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Intimation.

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

ESTABLISHED A.D.:184

CHAMPAGNE

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** HONGKONG TELEGRAPH "

THE CLUB LUSITANO, "LD,

PETITION TO WIND UP.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY JANUARY 4, 1907. wildly Utopian. - And Sir Henry, Blakǝ | be expected that they could cram up all TELEGRAMS. threw cold water on the suggestion the mo the knowledge which they had perforce ment it was voiced. He remarked: In acquired in their youth at a moment's the first, place when you mention. Sikh notice from the bench? How many people police, the general idea is that you can go in Hongkong to-day who have reached the to India and there you can obtain the serage of 30 years will lay their bands on their hearts and say that they are prepared here and now to pass any of the examinations which were as fleabites in their youth ?—that

WATSON & CO., vices of men from a respectable class of Sikhs who are very dependable and useful LIMITED.

indeed as soldiers; but my experience of the Sikh policemen we obtalis in that they are not men of this class. Some of the draw backs you gentlemen may have observed in the late Condition of affairs at Shanghai, and I may tell you that the Sikh policeman who's found in China very often takes the place of the Afghan maneylender here. He is often a money-lender, and he does not know the languages of the country, and he is inclined to be very rough with the peo- ple; but when he is controlled by a large European police force as in Hongkong he is an excellent man for regulating the traffic." The Sikh constable in Hongkong may have been an excellent man in Sir Henry Blake's time, but he has sadly deteriorated in the mass since those days. And if he is so very undesirable in China how comes it that he becomes so valuable in Hongkong? The point is scarcely worth arguing, because the main fact remains that the Governor of

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ST. MARCEAUX & CO. REIMS 1898 Vintage.

VIN BRUT AND VERY DRY. Per Caso i doz, quarts .........................................$48,00 -

doz. pints...$0.00

SERVICE.

THE BRITISH MINISTER 10 CHINA.

CONFIRMED."

[From Our Own Correspondent.}

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is unless they are schoolmasters of some sort SIR JOHN JORDAN'S APPOINTMENT or other. Even the lawyers of Hongkong holding an extensive practice might well hesitate before they expressed their willing ness to pass a test set by a judge wholly new to the Colony. Yet Judge Wilfley declared bimself judge and jury over men familiar with the legal requirements of Shang. hai, and has now withdrawn from them their means of livelihood not only in the American Court but also in all the. Consular Courts. Would the judge be China, has now been confirmed in prepared to undergo an examination as to his appointment as His Brittanic

Majesty's Ministor to China,

his own knowledge of the law, the examiners being the men who have been "plucked"? Once a lawyer always a lawyer may be cited as a maxim, but it bad always been under stood that once a man had passed his examinations in his youth before a duly con stituted tribunal he could not be disbarred

Shanghai, 4th January,

p.m. Sir John Jordan, who has hitherto been acting as interim Minister to

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LONDON, and January,

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THE ANS

In Origiani Jurisdiction this afternoon at the; Supreme Court, before his Honour the Chief Justice the case was heard in the matter of the Companies Ordinance, 1865, and in the matter of the [Club Lusitano, Limited. There was a large attendance of members of the Portuguese Community who watched the case with apparsecretary of the lat ent considerabla interest,

the following answer to the pe ing up V

“Henrique : José María de Cài holder in the Club SE

Henrique Jose Maria de Cart Stellay, Street, Victoria, in Hongkong book-keeper to the sumace Society of Cazton, Limli Buildings, Victoria, aforesaid, declared

I am a shareholder, in the Club Lunit Limited and am also a member of the Club Lusitano,

Mr. M. W. Slade, instructed by M.O. D. Wilkinson; of Masery, Wilkinson and Grist, appeared for the petitioners (Menma A. G. Romano and JJ. Leida, Consul General, and Vice-Consul, respectively, for Portugal), Bir Henry Berkeley, K., instructed by Mr. J. Scott, Harston, of Messrs. Ewens, and Harston, appearing for some of the opposing share. holders, and Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., in structed by Mr. P. W. Golding, of Metsis. The Club Lusitano (as distinguished from Goldring and Barlow, representing other op posing members.

The pelition was as follows:-

the Club Lusitano Limited) is formed of members of the Portuguess Comm

of whom are and some of whom are not share holders in the Club'Lusiiääb Limited,

I allude to the Club Lusitano Limited as

as "the said Club”

To the Supreme Court of Hongkong. The humble petition of Agustinho Guilherme Romano, of Victoria, in the Colony of Hougthe said Society and to the Club Lusitano kong, Consul-General in Hongkong for Portu- gal; and João Joaquim Leiria, also of Victoria aforesaid, Vice-Consul in Hongkong for Por- tugal.

