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Juice here, and published in ou columns yesterday. It is a long and very dry judgment, carefully avoiding everything but the legal points involved, and to shew how the maxim that we have quoted applies, it is necessary to give a shot sketch of the rehu inary facts. Mr. B.D. Benjamin, who had a lile while before been.a Financial Power in Shanghai, had become involved before 1885. He had speculated largely in opiunt, but his speculations bad nay resulted as te had reason to expect they would, and circumstances seemed
im to point to foul play on the part of the oprietors of the hulk on which his opium was d. The Captain of this hulk gave Mr. jamin for a large consideration) inform- which confirmed his suspicions, and Mr fatin and Mr. Wainewright, his legal iser, the defendant in the present case, con ed together, and it was decided that Mr. inewright should go down to Hongkong with e Captain of the hulk, and get what reparation could from the head partner in the firm that nede hulk aild had perpetrated the frauds wych Me Benjamin had suffered. Before newright left Mt. Benjamin, who was tally profuse in his promises of remuner- verbally agreed to pay him for his services. a fee of Tis. 25,000 out of whatever money was recovered-there being little question that the firm would pay Benjamin's claim on them, to keep the scandal from the public. Mr. Waine. wright succeeded in recovering in one form and another-we need not go into the unsavoury details-a sumequivalentto Tls. 165,0ca, of which Tis. 45,000 was paid to him in bank-notes after he returned to Shanghai. On the day he received the notes he reduced Mr. Benjamin's previous agreement as to his remuneration to writing; and the validity of the agreement of 79th October, 1885, which Ms. Benjamin signed, was the question in the present case. In February, 1845, Mrs. Benjamín obtained a separation from her husband and an order for alimony at the rate of Tis. 150 a month, and he owed her a sum of Tis, 2,331-40 on account of this aliniony when he djed in January last. At the end of December last, when Mr. Benjamin was Mrs. Benjamin returned to him, and on the 27th of December, within a fortnight of his death, Mr. Benjamin was got to put his initials to a Jetter to Mr: Wainewright, written by his brother. in-law, Mr. Silas, and witnessed by Mr. W. B. Jamieson, in which an attempt was made to shew that Mr. Wainewright owed Mr. Benjamin Thi. 25.000 less luis charges, Strangely enough, while Mr. Mowat quotes this letter in his judg. mchiral a very important letter to the defendant it is, as it stands, he omits any reference whatever to the evidence of Dr. Lisle, Mr. Benjamin's medical adviser, that the Inster was quite incapable of transacting any business intelligently for some three weeks, at least, before his death, and therefore a week before this letter was signed. The letter itself shows that Mr. Benjamin did not provide the particulars it contains. He was abnormal memory and accuracy in figures, and he would never have passed the mistakes in this -letter; it is evident that the writer of the letter knew that Mr. Wainewright. had been paid Ths. 25,000; but he did not know-though "Mr. Benjamin did what had become of the re- mainder of the cash payment of T18. 45.000, and had to construct an account out of the air. Mr. Wainewright admitted, however, the receipt of Jls. 25,000, and Justified himself by the agreement of 19th October, 1885. Mr. Wilkinson, on behalfof Mrs. Benjamin, impugues the agreement an the ground that it was not signed by both parties, but by Mr. Benjamin, There is a maxim which says that "law is the pufiction, "of commonTMzeisse;" "as no doubt it should be. It is common sense that, as Lord
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 10.8.
The landlord was Hen released, and again he has been altreated by the same six persons who had attacked the foreigner....
