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Intimations.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY, SEPTEMBER II 1905.

HIRTHY At Kobe, Japan, on toth September, 1905, the wife of WALIER RUS ELL MCCALLUM, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, of a daughter.

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A. S. WATSON & CO., The Hongkong Celegraph

LIMITED.

WATSON'S

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VERY OLD. LIQUEUR

SCOTCH

THIS

CELEBRATED

BLEND

OF

THE FINEST

WHISKIES

IN SCOTLAND

IS CHARACTERISED BY ITS

HONGKONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1905.

SUBORDINATE OFFICIALS

SALARIES.

FINE FLAVOUR penditure, viz, the scale of salaries for sub-

AND

MELLOWNESS

[ATTAINED ONLY BY

GENUINE

tion of the affairs of the Colony. We are loth to confess that, having read through the solid column of his Excellency's remarks under this heading, we were not particularly struck by the liberality of the

QUALITY proposed new grading scheme of salaries in

AND

GREAT AGE

not three-year service. In quoting this" instance, we do not wish to be misunderstood as casting any disparagement on the present holder of the office; but cite it, as we pointed out, as one of the instances out of several others which furnishes cause for appoint ments in the Public Service being regarded with so little favour by the general body of eligible candidates who find it more to their advantage to suck employment out of the Government as soon as inducement is offered them. Thus will the Service of the Colony be almost invariably manned by new recruits who regard it only as a convenient step. pling stone for more lucrative appointments when they are given them in mercantile firms in and out of Hongkong. Unless a radical change be effected on more liberal lines we have no hope that the grading scheme on its present basis will effect any material, per manent improvement in the subordinate branches of the Government Service.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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The case in which the extradition of P. Berol, coffehouse-keeper of Saigon, whose extradition is sought by the authorities there for alleged embezzlement, was called on this morning be. fore Mr. F. A. Hazeland, but on the application of the police was remanded for one week,

THE Gaiety Stars concluded their season on substitution for the old classification scheme Saturday night before a very good "send off" which proved such a fruitful source of dis house. His Excellency the Governor was un- satisfaction to junior members of the suborile to be picient personally, but he sent

very large ptly to represent him, and the sper dinate branch of the Service, leading to the cial programme was gone through without a resignation of many good and promising bitch, and was highly applauded. young hands from the Public Service as AT 11 p.m. yesterday the fire bell and whistle soon as better prospects were held out to alarms again rang out, denoting the outbreak of another fire, this time in Wing Lok Street, them in the mercantile firms and commerNo, 133, a vemicelli shop, but here, fortunately, cial houses in the Colony. The sum total owing to the nature of the goods, stored the of the benefits expected to arise out of the new damage, in the sense of loss, was but slight. The Fire Brigade, under Chief Inspector Baker, A. S. WATSON & CO., scheme are, in the words of the Governor, that turned out and soon got to the scene, and have it provides the encouragement of annual ing a plentiful supply of water quickly had the instead of biennial increments in the upper the contests of the place there was but little classes, doubles the amount of them, and of an inflammable nature for the flatnes to feed for the sum of $15,000, but as the master could not be found the actual extent of the insurance, as well as of the damage, could not be definitely ascertained.

Per Dozen $16.50,

LIMITED,

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

ESTABLISHED A.D), 1841. Hongkong, 22nd July, 1905.

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Aames under, as on account of the character of

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A PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT.

SCHWER, AND OTHERS V. VON UFFEL.

Sir Francis T. Piggott, the Chief Justice, fount time, during the rush of business before the Supreme Court this morning, to give his decision on the issues of law submitted to him in the suit, H, Schwer and others v. W. von | Ufd.

HUSBAND 9. WIFEN

DISPUTED DEPOSIT.

IN THE HONOKÔNG TANK.

