the remarks and criticisms of the Hongkong Telegraph until Mr. Fraser-Smith came forward as the champion of public morality, or until there was something to call for comment at a public meeting ?
Witness-Those questions which Mr. Fraser Smith brought forward just now all refer to his appearances at shareholders' meetings.
The Attorney-General-I do not propose to address your lordship any further on the case.
His lordship-I should like with a view to decide this case, to have all these reports, just to shew me exactly what you rely on in the newspapers in justification. They should have been read, you know,
The Attorney-General-replied that he wanted to save time, but he would read them. He then
ran over the heads of the extracts, which referred to the Salt Corner case. The first witness was
The Chief Justice-You have not given evidence about that-you cannot have that,
The Attorney-General- take it I may read it to prove justification-that what defendant has written is fair comment.
The Chief Justice-1 do not think a newspaper report is the best proof
The Attorney-Geneml-He has admitted that it is correct.
The Chief Justice-I take it that he only referred to his own evidence.
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It has never been acknowledged that news- papers have any more privilege than any indivi dual-anyone has just as much right to express his opinion freely as the newspapers, and I think; your lordship will agree with me that that is clearly laid down in Wason v. Walter and othe cases. (Mr. Fraser-Smith here quoted a lengthy
passage from the case). But the editor of this paper is ashamed to give the name of my libeller, for reasons, I repeat, that it is hardly necessary to fathom, so the slight advantage the law gives to newspaper writers does not apply in this case. This is an anonymous scribbler's attack in the dark, the stiletto bravo of the old Venetian republic, the Jack the Ripper" of the White- chapel of the present day and I am not over. stepping the bounds of license when I say this. "Comment on well-known and admitted facts
very different from comment-*
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The Chief Justice-Inm quíto willing to allow you to follow your own line of defence, but it is
unusual, and not generally allowed, to quale from
text-books.
The Emperor William, in proposing the health of the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austrin, declared that the German people and army will maintain the alliance with Austria even at the cost of war. The Emperor Joseph replied that he desired that the peoples and armies of the two Empires be united as benthers and comrader, and said that Austria was grateful for the sym pathy of Germany.
SYDNEY, August 14th. Lord Charles T. Douglas Sent, C. B., has command of the Australian 'seradeon. been appointed to succeed Admiral Fairfax in
LONDON, August 19th. Carnot presided at the Mayor's dinner, and in his speech said that the present Republic would Mayors to support the Republic. continue the policy of 1789 and appealed to the
Notion, in a letter to the Times, contends that Perth, under self Government, would dispose the paramore favorably to immigrants than Obituary: Damala, the husband of Sarah
the Imperial Government would do.
Bernhardt.
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concessionaires of the Deccan Mining Company agreeing to certain conditions, one being, the provision of £150,000 additional capital, Lord Crass had offered to concur in the approval given by the Indian Government to an extension by the Nizam to December 31st, 1896, of the right of selection by the Company of certain coal mines specified in clause 34 of the concession. reply had however yet been received. With the exception of the above, Lord Cross had declined to approve of the extension by the Nizam of any further privileges to the Company.
August, 29th. Lord Cross, replying to Lord Herschell, eulogized Lord Reay's efforts to suppress bribery in the Bombay (ivil Service, though he re- Fretted bis offering a guarantee to the officials who were witnesses in the Crawford case, His lordship said that doubtless those who offered bribes for favours should be dismissed the Service with some compensation, but the victims of extortion should be runner and added that Government had the greatest con guaranteed against prosecution. Lord Cross fidence in Lord Reay's administration.
of Lords.
The delegates from the wharfingers and dock labourers held a conference with the Dock if the labourers withdrew their demand of sixpence Directors yesterday. The directors offered that
PERTH, August 19th. There is great excitement at Roeburn in
The Council of India Bill has passed the House consequence of alluvial gold having been found about eleven miles from town. A Chinarganed to bring forward a bill for the endowment of In the House of Commons Mr. Balfour promis- accidentally picked up a nugget weighing on Catholic University in Ireland and a regular rush of the townspeople has sel in.
