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BARTH.

Born at Suifu, Szechuan, to the wife of the Rev. H. OLIN CADY, M. E. Mission, Chengtu,

a son,

MARRIAGE.

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1904.

MONETARY SITUATION IN

MIXICO, A

Mexico's great vesien ests in the silver. inines have led her in cling enclausly to the

not be denied, but surely cur own authorities, hecarling to Engl l law or the law of Hong can devise some plan whereby our shipping kong, which is he same in this instance, it can be advantaged and placed on a footing bute the property would be not to count heada

seems quite clear that the prope way to distil which will allow it to compete with foreign (cupife), but to regard the origin of the children, the stocks or stems or roots (the firpes) enterprise and have some chance of success; from which they sprang, and divide the which is not the case at present. The ship property into three equal shares as repre- silver standard, in spite of the fact that the ping trade on the Canton river owes its renting the three stirpes Of these three overwhelming preponderance of her forslun origin to British enterprise and British marriage, living at the time of his death, ought standard countries. The consequences of a equal shares the children of the testator's first financial and trade relations are with gold capital. Those who built up the business to have one. divided equally between them fuctuating and dipreciating currency upon the have never asked for assistance from our marriage, living at the time of his death, ought national development have at last, however, ibe.child or children of the testator's second Government-they would probably have to have the remaining share divided equally become so severe that there is now no public obtained nothing if they had-but they relied among them. It most be borne in mind that question more seriously agitated among a leaseholds are innovate property, and Mr classes of thinking men than that of the pro- their own pluck and perseverance Dicey accurately lays down, in his Culler posed change to a gold basis. secure success. It is admitted that Laws, the proposition that, "Generally speak there can be no question of our authoring all questions touching the validity con The isturbances caused by the currency arr, ities granting subsidies

struction, and effect of wills relating to in their general character, fthree kins. The It was stated that the executors have sold the to steamship immovables are determined by the lex sites." foreign ride, both export and import, resis

оп

to

lines; but there exist other means of handi-

capping foreign, bounty-fed enterprises, and our legislators might, in this matter, take a leaf from our neighbour's book. In French ports the harbour and light dues paid by ships of that nationality are cal- On February 9th, at H.B.M.'s Consulate, culated at the rate of four centimes per re Shanghai, and afterwards at the Cathedral,gistered ton; for foreign vessels the scale is 40 GERSHOM STEWART, of Hongkong, to JIEN centimes per ton.. From this it will be seen RIETTA ELLEN, daughter of Major W. H. Gresson (late York and Lancaster Regiment), that a foreign ship entering a French port Fernleigh, Cheltenham,

[240 pays, in light and harbour dues, ten times

DEATH.

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"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

SERVICE

THE WAR.

RUSSIAN CONSULS

LEAVING JAPAN. (From Our Oten Correspondent.)

YOKOHAMA, 8th February, 11.30 am.

The Hu-sian Consuls at Hakodate, leaseholds, but in this case I think the proce-up is stable prices, and the va uc Yokoluunt, Kohe and Nagasaki have income would have been, had the leasehold invert an altogether distorted receive instructions from Baron should be dealt with in the same way as the of the de exported or importel has risen

cut it was represented to me by the Counsel Commodities and domestic, wages. Foreign country. not been sold. I expressed my views as to the relation with the general price-level of domesticitosen to prepare to leave the construction of this will in September, 1952, for the executors that when the testator used capital entering the country finds a very the expressions as to sips and capita he unsatisfactory state of uncertainty of values if meant to use them with the meaning they invested in directions which bring the returns. acquainted with that law, having at one time would have in Poruguese law, as he was

in silver, while, if the revenues are in gold, the stand it was suggested they had a somewhat which expenses are paid brings, in the long been acting Chief Justice of Macao, and I uncler progressive depreciation of the currency in different meaning in Portuguese law from what run, an increased margin of profit. In other

the parties to obtain and lay before me the

i

At Seoul, Korea, on January 12th, HENRY more than the native craft. Would it not be they had in English law. . 1, therefore, allowed words, investments, from abroad put into the EDMUND CHARLESWORTH, of the English Church Mission to Korea, the son of Mr. W. H. Charlesworth, of Tandridge Hall, Oxted, Surrey, aged 39.

possible to adopt some similar arrangement in Hongkong, whereby our shipping would be placed on a better footing to withstand foreign competition and the revenue of the Colony thereby considerably increased