Among the many matters which engaged the attention of his Lordship, the Chief Justice at" the Supreme Court this morning was an action of some interest to depositors in local banke. was in the matter of the Code of Civil Proce dure, ch. 73, Section 529, and in the matter of an application by the Hongkong and Shanghai tanking Corporation for relief against the claims of Mrs. Augusta Carnilla Tavares made as behalf of herself and of her infant daughter,..... Julia Maria de Jesus Tavares, and against the claims of A. H. Tavares, husband of the said Mrs. A. C. Tavares,

with her. ->

His Lordship-Thai has been held in one cast as not necessary.

Mr. Pollock said it might not be hecess.ry; but he would refer to cases at a later stage, At all events, without saying that it was abso tutely a sine qua non that his wife should be communicated with it was an important point for his Lordship to bear in mind. Another point was that the deposit receipt was kept by Mr. Tarares and was never handed to his wife, while the third important point was the fact hat he had not been on good terms with his wife for some considerable time past, roughly since February, 1904.

The plaintiff was called and said it was his

the maximum salary of each class is separated upon. The place was believed to be insured doctrine was affirmed that "parties cannot by question would have to be decided by German positing the money in her name. In January,

INTERNATIONAL BANKING

CORPORATION.

Pollock B. expressly recognised the possibility intention to live in Hongkong permanently. of an agreement to give a foreign Court exciu-The sum of 16xe was deposited in the name of sive jurisdiction; and in the Court of Appeal, his wife, in the Yokohama Specie Bank, in Ja- the Master of the Rolls, in dealing with the nuary, 1903, for a period of six months. At the agreement that the agreement ousted the juris-end of that period he withdrew the money by diction of the rnglish Courts, said that the endorsing his wife's name on the deposit re contract was a German contract, and that this ceipt. He did not inform his wife about de-

1904, he transferred the money to the Hong. kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in the name of his wife. The amount then was $500. He neither informed his wife not handed her the deposit receipt. In July, 1904, he added to this sum a sum which, together with the interest, brought the deposit up 10 $6000.e did not inform his wife of this. The reason for his depositing the money in har name was that his friends should not trou- ble him for loans, he having already lent money to his friends-some $7,000 to $8,000 being outstanding at the present time. He was not living with his wife now as she went to Macao last year and refuel to return. gave her $1,000 when the left for Macau, but did not intend the amount deposited as a gift to her.

Case proceeding.

condition, which is liable to be altered: they have the right, on fulfilling the condition, so long as it is not taken away. I am of opinion that the principle which has been appealed to, if there exists in any other form than that stated by Lord Campbell, does not apply to foreigners at all; certainly not to non-resident foreigners. Mr. Sharp seemed disposed to contur in this view, but argued that the principle did apply, even between foreigners, in the Mr. E. H. Sharp, KC, instructed by Mr. H. case of a contract to be performed with W. Looker (of Messrs. Deacon, Looker and in the jansdiction. The answer to this teacan) represented the plaintifs, and Mr.is that there is no such doctrine as that the H. E. Pollock, C, instructed by Mr. fi. Courts have either exclusive or inherent juris- Hurthouse (of Messrs. Dennys and Bowley) diction over contracts to be performed within appeared for the defendant.

the jurisdiction. There is a procedure for His Lordship said The judgment 1 am effecting service of a writ on absent defendants, Sir Matthew Nathan's address to the

about to give is based entirely on the clause of and sometimes it applies because a contract, the agreement, which provides that all disputes the subject matter of the action, is to be per- Legislative Council on Thursday, when

arising under it are to be referred to the ex-formed within the jurisdiction. But this can Mr. H. E. Pollock, K ̊C., instructed by Mr. Introducing the Estimates, for next year, is

clusive jurisdiction of the German Court. But not be said to be a fundamental rule of law. F. X d'Almada Castro, appeared on behalf in view of possible future proceeding, it seems The exercise of this assumed jurisdiction has of Mr. A. H. Tavares, and said the question, admitted on all hands to be one of the most

to me convenient that I should first deal briefly for many years been subject to variation was whether a certain sum of the money do. comprehensive speeches that was delivered

with the other point of law raised on this issue, depending on the view of expediency prevail. posited in the Hongkong and Shanghai Hark- It is clear from the affidavit of Mr. Schwer fileding at the time: now of Parliament, now of the

ing Corporation should be decreed by his at the legislative board for many a long day.

