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WHAT IS CONTRABANDY
THE OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA V, THE OWNERS OF THE SS. PROMETHEUS."
THE JUDGMENT.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1904.
Kaisha and the owners of the ship Prometheus.
SHARE QUOTATIONS.
Supplied by Messrs. BENJAMIN, KELLY & Ports. Corrected to noon; later alterations given under Commercial Intelligence," page 5.
STOCKS.
ΠΑΝ ΚΑ
The remaining questions, the second and third, put to má by the Arbitrator, present no difficulty. With respect to the second ques tion, in my opinion the engagement of the Prometheus by the Osaka Shoren Kaisha for, employment in the Japanese coasting trade, that is to say, in the interport trade of Japan, was in no sense illegal. The propriety of such voyaging was never questioned by anyone until the solicitors for the owners took the point before the Arbitrator that the interport trade of Japan was a privileged one'; and 'that con. sequently it was illegal for the neutral ship Prometheus to engage therein during the Canton Insurance Office, Limited existence of hostilities. In other words, that such trad ng came by analogy within the prin
Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation
National Bank of China, Limited...
MARINE INSURANCKS
ciple of what is known as the rule of the war--China Traders' Insurance Company, Limited
Yangtze Insurance Association, Limited ...dere
FIRE INSURANCES, Chien Fhe Insurance Company, Limited Hongkong Fire Insurance Company, Limited..............
SHTING, TUG AND CARGO BOATS. China and Manila Steamship Company, Limited............. Douglas Steamship Conipary, Limites!
(Continued, from page 3.) --iew which I hold, vis, that provisions are by - the law of nations only conditional contraband, and that they were so regarded by the sign tories to the Treaty of Paris,-1856, it was urged that notwithstanding that treaty the French when engaged in hostilities against China in 1885 intended to treat as contraband all ship ments of rice destined to the open ports north of Canton. That fact, however, only amounts to this: that on that occasion France proposed to act in a manner which, had she been called:-of-1756-rendering the ship liable to be captured "upon to defend, she would have found difficulty and taken to a Russian Prize Court for ad- in justifying, in the face of the declaration judication! It is not necessary to consider North China Insurance Company, Limited under the Treaty of Paris to which she was a whether the rule of the war of 1756 is obsolete, as contended by Mr. Sharp, or not; for in my pasty. Fatuantely preliminaries' of peace were settled before any seizures were in fact opinion even if it were in full force and effect on Insurance Society of Cantan, Linsited' made by the French, and so the intended it would have no application to the facts of To have made that rule apply, the action of France cannot properly be drawn into this case. a precedent against the principle enunciated ports traded to must have been totally closed before the war to all but Japanese subjects: in Pollard 2. Bell, f is, moreover, to be le- marked in connection with this intended action and must only have been opened to others after on the part of France in 1885 that her sight to the war, and because of the pressure and neces- make provisions unconditional contraband was sity of the war due to the preponderating naval at the time denied by Great Britain. In supremacy of the belligerent enemy. In point of I'ollard. Bell, decided in 1800, a French Prize fact no such pressure and necessity has existed Contt, France then being at war with Great in this war on the part of Japan. Owing to the fortunes of war the naval forces of Japan kave Britain, and Denmark being neutral, con-
from the outset of the war gained an ascen deaned a Danish ship on the ground that she was at the tune of capture carrying a Scotch-dancy securing immunity to her ports from the man as supercargo in violation of an ordinance by which It was declared that all ships should be confiscated "wherever there shall be found un buard a supercargo, merchant, commissary, or chiel officer being an enemy." In dealing with the ground assigned by the French Court condemning the ship Chief Justice Lord Kenyon said "this is one of the numberless estions that have aris a in consequence of the extraordinary sentences of condemnation passed by the courts of Admiralty in France To a question asked during this war in the course of the argument, what are the rules on which the Courts of Admiralty profess to proceed, I answer, the law of nations, and such treaties as particular States have agreed shall be engrafted on that law. It was said by the defendant's Counsel that an ordinance has the same force as a treaty, but without stopping to enlarge on the difference between them it is sufficient to say that the one is a contract made
Hongkong, Canton & Macan Steamboat Co, Ld.
