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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1885.

MESSES. Adamion, Bell & Co., agents for the Canadian-Pacific Line, inform us that the steam- ship, Batavis arrived at Yokohama from Van- couver this morning, and callo at Kobe on her ❘ way to this port.

A NIW writer says that poverty in a discato; and was enabled, by making presents to Junior the worst of it is that the doctors all increase it.icials, and all that sort of thing to induce the Foochow authorities to take even what shells he had been able to get together, and even then be had to submit to a very considerable reduc- the part of the plaintiffs was undoubtedly th tion of price. The chief cause of the delay on state of insolvency in which they were then, and it was in these circumstances that Mr. Pitman undertook a der an entirely new agreement to send their shells, with his own, to Foochow for whatever price they would fetch. All shells accepted, were bought at $5.10 each, but there were 106 of the plaintiffs' lot which the authorities absolutely refused to take

- THE Jalest typhoon "appenes to be situated to the East of Formosa" says Dr. Doberck to-day Direct telegraphic communication is Incking, and the office reindeer is out, an that we can only watch and prav.

Two men were to have been executed at Kowloon. Cite to-day, but the festivity was prepared until ta-marrow or the day after. We 'shall endeavor to erect the 'P. M. G. Com. missioner's description 'of the ceremonial if our reporter gets there in time.

Mr. Pitman was then cald. He said:-1 am a general commission agent, residing in Canton, At times I have had ve y large dealings with the Chinese Government. In 1885, I had two contracts with the Foochow authorities, for the supply of eight seven inch Armstrong guns and 360 rounds of shel, The contract was made out in Mr. Alexander Levy's name, and dated November 1884. The contract was dated 17th November 1884. The guns had to come from Japan. When I entered into the contract. I knew there were only 500 shells to be got. The guns and their appurtenances were delivered in THE abolition of slavery in Brazil has introduced March or April, 1885, and accepted by the Chi

nese Government. Mr. Poranecker will be able to give the exact date. The shells I wanted from the Hip Tye Loong were for the Fonchow arsenal,

Some of these had to do with, this

the negro neoblem' into" that 'country. The organization of a caras of negró tronps by the

[Princess Imperial, who is acting as Regent, has aroused the prejudice of the whites, and anme of their newspapera speak of it in violent language.

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Mr. Pitman then, acknowledged that he had been wrong in his, previous statement. He had lost the copy of the letter, and so could not exactly recollect the names." There were ten partners in the Hip Tye Loung, of whom Wong

Wa Kee was one.

By the Court-I did what I could for Chan Ya Fal, and got him an advance.

The case was then adjourned to the following morning,

would give lip the shells to the Hip Tye Loong if one told one story and the othe another they would pay him back the heavy advance he His Lordships had to decide instan conflict of had made, together with interest on the same. evidence, the probability of art. If Chan Yu Mr. Pitman was then asked to explain his | Fai, largely interested as he was in the credit of meaning in the letter, which was so contrary to the Hip Tye Loang, had thought that the letter hir cross-examination, which was to the effect gave a false colour to the transaction he would that he xil along knew the Hip Tye Loong to be the principals, and did not treat personally with hands of a solicitor. Therefore Mr. Plihan's have quickly replied, or put the matter in the Wong Wa Ker.

account was perfectly reasonable. He offered | to get them the best price he could, by taking the shells up to Foochow About his payments on that account there ww! no doubt they had not been questioned. The only point was the payment of $1,500 to the Canton authorities, to get an extension of the contract. Anyone who knew anything about the methods of conducting business in China kuew that it was absolutely impossible to deal with the Government except by means of bribery, and therefore he submitted" that the expenditure made on the plaintiffs' account was a just one, as the 'defendant could not have go any money for them at all, otherwise. Mr. Pitman admitted the plaintiffs' claim of $1,985, but that still left's balance due to him of some filicen dollars. It had been admitted by the plaintiffs that they received an advance of $2,000, and the defendant was 'nly bound to account to them for the money he actually received, less fair and reasonable expen es. Those expenses had turned out to be more than originally estimated. The chief witness for the plaintiffs, Chan Ya Fai, was largely interested in the plaintiffs' that the counter-claim had been abandoned, and victory. In conclusion Mr. Francis mentioned asked for judgment on the claim.