on the 6th of this month, that complaints are | Rüle Committee. Prior to 185 it hardly Lordship to be property of the husband or of intended to be made against the defendant in existed at all. By the Common" Law Proce- By those who have carefully perused this

the wife, the defendant in the issue. The most important gubernatorial statement, it

respect of his conduct of the partnership which dare Act it was allowed when the cause of action circumstances of the case wers that in 1903 wele not inclu.ed in the action brought in the arose within the jurisdiction or when a contract Mr. Tavares deposited a sum of money in the WHISKY. is unanimously agreed that within the year

German Courts: in other words, that new was made within the jurisdiction; and then Yokohama Specie Bank in the name of his wife, grounds for the relief prayed-dissolution of arose the well-known discussion as to what and for some reason or another, about the and a half of his government of the Colony,

the partnership-are to be put forward. While cause of action" meant when applied to con-

end of last year he withdrew it with the interest His Excellency has acquired a better insight

therefore it is clear that in respect of those tracts, In 1875 one set of rules was issued: which had accrued thereon. Counsel under- into the details of the various departments

matters which have already been adjudicated in 1883 another: and there may be ahers in stand that the way in which he got it out was upon in Germany, and in respect of which this the future. And the rales vary in every simply by writing his wife's name on the back of administration than most of his predeces-

refiel has been refused, the matter is res judi Colony. It is therefore impossible to say that it

of the deposit receipt. It appears, said Mr. sors had done during their whole period of A NUMBER of European seamen were up becata, yet a different foundation to the claim for is a recognised principle of law that the Courts Pollock, that Mr. Tavares is a gentleman who fore the Magistrates this morning to answer to relief is intended to be advanced; and on the of any country have jurisdiction over contracts does not want everyone to know his affairs, office. We were pleased, at first glance, to charges of being drink, disorderly, incapable, authority of Henderson v. Henderson, I think to be performed within the jurisdiction, and did not desire that everyone should know observe that Sir Matthew touched upon one and refusing to pay ricksha hire after using that such a suit in Hongkong is not birred by My view that an agreement to submit disputes who had the money in the bank, and being a the vehicles. Fines varying from $1 to $5 were the judgment in the German proceedings. In to the exclusive jurisdiction of a foreign tri-suspicious man ha endorsed the receipt in the point with regard to the estimates for ex

inflicted.

such suit, however, the evidence as to acts door bunal will be enforced by the English Courts to name of his wife, The money he took out he before the trial in Germany which might with the ousting of their own farisdiction in spite of re-deposited in the Hongkong and Shanghai ordinate officers in the service of the CHINESE Constable Chau Sing, No. 36, of No. reasonable diligence have been brought for the doctrine of Scott v. Avery, is supported by Bank and, following his previous tactics, he 7 Station, was charged before Mr. F. A. ward in support of the foundation for the inference from certain of the cases quoted in again deposited it in his wife's name. On the Government, which have a very direct and Hazeland this morning with the theft of a relief prayed for in Germany, could not be ad the argument before me. In the "Australian sih July 1904, the deposit note was renewed, by no means unimportant bearing upon the gold-mounted bangle valued at $11, the produced. It would have been a question at the Lloyd Companyv. Gresham Assurance Society." and according to the form of receipt read by. smooth and successful internal administra.perty of Li Sin Shan, of 29 Belchers Street. trial what these acis ivere, and whether or not there was a simple agreement to submit di· | Counsel, and dated 5th January last, $6,000 The case was remanded for one week, they could have been adduced in Germany if putes to the Courts of Budapest. it was not was deposited in tha. Hank with interest at the they had been discovered after the commence exclusive as in the present case. There was no rale of 38 per cent, per annum. There was an ment of the proceedings and belare judgment. reference to the doctrine of Scott v. Avery, nor important point in the case. At the time the Further, although it might not have been even to Thompson v. Charnock, the case cited plaintiff deposited the monies he did not-as necessary to amend the Statement of Claim, with doubtful approval by Lord Campbell I Counsel submitted he would have done, if he was simply treated as eng of interpretation of intended them as gifts to his wife-communicata yet it is so drawn that on the face of it. there appears to be a prima facie case the words used. Romer L. J. sajul "the ques et res judicata, is not till the last tion is this: does the condition merely mean moment thal the new Kunds