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in the country about Chi-nan-fu, he saw the effects of the havoc made by the overflow: of the Yellow River water into the towns and
Another point is that of the combination of villages on the great road from Chisnan- lu to Peking. There came just at that the Governor with the head of the gentry. Before the case was ever referred to Feking, it tithe a remarkable, fall of the water, but its cause was not know until some time after in was reported that the Governor gave the gentry Peking, when, through the Chinese authorities understand, that if they semained firm, he the news of the awful deluge of water which the would support them. During the management Province of Henan was experiencing through a of the case in Feking, the Governor has con break in the river forty miles west of Klai-(@ng-fu | sulted freely with the head of the gentry, but reached us. Of course most of your readers is not see in tacnued to grant a shular favour the opposite side. Bearing on this it might have heard the outlines of the terrible catas
be well to state, that several years ago when the trophe by which it is supposed that millions were drowned ! To the observer in the spot, the present head of the gentry, was a Governor of prospect is weird and arpalling. It is true that Honan, the present Governor of Shantung was the terror: the screeches and groans of the then a small official in Henan, and was recom. drowning men, women, children, caule and hearted by the Governor of that Province for domestic animals are not now to be heard, but a promotion. Thus the favours now given are great yellow surging sea of water cutting through somewhat of a comperisation. Surety to over- 2c3 miles of country makes one realize a little come such a power needs more, strength than of what it must have been. Upon istands, you the missionaries relying on justice possess,
A third, point is the low, aftude of the see villages or parts of vllages not wholly destroyed. On the borders are the same-sights Governor towards the missionaries. When the and you can see towns partly destroyed in vastissionary who had been sent by Peking returned, numbers.
it was supposed he would be able to accomplish something. Not only he represented a mission, but he came back by the request of the Minister, and it was supposed that orders to the Governor would prepare the way for respectful consultation. When the Governor came back a few days ago, said missionary sent his cand to the Governor, but the Governor despite any action of powers in Peking, refused any interview, saying he had appointed the Taotni and another official. A card was sent to the Taotai, but nothing, has happened beyond seeing the card. It is plain that if anything is now done, the Governor himself niust now act; and if he refuses to consult and help, nothing can be done here. The affair, being great enough to go to Peking, is surely great enough for the Governor. Elis non action shows he still helping the opposition of the gentry..
The wheat sown in the mud last Autumn is amounting to nothing this Spring, and the seed, of the poor people was thrown away in the attempt to secure a crop,
It is a matter of congratulation, however, that the poppy, fields were destroyed and that the comparatively few fields of it sown this year are, amounting to nothing. The poppy was a very profitable crep before, but it is hoped that this lesson of destruction will be heeded by many of its growers. The scarcity of grain also will make the temptation to manufacture whiskey much less The milet and Barbadoes miilet and beans sown recently look as if they might become good crops this year, still it is uncertain. Although the water has retired from vast tracts of land it has left it hard and not easily made fertile. It will, however, recover in a year or two. This is a golden oppor tunity for those who would treat others as they would be treated themselves to bring relief to this terribly stricken region. No greater boon could be brought them than a pure religion from these destroyed temples and mud images dis- solved by the flood will never be erected again." The people can ill afford to spend money on re-erecting costly temples, purchasing incense paper money, making sacrifices, pilgrimages and all the other expensive matters connected with Idol worship.
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hard one, their chief difficulties being the cleat ing away of scrub, the cutting of timber for house-building purposes, and. the hollowing out of tree-fronks for canoes. To aid them in effecting these troublesome operations the only agents they possessed were fire and stone; the THEATRE halter in the shape of green-stone-chips,-ground to a smooth and, polished surface by weeks of patient friction against harder atones. By means of this rude axe, either with or without a wooden handle, a pincture would he made in the tree stem, to which incision it was customary to apply a fire stick, followed by an easier chipping way of the charred timber on another applica- tion of the stone. Firestick and stone would continue to be used, turn and turn" about, until the same result was effected as is now obtained at a fractional part of time and, labhur by means of the steel tomahawk. The introduc tion of this implement has indeed beeň a blessing to the natives, whose gardens are now," in consequence, numerous, cances plentiful and cheap, and their social condition greatly ninelernted. By a curious irony of fate, this is the weapon which the Papuan selects jo ki his white benefactor. Their daily inter-tribal murders are caused in a great measure by superstition. Their ideas about a future state. are vague and shadowy; same express