SYDNEY, August arst. The excitement continues to increase in the are reported. Next day almost at daylight the town was crowded with mining speculators from Melbourne and Adelaide, who are acquiring all the richest properties in the neighborhood.
LONDON, August 26th,
to ask him about the whole report. 1 do hot cate or Farm. I think your Lordship will agree / Armidale district, where fresh discoveries of gold an hour the remainder, of their demands could
Mr. Fraser-Smith-Certainly I did. The Attorney-General-I certainly intended
suppose it is necessary for me, if I am limited to the evidence specially referred to, to again read The Chief Justice-You have picked out little bits, and there was a general admission of the whole, I do not want it, but it is not fair to ask me to study the whole case-you should point it out-not throw the whole of these proceedings at my head and leave me to make the best of it. A short colloquy then took place as to what was admitted, and the Court adjourned for liffin, On the resumption of the sitting the plaintiff closed his case. In doing so,
Mr. Fraser-Smith said-In opening his case the learned counsel was good enough to say that in my, sober moments I should be very sorry for having brought this action, or words to that "effect." I do not know whether the learned counsel intended to impute that I was not usually ober, or otherwise, but I can assure the Court that I should never have thought of taking | the course I have in this suit bad I not been personally defamed in a manner which reflected injuriously on my character-not only here, but everywhere where the China Mail círcuistes; I admit that, a's a public journalist-n public writer --I hit hard; I will not for a moment attempt to deny that I call a spade a spade when I have an opportunity, and tf, by so doing, I ever lefringe the law of my country I am amenable to that law, and I have never shirked my responsibility, whatever it may have been, under that law. The learned Attorney General with, in my 'opinion, "more spirit than decency," quoting the words of the great Pitt, brought under your lordship's notice that, I had been several times before this Court on a charge of libel-that I had on one occasion, in fact, been convicted
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Mr. Fraser-Smith-I beg your pardon, my ford; if you had told me sooner I would have stopped at once. I hope you won't stand on cere- mony at all if I am going out of bounds; stop me at once--I don't want any extra privilege. The leamed Attorney-General argued that this is a qualified privilege. I am only sorry be dis not try to shew the cohesion of the connection between some remarks I happened to make at the Rope Co.'s meeting and some connection I had a long time before with an alleged Salt Syndi,
with me that legally there is no cohesion between the two things at all, Because one man does na, unlawful Act-that is assuming I have libelled the China Mail, but they have brought so evidence that I have— another is not permitted to do the same act on the same person Wrong is not to be justified, or even excused, by wrong. That has been laid down by Chief Justice Best in a very well known case, I would draw your attention to another thing, I have already read the criticism—it was a vulgar, funcalled-for, anonymous attack før: which there was no justification-not a news- paper criticism in any sense of the word. I need hardly follow the learned Attorney-Genera! through all that he said about the Salt case- he contradicted himself half-a-dozen times, and at the end I confess 1 arrived at the conclusion that he really did not know what he was talking about. He says the libel is true in substance and fict, and immediately after says that at the dinner there was a proposal to bribe the Commissioner of Customs at Canton. Now, the Commissioner of Customs at Canton had about as much to do with it as the Commissioner of Customs in New South Wales -be was never ever mentioned at the dinner. Then the Attorney-General says arranged schemes with a lot of dubious chatsc- ters. This is nonsense-airant nonsense. I was invited to dine with a number of Chinese gentlemen, and they made certain proposals to me. I never denied that the syndicate was formed for the purpose of creating what the learned counsel has called a salt corner-he can 'call it a ringifhe likes-which was a perfectly legal combination; he says it is perfectly legal to form rings and I don't dispute it. But I submit that there is not any justification for saying that I consorted with Chinese of low character for the purpose of perpetrating what was little less than a robbery on the poor of the colony, With regard to my speech at the Rope Co.'s meeting, I fuvite anyone to point out anything in remark I say no. more on that point. The it to which exception can be taken, and with that