are that if one of the parties to the contract is sued brought forward, and the continuance of the by the other in the Court of Budapest, he will suit could only have been allowed subject to not take any objection to its jurisdiction; or terms as to the costs of this motion. I now does it mean that the parties mutually agree proceed to deal with the exclusive jurisdiction that if any dispute arise under the contract, it clause the plaintiffs and the defendant shall be determined by the Court in Budapest smered into a partnership agreement in Ger Having regar to the nature of the contract and many, one clause of which provided that all its language, I am of opinion that the latter disputes concerning the partnership should be construction is the conect one." A similar submitted exclusively to the jurisdiction of the point arose in Haerter v. Hanover Caout Hamburg Court. If words are to be given chouc Co. (o Times L. R.). The case- their ordinary meaning, this must mean that is much cumbered with questions of pro- all actions in respect of partnership disputes cedure; but the following points are to are to be brought in Hamburg and not else be noticed that in the Court below where. It is said that in spite of this clause this action may be maintained in Hong kons I will deal presently with the fact that the partnership agreement was to be in part performed in this Colony. Now the authority for this proposition is said to be Scott v. Avory (5 H... Ca, 811), in which the

contract oust the Courts of their jurisdiction":

law. The agreement before me in this case is a which might be put in the cruder form that if little complicated by reference to submission to two persons agree for good consideration notarbitation, with consequent reference to the to use in respect of a given matter, yet they Arbitration rules of our Code of Civil Procedure. can sue. It was in fact thus stated by Alderson The special point raised being that by rule 541 11--"any agreement which is to prevent the power is given to the Court to stay legal pro suffering party from coming into a Court of ceedings where there is a submission to crbi law cannot be supported The principle tration: and that therefore the defendant's pro:

much thus baldly stated needs

Excedure in raising the point in his pleadings and amination, with respect, more than it moving to have it tried as paint of law was received by the Judges and the Lords in

wrong. Law v. Garrett (L.R. 8 Ct. 26) un- At the Supreme Court this morning, before the case except Lord Campbell. There are doubtedly, warrants the proposition that an the Chief Justice, Sir Francis T. Piggott, the however certain sentences in the opinions and agreement such as the one now under con- suit, In Ku Uo 2. Wong Ki Hang and Wongjodements which throw some light on the sideration dres come within the law on to sub. Ki Leung, was called on, Mr. H. E. Pollock, meaning of the doctrine. Coleridge I said: missions to arbitration. "Since the passing of .C., representing the plaintiff, the defendants "If two parties enter into a contract, for the the Common Law Procedure Act, 11, if being unrepresented and not present in Court, breach of which in any particular an action parties choose to determine for themselves that Mr. Pollock explained that this was a matterfies, they cannot make it a binding term that they will have a form of their own selection in. in which the plaintiff was compradore to the in such event no action shall he maintainable, stead of resorting to the ordinary Courts, a International Banking Corporation and as such but that the only remedy shall be by reference prima facie duty is cast upon the Courts to act was bound to indemnify the bank against any to arbitration. Whether this rests on a satis-

upon such arrangement. The same rule now defaults or deficiencies which were due to any factory principle may well be gestioned; but applies under the Arbitration Act, and the customers of the bank who were introduced by it cannot be disturbed. The Courts will set same principal was acted on in the Australian him as compradure. Amongst the customers enforce or sanction an agreement which depri- Lloyds case already referred to. It is im who were so introduced were the defendants, ves the subject of that recourse to their juris-portant to bear in mind exactly how this