I was formerly a Director of the said Society: and held that position from Jbly, 1898, to April, 1god.

Ceylon has not been altogether blind to their except for misconduct.or. some.malpractices An attempt to float the Awn Maru has called the Company) was in the month of fled herein on the toth day of lincamber, 1906,

No wonder there has been a rush of bud

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

faults. While dealing with this subject-Sir ding lawyers from Manila to Shanghai, for Henry also paid a compliment to the European being fledglings they are likely to remember arm of the law which they thoroughly deserve the non-essentials which were probably the and will be endorsed by all wlio kriow them. rock on which the plucked" ones fell. He said: "The police force in Hongkong The fact that the two passed men belong to consists of 130 policemen recruited and the same firm means that one side or another selected in England or Scotland among men in a suit must go unrepresented until another of the highest character. You then have candidate for admission to the bar of the 300 Sikhs and 500 Chinese. Now, a great American Court has satisfied the require deal of the actual supervision of this policements of Mr. Willey. in the street traffic is really done by this very respectable European class, who control foreign sailors, etc., when they come ashore and may fairly be depended upon to suppress any inclination to violence which is no, un- common inclination on the part of the Sikhs, We take it that the mover of the unhappy. suggestion to employ Sikh policemen on the streets of Colombo recognised and admitted his

folly and, with an expression of the ut most contrition, withdrew his motion while the house passed on to the previous question, Otherwise, if the motion was pressed and carried and Sikhs are to be imported by the score into Ceylon, then we offer the inhabit

P. C. for SUMMONED the coxswain of the steam

-observe the rule of the road, while steaming in

launch fuck Lee before Mr. F. A. Haseland, at the Police Court, this forenoon, for failing to the waters of this Colony on the 24th instant, Accused admitted the charge and paid Sto. THE following have been chosen to play for the Hongkong Football Club versus Y.M.C.A. at Happy Valley, on Saturday, the sth inst. HL. Garrett, G. Morrell; half backs:-H.C Kick off, 4.15 p.m.: Goal: -J. Clarke, backs;~~ Gray, E. Humphreys, A. Morley; forwards

failed; but another will be made to-day, after which, if necessary, the spring tides will be waited for.

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The Famine in Russia, The famine in Russia is gaining in extent and intensity. Hunger and typhus are spreading rapidly in several provinces, and reports from various parts announce the failure of the winter crops owing to the cold and drought.

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Later,

Great Britain and France. King Edward through Lord Knollys, in reply to a congratulatory telegram from the Echo de Paris, carnestly hopes that the warm feeling of friendship existing between France and Great Britain will never be disturbed.

France.

General Picquart has started for Biserta; with a large staff, on an important mission in

A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED | ants of that Colony and more particularly the w.H. Williams, R. Miller, J. Mac G, Weston, connection with the defences of the port.

AGENTS.

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

flangkong, 4th January, 1906;

NOTHER

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The rates per quarter and pur sommero, progestional, The daily lanus, in delivered free when the address accesible in messenger. Ou coplas sent. Isy joat an additional $1.80 por quarter is charged for posisge. The postage on the weakly inseto any part of the Single Copies, Dally, ten coats. Weakly, twenty

world 80 cents per quartar.

Bye conia.

residents of Colombo our deepest.sympathy | R. R. Turner and J. Mead. Heferee:-P.S. and sincerest condolences,

THE AMERICAN COURT IN

SHANGHAI.

Jameson.

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CAPTAIN E. Montman, master of the British steamer Tinisis, summoned the master of sampan No. 4,705A before Mr. C. A. D. Mel bourne, this larendon, at the Police Court; for demanding more than his legal fare. Ou the and instant, according to the skipper, he and friend engaged the bat to take them off to the ship. On arrival at destination one dollar was tendered accused, who demanded more, dotting his language, with epithets. He was fined $5.

Readers will have noticed with impartial interest the curious tangle which occurred as the result of opening an American Court at Shanghai the other day. The learned judge ruled that all attorneys who wished to practise in his Court must first submit to an examination on certain points of law, the PAT Delaney, leading seaman, on board H. M. examination to be set and decided by him. torpedo-boat Olter, was charged before Mr. F. Nine. American, lawyers handed in their A. Hazeland, this morning, at the Police Court, names as candidates for admission to the with behaving in a disorderly manner whilst drunk at No. 48, Queen's Road Central. Pat, | bar--that is to say nine lawyers who have

previously been allowed to practise, by conist's shop shortly after six o'clock last even-

it was stated in evidence, went to this tobac

courtesy, in the Consular Courts of "the ing. the salesman was engaged in making Settlement, avowed their willingness to some entries in his day book. Pat stood by undergo another trial as to their com for a time, and without saying a word grabbed

The Hongkong Celegraph potency of addressing the Court in the the day book and tore from it a couple of

leaves. He was then given in charge. The

A FEROCIOUS DOG.