The Hongkong Celegraph France possesses niñny subsidised fires of

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evidence of experts in Portuguese law, which, am informed, is identical, in this instance, with the law of Macao, as to the meaning of the ssage in the will containing those expres fortunately, the opinions of the experts are by tions, according to the Portugue e law. Un-

so means unanimous, and most of them do | wanted to know. It now, however, seems not confine those opinions to the preci e point clear that the terms 'in stirpes' and 'in capita' in English law. Those expressions have been mean precisely the same in Portuguese law as imported from the Roman law into the English law, as well as into the law of Portugal, and of less, directly founded on Roman law. They those after European whore law is, more or were expressions famili 10 the Roman

THE DECLARATION OF WAR.

PROBABLE DATE,

general business life of the country, are ura,culated at home and abroad regard- The reports which have been cir most decided disadvantage; hose put into hoing the declaration of war are donicil. especial fields where the product is exported enjoy n large unearned increment. The third by the Tokio Jiji class of disturbance, is that caused in the scribes them as fabricatel rumours, The journal do currency itself, the volume of the circulation

in the value of the pesa in the open market. shrinking or expanding in. answer to changes

The Jiji also understands that war will be declared on Thursday next,

coronation of the first Emperor of the 11th inst., the anniversary of the

Japan.

steamers either on her own coasts or in her colonies, but the Messageries Cantonnaises is the only French steamship company drawing a subsidy of which the boats do not navigate at all in Gallie waters. The im Notwithstanding the rumours which portance of this detail should not escape our have been circulated in the Colony within Government, since it is the surest proof of the last twenty-four hours, we are in a posi- the admirable enterprise of the authorities in lawyers and their meaning is clear enough. In heavy burden of a tremendous rise in prices doubts-me delay may be expected on al

tion to state, almost pusitively, that war between Japan and Russia has not actually been declared. That the present situation is little less than a state of war there can be no doubt, but that any act of overt hostility has taken place, or a formal announce ment that either Russia or Japan will take up arms has been issued is inexact. The formal declaration which will plunge the two nations into the throes of deadly strife will not, most probably, come from Russia. A. S. WATSON & Co., it is a remarkable fact that, in all the

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Indo-fhina, who are doing their utmost to increase French inluence and trade on the Canton River. The State should do every thing in its power to assist British shipping in South China, or the day is not far off when the subsidised foreign companies will drive our own enterprises from the field.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

the agrli inst, instead of the 19tla inst. WE understand that the R. A. D. B. imend giving another dance at their rooms on the 10th inst.

THE rext Criminal Sess ons will be held on

THE Russo-Chinese Bank branches at Peking and Tientsin are reported to have consigned

sever sums of money to various places n Manchuria aggregating $2,500,000.

big struggles in which Russia has been engaged in the past, the Muscovite Gor ernment has never been the attacker. She has provoked hostilities, but she has never launched the final declaration. Our Correspondent in Yokohama informs usin a wire that Japan will send her challenge on theth inst. and there isa potent significance in this announcement to those acquaint ENTERIC fever appear to be finding a aum- ed with the importance attached by theber of victims among the European community people of Nibon to the past records of of the Colony. Out of nine cases record their country and the landmarks in their during the week ended 6th inst, eight were national history. Next Thursday, the 11th European, the one exception being of Chinese February, is the birthday of the present

nationality. reigning dynasty of Japan. On that day, two thousand five hundred and sixty- four years ago, H. I. M. Jinmu Tenro was

Two fatal cases of plague, the first of the year, are reponed as having been notified during the twenty-four hours e ded at mann to-day.

They were both Chine c, one occurring in a

matshed at Ma Cho Yuen, and the other being found near Cheng Fuk Lane.

piled in the first half of the sixth century, they are used with the same meaning as they have obvious to me that, when the testator says he now, see title 1, head 6. It s ems, therefore, wishes the property divided in stirpes el non in carita between our children of the first and wish each child to have an equal share but that second marriages, he meant thy he did not

he wished the children of his first marriage t have one share between them, the children of his second marriage anther, and the childres of his second wife's first marriage to have the remaining share between them. It was, how. ever, contended by the Counsel for the execnt, ors that he used them with a view of letting in the descendants of any of the children who

the third bank of Justinian's Institutes, com

might die before the testator; that is to say, he wished the grand children to stand in the place of their deceased parents, where such

parents came within the meaning of our chil- case of intes ary, children are allowed to stand dren of the first and second marriages. In the

and it is so hy English law and Portuguese law, in their parents' place. It was so by Rom in law

but this is not a case of intestacy, but of cou- struing a will, and it has been the law of Eng. land for the last century or mere that where is a

wires s'ould have reached us in time for [In the ordinary course of events these

of the present strain on the telegraphic service. publication in our yesterday's issue, but no press messages from the North in consequence