On the bearing of the case being resumed this moming.

Mr. Pitman, re-called, said;-430. projectiles were made at Shanghai. They were shot, not shell. I charged the plaintiffs with $449, bribes for the authorities because we were behind time. time, when your contract was practically over The Court-How can you say you were behind before you went to the plaintiff ?"

Mr. Pitman-Yes, but it w

it was extended through my influence.

By his lordship-I produce an estimate of my contract, some of the common shell and the

expenses about the 495 shells. I can tell my rest were, under another contract. deal and minc. Storage and insurance came to

expenses over the whole of the shells-their with the manasing partner of the firm, Wong $140, but I only clineged the platatifs a round Wa Ki e said they would be made as quickly $75. I calculated it roughiv at the time. I Ild ben 1 required them in connection should have a margin of about $200, but as posible and at the rate of five or six a day. thought that after all expenses were paid, I with co tracts with the Foochow and

as a matter of fact I had to pay the Bank Swatow authorities. I told him I had a contract $188 as interest. The agreement had been, for about 3000 common shell and for 1300 of a that I should give the plaintiffs a proportion of special patern shell. I don't think I told him what I got from the Dank, I got $5.50 per shell the price was gettig from the Food advance. Ibada claim against the plaintiffs before authorities for them. I understand that the 100 they brought this action, through incurring heavy shells which I got fro. Wong Wa Ki and paid expenses on their account, but I did not try to for weit m de, not by the Hip Tye Loong,, but get it before, this action was commenced, because The greatest attention has been paid to appli- KING Humbert, of Italy has the reputation of by Wong Wa Ki. I left Hongkong for Shanghai it was begun early in 1888, I do not see that ances for ensuring purity in the Water supply, 10 secure which we have added a Condenser cap being something of a wit. His hair grew white in September 1885 and returned in January 1886. It is curious that the rough estimates should just abic of supplying us with 3,000 gallons of distilled almost of a sudden three years ago. He is a they had not been put in the lathe. There was When I left, they bad cast about 200 shells, hut

come to $2,000-it was only approximate. water a day, and are now in a position to compete in quality with the best English Makers. Durreat smoker and fruit-enter; hardly touches ao agreement that I should take delivery meat and drinks nothing but a little claret and and p for each 100 shells as they were Sweet Witers cann it be surpassed anywhere.

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turned out. While I was away in Shanghai, utmost care and cleanliness are exercised in the to, him, as they excite his nerves. When oute ma ufacture of the shells. He wrote to my assistant, Captain Broadhurst, looked after manufacture throughout.

shooting or marcuvring with troops he seems me constantly on the subj.cc. I went to the to live mostly on bread, apples and oranges.

Hip Tye Loong in the beginning of February, and found there were about four hundred finished and about a hundred unfinished. The four hundred finished were badly cast, rusty, had Air-holes in them, and were in a very inferior condition. I saw Fok Sai and told him through man named Wong, who interpreted, that I certainly should not take the shells as they were of inferior make, and also that they had taken so long to make them that the Foochow authorities wou'd not take them from me. Chan Yu Fai came to me in February or Maich and told me to help them I spoke to him of the inferiority the firm was in an insolvent condition, and asked of these shells, and that the Foochow authorities would rej ct them. He came to me repeatedly. I have had, and still have, large transactions with advance, and, if they agreed, their shells were him and it last I agreed to endeavour to get an to go along with mine to Foochow and take their chance I gave the letter with that offer into Chan Yu Fal's hand, and left for Canton that night. An advance was made by the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank on 69 shells, which included the 495 from Hip Tye Loong. The amount advanced by the Bank was $3.817. There were 197 of the shells of my own. They were good shells.