MISTRESS OBJECTS TO ITE DEINO DESTROYED.

Respectfully sheweth as follows :—-

The Club Lusitano Limited (hereinafter January, 1891, incorporated under the Com- panies Ordinance, 1865, an a Company limited

by shares.

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2. The registered office of the Company is at Victoria in this Colony.

3. The objects for which the Company was established are the promoting of social inter course among the Portuguese community in Hongkong, the providing of recreation, amuse mambers and their friends, the employment. of ment, board and lodging and refreshments to

the profits of the Company in creating are serve fund to meet the deterioration of property and other requirements, and in giving a divid. end or bonus to shareholders and other objects mentioned in the Memorandum of Association

thà cof.

4. The capital of the Company is $18,000

divided into 260 shares of So each. The wliote of the said shares have heen issued,

5. Your Petitioners are, and have been since the incorportion of the Company and the alfat ment of shares therein, shareholders in the

Company and together hold 116 shares therein

60 of which are held by your Petitioner Jbao Joaquim Leiria in a sepresentative capacity,

6. Shortly after the incorporation of the Memorandum of Association was created and Company the reserved fund mentioned in the

was added to year by year, until in the year 1904 the said fund amounted to the sum of $4,500, but in the following year it was found necessary to expend the whole of this sum in repairs and alterations to the premises of the Company, and at the present time there exists no reserve fund.

7. Some of the original shareholders of the

Inspector Ritchie, of the Central Police Siation, summoned Mrs. Esther Oliver, of the Company are now dead and their shares are New Traveller's Hotel, for keeping a ferocious held by their respective legal personal repre and annuzzled dog on the 20th ultimo... Thesentatives, and other shareholders are sot now police said that the dog, a Norbern chow, had and never have beco members of the Club, bition a boy and he had been in hospital for Lusitano and others have ceased to be mem- bere of the said Club, and in consequence of this fact the company was advised that liquors could not be provided for, and in effect sold by retail to, members of the said Club and their friends unless a Government license wete ob- tained under Ordinance No. 8 of 1898, and, therefore, for'a considerable time past no liquid refreshments have been provided in the said Club.

ten days. It had also, it was alleged, bitten Mr. P. D'Agostini on the 3rd of last month. * His Worship—What have you to say? You know a dog is only entitled to one bite.

Defendant-Yes. Can't it be settled by com pensation? I do not wish to destroy the dog,

His Worship-You must compensate the boy..

Defendant-1, do not wish to destroy the dog. Will it be sufficient to muzzle bim ?

His Worship-Yes. The dog 'oes not look very ferocious.

Defendant-A very good house dog. Inspector Ritchie said he had received or.

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8. During the last three years there have been continual disputes between ons body of the shareholders of the Company and members of the said Club and another body thereof, with the result that a number of the said mem.

... I have read, a copy of the parition for the winding up by the Court of the said Society bygurtinho Guilherme Romaso and Joto Joaquim Leiria, both of Victoria aforesaid

The petitioner Agustinho Guilherme Roma- no though a shareholder in the dúd Society is no longer a member of the bald Chea.

The statements contained in parkgraphy i lo 4 of the said petition are to the best of my knowledge, information and belief correct.''

With regard to the statement contained in petitioners now hold 16 shares, 60 of which paragraph 5 of the said relit on 1.say that the

are held by the said Teão Joaquim I eltis jn representative capacity...

With regard to the balance of the sanid 116 shares, namely, so shares, the Petitioner Agus, tiho Guilherme Romano beldi g

As to the remaining 47 shares (portion of

the said 16 shares) the whole thereof are held

by the Petitioner Joao Joaquim Leiila,

Of the last mentioned 47 shares, 31 shares, were registered in the name of the said foo Joaquim Leiria 'as recently as the 28th of

November, 1906.ecently as

The Reserve Fund mentioned in paragraph 6 of the said Petition was started in June, 1894) with a sum of $1,000 and for the several ball-

said Reserve Fund has, according to the pub yearly periods occurring since that date the

fished accounts of the said Society, slood as follows:-

:

Date. June 1894

December 1894... June 1895 MET Decaimber:1894 ****

June 1896 ..... December 1896

Amount in Reserva,

$1,000

1,000

June 1897........................ ............... 1,000 December 1897 ******

Jone 1898

Juce 1899m

June 1900

1,000

1,000

December 1898.

i 1,000

December 1899 ananunu, cin 2,000

2,000

December 1900

2,00

Jade 1921 min

$3,000

December 1901.