Mexico is extremely large in proportion to the The effects upon the foreign trade, which in internal commerce of the country, are too evid ent to need explanation in detail. Exporters the consumer of foreign goods, has felt the have amassed fortunes. The ultimate imponer,

volume of exports and imports is not, however, that which would be theoretically expected.-Ed., H.K, T.] The effect of this state of affairs upon the total

Both imports and exports show a steady and encouraging increase from year 1 year, and there is no perceptible tendency for the exports to grow faster than the imports. It is worthy Reuter's wires from London, published of note in this connection that the advantages in our issue to-day, confirm the news tele- of the European system of long mercantile graphed by our Yokohama correspondent credits are immensely enhanced by the flucand printed in our edition last evening. The wations of the currency. In dealing with a People, the value of whose money varies from month to month the offer of a remote and movable day of settlement is wel-nigh an essential. Because European jobbers are inde of our own country are inclined to be, that part finitely more lenient in this respect than those

of

the imports which consists of merchandise anicles of direct industrial consumption, but in proper comes mainly from across the Atlantic. Our position enables us to nutsell Europe in goods that must be sold through the middle, man Europe holds an impregnable position. Merchand se imports from the United States are without a doubt proportionally less than

ALARMING RUMOURS.

Ministers of the two Powers have been re- called from the respective capitals of each other, while the Russian suls have been instructed to make preparations for taking their departure from four of the princípál cities of Japan.

regarding the declaration of war are fabrica- The Tokio / asserts that the rumours tions, and that it is most probable no such step will be taken before Thursday next. Whether war will then be declared or not, in

bequest to chil'ren as a class and there are any they would be if the currency had a fixed gold view of the many alarming reports that have

value,

difficult to tell. This morning it was gained currency in the past few hours, it is

reported that the military authorities had received a communication to the effect that a body of Japanese soldiers had attacked a Russian position at Chemulao seven officers, in killed and wounded, and and were repulsed with a loss of 200 men and this afternoon a Shanghai cable declared that hostilities had actually commenced and that.

such children living at the death of the testator, place of deceased children, This was decided grandchildren are not allowed to stand in the in 18g in the case of Radcliffe v. Backley, 10 Vesey (Junior) page 195. See the judgment of the Master of the Rolls on page zor. In that case the testator left the residue of his property to the children of his four deceased brothers sister) to be equally divided among them in and deceased sister (naming the brother: and their respective parents' stead' per stirpes' and than one, and if hut one then I give the same wholly to that one." The sister had no children living at the time the will was made, and the those few cases where they find acceptation it was reported the Japanese had captured the

not per capita, share and share alike if more

has been no inconsiderable amount invested With reference to foreign capital, while there in almost every direction, there is, nevertheless, not nearly so much at command as is needed for normal expansion excepting in mining and in tropical agriculture. In the two latter fields, although of course development has by no means approached maturity, the rate of advance elsewhere. Banking capital is limited to an has been stimulated far beyond that prevailing mally consistent with Mexico's activities and amo. of much below that which would be nor prospects. Stocks and bonds sell, except in lowness indicate the general scarcity of invest in Europe, for prices which by their extreme note farth exceptional promise of or in enter

crowned first Emperor of Nihon, and the present Sovereign of the Island Empire, H. I. M. Mutsu Hito, is a direct descendant of this famous Overlord. To such as are acquainted with the supreme devotion to on Friday next at de V, R. C. rooms at money. Private enterprise

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PROMPT RETURN.

Hongkong, 8th January, 1904.

CARMICHAEL

CLARKE,

AND

AN CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND

SHIPBUILDERS, SURVEYORS AND CONTRACTORS.

