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General Booth's Tour.
LONDON, 6th April. General Booth, at an interview, said that be will start for Japan in October next.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY APRIL 9, 1906.
* TUB PARTNERSHIP ISSUE.
THE LAI HING BANK.
Witness: No, I did pot use the words "Tiza, tson, tung ka' (managing partaar), nor tell my solicitor to do so.
Mr. Slade then re-examined witness, after reading extracts from the affidavits referred to, Dank in 1898 he severed his connection with the Bank for good and all, and never re-joined
ALLEGED MURDER.
PRISONER BEFORE THE COURT,
This afternoon, before Mr. C. A, D. Mel.
bourne, a Chinaman named Li Lan, wa
Ping-chau, New Territory, on March 4.
JAPANESE SHIPPING
ENTERPRISE,
NEW LINE OF STEAMSHIPS TO MANILA. Mr. Miller, chief of the Manila Bureau of
financed in Japan, is to be inaugurated between-
fa inkruptcy Jurisdiction this morning, His Honour Sir Francis Piggott, Chiaf Justice, when witness said after retiring from the charged with the murder of a native woman at Navigation, reports that a steamship' line, I
presiding, the case of the Lai Hing Bank, er parte Wong Ka Chun was continued. Mr. E. H. Sharp, KC, instructed by Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton, of Meiss, Brutton, Helt and Gold- ring, sippened for the Official Receiver, and Mr. M. W. Slade, instructed by Mr. R. A. Harding, represented Wong Ka Chun. Forty two dead have been removed, and that in 1898 he retired from the Lai Ring Wong Ka Chun, to-called, said it was true
71 have been injured.
Collapse of a Hotel in Germany.
A new hotel in the Black Forrest col- Japsed during a house warming,
Later.
Prince von Buelow. Prince von Buelow, in his speech in the Reichstag, disclaimed n wish for war for the sake "of Morocen; hut justified German policy, on the ground that Germany wished to show that she cannot be treated as a negligible quantity.
Prince von Buelow is progressing, but is
Bank, and since that time he had been in his, country, and had not returned to the firm as a partner, not had any shares in the firm. He had had nothing to do with the business since his retirement in 1898... He remembered au action brought by Wong Mo Sul ngaics! Wong Sing Nam and himself, for dissolution of part- nership in the Yuk Loang Chin Kee firm. As regards the affidavit in which he said he was managing partner in the Lai Hing Bank it wo the suficitor who made that mistake. That
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Mr. Shade: My learned friend has asked you about a registration of the partners of the busie nest.. Is there n registration of partners in
Hongkong?-Yes, at the Registrar's office.
Did you register the partners of the Lai Iling Bank ?-Yes.
Is that the registry?—Yes; that is my name first, The Lai Hing did an extensive business, and was the biggest firm of which I was n putner.
Ma Fa Ting said he was the manager of the Lai Hing Bank at the time of the failure and had been so since July, 1898.
Intimations.
THE
Inspector Hanson prosecuted an belialf of Manila and Japan. One of the promoters of the ROBINSON PIANO
CO., LO.
NEW PIANOS
$70 CASH
the police, and Mr. Oto Kong Sing defended,
company is air. Raphael de Castes Midalgo, P. C. 16 declared that on March 4 last he chairman of the Manili Chamber of Com went to Taipo at 530 p.m., on receipt of a
merce, who recently sailed from America for message from the C. S. P., that a murder had England, where he is to purchake six steamships been committed on Ping-chau Island, in Mita having a gross tonnaga of about 2,000 tons each. Bay. Witness with ona Lok Tak proceeded The service that it is proposed to establish to Ping-chau where he arrived at 6.30 p.m.
between Manila and Japan will be a tri-weekly Lok Tak took witness to a certain spot
one. Yokohama will be the main japanese where the body of the deceased was support of the line, and calls will also be made at posed to have been buried. Witness got some Kebe and Nagasaki. In connection with this fishermen and with their assistance the body enterprise it may be noted that a great deal of was exhumed, taken on board No. 3 launch Japanese capital is noiy finding its way to the and transported to the mortuary. On the 14th Philippines. The reluctance of American March, witness saw the body at the public financiers to invest money in the islands until moiliary in Hongkong and identified it as the railroads are built is not being followed the body he exbumed.