3,509

*3,506

e

4,000

adipis

14,500

June 1903 December.1902

June 1903

December 1903 aramının 4.500 June 1904 vision: 4,500. December 1904 m 4,5000 The statement contained in the said para-

Interests of trusting clients, who had | defendant pleaded guilty to the accusation andders to press this charge as he considered the bars have ceased to frequent the sail Club, graph 6 of the said Pelition to the effect that dog to be dangerous. The deputy superinten. and others have resigned their membership in the year, 1905 the said sum of $1,500 (ths

never previously doubted their all-embrac was fined $7.

Moncrieff and Officers, the Band of the 3rd Batt. Hy kind permission of Liest.-Col.. W. Scott

The Duke of Cambridge's Own" (Middlesex, Regiment) will play the following programme of music, during dinner, at the Hongkong

fole), on Saturday, 5th inst

destroyed.

His Worship-Has it bitten anybody else? Defendant-No, I have had it for four years, and this is the first trouble.

those in authority in the said Club to exclude pended in the necessary repairs and alterations to the premises of the said Society is correct, from membership certain other members there. of which attempts culminated in legal proceed- but in point of fact the repairs and alterations ings being taken in this Honourable Court by in question necessitated the expenditure of a those members against the Company and its further sum of $6,240.88 which latter sum was paid out of the profits of the said Society doring, Directors.

the years 1904 and 1905.

9 The casts of the said legal proceedings have been ordered to be paid by the Company and its Directors; but the Company possesses no fund available for the purpose, and is not empowered by its Memorandum of Association to borrow money. Moreover, a large number of the shareholders in the Company object to the said costs being paid out of the assets of the Company.

mbes

The ixid repairs and alteratios were m or less of a permanent nature and consisted principally of the alienation of the whole of the ground floor and verandal of the first Boog of the premises of the said Society of the cons creting of such floor with best English tiles; of the fitting up of a new lavatory; of the 'Instal-

members; and of the construction of a move lation of electric lights and fans throughout the building, except in the quarters for boarding

able stage with sceneries, dc for the benedi of the members of the Club macam mac

With regard to the stependents com paragraph 7 of the said Petition I say sala of liquors by the said Society to the mem- 11. Owing to the existing circumstances hers of the Club was not discontinued natii the hereinbefore related the objects of the Com14th September, 1906, after judgment for coule pany as regards the promotion of social inter had been delivered against the said Bociety course among the Portuguese Community can- and its directors in Action No: 156 of 1906 not be carried into effect, and the carrying on Original Jurisdiction. of the business of the Company has become, in a practical sense, impossible,

In a few days a case which will pethaps be interesting will come up for hearing. It is that Naval Dockyard, in summoning. Querino and of the facts set out in paragraph 7 hereof

whith H. Small, a master sigger of the

ira. In consequence of the disputes aforesaid Gomere, a clerk in the Naval Yard, J, Gomes, another clerk also employed in a naval office, the monthly expenses of the Company have and one Rumjaho, unemployed,, for assault, for some time past considerably exceeded the alleged to have takes place,some days ago. Ju carnings thereof, and the Company has at the Gother has issued a cross-summons against Present time no means available for payment Småll för assault and for damaging property to

of debts due to various 'creditors?

the extent of 512, Mrs. 1. Gemes is also to have a say in the matter, for she alleges that Small assaulted ber and has handed him a sum mon's too. Small, we are informed, resides on the second floor of No. ic, Saw Wah Fong, the other residing on the floor below his. What the trouble is over was not said, nor did Mr., C. A. D. Melbourne take the trouble to inquire. As the case will take some time he adjourned it for a few days.

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JANUARY (4, '1907,

ing knowledge of the ponderous tomes MR, M. H. Logan, residing at No. 4, Austin dent of police thought the dog ought to be thereof, and recently attempts were made by then Reserve Fund of the said Society) was a THE INDIAN CONSTABLE.