1995
LAST DIVIDEND,
(Div. of £1.10 @ exchange 1/9/19/162 16:41 for first half-year 1904.......}
NOI OF SHARES.
| VALUE,"PAID UP.
POSITION AS PER LAST REPORT.
RESERVE.
APROXIMATE INTERNAT PRELENT
CLOSING QUOTATIONS
AT WORKING ACCOUNT.
QUOTATION,
£1,000,000)
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$1,000
99.925
$125 $125
$7,000,000
$1,492,554
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$175.5332
$191,973)
$21,668
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31%
539
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$33
·81,7395
$150,494
$17 for 1903
61%
Sa50
$900,000
14,000 $83.33
$25
$151,992
Nil
$4 for year ended 30.4.1903.
04%
$31 buyers
$331,347
$322,138
10,000 £15
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Tis. 237,119
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81%
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$1,850,000
£20,000
$1,000 5250
$100.
$372,740
$1,078,997
$35 for 1903.
31 -
1665 buyers
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$700,000?
$37.2045
$196,284
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8 %
$150
$1,000.000
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8,000 $250 $sa
$125,675
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$371,110
$12 for 1902......
61-%
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$24
30,100 -$15.
$25
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-$5 for 1900.
20,00
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$80,9155
$3 for year ended 30 6.1903
6 %
$34 buyers
$250,000)
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$15.
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$600.000
$14,362
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81%
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£400,000 $60,000 $15,093
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$0.90 & b. 20 cis. Į
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71s. 521 buyers
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24/-
$40
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$400,000
-5,000.
$100 $100
$ 21,75
$33,648
$5 for 2nd year making $13 for 1903
81 %
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$ 18,000
$130,153
30,000
F.TIs. 50 T.Tis. 50
'T's, 98,000?
TI<. 865
Interim of Tis. if for 1904
10-%
Tis: 30
Tis. 201,614
20,000
7,000
$100
$100 $100 $100
none
Dr.
$147.717
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none
Dr.
$73.905
$3 for 1897
$23 sellers *$7 buyers
·Tls, bo
7,000
Tis. so Tis. 50
Tis. 100,000
Tls. 1,456
Tis. 21 for year ending 30.9.03 - 80
Tis. 61 sellers
£40,000
£7,810
No. 3 of 1/6
50.000
150,000
G $10 G. So
18/10
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£4873
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6] 2
G $16 buyers
55 buyers
$0,000
(Fcs. 251,337
Fcs.1.529.652)
Fcs. 89,706
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6,000 $25 30,000
$70,000
8 %
$50
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$50,9892
$10,517
$3.75 for 1903
$28,015
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$250,000
$50
$25,500
$505,471
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7+%
1,000 $100 $100
$60,000
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$489
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6.000
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$100 $100
$150,000
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537
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:S240 Fales
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Indo-Chinn Steam Navigation Company, Limited,, i Shanghai Tug and Lighter Company, Limited......... 100,000)
|
Do.
(Preference)
"Shell" Transport and Trading Company, Limited... 3,00,coo "Star" Ferry Company, Limited..........
Taku Tug and Lighter Company, Limited
REFINERIES.
naval force of the enemy. It is found as a fact by the Arbitrator that since time prior to 1894, that is to say for a period of ten years previous to the charter of the Prometheus foreign vessels, meaning thereby vessels other than Japanese, have been allowed 10 trade freely under treaty with certain ports ordin. arily known as Treaty l'orts, and under special Strails Steamship Company, Limited .... licence with certain other ports known as non-treaty ports, and it appears as a further fact that the Osaka Shosen Kaisha had per mission from the Japanese Gavernment before the outbreak of war to employ foreign ships in trashing to non-treaty pons. The Arbitrator adds that this privilege was extended by Japan to foreign vessels irrespective of the question of peace or war. I entirely concur in this finding, which is supported by clear documentary evidence. In my opinion, trading under the licence of one belligerent given under such circumstances does not render a neutral ship liable to capture by the other belligerent. My
by the contracting parties and that the other
answer in the second question is that the line san ex-parte ordinance made by one nation
on which the Osaka Shosen Kaisha intended only.