Macao, toth September, 1905. Wong Ki Hang and Wong Ki Leung, who had diction, which has been considered a right ina. question arises. It is proper to raise thes been carrying on business for some years in lienable even by the concurrent will of the par- question of res udicata by defence, the

At twenty-five minutes past one o'clock in Hongkong under the style of the Wai Wo lies. But nothing prevents parties from ascer question being tried like that of lis alibi pen- bank, at 77, Queen's Road Central-an insti-aining and constituting as they please the dens by issue of law; but as I have already said the afternoon yesterday a sharp shock of earth- tution that failed either early this year or at cause of action which is to become the subject this defence cannot be maintained in respect of quake was fell throughout the city which created the end of 1934. The plaintiff had accordingly matter of decision by the Courts."

some matters raised in this action. The point good deal of alarm amongst the inhabitants. It was the severest shock yet felt in the serien is whether the exclusive jurisdiction clause can become responsible to the International Bank-Chancellor put the principle in a very different

months ago. In violence and duration yester Wo Bank, amounting, in round figures, to some right of action has sccrued, parties, cannot by authority of the two cases cited, provided a day's shock exceeded the two very severe ones ing Corporation for the monies due by the Wai way. He said: There is no doubt that where a be raised by defence when rule 451 has, on the of sismic disturbances commencing bout iwa thing like $100,000. In accordance with the cus- contract say that there shall not be juris means for dealing with legal proceedings com- felt on the 11th-12th August, I he shock of ately for himself, obtained from the defendants that right of action. This doctrine depends During the argument I expressed doubts whe- security upno certain property, having got a upon the general policy of the law, that ther the Arbitration Act could be applied at all by two loud reports very similar to the explo

to an agreement to submit to the decision of fellowed and the oscillating movement was felt sion of heavy artillery. The rumblings then deed of charge and equitable mortgage dated parties cannot enter into a contract which

a foreign tribunal. Da further consider immediately after. For the rest of the day 16th November, 1994, from them under which gives rise to a right of action for the breach Inland Lot No. 1,309 was secured in his favour. of it, and then withdraw such a case from atlon I still doubt it, more especially where, as

there were continual slight tremora., Under this defendants charged in favour of the the jurisdiction of the ordinany, tribunals." here, the agreement is in a foreign contract. As

It was reported that Government House plaintiff, the properly with all surns of monies The question in dispute was whether an a- | the Master of the Holls said in the case cited pierest, costs, charges are expenses due or greement that a reference to arbitration should above, the contract being a German contract it, sustained some slight damage, the outer walls which might become due from them to the Inbe a condition precedent to bringing any action must be construed according to the law of Ger- being slightly cracked in places, but not suffi- cient to cause any alarm. The Treasury charges, and expenses at the rate of 8 per cent ciple. Lord Campbell, agreeing with the Lord ply to acts done out of ngland unless express of a similar nature. Some private houses also exchange compensation is granted, suffer to per annum. It was also one of the terms of Chancellor, declared that policy required that ly so stated. Fuxilier, much of the Act is quite on the Praya Grande were more or less severely the extent that they are inadequately and ihr deed that defendants would execute in fav. effect should be given to such a contract. He inapplicable to the judgment of the foreign 1 damaged, the only actual collapses occurring. our of the plaintiff or of his nominee & proper then discussed the principle itself, and said Court resulting from the submission. Rule

in the Chinatown. On account of this collapse poorly paid for the services rendered by them legal mortgage of the premises in such form that it probably originated in the contest of 550, for example, could not apply; it allows an