question of damages will not be overlooked in a case like this, if your lordship is with me, although the Attorney-General has tried to argue that it is a case for merely contemptuous damages. As far as my knowledge goes 1.have heard nothing advanced in favour of that con- tention. He says it is very curious that the editor of one paper should seek to create a precedent against himself. I cannot see it. Had I been attacked as the editor of the Telegraph, forhaving written anything in my paper that was open to criticism, I should have known how to deal with it, but I am attacked in my private capacity as a cilizio, and held up as a man engaged in shady dealings, and an associate of men of bad character of robbers in fact. I do not think even an editor-thick-skinned as be may be--could possibly rest under that and retain his self-respect. The China Maildoubtless, is a widely-circulated paper; it is rend in Chion, and the Far East, England, Australia, the Cape, and so on, and as I am not un- known in those countries I think this letter, being circulated there, would lead readers to think that I had deviated from the paths of honor and virtue in which they have known me for so many years to be a close attendant and they would unjustly think so, because 1 submit there was nothing in my remarks at the Rope Co.'s meeting and nay connection with the Salt Syndicate to justify anything of the sort. Further, with regard to the ques- tion of damages, I submit that "intempérate language is direct evidence of malice, and farthermore I will say that undue publicity, even or a privileged occasion, is also direct evidence of malice. I submit that the language of this letter was very intemperate; it was a per- sonal attack-and there lies the sting,
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of criminal libel on a peripatetic performer an actor (7)-convicted in this Court, and ..sentenced to imprisonment, and had served my term. If the learned counsel' had known his business better and I cast no reflection on either his good scase, or knowledge of the law for a misdemennour. But even a felon who ex he would have known that my conviction was only
piates his offence is no longer a felon in the eyes of the Law, and certainly the learned counsel, knowing me as well as he does, should have been the last to bring forward an imputation of which to-day I stand here proud-not ashamed. But that is by the way. I should never have complained had an attack been made on me in a proper, honest, journalistic: senso. If I had written anything in my paper that was open to censure and criticism was open to it, and would have stood it, but this not journalism in any sense of the ward, I go to a meeting, as a shareholder, and ask a certain number of questions and make certain remarks, and I leave it to the world at large to decide if I said anything that was intemperate or immoderate,-- anything the most sensitive man could take offenceat anything I was not legally and morally justified in saying. What happens! Does the editor of the China Mail, the nominal defendant in this case, take up the cudgels and assail me for making those remarks? Does he assail me for Inconsistency for being a confederate of Chinese of dubious repute? for being concerned in what is really said to have been nothing less than robbery? No, your lordship, he does not, but he tells you in the witness box that he gets a letter from an outside correspondent, whose name he is ashamed to divalge for reasons I will not attempt to fatham -he tells you he has to take out a great many adjectives before he publishes it he does publish it, although he tells you in the same breath that it has been the policy of his paper to ignore the utterances of Mr. Fraser-Smith in his paper. Although in no way called upon to prove direct malice, I venture to say that I should have not the least difficulty in doing so pa bis evidence alone, and showing that the letter was actuated by malice, and malice of the worst kind. Who wrote the letter? I do not know-I should like
know.