it had been shewn that instead of keeping the $2000 for his on satisfaction, he only retained $135, and handed over the rest to the plaintiffs. by the defendant to this man, Chan Yu Fal. It Then there was the letter of the 28th June, given

was clear to his lordship's mind that that letter possession at the shells, and so altered the was written by the defendat after he had got

plaintiffs' position. It did not seem to him that there was any agreement as to, agency, or any understanding whatever that the shells should bo delivered otherwise than under the original con- tract, and that was the important part of the ease. Why the defendant should have represented that he was acting as agent was not clear, but his lordship had no doubt that the plaintiffs only gave up the shells on the understanding that they were to get $2,000 on account. The contract, he found, was one of sale, and not one of agency. There was ΠΟ un- reasonable delay in making the shells they were ready two months before the defendant saw them, or made any objection to taking them. The plaintiffs made the 495 and then refused to go en unless they got paid, and when they found they could not, by book or by crock, they determined to make the best of it, and delivered them up on payment of $2000, That was clear, from the receipt Chan Ya Fai gave to Mr. Pitman" Received the sum of two thousand dollars on account of the Hip Tye Loong, to account of shells? There was no allusion to the relations of principal and carried out by the plaintiffs to the extent of 495 He found that it was n good contract of sale,

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shells, and that that they were entitled to be paid. They had got $2000. The counter-claim rested on did not take place. He therefore gave judgment for an agreement as to agency, which he had found the plaintiffs for $1,123 35. He would hear the counsel later on the subject of costs.

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at the Police Court into the causes of the fire at MR. WODEHOUSE this afternoon held an inquiry house No. 67 Hollywood Road, which occurred on the morning of the 24th instant. The circumstance of the fire commencing from the basement, added to the fact that the master of the house being away at the time of the fire, appeared rather auspicious, but from the evidence adduced it seems that the origin of the fire was accidental, and so His Worship released the premises.

THE wig question is not likely to be the burning one in Hongkong that it has been in Singapore The Acting Chief Justice this morning very thoughtfully permitted the members ofthe bar who were pleading before him to remove their head. gear, having regard to the temperature. If he will abolish the rest of the ridiculous integuments which surround' the Faculty, so as to lessen the resemblance between them and a used-up' scare- crow, he will earn additional laurels. And would his lordship kindly speak up a bit when deliver- ing judgment ? ??

1. That the Sanitary Surveyor be directed to make all inspections of drains personally and not by deputy,

$1,000.

His Lordship-How did you arrive at the

Witness-I made allowance for expensea, as 1 knew they were insolvent, and that I would get back from them. The shells were not delivered till October 1887, the delay being due to the AT the Sanitary Board meeting to-morrow, the objections of the Foochow authorities on account orders of the day will be as follows:-

of the inferiority of the shells, and the delay in 1. Mr. Francis will move,-

supplying them. The trouble between France and China was over in 1885, and the Foochow authorities after that were not so anxious for the completion of the contract. Of the 495 shells from the Hip Tye Loong. 106 were refected. There were altogether. 14.5 shells sent to Foocbow, of which 1319 were accepted, for which 1 received $6726, being at the rate of $5.10 per shell I have never been able to supply the whole number of shells 3. That the Sanitary Surveyor report to contracted for. I could not get them. It is a the Board fortnightly all work doneve y difficult thing to get Armstrong shells made by him as Sanitary Surveyor. out here. I paid $1.500 to the Canto Treasury Correspondence concerning the drainage of officials for extending the contract. It was ab o the Hill Districts and Surveyor's report futely necessary to make that payment. It is regarding the same.

the fashion in which all these matters are put through with the Chinese authorities. Deducting all necessary expenacs, I received $1.451 for the shells supplied by the plaintiffs. I advanced $1,000 to them, which sum I have since repaid to the b nk with interest.

