prejudiced view

We are not expected to believe, the community for relief, and have against the Company arising out of Mend out and got no assistance from the I hope that his total absences during cheerfully pocketed their share of the Suitb's opening statement. Mr. Lo went compradore the three months specified exceeded four spoil which the rapacity of property, on to say that it was a common practice hours but did not amount to five, though, owners automatically placed at their dis- in the Hongkong and Macao trade, where

time pressed, to consign cargo with in that ease, unless the answers read our posal under the House Tax of 13 per fatter and for the cargo to be collectes by the Colonial Secretary are prepared cent. on the sum paid by the unfortunate by the Off Boy, one would expect the tenant. They actually wanted to raise at Hongkong by a man who etme pro words" un any occasion to be added their levy to 20 per cent. on the enhanced ducing the proper chop of the consignees, The shipping Company told the police nation meeting to make them think bettër

was coming to take of it. In extenuation, the Colonial Sec delivery. I think retary pleads that it has always been he would have come if the detectives had felt that the assessed tax is one which is that being so, nobody but a blithering not been gisting all round the cargo: and,

Mr. Lo submitted that there was no The ense to answer on the evidence. spread over the whole community and, idiot would have come in normal times, is a fair tax and oce

The Magistrale At whose risk doon section contemplated knowledge on the It would be other forms of taxation."

The sooner tie you have describal! They might other person, mentioned. It contemplated more helpful if we knew on how many this pernicious idea is abandoned the find themse ve it unlawful possessivolition on the part of the captain occasions, and for how many hours in better. It simply means that the higher You can hardly expect the Government report or not to report. It was for the Did the the rental, the higher the tax, and the to relax their regulations in order to prosecution to prove that the tobacco was all, the officer was absent.

imported

Mr. Lo pointed knowingly. visits of the police-launch correspond poorer the individual the heavier his facilitate your busines

The pressure

Mr. Lo remarked that the shipping out that only in the Opium Ordinanes with fifteen out of the sixteen absences burden proportionately.

[increases as

clause throwing the onus we descend in the social company might give the police a certain, was there exeerding four hours" of the acting

the defendant to prove boni-files. sub-inspector in charge of the police scale, and that is contrary to all the address: the polier might go there and.

The Magistrate said it

was up to the station 1 We are not told, and it is our accepted canons of present-day taxation. find it to be a fictitious one.

defener to prove the words were ship fuit, suppose, if we jump to wrong

But not only to the Government take

ned in the ordinary course of business- Mr. Lo suggested that there was conclusions: hence, my inquiry. Again, what are the signs by which the police advantage of inflated rentals; they are this.

evidence to the contrary but be indicated patrol launch, which passes Cheung careful when selling Crown land to get chaa daily, can be summoned, and who, the highest figure it will command, and, The Magistrate: understand you to that he would be prepared to call evi- other than the European officer stationed to guard against accidents, they fix the admit that the cigarettes were snuggle dence if the Magistrate was against him. Mr. Lo: Not at all. I understood from on his submission that there was no cake on the island, is cogniaaut of them upset price in accordance with surround-

Mr. Smith made the point that "com Finally, has any device been discovered ng values. Take, for example, the ease Mr. Smith that it is not alleged that we Bince the Tai O tragedy to ensure that of the Supreme Court site? Anybody knew that the cases contained tobacco,

of course, included its trouble shall never occur unless it who is watching the market knows that nor that we were parties to the fraud.pany.

Mr. Lo: Only those people mentioned synchronises with the arrival of the this property is sorely needed by the It is not suggested that there is any evi-player"

mercantile community and that the denen of guiny knowledge and it is ad police-launchi

Government's action in holding it up is mitted that the cargo was to all appear in the section.

Mr. Smith: I think it means the com If that is admitted Some people are said to need enhancing, to some extent, the value of nes jos sticks.

can other land in the vicinity. Yet, because do not know what I am here for at all.

by the prosecution, as I understand; I pradore surgical operation before they

The Chin Mal had the Government cannot get what they think it will be a waste of time to takers, charterers, agents and master." *EC a jöke. paragraph in its Monday's issue headed regard as their full pound of flesh, they evidence.