to which no other State is a party; and I
to employ the Prometheus was not a 'privilex Concur with Lord-Mansfield in the opinion that dis pat competent in one nation to add to theed' ene; and that, at the time when the Master of that ship refused to load provisions for a law at nations by its own arbitrary orilinances without the concurrence of other nations." voyage to Japanese parts between Kohe and Cont.auing, his Lordiskup said "let us see what Formosa, it was lawful for that neutral ship to
engage in that trade.
was the foundation of the condemnation in the Punch murts. }1
admance all ships are to be confiscated whenshever un board those ships shall be Jooad a supercargo, merchant, commissary or hef officer being an enemy, but i say they had no right by making such an ordinance to hand other nations." What was the ratio decedenti in this case: The decision was pased on the ground that the French courts hati, in accordance with a French ordinance which was opposed to international law, decid ed that a ship was liable to be condemned merely because she carried on board an officer whose nationality was that of the enemy. Such then was the view expressed by Lord Kenyan
as to the value and effect of a French ord.
Coming now to the answer to be given to the
China Sugar Refining Company, Limited. Luzon Sugar Refining Company, Limited... Peak Sugar Cultivation Company, Limited......
MINING.
Chinese Engineering and Mining Company. Ld...... 1,000,000 Oriental Consolidated Miring Company, Limited Raub Australian Gold Mining Company, Limited
Société Francaise des Charbonnages du Tonkin
DOCKS, WHARVES & GODOWNS. Geo. Fenwick & Co., Limited Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf and Godown, Co., Ld. Hongkong and Whampoa Dork Company, Ld. Howarth Fiskine, Limited New Amoy Dock Company, Limited.... Riley Hargreaves & Co., Limited.. Dn.
(Preference)...
S. C. Farnham, Boyd & Co., Limited Shanghai and Hongkew Wharf Company Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, Limited.....
LANDS, HOTELS & BUILDING. Astor House Hotel Company, Limited (Shanghai). Astor House Hotel, Limited (Tientsin) China Land and Finance Company. Limited Hongkong Hotel Company, Limited
Humphreys Estate & Finance Company. Limited Kowloon Land and Building Company, Limited. Shanghai Land Investiment Company, Limited
Tientsin Hotel des Colonies, Limited............ Tientsin Land Investment Company, Limited Wei-hai-wei Land and Building Company, Limited...
West Point Building Company, Limited
:s stated that by their third question put by the Arbitrator. It is con-Yangtsre Wharf aui Gotown Company, Limite!...
tended on behalf of the owners that whatever may be the true meaning of Contraband of War," and whatever may be the praper view to take with respect to the validity or otherwise of the Russian Declaration making provisions unconditional contraband, yet as Russia had as
Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Co., Id a fact, whether rightly or wrongly, declared pro-Hotel des Colonies Company, Limited (Shanghai) visions unconditional contraband, and as the Prometheus wou'd as a fact, rightly or wrong- ly, have been captured if found by a Russian cruiser carrying provisions, and have been taken to a Russian Prize Court for adjudica tinn, it was, in view of the exception in clause one of the charter party with respect to "arrest and restraint of Princes, Rulers, and peoples," the duty of the chatterers to refrain from load- ing on the Prometheus anything that would.or. might render such ship liable to be captured and taken in for adjudication; and that if the charterer in disregard of that alleged duty offered cargo the carriage of which would ren- der the ship liable to such restraint, it was the right and the duty of the Master to decline to receive and load, and if already loaded, to un- load such cargo. it may be conceded that where there is as a fact a risk of capture, such risk would amount to a "restraint of Princes within the exception in clause one of the charter party, whether the capture would or would not be lawfully made, ie, made in accordance with international law; but to entitle the owners of the Prometheus to the benefit of that exception, the risk apprehended must have been so direct and imminent as to render capture almost cer- tain. The cases do not go beyond this, that the Master of the Prometheus might have un- loaded as he did at Kobe had he had a reason able apprehension of his slup being captured
nance which, departing from the recognised custom of nations, decreed that a ship wight be condemned merely because she carried an officer of the nationality of the enemy. Applying the principle of that case to the present case, I say that the Russian de. aration including provisions among the hist iarticles absolutely contraband and so depart ng from the recognised custom of nations had na binding effect upon other nations, and con- sequently could not excuse the non-perform- ance of the contract under the charter pasty between the Osaka Shosen Kaisha and the owners of the s.s. Prometheus. It was con tended on behalf of the owners of the Prometheus that the term 'law'as applied to This recognised system of principles and rules known as international law is an inexact ex- pression, that there is, in other words, no such thing as international law; that there can be ne such law binding upon all nations inasmuch as there is no sanction for such law, that is to say, that there is no means by which obedience
t such law etn be imposed upon any given had attempted to sail from Kobe with the nation refusing obedience thereto.