7. That the Sanitary Surveyor when about to inspect drains give notice to the owner or to the architect of the time when he proposes to make the In- spection,

His Lordship-In making your estimate, up yesterday, did not you find that 495 shells at $5.50 each, made $2,772, and then you made your estimate of expenses at $722 so as to just leave $2 000?

Witness My actual expenses were a great deal more than that, I have inserted the $72 to make the amounts tally. I did not estimate the amount at the time. I still say that the $2,000 was not an agreed sum; I did agree to advance $2,000 to Chun Yu Fai. He knew that I was getting an advance from the Bank, and I offered to take his shells to Foochow with mine, so that he might enjoy the plaintiffs to go on making the whole 1.300 same advantages as I did. I expected the shells without making any payment. If they hnd wanted payment, I could have made it at the time I expected them to go on making 495 shells. At least I expected they would have more, although they had refused to give up the got material, but I knew they had difficulty in doing so, because of their insolvency. I had complained, before my letter, of the delay, and Captain Broadhurst had complained several times, in my absence.

By Mr. Francis-If the payment of the $1,500 to the officials had not been made, I should not not have got them to take either my shells or the plaintiffs. It the latter had not allowed me them on their hands still. I have had many to dispore of their 495 shells they would have. dealings with the Chinese Government respecting arms, and I don't think they would have taken these shells direct from the plaintiffs. When I got the advance from the Bank, I roughly calculated the probable expenses, and gave the plaintiffs a round sum. I have had no desire in this affair to do more than make the best terms both for the plaintiffs and myself. I paid them the $1,000 in October 1887, and this suit was cominenced two or three months later. I made no claim against them for expenses, as that would come in at the adjustment of the accounts between us. No accounts were demanded, although I was acting as agent. The charges incurred, were not pressed against me until the settlement of my accounts by the Foochow authorities. When I said I treated these shells as my own, I meant that I treated them identically as I did with my own.

He then referred to

July 21st.

The Grand Dowager Empress of Germany (Augusta), the widow of the late Emperor William it is reported, embraced the Roman Catholic , and grandmother of the present Emperor, has, religion, and been received into the church. The Empress Augusta is 78 years of age.

General Boulanger, Comte Dillon, and M. which they charge the French Ministers with Henri Rochefort. have issued a manifesto, in peculation.

massed at Tiflis and at Erivan, two strategic Eighty thousand Russian troops are being points on the Russo-Turkish frontier..

This movement on the part of Russia is cause ing the Porte to be uneasy

from London to Hobart, came into collision in The Lufra, barque, 672 tons, outward bound the Channel with the Bendevan. The latter vessel sank shortly after the collision. The Zafra put into Portsmouth, as she had received some slight damage

Mr. Pollock, for the plaintiffs, expressed sur- claim, but of the issue as to the sheils being prise at the abandonment not only of the counter- according to sample, which was the only issue originally raised, and asked if he need deal with that point. His lordship having replied in the negative, Mr. Pollock proceeded to deal with the question of time. His lordship would remember that it was shewn in evidence that the shells months from the making of the contract, shewing were completed by the end of December-41 that the plaintiffs were making them at the rate of at least 100 a month, or more than three a day. It was true that one of the witnesses had said they might be turned out at the rate of five n day, but it was not stated that the plaintiffs agreed to do so. Even hy the defendant's own statement, 400 were ready in February, which was some- thing like too a month, which, he submitted. was a reasonable rate. If the shells were ready for delivery then, and were up to simple, why did not Mr. Pitman say "Hand me them over at once-I am in great hurry for them"? He had admitted that he was asked for money by the plaintiffs, and it was quite reasonable for the plaintiff's, having incurred so much expense, to refuse to deliver the shells before getting paid. It was ridiculous to suppose that eleven Thousand dollars, the plaintiffs were to in a large contract like that, amounting to over carry out the work without any agreement being made as to payment by instalments. The defendant was very considerably behind time of performing his own contract; he should' with the Chinese authorities in the matter have delivered the shells in February, 1885, ledging the honor done him in the presentation During his speech at Edinburgh, in acknow. and yet he wanted to make out that the of the freedom of the city, Mr. Parnell said that plaintiffs, who only came into the matter the bad he known the books of the Loyal League following August, were to blame for the reluctance would be withheld, he would never have appeared of the Chinese authorities to take the shells, before the commission. He wanted to know when the French war scare was over. So little from whence the funds came to procure the anxious were the Chinese to take over the shells, letters about which there has been so much that the negotiations dragged on for over cightcendi cussion, and, please God, he would find out. months, and the shells were only disposed of in For should the present Government refuse the defendant's disgust, he could only obtala $5-10per without the same motive of concealment would October 1887, when, no doubt greatly to the