I had no desire to sue Mr. Murray Bain, or to get his money. He compelled me to take the steps I did he did not, as an honorable and honest journalist would have done under the circumstances, give up the name of the man who, for his own interests, for his own advantage, deliberately published me, a man of whom he knew nothing, as little less than a thief, a consorter with low-class Chinese. If he had given up the name I would not have troubled Mr. Marray Bain for damages-I would have dealt in my own way malice. But Mr. Murray Bain chooses to take on with the man who libelled me out of spite and bis own shoulders-not the responsibility of bla"). own comments on my conduct, not the respons). bility of that free criticism which the Press, as shall shew you presently, is privileged to enjoy➡ though only to a very limited extent-byt ta satisfy the malignant views the malicious pro- pensities of a correspondent who has not the courage of his opinions, and shrinks from placing his name at the end of the letter. Mr. Murray Bain says be edited it, and put it in the paper and, no doubt, he was guaranteed against all proceedings it might give rise to. I have been before the Court many times, but I never went so low down as that, I did not quite gather from the remarks of the Attorney-General whether he wished to plead Justification, but I know that in point of law he could not, without at nearly ten million quarters, special plea to that effect and proper notice, and without that plea be bad no right to inquire into the truth of any statement that was published in the China Mafl. He referred to the case of Wason v. Waller, a cate with which I am pretty The owners of the coltage in which Cronin familiar, as I have had to quote it many times in was murdered have identified Burke as the man This Court,—and it struck the at the time that he | Who rented the cottage, was quoting the other way, I have the best authority on the point, and it is laid down that anyone has a right to comment upon matter of public interest and general concern, provided he does so fairly and with an honest purpose; such comments are not libellous, bowever
The Senatorial High Court found Boulanger savere in their terms, unless they are written gulity of conspiracy by a majority of 206 and of intemperately, and maliciously, Every citizen treason by a majority of 1981-001 BAK has fall freedom of spects, but he must not Coput Dillon and Rochefort baya been abuse it. This branch of the Law is of recent adjudged gulity of complicity is conspiring with growth, as all lawyers are perfectly well aware. . Boulanger,"
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I have tried my best to avoid this action, and instructed my solicitor to write a most temperate letter to the defendant. I thought it my duty to get the name of the writer, as I have materially suffered in reputation-not here only, but else: where. I feel justified in asking your lordship to do justice in this case by awarding me, not merely contemptuous damages, but substantial damages, to thew that this Court will not allow any man in the performance of his functions as a British citisen to be gratituously defamed and belled by correspondents of public newspapers who have not even the courage to sign their names.
be published in our majl issue,
The whole case, with the full judgment, will
LATE TELEGRAMS.
MELBOURNE, August jath. guests at the Theatre Royal in honor of Major The Minister for Defence entertained 3,000 General Edwardes,
LONDON, August 12th.
The Peninsular and Oriental Coy, intend ap piring to the Privy Council for a charter enabling them to reduce their capital to £1,150,000, and to convert the balance into equal portions, pres ferred and deferred stock.
The Timer estimates the British wheat crop Sacking and burning villages and sanguinary conflicts continue in Crete, The Turkish auth orities are powerless.
August '13th,
August 14th.
The French Chamber of State has decided that Boulanger is ineligible for election for the Departmental Councils General, and his twelve seats are declared vacant.
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A terrible famine is raging in the Soudan, Khartoum, and Kassala, causing the death, of thousands. Many of the inhabitants have resorted to eating the bodies of the other victims to sustain themselves.
August 26th.
General Legitine left Hayti in a French corvette and General Hippolyte has occupied Port-au-Prince. The war is ended.
The late Maldi's nephew and a thousand men Are within 30 miles of Suakim, and threalen an. attack.
Bob Abel offers to find an Englishman to box Slavin for 200 a side,
The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce favors the laying of a cable via Honolulu."
LONDON, August 26th.
The number of men who have joined the London dock strike has reached sixty thousand, and thousands of artisans of various ifades connected with the shipping industry are joining the strikers to mark their sympathy. The public also sympathise with the dissatisfied laborers, and many demands for arbitration have been made. Several Australian vessels are unloading at Plymouth. The Kaikoura and Fifeshire now in the London docks are unable to unload their cargaes of frozen meat, and it is feared they will soon be unable to maintain refrigeration. The strikers are menacing the fresh deck hands who are employed. Two hundred and fifty steamers on the Thames are waiting to unload and two steamers employed in the trade between England and Australia are detained owing to inability to take in coal.
August 27tb.