Seeing the Joke," but it would have refuse to part with it, though, in the The Magistrate: Is it alleged by you been more correctly entitled Obscuring meantime, the Treasury is losing the that you have complied with Section 271,

Mr. Lo: Is it suggested that anybody the Joke. It related to a paragraph interest on the money which it repre- (This provides that the owners, char extracted by "the Daily Press, from seats.

terers, agents, and master of every ship in the shipping company knew?

The Magistrate: Mr. Smith wants to Saturday's Ching foil which, in sum-

on which any tobacco is imported shal To put, it briefly, the Government is within four hours after the arrival of he sure that the shipping company takes marising the contents of the Government Gazette, solemnly stated that "according Beither better nor worse than a private such ship in the waters of the Colony a reasonable precautions.

furnish to the Superintendent a to Mr. Claxton, director of the Royal Corpuration; it. wants as much as it can Observatory, there were 31 sunget for anything, it has to sell. It is true, accurate and complete statement of rises and 31 sunsets in July." Ap. the same with all of us. Show me the all tobacco imported thereon)."

Mr. Lo: I cannot reply to that until parently the China Mail is unable to man who, if he were offered 310,000 for appreciate the humour of the paragraph a house, which he bought as an invest 1 know whether it is alleged that we which provoked the facetious comment in ment for half that sum a year or two knew that the cases contained cigarettes the Daily Press, for it most solemnly de ago, would refuse to accept it on the It is not a case for taking idence, but new owner, would be for argument as to the meaning of this clares that the comment will not prevent ground the the Editor of the Government Gazette obliged to charge the occupant a higher Section. from reprating these reports every rental in order to obtain a fair refurn The Magistrate however, decided to month!!

on his outlay? There is only one curetako evidence, and the Chief Chin for the ills from which we suffer in this Revenue Officer said that on June 15th The ship's It is tedious to dissect a joke. The direction, and that is for the Govern he investigated the matter. point of it is: Dors it need the ment to do everything that lies in their compradore told him that someone w

He said authority of our local Astronomer power to ensure that the ordinary law coming later, for the goods.

were shipped at Macro and that tha Royal for the statement that in a month of supply and demand is not allowed, by they of 31 days there were 31 sunrisea and theit contributory négligenes, to operate shipper said the company need not de al sunsets? The paragraph, be it noted, to the disadvantage of the consumer.liver on arrival but he would come to also, said that this had occurred in the Competition is the only effective check Hongkong by a faster ship, the Sui Toi month of July in what year the to soaring values. The peculine con and arrange for a sampan to be ready ALLEGED CONNIVANCE IN ILLICIT

to take delivery. But everfiguration of this Colony imposes, upon writer omitted to mention.

The Magistrate asked as, to the four sined the world has had a month of July those charged with the directing of hours grace mentioned in the section

Before Mr. G. N. Orme at the Magis-. of 31 days, the general public will take public affairs the duty of adding quoted above... it for granted that the records show in all they can to the available building Mr. Smith said that the four hours had trucy, yesterday, Mr. H. K. Woo men- that month 31 sunrises and 31 sunsets! area by means of reclamations, and by elapsed now, at any rate, and that the tioned a case in which the Kwongwing What the Director of the Observatory rendering sites accessible on both sides Company had not reported the cigaretter SS. Co., is summoned by the Superin

Joss sticks" really supplied to the Government Gazette of the island and on the peninsula. Entering them

tendent of Imports and Exports for read he tones of sunfire and sunset for each Then they should encourage building negatively, that they were not cigaretis Taiming to be used for the transporta "baving allowed their ship the ... day of next month-a most useful table operations by offering, lonos to suitable! Mr. Lo: Does Mr. Smith say that this of information. When the month of July applicants, and by extending water and section places an obligation on the ship-tion of illicit opium. He asked for a has more, or fewer than 31 sunrises and drainage to areas. which it is intended to ping company to know the contents of week's formal remand, explaining that sunsets, no doubt the observations of Mr. open up. These methods would prove every packet consigned?