REPAIRS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.

nese-a devotion which in its intensity reaches the pitch of a religious fervour-the choice of this auspicious anniversary for the opening of a struggle, on the successful results of which the future of the nation will depend, is easily explained. Certain is it that the 11th will be a red-letter day in Japan, and should the expected arrive, and the Emperor choose that date for his

FREEAR will appear for the last time in the Kowloon when all the sit-bits of his frivolities

sented. Tickets can be had at Robinson's including the "Farce electricity" will be pre- Freer will pay a visit to Canton on Thursday.

GOMES v. GOMES.

A DISPUTED WILL CASE.

JUDGMENT.

testator knew it, but she had grandchildren was a god that the grandchildren were

living at the date of the death of the testator.

it

that they could not do so, and that only the

to

st, and

tragedy of the Far East about to

rung the great

to be played. It is significant that the meteorological

which the Kowloon Observatory is supplied

Reports, page 59, the Master of the Rolls, fen 70ads; has been deprived of its anticipated observations from the Northern stations with":"

appeal to the chances of war, the enthusiasm sitting in Chambers this morning, delivered any instance. where there were children to atin, medium, due to rise or fall in the ex-daily, for the China Coast Meteorological

described.

THE RIVER TRADE.

At the recent half-yearly meeting of the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat

tion was

Russian mail steamer Mongolia, which left Shanghai on Sunday. Such action on the part sister. The Master of the Rolls, however, beld value, hard to sell unless at a sacrifice, and still present moment, and confirmatory news will parents, who were deceased children of the

attract the capital it needs. Land is low in of the Japanese appears very unlikely at the children could take, and that the children were high, and commercial loans are inadequate deny that the suspense is almost painful, or harder to raise reasonable amounts of money be anxiously awaited. Meanwhile we cannot on, especially in the rural districia. Interest is to be thrown into families they were to take in their parents' strad 'per siirpes' and not

The working funds from abroad that Mexico that indications point to the fact that the 'per capita, and that each set of children could find ample use for are kept out by the curtain is ready to be was to have an coal hare of the residue. capital also that has been in times past intro uncertainties of the currency. Much of the Ind red, in the case of The Earl of Orford v Churchill, reported in 3, Vesey and Beames duced into the country, particularly in tail.

The Chief Justice, Sir W. M. Gooderan,

years later, viz, in 1814. says:-1 never knew

return solely on account of the depreciation.

The contraction and expansion of the circu- judgment in the matter of the estate of J. B

answer the proper description, that grandchild- of his subjects can be better imagined than Gomes, deceased, A. S. Gemes v. F. A. Gomes although where there is a total want of child proportions serious enough to entail more than Register, had not been received by Dr.

ren were perm ited to share alrog with them, change value of the pro, has never reached and another.

Mr. M. W. Slade, (instructed by Mr F. Xliber construction of the word 'children'" The

ren, grandchildren have been let in under a temporary stringencies in the money market, Doberck when this afternoon's bulletin went d'Almada e Castro, appeared for plaintiff, and

The phenomenon is caused in part by the prae- Mr. E. 1. Sharp, K.C., instructed by Messrs.

words of the Wills Act, Vict, cap 26, sec 33.

tice of merchants of paying up their foreign to press. Deacon, Looker and Deacon, represented de

do not apply to gifts to a class, for the intendebts during the most favourable; period of fendants.

provide against 'apse merel, and

exchange, in part by simple speculation in THE English automobilists. intend to make s not to alter the construction to be put on t'e

excharge, and in part by the fact that there is great effort to capture the international Gordon will, See 2 Williams on Executors, page 1086.

a general all round tendency in international Bonnett trophy. The forthcoming race will be according to the exchange prospects. From Then only four constries competed, but in the all these things it follows that money flows out coming race at least six, and probably seven of the country or is held at & me in conse will be represented. The American automobl quence of the state of the silver market. The lists have not yet sent in a nomination, but h fo.ce the export movement has made money is difficult to suppose that Amarica will not be very ti at during the past four or five months, represented in an international conte t'of this and it is becoming a question how much longer kind. One of our most expert automobiliais the banks can sand the present drain upon has given orders for the construction of six their available cash surpluses. receive a fresh impeus: from the inflow of cesses and his friends anilcipate great things It is expected that the whole country will power. He has already achieved many suc elinder racing of no less than 100 hors foreign capital after the proposed reform of the from the new car Currency is carried out. The plan of the Gov

rament, so far as it has yet been published, is for the adoption of a specially modified form of the existing standard. Effort will be made to withdraw, as little silver as possible from circulation, as well as to make the financial wrench of the change as small as po sible both

circulation coinage of silver at home. This is probable that foreign exchange funds of gold for business and for the Government itself. I will be 'u ed in connection with a new limited scheme, old and well-tried in its general fea ures, seems to offer the minimum of diff born facts that must be met one of them, thar bara p.m., on 6th inst, for Victoris and- culty with respect to the two great and stub