do not
simus no cause for such apprehensions on the part of the Master. Japan had at that time secured a naval superiority which must have or should have freed the Master from any such apprehension.
COTTON MILLS. Ewo Cotton Spinning and Weaving Company, Ld... Hongkong Cotton Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing?
Company, Limited... International Cotton Manufacturing Company, Ld... Laau-kung-mow Cotton Spinning & Weaving Co., Ld. Soy Chee Cotton Spinning Company, Limited..
CIGARS AND. Tobacco Cos. Alhambra, Limited ............ Philippine Company, Limited
Shangbal-Sumatra Tobacco Company, Limited
MISCELLANEOUS. A. S. Watson & Co., Limited..... Bell's Asbestos Eastern Agency, Limited Campbell, Moore & Co., Limited..... Central Stores, Limited.
16,000 Frs. 250 Fcs, 250
50,000 $50
30,000
$25 535
2.000 TTs5TTIs, 50 6,000 Ts. 50 Tls fo
12,000 $50 $50
50,000
1,400 Tis. 50 Tis. 50 7.726 Tls. 1oo Tis, io 3.764 Tls. 25 Tis. 25
$50 12,500
125,000
75,000
10,000 Tls. 75 Tis. 75
8,000 Fls. 100 ris. 100 2,000 Tls, 500
fis. 500
T's. 900,000 Tis, 487,210? Tis. 50,913) $1,450,000 Tis. 6,000
none
Tis. 41,000
$100,000) $1,824 $20,000)
попе
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none
Tls. 54,626
none
12/6
Tis: 25,000
$150,000?
$25,000
none
Tim. 55.541
£19.555
10/- for 1903@/05/16-$5.378........
Interim of TL. 2 for 190joomab te
$47.936
Tls. 48,153 Tis. 22,895
$43,732
Tls. 1,760
$9,989
(Sto diy, and $2 bonus for 1903
{$7 dividend
Tis. 7 final-Tis, 12 for year end. 30.4.04. (Interim of Tis. 4 [nr 1904 MATERNE
First year mert minority $6 for and half year 1903
Tis, 18 for 1903......
50 cents for the year ending 31,7 04-
Interim of 3 % a/c 1898
Interim of 4% aje 1898 on 6,000 shares 4% for 1897
$125 for year ending 30 6.1900.... First year.
Interim of St.20 for 1904
(None
{Preferential of 7 per cent for 1904..
62 cents for 1903
'Tis, 6 for 1903
80 cents for 1953
$ış for year ending 31.7.1903
None.....
nəciseringen.
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Saj for year ended 30.6.1504 .....................
Tis. 655
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529 unles Tls. 150
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24 2.