an opinion that after death there is no resurrection, that the body crumbles into dust, and that is the end of it. Others again believe that a long journey is taken, sometimes by land and some- times by water, until fertile mountains or islands are reached, where they live again- In peace and plenty. As with the Chinese, it is a common custom for food to be placed near the graves of the newly dead, the usual religious, ceremonies being feasting and occasional cannibalism, Although, continues Mr. Bevan, the Papuan is in intelligence. equal to the Malay, he will be found far harder to govern. To introduce European government into the country will be a difficult task, owing no less to the disinte... A fourth point is the weak condition of the|gration of its peoples than to its ever-differing missionaries., Having taken the case to the dialects and absence ofrecognised heads. Owing to the above and other causes, the Dutch have superior authorities of Peking, officials here- purpose lo act in a cool way, and do nothing, hitherto failed to introduce any form of govern unless actually compelled. Some days ago we ment into their portion of New Guinen, being Governor to hurry up and settle the matters, and tribute to the revenue. But the Javanese, who if the property once did not harm the feng are not a ble superior to the Papuans, have been for ages more or less in contact with semi- su to have it ready at once, and if it did, to make an exchange. But to all this the officials civilized races; and their rajahs have despotic seem indifferent. As to making any compensa. powers. What the Dutch have done in Java tion for the, injuries and insults received, they the British can never do in New Guinea, unless. make light of them, thus joining the rioters instead of obstacles being put in iieir way, themselves Though over five months ago the every encouragement be given to white settlers. Minister requested that the guilly party be. By such means will the social wants of the manished, they have not been even arrested or natives be augmented, inter tribal barriers broken examined, but go marching around, glorying down, and the way paved for a. civilization full
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NOTES FROM JAPANESE PAPERS.
During 1887 there were sentenced to death by the Judicial Court of Japan 112 persons, against 166 in 1886.
A farmer, 61 years old, at Shimoyamura Akilegeri, Kumamoto Prefecture, mas altacked by cholera of a violent type on the 29th ultimḥ and died on the following day.
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Of the total value ($2,801,560) of raw silk, waste silk, and tea sold to foreign firms at Yokohama during last month, $8.40,540 repre- sented raw silk, $105,200 waste silk, and $1,850,720 tea:
burned in the cremation grounds of Tokyo was During last month, the number of bodies 82B (450 males and 38 females), of which 387 were cremated at Nipporimura, go. at Hagi Shinden, 50 at Yoyogimura, BB at Kameidomura
and 1. at Kirigayamura.
It has been decided by the Government to issue yen 10, yen c, and yes 1 'convertible notes to the value of yen 5,000,000 in the course of the present year. Instructions have been given to the Osaka Mint to strike coins to that amount before the end of the year, to form a reserve for
Thesiger remarked, an agreement should be signed by the person who is to be bound by it, asthis was; but,ir. Mowat, prefers the judgment of Mr. Justice Fry, who said in a similar case, "There must be a document which shall show alf the series of the bargain between the parties, and shew by writing the accession of both parties to these terms." This is exactly what the agree ment upset by Mr. Mowat docs. It expresses the terms of the bargain, in the very hand- writing of one of the parties, Mr. Wainewright, and is signed by the other, and it remains in Mr. Wainewrigla's custody. Is it to be supposed for a moment that if Mr. Wainewright had subse quently brought in a bill for Tls. 30,000, Mr. Benjamin could not have pleaded the agreement successfully 7 Mowat's decision on this point scems. to us to sacrifice common-sense to technicality; for, it, must be further remem-the notes. bered that, when the agreement was signed, the work was done, and the money recovered, A table recently compiled in the Japan Home and there was nothing more to bind Mr. Office shows that there are 36 cities and towns Wainewright to do. As to the champerty arguin Japan containing over 25,cos inhabitants. ment, we take the Lord Chancellor's definition There are only four cities in the Empire having that champerty is to divide the produce of a more than 100,000 inhabitants, and they are the suit," and "we should like to know if there following ever was a suit in which the lawyers ald not divide the produce ?The objection to champerty is, harit tends to the increase of litigation and partakes of the nature of wagers as to the issues of suite ; but these objections do
not apply at all in the present case. We do not
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- It is stated that the Takachiko Kan, Naniwa Kan, Fuso Kan, Tsukushi Kan, Kaimon Kan; and Tartu Kan, the first-named vessel being and lagers, Adder coins and of Rees admiral Ito, will leave about the end of this month on a visit to Nagasaki, Nafa, Amoy, Hongkong, Foochow, Shanghai, Kiukiang, Hankow, Chefoo, Taku, Newebwang, Langshan, Jlasen, Fusan, Gensan, and Vladivostock, and return in about five months. It is however not settled whether the return voyage will be made via Hokkalda The naval authorities intended some time ago to carry out some such cruise but were prevented by various circumstances, so that this will be the first visit of a Japanese squadron to foreign ports.