a few pedestrians received a few scratches and to a prosperous and progressive Colony, and with such powers of sale and so on as the Courts in arcient times for extent of juris award to be enforced in the same manner as a bruises from the falling bricks and mastery, We make bold to join issue with Sir Matthew plaintiff might require for securing such things diction, all of them being opposed to anything { judgmen of the Coun. But the judgment of but no serious personal injuries were reporteil. as aforesaid. It was stated that the defendants that would altogether deprive everyone of them the foreign Court is in no sense an award; and were indebted to the International Bank and of jurisdiction. There is a saying of Lord Coke, the Legislature certainly never intended to lency has devised will help to invite to the the plaintiff in the sum of $103,265 61, and at which is the original foundation of this doctrine: allow execution on a foreign judgment to be cisco and Monte Fort prisons so the slight the request of the bank plaintif had nominated it is this if a tran makes a lease for life, and obtained in this way. The action on a foreign service of the Colonial Government a better that corporation as his nominee for the pur- by deed grant that if any waste or destruction judgment has obviously no analogy to the pro- MARIE BRIZARD & ROGER, class of junior subordinate oficials which pose of a proper legal mortgage icing execut. be done, that it shall be redressed by neigh ceduse indica ed in rule 550. It may be that ed in their favour. This was a way he had of bours, and no: by suit or place; notwithstand the authorities do not really go farther than that the classification scheme so signally failed making the property available for the paymenting, an action of waste shall lie, for the place rule 541 applies to such a submission. But to retain in the lower branches of the Public off of the debts for which not only the defend-wasted cannot be recovered without a plea, even then it cannot apply to an exclusive sub. IN Summary Turisdiction at the Supreme Service. Representations have already anis were liable to the corporation but also Where an action is indispensable, you cannot mission, for that rule is based on the idea that Court this morning, the Fuise. Judge, Me, A. the plaintiff himself. Plaintiff therefore asked pust the Court of its jurisdiction over the sub- the English Courts have a concurrent junsdic. G. Wise, heard an action brought by ShiYu reached us that the tentative proposal falls hat defendants be ordered to execute theject, because justice cannot be done without tion with the arbitration. But the hypothesis Man against Cheung Sum Tin and the Tai far short of the ideas of a large majority of mortgage in favour of the bank in default of the exercise of that jurisdiction. That is all, in the present case is that the English Cheung Yow Ki for the recovery of $844.14 This is the Courts had no jurisdiction because it has being money due on two promissory notes** which such deed be executed in lieu of and on and there is no doubt about that.

foundation el the doctrine that the Courts are been ousted by agreement. It is there Mr. C. E. H. Beavis, of Messrs. Wilkinson the employees of Government, who see, not behalf of defendants by the Registrar.

His Lordship remarked upon the question of not to be custed of their jurisdiction." He fore difficult to see how a stay of proceedings and Grist, appeared for the plaintiff, and de without just cause, a wide disparity between the scale of their salaries and that of officers the Registrar's responsibility in the matter, then refers, though hardly with approval, to can possibly be the proper remedy; for that fendants, who were not present, were not and said he should only make the order sub the cases which admit the possibility of supposes the possibility of continuing them at represented. It was stated that in February. some future date. If, therefore, I am right in my last, $2000 was advanced to defendants on, drawing salaries on a sterling basis, in very ject to the responsibility of the solicitor cen- en action being brought in spite of an

agreement to arbitrate, where the arbitration view that the English Jurisdiction has been a promissory note, and in the month following many cases for duties requiring far less in-

Mr. Pollock-We are quite prepared to ac- had not bees made a condition precedent. ousted, there is no other way of raising that another Sicon was leat. Altogether $1,400 of

have here, then, the

principle; question effectively except by plea. The these amounts had been repaid and the fuit- telligence, no educational qualifications, and cept that.

"His Lordship don't think I canfge any and if Lord Campbell's opinion be followed, Court of Appeal in Law v. Carrell expressly was brought in respect of the balance with no immediate or personal responsibilities further than that. We cannot suddedly turn there is nothing left of it. But taking, as I am said that the jurisdiction of the Courts was not judgment was given for plaintiff with costs, to the heads of departments, One other ourselves into conveyancers. You see there bound to do, the judgments of the other judges, ousted by the provisions of the Arbitration there are two very important terms used by Act; and if there had been no such legislation fruitful source of complaint is that, upon a might be some slip.