$140 buyers
$11,658
$5 for fist half year 19:4
8 %
5:48 buyers
$100 $100 9,000 Tls. 25 T5. 25 150,000 $10 510
6,000 $50
$2,000 Tis. 50
5500 000 Tis. 13.986
$51,066
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Tĺ1,680
Tis, 0.87) for the year ending 31.3.1904. .....|
41%
Tis. 19 sales
$100,6072
$9,177
90 cents for 1903
7%
Sr3 sales
550cool
$30
5636
$2.60 for 1903.
*1%%
$39 sellers
ris. 50
Tis. 37,634
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7 %
Tls. 118 buyers
Tis. 34 buyers
Dr. Tis. 2,132
Interim of Tis. 3.....
7 %
Tis. [25
Tis, 335
Interim of Ts. 3 for 1994 -
Ti 12 buyers
попе
$30
nono
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5 %
$60 sellers
.
"
Tis. 50
$10
Tls. 50
none
Tls. 11,655
Tls. 4 for year
ended.
4 %
Tle. 25 sales
30.10.1903
41-%
$12 buyers
Sto
DOBE
511,862
Tis. 30,098
Tis. 88,034
'Tis. 5,658
300 $7,500
10,000
$zco
$200
$779
"TIs..15,500 Tls, 26,389
Яil
$10
$10
Fis. 20
118.20
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Tls. 1,091
Interim of TIs. 3
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8 %
50.000
$2,883
Interim of 50 cents for 1904
8,004
L161
6d. per share for 1903
I 200
$5,500
$596
$3 for 1903..................
6,000
$12
$20,000
$1,253
123
24,000
5zł
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60,000
none
Nil
2 be xxxxx
#
Tis. 204 buyers Tis. 32 sellers Tis: 150
$100
Tis, 65 buyers
$13
$100
4,000
30,000
¡ris.50
$10
Tls. 25,000
Ths. 1,947
none
$3.739
$55,000
$1,171
25,000
7,00 Tis 50 Tls. 50
none
Dr. Tis. 15,318
Tls. for 1902
71%%
4.500
$50
$112,500
$2706
$5 div. and S1) bonus for 1903,
100,000
Sio
$:50,000
532,115
$20
$186.000
$1,000
$13,104
£23,109 1
7,000
£3,000
£7,625
La div, and 2/- bonus for 1903
$10
($1,00
30,000
30,000
$5
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$1.747
ents for year e ding 34.1904
1,250
5100
$30,000
$4,783
$20 for year ending 30 11.1903 ...........................
5.000
$25
$35,000
$4844
10,000
$50
$30,000
$8,395
$10 for 1903
***
Final of 70 cts. at 50 cts, bonus making
$10
15 000
$1,500
$299
$1.40 for the year ended 30.9.04.
4%
bedere
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Sta sales
5100 sa1es
$12 sellers
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$8 sellers
Staj buyers
Tls, 75 buyers
-510
$91 sales
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$300
$245
$3r sale.
$160 buyers $15 buyers
$9 buyera
$10 buyers
$20 sales
1,000
2,500
$.00 $100
$375,000
`$13 for 1993 impioeniterus
none
$21,582
Interim uf $5!
91 % 9 %
$135 buyers
$135.buyers
19.000 Gs. 100 Gs. ICO
Tls. 334,559
(3rd quarterly of Tis. to, paid 15.9.04)
12 %
Tls, 303
Tis. 27,187
making so far Tw: 37, #/C 1904.....
$10
3,400
$803
Sa for year ended 31 10.1903
71%
$27 buyers
Final of $3 making $5 for the year ending
4,000
1,200
$50 $50
$1,000
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$55 sellers'
306.04......