information be asked for, another Government shell. With regard to the allegation that the $1000 were an advance, and not a payment on account

grant it. The Lord Provost and the minority in the City Council were absent during the ceremony his fordship would remember how vague and of presenting Mr. Parell with the freedom of the ambiguous the defendant was as to the dates, city, and how reliable his memory was as to general events about that time. the improbability of the defendant's account, of the way in which Chan Ya Fai came to get his that there was nothing to connect the plaintiffs letter to the plaintiffs, and, proceeding, submitted with the advance by the Bank. It was curious, as his lordship had already pointed out, that although the defendant got $3,900 from the Bank, the plaintiffs only got $2,000 of it. In considering the credibility of the defendant, he asked his Lordship to take into consideration the extraordinary change of front he had shewn with regard to this account. On those various grounds he asked for judgment. he did not see much in it that admitted of doubt. spy, who gave sensational evidence before the His Lordship, in reviewing the case, said that. It is reported that Major Le Caron, the British It was an action to recover the balance of the price Parnell Commission, regarding the operations of of 495 shells made by the plaintiffs in pursuanceof the dynambe organisation in America, and who a contract entered into in August 1886, with the was believed to have been assassinated in con- defendant. The defence suggested was that he sequence by members of the Clan-na-gart, has was entitled to set the contract aside on two been discovered alive and well. grounds-first because the shells were not according to sample, and secondly because of the plaintiffs' unreasonable delay. It was. admitted that the plaintiffs had received $1000 an account of the contract, but the defendant said that it was not given as payment, but handed over as part of an advance which he had obtained for them, to the capacity of agent that he was not performing any part of the contract. He (the Chief Justice) The first was as to thought it remarkable that when the defendant he denied having made a contract at all, and that when the time came to plead, he pleaded that the shells were not up to sample, adding at the last moment a further plea that there was unreasonable delay. In the absence of quite willing to take it that reasonable dispatch. any mention of time in the contract, he was was imported, and with regard to the question the matter, he took it that the ordinary rule of of payment, there being no express provision on payment on delivery would hold good. The defendant suggested that the plaintiffs were liable to complete the contract before receiving payment that was to say, they were to go to an outlay of over $10,000 before they received cent. His lordship did not accept such terms, Payment was to be made from time to time, One of the witnesses much importance to the evidence as to the to his shop. I wanted him to understand that positively affirmed that that was so, bat Mr. dispatch with which the work was to be done would treat the shells as my own, and that Fitman as positively denied it. If it were so, be looked rather to the circumstances to say would not take the responsibility any other way. how was it that the plaintiffs, during the six or whether there was such unreasonable delay as I am ue if the date as the 28th of fune because nine months which followed the making of the entitled the defendant to refuse to pay for the I went to Canton the same evening.