G. A. Moir, sub-accountant of the laterna them which cannot be overlooked. The the only way to raise the question would have vacancy (either temporary or permanent) oc- tional Bank, produced a certified copy of the recourse to the jurisdiction of the Courts which been by plea as it has been in this case. The curring in a public department promotion account with the Wai Wo bank showing that up is not to be interfered with is that of "the defendant is therefore entitled to judgment on to the 24th July last, that bank owed them subject": it is this which is the "inalienable the first issue of law raised by him, the result from another or the same department does 12,833.37 which, with interest to the present right" and the Courts refented to are called being that the action in Hongkong must be not go by seniority or merit; but it has hap date, amounted to $104,48293. That bank was the ordinary tribunals." Now, if this princi dismissed with costs. pened that an officer comparatively new to introduced by the plaintiff who, as compradore.ple is to be applied to the present case, we was responsible for every Chioaman whom he must say that the British Courts are the

"ordinary tribunals" for non-resident forei- THE Governor of Chekjang has notified the Service is given precedence over others introduced as a customer. who hold that their claim is superior to that The plaintiff, who said he had been compra gneis to resort to; and also that it is their 11.B.M. Consul that the agreement concern dore of the Intemational Banking Corporation "tealienable right" to resort to them. It is ing the mining concession, arrived at between of the appointed officer. A recent case may since about May 1903, bere out the opening be cited as an illustration, when the acting statements of Counsel, and added that defany chief clerkship at the Magistracy was filled dants were not at present in Hongkong and he

had no idea where they could be found, (13 by an officer from the Sanitary Board with The order was made as requested,

GREGOR & CO.,

34, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,

JST FLOOR.

LIQUEURS

FROM

BORDEAUX.

THE

AWARDS:

HIGHEST

WHEREVER

EXHIBITED.

Hongkong, 18th July, 1995.

from the minimum salary of the class above it by the amount of one increment." It is advocated for the systear that it ollers to a young man with the necessary educational qualifications who joins either of the lowest classes the chance of fairly regular proino- tion throughout his career, but which starts from a minimum salary of $2.40 per annum 10 a maximum of $2,040 (ur $60 actually below the existing classification scheme) after a period of continuous service of thirty-two years, la other words, a young man, say of eighteen years of age, joining at a miserable pittance of a wage of $zo a month, cannot aspire to draw a better salary than $170 a month upon the attain ment of his fiftieth year of age, or thirty second of service-well, honourably and faithfully performed to the Crown. His salary, by the way, is all the time subjected to a deduction of five per cent, as a Con tribution to the Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Fund which, at best, is of doubtful benefit if he he married; but which is

CIRESE BANK'S LIABLES.

The Lord

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THE EARTHQUAKE AT MACAO.

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

forfeited by. balf to Government if he tom amongst compradores the plaintiff, fortun- diction to enforce damages in respect of inenced in spite of a submission to arbitration. Saturday, like those of last month, was preceded

remain single at the termination of his period of service. We have on various occasions strenuously advocated, in these columns, for a more just and liberal treatment of the subordinate officials in the Government service, who by comparison with the Civil Service proper or with those to whom double ternational Bank together with such costs, on a pol.cy of insurance fell within this prin many, and again English statutes do not ap | Building (Fazenda) also suffered some damage

that the grading scheme which his Excel

cerned.

?

We

true that foreigners, whether resident or not, are allowed to sue in the British Courts. When they are resident it is their right, but I doubt whether it can be called their inalienable right. When they are non-resident it is subject to a

Kau and Mr. Ede, the representative of the Concessionaires will not be recognized, as the Board of Agriculture, Commerce and Industry have neither sanctioned same, nor affixed their official seal thereunto–Shanghai Times,

The gaol was entirely empty, all the pri soners having been removed to the San Fran damage done to the gaol caused no concern.

A minor shock was felt at 3.8.m. to-day (Sunday).

due

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

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The ss. Rubi left Manila on 9th inst, and is

bere this afternoon.

The P.&O.S. N. Co.'s. Socotra left Singa pore for this port on 13tb inst, at 10 am

The

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