The dock strike is paralysing business. The public are largely contributing to the strikers' support, but the misery entailed is becoming orderly, artillery and cavalry are ready, fearing acute. Although the strikers generally are an attack on the docks. The lumpers, coal posters, and carmen are striking on the coal hulks. Fruit and meat are rotting in tons on the Orient. Clérka are assisting in loading the Liguria. The Peninsular and Oriental Company will unload the Rome at Southampton. The shipping trade is being diverted to Antwerp, Hamburg, and North British ports.
The New Zealand Co. steamer Ruaphua will lease Plymouth on Thursday, and the Watkaura. which was lying in the dock with a cargo of frozen mutton, has obtained a supply of coal sufficient for ten days; the loss of meat was avoided,
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arranged. The delegates refused to accept A meeting of the Tea Dealers' Association
these terms.
was held yesterday, at which it was resolved that unless, the 1ock Directors yielded to the demands of the men to-day an arrangement would be made with the wharfingers to throw open the wharves on the terms demanded. The strike among the conlbeavers has termi nated, the masters having granted the increased. joined the movement, and two thousand have pay demanded.
The London printers have already struck work.
Lord Abington is dead.
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VANCOUVER, August 19th. Another British scaling schooner has been captured in Behring's Sen by a United States cutter and the cargo seized.
COPENHAGEN, August 29th. The Tear and family arrived here to-day,
BERLIN, August 29th, of the Black Eagle on P ince George of Wales.
The Emperor William has conferred the order
LONDON, 29th August.
The naval maneuvres have ended. Admiral Baird's cruisers raided the north-east ports, but were afterwards captured by Admiral Tracey's squadron after an engagement off Whitby,
30th August,
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in which they state that they are willing to pay
The Dock Directors have issued a manifesto THE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Steainship the labourers at the rate of sixpence, an hour overtime for ordinary labour, and to replace the contract system by piece work, paying sixpence an hour and overtime eightpence. The leaders these terms. The carmen at the railway depuis of the strike declare that they will never accept at King's Cross and St. Pancras who struck will resume work, to-day,
The death is announced of Mr. C. H. Ander son, Gladstonian Member for Elgin and Nairn.
Committee appeals to workmen of all trades in A manifesto issued by the Dock Labourerst London to strike an Monday next, unless the Saturday, Another monster meeting takes demands of labourers are granted by noon on place in Hyde Park on next Sunday.
Parliament was prorogued to-day. Her Majesty Chancellor, says: My relations with all foreign in her speech, which was read by the Lord pawers are most cordial and nothing has hap pened to diminish the confident expection of an unbroken European peace. The only exception to renewal of attempts by the followers of the the tranquil course of events has been the partial Mahdi to invade the Southern frontier of Egypt. The invaders have, however, been arrested in their advance and dispersed with conspicuous skill and complete effect by the troops of the Khedive supported by a small British contingent The strikers demand the abolition of middle-under General Grenfell. The speech then men- men and require a direct engagement, laborerstions the Samoan convention and the pro at 6d..per hour for the day of 8 hours, and 8d. posed conference of the Powers at Brussels overtime; but the Directors of the dock com-to consider the slave trade and deliberate upon panies refuse to grant this.
the measures necessary to arrest and mitigate the un agreement has been arrived at with France evils arising from it. The speech then says that regarding the boundaries of the respective Coast of Africa. Her Majesty says that it has possessions of the two countries on the West afforded her much pleasure, to accept the loyal offers of several of the native Princes and Chiefs of India to shore in the military responsibilities imposed upon her subjects in British India, and defence of her Empire. Mention is then made she welcomes their co-operation in the common of the chief measures of the Session, and Her Majesty says that the extension of railways in Ireland confirms the increasing agricultural and commercial well-being which has accompanied the gradual suppression of disorder in that quarter. In conclusion Her Majesty is thankful to recognise that signs of growing prosperity are everywhere discernible.
Bums the Socialist will prevent arson, turmoil, It is reported that the influence of the Mr. or pillage.
disputing parties to refer the causes of contention The London Chamber of Commerce urges the to arbitration, fearing that permanent injury to the port will result from a prolongation of the strike.