Some one, readinged this, may remark, "Why not give it all up ? Merely because it is a dangerous plan to relinquish the right, and let the guilty-go fer. Glaring injustice, fallir
to protect, ig bring Treaty. Lay, and superior orders, must not be, if possibly there is a remedy. If a missionary were a citizen of no,country -and-had no passport, if Treaties did not tolerate- Chistianity and its propagation then might he fold his hands and be slapped, on both checks, with never an effort to find a whip of many cords. Thus far there has been no force but that of diplomacy, Jaw, and conference, and this truly is right and safe. Affairs look gloomy for the future unless law and justice are belter, adhered to and respected.-N. C. Daily News.
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reception. of TENDERS for the OPIUM TT is hereby notified that the date for the FARMS is Postponed until THURSDAY, the
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Reviseil Conflitiang will appear in the Gazette of SATURDAY, the 23rd instant.
The date for Deposit is also extended till the 27th instant, at NOON.
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Hongkong, 20th June, 1888.
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The Dutch have done less with their posessions in New Guinea than even in Borneo or in Sumatra. They hold 150,000 square miles of the western end of the island-about one half of the whole and have held it since 1825 under a shadowy kind of authority from the Sultan of Tidore; but the whole of their trade does not probably amount to 20,000 per annum. Germany claims 63,785 square miles of the north. possessed, three years ago, of 86.360 square east end of New Guirien, and Great Britain became miles of territory she did not badly want but which was almost forced on her by the action of the Australasian colonies, which did not like the idea of having any objectionable neighbours on. the borders of the great Southern Continent. Perhaps the Australian politiqians were right in their exclusive notions; there is no telling! In his historical and geographical notes on "British New Guinea, Mr. Bevan, whose interesting book we long ago received but regret never to have had time to review so thoroughly as we could have wished, says the Papuan
called from a word
denoting race, is so the inseparable characteristics of frizzy hair-but whether this so-called hair is wool peculiar to the African races or of that substantial texture which the Jemima. of our school days used -to-be so proud of, Mr. Deyan does not say in detail, The name of New Guinea was conferred on the island by the Spanish naviga. 'tors. In 1546 from a fancied resemblance of its natives to those of their colony of Guines in Africa,, Mr. Bevan says that probably in no equal area of the world is there to be found so much tribal dissimilarity asin New Guinea-forof colour, stature, features, habits, customs, beliefs, buildings and languages, one or all vary every few miles along the coast. It is surmised that the true Papuan is only to be found in a pure state in the interior, his chief points being blackness, shortness of stature, sloping forehead depressed nose, and harsh forth of speech; also that the coast tribes are a cross between the original stock and intrusive Malays, Australians Passengers, who have paid full fare, re-embark and Polynesians. The only clothing of the men ing at San Francisco for China or Japan (0) consists of a T bandage of string or bark; while vice versa) within one year will be allowed at the women wear a grass girdle-oftin dyed discount of per cent. This allowance deis red, yellow,
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have been the first in his saner moments from Vladivostock or by way of Iki andTsushima, the knee. The extending from the waist to not apply to through fares from China and
Osaka........tuning 361,694
Nagoya............. Mar. 134,497 Yokohama is credited with 89,545 inhabitants go through all the technical points on which the Kobe with 80,446 : Hakodate with 45,477 and case is decided against Mr. Wainewright, because Nagasaki with 38,223 Inhabitants. our argument is that averyone who knows the facts, feels that a grave practical injustice has been done. For over two years Mr. Benjamin, he was at times almost starving, and had Actually to beg money from his friends, never made the slightest attempt to Impugn the agree. ment he had signed, and dever hinted that Mr. Wainewright owed him money. When be was on his deathbed, his wife and her relations whom he bad bitterly repudiated a few days before, get round him and got him to put his initials to a letter full of what he would to know to be inaccuracies; and on the strength of this letter this action is brought against Mr. Wainewright, andan strictly technical grounds he loses his case's and we are sorry to see that in Mr. Mowat's judgment on a man who- has been a faithful officer of the Court for sixteen years, there is not one word of regret that he, Judge, should be obliged to find against him on technical grounds. The whole thing was, it must be allowed," a “dirty business;"" but "hay- ing taken it
Mr. Wainewright did his beat, up at considerable loss to himself, for his client, and bis client recognised over and over again the value of his services; and we can only return to the maxim with which we began this article, if on appeal toon higher Court, and we cannot doubt that Mr. Wainewright will appeal, this Judgment is confirmed.-N. C. Daily News.