by the japanese who look upon the prospects' held out by Philippine enterprises as un- company are business men, resident in usually promising. The promoter of the
to Japanese capitalists because they believed that the raising of the needed money for establishing the line could not be effected in hidalgo, who is prominent among the pro American sources. Mr. Raphael de Castro moters, has been concerned with the anti- American cusade in the Philippines, and after GREAT STRENGTH AND SUPERIOR, The massacre of Captain Farley and his men in charged with running gun to the natives. In the interior (about five years ago) was arrested, fluence was brought to bear at Washington, and he was pardoned on his pomise to stop supplying the natives with guns.
likely to be incapable of attending to busi- case was decided in his favour, and then he ad. I bought his shares Wong Ka Chun had no fiu bady of a Chinese female, aged between 19 Mania, who were led to make application |
ness for several weeks.
Botting on the University Boat Race.
vertised the fact to the world. He did not in- struct his solicitor to make that statement. At that time witness was not carrying on business as a banker in Hongkong, and had not done so since 1898. The affidavit produced
The betting to-day on the University boat was signed by him. race is: 2, to 4-on' Cambridge,
Germany and the Now Russian
Loan.
7th April.
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Mr. Sharp: This affidavit was translated to you in this Court belmie you signed it?
Witness: I don't remember.
Mr. Sherp: Think again... Witness said it was translated to him and be mised an objection, and told the interpreter The German Banks have refused to par-that it was not true that he was carrying on the Licipate in the new Russian loan, alleging, as
business of the Lai Hing Bank, but that he a reason, the approaching issue of a German only lived there; but the interpreter said it wasn't. loan in London.
important.
The Second Hague Peace. Conference.
The programme of Russia for the second Peace Conference propuses to limit the work, to a further elaboration of the rules of pro cedure of an arbitration court for the con- sideration of the rules of warfare, including questions of private properly at sea, and the rights and duties of neutrals.
AMERICA AND CHINĄ,
STATEMENTS BY MAJOR-GENERAL, CORBIN,
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Mr. Shaip: And the interpreter made you sign it all the same, did he?
Witness: Yes.
Mr. Sharp Did you tell Mr. Wei On that the description was untrue?
Witness. I don't remember; 1 think I may have told him so,
Producing other affidavits to the same effect Mr. Sharp asked witness if he signed them. Witness said he did not remember signing them, and the signatures were not his hand
writing.
Mr. Sharp: It is stated in the pleadings in that case that Wong Ka Chun was a banker carrying on business at that place, and in his defence Wong Ka Chun did not deny it.
His Honour: But it does not mention the Lai Hung Bank.
Mr. Sharp: No, but it does in the first af davit, and it gives the address in the second, while he has now specifically stated that he never carried on any banking business since 1898. I submit that is enough, but if your Lärdship requires me, to go further I shall do
50.
NO PROSPECTS OF HOSTILITIES.
Major-General H, C, Corbin arrived.at. Sab Francisco on the ss. Korea, on, relinquishing his command in the Philippines, on March 8. In the course of a conversation with a news. paper representat ve, the General spáka ns follows concerning the Chinese situation -
"There will be no war between the United Ifis Honour: Well, it is a question of law States and Chica. So far as I have been able Mr. Sharp: Now, I'll just refer to some peti to observe, the reputed disturbances in Chinations to the Viceroy. (To witness): Look at have been grossly exaggerated, and conditions that petition and tell us if you authorized those are not nearly so alarming as one would be led statements concerning the Lai Hing Bank. to suppose from reports that have been pub-
Witness: { consulted my son in the matter lished abroad throughout the Western world, and left it in his hands. I did not know who That there have been disturbances is quite wrote the petition, and did not authorize the trus, but I do not think they menace, the peace of Chins and the United States, or any other nation. To give an intelligent idea of conditions in China would require lengthy ex- planations. The feeling against. Americans in China does not excee i that entertained toward all ather foreigners, and, as I understand the situation, the entire anti-foreign feeling is due in a large measure to the 'exploitation of business enterpises which the Chinese feel
statements.
Mr. Sharp: But you previously taled that you gave an outline for the petition.