the vessel was at present in Wuchow.** Claxton on the phenomenon will be well fur more fruitful of good results than The Magistrate: Mr. Smith is pot call- The Magistrate Do you give an worth a paragraph.

any schemes designed to reduce rents by ed upon to construe the section; I have undertaking that she will not carry any arreating development. Finally, it is to do that myself All that Mr. Smith more opium in the meantime

Mr. Woo Sho, cannot. The enthusiasm which the Governor's necessary to take long views, and to lay wants is that particulars of all tobacco

"Chief Preventive Officer Watt said that recent remarks on rack-renting have to-day the plans for fifteen years hence. imported should be furnished within four

hours.

he had no objection to a remand. The aroused in some quarters does not seent

It is being whispered abroad that the Mr. Lo: Does Mr. Smith say that how-facts of the caan were very simple. The to me so much a compliment to His Excellency, as a condemnation of his sum of between sixty, and seventy ever well goods may be hidden and how opium (222 tacls raw and 23 taals pre- predecessors. For some years past the thousand dollars which has been set ever innocent the shipping company may nared) was found concealed in a sparo shortage of housing accommodation aside for the erection of each of the they are to blame if any tobacco is coal bank.

It is a very im A remand until next Tuesday" was amongst all sections of the community Senior Officials' residences on the Peak imported duty free! and the consequent increase of rentals | does not include the cost of preparing portant case affecting shipping .com.

granted. has been hammered into the Government the site little item which, rumeur paire

1 Mr. C. H. Lyson said that he appeared Mr. Smith: In any offence there must

similar to Mr. Woo's. His client's vessel, the Lrongkwong, was also in

a week's remand. Wuchow at present, and he top wanted

said,

Mr. Lo: The only people are the "own-

Mr. Smith: We don't say that the managing directors knew these boxes con- tained cigarettes.

Mr. Smith: It would be a very easy way to smuggle if they were just mark ed jose sticks and it was held that the Revenue Officers had no case at all."

The Magistrate said Mr. Lo would no doubt be calling evidence that all reason- able precautions had been taken.

Mr. Lo: The Ordinance does not any

I have rot. to take any precautions.

The Magistrate said he woud adjourn the hearing in order to consider the legal points raised by Mr. Lo and the next hearing was fixed for July 5th.

STEAMSHIP COMPANIES

SUMMONED.

OPIUM TRAFFIC.

by every newspaper in the Colony with says, will be found under “road constracté either malion or wilful neglect. There for the Kwongtung 8.8. Co.-in-a-case:|

little apparent result. The agitation tion." Personally, I do not attach any culminated at the end of 1818 in the importance to this report, because the are certain suspicious, circumstances the demand by a crowded public meeting amount already allocated to the tearing method in which the cargo came on board at the Theatre Royal for the appoint of these mansions in the sky is of such and the fact that the compradore has ment of a Commission to inquire into generous proportions that it would he told us nothing. the Housing Question and the transit impossible, to exceed it on anything but problem connected with it. Nevertheroyal palaces. It might be as well, when the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock however, if the report were contradicted moved a resolution on these lines in the authoritatively.

RODERICT RANDOM. Legislative Council, eighteen months ago,

Chief Preventive Officer Watt raised no ubjection. He said the opium (468. Mr. Le wanted Mr. Smith's remarke entered on the depositions.

The Magistrate said he saw no remba, Laela raw) was concealed in the dynamo for doing that, as he might find that on house, under the casing. offence hart been committed apart from The Magistrate granted the applica

Mr. Emith's reservations.

tion.

For Coast and Ships order or not love blume-2-djecu 912" yor" (200 should be deducted from the above prices.

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