Co., the Hon. C. W. Dickson, chairman, Francisco d'Assis Gomes and Augusto Joseph The contention on the part of the Conn-transactions of every character to time them of a more representative charger than the last.

must

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His Lordship said:-This was a summons taken out by Antonio Simplicio Gomes against and Mr. R. C. Wilcox, made important Gomes, the executors of the will of one Joao look for the stirpes among the children, and

sel for the executors is that we statements with regard to the disadvantage question as to what share of certain property in stirpes" and the surviving children were Baptista Gomes, deceased, to determine the that the grandchildren were intended to take under which that company is now working bequeathed by the testator was the said A. S. on the Canton line, owing to the heavy com-

Gomes entitled, under the said will. Mr, M.

to take "in capita," and Robinion v. Shepherd. petition of the subsidised French steamers

W. Slade appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. E.

Retition, 14 Chancery Division, p. 664 were Shirp, K.C., for the defendants. The will struction of this will. None of the children cited In my opinion that is not the true con- belonging to the Messageries Cantonnaises. was dated 20th Au.ust, 1887. The testator That the complaint is a legitimate one there died and Sep ember, 1889. Probate was grante

were to take "in capin;" they were to take in this Colony on 1st November, 1889. The intention cannot be supporte. Finally, al "in stirpes, and, therefore, he'd that the is no doubt, but, as one of the speakers original wit was made in Portuguese at Maco.th last hearing it was contended that the justly remarked, though the river is open to

The domicile of the testator was, I understand. all and competition was, until quite recently, to which I am asked to give effect re ates to

Portuguese, the passage of the contested will Portuguese words "nosso filhos" ought to have a broader interpretation than 'our children'; on equal terms, we now have steamers on certain leasehold properties in Hongkong (im

in fact, might be treated as equivalent to [45 the river running hence, built in France and ovale property, that is to say) in which he fault has been found with the translation nur issue. This is the first time that any first gave his wife interest. She died about receiving a subsidy which insures them 14th stay, 1992, and with reference to submitted to the Court more than fourteen against loss. Some idea of the important event the testator's will proceeds as follows:-

years ago, when the probate was granted, and aid which the new line receives from the wife the income of the said properties in Hong incorrect In conclusion, I may add that some "I farther determine that after the death of my do not convince me that the translation is the reasons given for extending the meaning French Government may be gathered from kong after deducting Crown rent to the local of the Portuguese experts, in giving their the following information. The authorities Government, insurance charges or repairs, be opinion, suggest that the testator has included in Indo-China pay out to the Messageries divided between the chidren of the fat and in the leaseholds bequeathed by him his wife's second marriages in stirpes et non in cupita, interest therein, and that he could only bequeath Cantonnaises, on condition that the two and this I leave to the discretion of toy execu- what belonged solely to himself. That is a boats, the Paul Beau and Charles Hardouin ors whether the e propenies should be pre question partly of fict at which I offer of the vastly important silver mining industry couver are kept running on the line, the sum of old, the proceeds shall be divided, in stirpes | 1 only mention the matter at all because I

served without being sold; but in case they are no opinion upon the present occasion, and the market for which must not be disturb d 2,250,000 francs. This subsidy is to be non in epita between our children of the wish it in he understood that the can-

more then necessary; the piper, that of the The Imperial. Germi fist and second marriages. It seems that the

immense circula ion of Mexicano far in the Kebe vi Nagasaki and spread over a term of ten years, i.e. 225,000 testator was twice married and that his second Atruction of the will is not affected by the Far last, which must be bred cut front all and may be exprcled hemp francs (£9,000) per annum. The total sub-wife was when she married him a widow, having correct, that the testator give more than sidy, . £90,000 just represents the original been previously married to one U. C.V. Figue belonged to him. What would pass by the aeginning of the work has been definitely set New York

allegation, even if it should turn out to be pissibility of tee in Mexico, intella Do The NOPAS

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