Mr. Slade: No, that is not so; he said his son did it all.
flis fonu: I have it in my notes that he said he gave his son an outline, but did not know who wrote
Mr. Sharp: Did you authorize either your son of the writer to stite that for several years'
Mr. Slade: Did you purchase shares in the business - ipak over Wong Ka Chun's shares. Wong Ka Chun had been the manag. partner previous to 1298. Alter witness ther interest in the business from that time, and the change of partners was registered at the Registrar-General's office. Wong Ka Chen continued to live on the first Boor of the pre- mises of the business after his retirement, and he paid 510 a month for his board and lodging. Witness remembered the creditors' meeting on 9th February, 190s; he was present, and Wong Ka Chun never addressed the meeting at all. Witness did not know a man named Wong Sai Ho. If such a man said that Wong Ka Chun addressed the meeting he said what was not true. The business was carried on as usual after that meeting, and a new set of books were opened. A number of creditors brought uctions and obtained judgments ngai. st The Hank, so witness went to Canton' to collect money from confe of the debtors of the Bank, and when there he beard that some of the creditors had seired the business in Hongkong. The bank, produced, contained the names of the partners who funk over the business in 1898; with the amount of their shares.
Dr. William Hunter, of the public mortuary, said that on March 6, he examined the dead
and 20 yea s, by name Mo Lan. A post-mortem examination was made and he found the cause of death to be due to multiple injuries. De ceased's throat was cut down to the backbone, severing everything in front. There was a deep wound across the back of the neck, a stab wound into the right cheek, and another stab wound below the left collar bone which ex tended through the arm. In witness' opinion there was no evidence of a severe struggle,
The case was adjourned.
JUSTICES, MERTING."
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10-DAY'S EKRANGE.
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At the Magistracy this afternoon, Mr. F. A. Hazeland, presiding, a meeting of the Justices of the Peace was held to consider an appli. cation from one Joseph Henry Newbold for permission to remove the business now carried on by him under an adjunct licence on pre- mises No. 51, Des Vœux Road Central under the sign of "The Owl Grill Room" to premises Nos. 47 and 49, Des Vœux Road Central.
There being no police objection, the appli-aug al-Bank" "F.T", cation was granted.
The second application ws from one Alber W, Slaton for the transfer to him from one Antonio Fonseca of the adjunct licence to tell
Mr. Slade: Mr. Wakeman has said that book is a forgery; it is an clean fies always in the safe and is seklom toi rl, d, as it is not required. There were no other reis than those appearing in that book Wang Kaby retail intoxicating liquors on premises No. Chun's name did not appear there because 13. Queen's Road Central ander the sign of after 1298 he ceased to be a partner in the The New Connaught Hotel!" business, and Wong Ki Chun was not, there fore, a partner, or in any way conected with the Bank at the time of the bankruptcy,
In cross-examination by Mr. Sharp, witness said the active partner in the 3th year (1904) was himself, and no other in Hongkong, and for a short period the same applied 10 1995. Since 1898 onwards till the time of the failure there was no other partner resident in Hongkong-that is no active partners, but there were two dormant partners, who had nothing to do with the business. Since 1898 there has been no change in the partners of the firm. As regards the books of the firm that are missing he only knew that they were in the hands of the sc euntant, but his where- abouts were unknown, though witness had looked for him but could not find him.
Mr Sharp Have you tried to get him here? Witness: Well, he is not in my employ now, so I don't know whether he would come, but if you want me to I will try to get him here. I have written to him about the books, but had na reply, so I do not know if they are in his
possession now or have been destroyed. In a hanker's business the books are destroyed at the end of the year when the new set is opened.
Mr. Sharp: Do you mean to tell us that you destroy your ledger?
Witness: No, I don't mean it is destroyed, but after it has been entered up in the new book the Mr. Sharp: Then it all looks very like per old one is laid aside., Witress, continuing, said jury.