'First year. „euro Vidiomgii
41113
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.8 %
5.40s 50s. 50 4.500 Tis 100
£20 7,107
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Tis. 10,747
s. 300 £20
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Tis. 3,388
interim of Tis. 6 for_1204 km
Tls 1000
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600
150 $50
6.001
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$6,000 none
$800
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$5 for year end-d 31.7.1903 Noge
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$50 Tis 205 sales
·TP. 93 sales
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--Tis. 387) buyers
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5,0 0
$5
$52
.bone
10,027
$
$344
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$7
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5
5160 sales
2,000
$100
5100
250,000
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20,000 2,941 2,000 TT 100 TTL ICO
55
$
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9,900 100 10,000 (3,000 510
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$10
$10 $10
$20,00 51.802
$:80
1$19.79
$1,043
$10
$1,099
$88
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$14 buyers
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$80,buyers
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(Founders").. (New Issue) Da. China-Horneo Company, Limited. China Flour Mill Co., Limited............. China Light and Power Company, Limited China Provident Loan & Mortgage Company, Ld....! 100,000 Dairy Farm Company, Limited ... E. L. Mondon, Linsited..... Fraser and Neave, Limited ...... teen Island Cement Company, Limited Hall & Holtz, Limited Hongkong & China Gas Company, Limited... Hongkong Electric Company, Limited Hongkong High-Level Tramways Company, Ld.... Hongkong Ice Company Limited Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Company. Ld. Hongkong Steam Waterboal Company, Limited..... Katz Bathers, Limised
There were at that time practically no Rus. sian ships available for making captures, and none had as a fact ever been made on the trade. Crawford & Cr, Limited (Shanghai) route which the Master was directed to follow. Maatschappij for Mijn, Bosch- en Landbouwex
ploitatic in Langkat....... Maynard and Company, Limited.. 5. Moutrie & Company, Linked Shanghai & Hongkong Dyeing and Cleaning Co, Ld. Shanghai Gas C∙mpany, Limited Shanghai Herse Bazaar Company, Limited Shanghai Pulp and Paper Company. Limited Shanghai Waterworks Company, Limited... Singapore Dispensa y, Limited' South China Morning Pos, Limited Steam Laundry Company, Limited
The case of the Nubel Explosive Company v. Jenkins and Company does not apply, for in that case there was, at the time that the Master refused to sail with the plaintiff's goods on board, a serious danger of their being seized and confiscated by the war ships of the bell gerent enemy then lying in and around the Port at which he landed such goods. He was therefore under such conditions justified in landing the goods and in refusing to carry
goods on board. There was, however, at the that contention. In my opinion a ime he unloaded and refused to carry provi- Luv may be established and become inter- national, that is to say, binding upon all nations, by the agreement of such nations to be bound thereby, although it may be impossible to en- force obedience therelo by any given nation party to the agreement. The resistance of nation to a law to which it bas agreed does not derogate from the authority of the law because that besistance cannot, perhaps, be overcome. Such resistance merely makes the resisting otion a breaker of the law to which it has given its adherence, but it leaves the law, to the establishment of which the resisting nation was a party, still subsisting. Could it be suc cessfully contended that because any given person or body of persons possess for the time being power to resist an established municipal Iw such law had no existence? The answer to such a contention would be that the law still existed, though it might not for the time being them. be posible to cufurce obedience to it. My In the case just quoted the Master had a rea-Straits Ice Company, I imited answer to the first question put to me by the | sonable and well-founded belief that the vessel Straits Trading Company, Limited melana atur must therefore, for the reasons I have if the sailed with the plaintiff's goods on board Tebrau Planting Company, Limited givor, be (1) that the cargo intended to be would be stopped and the goods confiscated, Tientsin Native City Waterworks Company, Ld....... lauded by the charterers on the steamship whereas in the present case the Master of the Tientsin Waterworks Company, Limiled......... Premellitus was not cogitaband of war within Promether had no and for entertaining any United Asbestos Oriental Agency, Limited............. (Founders') the meaning of the chartei' party; (2) that the such belief, and au
matter of fact did not en Watkins, Limited.........................................remgart).
**!*4*།*-8- Purinn declaration constituting provisions un certain any such belief. The special case will communal contraband was not binding upon now be emitted to the Arbitrator, who will William Powell, Limited neutrals who were no party thereto, and con' guide himself in making his award by, the sequently has no bearing upon the construction answers which I have,gire): 19 fuq question. of the charter party between the Osaka Skoren pat by him to me
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