By the Court-1 only met Chan Ya Fai by contract, made no claim for payment on account? shells, which he had admitted were of no value The following poition of the report of this accident that day. Although I was near the

His Lordship. They said they did ask for to the plaintiffs. One witness had said they case was omitted from last night's issue,"

Hip Tye Loong shop I did not leave the letter,

payment.

were finished in November, another said Decem- In speaking at Koenigsberg, General Bronsart 23 wished to give it to Chun Yu Fai who was that form, and it was not mentioned in any part

· Mr. Francis rejoined that they did not ask in ber. He saw no reason to doubt the state von Schellendorff, Minister for War in the Ger, defence, said that when the defendant entered

Mr. Francis, in opening the case for the the only one who could speak English there.

ment that they were ready, at any rate, before man Government, stated that the fears of a of the correspondence. If there had been a increased between 1883 and 1889 from 918 to into the contract with the plaintiffs, he had shells was made with Hip Tye Loong, and not having Chan Yu Fai's debt hanging over them, might not be the utmost liraff of the firm'ur custrian army has been increased by the By Mr. Pollock-The contract for the 495 distinct agreement of that sort the plaintiffs, reasonable dispatch had been exercised-it prospect that the peace of Europe would be the end of the year, and it seemed to him that European wat were unfounded. There was no several contracts with the Chinese Government with Wong Wa Kee personally. I knew from would have gone to a solicitor to compel pay capacity, but it was enough. There was no

disturbed, for supplying Armstrong guns and abell, and it Hip Tye Loong. The contract was made with enforce such a claim. If such s right had so ho need not, go into that. With regard to Mr Benzon asserts that his Australian and

the commencement that the contract was with ment. But they never intended to claim, or evidence before him as to the question of quality addition of 9,000 men, for, that this order was given, The defendant officials. was to make up the quantity of abell contracted the Canton Authorities on behalf of the Foochow existed in the contract, they would have been the other objection, he found as fact that New Zealand trip cast £65,000

justified in ref sing to go on with the work, there was no unicasonable delay in regard toAs the outcome of the murder of Dr. Cronin, was short of the number of sbells he undertook By the Court-The shells for Hip Tye Loong but they did not do so, Whatever the terms the 495 shells. There had been a great deal of Chiengo, the Cian-na-Gael has been split into to supply, and $20,000 of the contract price was

were job of one kind and 313 of another. There of the contract were, it was certain that of evidence given as to the defendant object two parties, noticed. Sopics kept back by the Chinese authorities in conse

were about 500 shells to be made by Wong Wa. in June 1886, only 495 shells were finished, ing to the delay, and it had been suggested

- July 26th, quence. Mr. Pitman left Hongkong in September with him, I think they were solid shells: Pitman had the right to repudiate the contract where the parties agreed to rescind the fist and has given rise to much popular irritation in Kee which I had contracted for, personally and he submitted that at that time Mr. that there was a second contract entered into The failure of the Sugar Bountics Convention 1885 and did not return till January 1886, leaving Mr. Pollock then put in a letter purporting to entirely on the gmund of delay certainly, for to enter into the relation of principals and agent Berlin W Captain Broadhurst here to look after the carry have been written by the defendant from Cantwelve months had elapsed since the contract Defendant said he could have paid for the shells ing out of the contract with the plaintiffs. There solicitors of the plaintiffs. The defendant the defendant would have been quite justified in that they repeatedly tried to get their money, and character throughout the island. The demand ton, dated the loth of September, 1887, to the was made. He submitted with confidence, that originally, if he had been asked. Plaintiffs said the revole in Crece han besume of a general were constant delays in getting the shells ready, recognized the letter as having been written by doing to the shells were not of the alightent that they pressed for payment, which was amp for British protection la increasing. PATIENT Frankly, now, doctor, what do yon and even the 495 which were ultimately de himself; it was to the effect that he (defendant) use to him in helping him to carry out his con ported by the defendant's evidence, Matters went think is the matter with me? Physician-livered were not completed when he returned, did not recognise the Hip Tye Loong shop as tract with the Chinese authorities. He did Frankly, my dear sir, I haven't the least idea! anthorities quence of the delay the Foochow being in any way connected with the contract, but shewn distinctly by his later to Chuis on for sometime, and then the plaintiff employed authorities refused to receive the shells. It held Wong Wa Kee personally responsible as Fal, however the latter contradicted or denied

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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, August 27, 1889.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We have had to work off a lot of old stock In this issue. To-morrow some local events of Interest will command attention.