M. Shite said he did not quite ser how for itis learned friend's right vent to cross-examine
The witness in this way.
lis Honour: But if perjury is to arise out of it, it will be necessary to have the son, the writer, and the interpreter to give evidence,
Mr. Sharp: Yes, my Lund, certainly if it bei comes necessary.
should be controlled by their own people.before the bankruptcy of the Lai Hing Bank There is a feeling against those who have in you had lived in the country? various ways obtained, through scheming and
Witness: No. corrupt officials, franchises and concessions that the Chinese feel should be their own. They would, like to see these franchises and concessions ahr: gated and vested in their own people. They are willing to sefund to foreign investors the money they have spent in the country. In fact, this was done in the case of the Hankow and Canton Railroad. Aside from this chief source of anti-foreign feeling, the troubles in China are due to the presence of missionaries. I was assured by a very prominent Chinese that the Chinese people are not at all friendly to the presence of foreign missionaries. They resent the effort of the missionaries to force a lot of new, creeds, an their feople. The Chinese have perhaps a more firmly fixed religious belief than any other people in the world, and they look upon the religions of the Western work with acant favour. In the neighbourhood, of Canton foreign missionaries have berg subjected to outrages, but it is due to the Chinese Govern ment to say that the Government has bad wo
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Mr. Slade: I don't see where prijury comes
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Sharp: If a man goes into one Court and makes a statement an wath and then goes to another and denies that statement on' oath he commits perjury.
ilis fenour: But the petition to the Viceroy i- noi a document signed in a Court.
at the creditors' meeting he proposed that they wait for half their money for sine months and an other nine months for the balance. Wong Fa Chan did not pr prise the reduction of time to six and twelve months, that was witness's own second proposal as the creditors refured to agree to the first. No one else addressed the creditors at that meeting. Witness was a part. ner and diew money as such, but he never overdrew his account with the Bank; he drew money on account of his share of the profils, but not his capital. There was no hook kept showing the amounts paid to each partner: witness drew a lump sum and that was enter ed, and then had vided it among the partners, but no chiry of such division was rande.
Mr. Sharp: Mr. Wakeman sold the Lai Hing Bank to Lau Pak for $16,600, did he not ?
Mr.Sharp: It was sa signed with a view to proceedings, and this Court had had in receYes, I think so. nze the Viceroy as a Court of sorts.
Mr. Slade: My learned friend is trying to press that document on the jury (the petition part in it and has exercised mucli diligence to mentioned) for all he is worth, but it is as enforce its laws for the protection of mission-certified document, and there is not one jet aries. There outrages near Canton hardly te or title of evidence to show that it is even an flect the feeling of the Chinese people. They approximately correct translation. have been committed by bands of river pirates Mr. Sharp: My learned friend knows as that have long infested the country, in spite of well as 1 dq the great difficulty in getting every measure the Government has employed | guaranteed accurate translations of Chinese to suppress them. There pirates prey quite as documents which exists here. However, I shall freely on their own people as they do, on the leave that point entirely in your Lordship's missioners. The Chinese Government is as hands.
friendly to the people and Government of the Mr. Sharp (holding up a book): Did you
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Have you anything to do with the Bank now?-No; I would like to be in it again, but I don't know whether they would take me ia
again. I left the Bank on the 8th March, 1925 and have never been there since
The case is proceeding,
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The application was granted unanimously.
THE JAPANESE RAILWAYS.
NETHON OF PROCEDURE IN THE PURCHASE. The first step to be taken by the Government towards the purchase of the railways under the ew Act is the establishment of an office under the control of the Minister of Communcations. This office will undertake the management of affairs relating to the purchase of the lines, and the regulations governing the new office will be published in a few days. It is believed Mr. Nakashoji, Vice-Minister for Communications, w'll take charge of this office, its stuff being selected from the present officials of the Raif- way Working Bureau and the Railway Bureau. The office will exercise the utmost diligence to prevent unscrupulous use being made of lines and rolling-stock, and the neglect of repairs by any company pending the purchase of the lines by the Government.
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During the coming fiscal year the purchase of the Seoul-Fusan Railway and two or three
of the principal lines in Japan will be effected, and the expenses required for, working these lines will be defrayed out of the reserve fund in, the State Treasury,
By the amendments made by the Dier, the pitmber of railways to be purchased hes been reduced to seventeen, fifteen of the less im. portant lines being excluded from the list as originally proposed by the tavernment. This amendment results in a reduction of no more than 28,741,000 in the amount of bonds re- quired to be issued for, the purchase of the ailways, the value to be paid for the seventeen tines amounting to Y442,742 319 This amend- ment in this respect, therefore, w II probably have no effect upon the awicipated decline in the bond market. By the amendment ex- cluding all but the most profitable lines, the Government will be placed in a more ad- vantageous position for working the railways prostably.