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C. H. GRACE.
„Rangkong, 1x Tanune, 1888,
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) In the settlement of the difficulties of the American missionatics with the Chinese authorities, several obstacles stand in the way, which as yet fail to be removed. One is that of glaring injustice. To illustrate this we cite one fact bearing specially on the natives. As mentioned before the landlord of the property concerned was imprisoned, notwithstanding the previous promise of the local authorities that tree dwellings, twenty to thirty feet in height *THE Steamship neither he nor the foreigner abould suffer, and from the ground. The men are expet bushmen,BALCARRES BROOK,\"_\" in spite of the oider of the Tactal to the akiul seamen, and accomplished swimmers. Captain Burgess, having arrived from the above DAVI Magistrate in the presence of the foreigner, In addition to their small dug outs for ordinary Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested “Do not annoy him.” On application of purposes, they fashion out of giant tree-stems to send in their Bills of Lading to the Unders the missionary to the Magistrate and Taotni big, sea going canoes, propelled both by paddle algaed for countersignature, and to take imme. upwards of six times-an-behalf of the and mat-sail, while both fish and wallaby, are date delivery of their Goods from alongside, Imprisonest parties, no sartsfaction was gained, angred in strong seine-neis, circiully woven from. 52 The Steamer jo berthed at RowcOON When the case was taken up by the tough fibres. No incorsiderable portion of the day and Cargo Impeding her discharge will The writer is now carrying out a long cherished United States Minister, a request for release was is spent by the men in semi-indolence reclining be at once landed and stored at. Consigaces! plan of vilting the region devastated by the made, and apparently proved successful, Oon their verandahs or whitlins away at some risk and expense and no Fire Insurance will bo- Yellow River so as to report on its condition in investigation we learn a few things. The six ornament or weapon, of which they possess a great effected the hope that the philanthropic and wise may persons, whose dämes had been given to the variety, or in adorning a smooth surface with is Optional Cargo will be forwarded, on to devise and carry out some special means of relief. Total as instigators of the assault on the carvings and sketches of animal and human lif Shanghai unless notice to the contrary be given
While in Shanghai last Aptums, the report foreigner, come forward, and prepared a deed: thut showing a much superior acne of farm to before Noox, -DAY, the 21st inst of a break in the Yellow River, aired four for the landlord, disposing of the progetty, The Australian Baures, Thanks to the introdus All claims against the Steamer thust be pre correspondent very deeply and he was almost already sold to the mistion, to the Charitable. Tion of the steel temalınwk and to the exuberant fented to the Uddersigned, on or before the 18th persuaded them to start overland for the scene: Institution supported by the gentry and officials. fectility of the soil, there is abundance of food all | inkinut or they will not be res of the devastation from some port on the Yangtze The landlord, being threatened with warvation, the year round, and few indoed are the districts River He, however, decided to go to Chofooyielded, and the new deed, was shown to the where wint is ever known." " "Ucfore the introduc and thence overland to western Shantung While Magistrate and received his mark approvpletion.
Under the above heading, the Rev. 1. Crossett writer from Hunhow to our Shanghat morning contemporary on the and inst.:-
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ASEMI-DETACHED HOUSE in Richmond 41 • Tertagee-containing. Rods, 3 Bath Rooms and Oficers
A New Stingy has just beg MoServants Quarters.
Apply to
MR, JOHIN WILLMOTT Hongkong Dispensary
lonthong, 24th April, 1888.
TO LET
THIRD FLOORS of HOUSE
ROZARIO: 888
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