Intimidation of new dock hands by the strikers is increasing.
The wharfingers support the demand of the laborers for the abolition ofsweating middlemen,
August 28th,
It is feared that the firemen of the Ruaphua and Liguria will strike...
9.000 of the London coal hands have struck, and trade is paralysed.
Nelson Bros. having landed 180 carcases from desist. the Fifeshire, the strikers compelled them to
per lb, by the shippers,
The New Zealand mutton has been raised 2d,
suggestion that the London Dock Trust super- The London shippers applaud Mr. Tritton's sede the deck companies. Mr. Isaacs, Mayor elect, promises to try and give effect to the sug-
tion with the dock directors.
The strikers refuse to arbitrate.
just that at the end of a session and in a thin
August 27th. The Hon. W. H. Smith says that it is hardly
House to ask for the second reading of the West Australian Enabling Bill, and it would be more
perpectful to the colonies and to the interests of
to introdues it early next session. Obituary: Lady Tryon H.M.S. Sultan, which was lately wrecked, has
been towed to Malta.
The American Government 'denies parleying with vessels in Behring Straits.
August 28th. in Galway, was fired in revenge for payment of The house of a tenant farmer named Woodford,
rent. The owner's servant was burned alive the house.
H.M.S. Calliope is recommended to be placed on the Australian station.
BRISBANE, August.28th. News from Geraldton states that a Cingalese failing to appear on a summons charging him employed at the Mourtlyan sugar plantation with indecently assaulting a country woman, was being arrested by Senior-Constable Ryan as the man was standing outside the Court House, when the constable was attacked by over 60 Cingalese who had assembled, they using sticks battens, and other missiles, O'Donoghue, the Clerk of Petty Sessions, was severely wounded on the left temple and other Europeans were also maltreated. The Police Magistrate swore in all the male population who were attracted to the scene as special constables, and they on the Cigaleae taking to fight followed them to the plantation, where the ringleaders were arrested, and the scrub and cano fields are now being searched for the others. The town is in a state, of panic,
LONDON, August 58th
Sir John Gorst, replying to a question in the House of Commons, told that in the event of the
The accounts of the English grains craps are now favourable, owing to finer weather which has lately set in,
PARIS, August 30th..
Patis to the slactors, in which he says it is A manifesto has been issued by the Comte de necessary to snatch power from the opposite faction, and urges the union of Conservatives, especially the Monarchists, and not to treat. those fighting the Government as enemies. In conclusion he says he is confident of the support of the Imperialists,
for
LONDON, August 31sh The Dock Labourers' Committee have modi
LIGHT.
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AND KOBE. (PASSING THROUGH THE INLAND SEA.) THE P. & O. 5. N. Co.'s Steamship Captain W. D. Mudie, will leave for the above 'ANCONA "
places, on FRIDY, the 27th September, at DAYLIGHT.
E. L. WOODIN, Superintendent. Hongkong, 7th September, 1889.
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NOTICE.
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contraerma, and notably in regard to payment CONSIGNEES of Cargo per Steamship
labour. The situation is therefore considered more hopeful. The Dock Directors The above Steamer having arrived, Consignees will give their decision this morning.
of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their wharfingers which the strikers had accepted side.
September 1st. The Dock Directors rejected the proposals of immediate delivery of their Goods from along. Bills of Lading for Countersignature, and to take
embodying their concessions, but have offered
Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel
strikers, and have withdrawn their manifesto, in to consider the grievances of labourers, Trades will be landed and stored at Consignees risk unions refused to join the Strike Committee of and expense. which they appealed to the workmen of all trades to strike, and have now appealed to
trades unions for Snancial aid.
The coronation of Menelck as Emperor of Abyssinia takes place at the end of September. September and...
the week before the elections, to answer the
It is stated that Boulanger will return to Paris- charges brought against him.
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MONDAY,
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Particulars of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 30th day of September, 1889, at 4.30 PM., by Older of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, of One Lot of CROWN LAND, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 999 Years.
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