A vernacular contemporary observes that the smalier ines, such as the Narin, Tobu, and Oni, which have been excluded from the list to be purchased, by reason of their running be tween the national lines, have no prospect what. ever of development. The original form of the Till contained the principle of nationalisation, but the spirit of the Bill has now been com pletely..altered by the amendment, and now can only result in the suppression of the smaller privafe lines.
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HONGKONG GYMKHANA CLUB.
First Meeting of the Season will be held at the Happy Valley, on SATUR- DAY, 14th instant, commencing at 4 P.M.
The Charge of Admission will be $100 for other Hian Members ae Hongkong Jockey or Gymkhana Club.
The Committee invite the Ladie of Heng kong to be present.
Past Entries will be accepted for Events Nos. 1 and 4.
C. G. MACKIE,
Hon. Secretary Hangkang, 9h.April, 1906.
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15 mrkable that BEST the Government should have so lightly agreed to th amendment which has perverted the whole spirit or primary object of the Gavern- It is ment in putting forward the measure. alsa extraordinary that the Nankai Railway should be excluded fom the list of lines to be
purchased. In defending the B11 in the pro ceedings in Committee, General Terauchi, Minister for War, laid particular stress on the value of the Nankai line-from the strategical point of view-in preventing a possible enemy porary asks whether the Minister for War is now able to use this line under private owner-
AMERICAN 'BANKER IN JAPAN. Landing at Kii Point. Our vernacular contcm
HONOURING MR. J. SCHIFF.
On the evening of the 28th ult., Dr, Sakatani, Minister for Finance, gave a dinner in honour of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Schiff and party. There United States as toward any niber, although authorize your name to be put in this book ay were present:-Mr. Wilson, U.S. Charge nothing has a greater tendency to strain them treasurer of a company to be formed in America, d'Affaires, and Mrs. Wilson; other members of than the frequent publication of false reports with Ma Fa Ting as one of the partners ?—No.the U.S. Embassy; Marquis Saionji; Viscount and threatened armed invasions. Although (Handing him the hook) Have you ever Tanaka, Minister for the Imperial Household; not encourged by the Government in any way, seen the book before?-Never; I know nothing Mr. Matsuoka, Minister for Agriculture and these reports constitute a grave menace of the Fabout it at all.
Commerce; taren Komura, Mr. Chinda, Vice- Minister for Foreign Affairs; Baron Shibusawa, continuance of amicable relations between the Mr. Sharp: Thes do you mean to telf as
Baron Iwasaki, Kfr. Matsuwo, Governor of the Chinese and Americans, for these misleading that you never saw that duplicate copy of this. Bank of Japan; Mt. Takahashi, President of reports by means of the native press are cit book, which your solicitor is now holding in the Specie Bink; Mr. Soyeda, President of the culated broadcast throughout the empire and
Japan Credit Mobilier, Limited; Mr. Sonoda, his hands? Well, I may have seen it.
President of the Nobles' Bank, and Mr. Haya- find ready credence among the masses. I see Then you know what is in it?--I have been kuwa, General-Director of the Mitsui Dank. no cause for our going to war with China, nor told, but I did not authorize the entries.
During the evening the Minister for Finance will there be any cause even for armed protec Mr, Sharp: Now, as regards the affidavit welcomed Mr. Schiff, and spoke in the highest tion of our people in China unless the Govern you signed in 1904. I put it to you that you terms of the valuable services rendered by him ment of Chipa fails and falls. There have been did instruct your solicitor that you were the in the flotation of Japanese loans in America.
The Tokio Municipal Council has decided predictions that this very thing will happen, managing partner of the Lai Hing Bank, and
to give a reception to Mr. Schiff and Mr. Mal but there is no evidence that prudent folk con- that you made that statement for the very best colm, Japanese Honorary Consul at Melbourne, ulder reliable."
of all ramions, that it was trun ?
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