which are the feature of every legal Avenue, Kowloon, prosecuted the driver of establishment. Only eight appeared to sit ricksha No. 51K before Mr. C.A.D. Melbourne, On several occasions we have referred to under the learned judge when the ordeal at the folice Court, to-day, with failing to the ineffectiveness to put it mildly-of the began and their examination was conducted observe the rule of the road, at Kowloos, on Indian gentleman who stands in the middle in private. It would be easy to picture the the 25th ultimo. Inspector Langley, of Tsim As Mr. D'Agostini, who also had to attend of the street and looks as if he owned the comedy which was enacted in that lethal tsa-tsui Police Station, said complainant was hospital to get his leg dressed, did not ask for thoroughfare: The residents of Hongkong chamber, for lethal it undoubtedly must have driving in his horse buggy on the day in compensation, the Court, after severely lectur have except possibly in very rare cases, been. Of the eight only two survived and question, when accused, disregarding the ruining the defendant, ordered her to give. the boy of the road, crossed in front of the horse, and a $5 compensation. "Don't come before me little cause to feel grateful for the so-called they are both members of the same firm. The collising resulted. The complainant, he un again, concluded the Court, otherwise the ministrations of the Sikh policeman, who six who were "plucked" cannot show their derstood, did not want to press the charge, a dog will be destroyed!"*|- airs his authority with the tyranny of an faces within the precincts of the American nominal fine would meet the case. On accus Oriental potentate, and answers the most Court again, or at least, after their presented pleading guilty he was fined $2. civil question with what is little better than engagements have been fulfilled. It should an insult. It may be admitted that there be remembered that those practising lawyers are a few respectable," polite and com were not fledglings who had foisted them; paratively well-informed Indians on the force selves on the innocent people, Americans but they are so scattered that it would be included, of Shanghai,, They had not don difficult to lay hands on them. In Shang:ried and doffed a gown to which they had no bai the Indian constables have shown how manner of claim. They were 'men who had little respect they have for authority when passed the usual examinations in law in their own interests were concerned, and America, who bore diplomas asserting that Beveral have been deported as the result of they were entitled to argue before the judges the inquiry into the circumstances which gave of the United States' courts, who were duly rise to the recent revolt. Yet, in face of these qualified to represent any member of the facts, which we should have thought would litigious section of any community to which have been known in all the British colonies they might attach themselves, and who were, in the East, an unofficial, member of the in fact and in law, lawyers. But that did Ceylon Legislative Council had the hardi. not prevent the presumably learned judge bood to suggest that the ranks of the police from declaring them delusions and shares force in Colombo should be recruited from from a legal point of view. Now, it is quite the Sikhs in India. It seems that there has possible, and we will take it for granted, that been some question of bribery and corruption the unfrocked gentlemen, who have been among the native section of the Ceylonsent about their business, which is not law, force

And apparently the unsophisticated were lawyers; in the sense of having passed membenthought that he would abolish all their examination in their youth and had vice, eradicate peculation, and establish a proved their fitness by enabling many: iono perfectly, obedient, respectful, energetic, cent people to be permited to leave the Ponte and wholly admirable police force. Court without a stain on their char which would command the instant attention acter," and to defeat the nefarious designs of the visitor, by the Importation of Bikhs, of wily

filla in civil suits who complainant had atolen things from the kitchen. The M. 35, Co.'s 8.6. Oceaniów left Saigon for Pombly; but in our opinion, the idea was | desired to “ their clients. Was it to and as was caught. They were fined $1 sach, ✅ this port today, at 5

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SHIPPING AND MAILS.

Wono Sing, a bricklayer, and Wong" Lum, a cook, both employed in the French Convent, were charged before Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne, this morning, at the Police Court, with assault- ing Chin Shon, the messenger of the Convent, on New Year's Day. The complainant, who

ZIGODONG MAILS DUI... suffered from a broken head, gave the Court to understand that on January fet, the Mother American (Siberia) 7th lost. Superior gave him a boils, of wine, a re French (Oceanten) 7ih jost, fused to share it with the defendnuts, who

"Australian (Talysian) 14th lust. became fealous, and assaulted him with pales

**German (Manila) 15th or 16th Inst, The second defendant's son, said complainant, German (Mand struck him over the bead with a bottle duringe Boson Tow Boat Co's. Lyn would be jealous for such a thing, berbata the fight. The defendants dansed that they

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With regard to the statements

12. Other shareholders in the Company who in paragraph 8 of the said Pet

that 10 the best of my knowl altogether hold so5 shares in the Company arson and belief the only together with your Petitioners desirous that the Company should be wound up, but sached during the per

the dispute bel shareholders do not with your Petlikanan !re

Glub and present a sufficient majority of the shareholders

which

to enable them to pass a resolution to wind up. Acu

the Company voluntarily dumal Kotpada

13 Having regard to all the circumstances it

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is fast and equitable that the Company Abould 115CP

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be wound up by the Count, saporedo

Your Petitionem therefore humbly pray as

arrived

That the Club Lusitano Limited wound up by the Caurt under the pro

the Companies Ordinance 1865 and that that purpose all necessary and proper direc "tions may be given,