THE agents (Messis, Jardine, Matheson & Co.) inform us that the steamship Gaw Quan Sia, from London, left Singapore yesterday for this pert.

A "GUIDE to the Churches of London" showe that the number of metropolitan 'churches have

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of

occupation, the most uniform distribution wcafib, and the minimum of pauperism.

MESSA Butterfield & Swire inform us that the Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Titan, from Liverpool, left Singapore on the afternoon of the 25th inst. for this port, and is due on the 31st.

-Lut we shall know all about it after the autopsy.

SUREME COURT.

IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.

(Before Acting Chief Justici Fielding Clarki.)

HIP TYE LOONG v. PITMAN,

Mr. Francis-That is the case for the defen- dant. Mr. Pitman, when in the witness box yes terday, mentioned the name of Mr. Poesnecker, but I learn that he has no direct personal knowledge of the transactions, but simply knew of it through correspondence. I put in the evidence of Wong Wa Ki, taken on commission.

This evidence having been read, Mr. Francis closed his case. His said that it was admitted that the contro t on which the action was brought existed between the parties, and the Hip Tye Loong undertook to manu- facture 1300 shells for Mr. Pitman, which he undertook to take delivery of, provided that they were equal to sample, as stated in the contract. With regard to the contract itself, there were two points in dispute on which evidence had been given.

his whereabouts a secret, fearing that if he were It is alleged that Le Caron, has been keeping

found he would share the fate of Dr. Cronin,

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The charge of assault brought by a new paper reporter against his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge was heard yesterday, a mandamus having been granted to compel the Baw-street police magistrate to hear the case, which bo at. first refused to do,

Hankew, Nanking or Wahu doing general whether there was any, agreement between first got a solicitor's letter in the mattery milted at Whitehall a few weeks ago, on the

Cross-examined by Mr. Pollock-When I asked Chun Yu Fai for the advances I had made. came back from Shanghal in February 1886 1 Previous to that, for a short while I was in Shanghai in general business. I used to go to businces for the Chinese Government for the parties, as to the time in which the contract some more arms. I had agreed with Chun Yu Fai personally to get the money from was to be concluded, and he submitted that that was understood in all contracts of that descrip the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. This was tion they were to be finished in a reasonable about the 26th or 7th of June, 1986. He urged time. From the evidence both of the plaintiffs me to come to the assistance of the insolvent firm, and I told him that I would treat the shells Loong could manufacture them at the rate of and defendant, it was shewn that the Hip Tye would my own if I got the money from the about five a day, at which rate the 495 could bank, They were then lying at Wanchal. The Bank would not have given me money unless the following month, whereas, in point of fact, they have been completed soon after the end of the shells were in the godown, nor would I have

were not ready until the following February, made any negociations with the Bank, unless There could hardly be any reasonable doubt, I were sure of the shells being in the godown. from Mr. Pliman's evidence, that in February I really don't know whether the shells were put only 400 were finished, the remainder having in the godown on the 25th of June or not, as I still to be put in the lathe, and that altogether was not prescut at the time. I wrote to Chun only 495 were ever finished. The second point Yu Fai about the advance, I recollect having which appeared to be in dispute was whether given him the letter on Queen's Road opposite there was any

The assault was alleged to have been com occasion of the presentation of prizes by the Princess of Wales to successful competitors at the firemen's parade, when the carriage in which her Royal Highness was seated was rushed by After hearing the evidence the bench dismissed crowd, napakagate style de the case,mundo",

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The Standard states that France has offered restore to him the temporal power, the Pope of Rome an asylum, and promised to

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to the Ordnance Store. I did not send the letter | hundred by "greement to pay for the shells and at the earliest dispatch. He did not attach offer, as ho feared that it might foment a war

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